Join us in the
fight against ALS with JAZZ!
Save
the date! Sunday, January 29th, at
3:30PM at First United Methodist Church Pasadena will host a special jazz
concert featuring FUMC Combo, LACHSA Combo, Polytech Jazz Band, Thursday
Morning Little Big Band and more, for an afternoon of entertainment in honor of
our very own Hajime Miyasaka.
This concert is FREE and Open to
the Public supported by your freewill offering. Proceeds and your tax
deductible donations will go to support the ALS
Guardian Angels Foundation, which supports thousands of patients and
their families in their struggles with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS.
Most of the musicians donating
their services for the concert are professional musicians (or coached by
professional musicians) and credits include Woody Herman, Count Basie, NBC
Orchestra, Brian Setzer, Pat Martino, Bernard Purdee, Michael Jackson,and many,
many more.
They will be playing jazz from a
variety of genres and styles, from originals to standards and classics.
ALS is a debilitating disease
which affects more than 5,600 people in the U.S. who are diagnosed with it each
year and more than 30,000 Americans may have the disease at any given
time. Worse yet, ALS can strike anyone,
without care to racial, ethnic or socioeconomic boundaries.*
Come
out and enjoy a great concert for an even greater cause to raise
awareness of ALS and help support those who struggle with it every day.
January 29th, 2012 - 3:30PM
First United Methodist Church
Sanctuary
500 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
Ca 91101
For more info, contact Marilynne
Kennedy at pasadenaflowers@yahoo.com or contact the church office at
626-796-0157 or by email at office@fumcpasadena.org
*Data
from the ALS Association
First United Methodist
Church Pasadena
is a Reconciling
Community Church
in the Heart of Downtown Pasadena. We intentionally welcome all persons, regardless of sexual
orientation, gender, race, ethnicity, age, physical or mental capacity,
education, and socioeconomic or marital status.
I'm so sorry we have an unchangeable conflict Sunday afternoon. Break a leg, jazz musicians! Thanks for supporting Hajime and ALS Guardian Angels.
ReplyDeleteAnother Pasadena event coming up that I hear will be supporting finding a cure for ALS (per the artist's widow) will be on Sunday March 4 at the Pasadena Museum of California Art very near FUMC. Richard Bunkall was an amazing artist who died in 2009 of ALS. A book of his works will be released on March 4.
Here's what the Museum Web site says: "Sunday,
March 4, 2012
Discussion on Richard Bunkall
5-7pm
Join curator Peter Frank and artists Kenton Nelson and Ray Turner as they discuss the life and art of Richard Bunkall, followed by a book launch and wine & cheese gathering.
RSVP: 626.568.3665 x17"
Home page of the Museum is www.pmcaonline.org
We hope to see some FUMC family for the book launch.
All best for this Sunday's concert, Grace Danziger