Old Town School - On The Road
Dispatches from the road from our wayfaring travelers.
Global Music Centre
Hi all!
I wanted to tell you about one of the places we visited in Helsinki - The Global Music Centre.
http://globalmusic.fi/in_english/index.html
It’s an amazing place and is supported by the Ministry of Education. The have a great library of books and music from all over the world… and their books and CDs are catalogued in their public library system.
They organize a world music festival called the Etnosoi! Festival.
They house a Global Mobile Studio which they’ve taken to Ethiopia, Tanzania (the first country they visited, I think), Zanzibar, Setumaa, Siberia, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Finland, etc.
They are involved “…with the Sibelius Academy (Continuing Education Centre), and music schools and institutes around Finland to develop multi-cultural music education on a more permanent basis.”
While we were there they were recording an artist from Ghana, and I think were going to produce his record under their label.
Jaana-Maria Jukkara, the director of The Global Music Centre, showed us around and was very open and warm…she gave us a handful of CDs that will be in the resource center.
Basically, it’s an awesome place and you should definately check out their website!
M 
Filed under: Uncategorized by Maria | April 16, 2008 |
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Oh, and one of the men working there is working on a project to transfer something like 200 tapes of Suomi field recordings to CD right now.