Freemuse Ambassador Salman Ahmad and his band Junoon, who fights mullahs wanting to ban his music in Pakistan, will join major artists from all over the world at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo on Tuesday 11 December 2007.
Salman will join artists such as Alicia Keys, Juanes and Annie Lennox when they celebrate this years Nobel Peace Prize and help spreading a message of peace and tolerance.
Freemuse (FREEdom of MUSical Expression) is an international human rights organisation advocating freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide.
In just a few years the yearly Nobel Peace Prize Concert has grown to become a major international music event reaching TV-viewers in 100 countries world-wide.
Salman Ahmads band Junoon is Asias biggest rock band ever. He has even been requested to play at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony on the 10 December 2007 as well. He will be joined by tabla virtuoso Samir Chatterjee.
Salman Ahmad and Freemuse
Salman Ahmad has collaborated with Freemuse since 2000 and joined a Freemuse seminar in Beirut in October 2005.
Salman has been challenging the religious music ban i Islam and was portrayed in the film “The Rock Stars and the Mullahs”. Earlier this year he visited Denmark and Sweden to show his film, and he is one of seven artists who have agreed to promote the work of Freemuse as an Ambassador for the organisation.
Nobel Peace Museum
The concert in Oslo is Freemuses second link to the work of the Nobel Peace Foundation. Just two months back the Nobel Peace Museum opened a new exhibition on freedom of expression.
This exhibition includes a section on music censorship developed by Freemuse, and Salman Ahmad will be able to look at his own story at the museum.
Nobel Peace Prize shared
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former US vice president Al Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Freemuse – The World Forum on Music and Censorship, Nytorv 17, 3 sal, 1450 Kbn K. Tlf. 33 32 10 27, web: www.freemuse.org
