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Songs for the Stars, Maui Matinee

Listening to the Universe

Indigenous music meets astrophysics: A live dialogue across La Gomera, Tibet, and Hawaii. Three traditions, one stage: listening as discovery.

Matinee March 28, 2026 · 2:00 PM ProArts Maui

From roots to stars, a quiet gesture of peace across cultures.

La Gomera · Tibet · Hawaii · breath, rhythm and starlight meeting in the act of listening.

The Artists

La Gomera

Juan Mesa

Cantautor · Guitar · Voice

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Tibet

Nawang Khechog

Tibetan flutist · Composer · Spiritual artist

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Hawaii

Jeff Peterson

Slack key guitar · Contemporary Hawaiian music

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About the project

Song for the Stars

An intercultural concert bridging indigenous sound traditions and frontier astronomy, not as fusion, but as dialogue.

 

At its core is a shared discipline: listening. In music, listening shapes breath and rhythm. In astronomy, listening means precision, the quiet attention required to read faint signals from distant worlds.

Listening as discovery

Musicians from La Gomera, Tibet and Hawaii meet on one stage to share cultural memory through sound, voice, strings, flute and resonance, held in a contemporary setting.

 

An intimate Maui matinee: human scale, high meaning, designed to leave a lasting impression.

La Gomera
Tibet
Hawaii
La Gomera
Tibet
Hawaii
La Gomera
Tibet
Hawaii
La Gomera
Tibet
Hawaii
La Gomera
Tibet
Hawaii
La Gomera
Tibet
Hawaii
A shared intention

Music as a message beyond discovery

“Carl Sagan led the charge during the Voyager satellite era to project humanity´s best side into space with music and art.”

“When we find life outside the solar system with dedicated astronomical telescopes we also believe we should project a message of peace and love with music that samples the diversity of human culture.”

Jeff Kuhn · Astrophysicist
Science bridge: ExoLifeFinder

Light and sound travelling outward as a human gesture.

A visual metaphor for listening, cultural memory and peaceful intention.

ExoLifeFinder

Listening deeper: evidence in starlight

ExoLifeFinder is a next-generation telescope designed to detect atmospheric biosignatures on nearby exoplanets, translating faint starlight into measurable evidence of life.

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Built for precision: extracting the smallest signals with next-generation optics.

A science bridge between deep observation and the concert’s human-scale act of listening.