by Multicultural Music Fellowship | Apr 26, 2013 | MCMF News
In March, Diana Stork and Portia Diwa brought multicultural harp music to towns throughout SE Alaska. Sponsored by MCMF and the Alaska Folk Festival, Diana and Portia taught 6 workshops to children in schools in the Juneau-Douglas area, as well as one in the small...
by Multicultural Music Fellowship | Feb 13, 2013 | MCMF News
Summer 2013 – Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble alumnus Liza Wallace just returned from Mexico where she has been performing and studying for the last month. She started out the trip in Durango performing in the Festival Latinoamericano de Arpa Durango. This annual...
by Multicultural Music Fellowship | May 7, 2012 | MCMF News
January 2012 The cueca dancers took their final bow and I entered to play for a sea of faces from all over Latin America. On January 26th, 2012, I performed in the Festival de Arpas al Sur de Chile, an international annual harp festival in Concepción, Chile. Taking...
by Multicultural Music Fellowship | Feb 19, 2011 | MCMF News
This Spring, the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble will be learning and performing a unique program of Celtic music. Dubbed, “California Celtic”, all the pieces have been composed by their Director, Diana Stork. You wouldn’t notice that these pieces are...
by Multicultural Music Fellowship | Sep 30, 2010 | MCMF News
The Multi-Cultural Music Fellowship (MCMF) provides support for interactions between World Musical Traditions with a focus on the harp. Our goal is to increase appreciation and respect for different cultures through musical communication. Our Festival of Harps(sm)...
by Multicultural Music Fellowship | Sep 1, 2010 | MCMF News
Every culture’s music thus makes certain choices about what to vary and what to hold constant. I have frequently heard people criticize various kinds of world music by saying “It’s O.K., but it all sounds the same.” However, I do not take this...
