We presented 6 main stage concerts and 6 community outreach events at the Sixth Annual San Francisco World Music Festival (Sept. 26 - Oct. 16, 2005) highlighting musicians from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chile, China, Crete, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Nigeria, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and more. The centerpiece of Festival 2005 was the "Nowruz Project", a festival commissioned world premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts created as an international music experiment and an artistic statement for global peace. Combining traditional and newly composed music, poetry, dance, and film, this production was led by a core group of traditional artists from abroad as well as those rooted in the Bay Area's Middle Eastern and Central Asian communities.
