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Press Release
Contact: VNHELP
(408) 885-1791
Email: info@vnhelp.org
Website: http://www.vnhelp.org
http://vnhelp.org/events/childrenconcert/2001/index.html
Benefit Concert for Vietnam Youth
The Amador Theater is host to an afternoon of entertainment for Vietnamese
music, classical music, and jazz lovers at the Children's Benefit Concert on
March 11, 2001.
All proceeds will go towards children in need in Vietnam. In addition to
jazz and classical music, the concert features a performance of Vietnamese music
with sixteen-stringed zithers by students of the Vietnamese musical group, Echo
of The Mother Land. The sixteen-stringed zither is a traditional
Vietnamese musical instrument from the 12th and 13th centuries. The other
musicians are students and faculty from the music department at Cal State
Hayward and Stanford University, including clarinetist Bill Wohlmacher and
pianist Ellen Wassermann.
The performance will take place on Sunday, March 11, 2001, at 2 pm at the Amador
Theater, 1155 Santa Rita Road, Pleasanton (on the Amador Valley High School
Campus). Tickets are $5 and will be available at the following locations:
Lions Ticket Office & Visitor Center, Pleasanton (925) 461-5350,
Camerata Music, Dublin (925) 828-1011,
Goodenough Books, Livermore (925) 443-4354,
House of Woodwinds, San Ramon (925) 831-8341, and at the door.
VNHELP office, San Jose, (408) 885-1791
The concert is the work of Stanford University student Truc Nguyen and her
sister Chi, a student at Pine Valley Middle School, San Ramon. On their
first trip back to their parents' homeland Vietnam in the summer of 1999, they
visited a shelter for street children in the city of Can Tho, a VNHELP program.
Their goal with this concert is to help them through college and improve their
quality of life. Truc and Chi will be performing on the piano.
What: Children's Benefit Concert
Who: Students of the Vietnamese musical group, Echo of The Mother
Land, jazz musicians, professors, and students from the music department at Cal
State Hayward, including clarinetist Bill Wohlmacher and pianist Ellen
Wassermann; also, students from Stanford University's music department
When: March 11, 2001, at 2 pm.
Where: Amador Theater, 1155 Santa Rita Road, Pleasanton
(on the Amador Valley High School Campus)
Why: To raise money for children in Vietnam, specifically the street
children of the city of Cantho; all proceeds will be donated to VNHELP, a
non-profit organization helping children and communities in Vietnam
How much: Admission $5, available at Lions Ticket Office & Visitor
Center (Pleasanton), Camerata Music (Dublin), Goodenough Books (Livermore),
House of Woodwinds (San Ramon), VNHELP office, and at the door
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