eOne & Dave Matthews Team Up for New Travel Series

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne), alongside Stolen Sky Productions and LBI Entertainment, have entered into a partnership to co-develop and co-produce a new travel series with musician Dave Matthews.

The series will explore international culture through music, examining the connection between the arts and culture in unfamiliar and controversial parts of the world. Each hour-long episode will see Matthews set out on a mission to explore locations with large cultural divides and misconceptions but burgeoning music scenes. He will visit places such as Tehran, Iran, and Dakar, Senegal. Matthews will use the knowledge he gained during his involvement in a U.S. government cultural mission to Cuba.

John Morayniss, Tara Long and Mark Herwick serve as executive producers for eOne. Phillip Watson and Sam Warren are executive producing for LBI. Johnathan Dorfman and Matthews are on board for Stolen Sky Productions.

“When we look at history through the lens of the arts we get a more human perspective,” said Matthews. “We should look at the contemporary world that way. What are you reading? How does music make you feel? What makes you want to dance? What is art? What does it mean to be human? What matters to you? If you could go to far-away places with these questions, what would you find?”

“No one has a more intimate understanding of the universality of music and its power to transcend culture than Dave Matthews,” said Tara Long, the executive VP of alternative programming at eOne Television. “His affinity and passion for the subject matter is unrivaled and we are thrilled to be partnering with him and the teams at Stolen Sky and LBI to develop this distinctive project.”