Happy New Year to you all.
As 2007 starts we at SAHAYA are gearing up to announce the Leadership Council (LC) and begin our challenging chapter in the fight against AIDS. The response to the launch has been very positive and we have received a great number of nominations for the LC. This core group will now decide and lead SAHAYA to it's next level and we at AIF, will provide all the technical guidance and resources to steer towards our program goals and objectives. When SAHAYA was launched, one such program priority was spelt out-Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS. This is one way to stop a new generation of infections. We hope that the LC will bring in creative ideas and fresh perspectives in the combat of this deadly virus.
The below article is about an event in India that is being organized to spread awareness about the epidemic. We hope SAHAYA will lead one such mass campaign in 2007-08. Here's wishing everyone a healthy new year and please join SAHAYA - Youth against AIDS today.
Jazz legends to lead fight against AIDS
NEW DELHI: Two of the world's best known jazz artists will join the planet's fight against AIDS. Miles Davis's close friends and bandmates pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Wayne Shorter are coming to India to create and improve HIV-AIDS awareness.
The duo, along with students from the world famous Thelonius Monk Jazz Institute, will perform in New Delhi and Mumbai from January 15. They will also hold master classes for young Indian musicians. The Mumbai concert is sponsored by the Economic Times.
On January 15, the artistes and Indian musicians will perform in a special concert in Delhi in honour of the birth anniversary of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King and the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha movement.
Shorter is known to be a master writer and one of the few people who brought music to Davis that didn't get changed. He is a six time Grammy award winner.
Hancock, on the other hand, is a one-time Oscar winner and 10-time Grammy winner, who brought elements of rock, funk and soul into jazz. Both were part of Davis's Second Great Quintet in the mid-1960s.
Robin Diallo, first secretary, cultural affairs, US embassy, told TOI,"It can't get bigger than this. These two are the greatest living musicians of our time. This is the third consecutive year in which the US government has brought leading jazz stars to India. Renowned jazz singer Al Jarreau, guitarist Earl Klugh and Grammy-nominated saxophonist Kenny Garrett have toured India as part of this programme. When in India, Wayne and Herbie will create awareness on AIDS, and will visit the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to interact with HIV positive patients."
Anti-AIDS campaigns have excited several global celebrities to join the fight against the disease. These include the world’s richest man Bill Gates, former US president Bill Clinton, super model Claudia Schiffer, British high society regular Jemima Khan, actors Ralph Fiennes, Roger Moore and Richard Gere, actresses Salma Hayek, Ashley Judd and Elizabeth Taylor, footballers Rio Ferdinand and David Beckham, singers Robbie Williams, Bono and Alicia Keys.
The year 2006 marked the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Since then, nearly 65 million people worldwide have been infected with HIV and AIDS has killed more than 25 million. An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV. By Kounteya Sinha [ 5 Jan, 2007 TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Jazz legends to lead fight against AIDS
The below article is interesting and we at SAHAYA maybe can aim to organize something like this. Anyone we know attending?
NEW DELHI: Two of the world's best known jazz artists will join the planet's fight against AIDS. Miles Davis's close friends and bandmates pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Wayne Shorter are coming to India to create
and improve HIV-AIDS awareness.
The duo, along with students from the world famous Thelonius Monk Jazz Institute, will perform in New Delhi and Mumbai from January 15. They will also hold master classes for young Indian musicians. The Mumbai concert is sponsored by the Economic Times.
On January 15, the artistes and Indian musicians will perform in a special concert in Delhi in honour of the birth anniversary of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King and the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha
movement.
Shorter is known to be a master writer and one of the few people who brought music to Davis that didn't get changed. He is a six time Grammy award winner.
Hancock, on the other hand, is a one-time Oscar winner and 10-time Grammy winner, who brought elements of rock, funk and soul into jazz. Both were part of Davis's Second Great Quintet in the mid-1960s.
Robin Diallo, first secretary, cultural affairs, US embassy, told TOI,"It can't get bigger than this. These two are the greatest living musicians of our time. This is the third consecutive year in which the US government has brought leading jazz stars to India. Renowned jazz singer Al Jarreau, guitarist Earl Klugh and Grammy-nominated saxophonist Kenny Garrett have toured India as part of this programme. When in India, Wayne and Herbie will create awareness on AIDS, and will visit the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to interact with HIV positive patients."
Anti-AIDS campaigns have excited several global celebrities to join the fight against the disease. These include the world’s richest man Bill Gates, former US president Bill Clinton, super model Claudia Schiffer, British high society regular Jemima Khan, actors Ralph Fiennes, Roger Moore and Richard Gere, actresses Salma Hayek, Ashley Judd and Elizabeth Taylor, footballers Rio Ferdinand and David Beckham, singers Robbie Williams, Bono and Alicia Keys.
The year 2006 marked the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Since then, nearly 65 million people worldwide have been infected with HIV and AIDS has killed more than 25 million. An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV. By Kounteya Sinha [ 5 Jan, 2007 TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
NEW DELHI: Two of the world's best known jazz artists will join the planet's fight against AIDS. Miles Davis's close friends and bandmates pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonist Wayne Shorter are coming to India to create
and improve HIV-AIDS awareness.
The duo, along with students from the world famous Thelonius Monk Jazz Institute, will perform in New Delhi and Mumbai from January 15. They will also hold master classes for young Indian musicians. The Mumbai concert is sponsored by the Economic Times.
On January 15, the artistes and Indian musicians will perform in a special concert in Delhi in honour of the birth anniversary of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King and the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha
movement.
Shorter is known to be a master writer and one of the few people who brought music to Davis that didn't get changed. He is a six time Grammy award winner.
Hancock, on the other hand, is a one-time Oscar winner and 10-time Grammy winner, who brought elements of rock, funk and soul into jazz. Both were part of Davis's Second Great Quintet in the mid-1960s.
Robin Diallo, first secretary, cultural affairs, US embassy, told TOI,"It can't get bigger than this. These two are the greatest living musicians of our time. This is the third consecutive year in which the US government has brought leading jazz stars to India. Renowned jazz singer Al Jarreau, guitarist Earl Klugh and Grammy-nominated saxophonist Kenny Garrett have toured India as part of this programme. When in India, Wayne and Herbie will create awareness on AIDS, and will visit the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to interact with HIV positive patients."
Anti-AIDS campaigns have excited several global celebrities to join the fight against the disease. These include the world’s richest man Bill Gates, former US president Bill Clinton, super model Claudia Schiffer, British high society regular Jemima Khan, actors Ralph Fiennes, Roger Moore and Richard Gere, actresses Salma Hayek, Ashley Judd and Elizabeth Taylor, footballers Rio Ferdinand and David Beckham, singers Robbie Williams, Bono and Alicia Keys.
The year 2006 marked the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Since then, nearly 65 million people worldwide have been infected with HIV and AIDS has killed more than 25 million. An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV. By Kounteya Sinha [ 5 Jan, 2007 TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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