Jack Chance is a radio producer, filmmaker, photographer, sound recordist, and “guerilla ethnomusicologist.”
He has recorded traditional musicians in more than 30 countries and is a contributing writer for the Rough Guide to World Music. He’s helped preserve audio recordings for Easter Island’s Museo Anthropológico, documented endangered native Alaskan languages and Polynesian navigation methods in the Solomon Islands, and trained radio journalists and folklorists throughout South and Southeast Asia.
Jack is also the producer and director of the documentary films “The Mountain Music Project: A Musical Odyssey from Appalachia to Himalaya” and “We, The Voyagers.” He also oversees The Mountain Music Project’s music education and preservation projects in Nepal, Burma, Thailand, and Bhutan.
