World Festival of Sacred Music

The World Festival of Sacred Music is a sixteen-day celebration of the rich sacred music traditions of the people of Los Angeles, with musical events produced in venues ranging from the city's major stages to intimate places of worship. Recognizing music as an expression of humanity's most profound aspirations and as a way to transcend borders of all kinds, linguistic, national, cultural, ideological, racial and religious, the 2002 festival is the result of an outpouring of interest and enthusiasm from community partners and artists who participated in 1999 World Festival of Sacred Music.

The festival takes place throughout Los Angeles. Continuing in their commitment from 1999, the festival is produced by UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance (CIP), EarthWays Foundation, and the Foundation for World Arts.

The following gallery is from performances of the 2002 festival.