The Youth World Music Festival

San Francisco (California), USA – The Youth World Music Festival
will be held on April 30, 2006 at Fort Mason Center’s Cowell Theater. The Cowell Theater is located at Fort Mason Center, Marina Boulevard at Buchanan Street, San Francisco.

The Youth World Music Festival is part of the Youth for Youth World Music & Arts Fest, an annual professional youth
concert series produced by Door Dog Music Productions that integrates young
artists ages 5-17 into a larger cross-cultural community of world music masters
and youth audiences. By bringing together multi-generations of artists and
families, the Youth for Youth World Music & Arts Fest provides a professional
performing arena for young people to experience cultural awareness through
traditional music, while building tolerance and respect for different cultures
and peoples of the world, as well as the pluralistic social perspectives
necessary to work across cultural differences.

The
Youth World Music Festival features San Francisco Bay Area’s young people, ages 5-17,
students of world music master share their musical heritage in an afternoon
performance showcase. Youth musicians present their own traditions and also work
together with youth artists of other cultures to perform new music. The artist
scheduled to perform are Nejad World Music Center Youth Orchestra and Drum Circle, playing traditional music from Iran; Indian youth singer Gaayatri Kaundinya from
the Ali Akbar School of Music; Chinese Arts & Music Center Youth Orchestra
highlighting the music of China; the Kurdish Youth Chorus chanting music and
poetry and much more.

For tickets call the Box Office: 415-345-7575 or go to
http://www.fortmason.org.