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Dan Moxon 鈥� Piano & Vocals

Filmed at Creekside Community Centre, Vancouver

Dan is a founding member of Vancouver鈥檚 rock sensation Bend Sinister and an award-winning film composer. Bend Sinister grew to success touring Canada and with one of their first singles Time Breaks Down that made CBC鈥檚 Top 10 songs from Canada in 2008. In 2009 the band won a Music BC contest with a $50,000 prize and headed to Toronto in 2010 where they toured non stop their release Spring Romance who鈥檚 single Things Will Get Better again made the CBC鈥檚 Top 10 songs list. This year he also just won a Leo Award for the feature length film he scored, Sisters and Brothers by Carl Bessai.

I like the collaborative aspect of bringing in all the different ethnicities and having people from all different senses of world music play together and that sense of community where I don鈥檛 necessarily always get to play and be on the same sort of tracks as those people.

Jian Ming Pan 鈥� Chinese Flute

Filmed at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Gardens, Vancouver

A Chinese bamboo flute teacher, Pan enrolled as a student in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1958 and graduated in 1967. Then he performed for the Model Opera it was top level of music group in China during that time. In 1972, Pan broadened his studies as a research fellow with Shanghai Museum, especially in the areas of Chinese history and arts. Since Pan's arrival Canada in 1988, he has performed in many festivals and joined many recordings for CBC, TV and CDs, and his students received the champions in Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival.

I love to participate in the "One Voice" music video, because it speaks to the themes of social solidarity, multiculturalism, and community connectedness in the urban environment. Also through the project I meet new friends and learn from others.

Israel 鈥淭oto鈥� Berriel 鈥� Afro-Cuban percussion & vocals

Filmed at Coal Harbour Community Centre, Vancouver

Israel 鈥淭oto鈥� Berriel is a traditional Afro-Cuban percussionist and vocalist from Matanzas, Cuba who has toured worldwide. Toto began his professional music career at the young age of 16 in Los Yumurinos, a group formed by the children of the famous groups Los Mu帽equitos de Matanzas and AfroCuba de Matanzas, two well-recognized traditional AfroCuban groups. In 1988 he joined AfroCuba de Matanzas for two years until he was invited to join the world's best-known Rumba group Los Mu帽equitos de Matanzas." Toto" worked with the Los Mu帽equitos for twelve years learning the entire AfroCuban repertoire.

When you get into another culture, another music, you can see another world, you know? Me, for example, when I get into another music, for me it鈥檚 a new school 鈥� to start to learn music again. Music and culture.

Annie Brown 鈥� Celtic Fiddle

Filmed at Jericho Sailing Centre, Vancouver

A sought after teacher and community organizer, Annie is a well known and highly regarded session fiddler in the Vancouver Celtic scene who has played in several successful ensembles. Currently performs with 鈥楶sycho Acoustic Ceili Band鈥� and 鈥楾hereafter鈥�.

There鈥檚 an incredible richness and humour in discovering what other peoples鈥� modes of creation and expressing themselves are. And there鈥檚 an awful lot of common ground.

Shanto Acharia 鈥� Celtic Cello

Filmed at Jericho Sailing Centre, Vancouver

As an accomplished composer, seasoned performer and versatile musician, Juno award winner Shanto Acharia (Fond of Tigers) has been able to collaborate with some of the finest talent in music, film, theatre and dance. Recently he composed the score for Hot Shots Short Film Competition finalist, `Monster鈥� (Deerbear Productions). Currently, he is very excited to be a part of the roots driven supergroup, 'Thereafter'.

My mother鈥檚 Polish and my father is East Indian, so I was naturally born into 2 cultures. So I had to figure out how to reconcile them, and it鈥檚 been an extremely rewarding, amazing journey. And if anyone is inclined to do that, they won鈥檛 regret it. They鈥檒l just enhance their lives in countless ways. This project epitomizes that.

Kurai Blessing Mubaiwa 鈥� Zimbabwean Mbira & Vocals

Filmed at Britannia Community Centre, Vancouver

Kurai Blessing Mubaiwa was born in 1976 in the village of Mutimbanyoka, in Murewa district, Zimbabwe. He began playing mbira (or 鈥渢humb piano鈥�) at the age of six, and later went on to develop his talents in singing, dance, drums and marimba. Kurai has gone on to tour worldwide as a solo artist and in various groups. In 1998 Kurai toured West Africa and Europe with Chiwoniso Maraire and opened for Cesaria Evora. In 2000 he joined Theatre Talipot in Reunion Island performing in the production, Passage, which toured South Africa, France and Scotland. Kurai immigrated to Vancouver in 2002 where he began his Canadian musical journey. He continues to facilitate workshops across North America and Europe. and currently performs as the lead musician with the group ZimbaMoto and Zhambai Trio.

I decided to be part of this project because I truly feel that we are one people. Regardless of our colours and where we come from, we still belong to the same world, same love. We should be working together.

M鈥橤irl  鈥� Aboriginal Women Voices & Drumming

M鈥橤irl is: Renae Morriseau, Jenifer Brousseau, Tiare Laporte, Tiffany Moses, Tracey Weitzel

Filmed at Carnegie Community Centre, Vancouver

M鈥橤irl (pronounced 鈥淢a鈥橤irl鈥�) is a combination of aboriginal women鈥檚 voices, harmonies, languages and stories from various Nations across Turtle Island (North America), led by Renae Morriseau.  M鈥橤irl fuses traditional indigenous songs with a contemporary flare, with a lens in how their cultural practices (Saulteaux, Ojibway, Metis, Dene, Cree) celebrate purpose, and vision for, Mother Earth.

Being a part of the 鈥淥ne Voice鈥� project is something that is very much a part of what M鈥橤irl is with regards to community engagement, and the process of sharing our music and receiving music from our various communities that we鈥檙e in. 鈥�a lot of the songs that we talk about are about community鈥� about family, and about our place in the fabric of our families and our community. This project 鈥淥ne Voice鈥� is an opportunity for M鈥橤irl to share our voice with many other people, many other cultures, many other ways of expressing the worldview of community.

鈥� Renae Morriseau

Being First Nations in a First Nations鈥� group, we place high value on coming together as a community. We all come from various different nations and we come together and we鈥檙e bridging the gap within the Aboriginal community. And in doing this project, we have a vision to share what we are already doing together and bridge that gap with all cultures across the country and throughout the world. So this is definitely a part of who we are as a group, and a part of who we are as individuals.

鈥� Jenifer Brousseau (M鈥橤irl)

Paul Latta 鈥� Polynesian Ukelele & Drums

Filmed at Bear Creek Park, Surrey

One of the most sought after educators of Polynesian & Pacific Rim studies, specializing in indigenous traditional & contemporary Polynesian dance, music, costume, art, history, & performance, Paul Tavai-Latta is a recognized educator on Maohi (Polynesian) culture. Paul & his dancers continue to set standards and break records for Polynesian dance & entertainment in Canada and abroad.

Paul holds the only Master's Degree in Hula & Pacific Dance in Canada! With over 49  years of entertainment and 41 years of teaching behind him, Paul still considers himself more a student of Polynesia than ever before, dedicated to preserving and perpetuating the Polynesian culture, and with no signs of slowing down.

鈥淎lo鈥� means a close friend and your 鈥渉a鈥� means your inner breath, in fact your actual soul, so when you say to someone 鈥淎loha鈥� you鈥檙e giving your most inner self to a very special friend and we hope that with this song and with many other similar projects we can share the true 鈥淎loha鈥� spirit outside of Polynesia to everyone. Mahalo.

Deirdra Kiai 鈥� Balkan Sousaphone

Filmed at Burnaby Mountain Park

Deirdra Kiai is a multi-instrumentalist who primarily dabbles in low brass. She played tuba for several years in junior high and high school, only to pick it up again in 2009 after happening upon a Craigslist ad posted by a local Balkan brass band seeking the services of someone to round out their bottom end. Deirdra's been happily tooting along with Orkestar Slivovica ever since, and very much enjoys the challenge presented by the odd time signatures and phrygian dominant scales characteristic of Balkan music. When not performing music, Deirdra can be found developing artistic videogames.

I am from a huge mishmash of cultures myself. My parents are from the Philippines and Iran and I was born and raised in Canada and I鈥檓 playing music from the Balkans! So it鈥檚 really important to respect everyone鈥檚 cultural traditions while at the same time experiencing so many of them and just being able to learn and share with each other鈥� 鈥榗ause there鈥檚 a lot of understanding between all of the different cultures. We鈥檙e not really that much different from one another and that鈥檚 beautiful.

Reza Honari 鈥� Persian Kamanche

Filmed at Eagles Estate Heritage Garden, Burnaby

Reza Honari immigrated to Canada from Iran in 1985. He has been actively pursuing the art of Persian traditional and folk music. In addition to giving numerous 鈥渇amily鈥� concerts for the Persian community living in North America, Reza has performed in several music festivals. Reza grew up in the Baluchistan and Khorasan provinces of Iran and is familiar with the folk music of these parts of the country. Along with his family, Reza have introduced the beautiful melodies of Baluchistan to Iranians abroad and to the North American audiences, by performing at music festivals, concerts and playing on CBC Radio.

I truly believe that music is a kind of international language. Even if you cannot speak any other languages, with music you can communicate very efficiently. I truly enjoy playing with other people, playing other music. It makes me feel like I鈥檓 part of the whole society of my fellow human beings.