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World Refugee Day 2020: Nasser Haj Wahlo

đŸŽ¶ Today is World Refugee Day. That’s why Bologna Jazz Festival is organizing a live stream radio and web marathon together with its European partners!→ Listen to performances from Bologna, Seville and Ghent with on the program: Osama Abdulrasol, Francois Waistfer, Reda Zine, Danilo Mineo, One Pac and Fellows, Soundroutes[…]

World Refugee Day 2020: WHO DAT – Live Bij De Vieze Gasten Session & de Koer

 Today is World Refugee Day. That’s why Soundroutes-Be is organizing a live stream radio and web marathon together with its European partners!→ Listen to performances from Bologna, Seville and Ghent with on the program: Osama Abdulrasol, Francois Waistfer, Reda Zine, Danilo Mineo, One Pac and Fellows, Soundroutes Belgium, Nasser Haj Wahlo and[…]

World Refugee Day 2020: Osama Abdulrasol & François Taillefer – Live Bij De Vieze Gasten Session & de Koer

 Today is World Refugee Day. That’s why Soundroutes-Be is organizing a live stream radio and web marathon together with its European partners!→ Listen to performances from Bologna, Seville and Ghent with on the program: Osama Abdulrasol, Francois Waistfer, Reda Zine, Danilo Mineo, One Pac and Fellows, Soundroutes Belgium, Nasser Haj Wahlo and[…]

Jazz Home Delivery: Kalifa Kone

With Jazz Home Delivery – #laculturanonsiferma Bologna Jazz Festival and Camera – jazz & music clubs contributed to the coronavirus emergency fundraising campaign established by Emilia-Romagna Region. This time, the Jazz Home Delivery is brought by Kalifa Kone and he plays balafon, n’goni and percussions Born in Bamako, Kalifa Kone plays drums[…]

Mitro des Mitro. New Video by Soundroutes BE

We won’t be able to play concerts for the time being, but we have other news for you! In February we went into the studio to record a video and an audio clip. The video of ‘Mitro des mitro’ is now finished and we are happy to share it with[…]

Jazz Home Delivery: Sourakhata Dioubate

With Jazz Home Delivery – #laculturanonsiferma Bologna Jazz Festival and Camera – jazz & music clubs contributed to the coronavirus emergency fundraising campaign established by Emilia-Romagna Region. From their homes, during the worst of the COVID Pandemic, musicians took to their instruments to bring joy and contribute to the social effort. This[…]

Soundroutes on “All about Jazz”

Great article by Arthur George about Soundroutes for  “All about Jazz” on line magazine. Refugee Music In Europe: Migration, Asylum, Soundroutes, And Arab Jams World conflicts do not spare musicians. They are among the millions of displaced persons upon the planet. A refugee assistance organization in Europe which has assisted hundreds[…]

Soundroutes is back.

The Creative Europe programme of the European Commission approved the second phase of the Soundroutes project  that will go on until the end of 2020. This time we can count with the collaboration of 6 partners in 5 countries: Brauerei Wissmannstraße e.V. – Werkstatt der Kulturen , that will coordinate[…]

The SoundRoutes Band is coming to a city near you!

TOUR DATES – THE SOUND ROUTES BERLIN / Germany – October 12, 2018 / WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN BOLOGNA / Italy – October 28, 2018 / BOLOGNA JAZZ FESTIVAL SEVILLA / Spain – November 3, 2018 / TEATRO CENTRAL Italian superstar Roy Paci and the no less well-known French Jazz wind[…]

World Refugee Day #culturebuildsbridges

On the 20th of June, on World Refugee day, several refugee integration projects, co-financed by the Creative Europe programme, joined forced to organise 13 events in 7 cities. International musicians, many of them from countries affected by war or other adverse conditions, put together a series of cultural productions with[…]

Roy Paci plays with the SoundRoutes Band

From 9th to 15th of April the second show of the SoundRoutes Band took place in Bologna. During this highly anticipated show, the well-known Italian trumpetist Roy Paci joined the band. He confirmed his participation of the band’s first concerts which will take place on the 12th of October at WERKSTATT[…]

Soundroutes booking agency is now running

The European project “SoundRoutes ‘Notes to get closer’, launches the ‘SoundRoutes Booking Agency’, an initiative dedicated to the professional integration of migrant and refugee musicians. In 13 months of tireless activity, the SoundRoutes project has brought together dozens of migrant and refugee musicians giving them the opportunity to perform with[…]

The first music residency in Berlin

The first music residency in Berlin The SoundRoute Band was formed as part of the EU-funded project “SoundRoutes. Notes to get closer”, which aims to network musicians from different backgrounds with artists from their (new) homelands – and to have music produced. From the 9th to 15th of January 2017[…]

The Soundroutes Band

We are delighted to introduce the SoundRoutes band, a brand-new ensemble performing their first show between the 8th and 15th of January at the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN in Berlin, and later in the year at the Bologna Jazz Festival 2018. The band of incredible artists play under the artistic direction[…]

Soundroutes at the Bologna Jazz Festival

The European project Soundroutes will participate in the Bologna Jazz Festival, one of the  project’s partners, with four live concerts: FRIDAY 27 TH OF OCTOBER TORRIONE JAZZ CLUB, ORE 21.30 (FERRARA) Adovabadan Jazz Band & Alaa Arsheed SUNDAY 5TH OF NOVEMBER LOCOMOTIV CLUB, ORE 21.30 (BOLOGNA) Laboratorio Sociale Afrobeat Jam[…]

Open call for refugee and migrant musicians

[Castellano]   [Arabic]   [Italian] Soundroutes.  Casting call for professional refugee and migrant musicians. “SoundRoutes. Notes to get closer” is a project promoted by Marmaduke, a music agency based in Seville (Spain) in cooperation with the Italian NGO Un Ponte Per
,  the Bologna Jazz Festival, Scuola Popolare di Musica Ivan Illich (Italy), the Berliner Werkstatt der[…]

Soundroutes press release by Un Ponte Per… [IT]

“The sound routes”: musiche migranti a Roma A Roma la prima tappa italiana  del progetto “Le strade del suono”, sostenuto da Un ponte per
, per favorire accoglienza e integrazione dei migranti attraverso la musica Roma, 28 aprile 2017 – Sei associazioni impegnate nella musica e nella tutela dei cittadini stranieri[…]

Outstanding Success for the first Arab Song Jam in Berlin

On Thursday 2nd of March 2017 something extraordinary happened, something that can only be compared, for example, to someone hearing Jazz in the 1930’s for the very first time and being in total rapture. An enthusiastic audience of all ages attended the first show of the concert series called Arab Song[…]

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Press Release: Soundroutes starts tomorrow with a first concert in Berlin

1.3.2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The European project “Sound routes. Notes to get closer”, an initiative dedicated to the social and professional integration of migrant and refugee musicians, starts tomorrow with a first concert in Berlin. Six institutions from Italy, Spain, Belgium, and Germany have joined forces to boost the creative[…]

Arab Song Jam in Berlin

Thursday 02.03.2017 7:00 PM | Club Admission: Free Organiser: WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN Entirely new interpretations of traditional and popular Arab songs! 1st Thursday of every month at 7:00 PM +++ for Arabic see below +++ The new concert series ARAB SONG JAM is a subproject of the EU-financed project “Soundroutes. Notes[…]