TCC hosts Voices For Haiti: An Emergency Benefit Concert Marathon
The Turtle Creek Chorale, Dallas’ world-renowned male chorus, announces it will host:
VOICES FOR HAITI: An Emergency Benefit Concert Marathon
Friday, February 19, 2010
Cathedral of Hope
(5910 Cedar Springs Road, Dallas, TX 75235)
6:00 p.m. to Midnight
On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince. The devastation – in lives lost, property destroyed, and families displaced – is immense. In the last 500 years, no country in the Western Hemisphere has been battered more than Haiti – the nearly complete annihilation of its native population in less than two decades, a brutal slave regime, foreign military interventions over hundreds of years, dictatorships supported by western powers, blockades of aid and more recently devastating hurricanes – and now the earthquake.
“What can I do to help?” is a question so many are asking as they witness the struggles of the Haitian people to recover from the devastating earthquake that continues to take the lives of so many men, women and children. The answer is simple – do what ‘we’ do best and perform!
Joining the Turtle Creek Chorale in this six-hour marathon of mini-concerts is ENCORE!, The Women’s Chorus of Dallas, Cathedral of Hope Choir and Orchestra, Men’s Chorus of Hamilton Park Baptist Church, Resounding Harmony, Liz Mikel, Linda and Larry Petty, Anton Shaw, Gary Floyd and the cast of Theatre 3’s I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, past winners of Dallas’ very own Voice of Pride, City Councilmember Pauline Medrano and many others. Del Shores, creator/director of SORDID LIVES, will also be presenting comedy and signing autographs.
Corporate sponsors include American Airlines/Rainbow, Cathedral of Hope, Caven Enterprises, Creative GrafX, Dallas Voice and WRR Classical 101.1FM.
Dr. Jonathan Palant, Artistic Director of the Turtle Creek Chorale, says of the event, “It’s a fortunate coincidence February 19th also marks the 30th birthday of the Turtle Creek Chorale. Hosting an event of this magnitude and for such a worthy and timely cause is precisely the kind of gift we had hoped to receive for this momentous occasion. The four pillars of our mission are to Entertain, Educate, Unite and Uplift. I believe Voices For Haiti not only realizes these, but it exceeds all expectations of them as well.”
A suggested $25 minimum donation will be taken upon entrance and 100% of all monies raised will benefit the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (http://clintonbushhaitifund.org/index.php) and are 100% tax-deductible. All logistical and performance aspects of this concert marathon are on a volunteer basis.
For more information, please contact the Turtle Creek Chorale office at the Sammons Center for the Arts, 3630 Harry Hines Boulevard, Suite #306, Dallas, Texas 75219, by phone at 214-526-3214 or online at www.turtlecreek.org.
