LFL Benefit Concert at Freight & Salvage (Berkeley, CA), Tue Nov 15th

Listen for Life Benefit Concert

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 8pm
 (doors open at 7:00 pm)

Freight & Salvage

Coffeehouse

2020 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94704 (map)

Hawaiian & World music featuring: 
the Patrick Landeza Project, Kawika Alfiche and H'lau o Keikiali'i, 
Faith Ako, Steven Espaniola, Hiram Bell, Pulama, 
Matthew Montfort, and Vanessa Vo

$24.50 advance / $26.50 at door
Purchase tickets online

LFL musician Vanessa Vo to speak at TEDx, Stockton, CA, Oct 12th

Listen for Life musician Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ will be a Guest Speaker at TEDx San Joaquin Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at the University of the Pacific  Stockton, California, USA

For full details of this all-day event, please visit www.tedxsanjoaquin.org.

Vanessa will talk at around 4pm Pacific Time, on:
"Breathing New Air into Tradition"

at: DeRosa University Center Ballroom,University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 95204 [map]

Note: Vanessa is one of the 8 artists who will be performing in the Listen for Life 
concert at Carnegie Hall on Jan 8th, 2012. See www.listenforlife.org/carnegie for details.

 [added Nov 18th, 2011]: Here's the video of Vanessa's TEDx talk and performance!

[The entire day's proceedings was streamed live over the Internet at www.tedxsanjoaquin.org.]

From the "Speakers" page at the TEDx Website:

" Van-Anh Vanessa Vo dedicates her life to creating music on the dan Tranh (16-string zither) and fusing her traditional Vietnamese foundation with a freshness of new structures and compositions.

Since settled in California, she has been a collaborator and solo artist with such musicians and groups as Kronos Quartet, Nguyen Le, Paul McCandless, Ali Ryerson, Charles Loos, SOMEI Taiko Ensemble, Wobbly World, as well as lending her talents to fundraising events for several non- profit organizations. Continually cultivates the beauty and versatility of the dan Tranh to feature her beloved instrument in an international music genre, Van-Anh has been co-composer and arranger for the Oscar® nomimated and Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Daughter from Danang (2002), the Emmy® Award-winning film and soundtrack for Bolinao 52 (2008), and the multiple award-winning film A Village Called Versailles (2009). Recently, Van-Anh released newest CD “She’s Not She” with award-winning composer Do Van-Anh began studying dan tranh from the age of four, and graduated with distinction from the Vietnam Academy of Music. In 1995, Van-Anh won championship in the Vietnam National Dan Tranh Competition along with the first prize for best solo performance of modern folk music. She has since performed in more than fourteen countries and recorded in many broadcast programs inside and outside of Vietnam. Her first CD “Twelve Months, Four Seasons” was released in 2002.  She lives and teaches dan tranh and other Vietnamese traditional instruments in Fremont, California."

[This page was first posted on October 1st, 2011]

Fundraiser Concert in Los Altos Hills, California, October 2nd 2011

Dear friends,

Wouldn't you love the chance to see, hear, and mingle with our "local neighborhood star" and former CSMA pupil, Grammy-nominee jazz phenomenon Taylor Eigsti, "up close and personal" in a private house concert ? Taylor is being featured in a special Listen for Life (www.listenforlife.org) benefit event that is generously being hosted at a gorgeous private estate on SUNDAY October 2nd at 4pm (wine reception commences at 3pm and all are welcome).

Other performers for this special house concert will include: 

• the Emmy-award winner and National Music Champion of Vietnam, Vanessa Van Anh Vo; 
• award-winning Hawaiian music star Patrick Landeza; 
• opera prodigy Ricky Garcia, and 
• internationally renowned concert pianist Donna Stoering. 

Taylor Eigsti will be the featured performer with a half-hour set all to himself, because he doesn't get out from NY all that often and the chances to hear him in this intimate of a setting are very rare indeed. 

Suggested donation is a minimum $75 per person as this event is a fundraiser for Listen for Life's projects and programs which have thus far impacted the lives of 9 million people in 55 countries. 

Listen for Life is a global family of music listeners, teachers, performers and producers, working together to change the world through music. Our global headquarters are here in the Bay Area and we welcome all music listeners to join our family! 

For more information on Listen for Life, or to reserve a place for October 2nd, please phone 510 540 8136 or email events@listenforlife.org

"Vietnamese Luau" Fundraiser Event in Lafayette, August 25th 2011

 presents

A Vietnamese Luau 

Thursday August 25th, 2011 at 5:30pm

[click on graphic above, or HERE,  for full-size poster for printing]

featuring


Patrick Landeza (Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar) 

and

Van-Anh Vanessa Vo (Traditional Vietnamese Percussion)

This concert will be a Fundraiser for Listen for Life's
January 8th 2012 concert at Carnegie Hall, NY

This is a very special dinner-concert in a private estate

in Lafayette, California and seating is limited

to the first 70 people who register to attend 

- so if you can come, PLEASE RSVP immediately !!

For tickets and information please call 510.540.8136
or email Listen for Life at events@listenforlife.org

Listen for Life Website: www.listenforlife.org

Concert on Sat October 23rd 2011 at 3pm - China and Vietnam in SF!

Saturday October 23rd, 2010 at 3pm

First Christian Church

599 Duboce Ave (at Noe St)

San Francisco, CA 94117

A Musical Journey... China and Vietnam

Winnie Wong (guzheng) and Van-Anh Vanessa Vo (dan Tranh, dan Bao. and Trung)

Full details are available here.

[click on poster for higher-resolution version]

Come join us for an afternoon of music from Guizhou, Yunnan, 

Xinjiang, and a sample of Vietnamese folk music, along with the exciting

premiere of a collaboration between Winnie Wong (guzheng) and 
Van-Anh Vanessa Vo (dan tranh).

Presenting:

Winnie Wong - Guzheng soloist

China's Spirit Music Ensemble

Guest Artist: Van-Anh Vanessa Vo - Vietnamese Folk Instrumentalist

Youth Artist: Reylon Yount - Yangqin soloist

This concert is sponsored by Listen for Life.

General Admission $15 and $25

Tickets: (415) 515-5797 or email chinasspiritme@gmail.com

[Added  October 27, 2010]: Read the concert review by at Johnathon Bakan at examiner.com!