About World Voices
World Voices is a music ensemble of voices and world instruments from the Minneapolis / St. Paul metropolitan area.
It is a non-profit organization at large. In its governance, members and audiences, World Voices strives for cultural diversity.
The ensemble was founded on the premise that music is a universal language, one that draws people together, creating respect and community between diverse populations.
Its purpose is to enhance the awareness and deepen the meaning -- for audience and ensemble alike -- of the cultural, spiritual and religious roots of music from around the world.
At each of its concerts, World Voices focuses on the music of a particular culture or region of the world.
Countries
Concerts by World Voices during the
first nine seasons included music from:
| Peru Brazil Argentina Ecuador Chile Colombia Venezuela Italy Spain Native America Cameroon South Africa Nigeria Namibia Kenya Ghana Russia Hungary Czech Republic Serbia Slovakia Norway |
Sweden Finland Denmark Iceland Israel Palestine India China Korea Japan Cambodia Philippines Indonesia United States Mexico Jamaica Costa Rica Puerto Rico Bahamas Guatemala England Scotland |
Ireland Wales Paraguay France Germany Bosnia Bohemia Moravia Romania Ukraine Poland Kashmir Taiwan Mongolia Malaysia Lithuania Estonia Latvia Aruba Dominican Republic |
Languages
Languages sung during the first nine seasons included:
| Sanskrit (India) Konkani (India) Chinese Chinese (Jiangsu dialect) Mongolian Japanese Malaysian Maranao (Philippines) Latin Russian Estonian |
Latvian Lithuanian Polish Hebrew Spanish Portuguese Papiamento (Aruba) Yoruba (Nigeria) Nigerian Xhosa (South Africa) Italian Norwegian |
Swedish Danish Icelandic Finnish Hungarian Slovakian Czech Romanian Kenya Quichuan (Peru) French German Inuit |
