This Wednesday evening the BRIDGES OF PEACE project is helping present the magnificent South African  Zulu group Thula Sizwe in concert at Danbury High School in Danbury, CT. The concert will begin at 7:00 p.m. The high school is on Clapboard Ridge Rd. I will be singing a few songs with Thula Sizwe and some local students from Bridges of Peace classrooms at Stadley Rough School, Reid Intermediate School and the Academy of international Studies Magnet School. Students from each of these schools are writing to, and collaborating with, students from other countries including South Africa, Namibia, Ukraine and Hungary. I will ask students to join us on some songs but most of the concert wil be Thula Sizwe doing traditional Zulu song and dance. It is an incredible opportunity to see and hear these men.

Admission is free but we are asking for donations to support Thula Sizwe and projects in their home communities in South Africa. They are accomplished singers and recording artists in the style of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. They sang at Nelson Mandela's innauguration, and performed with Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In spite of great talent and immense spirit, living conditions are such in South Africa that only one of the eleven members in the group have running water in their homes. I just returned from two weeks in southern Africa including a stay in a township and I got to see the need for myself. If you can attend this concert and help us help Thula Sizwe you will be making a difference in many lives.

I hope you can make it. Call me at 845-216-1939 if you have any questions. Thanks.