Come join us along with filmmaker, Tara Linhardt, for a showing of The Mountain Music Project accompanied by a Q and A session after the film.

Tara Linhardt is a co-host on our film and production coordinator. In addition to being an award-winning mandolin player from Virginia, winning first place at such festivals as the Mt Airy Fiddler’s Convention and the Maury River Fiddler’s convention, she also lived with Nepali families and studied in Nepal for a year and is a fluent Nepali speaker. She received a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Wisconsin with two years of that study done in Asia. She has a Masters in Education and has been performing and teaching traditional music for years both privately and in festivals, workshops, and traditional music camps such as the Traditions Week at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. She has also given presentations on Asian and Appalachian cultures and music at Shepherd University, Muskingum University, and The Asia Society.

About The Mountain Music Project

Our Mission:

The Mountain Music Project’s mission is to encourage the preservation of musical traditions in rural and under-served communities throughout the world, with a special focus on mountainous regions.

Our activities include cultural exchanges and expeditions, multimedia documentation, and supporting local cultural preservation organizations.

We’re currently working to help musicians preserve their local traditions in Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Burma, and wherever the songs carry us. Does your community have a musical tradition that might not get passed to the next generation? Let us know!

Music Education in Nepal

Between 2009-2015, we focused on providing music education to underprivileged youth in Nepal.  To learn more about these programs, and how you can help us revive them, click here.