Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo One Drop of Kindness: A Benefit Concert
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 7:00PM Pioneer Park, Nevada City, CA 421 Nimrod St, Nevada City, CA 95959 $20 general admission GET TICKETS
“Pristine, gliding vocal lines.” – The New York Times
“The sheer beauty of her voice: spine-tingling stuff.” – The Guardian (UK)
“Lhamo’s devotional songs spun a hypnotic aural image of Tibet’s spiritual warmth and resilience.” – Elle
“Angel-voiced.”– Newsweek
“Singer Yungchen Lhamo not only charmed with her sweetly broken English and sense of humor – she wowed.” – Rolling Stone
Proceeds from this event will benefit One Drop of Kindness -a 501 c3 non-profit organization using the art of audience participation to help individuals step outside of their identities and see the world through the eyes of those who have been turned away from society. Works in the ongoing project combine “the voice of Yungchen and those involved into a healing, empowering, and unifying experience.” The organization has been reviewed in Newsweek and on Voice of America as a model of how individuals can—through a ripple effect—each make a difference in bringing kindness and compassion to their communities. The foundation is Yungchen’s own project.
Concert will feature also MJ Greenmountain (Hamsa Lila) and other Very Special Guests.
A very rare treat of an evening. Please join us.
Yungchen Lhamo was born and raised in Lhasa, Tibet. Her name, which translates to “Goddess of Melody and Song,” was given to her by a holy man at birth. She crossed the Himalayan Mountains to Dharamshala, India, in order to continue her Buddhist spiritual practice. Yungchen later moved to Australia, where she began to sing prayers of meditation that inspired her to create her first CD, Tibetan Prayer, which won the Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) for best world album in 1995.
Yungchen began performing throughout world and had the privilege of being signed by Mr. Peter Gabriel to his recording company, Real World Records. She released her second CD Tibet, Tibet in 1996.
During this period, Yungchen was honored to have the opportunity to sing at Carnegie Hall on two occasions with musical greats such as Philip Glass, Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant, and many others. Yungchen also performed at the 1997 Lilith Fair festival with Natalie Merchant, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, and Jewel. Around this time, she was invited by Laurie Anderson to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London, sharing the stage with Sir Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Lou Reed, Salman Rushdie and Robert Wilson.
In 2004, Yungchen established the Yungchen Lhamo Charitable Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the welfare of all human beings in need, regardless of borders. Through direct action, the Foundation inspires, improves and empowers the lives of Tibetan women, children, the mentally ill, disabled and homeless. All who are in grave need of love, compassion and material resources.
The Foundation’s mandate is simple: All human beings are very beautiful. We need things like technology, doctors and medicine to heal our physical bodies, but what we need most is unconditional love to heal ourselves. Over the years, the Foundation has donated clothing, shoes, and educational supplies, and completed infrastructure projects in Tibet.
Yungchen has continued with her music, creating three more CD’s: Coming Home (1998), Ama (2006) (which means “mother” in Tibetan), and Tayatha (2013) with Anton Batagov. She is currently working on a new project that explores the transcendent theme of the Medicine Buddha in Tibetan culture.
