Global Sounds on the Hill

This series of singular concerts, curated and hosted by Jim Thomson, features musicians at the forefront of the global music scene. Jim Thomson owns and operates the Brooklyn/Washington, DC-based boutique record label-Electric Cowbell Records. He currently runs Multiflora Productions out of Washington, DC, a multifaceted, multicultural agency that specializes in expanding the reach of genre-bending roots-to-the-future music through artist management, event marketing and music releases. Featured musicians/group include (in no particular order): Madalitso, Rakish, Qwanqwa, Alash, Fendika, Eva Salina & Peter Stan, Feifei Yang, Ilusha Tsinato, Desanguashington, Marja Mortensson, The Mehmet Polat Trio, Innov Gnawa, and so many more!

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    Global Sounds on the Hill Featuring Mexican and Tejano Fiddle with Belen Escobedo

    Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States
    Concerts

    Belen Escobedo is a 2026 NEA National Heritage Fellow, the nation's highest honor for folk and traditional arts. Curated and hosted by iconic DC impresario and musician Jim Thomson Belen Escobedo is a South Texas fiddler whose music reflects the layered soundscape of the Texas–Mexico borderlands. Her playing draws from early Mexican and Tejano fiddle traditions once…

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  • Inner Spaces

    Global Sounds on the Hill featuring Inner Spaces with Amir ElSaffer and Lorenzo Bianchi: Where Arabic Maqam meets Sonic Innovation

    Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Washington, DC, United States
    Concerts

    Maqam is the foundational modal system used in Arabic, Turkish, and Middle Eastern music.  Curated and hosted by iconic DC impresario and musician Jim Thomson Inner Spaces invites audiences into a transcendent musical journey—a fusion of ancestral and futuristic, acoustic and electronic, local and global. Through this synthesis, the duo creates a soundscape that celebrates…

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