The band, comprised of U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps musicians, is a 21-piece ensemble consisting of woodwinds, brass, and percussion devices. Whereas in Sal Island, the band will take part in a number of group outreach occasions together with workshops with college students at Escola Dona Tututa, strolling performances for residents in Espargos, and a joint live performance with the Sal Island Municipal Band in Santa Maria.
“Whatever the language we converse, music all the time brings us collectively,” stated Lt. Cmdr. Kelly Cartwright, Bandmaster. “We’ve been so warmly obtained by the group right here. Listening to them sing together with our band as we performed music by the famed Cabo Verdan singer-songwriter, Cesária Évora, was a robust reminder of what’s potential via our partnership right here.”
The band may even welcome greater than 80 delegates with a number of performances deliberate through the three-day maritime management summit, March 20-22, 2023.
The Naval Forces Europe and Africa Band, stationed in Naples, Italy, is the U.S. Navy’s official band in Europe and Africa. The band reaches a mixed viewers of greater than 60 million individuals throughout 35 nations all through the course of greater than 500 annual engagements. The band’s performances in Sal Island will embody musicians augmented from the Second Marine Plane Wing Band from Cherry Level, North Carolina. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have an built-in maritime technique and sometimes work along with African companions to enhance maritime area consciousness across the continent.
AMFS is a strategic-level discussion board that brings maritime and naval infantry leaders collectively to handle transnational maritime safety challenges inside African waters together with the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea. AMFS is a brand new mannequin for African senior management engagement, which mixes the three senior management symposiums historically held throughout NAVAF’s annual regional express-series workout routines right into a single continent-wide occasion.
AMFS taking part nations embody Angola, Benin, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Italy, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Tunisia, the UK, and the US. Individuals embody heads of navy, coast guards, and naval infantries from 4 continents together with Africa, Europe, North America, and South America.
For over 80 years, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-U.S. Naval Forces Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF) has cast strategic relationships with our Allies and Companions, leveraging a basis of shared values to protect safety and stability.
Headquartered in Naples, Italy, NAVEUR-NAVAF operates U.S. naval forces within the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) areas of duty. U.S. Sixth Fleet is completely assigned to NAVEUR-NAVAF, and employs maritime forces via the complete spectrum of joint and naval operations.
