On Saturday 20th August at 7.30pm a concert will take place at St Michael’s Church in Highgate to raise valuable funds for children and families who are suffering as a result of the famine in East Africa.
The concert, organised by Crouch End musician, Michael Haslam, will feature performers Anya Szreter, Yazz Ahmed, Ric Bolton, Michael Peavoy, Paul Moylan, Tom Davidson and Iwan Llewellyn Jones, with a programme including Handel, Puccini, Schubert, Gershwin, and Liszt. The concert will include a lively mix of opera, jazz and instrumental solos, promising a night to remember.
100% of the profits from the evening will go towards supporting SOS Children’s Emergency Relief Appeal in East Africa. Following the worst famine to hit the region in 60 years, the children’s charity has launched operations to provide thousands of families in urgent need with food, water and medical care. The proceeds from the concert will help the charity to provide aid in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, three of the most badly affected countries. As well as meeting the immediate needs of families in the crisis, SOS Children will help to reunite families and care for unaccompanied children.
The tickets for the concert are priced at £10 (£5 concessions) and include free refreshments. Tickets available on the door.
For more information about SOS Children please visit their website at www.soschildren.org
More information about SOS Children’s Emergency Relief Programme can be found at http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/east-africa-famine
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Notes to Editors:
The tickets for the concert are priced at £10 (£5 concessions) and include free refreshments. Tickets available on the door.
For press related enquiries and further details about the concert in aid of East Africa please contact Anya Szreter on 07720390275
For further information about SOS Children’s work, please contact Hannah Edwards, [email protected] or 01223 365589 or by post SOS Children, Terrington House, 13-15 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1NL.
100% of the profits from the concert will go towards SOS Children’s Emergency Relief Programme in East Africa
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SOS Children has been providing a family for life for children who have lost their parents through conflict, famine, natural disaster, disease and poverty since 1949. Over 78,000 orphaned or abandoned children are cared for by SOS mothers in clusters of family homes in 508 of our unique Children's Villages, in 124 countries around the world. A further million benefit from SOS Children's outreach support which includes education, vocational training, medical care and community development programmes
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Posted: 2011-08-14 15:51:23