CSM has developed an exciting new World Music Initiative that will bring musicians, dancers and performing artists from many different countries to the greater attention of the world stage.

CSM has created a series of regional world music festivals that will be filmed and recorded around the globe throughout 2005. The first of this series, the South Pacific World Music Festival, was a huge success and was held in Fiji in November of 2004. A West African World Music Festival will be held in Cape Verde, Middle East World Music Festival is planned for Jordan, other festivals are planned for Madagascar, Mongolia, Malaysia, as well as North and South America.

CSM has agreed to produce the festivals in each location for a period of 5 years, developing them into self-sustaining ventures that bring tourism, investment and media attention to the host country.  This goal complements the mandate of the MCA (Millennium Challenge Account) through which many of the countries are eligible for receiving the $1Million US in funding. 

As in Fiji, CSM will coordinate talent, event and television production, international media, production logistics and liaise with Government representatives, the national airlines and the countries Visitors Bureaus.  CSM also assists in securing sponsorship.

CSM will film and record each music festival and successful sustainable development projects in the area. CMS will produce a 1-3 hour television special on each country that will be broadcast on Link TV, in the United States, then re-edited and distributed internationally as both cultural documentary and music videos featuring groups from the festivals.

CSM works with Calabash Music to record the live performances which are now available for download via the Internet.  Their mission is to expand the accessibility of world music while ensuring that a large share of the proceeds go to the actual musicians involved (www.calabashmusic.com).

CSM will organize a media group to cover the festival and other unique features of the host country, securing worldwide media and press coverage, and awakening interest in new tourist destinations.

As part of our ongoing commitment to sustainable development, CSM will also mentor a team of filmmakers from each country, providing them the skills needed to eventually shoot the festivals and distribute them themselves. This part of the initiative was extremely well received in Fiji, in CSM’s work with the Fiji Film and TV Unit.

As part of it’s contribution to the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the United Nations in London’s Royal Albert Hall October 16, 2005, CSM will invite performers from the festivals to represent their countries at this prestigious UN event. Clips from the footage shot during the festivals will be projected onto large screens on stage and CSM will film the UN 60^th celebratory concert for distribution via Link TV and other television outlets around the world.

CSM is committed to universally accessible tourism and to creating projects that enhance the principles of sustainable development, contributing to economic development and increasing respect and awareness of diverse cultures, customs and artistic expression. In pursuing this aim, CSM pays particular attention to the interests of developing countrie

For more information contact CSM.