Interfaith Works presents:

The 2009
World Sacred Music Festival
OLYMPIA, USA

a celebration of the sacred
through the uplifting music & dance of the world

Saturday March 7, 2009

at the Minnaert Center for the Arts

2008 World Sacred Music Festival

Performance Schedule

Main Stage

11:00-12:05 Che oke' ten
(Native American)

12:35-1:25 Mukana Marimba
(Zimbabwe marimba)

1:50-2:50 Urvasi
(Indian temple dance)

3:15-4:15 Naby Camara & Lagni Susso
(West African music & dance)

4:45-5:45 Raga Dharma
(ragas from India)

6:35-7:45 Jazz Senators
(Duke Ellington’s sacred jazz)

8:20-9:30 Shabava
(Persian ensemble)

Stage Two

11:45-12:35 LaVon Hardison & David Rhys Johnson
(Gospel-inspired interfaith songs)

12:55-1:45 Sacred Harp/Evergreen Singers
(Christian shape note singing)

2:05-3:15 Modibo Traore
(Senegal Drumming)

3:35-4:50 Temple
(Hebrew chant)

5:10-5:55 Loping Camel
(Pagan drum & dance)

6:15-7:00 Kol N’Shama
(Jewish choir)

7:20-8:10 Adzido
(West African drum & dance)

Workshop Stage

11:30-12:45 Doug Bridges & Ted Hunter
(Didgeridoo workshop)

1:05-2:10 Gordon Munro
(Multicultural Storytelling)

2:30-3:40 Mukana Marimba
(Marimba workshop)

4:00-5:10 Sacred Harp/Everg. Singers
(Christian shape note workshop)

5:30-6:40 Mevlevi Order of America
(Sufi dance / whirling dervishes)

7:00-8:10 Urvasi
(India temple dance workshop)

For artist bios and performance details, see artist page

Monday Nov. 26, 2007 7-9:30pm at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts: Benefit concert for the World Sacred Music Festival featuring the Jazz Senators playing sacred jazz. www.jazzsenators.com

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