Benefit Performance, Dec 19, 6pm
Join us for a night of music, magic and memories, as we raise money for Reyanne Toledo and the native youth Close Up Club to travel to Washington DC. Enjoy the illusionist Sasha Crespi, Taos flute player Robert Mirabal, and the Black Eagle Singers and support native youth.
Close Up is a non-profit, non-partisan civic education organization founded 50 years ago with a mission to inform, inspire and empower students to become life-long, active participants in our democracy.
Doors to the sanctuary will open at 6:00pm. There is a suggested donation of $5 for children and students and $10 for adults. After the night’s performance, please join us for a traditional Jemez community meal. Cash and checks are accepted. Please make checks to First Presbyterian Church Santa Fe, and with “Close Up” in the memo.
Performers
Sasha Crespi is an internationally recognized illusionist who has performed in Paris, Berlin, Rome, Las Vegas, New York, Istanbul, and Lisbon. He has also performed at the National Geographic World Championships of Magic, and acted for Her Majesty the Queen of England.
Robert Mirabal is an accomplished Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo. His flutes are world renowned and have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of the American Indian. An award-winning musician, Mirabal performs worldwide, sharing flute songs, tribal rock, dance, and storytelling. Mirabal has twice been named the Native American Music Award’s Artist of the Year, and has received the Songwriter of the Year award three times. He is also a two-time Grammy Award winner, including a 2006 Grammy Award for Sacred Ground, Best Native American Album of the Year, and his 2007 Grammy for Best Native American Album, Johnny Whitehorse Totemic Flute Chants.
Black Eagle Singers drum group and dance group are a force keeping the musical traditions of their ancestors alive in Jemez. In 2004, they won a Grammy for the Best Native American Music Album.
All Are Welcome
Bring friends. Download the Music, Majic, and Memories flyer and pass it around.