August 15, 2013 Live Connections: A Program that Creates Musical Opportunities for City Students

LiveConnections creates innovative, boundary-crossing music programming and education out of partner venue World Cafe Live. Through live concerts, interactive programs for youth and video technology, LiveConnections commissions artists from different genres to highlight how music crosses cultures and to reimagine the landscape of live music.
In 2008, when Live Connections was formed, World Café Live's David Bradley explained its mission:
"We're looking to figure out how artists can come from their backgrounds and traditions, meet other artists, and by working together - often for the first time - right in front of kids, kind of stimulate this idea of crossing perspectives, of being open to something different from your own experience."

"The real opportunity is to cross boundaries and to break open genres so that young people, who have an immediate affinity for music, can not form silos in their head that 'this instrument belongs here, this musical form belongs there, and I belong in this place and I don't belong there.'"

Live Connections is celebrating its fifth year on October 1, 2013. It has been opening the minds of not only kids, but adults with special needs in those five years. You can help this to continue by donating or buying a ticket to their October 1st anniversary party, Live Connections Fifth.