CALIFORNIA

Sponsor:Cal Performances

In a historic first, more than a dozen instrumentalists and vocalists from Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda have collaborated to use the power of music to raise awareness of the cultural and environmental challenges along the world’s longest river. The result is a new sound of a shared Nile identity. Their show, like their debut album Aswan (one of NPR’s “5 Must-Hear International Albums”), features songs in a dozen languages and traditional string and percussion instruments with a wide range of color and timbre.