our mission:
Silkroad creates music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning for a more hopeful and inclusive world.
My Music with Rhiannon Giddens
A PBS Series
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens hosts a half-hour series of musical performance and conversation with multicultural musicians in the Silkroad Ensemble’s “American Railroad” project.
Silkroad’s newest initiative, American Railroad, illuminates the impact that the African American, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish, and other immigrant communities had on the creation of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways in North America. Exploring the dissemination of cultures across the United States, the railroad was to North America what the Silk Road was to China, the Far East, and Europe.
our programs:
Silkroad uses the arts to ignite passions, inspire change, and foster education through performances, tours, workshops, and residency programs in middle schools, universities, carceral communities, and refugee communities.
our music:
Silkroad’s music is contemporary and ancient, familiar and foreign, traditional and innovative, drawing on styles from around the world to create a new musical language that reflects 21st-century society.
When we create music together, we listen to our differences, connecting and creating meaning from them.
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HELP BUILD A MORE HOPEFUL & INCLUSIVE WORLD
As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, your support makes it possible for us to create artistic and educational programs that inspire curiosity, empathy, and collaboration.
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“Every chord struck, every drum beat, every string plucked, every foot tapped sent notes of healing to this abjectly broken world.” – Risa M.