Wellington Hospices Reach Out With Concert

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3 November 2010

Wellington Hospices Reach Out With An Exciting Motown, Blues, Gospel And Soul Concert

“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: A Wellington Hospices Concert” at The Opera House, 28 Nov 2010, 7 p.m. This concert will showcase top Wellington region musicians performing Motown, Blues, Gospel and Soul songs that touch the heart with funds raised going to the Mary Potter and Te Omanga Hospices.

The concert producer, Ian Gwynne-Robson, is a doctor at Te Omanga Hospice. “This music reflects the love and humanity we see every day in our patients and familes/whanau,” he says.

“We have a great line-up of very talented performers with the incomparable Michelle A’Court acting as MC. It promises to be a very entertaining and uplifting concert”.

One goal of the concert is to show, with music, the hope and healing that can happen at the end of life, and therefore take away some of the anxiety that patients/family/whanau may feel when referral to the Hospice is made.
The songs arise from the African-American experience of overcoming loss and grief. The music reaches across cultures and resonates powerfully with the experience of hospice patients and their families/whanau.

Many of the artists who put up their hand to support this concert are Maori and Pasifika, which will raise the profile of the hospices in those communities.
Artistic Director Melody Thomas has organized the fabulous line up of musicians:
Mara TK, Lisa Tomlins, Ryan Prebble, Toni Huata, Thomas Oliver, Ria Hall, Tyna Keelan, Darren Watson, Kirsten Te Rito, Louis Baker, Matiu Te Huki, Ned Worboys, The Musical Island Boys, The Mission Choir, The Town Crier with a great backing band: James Illingworth, Alistair Isdale, Paddy Bleakley, Darren Mathieson, Lucien Johnson, Nick VanDijk.

Tickets are available from Ticketek.
http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=MOUNTAIN10&searchId=27c07b71-c452-422e-adf6-b8a92878b57a.

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