Please view links below learn about Rhythms in Peace project! THE VISION   PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS   FUNDRAISING CONCERTS :: DATES & TICKETS   TAX-DEDUCTIBLE INDIVIDUAL DONATION PACKAGES & GIFTS   TAX - DEDUCTIBLE SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES & GIFTS   Supporting Women's Empowerment in Developing Countries   About our sponsors and donors for Rhythms in Peace   Gratitude note from Marla

Music is a sacred art, as it serves as one of the oldest forms of healing in the world.  When we feel the rhythm of a drum or listen to a melody, something deep stirs within us.  Music can be a point of reconnection to ourselves, our families and our global community.
How wide a web can music weave? Accomplished musician-composer Marla Leigh intends to find out. With support from Empowerment Works!, LA Yoga Magazine, Yogi Times, Yoga Soup, Topanga Magazine, Yoga Kula, Bonsorte Studios, Cultural Connections and Yogamates, she is creating a global, multi-media, sacred music experience entitled Rhythms in Peace. 

Rhythms in Peace is a landmark, global sound healing CD and DVD project that brings together Grammy-winning artists and other world class musicians with tribal music groups from across the globe. Some proceeds from this project will go to aid women's sacred music groups in developing countries (Morocco and Egypt).  We are currently fundraising for the first phase of the project where we will to go to Morocco in September 2008, to record with the Houyarites, a trance healing women's drumming/vocal group, as well as with Gnawa and Berber musicians.

There are ways in which you can support this revolutionary sacred music project. Fundraiser concerts are being held all over the USA, as well as special tax-deductible Rhythms in Peace musical gift packages. Please read on for more information, thank you.

"I am looking forward to recording on Marla's Rhythms in Peace CD... I admire her approach and musicality in hand drumming"
-Glen Velez, Grammy Winning Percussionist

PROJECT  HIGHLIGHTS

ALBUM: Rhythms in Peace is a revolutionary, one-of a kind album of original and traditional healing trance music featuring artists from Morocco, Egypt, Israel, India and the USA.

*other artists will be added, please check back for most recent updates to list

DOCUMENTARY FILM: There will also be an educational, documentary DVD created about drumming rituals in Morocco. 
 

SUPPORTING  GWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Picture of the Houyarites, the women trance-drumming group that Rhythms in Peace will be working with in Morocco!!

Women in most Muslim countries today suffer more challenges in their everyday lives than most of us can comprehend. Working with the Moroccan women's trance-music groups The Houariyates, (Morocco), and the Zar troup from Cairo, Egypt, offers Marla an unique opportunity to support women musicians in Muslim countries. As part of the global outreach of this project, Marla will share a percentage of her one years sales to each group through the Empowerment Works  Micro-grants Program. Marla also hopes to assist both groups to tour in western countries as well as include them in drumming retreats in USA and Morocco.

 

SPONSORSHIP AND DONATION PACKAGES SUPPORT SACRED WORLD MUSIC TODAY!!

All donations are tax-deductible through Empowerment Works.  Each donation comes with various musical gifts from Marla. 

 

You can pre-purchase your tickets below with PayPal.
Please bring a photo ID with you to the event.
 Tickets will also be for sale at the door.