May 5, 2009 - Tuesday

Burmese Orphans Concert Series-Epicure, Jez Mead, Pugsley Buzzard, The Yearlings

Category: Music

BURMESE ORPHANS CONCERT SERIES:

CONCERT ONE:

Melbourne Saturday 23rd May, 2009.

Event Launch featuring: Epicure, Pugsley Buzzard, Jez Mead, and Rebecca Moore. Tix $24 Pre-sale. $28 @ the Door.

CONCERT TWO:

Cairns Saturday 25th July, 2009

Cairns Peace Week Event featuring: The Yearlings, Pugsley Buzzard and Rebecca Moore. Tix $20/Conc $25

MORE CONCERTS TO BE ANNOUNCED!!

Dear Folks,

Thanks so much for opening this e-mail. LAST YEAR'S CYCLONE DISASTER IN BURMA LEFT THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN

HOMELESS AND ORPHANED!!!!!!

Many of the children from this disaster are being cared for by a group of loving and devoted Monks at Burmese Orphanage

School Phaung Daw Oo. There are many orphans, as well as homeless children and children from very poor families attending this orphanage.

In total over 7000 children!!!! In addition, the Orphanage also provides one meal a day to street children. Please help us!!!

For some time now we have been working on creating a series of dynamic concerts to raise money for these children.

You may have already heard about our exciting project! We are pleased to announce that each line-up for the first two Orphans

Concerts is complete.

Our opening event at The Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne on the 23rd May 2009 will feature:

Alterno-rock band Epicure: www.epicuretheband.com

Be-bopper, Beatnik and Vaudevillian Surrealist Pugsley Buzzard: www.pugsleybuzzard.com

Intense and Hypnotic Folk/Blues artist Jez Mead: www.jezmead.com

Contemporary Alt-folk artist Rebecca Moore: www.rebeccamooremusic.com

The concert in Cairns is being run in conjunction with Cairns Peace Week. This event will be held at The Tanks Arts Centre on Saturday 25th July 2009 and features:

Roots/Alt-country duo The Yearlings: www.theyearlings.net

Be-bopper, Beatnik and Vaudevillian Surrealist Pugsley Buzzard: www.pugsleybuzzard.com

Contemporary Alt-folk artist Rebecca Moore: www.rebeccamooremusic.com

These two shows are the first in a series of concerts being organised as part of the ongoing project to raise funds for the children of Phaung Daw Oo. We are planning other concerts for the Illawarra Region NSW, Sydney, Darwin, Adelaide, Brisbane,Tasmania and Cairns.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

We have added a flyer for our opening event the photos section.. If you could spare a moment to email it or print it off and send it to anyone you think might be interested in either helping or coming along, and also ask them to send this to as many people as they can, this would be GREATLY appreciated. Also if you have connections with media, and have ideas for us to promote these concerts perhaps you could contact us. If you know any well-known people who might be willing to offer us assistance, we ask you to contact them personally and see if they are willing to support this worthwhile project.

Our aim is to broadcast this to as many people as we can and we are relying on the goodwill of caring and loving people to send this out for us. There are many children already at the Orphanage, and it is clear from the photos attached, that the children are benefiting greatly from support the Orphanage is giving them. There are however many more children still in plight, so we need YOUR help to put smiles of joy on the faces of those children also. YOUR SUPPORT WILL CHANGE THE LIVES OF THESE CHILDREN FOREVER. Please help provide them with a loving and caring environment in which they can heal their wounds and feel loved and cared for......

All the money after expenses for the concert goes straight to the Monks at the Orphanage to help the kids.

Ways you can help:

1. Make a direct donation

2.Buy tickets and come along to the performances

3.Email your friends about the concerts and encourage them to come along too

4.Hand out flyers/put up posters for the shows

5.Offer your time or skills to the project

6.Buy bracelets (the children are making these!)

7.If you are a musician you might like to perform or donate some merchandise for us to sell for the Orphans

Please contact us! Reply to this email, or go to www.innervisions.com.au/rebecca-moore/burma-cyclone-orphans and fill in the on-line contact form.

The Orphanage web site address is www.phaungdawoo.com

View the entire Transformation document pdf 2MB >>>

More Photos of the Orphans: >>>

Thanks so much for taking the time to read this, and we look forward to seeing you at a show near you!

Best wishes,

Rebecca, Yasmine and Pugs

http://www.innervisions.com.au/rebecca-moore/burma-cyclone-orphans

Contacts:

Rebecca 0401260996

Yasmine 0409442854