Welcome Notes LOUDER

Countries: Bosnia & Herzegovina
The Netherlands
Europe
Runtime: 2026–Future

Welcome Notes LOUDER harnesses the transformative power of music to amplify the voices of displaced children and young people in Europe and drown out hate.

Young creators living in asylum centers

Creative collaborations

People reach

Voices from the fringes of Europe

Welcome Notes LOUDER is more than a music program. It’s a voice amplification for young people on the fringes of Europe. It’s a bridge between worlds. A plea for solidarity in a time when divisions are fueled. Together we’re building a Europe where human rights are celebrated again – carried by music, shared by young people, and heard by millions.

The rise of intolerance, racism, and hatred in Europe is leading to the marginalization of millions of people fleeing war and persecution. Fearmongering and negative framing shape public discourse.
Music is our tool to counter this.

Mission

We engage children and young people in asylum centers in the Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina in creative songwriting workshops. These workshops are led by music leaders trained by Musicians Without Borders, who use music as a tool for mental and psychosocial support. They help young people make their lives a little more beautiful, safer, healthier, and happier. We then collaborate with international artists, producers, and venues to amplify the voices of these young people. The audience is touched on an emotional level, with the power to truly bring about a shift in consciousness.

Direct mental health and psychosocial support Our trained music leaders run creative, expressive workshops to young people in displacement. Young workshop participants often live in unsafe and uncertain circumstances, far from home, sometimes without their families. Our team of music leaders are trained to provide mental health and psychosocial support through music and to make the children’s lives a little more beautiful, safer, healthier, and happier.
Artivist campaigns Welcome Notes LOUDER brings together a wide range of producers and artists with young participants to share the music and stories they create with a broad audience. This happens through events, online platforms, and media.

Collaborations

Nederlands Blazers Ensemble

The Nederlands Blazers Ensemble is a group of over 20 top musicians who create unique, theatrical music programs that rarely fit under a single musical label. Driven by shared passion and a hunger for adventure, they seek out fascinating collaborations with musicians from other cultures and crossovers with different artistic disciplines. With its innovative programs, the NBE aims to surprise, move, and inspire a wide audience.

Young people in emergency reception centers X Jong NBE X NBE Young Composerss

SilkRoad Ensemble

Silkroad creates music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning for a more hopeful and inclusive world.

Silkroad’s music is contemporary and ancient, familiar and foreign, traditional and innovative, drawing on styles from around the world to create a new musical language that reflects 21st-century society.

MC Reazun

Better known as ‘MC Reazun’, Ben Hartman is a rapper and artist, and has been performing with spoken word since 2003. As a member of the Kyteman Orchestra he produced two albums, while as a composer he provided music for Shadow Game, a film about teenage boys who escape on foot from Syria.

MC Reazun works with upcoming artists and leading workshops for young people. He incorporates issues of injustice into his work and his workshops. He conducts conversations about tolerance and combines these with the history of hip-hop as a subculture.