Multicultural Music Fellowship
 Diana Stork, Carlos Reyes, Wei-Shan Lin, Janice Ortega, Margie Butler | |
Director | Diana Stork |
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| Website | Official MCMF Website |
Multicultural Music Fellowship (MCMF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit in the San Francisco Bay Area, founded in 1989 to sponsor and promote musical programs that feature the harp. Initially founded to sponsor the Festival of Harps concert series, the organization now sponsors and promotes the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble and the Mission Harp Ensemble.
Festival of Harps[edit]
Between 1989 and 2009 the MCMF sponsored the Festival of Harps, an annual concert series and educational outreach program that featured harpists from different countries and cultures.[1] The festival began with a few shows in San Francisco, and over the course of three decades expended to venues throughout Northern California.[2][3][4] The World Festival of Harps was an offshoot from the festival focused on world music, holding performances in venues across the United States between 2001 and 2003.
The festival produced the compilation albums Festival of Harps Live! (1996),[5] Harpestry (1997)[6], and Celtic Harpestry (1998)[7]. Celtic Harpestry inspired a Public Broadcast Station (PBS) special by the same name, filmed in Lismore Castle, Ireland.[8]
In 1999, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown declared November 14th the Festival of Harps day.[9]
Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble[edit]
Since 1999 the MCMF has sponsored the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble (BAYHE). The ensemble is comprised of young harpists who perform Celtic, Latin, and contemporary harp music in venues across the Bay Area[10][11][12]. Under the sponsorship of MCMF the ensemble has released the book Lily's Treasures (2004)[13] and the albums Music From Around the World (2005)[14] and Innisheer (2014).[15]
During the summer of 2016 the BAYHE performed a series of concerts in Humboldt County to raise awareness of the need to protect the remaining old growth redwood trees and forests for future generations.[16][17][18][19][20] Music videos for the songs "Bay Tree", "Dialog with a Brook", and "Into The Forest" were filmed during the tour and were released in the spring of 2017.[21]
Mission Harp Ensemble[edit]
Since 2006 the MCMF has sponsored the Mission Harp Ensemble (MHE)[22]. The ensemble offers free harp classes to Latino children in San Francisco’s Mission district that focus on the folkloric harp styles of Latin America.[23] The MHE was founded with the mission of offering Latino children the opportunity to study the harp in a positive and nurturing environment.
References[edit]
- ↑ Stack, Peter (December 1993). "Soaring Range of the Harp Showcased". The San Francisco Chronical.
- ↑ Rockwell, T. (February 2009). Twenty Years of International Harp Music: Diana Stork’s Vision for the Festival of Harps. The Folk Harp Journal, Issue 142. (Pages 10-15).
- ↑ Rockwell, T. (Summer 1997). Festival of Harps: Seven Years of Multicultural Harp Music. American Harp Journal (summer 1997 issue), (pages 49-50).
- ↑ Landy, M. (Fall 2009). Festival of Harps: 20 Years. Harpbeat: Newsletter of the Bay Area Folk Harp Society. (pages 7-8).
- ↑ Spiller, Henry (1996). "Record Review: Festival of Harps Live!". American Harp Society.
- ↑ Verna, Paul (August 1997). "Spotlight: Harpestry". Billboard Magazine.
- ↑ Wheeler, John (Spring 1999). "Celtic Harpestry: Produced by Dawn Atkinson and Diana Stork". Folk Harp Journal. 103: 58, 62.
- ↑ Diliberto, John (December 1998). "The Year in Music". Billboard Magazine.
- ↑ "'Festival Of Harps Day' In San Francisco | City Hall". sfgov.org. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
- ↑ Ustenci, Maureen (Fall 2013). "Education and Inspiration: The Benefits of Playing in the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble". Folk Harp Journal. 161: 62–63.
- ↑ Ustenci, M. (November 2013). Education and Inspiration: The Benefits of Playing in the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble. Folk Harp Journal: Issue 161. (pages62-63).
- ↑ Reasor, L. (12/17/2016). Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble: Winter Solstice Concert. Harp Column. Retrieved from: https://www.harpcolumn.com/event/bay-area-youth-harp-ensemble-winter-solstice-harp-concert/ (Accessed 8/8/2017.)
- ↑ Metras, John (Summer 2004). "New Music in Print: Lily's Treasures- A Celebration of Animals Real or Otherwise". Folk Harp Journal. 124: 37–38.
- ↑ Metras, John (Summer 2005). "Music From Around the World: with the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble". Harpbeat of the Bay.
- ↑ Gallager, Martha (Winter 2014). "Innisheer: Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble". Folk Harp Journal. 165: 24–25.
- ↑ Low, J. & Lyon, A. (November 2016). The Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble: Save the Redwoods Concert Tour. The Folk Harp Journal, Issue 173. (pages 36-43).
- ↑ Ustenci, M. (6/23/2016). Youth Harps launch “Save the Redwoods” Tour- Sunday. Berkeley Times, Berkeley CA. (p. 15).
- ↑ Harp Column Staff. (3/28/2017). Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble Launches Fundraiser. Harp Column. Retrieved from: https://www.harpcolumn.com/bay-area-youth-harp-ensemble-launches-fundraiser/
- ↑ Humboldt Redwoods Interpretive Association. (2017). Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble in the Redwoods. Retrieved from: http://humboldtredwoods.org/ (Accessed August 8, 2017.)
- ↑ Save the Redwoods League. (7/1/2016). Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble Save the Redwoods Tour. Retrieved from: https://www.savetheredwoods.org/event/bay-area-youth-harp-ensemble-save-redwoods-tour/2016-07-01/
- ↑ Lyon, Alexis (Fall 2017). "BAYHE- A Video Journey through the Ancient Redwood Forests of Northern California". Folk Harp Journal. 176: 9.
- ↑ Mission Harp Ensemble Announced. The Sawdust Evening Post, a Publication of William Rees Instruments, LLC and Harps on Main.
- ↑ Gallagher, R. (8/9/2012). Healing through Harp: Concert will benefit young inner-city string musicians, ensembles. The Union’s Prospector Entertainment Guide.
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