Music Projects

The UNESCO Creative Cities of Music Network has announced a collaborative music video to celebrate International Jazz Day on April 30, 2024 while raising awareness for Sustainable Development Goal #13 – Climate Action. Ten (10) cities from the global UNESCO Cities of Music Network (UCCN) have produced a collaborative video featuring the traditional Korean folk […]

A mantra of the women, by the women and for the women of the world. LET US ALL BLOOM Our Global Mantra is designed to be a simple and powerful daily mantra that every woman/girl on earth can recite and sing to her heart´s content. Feel it!   Become it!   Live it! STEP1: Prepare a translation […]

Kansas City and the UNESCO Cities of Music announce the Voyage of the Drum. 18 UNESCO Creative Cities will participate in celebration of Fete de la Musique on 21 June 2021. The videos will be streamed on YouTube courtesy of the Music Export Poland with the support of the Polish Ministry of Culture. CLICK HERE FOR […]

Every city has a heartbeat and every culture has a rhythm. The Voyage of the Drum brings together the member cities of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in cooperation to share the ways in which the drum is a cross-cultural form of human expression and cultural heritage. The Voyage of Drum highlights the ways in […]

To celebrate 100 years of the music of Charlie Parker, Jr. – Kansas City, Missouri – where Charlie Parker Jr. grew up – CreativeCityKC invites you to honor his legacy and send us your birthday greetings. Kansas City and the UNESCO Creative Cities Network Cities of Music invite you to submit a short video clip […]

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 […]

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 […]

A project between the Creative Cities of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico (Crafts and Folk Art) and Kansas City, Missouri, USA (Music). Cuéntame un Cuento Llorona. This project was born in 2012 as a proposal for the rescue of the cultural heritage of the traditional neighborhoods of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. It consists of an […]