Hope for Haiti – Caribbean Opera Star Phillip Mentor and Grammy Award Winner Paul Sullivan to Perform Red Cross Benefit on Friday, January 22 at UCCPA

Unity, Maine – January, 2010 –  International musician and singer Phillip Mentor and Maine’s own Grammy Award winner Paul Sullivan will perform in a benefit concert at the Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m.  Tickets are $10 per person with 100% of the proceeds to benefit Haiti Relief efforts by the American Red Cross and Water Projects International, located online at http://www.waterprojectsinternational.org/.

The Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts is located at 42 Depot Street (off Route 202) in Unity, Maine.  Tickets are available online at www.unitymaine.org/theater/ ; 948-SHOW: or www.unitymaine.org.

Caribbean opera star Phillip Mentor

For more information contact John Sullivan, General Manager, 207 948-SHOW, or by e-mail jsullivan@unity.edu.

Free parking is available.

“This show will feature origional American spirituals popularized in Louisiana and the south,” explained UCCPA Director John Sullivan.  “Phillip Mentor will be singing music that is descended from the Haiti region of the Caribbean.”

Grammy Award winner Paul Sullivan

Born in Belmont, Port of Spain in the beautiful island of Trinidad and Tobago, Phillip Mentor is a trained opera singer and has performed in musical plays and theaters and with symphony orchestras. Mentor’s voice training has been in the classic mode and his extensive repertoire includes German, French, Italian as well as English material which include Gospel and Negro spirituals.

Grammy Award winner Paul Sullivan has enjoyed a richly varied and distinguished career as a composer and a pianist.  As a soloist, with his trio, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort, he has played concert tours in most of the United States and Europe, as well as Croatia, Israel, Costa Rica, and Japan. He has performed among the dunes of the Negev Desert, in Leonard Bernstein’s living room, and on the stages of many of the world’s finest concert halls.

Unity College is a small private college in rural Maine that provides dedicated, engaged students with a liberal arts education which emphasizes the environment and natural resources.  Unity College graduates are prepared to be environmental stewards, effective leaders, and responsible citizens through active learning experiences within a supportive community.