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INTERNATIONAL RECORDING ARTIST
ENRIQUE HENAO, TO PLAY BENEFIT
CONCERT FOR THE CHILDREN OF CAMBODIA
Friday, September 15, 7:30 p.m.
Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Tickets:
$22 general through TicketMaster
or by calling (503) 224-4400.
$10 Lewis & Clark College alumni
$5 Lewis & Clark College employees
Tickets available at the door.
A limited number of complimentary student tickets are available in the College Bookstore.
In a long awaited return concert, International recording artist, Enrique Henao, who has garnered critical acclaim as one of the worlds finest, free spirited acoustical guitarists, takes the stage to perform this benefit concert.
From 1975 to 1980, Enrique Henao lived and performed in Portland becoming one of the city’s best loved musicians and entertainers. Here at last is the opportunity for Portland to again delight in one of Enrique’s captivating performances.
Schooled in music by his father, also a gifted musician, Enrique performed in his first concert at the age of 13. Enrique has since played in more than 80 countries giving him a great knowledge of the world’s music, as well as a profound respect for and understanding of all people, making him a true citizen of the world. Enrique has been witness to the ravages of poverty in his homeland Colombia, here in the United States and in travels. Enrique’s commitment to use his talent to serve children is evident in his support of a children’s hospital in Manizales, Colombia and his numerous free benefit concerts on behalf of children’s aid organizations including: Hearts in Motion, Habitat for Humanity, Benaroya Cancer Research, and many others.
Henao has performed for heads of state and keeps thank-you notes from the White House and the Vatican. His scrapbook tells the story: contracts for performances on “The Mike Douglas Show” and “The Tonight Show”: theater photos with Andres Segovia: pictures of marquees with Johnny and June Carter Cash, Julio Iglesias and others.
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The concert, a benefit for The Happy Family Orphanage, Siem Reap, Cambodia, is sponsored by the Lewis & Clark Music Department, Chapel Program, and First Presbyterian church of Corvallis, Oregon which has aided humanitarian causes in Cambodia since the early 1980s, including providing prosthetic arms and limbs for nearly four percent of Cambodia’s amputee population.
In January of this year, a group of ten volunteers from Oregon and Washington, including a member of Adopt a Minefield, visited The Happy Family Orphanage where they saw the need for a new facility, as well as educational and vocational enrichment for the 47 orphans ranging in age from 2 to 22 years old.
As a result of the killing fields and economic and social destruction of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia has become home to tens of thousands of street children, refugees and orphans. The children who live at The Happy Family Orphanage will not only be housed and nurtured, but they will be taught the skills to break free from the poverty cycle.
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