Music Projects

The release of the Love Language EP this week prompted me to look back at our recent collaborative work with Hannover. Since we achieved the UNESCO City of Music designation in December 2015 we have enjoyed a hugely productive relationship with this vibrant and welcoming German city. The UNESCO music office there  is led by the […]

Voices United: Healing the Bahamas will feature Fred Ferguson of the Bahamas and local choirs to raise funds for the recovery process. The UNESCO Creative City of Music in Kansas City will host a benefit on Sunday, October 6th, 2019 from 2 pm to 6 pm at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage and State […]

Here comes the sun…as the sun set on The Beatles final album, our Head of UNESCO City of Music takes a look back at the iconic Abbey Road album by The Beatles 50 years on. I was born a month after The Beatles released their first album. But even though I grew up in Liverpool […]

  Chennai City of Music, under the leadership of Greater Chennai Corporation headed by the Commissioner (Mr. G. Prakash) , Joint Commissioner – Revenue and Finance (Ms. R. Lalitha) , Revenue Officer (Mr. Sukumar Chittibabu), and Superintendent Engineer – Parks (Mr. Vijayakumar) have brought together a core commitee featuring representatives of Kalakshetra Foundation, The Music […]

Released by Adelaide UNESCO City of Music Office in early 2019, the Activity Report 17/18 includes specific highlights and selected activities of Adelaide as a City of Music, new initiatives and up coming projects. 

Registration for the Asia-Pacific Creative Cities Conference, (October 23-26, 2019) held in Adelaide, Australia is now open! The event will take place in parallel to the world-class OzAsia Festival and will be the first-ever meeting of UNESCO Creative Cities of the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific Creative Cities Conference will aim to strengthen the exchange of […]

The Adelaide Guitar Festival, led by Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan, is the most significant festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The Adelaide Guitar Festival has a Special Edition in 2019 from 15 – 19 July 2019 where Slava Grigoryan curates a sampler of the Adelaide Guitar Festival experience with a series of intimate […]

The Goethe Institut Pop-Up Kansas City has partnered with Kansas City’s UNESCO Creative City team to promote international friendship and peace through music during the Year of German-American Friendship – known as Wunderbar Together.  Two events are planned for April and May 2019 – with additional partnerships in the works.  On Friday April 26, the […]

We, the members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), stand in solidarity with the people of New Zealand and our colleagues in UNESCO Cities of Auckland (Music) and Dunedin (Literature) during this terrible moment of suffering in Christchurch. It is important at this moment that we stand with the Mayor and people of Christchurch, […]