Grammy Award winners New York Voices perform charity concert in Tbilisi
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Internationally recognised American vocal band New York Voices has teamed up with Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra and held a charity concert to help Georgian children with cancer.
Guests enjoyed last night's event at the Tbilisi Concert Hall that featured plenty of Christmas carols especially arranged by two-time Grammy Award winners New York Voices, who performed alongside Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra and conducted by well-known Georgian maestro Vakhtang Kakhidze.
Georgian officials and their partnets attended last night's concert. The day was also marked in Georgia as Saint Barbara’s Day – the great Martyr who was tortured by her own father after she converted to Christianity.
Vice-PM and Energy Minister Kakhi Kaladze, his wife Anuka Areshidze, PM's wife Nunuka Tamazashvili and PM Irakli Garibashvili (from left to right) at the concert. Photo by PM's Press Office.
Prime Minister shared his emotion at his official Twitter account:
Grammy winner, New York Voices performed @ #charity concert #Tbilisi 4 treatment of kids with #cancer#solidarityfundhttp://t.co/VpwWNkiKrL
— Irakli Garibashvili (@PrimeMinisterGE) December 17, 2014
Money raised from the concert, about 68,000 GEL, will be transferred to the Solidarity Fund and dispensed for the medical treatment of children suffering from cancer.
The event was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, the United States Embassy in Tbilisi, the Solidarity Fund of Georgia and the Jansugh Kakhidze Tbilisi Center for Music and Culture.
Creating a fund to benefit socially vulnerable people was on the agenda at today’s Government meeting.
A large proportion of Government Administration employees are volunteering to donate a portion of their salaries to a new public charity that supports people in need, including cancer patients and funding children’s expensive medical treatments.
Georgia’s Government is launching the nation’s first charity fund that will be financed through voluntary donations from public sector employees to help children and adult with health problems.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has presented a report summarising the achievements his Government has made in the past two years.