Music Projects

The Korean traditional music ensemble Trigger, winner of the Grand Prize at the 2024 “Jump Up” Incubation Project for Emerging Gugak (Korean Traditional Music) Artists, will soon embark on an extraordinary European tour across UNESCO Creative Cities of Music. From September 8–19, Trigger will grace renowned stages, beginning with performances on September 10 at the […]

UNESCO Jazz Day Relay III Learning for Lasting Peace -SDG 4    The 2025 Jazz Day Relay montage video is here!   Presented by the Music Subnetwork of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and the London Music Office For the third edition of the Jazz Day Relay organized by the Member Cities of the UNESCO Creative Cities […]

PARK SI YEON TRIO, a young artistic group representing Daegu, a UNESCO City of Music, performed in jazz concerts worldwide for a month starting in June. PARK SI YEON TRIO has no boundaries or concepts, aiming to create “All music for the world!” Inspired solely by pure sound, their music is distinguished by intense interplay […]

In 2018 the two Polish UNESCO Creative Cities – Kraków and Katowice – will join forces to co-host the prestigious UNESCO Creative Cities Network Annual Meeting. 450 delegates from almost 200 cities scattered all around the world, meetings, sessions, plans and important decisions – all that awaits Poland in June 2018! Annual Meetings, obligatory for the […]

Another star confirmed for 37th Rawa Blues Festival! Gospel returns to Katowice! 30.09.2017   Saturday Venue Spodek aleja Korfantego 35 40-005 Katowice   Three years after the memorable concert of Blind Boys of Alabama on 34th edition of Rawa Blues Festival, another gospel formation will come to Katowice! This year, Tim Woodson with The Heirs of Harmony […]

In October 2017 Katowice will host one of the most prestigious European music events – WOMEX (World Music Expo). The biggest event of world music in Katowice’s history! 25–29 october 2017 By choosing Katowice, the WOMEX organisers confirmed our city to be one of the most important music centres not only in Poland, but in […]

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s 3rd Symphony reinterpreted by Colin Stetson’s in Katowice For the first time in Poland, American multireedist Colin Stetson will perform his post-rock interpretation of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s 3rd Symphony in Katowice on the 18th of December. Legendary Polish composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki created his ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ in 1977. It became […]

To encourage the participation of young rappers and especially those associated with hip-hop. The FESTIWAL zDOLNE PODZIEMIE as part of the event, it incorporated a series of activities at the Center Zimbardo. The event included video projection by young Australian artists from the Northern Sound System (Adelaide, Australia).