FOR MORE INFORMATION:       Wendy Taylor, cell:  207-671-1564, [email protected]

    Christy Comeau-Pierce, 207-939-6775,  [email protected]

And She Came Out Singing

A musical evening with Christy Comeau-Pierce 

in celebration of new beginnings

to benefit the people of Haiti

Friday, October 1 - 7:00 pm

Reception with refreshments and more music

follow the performance

Maine Irish Heritage Center

34 Gray Street (corner Gray and State), Portland

Tickets $30 ($15 for students)  Available through PortTIX

online at www.Porttix.com or phone at 207-842-0800,

or the Box Office at Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle Street,

Portland. 

                                                                                                              Christy Comeau-Pierce

                                                                                                  

Please join soprano Christy Comeau-Pierce along with very special guests - accompanist Bruce Fithian, violinist Valerie Green, and Camille Curtis-Saucier and her Saco Bay Jazz Vocal Ensemble  - for an uplifting evening of music including works by John Newton, Antonín Dvořák, Francesco Cilea, Rogers and Hammerstein, Pepper Choplin, and more.   

Reception to follow with music by the popular local band, Sly-Chi.   

Christy Comeau-Pierce received her degree in music from the University of Maine in Orono.  The recipient of numerous awards in singing, Ms. Comeau-Pierce has performed with The University of Maine Singers, Opera Workshop Productions, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, and the Portland Opera Repertory Theatre.  Following two years of extensive, successful treatment for cancer,  Christy joyfully invites you to share in this personal and collective celebration of life and the healing powers of music and community.  

“Music is a common language of the human experience, expressing the pain as well as the joy.  I was so moved seeing and hearing the courageous and resilient people of Haiti raising their voices in hymns of praise after enduring unimaginable suffering, and it was this outpouring of  the human spirit through music that moved me to add my voice to theirs.”         Christy

Proceeds from the concert will benefit Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Partnership, a Maine-based organization working to save lives and improve health care in northern Haiti by building local capacity in all aspects of the health system - from door-to-door community outreach programs, to strengthening community health centers, to improving care at the regional referral hospital.  www.healthyhaiti.org.

Our thanks to...

Benefactors:Dermatology Associates

 

                                        Basics Fitness Center

Figa Restaurant

The Frog & Turtle Restaurant

Geary Brewing

Macy’s

Maine Irish Heritage Center

PortTIX

Jerry Robinov

Starbird Music