This Memorial Day Weekend, the Ashland World Music Festival invites you to reconnect with community and culture in a conscious, yet innovative way. The 2021 hybrid festival features a live-stream main stage event highlighting culture-bearing musical artists, a virtual Heartbeat Stories, and a weekend of SoundWalks through Ashland’s park and city-scapes.

The festival is FREE, and we encourage everyone to donate to the fundraiser for the UNETE Farm Worker and Immigrant Family Fire Relief Fund.

What is a SoundWalk?

SoundWalks offer a curated, self-guided, interactive, audio/visual experience that weaves together the audio recordings of all of our main stage artists with visual installations of art of all types by local artists. Learn more.

What to expect

A live-stream main stage event featuring 6 performing cultural groups.

Learn more about the artists.

Live Stream here.

Live Stream schedule.

A virtual HeartBeat Stories event on the theme of Home.

3 unique SoundWalks: Downtown, the RailRoad District, and North Mountain Park.

Fire Relief fundraiser

As our region strives to recover, support for those most-deeply impacted is still required. Donate.

All donations made to this fund through Rogue World Music are eligible for the Oregon State Tax Credit program via the Oregon Cultural Trust. Learn more.