Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
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The Sounds of the Highlands
The wind descends from the mountain peaks with a whispering, melodic voice; a thread that runs through all the other voices, telling their joys and their melancholies, their victories and their hopes; all the stories of our lives. The music of the highlands, almost as old as the mountains themselves, is a language shared by all highland peoples, from the Himalayas to the Andes, passing through the Alps and the Pyrenees, the Atlas Ranges, and more.
From field to field, from peak to peak, the music carries the news, the warnings, the celebrations, and the laments. As the centuries pass, it evolves, mixes, adopts new forms, and accepts new instruments, but it always continues to mark the passage of life.
Thus, the International Festival of Highlands Music was born: a challenge to encourage creativity, develop talent, and promote recognition of this rich musical expression. Above all, the festival seeks to unite the different strands of this cultural heritage in a celebration of integration in Lima.
The festival is not just about music; it also seeks to explore Highland issues, such as environmental change, in order to better understand the cultures of the Highlands in the contemporary world. We are convinced that there is a profound and undeniable relationship between culture and environment; we are defined by our environment in all of its aspects, in the riches it gives us and on which we build our lives. Our music is one of the most genuine expressions of this relationship with our environment, our past, and our distinct ways of seeing the world.
With the second edition of the festival, we invite you to share with us the music of all the mountains of the world.
The wind descends from the mountain peaks with a whispering, melodic voice; a thread that runs through all the other voices, telling their joys and their melancholies, their victories and their hopes; all the stories of our lives. The music of the highlands, almost as old as the mountains themselves, is a language shared by all highland peoples, from the Himalayas to the Andes, passing through the Alps and the Pyrenees, the Atlas Ranges, and more.
From field to field, from peak to peak, the music carries the news, the warnings, the celebrations, and the laments. As the centuries pass, it evolves, mixes, adopts new forms, and accepts new instruments, but it always continues to mark the passage of life.
Thus, the International Festival of Highlands Music was born: a challenge to encourage creativity, develop talent, and promote recognition of this rich musical expression. Above all, the festival seeks to unite the different strands of this cultural heritage in a celebration of integration in Lima.
The festival is not just about music; it also seeks to explore Highland issues, such as environmental change, in order to better understand the cultures of the Highlands in the contemporary world. We are convinced that there is a profound and undeniable relationship between culture and environment; we are defined by our environment in all of its aspects, in the riches it gives us and on which we build our lives. Our music is one of the most genuine expressions of this relationship with our environment, our past, and our distinct ways of seeing the world.
With the second edition of the festival, we invite you to share with us the music of all the mountains of the world.
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