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Here is a little clip taken from the Music Messe in Frankfurt

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John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension Tour with Gary Husband (keys and drums), Etienne Mbappé (bass), Ranjit Barot (drums).

OCTOBER
27/10/12 Toulouse Jazz sur son 31 France
28/10/12 Bordeaux ,Le Rocher de Palmer France
29/10/12 Paris ,Trianon France
30/10/12 Lille, France
31/10/12 Strasbourg, France

NOVEMBER
01/11/12 Zurich No Jazz Festival, Switzerland
03/11/12 Wroclaw, Poland
04/11/12 Gdansk, Poland
07/11/12 Ravensburg, Germany
08/11/12 Leverkusen, Germany
09/11/12 Dresden, Germany
11/11/12 London, London Jazz Festival, UK
14/11/12 Novosibirsk, Russia
16/11/12 Moscow, Crocus City Hall, Russia
17/11/12 St Petersburg, BKZ Oktjabrskij Russia
18/11/12 Minsk, Russia
19/11/12 Helsinki, Finland
20/11/12 Oslo, Norway
21/11/12 Oslo, Norway
23/11/12 Chiasso, Italy
24/11/12 Sacile, Italy

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Though far removed from the occupied Palestinian territories, the Akha people of South East Asia have a saying about music that strikes a universal note; a village without music is not a village. Back in the 1930s and 1940s there was a Palestine Philharmonic but now it’s called the Israeli Symphony Orchestra, just one more example of the cultural occupation that Israel exerts on Palestinians. The conditions that Palestinians are forced to live under mean that, like the Philharmonic, there is no longer a Palestine. Nevertheless, the Palestinians voice and aspirations for statehood cannot be ignored, and neither too, can the flame of music be extinguished there. Remember Shakti’s concert at the Ramallah Cultural Palace in aid of and in solidarity with Al Mada, was a reminder of the power of music to inspire, to empower and to heal.

There was a wonderful symbiosis about the coming together of Palestinian organization Al Mada and John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain’s legendary group, Remember Shakti. Formed in 2009 by Executive Director Reem Abdul Hadi and Artistic Director Odeh Turman, Al Mada is dedicated to improving the quality of people’s lives in the occupied Palestinian territories, not in the physical sense, but by lifting the human spirit through the medium of music and art as therapy. McLaughlin, perhaps not by design, has been doing something not too dissimilar for more than forty years, with music so powerful, and often so beautiful, that it is, in its own way, inspirational and transformative.

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I’m (John) waiting in Vienna airport for my connecting flight home coming from Amman Jordan, and I am still completely inspired and moved by our visit to Palestine.

Three days ago I had arrived with Shakti in Amman, to be met by the people from UNRWA who then drove us by road on to Ramallah. This was to be our final concert after the Indian tour. After passing many, many checkpoints and crossing the Allenby Bridge, we eventually arrived in the occupied territories and the city of Ramallah. I can say truthfully that I was thrilled to be there in spite of the fatigue of traveling and a long early morning flight. We were met at our hotel by the people of Al Mada, the UNRWA and UNICEF,  without whose help our concert would never have been possible. They were as thrilled as we were, that we had actually made it to Ramallah.

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