Doctors for Global Health is pleased to announce a benefit concert featuring musical ensembles Sol y Canto and Sumaj Chasquis on August 2, 2002 at 7:30 pm at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge.

Tickets are available for advance purchase for $20 each through the link below. A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door.

Advance purchase tickets are no longer available. Please call 617-359-5918 to see if there will be tickets available at the door.

Doctors for Global Health

Proceeds from the concert will help fund the work of Doctors for Global Health (DGH). The concert will kick-off the 2002 Doctors for Global Health General Assembly to be held at Lesley University August 3rd to the 4th.

Sol y Canto

The heart and soul of Sol y Canto's music is its rich vocal harmonies, sumptuous Spanish guitar and a combination of beautiful ballads and churning Latin rhythms, each performed with unparalleled depth and enthusiasm. Sol y Canto's sound is built upon a framework of Brian Amador's warm, versatile Spanish guitar and Rosi's expressive, crystalline voice. From the White House and the Kennedy Center to New Mexicos' Popejoy Hall, the Philadelphia Art Museum and the Vancouver Folk Festival, the musicians of Sol y Canto serve up a delicious and constantly changing musical feast. Their tender ballads and driving dance tunes will keep you enthralled.

Sumaj Chasquis

The artists of Sumaj Chasquis celebrate the roots of music. They showcase pure, native, Bolivian music, as well as the European and African cultural influences on indigenous music. They will take the audience on a chronological tour of native, Bolivian music using the ancient Aymara and Quechua instruments. These include a variety of string instruments such as the Charango (an 18th century Bolivian string instrument made from the shell of an armadillo), percussion instruments such as the Chullus (a rattle made of goat hooves) and drums such as Wangaras. In the summer of 1995, Sumaj CHASQUIS was invited to record the sound track for the WGBH/PBS series "Americas". In 1998, they played at the United Nations in New York and at the Congress in Washington, DC as part of their work with TAPORI, a worldwide organization dedicated to the fight against children's poverty.