RTP-area local music and culture

[Paperhand Puppet Intervention <donovan AT paperhand.org>]

There is a big celebration happening Saxapahaw this wed Sept 14th and we hope 
you'll join us. Paperhand will have some puppets there as well as some great 
music by Kairaba an afro-pop sensation with many of the Paperhand Band 
members  Read more below and we hope to see you there!

Saxapahaw Benefit Concert for African Women Farmers:
Nourishing communities from North Carolina to Africa!

http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/58125 Here

Let's raise the roof of the Haw River Ballroom in joyful celebration as we 
harness the power of our local community to make lasting global change! This 
is a family-friendly event.

Join musicians Diali Cissokho & Kairaba!, and other local NC artists for an 
evening of music and inspiration in the newly renovated Saxapahaw Rivermill 
concert and community space. And support central African women farmers working 
toward ending hunger and malnutrition in their families and communities.

Date:  Wednesday, September 14th, 6pm-9pm. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Location: The new http://www.hawriverballroom.com/event/58125/ in Saxapahaw, 
NC

Tickets:   From $10 - $100.  There are different levels of support.  The more 
you can spend the more women farmers and their families we can help.
You can buy tickets on line or at the door the night of the event.
http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/58125

We will include a brief and moving visual storytelling of how powerful women 
from the Central African Republic are organizing themselves as better 
farmers. Women, as mothers, have a unique investment in their families' 
nutrition. Because nutrition is foundation for life, they are ready to get 
right down to the business of growing more nutritious food and more of it. 
Unfortunately, women have less access to resources (better seeds, adequate 
farming tools, and best practices training) and we are trying to remedy that 
with this benefit.

More about the performing artists:

Diali Cissokho & Kairaba! , is a Senegal to North Carolina musical 
collaboration with an infectious sound. Full of unison melody, adventurous 
improvisation, fiery solos and polyrhythmic frameworks, they incite spontaneous 
dancing by the performers and audiences alike, helping to create a peaceful, 
loving and joyful community.

Acclaimed local storyteller Louise Omoto Kessel and her son, Jabu Graybeal on 
percussion will be featured along with Saxapahaw's Paperhand Puppet 
Intervention.
Giant puppets will be on display for a parade and dance during the music.

Also featured will be the uplifting, powerful gospel voice of Chatham 
County's Beverly McLean, featured artist of the locally grown Community Music 
Project.

Stick around and be treated with a special song by your favorite women 
farmers- Yes! they can also sing! in solidarity with their farm sisters 
around the world.

All proceeds will be given directly to the women, through the wise direction 
of Nanga Kaye - Cary, NC based agronomist, activist and native of Chad, 
central Africa. Nanga works under the auspices of ICDI, Integrated Community 
Development International, a non-profit, non-governmental and 
no-denominational faith based organization presently working in central 
Africa. ICDI has 501(c)3 status in the USA as well as tax-exempt NGO status 
in the Central African Republic.

Thank you for all you do in our local and global community to inspire peace, 
joy and positive change for the earth and all her inhabitants!