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Hamilton Helps Haiti: Concert Warms Hearts on Frigid Night
Three hours into the Hope for Haiti Concert at the Colgate Chapel Saturday night, the temperature outside dropped to five below zero.
But, a long and impressive list of performers -- from local children just learning to play the violin or piano to professional fixtures on the local live muscic scene -- heated up the stage of the chapel. The songs and styles were varied but the sentiment was the same: they sang and played so the survicors of one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history could begin to reassemble their homes, their cities and their lives.
Mark Shiner, Colgate's Catholic chaplain and a musician himself, was one of the concert organizers. We was a one-man hive of activity as the benefit launched at 6 p.m.
Violin students from Hamilton and Oneida were the eclectic night's opening act followed by Colgate favorites Earthman Embassy and then local fave Tommy Hoe, without his Barn Cats. They were followed by two young sisters at the piano Isabella Crovella and Sarah Crovell. And then came solo singer Diandra Rivera.
The balance of the night's schedule (posted on a long piece of paper outside the chapel Saturday at right) included:
Naledi Semela
CRRABS
Kathleen Armenti
Zlatko Gradzl
Joanne Shenandoah
The McDowell Brothers
Lauren Mettler/McDowell Bros.
The Worship Band
Sojourners Gospel Choir
Cris Shenkel/Sarah Wider
Fuse
Hamilton Dance
Ed Vollmer
Jango Radley
The Colgate 13
Pamme Swan
Colgate Resolutions
Shangri-La
Emily Powrie
Jeff Taylor
Scott Douglas Reu
Experimental Theater
The Swinging Gates
Javi Diaz/Mark Shiner
Aquapod
The Colgate Dischords
Eliza Gomez
Caitlin Grossjung
The Andrew Wylie Project Experience Band
Velle Phyre
Liz Barnett
Haiti Today: Eighteen days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, and left an estimated 200,000 people dead throughout the country, here's where things stand:
- Toussaint Louverture International Airport is accepting more than 160 rlief flights a day.
- There continues to be shortages of food, clean water, adequate shelter and latrines.
- Health officials are trying to stave off outbreaks of malaria, cholera and other sanitation related diseases.
- Gasoline has topped $12 a gallon.
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Cold night. Warm hearts. Charity concert shows Colgate's and Hamilton's capacity for compassion.