THE ETHIOPIAN BOOGIE BENEFIT; New Nile Orchestra and Band of the Land plays Burnham Hall to Benefit One Love AIDS/HIV Education Theater in Hawassa Ethiopia
AN INCREDIBLE DANCE PARTY!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!!
Saturday Oct 1 at Burnham Hall, 52 East River St., Lincoln, VT, 7pm- 10:30pm
Ethiopian Dance Boogie Music by the New Nile Orchestra and Band of the
Land, authentic Ethiopian Cuisine, Ethiopian Art and Crafts for sale.
Admission $10, kids under 12 free, Food: $10/kids $5
This is benefit for the One Love AIDS/HIV Awareness Theater in Ethiopia
Information: Willowell.org, 802-453-6195 or David Schein, dafschein@gmail.com,
716-640-4639
On Saturday Oct 1 at Burnham Hall in Lincoln the Willowell Foundation and the Vermont Folklife Center will present an ETHIOPIAN BOOGIE BENEFIT featuring the NEW NILE ORCHESTRA and BAND OF THE LAND for a DANCE PARTY featuring of “New England’s Finest Ethiopian Funk”. The bands are playing to benefit One Love AIDS HIV Awareness Theater a theater troupe in Hawassa Ethiopia which performs shows about AIDS and Gender Equality in rural towns in Southern Ethiopia.
The program will also feature Ethiopian food prepared by local Ethiopian chefs and arts and crafts recently brought back from Ethiopia, which will be on sale. There will be a showing of a video made by Kathleen Haughey of the Vermont Folk Life Center with members of One Love Theater. Matt Schlein of the Willowell Foundation will speak about the Vermont Ethiopia Teacher Exchange an expanding partnership between One Love, Willowell, the VT Folklife Center and Castleton State College that brings Vermont teachers to Ethiopia to explore “teaching across the cultural divide.”
All proceeds will benefit One Love Theater. One Love Theater was founded by street children in Hawassa Ethiopia in 1998. Now it’s 18th year OLT has performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout Ethiopia and in UN refugee camps. Aside from performances, OLT offers theater, gymnastics, visual arts and music classes at no cost to children in Hawassa and each year recruits promising performers to join its touring company. Many auxiliary programs have grown from OLT, including the Vermont Ethiopia Teacher Exchange, and Long Live the Girls, a writing program for girls in Ethiopia sponsored by Break Arts, an organization based in Chicago.
The New Nile Orchestra has been performing their high-energy brand of world music for more than 20 years across New England. Singer/dancer Kiflu Kidane and his band create infectious rhythms that, combined with Kidane’s remarkable dancing and singing, inspire even the most committed wall flower to get up and dance.
Band of the Land: is trio of Vermont musicians recently returned from Ethiopia where they toured and performed with One Love Theater. BOTL consists of Eli Goldman of Underhill, Dan Hibbs of Jericho, and Lillian Seibert of Lincoln. Their sound combines elements of acoustic roots, rock, folk and consists of “original tunes written collaboratively in uplifting three-part harmony.”
Tickets will be available at the door. For more information and to RSVP, please visit www.willowell.org, email info@willowell.org or call 802- 453-6195 or 716-640-4639
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