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Zanzibar: Music academy to host percussion workshop
Written & published by: Lucy Ilado (Music in Africa Portal) The Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) in Zanzibar, Tanzania, has organised a workshop for drummers between 21 and 23 July. DCMA managing director Alessia Lombardo. The sessions will be...
Dhow Countries Music Academy COVID-19 Statement
With the entire world living in the shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we know that the hearts and minds of the DCMA Family are currently distracted, rightly focused on matters closer to home. Life, as we previously knew it, may never be the same again and whilst...
Help us keep Zanzibar’s only music academy open!
The Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA), Zanzibar’s one and only music school, has launched a major crowdfunding campaign on September 19, 2019, to keep its doors open and the music flowing in its historic hallways of the Old Customs House in Zanzibar. The academy has...
DCMA Taarab Group meets Wonju Maeji Nongak
Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) and Wonju Maeji Nongak (Korea Agricultural music) team A-ul are performing together on Friday February 15, 8pm at Forodhani Park. Maeji Nongak (Korea agricultural music) is listed as an intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO. ...
DCMA started The Creative Entrepreneur Programme for its students
Thanks to the support of Polish Aid. The Creative Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) is a University of Manchester certificated course. The CEP has been specifically designed for people who are not normally able to access formal education, or who have had limited...
Change lives in Zanzibar through music
Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) is launching a one month crowd funding campaign that aims to allow 30 young people with musical talent to continue their education at the Academy, and give them an opportunity not only to develop their talents, but also to change...
DCMA is looking for a Managing Director
Post: Managing Director Start of employment: January 2019 Place of work: Dhow Countries Music Academy, Zanzibar Type of employment: full-time Responsible to: Board of Trustees Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) is the only music school in Zanzibar....
DCMA to set the digital archive for traditional music from Zanzibar
We are happy to announce that Dhow Countries Music Academy is a partner in the "Phonotheque History of the Indian Ocean and its valorization actions" ( Digital archival platform project for geographic and multidisciplinary collaboration - a regional portal for...
DCMA receives donations from the Embassy of Germany & Goethe-Institut Tanzania
The Embassy of Germany and Goethe-Institut Tanzania have donated new instruments and musical equipment to the Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) in Zanzibar. An official handover ceremony will be held in Stone Town in early September. The instruments and equipment...
Donation from Embassy of the State of Palestine
His Excellency Hazem M. Shabat, Ambassador of Palestine in Tanzania has donated new qanun, oud and ney to Dhow Countries Music Academy on 8th of July. A small hand-over ceremony took place in our concert hall in the presence of DCMA managment, staff and students....