Follow-On Accelerator

First Round of OneBeat Accelerator Recipients Announced

OneBeat is excited to announce eleven new recipients of the OneBeat Accelerator.  The OneBeat Accelerator provides a micro-grant to Alumni for the development and implementation of follow-on projects which support democratic principles and address topics such as access to education, community resilience, economic empowerment, media literacy, and youth empowerment.     This summer and fall, OneBeat is leading two rounds of Accelerator competitions.  Applications are reviewed by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, OneBeat staff, and guest artists. The second round of awardees will be announced in mid-September 2020. Jay Afrisando (Indonesia) Festival Musik dalam Layar (On-Screen Music Festival): A virtual music festival featuring Indonesian musicians and artists in partnership with several Indonesia-based initiatives aiding musicians and artists financially affected by the pandemic. Jennifer Meya Magorza (Colombia) Mujeres al Tambor: A series of online percussion workshops for over 100 women in Latin America to share and learn traditional rhythms and […]
OneBeat Sahara

Announcing OneBeat Sahara

OneBeat Sahara will bring together 25 musicians from seven countries in the Saharan Region and the United States to collaboratively create original work and to develop a global network of civically engaged music initiatives. During this three-week program, OneBeat Sahara Fellows will explore black diasporic musical traditions that traveled from Africa to the Americas, and back to Africa again. This program will focus particularly on the elements of these artistic traditions and their links to North African music — both ancient and contemporary — which create a cultural power based in resilience, creativity, and mutual support Inspired by the world’s largest desert, the theme of OneBeat Sahara 2021 will be silence, both as a form of oppression and a source of power and creative awareness. As 2018 OneBeat U.S. alumnus Chakib Bouzidi, put it: “The desert is known as a vast place, given over to emptiness and solitude. When we come into harmony with […]
Alumni

Shruti Bhave Awarded Artist Appreciation Award by Indian Classical Music and Arts Foundation

The Indian Classical Music (ICMA) and Arts Foundation recently named 2019 Fellow Shruti Bhave one of its Artist Appreciation Awards recipients.  The ICMA Foundation is a nonprofit based in San Francisco Bay Area aiming to preserve, nurture & celebrate Indian Music. They launched the Artist Appreciation Awards, along with the#IsolatedYetTogether mini-concert Series, to honor musicians engaged in the ongoing pursuit of excellence in Indian classical music, and as a response to the COVID-19 impact on the artist community. The concert series is currently streaming online each Saturday at 12pm ET. Read more about the awards and the #IsolatedYetTogether concert series here. Watch the Mumbia-based classical violinist’s recent tribute to the late Indian music director Madan Mohanji below.