"Twenty musicians and dancers from cultures spanning four continents talk about their lives and art. Each conversation - recorded, transcribed and sympathetically reworked - is accompanied by a colour photograph of the artist performing. Together photograph and 'story' create an intimate portrait of artists ranging from a Sierra Leonian percussionist to a Portuguese fado singer." "A Universal Passion gives an insight into how international musicians and dancers - all now based in the South West of England and Wales - share their art through performance and teaching. Music is a 'language' by which musicians, dancers and audiences from radically different backgrounds come together and communicate. New traditions bring vitality to, influence and merge with existing ones in a wave of vibrancy, exuberance and joie de vivre."--BOOK JACKET.