"Every 3 Children," a special memorial concert remembering African children with AIDS and the five Amish girls of Nickel Mines, will be presented twice in the Harrisonburg area:
– 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at Martin Chapel of the seminary building at EMU; and
– 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, at Community Mennonite Church, S. High and Water Sts.
Rebecca Campbell (l.) and Carol Ann Weaver of Ontario, Canada, with a Zulu friend, Thandeka Mazibuko, a singer and teacher in a township school in Durban, South Africa, while on tour in June, 2008. The duo’s recording, "Every 3 Children," honors the lives of African children with AIDS.
Composer/pianist Carol Ann Weaver of Waterloo, Ont., will perform with singer/songwriter Rebecca Campbell of Toronto, Ont., in a concert that celebrates life and responds to global situations of conflict, pain and loss.
Sales of Weaver’s CD, "Every 3 Children," will support Mennonite Central Committee’s African relief work and the families of the Nickel Mines children.
Admission is free; contributions are welcomed.