The Orange County Department of Education and Very Special Arts Orange County are joining forces with the City to host the VSA Spring Concert and Fundraiser at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 21 at the Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way.
VSA Arts is an international non-profit organization dedicated to creating a society where people with disabilities can learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts.
The concert will feature talented musicians, a legally blind singer and an impressive artist who is also legally blind.
Visitors will marvel at the talents of Hi Hopes, a group of professional musicians with developmental disabilities who have been featured on TV shows and in Time and People magazines. Founded in 1972, the group’s impressive repertoire includes patriotic music, rock and roll, love ballads, Broadway show tunes, Country western and more.
The concert also includes Marleena Coulston, a talented singer, who delights audiences with her one-woman cabaret show.
Artist Kurt Weston will speak about his recent work, which captures precisely detailed, color saturated, luminous images of garden flowers as well as hillsides and parks experienced in sometimes fleeting, still or out of focus mesmerizing tapestries of living color.
The spring concert-fundraiser includes refreshments, opportunity drawings and a silent auction.
Tickets are $10 or $15 at the door. Tickets are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com or by sending checks payable to Very Special Arts Orange County; attention Jan Mackey; Orange County Dept. of Education, 200 Kalmus Drive, Costa Mesa, 92626.
