Music and Art Immersions are unique inventions of IGE. Prior to IGE’s inaugural Immersion in Venice, Italy in 2013, no such events existed anywhere. Although there were many for profit international festivals, cruises, band concert tours, improvisational acts and artist retreats, IGE Immersions were the first to meld individual top tier artists from seminal North American bands into artist collectives in historic European cities over extended periods for the benefit of local communities worldwide.
In contrast to one off concerts, musician sit ins at festivals or improvisational performance acts bringing together disparate musicians for an event or two, IGE events are seminal era defining musical moments. Participants experience multiple historic concerts of curated cross-cultural supergroups. Concerts range across cityscapes forming a tapestry of extraordinary venues.
Intimate IGE Music and Art Immersions with a maximum of 150 participants dissolve boundaries among musicians and fans, performers and spectators, participants and environments.Multi-genre Global All-Stars join with IGE Musical Ambassadors during Immersions. These remarkable local and regional musicians perform independently, with their own acts and in concert with Musical Ambassadors. Musical Ambassadors and Global All-Stars form the international artist collective as they together create the Immersive soundscape at the heart of the event.
Music and Art Immersions are the primary vehicle and fundraising events for IGE philanthropic activities. Immersions bring together North American Musical Ambassadors, Global All-Stars, arts patrons and nonprofit partners who together form a community while advancing the IGE mission and values. IGE operates in concert with a broad coalition of local charities with compatible missions in each Immersion city. These essential relationships provide access to remarkable venues and insider experiences largely off limits to individuals or other organizations.
IGE believes that travel must bring joy along with substantial benefits for host communities beyond tourism dollars. For-Profit travel decimates local environments, destabilizing communities. IGE with local partners join as a community, shape the Immersive experience and channel love for the arts into meaningful contributions for host cities, nonprofits and artists.
On conclusion of the prototype 2013 Venice Immersion, IGE orchestrated three successive Venice Immersions in 2015, 2016 and 2017. In October, 2018 IGE conducted the Barcelona Music and Art Immersion and in October, 2019 the Lisbon Music and Art Immersion.
Future Music and Art Immersions were scheduled for Prague, Buenos Aires, Budapest and Argentina, but due to global pandemic and the war between Russia and the Ukraine, these will be rescheduled. Expect additional Immersions, in Greece, Spain, Italy and other remarkable international locations.
