World Music/CRASHarts, one of the organizations participating in Wallace’s Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative, held its third annual CRASHfest on Saturday, February 24. CRASHfest is a celebration of music, dance, food and culture from around the world. It is also World Music/CRASHarts’s flagship event to help attract younger audiences to the extensive series of performances it presents every year.
Get a sense of the event in the photos below. You can also read the full account of CRASHfest and its role in the organization’s audience-development.
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![Subject:Matter, a local tap dance company, wow the crowd on a bump-out stage in the main hall. The bump-out stage, new to CRASHfest in 2018, kept crowds entertained as bands set up on the main stage.](/sites/default/files/2023-10/IMG_8628-CRASHfest.jpg)
![Maure Aronson, founder and executive director of World Music/CRASHarts, introduces Malian singer and guitarist, Vieux Farka Touré](/sites/default/files/2023-10/IMG_8706-CRASHfest.jpg)
![Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré, who appeared to be one of the stronger draws to the main stage.](/sites/default/files/2023-10/IMG_8785-CRASHfest.jpg)
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