World Music - Music Department - Montgomery College - Rockville Campus

MC World Ensemble
Community Service & Global Contributions

World Music Globe In the musical spirit of group participation and community and especially concerned with the world and its music, the group dedicated last year’s concerts to help support the UN Water For Life Project. We studied and performed music and dance from around the world on the theme of water as part of our Water Music for Life Project and were able to raise money for the UN’s Unicef Water Fund. We are now US Fund for Unicef Ambassador.

This year, the MC World Ensemble Students collected Toys and Winter Clothing for a Native American Reservation Drive in which a truck-load of items were driven out to South Dakota reserves over winter break. We also raised money through the Farafina Kan Music Scholarship Concert for both the MC Music Student Scholarship Fund and the Alessie African Music and Dance Scholarship in memory of Diallo Kouyate.

As indigenous arts are an integral and beneficial part of community, they have become equally important to the MC World Ensemble, and its mission as a community college. As a result, the students are encouraged to play for civic and community events and to participate in benefit performances, sharing their culture and privilege with that of the greater community.

UNICEF Certificate of Achievement

UNICEF Letter of Appreciation (pdf format) (requires Acrobat Reader)

Native American Television, Inc Letter of Appreciation (pdf format) (requires Acrobat Reader)

Images of Cultural Artistry, Inc Letter of Appreciation (pdf format) (requires Acrobat Reader)

Department of Music ▪ Montgomery College ▪ Rockville Campus ▪ 51 Mannakee Street ▪ Rockville, MD ▪ 20850
(240) 567-5209 ▪ http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/musicrv/