Australian band to raise funds for HIV+ kids

CHENNAI: A 70-member singing group, a 24-member orchestra, an Australian band and a children’s choir will come together on a single stage on July 24 at Music Academy to raise funds for a children’s home. Mellow Circle, a Chennai-based social service group, is organising ‘Magic of the Musicals’ to collect funds for Prathyasha, a home for HIV+ children in Avadi.
The two-hour show will feature the Madras Chamber Orchestra, Roxygen band, the children’s choir of Union Christian Association School and the Mellow Circle singing group. The performance includes songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Evita’, ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and ‘Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’, and excerpts from the musical ‘Mamma Mia’.
“There are 16 children in the Prathyasha home in Avadi,” said Prakash Mathew, treasurer of Prathyasha trust, which runs the home along with Mellow Circle. “The funds from the show will go towards adding a floor to the existing building. We are hoping to care for 50 children once we expand the home,” he said. Mellow Circle was formed in 2000 and works with HIV+ children who have lost their parents, and the Prathyasha home was set up in 2007.
For details about the show, call 98407-28320.