Date: February 13th 2009

EVENT NUMBER 1:

Rowan Storm, Iranian Peoples Musical Ambassador for Musical Missions of Peace Presents: The Silk Road Music and Dance Ensemble

Saturday 14 February 2009
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Mingei International Museum
155 West Grand Avenue . Escondido . CA . 92025 $10 members and students / $15 non-members reservations requested: 760.735.3355

The Silk Road Music and Dance Ensemble blends dazzling dances with music, folk tales and sumptuous costumes from Iran, Turkey and Central Asia including Khorassan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan. View the superb textile exhibit including a magnificent yurt from Kyrgyzstan, and learn about the culture of this extraordinary region, once the most prosperous capitol of the world. Robyn Friend - dance
Megan Rancier - violin, kyl-kobyz
Rowan Storm - vocals, dayereh, daff, dohol Neil Siegel - Azeri and Persian tar, baghlama saz

In conjunction with the textile exhibit on view until 22 March 2009: NOMADIC LEGACY
Tent & Textiles of Central Asia & Iran

EVENT NUMBER 2:

Christine Stevens, Kurdistan Peoples Musical Ambassador for Musical Missions of Peace Presents: One Inspired Rhythm An Adventure of Peace-making in Iraq

Saturday, February 21, 2009
3: 00pm - 4: 00pm REMO Recreational Music Center, 7308 Coldwater Canyon, North Hollywood, CA. FREE!

Would you like to hear GOOD NEWS coming from Iraq? For the first time in history, an international relief organization requested a music-based intervention for conflict-resolution in a war zone in Iraq . Based upon scientific research of drumming for healing, Ashti Drum (Peace Drum) has created the first music therapy program in Iraq. Weekly ongoing programs have started in four Youth Activity Centers in places of genocide in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Join internationally acclaimed author and music therapist Christine Stevens for rarely seen images and a powerful hands-on experience of hope, possibility, and healing. Could music be the language of global diplomacy? Watch an inspiring video at www.ashtidrum.com

Christine Stevens is the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, and has appeared on NBC, CBS and Living Better TV. She is the author of The Healing Drum Kit and The Art and Heart of Drum Circles. As a consultant to REMO, the world's largest drum manufactuer, Christine co-created the HealthRHYTHMS training programs. She has drummed with many Fortune 500 companies, survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and most recently, led the first ever drum circle training in a war-zone in northern Iraq. Musical Missions for Peace supports Christine as a People's Musical Ambassador. More information available at www.ubdrumcircles.com & www.remo.com/health & www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org

EVENT NUMBER 3:

Cameron Powers, Arab World Peoples Musical Ambassador for Musical Missions of Peace Presents: Music and Culture of Iraq -- What Have We Not Been Seeing?

Sunday February 22, 2009
Introductory Morning Service Presentation: 11:00 -- 11:30 am Full Evening Presentation: 7:00 -- 8:30 pm Unitarian Universalists in Laguna Beach, CA 429 Cypress Dr
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
FREE!

(949) 497-4568
Evening Co-Presenter: Rowan Storm, Peoples Musical Ambassador to Iran

Review by Harold Cartlidge of Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura, CA:

Hello my friends,
My name is Harold Cartlidge. I am writing to recommend that you contact Cameron Powers and arrange to have a concert/event at your church. His performance was the most enthusiastically ever received at our Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura.

Cameron is a true American hero and an International Ambassador of Peace. He and his wife Kristina have been performing on the streets of Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, The West Bank, and Egypt, singing and playing popular Middle Eastern music. They were performing on the streets of Bagdad nine days after we invaded Iraq. While rubble filled the streets, and buildings were still crumbling, ordinary Iraqis were singing and dancing with Cameron and Kristina.

While their connection is with ordinary people and beyond politics, they have also performed at such high profile locations as the Cairo Stadium in Egypt where they played for over 60,000 people.

They have opened music schools at Iraqi refugee camps in Jordan and Syria, and are now training American musicians to travel to middle eastern countries as musical ambassadors of peace.

You will be delighted, informed, and spiritually uplifted

Contact Cameron: phone: 303-898-6125 email: Cameron@musicalmissions.com

Check out his website at http://www.MusicalMissionsofPeace.org

In Rhythm with Love, Harold 805-701-9672