Bernard Castelein / Buddhist monk playing the Lawah (long trumpet) during afternoon pudja, Tso Kar, Ladakh, India, June 2010

Eric Baccega / Buriat shaman plays tambourine on Olkhon Island, Baikal lake, Siberia, Russia, June 2000

Gavin Hellier / Kilted bagpiper of the Bermuda Islands Pipe Band, Hamilton Fort, Hamilton, Bermuda 2007 model released

Niall Benvie / Skirlie McPiper wearing traditional dress playing bagpipes at Dunnotar Castle. Scotland, April 2011.

Oriol Alamany / Colomina mountain hut, with man playing the accordian, Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, Vall Fosca, Pyrenees Pallars Jussa , Catalonia, Spain

Bernard Castelein / Three Buddhist monks, preparing to play the lawah (a long trumpet) Phyang, Ladakh, India, June 2010

Bernard Castelein / Elderly Buddhist monk, during rehearsal for festival at Hemis Gompa, Ladakh, India, June 2010

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Musical performance at the Oruro Carnival, the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia, with Morenada music and dancing originating from the Bolivian Andes, Bolivia, South America, February 2009.

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Dancers and musical performance at the Oruro Carnival, the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia, with Morenada music and dancing originating from the Bolivian Andes, Bolivia, South America, Februa...

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Dancers and musical performance at the Oruro Carnival, the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia, with Morenada music and dancing originating from the Bolivian Andes, Bolivia, South America, Februa...

Eric Baccega / Buriat shaman plays tambourine on Olkhon Island, Baikal lake, Siberia, Russia, June 2000

Jean E. Roche / Church service to celebrate the Salt feast at Salin de Giraud, Camargue, France, May 2008

Michele Westmorland / Two elder men with traditional drum performing for tourists on Rano Island, Vanuatu May 2008

Michele Westmorland / Village children performing in music and dance performance on Santa Ana Island, Solomon Islands. Santa Ana has a mixture of Melanesian and Polynesian traditions. They are famous for their pan pipes an...

Michele Westmorland / Village children performing in music and dance performance on Santa Ana Island, Solomon Islands. Santa Ana has a mixture of Melanesian and Polynesian traditions. They are famous for their pan pipes an...

Michele Westmorland / Village elders with traditional drum performing for tourists, Rano Island, Vanuatu May 2008

Vanessa Berlowitz / Buddhist monks blowing their horns at the Likir festival, Ladakh, Kashmir, India

Michael Pitts / Huli wigman with pan pipes at Market in Tari, Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Anup Shah / Hadzabe tribesman singing and playing musical instrument, Lake Eyasi Basin, Tanzania 2006

Pete Oxford / Fair vendor selling wooden whistles musical instruments, Central India

Pete Oxford / Native Koryak dancers, Ossora, Karaginsky, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia

Bengt Lundberg / Girl playing musical instrument in traditional clothing, outside traditional wooden chalets, Dalarna, Sweden

Pete Oxford / Hoomi / throat singer, Gobi desert, Mongolia

Elio Della Ferrera / Snake charmers playing to raise Cobra from the basket, Gujarat, India

Pete Oxford / Native Koryak man dancing with drum, Ossora, Karaginsky, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Emerald Tree Frog (Hyla musica) hanging onto tree branch, cloud forest, south eastern Brazil

Bernard Castelein / Folksinger playing stringed musical instrument, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India

Pete Oxford / Monks performing musical ritual ceremony for the well being of the year, family ceremony. Bhutan, Central Asia

Dietmar Nill / Captive Brown bear {Ursus arctos} lead by handlers through streets of Bulgaria

Dietmar Nill / Captive Brown bear {Ursus arctos} lead by handlers through streets of Bulgaria