by Suzanne Regterschot | Oct 27, 2020 | Freetown Music Week
Exactly two years ago, 18 musicians from the UK, Iceland and Sierra Leone met up for the first time in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and started their journey together at the Music Writing Week. Who would have thought that this week would result in the artist collaboration...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Sep 24, 2020 | Freetown Music Week, Music Writing Week
‘’When Music Speaks, Everybody Understands’’ Music Diplomacy, founded by Paolo Petrocelli, shares stories on music diplomacy from all over the world. The blog community launched in May 2020, and so far it has featured stories from all over the world, including blogs...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Sep 17, 2019 | Freetown Music Week
Aurora is proud to announce that the first song from the collaboration OSUSU is out. The first song is WOMAN, featuring Hildur, Cell7, Daniel Bangura and Mohammed Kamara. It all started almost a year ago or in November 2018 when seventeen artists came together in...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Sep 10, 2019 | Freetown Music Week
Almost a year ago we invited 18 different musicians to meet up and spend a week together at a small guesthouse just outside of Freetown. The musicians were from Iceland, the UK, and Sierra Leone, and most of them had never met before. We called it the Music Writing...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Nov 21, 2018 | Freetown Music Week
The first ever Freetown Music Writing Week was held during the week of 28th of October to 3rd of November 2018. During the week Icelandic, English and Sierra Leonean musicians teamed up to share knowledge, experience and build long lasting friendship. It is one of...