Musical Overtures
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The jazz group Alvin Atkinson and the Sound Merchants traveled to Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Armenia in March and April 2009 in the inaugural tour of the program. The band performed concerts, often with local musicians, at the base of the Great Ziggurat of Ur in southern Iraq, at the Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, and in front of packed crowds throughout Afghanistan. The group also conducted many workshops for local children, master classes and other outreach programs.