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Cameron and Kristina Concert in Tustin, S. Calif -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List Message

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:39:00 GMT

Concert: Healing the World Through Music From Baghdad to Bulgaria! From Athens to the Andes! Cameron and Kristina's ability to learn and perform indigenous love songs in their native languages has proven time and time again to be a sound method for dissolving boundaries, erasing fear and has served as the model for the creation of a new non-profit organization, Musical Missions of Peace. Come join these "Missionaries in Reverse" to enjoy their tales of international "conquest by love" and experience the sounds of the popular songs of Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Spain, Peru, Mexico, Bulgaria, Tadjikstan and Greece. Instruments: Voices, Oud, Nay, Riqq, Dumbek, Frame Drums. Featuring especially: Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon. Images from Musical Missions of Peace. Concert: Saturday, Feb 27, 2010, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Healing The World Through Music COMMON GROUND 14051 Newport Ave. H Tustin, CA. 92780 Phones: (714) 573-2546 714-485-5663 Admission: $15 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/common-ground-spiritual-center/calendar/12266258/">http://www.meetup.com/common-ground-spiritual-center/calendar/12266258/</a> Note: the last two weekends in March and the first one in April are still available for events in the San Francisco to Sacramento areas! Reply to this email or give Cameron a call: 303-898-6125

Cameron and Kristina in Santa Barbara -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:16:00 GMT

Cameron and Kristina Concert in Southern California -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:50:00 GMT

How To Introduce Cameron and Kristina? -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:02:00 GMT

Dear Cameron, Every time I have emailed you recently I have forgotten a very important item. Will you please send me a brief paragraph or so by way of introduction for you and Kristina. I want to introduce you with whatever words you would like. Thanks so much and sorry I've been negligent about this. G Dear G, Gee... we always love to hear ourselves introduced and discover what attracted people to us... Generally we hear that people appreciate: 1) the fact that we went into Baghdad with musical instruments to make friends with Iraqis at the same time that the US government was invading and bombing (see <a href="http://www.musicalmissions.com/">www.musicalmissions.com</a> ) 2) that we learn and study music and languages -- we sing in something like 8 languages and I speak 5, three of them quite fluently... 3) we are missionaries in REVERSE: we go to LEARN FROM OTHERS, not to spread US culture... 4) the music we carry is extraordinarily beautiful and very exotic... the indigenous middle-eastern music we play is microtonal and based on scales called maqamat that are very ancient... they come from way before the invention of the piano and the equal tempered scales of Europe... people frequently say that they respond to our music from some ancient familiarity as if it was in their DNA... from the point of view of physics, these ancient scales are, in fact, more perfectly in tune, with intervals known to musicians as "just intonation". I have authored a book which presents 45 of these ancient scales to musicians who have the appropriate instruments on which to learn and play them... when we play our "Arabic Trance Dance" events we play for 3 hours straight and facilitate deep spiritual trance... (see <a href="http://www.innernationals.com/">www.innernationals.com</a> ) 5) the images we show and stories we tell pave the way for true freedom on planet earth... both internal and external... 6) our support for Iraqi refugee children in Damascus (see <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/">www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org</a> ) 7) our support for other American "musical ambassadors" who have traveled, studied and performed in Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran (see <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/">www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org</a> ) 8) one of my books, "Spiritual Traveler: Journeys Beyond Fear" begins to address our largest themes: the world is full of wonderful people! Go get to know them! Sing and dance with them! Above all, don't let the prejudices and fears of the politicians deter you from embracing your own freedom and all of humanity. I hope these ideas help... cameron

Cameron and Kristina's New CD is Editor's Pick on Indie-Music -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:06:00 GMT

Available Booking Dates and Presidential Citizens Award Nomination Announced -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:29:00 GMT

Cameron and Kristina still have some dates available on the West coast for their current presentations: Music Rebuilds Bridges of Trust and Heals the Wounds of War! Popular Love Songs in Many Languages From Planet Earth S. California Weekend Dates Available: Feb 20, 21, 28 N. California Bay Area Weekend Dates Available: March 20, 21, 27, 28, April 3, 4 See Presentation Info: <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/Tour02.html">http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/Tour02.html</a> See Calendar: <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/currentcalendar.html">http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/currentcalendar.html</a> Cameron and Kristina of Musical Missions of Peace have been nominated for: THE 2010 PRESIDENTIAL CITIZEN'S AWARD "Cameron Powers and Kristina Sophia have developed an organization called Musical Missions of Peace. They have gone to Arab countries to play the native and ancient music of those countries - resulting in befriending thousands. They did this, primarily, by playing on the streets. From this activity, they initiated a program to develop teaching programs for Iraqi children to learn traditional Arabic music - focusing on Iraqi Refugee populations in particular. They have been doing a tremendous service to save the lives of Americans - by spreading a sense of Family and Peace. Perhaps you would not agree that they are heroes, because they don't kill people for peace...they befriend them and it works. For thousands of us who know what they're doing...they are the finest, most inspiring of heroes who are helping to protect us in a long lasting way. It is difficult to measure the joy that is received by hundreds of people who no longer hate the United States, though they have been ravaged by our war - thanks to the efforts of 2 people who have brought joy into their hearts and the hearts of their children and who have sown the seeds of Hope."

Cameron and Kristina On The Road To West Coast -- Bookings Available! -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:02:00 GMT

Check out this recent article about us in "Sound Connections," Unity Church's New Thought Online Music Resource: <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/Unity.html">http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/Unity.html</a> We are on the road once again in our travel trailer as we pass through Arizona on our way to the West coast. We are available to conduct more presentations, concerts, workshops and indigenous Middle Eastern trance dance events during January and the first half of February in Southern California and the second half of February and March in Northern California. We would love to be part of your Season of Nonviolence events. We keep the costs down by providing our own transportation! We are American Musicians who play Arabic and other World Music and have performed for 60,000 Egyptians in the Cairo Stadium. We also have played Iraqi music on the streets of Baghdad for crowds of appreciative Iraqis. Does music hold the key to world peace? Please watch the 3 minute video clip on the following webpage. It really tells a lot of our story: <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/Tour02.html">http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/Tour02.html</a> We also frequently include popular music from Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Iran, Bulgaria, Spain, Mexico, Peru in our shows in addition to our repertoire from Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Please let us know if you would like to book us for a Concert, Presentation, Morning Service, Arabic Dance Night, or Transformational Power of Voice and Drum workshops. We have brought our presentations to hundreds of groups including dozens of Unitarian and Unity congregations all over the USA. Blessings to You All as we begin 2010! Cameron Powers and Kristina Sophia Musical Missions of Peace (a 501c3 non-profit organization) Call: 303 898 6125 Musical Missions of Peace 501c3: <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/">www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org</a>

Season's Greetings from Musical Missions of Peace! -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:50:00 GMT

Thanks to you all! Have a Happy Holiday! We appreciate your patience through these economically difficult times. Our work to facilitate compassionate cross-cultural exchanges continues. With your help we send financial support every month to Iraqi refugee children in Damascus so that traditional Iraqi culture may be valued and preserved. Cameron and Kristina have put their house in Boulder up for sale and moved back into a Travel Trailer and are beginning yet another West Coast tour. And for those of you not on the West Coast of the US, we hope to get back to your part of the world too! We love it when you stay in touch!

Dancing With Your Soul: Arabic Nights -- Cameron and Kristina's New CD -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:17:00 GMT

<table width="800" border="10" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" bordercolor="#FF6600" bgcolor="#CCFFFF"> <tr> <td colspan="2"><h3 class="style3">Dancing with Your Soul -- Arabic Nights Let your body gently move by itself to this music and see what happens...</h3> <h4 class="style4">Cameron Powers: vocals, oud, nay, cumbus, fretless bass, buzuk, frame drum Kristina Sophia: vocals, frame drum</h4></td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td><h3 class="style1"><img src="http://www.gldesignpub.com/images/souldancecoversm.gif" alt="Dancing" width="244" height="230" /></h3> </td> <td><h2 align="center">Purchase: Go To: <a href="http://www.gldesignpub.com/DancingWithYourSoul.html">http://www.gldesignpub.com/DancingWithYourSoul.html</a><a href="mailto:distrib@gldesignpub.com"> </a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr align="center"> <td><h4 align="left" class="style2">Track 1 -- 4:21: Jasmine -- Arhythmic Track 2 -- 7:10: Damascus -- Rhythm: Maqsum Track 3 -- 6:43: Ancient Wisdom -- Rhythm: Jurjuna Track 4 -- 6:13: Desert Sunset -- Rhythm: Baladi Track 5 -- 4:23: Mediterranean -- Rhythm: Tsiftitelli Track 6 -- 7:42: Reflected Moon -- Arhythmic Track 7 -- 2:45: Heartbeat -- Rhythm: Heartbeat Track 8 -- 3:08: Galactic Breath -- Arhythmic</h4> <h4 align="left" class="style2">Maqamat (Arabic Scales) in Order of Appearance: Saba, Shuri, Bayati, Rast, Hijaz, Rahat el Arwah, Suznak, Bastanikar, Iraq, Nikriz, Nawa Athar, Kurd For Detailed Structure of Maqam changes go to: www.gldesignpub.com/souldance.html Rhythms: Maqsum 4/4, Jurjuna 10/8 (3+2+2+3), Baladi 4/4, Tsiftitelli 8/8, Heartbeat 5/4 This CD was recorded in two sessions in 2008 and 2009 in Boulder, Colorado. Tracks 1 - 6: an improvisation led by Cameron. Tracks 7 - 8: an improvisation led by Kristina. Copyright: 2008 by Cameron Powers -- Email: cameron@musicalmissions.com Recording and Mixing by Cameron Powers -- USA phone: 303-898-6125 Cover Art Design by Cameron Powers Photo of Rooshana with veil by Fritz Penning For more information on Cameron and Kristina's non-profit work on behalf of Iraqi refugees in the Middle East, see the latest edition of The Lonely Planet Guide To The Middle East or go to: www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org</h4> Ancient Arabic Musical Scales: Indigenous Middle Eastern music is traditionally composed in musical scales called "maqamat." Studying Maqamat leads a musician into a world wherein the concept of "musical notes" gradually fades in favor of a musical language dominated by exceedingly liquid musical phrases. Although we still analyze these phrases in terms of intervals between notes, we discover that they will be played with different pitches depending upon which maqam they are in. There is a conceptual system useful for Western musicians which offers 24 different notes per octave rather than just 12. This complexity yields to simplicity when we realize that musicians who play violins and ouds and who are not constrained by keyboards or frets will naturally gravitate toward what is called "just intonation." These are musical intervals which are, from a physicist's point of view, precisely in tune because the peaks and valleys of their sound waves actually line up, coincide an d reinforce each other. Hearing these perfectly-tuned intervals can lead to a deeper appreciation of harmony. Some claim that they feel a peacefulness enter their souls and create a deep resting place. The emotional charisma of the musician is no longer required: the beauty of the music conveys itself. The "equal-tempered" scales which were invented along with keyboards 300 years ago in Europe are, as trained musicians know, actually quite seriously out of tune, frequently by factors of up to 20% per half step. Some even say that Western Culture is itself "out-of-tune" as a consequence! The Arab and Turkish musicians who have been the primary carriers of the ancient maqamat of the indigenous Middle East have resisted equal-tempered music from Europe. With maqamat they can play music that is perfectly in tune and they can utilize traditionally defined "blues notes" which bend pitches in certain ways and produce emotionally charged moments. Traveling in the indigenous Middle East and immersion in traditional music and dance provides an entrance into a new emotional and spiritual world with roots in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Persia, Greece, Andalusia and the Fertile Crescent.</td> <td><div align="left">Middle Eastern Jazz "Ya Layli Ya Aini" These are the chanted syllables of indigenous Middle Eastern improvisational singing. Literally "O Night O My Eyes" they refer to the sacred flirtation of looking into the eyes of the beloved during the night-time hours when life is soft and slow and beauty is to be admired. Lovers refer to each other as "My Eyes." The intimacy of eye contact is magical and is a deep soul-to-soul communion. An Iraqi friend has told me that he can hear hundreds of differing nuances in subtly distinct utterances of these words "Ya Layli Ya Aini". The majority of the "lyrics" on this CD are composed of these syllables although there are parts of Track 2 which contain the tearful lamentations in Arabic from a Syrian song, "Skaba." In this album I dare, with the help of Kristina's beautiful echoing voice, to express the reperatoire of microtonal musical scales and their accompanying emotions which I have gathered from more than 30 years of study and absorption of Arabic music and culture. Largely inaccessible in the West, this music has proven to be an amazing gateway for me into depths of my own soul. A deep wailing worship for sensual energies is unleashed with tinges of surrender to the divine. What we know as "belly dance music" in English actually carries an ancient worship for the goddess which can be transformative for Westerners who truly open their hearts and souls to it. Multiple visits to Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco as well as Turkey and time spent living in Greece have opened glimpses of the extraordinary pristine grandeur carried by the ancient desert tribes which have been the seeds of so much mystical poetry, song and wisdom. Although I perform many traditio nal popular songs and some of those can be heard on other CD's, tracks 1 - 6 of this album are my own improvisation. And the final two tracks feature the sounds of Kristina's unaccompanied melodious voice. This album is designed for a slow ecstatic, romantic dance or meditative massage. Let your body respond and move by itself as you listen. Feel yourself Dancing with Your Soul! -- Cameron Powers</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><h4>Below, for the student of Arabic music, is a precise list of maqam changes as they occur in the nine different tracks on this CD. Rhythmic information is also provided.</h4> <h4>Track 1 -- Jasmine Duration: 4:21</h4> Time: 0:00 Maqam: saba Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 2:44 Maqam: shuri Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 3:15 Maqam: bayati Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 3:34 Maqam: saba Tonic: D Re Dukka   <h4>Track 2 -- Damascus Duration: 7:10</h4> Time: 0:00 Maqam: saba Tonic: D Re Dukka Rhythm: maqsum 4/4 Melody based in part on Syrian popular song in maqam saba: Skaba   <h4>Track 3 -- Ancient Wisdom Duration: 6:43</h4> Time: 0:00 Maqam: saba Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 0:47 Maqam: shuri Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 1:26 Maqam: bayati Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 1:48 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 2:10 Maqam: shuri Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 2:38 Maqam: saba Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 2:47 Rhythm: Jurjuna 10/8 (3+2+2+3) Time: 3:00 Maqam: hijaz Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 3:05 Maqam: Rahat el Arwah Tonic: B half-flat  Si  Awji Time: 3:56 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 4:39 Maqam: Suznak on G Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 5:07 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: A La Husseini Time: 5:20 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 5:52 Maqam: Hijaz Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 6:26 Maqam: bayati Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 6:32 Maqam: saba Tonic: D Re Dukka <h4>  Track 4 -- Desert Sunset Duration: 6:13</h4> Time: 0:00 Maqam: saba Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 0:10 Maqam: Hijaz Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 1:13 Maqam: Rahat el Arwah Tonic: B half-flat  Si  Awji Time: 1:48 Rhythm: Baladi 4/4 Time: 3:39 Maqam: Bastanikar Tonic: B half-flat  Si  Awji Time: 4:02 Maqam: Rahat el Arwah Tonic: B half-flat  Si  Awji Time: 4:51 Maqam: Iraq Tonic: B half-flat  Si  Awji   <h4>Track 5 -- Mediterranean Duration: 4:23</h4> Time: 0:02 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 1:06 Maqam: Suznak on G Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 1:36 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 1:41 Rhythm: Tsiftitelli 8/8 Time: 2:21 Maqam: Suznak on G Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 2:36 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 3:05 Maqam: Suznak on G Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 3:30 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: A La Husseini  Time: 3:46 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 3:54 Maqam: Suznak on G Tonic: G Sol Nawa   <h4>Track 6 -- Reflected Moon Duration: 7:42</h4> Time: 0:00 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 0:17 Maqam: Nikriz on G Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 1:40 Maqam: Nawa Athar on G Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 2:08 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 2:29 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: A La Husseini  Time: 2:50 Maqam: Suznak on G Tonic: A La Husseini  Time: 3:05 Maqam: Yaka (Rast on G) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 3:22 Maqam: Hijaz Kar Tonic: C Do Rast Time: 3:39 Maqam: Rast Tonic: C Do Rast Time: 3:50 Maqam: Hijaz Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 4:32 Maqam: Hijaz on G (same tetrachord notes also contained in Shuri on D) Tonic: G Sol Nawa Time: 4:50 Maqam: Kurd on A (same tetrachord notes also contained in Bayati on D) Tonic: A La Husseini Time: 5:07 Maqam: Saba (contains Shehnaz on F) Tonic: D Re Dukka <h4>  Track 7 -- Heartbeat Duration: 2:45 Rhythm: Heartbeat 5/4</h4> Time: 0:00 Maqam: Saba Tonic: D Re Dukka    Time: 1:55 Maqam: Bayati Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 2:19 Maqam: shuri Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 2:37 Maqam: bayati Tonic: D Re Dukka   <h4>Track 8 -- Galactic Breath Duration: 3:08</h4> Time: 0:37 Maqam: saba Tonic: D Re Dukka  Time: 1:00 Maqam: bayati Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 1:18 Maqam: shuri Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 1:29 Maqam: bayati Tonic: D Re Dukka Time: 2:19 Maqam: Saba Tonic: D Re Dukka </td> <td><div align="left"> Cameron and Kristina have been deepening their musical and cultural connection to the Arabic-speaking people of the Middle East by making several recent journeys through Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and the West Bank of Palestine since 2002. They sang Iraqi love songs on the streets of Baghdad in solidarity with the Iraqi people in the spring of 2003. They performed Egyptian music for an audience of 60,000 in the Cairo Stadium in the fall of that same year. They were gifted a non-profit corporation in 2003 which is devoted to supporting Iraqi Refugee Children in Syria as well as helping to fund American musicians who work as Musical Ambassadors. Damascus, Aleppo, Lattakia, Beirout, Amman, Aqaba, Ramallah and Cairo have become fascinating new realms for their musical explorations. They have been busy traveling in the US and helping people better understand the Middle Eastern, Arabic, psyche. Well over 200 musical and multi-media presentations have recently been completed in more than half of the American states as well as in Panama, Venezuela and Mexico. </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="left"></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="http://www.gldesignpub.com/index.html">GL Design Home Page</a></td> </tr> </table>

Cameron and Kristina: Concerts Coming Your Way -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:27:00 GMT

Musical Missions of Peace will be back in the SouthWest and on the West Coast for parts of early 2010! Please contact Cameron and Kristina to arrange a concert for your group or congregation! Review from last season: 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: <a href="mailto:Cameron@musicalmissions.com">Cameron@musicalmissions.com</a> Check out his website at <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org">http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org</a> In Rhythm with Love, Harold 805-701-9672

Healing the World Through Music -- Musical Missions: Worldwide List

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:30:00 GMT

<div id="container"> <div id="header"> <h1 align="center"><img src="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/images/header0772.gif" alt="header" width="716" height="188" hspace="60" align="top" /></h1> If not displaying images <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/Tour02.html">click here</a> </div> <div id="mainContent"> <h4 align="center" class="style14">Healing the World Through Music Popular Love Songs From Planet Earth! Songs from Egypt, Iran, Greece, Mexico, Iraq, Peru, Syria, More...</h4> <h4 align="center" class="style19"><a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/cameron@musicalmissions.com">Book this show now!</a> Contact Cameron at Musical Missions of Peace at email: cameron@musicalmissions.com cell phone: 303-898-6125</h4> <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/Tour02.html"><img src="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/images/showpromo01play72.gif" alt="MusicalMissionsTour" width="355" height="250" /></a> <h4 align="center" class="style19">Pioneering Musicians Cameron & Kristina sing you around the world: Your Headliners For the Upcoming Season for Nonviolence</h4> <h4 align="center" class="style22">No more fear: Peace through Music!</h4> <h4 class="style19">Cameron and Kristina, veterans of more than 200 presentations and concerts, can provide: For Congregations: Inspirational Music for your Sunday Service followed by an Evening Concert Let's move from the "Me" to the "We!" "We are all one!" ...all cultures! ...all languages!</h4> <h4 class="style19">For Universities or Other Groups: The ancient microtonal music of the indigenous Middle East Seminars on Middle Eastern history and current affairs</h4> <h4 class="style19">For Women: Kristina's Singing and Drumming Workshops</h4> <h4 class="style19">For Musicians: Cameron's Lessons in Arabic Music</h4> <h4 class="style19">Proceeds from Musical Missions of Peace events benefit our Non-Profit Organization and can simultaneously give back a percentage to your own congregation!</h4> <h4 class="style19">We can help you design <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/hosting.html">promotional materials</a> for your events</h4> <h4 class="style19">Contact Cameron at Musical Missions of Peace at cameron@musicalmissions.com 303-898-6125</h4> <h4 class="style19">"Cameron & Kristina...build bridges between Western and Arab cultures through...music." -- <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/LonelyPlanet.html">Lonely Planet</a></h4> <h4 class="style19">Cameron and Kristina are Ambassadors for Peace with the <a href="http://www.upf.org/">Universal Peace Federation</a> and regular performers for United Nations International Day of Peace in Denver.</h4> <h4 class="style19">Cameron and Kristina's non-profit organization Musical Missons of Peace funds <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/IraqiRefugeeChildren.html">"Songs of Hope,"</a> an ongoing program devoted to the preservation of ancient Music and Culture among Iraqi refugees currently in exile in Syria</h4> <h4 class="style19">"...the most enthusiastically ever received at our Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura... You will be delighted, informed, and spiritually uplifted." Harold Cartlidge See: <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/reviews.html">More Reviews</a></h4>   <img src="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/images/72grndjnctn2.jpg" alt="CameronKristina02" width="288" height="193" /> <table width="600" border="10" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"> <tr> <td><img src="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/images/ammanstud05c.gif" alt="IraqiStudent" width="144" height="177" hspace="6" vspace="6" /> <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/IraqiRefugeeChildren.html">Iraqi Refugee Student</a> in Amman, Jordan Supported by Musical Missions of Peace Songs of Hope Program </td> <td><img src="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/images/CameronKristina09.gif" alt="CameronKristina" width="152" height="180" hspace="6" /> "I speak English, Spanish, Greek and enough Arabic and Inca to get around, but <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/MissionStatement.html">Music is The Ultimate Language!</a>" -- Cameron</td> <td><img src="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/images/Baghdad09.gif" alt="Baghdad" width="165" height="113" hspace="6" /> Cameron and Kristina Singing Iraqi Love Songs for Peace in <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/PeoplesMusicalAmbassadors.html">Baghdad</a></td> <td><img src="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/images/Promotion09.gif" alt="Promotion" width="138" height="206" hspace="6" /> Promotional Materials <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org/mm/hosting.html">Available Online</a></td> </tr> </table> <h5 align="center" class="style24">Music symbolizes the yearning for harmony -- within oneself and with others, with nature, and with the spiritual and sacred within us and around us. There is something in music which transcends and unites. This is evident in the sacred music of every community -- music that expresses the universal yearning that is shared by people all over the globe. -- The Dalai Lama</h5> </div> <div id="footer"> Musical Missions of Peace is a 501c3 Non-Profit organization. <a href="http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org">http://www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org</a> </div> </div>