>I'm pretty sure I posted here before about my son Nathaniel's efforts to bring a choir of students from Burma (Myanmar) for a tour in the United States. After nearly two years' effort, it's happening beginning next week.
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>The group, the first choir from Burma ever to come to the US, will arrive next Wednesday and will be in the New Haven/New York area for nearly a week, after which they'll go to San Francisco.
Here's info about the major San Francisco concert. (I don't know whether there will be others out there.)
CONCERT DETAILS
Friday, May 1, 2009 7:30pm
Cowell Theater
Fort Mason Center
Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco
Approximate running time 120 minutes
FEATURING:
Special guest performance by Joan Baez
Among the pieces that Gitameit will be performing are Burmese Blessings by Gitameit instructor, Matthew Walton, Gate Gate by Canadian composer and choral director Brian Tate, Thakyin So Mae (Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burnin’), Kachin Myay (The Land of Kachins), Kit Young’s song “For the Real Question” (dedicated to Thomas Buckner and Gitameit Voices), and many other songs.
http://www.gitameit.com/2009/news/songs-of-survival-voices-from-burma/