6-wire has announced a new world music concert and recording project, “Conflict Connections”, includes pre/post concert lectures promoting world peace and cultural understanding, featuring artists and musical styles from historically conflicting regions/countries together on stage. These collaborators come from Iran, the Syria, India, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Japan, Korea, Israel, Palestine, Latin America and the U.S., and include many Grammy-winning master musicians and elite virtuosi such as Sandeep Das (Indian tabla drums), E Shawn Qaissaunee (Afghan dutar lute), Mike Penny (Japanese shamisen lute), Wu Tong (Chinese mouth organ and vocalist), and Chen Zimbalista (Israeli percussionist and conductor) among others.