January 2025 Performance at the King Fahad Cultural Center Concert in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

In January 2025, the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and the Saudi Music Commission hosted the very first visit to Saudi Arabia of jazz legend Herbie Hancock, the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and acclaimed jazz vocalist Janis Siegel. Their tour celebrated U.S.-Saudi cultural ties, arts education, and the universal power of music with a performance at the King Fahad Cultural Center alongside Saudi jazz vocalist Nourah Alammary; a masterclass for Saudi music students at the Music Hub; a roundtable on women in the arts with female Saudi artists and musicians; and an event with Saudi traditional musicians at the studio of Saudi artist Ahmed Mater.