On Saturday, December 10th at 7:00 pm, the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro will host a holiday concert to benefit dozens of displaced Ukrainians living in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. The refugees are staying at Mercy House in Derby. Seventeen of these displaced people are children, and several of them are living with disabilities. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the most immediate need: a wheelchair accessible van.
The Ukrainian children of Mercy House have been working with Theresa Cianciolo, a graduate of the Berkeley School of Music, to create the Mercy House Singers, who will share the stage with the Hazen Union Choir and other Northeast Kingdom high school choirs in this moving holiday performance. The Dzvinochok Boys Choir and Vognyk Girls Choir will join the concert via video stream from the Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth in Kyiv, Ukraine. (The boys and girls recently drove 15 hours and crossed two borders to perform live with the Rolling Stones in concert in Vienna, Austria.) The concert also includes famed Maine folk singer-songwriter Dave Mallett and his bass player, Mike Burd.
Prior to the concert, Ukrainian chefs living at Mercy House will present a themed Ukrainian dinner, including blini, borscht, kapusta salad and dessert. The dinner, ticked separately, will take place at 5:30 at the Highland Center for the Arts. Photographs of Ukraine by Vermonter Elliot Burg will be displayed in the Gallery.
For more information and to purchase tickets or leave a donation, please visit: https://highlandcenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0F5G00000NTg19UAD.