Hamilton Helps Haiti: Concert Warms Hearts on Frigid Night

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Sun, Jan 31, 2010

Three hours into the Hope for Haiti Concert at the Colgate Chapel Saturday night, the temperature outside dropped to five below zero.

But, a long and impressive list of performers -- from local children just learning to play the violin or piano to professional fixtures on the local live muscic scene -- heated up the stage of the chapel. The songs and styles were varied but the sentiment was the same: they sang and played so the survicors of one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history could begin to reassemble their homes, their cities and their lives.

Mark Shiner, Colgate's Catholic chaplain and a musician himself, was one of the concert organizers. We was a one-man hive of activity as the benefit launched at 6 p.m.

Violin students from Hamilton and Oneida were the eclectic night's opening act followed by Colgate favorites Earthman Embassy and then local fave Tommy Hoe, without his Barn Cats. They were followed by two young sisters at the piano Isabella Crovella and Sarah Crovell. And then came solo singer Diandra Rivera.

The balance of the night's schedule (posted on a long piece of paper outside the chapel Saturday at right) included:

Naledi Semela

CRRABS

Kathleen Armenti

Zlatko Gradzl

Joanne Shenandoah

The McDowell Brothers

Lauren Mettler/McDowell Bros.

The Worship Band

Sojourners Gospel Choir

Cris Shenkel/Sarah Wider

Fuse

Hamilton Dance

Ed Vollmer

Jango Radley

The Colgate 13

Pamme Swan

Colgate Resolutions

Shangri-La

Emily Powrie

Jeff Taylor

Scott Douglas Reu

Experimental Theater

The Swinging Gates

Javi Diaz/Mark Shiner

Aquapod

The Colgate Dischords

Eliza Gomez

Caitlin Grossjung

The Andrew Wylie Project Experience Band

Velle Phyre

Liz Barnett

Haiti Today: Eighteen days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, and left an estimated 200,000 people dead throughout the country, here's where things stand:

Toussaint Louverture International Airport is accepting more than 160 rlief flights a day.
There continues to be shortages of food, clean water, adequate shelter and latrines.
Health officials are trying to stave off outbreaks of malaria, cholera and other sanitation related diseases.
Gasoline has topped $12 a gallon.

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