LEWISTON — The Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Club is sponsoring a benefit concert for Haiti’s most vulnerable children at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, at the Franco Center. The entertainment will be donated by talented professional and amateur musicians.
Four and a half years after the 2010 earthquake there are more than 430,000 orphans in Haiti. The country is still the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Progress has been made to provide food, shelter, education and health care but the job is far from done. Many Haitian orphans continue to live in stark poverty and danger of exploitation.
The Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Club has been sending aid and volunteer teams to Haiti for three years. Club President Denis Landry has twice volunteered to lead volunteer Rotary groups to Haiti, where he utilized his construction management skills to erect buildings to shelter orphans.
Featured at this benefit concert will be singer, songwriter, guitarist Denny Breau with his rhythmically flawless and dazzling clear style on a six-string guitar, easily mixing folk, Delta blues, country, rock and jazz.
Other performers include blues man Arlo West, the dynamic duo of Kathy Haley and Phil House, Haley’s daughter Shawna Haley-Bear, vocalist Malinda Liberty and her long-time virtuoso keyboard accompanist Frank Coffin.
Opening the show for Breau and his friends will be the Tinpanic Steel Band. The 13 musicians of Tinpanic perform an energetic repertoire of calypso, soca, jazz and pops.
Tickets are $20. They can be purchased from members of the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Club, and at Dube Travel Agency, 250 Center St. In Auburn.
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