**repost** This comes from Mike Hovancsek, the organizer of this two-evening event coming up this weekend.

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Hi!,
Here is a quick reminder about an important event that will take place next Friday and Saturday. Please feel free to forward it to anyone you know who may be interested...

We are putting on a fundraiser to benefit Brian Klempp and Tom Morrow, two of the area's best drummers and great friends of the music community who are battling cancer. The event will be called "The Healing Community." It will feature live music, projected video, poetry, and food. The performances will be completely different from one night to the next so feel free to come to both shows!

What: "The Healing Community"
This event will feature an extensive line-up of established performers with backgrounds in world and folk music. It will include traditional music from India, China, Thailand, and Ghana, as well as Native American music and folk music from the heart of America! There will also be poetry and projected video woven into the evening. Not only that, there will be food!

When: Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 2009

* 6 p.m. doors open.
* 6:15 p.m. Soup/Bread served (A suggested donation of $4.00 will be accepted at the basement door for dinner)
* 7 p.m. Concert starts (A suggested donation of $15.00 will be accepted at the sanctuary door)
* A bake sale will go on throughout the night.
Where: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent, 228 Gougler Avenue, Kent, Ohio [kentuu.org]
Childcare: Free!
Contact: If you have any questions please contact Mike Hovancsek at point@neobright.net

Please come celebrate life, community and art. The proceeds go to a very worthy cause!

Friday Night Performers

Luna Hart - Chant

Kent African Drum Community - African drum and chant

Saunis Parsons - American folk

The Geezers - Old timey music

Mark Allender (accompanied by Samuel Salsbury on violin) - Poetry

Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble - Traditional Chinese music

Tina Bergmann - American folk

Samuel Salsbury - Eclectic violin solo

Michael Searching Bear - Native American flute and drum

Yan Ping Ye - Pipa (Chinese lute) solo

Cindy Penter - A Film: "Walk Me Out"

Mike Hovancsek / Stefanie Workman / Samuel Salsbury (accompanying a video) - World fusion

Kent African Drum Community - African drum and chant



Saturday Night Performers

Margot Milcetich - Sanskrit chant

Saunis Parsons - American folk

Mark Allender (accompanied by Samuel Salsbury on violin) - Poetry

Joe Culley's Tabla Students - Indian classical music

Joe Culley - Indian classical music

Thai Group - Thai folk music

Samuel Salsbury - Eclectic solo violin

Mike Hovancsek /Joe Culley / Samuel Salsbury (accompanying a video) - World fusion

Mike Hovancsek / Joe Culley /Samuel Salsbury - World fusion

Michael Searching Bear - Native American flute and drum

Trish McLoughlin, Bruce Richards, Katie Grigg-Miller, and Christie Anderson - Celtic folk

Paul Black - Folk

Cindy Penter - Film: "Liberation, the Beginning of Life"

Margot Milcetich, Samuel Salsbury, Joe Culley, and Mike Hovancsek - Sanskrit chant