Applications are now open for Fully Funded OneBeat Musial Exchange Program 2020. OneBeat brings together emerging musical leaders from around the world to collaboratively create original work and to develop a global network of civically engaged music initiatives.

Moreover, OneBeat is a music exchange and incubator for music social entrepreneurship, where innovative musicians from around the world launch collaborative projects. These projects make a positive impact on local and global communities.

Further, an initiative of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the groundbreaking New York-based music organization Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation, OneBeat employs collaborative original music as a potent new form of cultural diplomacy.

Benefits

The benefits of Fully Funded OneBeat Musial Exchange Program 2020:

• OneBeat offers musicians the opportunity to collaborate on new projects and to explore new musical traditions.
• The OneBeat program covers all Fellows’ travel, transportation, food, and lodging.
• They also offer a modest stipend.
• While they are not able to pay performance fees, OneBeat offers Fellows a chance to create new material, establish lifelong musical partnerships and friendships, learn new marketable skills, tour the US, and develop professional connections.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be between 19 and 35 years old during the program dates
• Similarly, they welcome music of all genres, including traditional/folk, hip hop, experimental, electronic, jazz, classical, sound design, beat-making, multimedia art, or any combination of these styles and more.
• In additional to full-time professional musicians, we also invite adventurous musicians who double as community organizers, instrument builders, writers, videographers, musicologists, educators, storytellers, dancers, shadow-puppeteers, and more.

Eligible Countries: Albania, Algeria, Barbados, Bolivia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greenland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, United States, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

How to apply for Fully Funded OneBeat Musial Exchange Program 2020?

All applicants apply online through the official website.