We believe music was humanity’s first language.
SAMA helps people remember how to listen across difference.
Experience
SAMA
Since SAMA began in 2019, we have produced and captured one-of-a-kind performances with more than 200 artists from across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Experience the transcendent power of music by viewing one of our past performances.
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Performances
SAMA aims to help bring as many outstanding international artists to the Pacific Northwest to perform and rebuild our vibrant connected community.
Through musical performances, global artists have the power to transport audiences around the world all while challenging preconceptions or assumptions about what we know or believe about other cultures. See what’s coming up!
About SAMA
SAMA grows empathy across cultures by being a hub for global roots music in the Pacific Northwest & worldwide
Founded by Darek Mazzone and John Goodfellow in 2019, SAMA has helped music lovers discover emerging and underrepresented artists, produced hundreds of cultural performances, and partnered with producers & musicians from Portugal, Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and beyond. Learn more about our work.
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COMING UP
Hidden Hall, SAMA & Solid Sound Present: BAMBA WASSOULOU GROOVE with Publish The Quest
High-energy West African funk/rock straight from Mali - with local legends, Publish The Quest
Trio Brasileiro: Spirited Strings
Weave through new tones of Brazilian Jazz with Trio Brasileiro.
Trio Brasileiro is a Grammy-nominated contemporary Brazilian Jazz ensemble that performs both original compositions and fresh interpretations of Brazilian classics.
Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper: A New String Theory
A meeting between instruments, ready to break from tradition.
Malian virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko, widely considered to be one of the greatest touring kora players, joins Derek Gripper, South Africa’s leading guitarist, whose love of the kora set him transcribing and recording some of its greatest works, to change the face of classical guitar and give the instrument its very first African repertoire.