September 23, 2024
Music Declares Emergency US and The ClimateMusic Project Launch the Be Cool! Campaign to Inspire Climate Action, Mobilize Global Youth Featuring Jefferson Starship’s Cathy Richardson, singer/songwriter/activist AY Young, six-time Grammy nominee John McCutcheon, former Bob Dylan violinist Scarlet Rivera, and ‘The Voice’’s Raine Stern, plus over 2,500 youth from four continents. Watch the video HERE […]
June 8, 2024
Imagine you just recorded yourself singing a world changing song…Imagine thousands of singers from five continents doing the same…Imagine all those singers inspiring each other to take action…Now THAT would be even cooler than cool! Greetings fabulous Be Cool community!Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Sven, I’m a musician, writer, climate activist, and a new […]
Greetings BeCool! community! As the Be Cool! Campaign is gaining global momentum, we’re excited to showcase some of the inspiring work the participants are engaged in. Today we’d like to introduce you to Nigerian musicians and climate activists Esuku Idowu Aghogho (aka Climateman) and Nnaji Precious. Thanks to their organizing and directing, over 1000 kids in Nigeria have now been recorded singing on the Be Cool song! […]
Greetings BeCool! community! We are thrilled to report that there are now over 1200 kids (and a few big kids) from five continents and ten countries who have had their voices recorded singing “I wanna be cool”! How cool is that? Thanks to all of your efforts to organize and uplift these talented young artists, the Be Cool! Campaign is inspiring climate action through […]
June 11, 2023
Connecting our community to meaningful and accessible pathways to climate action is core to our work. Hot off the press are our new climate action toolkits, organized around four themes: ==>Start Conversations ==>Volunteer Your Passion ==>Vote + Push Changes ==>Guide For Youth Check them out here and drop us a line to let us know […]
February 20, 2023
We are taking a few months to focus on some winter housekeeping, stay tuned!
October 6, 2022
The premiere was held on October 11th, 2022 in conjunction with KQED Live in San Francisco.
September 19, 2022
Hosted by the World Economic Forum’s Center for Nature and Climate.
September 1, 2022
After a summer of new content development we are now gearing up for our fall performance season! First up will be the East Coast premiere of our newest work, Audyssey, by composer Eduardo Del Signore with visual designer Angelo Chiacchio. The premiere will be held at a World Economic Forum event in New York City […]
June 8, 2022
We are excited to report that our first songwriters’ workshop was a success! On June 6th, we partnered with Music Declares Emergency on a 1/2 day test session that paired a small group of distinguished songwriters with outstanding climate scientists. The workshop objective was to provide the artists with insight and information so that they […]
May 27, 2022
Those of you who saw our live international concert last November will remember the emotionally gripping performance of Everything Matters, an urgent call to climate action, by acclaimed artists Khafre Jay and Martin Luther McCoy. We commissioned Khafre to create this powerfully uplifting song for ClimateMusic concerts, but there’s no need to wait for our […]
May 4, 2022
We are honored to have our work profiled in the just-released sustainability issue of Mission Magazine, the first philanthropic fashion media brand, which aims to engage socially conscious people and companies through the lens of fashion to help those in need. Access it here!
March 27, 2022
We are excited to be heading (virtually) to Norway on March 28th to participate in “The Unusual Suspects – Communication for Climate Change by New Societal Actors”, an online workshop with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Composer Richard Festinger will introduce our work, and Dr. Garrett Boudinot will be on hand to engage […]
January 29, 2022
Climate Artist Spotlight Although our focus is on music, we are continually moved by the work of other artists who direct their creative skills towards communicating insights about climate change. We regularly integrate other arts into our performances, and have an in-house artist, painter Richard Louis Perri, who since 2015 has been creating fine art […]
Beyond our work, there are so many more creative, ground-breaking ways in which individuals around the world find ways to bridge art, climate science, and change. Our podcast series Climate Vibes explores the human creativity evident at these intersections through conversations with climate artist change-makers and problem-solvers. Keep up with our latest episodes on Spotify, ListenNotes, and RSS! The Climate […]
January 10, 2022
We were honored to have been invited to contribute to the Opening Day of WEP2022 at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia on January 9th. Sharing the stage with world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, ClimateMusic shared videos of two of its compositions, Climate, and What If We…? and then participated […]
December 21, 2021
Weren’t able to make it to our concert Live! From Vienna and San Francisco: A Musical Call for Climate Action? You can now access the concert recording by registering with this form.
October 12, 2021
We are honored to contribute through music to this vital conversation! This event is open to the public–click here to register.