Rodrigo Matos, Alan Eccel, Mayor Gustavo Fruet, & Ubiraci Rodrigues look at a school floor plan On February 6th, Gustavo Fruet, Mayor of Curitiba [the capital of Paraná, Brazil], and Ubiraci Rodrigues, President of the Popular Housing Company of Curitiba (or COHAB), signed a free lease term for transfer of land to the Residents Association … Read More
By William Aura Nepal is no stranger to challenges. Yet this current situation is unprecedented. 28 million people are now facing a severe nationwide humanitarian crisis.The rainy season has come and gone and as winter sets in, government inaction and the Indian block-aid means two million people are still homeless or living in a makeshift shelter … Read More
Musica Music Institute – Kathmandu, Nepal Meet Utsav Nepal. He has been blind since birth. We met at the Early Rehabilitation Center in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he expressed his deep desire to someday play music in a band. He said he learned guitar and sings songs but never had the opportunity to perform with others. “This … Read More
Feb. 17th, 2016 Albena Lake Hodge Secondary School Anguilla, BWI Last month, 25 students at the Albena Lake Hodge Secondary School in Anguilla spent the morning with Paolo Heman, PFC musician and renowned percussionist who hails from Bahia, Brazil. Paolo introduced the students to traditional Brazilian rhythms and together this new ensemble of percussionists demonstrated … Read More
L’Ecole de musique de Kirina offers a dynamic music and dance program to 200 students. The creation of the program began in 2009 when Mahamadou Diabaté, brother of Grammy Award-winning Kora player, Toumani Diabaté, and a wonderful musician in his own right, approached us about building a music school in his native country of Mali. The … Read More
Ecole de Musique de Kirina- Mali To welcome their new friends to the PFCF family, students and staff at École de Musique de Kirina in Mali recorded a groove and dedicated it to the Cajuru Music School in Curitiba.