INTEMPO, an award-winning intercultural music education and youth-development organization in Fairfield County, CT, will perform a Cultural Crossover Concert that showcases Afro-Latinx and classical symphonic music in celebration of its diverse students and community. Young musicians from INTEMPO will take center stage at the Norwalk Concert Hall along with members of the Norwalk Youth Symphony and guest artists Bomba Ashe: Roberto & Gloria Cepeda from La Familia Cepeda.

INTEMPO has an innovative approach to youth-development and community integration through intercultural music education. The Cultural Crossover Concert is its signature event that spotlights young musicians and challenges perceptions about how a youth classical-music ensemble looks and sounds.

This year, the concert is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and is part of INTEMPO’s event series focused on the Afro-Latinx music diaspora. It is among 168 projects across America, and one of only four in Connecticut, that was selected by the NEA to receive the 2022 Challenge America grant.