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Artistic Direction, Management and Production Credits

Artistic Director Repercussion: Vancouver, International Bhangra Celebration 2009/2010

Producer – Global Beats Soundstreams Cool Drummings Festival Toronto 2007
and 2008

Producer – Aboriginal Music Lab, Vancouver Community College, Vancouver
2007, 2008

Creative Director – Drum Song, video for BC/Canada House Beijing Summer 2008

Producer – Choral Riffs Celebration 2010 for Vancouver’s Olympic Bid 2003

Producer – Open House, Commodore Ballroom events and workshops, MusicFest Vancouver 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008

Artistic Director – Listen Up Festival Vancouver East Cultural Centre 2001-

Artistic Director – Vancouver International Writers Festival Literary Cabaret 1988-

Artistic Director – Vancouver Folk Music Festival 1994-1995

Programme Director – Simon Fraser Summer World Percussion Intensive 1993-1999

Artistic Director – Drum Heat Percussion Festival 1986-2003

Artistic Director – International Talent Victoria Commonwealth Games 1994

Artistic Director – Midsummer’s Night Gala for Queen Elizabeth II Victoria 1994

Project Manager – AfroCubanismo 1996 Banff School of Fine Arts

Producer – World Music/World Myth Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 1996

Artistic Director – Music 91 Gala  Canada Place Convention Centre

Producer – Symphonic Salsa Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 1998

Assistant Director – World Drum Festival Expo 86 Vancouver, Expo 88 Brisbane, Australia, Calgary Olympic Festival 1988, Expo 98 Lisbon, Portugal and Expo 2000 Hanover, Germany.

Coordinator – World Percussion Sessions Percussive Arts Society International Conferences in Columbus Ohio 2002 and Nashville Tennessee 2001.

 

Broadcasting and public speaking engagements

Sal SpeaksLatin American Festival Scholarly presentation University of Central
Florida, Orlando, Spring, 2007

Keynote Speaker Arts Umbrella Professional Development Day, Vancouver, September 2008

Keynote Speaker, College Music Society Northwest Chapter, February, 2007

Scholar's presentation at Creative Music Institute Symposium in Vancouver, June 2005

Scholar’s paper presentation Society for Ethnomusicology International Conference in Tucson, Arizona, Fall 2004

Scholar’s paper presentation Society for Ethnomusicology International Conference in Estes Park, Colorado Fall 2002

Keynote Speaker – International Baccalaureate Conference Vancouver 1997, 2003

Host – Victoria Day CBC National Network special Music from the Rain Coast 1996

Host CBC National Radio Network eight part series  Out of this World  June-July 1992

Guest commentator CBC Toronto’s The Entertainers series on the Rumba 1991

Numerous radio and TV interviews on the subjects of percussion music, world music, Latin American music and cultural diversity on English, Spanish and French language shows.

Image of Sal Speaking

 

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