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CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MONTH WITH VOCOLOT
WHAT: A concert benefiting the Women's Earth Alliance (WEA) in honor of U.N. International Women's Month. Vocolot will perform musical selections from around the world, in celebration of women around the globe who seek to empower themselves and their communities.
WHEN: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:00 p.m.
TICKETS: $22.50 in advance or $25.00 at the door. General seating.
Call (510) 865-5060 or click here to purchase tickets.
Net proceeds will go to the Women's Earth Alliance to support their Women and Water Program.
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Vocolot www.vocolot.com
Vocolot brings a joyous fusion of folk, jazz and cantorial vocal traditions into the contemporary a cappella world. Their music, rooted in universal heart, social conscience and Jewish soul, communicates a powerful vision of world peace and reconciliation. Vocolot sings in English, Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, and Arabic, blending lush harmonies, soaring melodies and global percussion in original works and new renderings of ancient songs and texts.
Vocolot has been touring nationally since 1988. The Bay Area-based group made their international debut in London and Nottingham England in December 2000. In 2008 Vocolot appeared in the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, making it all the way to the Finals of this world-class competition. In 2007 the group took Second Place in the Bay Area Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival. Vocolot's 2003 CD Heartbeat and their 1998 CD Behold were both honored with awards from the Contemporary A Cappella Society. Vocolot has appeared on Michael Krasny's radio show Forum and performed live this past January on KALW's Folk Music & Beyond.
Testimonials:
"This is my kind of sisterhood-like Sweet Honey in the Rock, only Jewish."-Erik Goldman, Rhythm Music magazine
"Vocolot's performance at the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam was spectacular. I got goosebumps!"-Frank London of the Klezmatics
"Many of you, I'm sure, have heard [Vocolot's] music and seen them perform. But for those of you who have not, let me say that theirs was not just a technically well-executed performance. It was an EXPERIENCE."-Cantor Anna Ott, Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, New Brunswick, NJ
Women's Earth Alliance www.womensearthalliance.org
Women's Earth Alliance unites women working on the frontlines of environmental causes through the coordination of resources, training, and technology-because when women thrive, communities thrive. WEA's Women and Water Program provides ongoing opportunities for women to gain the skills, technologies, best practices, and support networks they need to launch income-generating sustainable water projects in their communities.
International Women's Month www.internationalwomensday.com
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. Today many countries, including  the U.S., celebrate all of March as International Women's Month. When women on all continents-often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences-come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development. A central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.
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