Nica HOPE

Braddigan
(of Dispatch)
with Taylor Carson

Nica HOPE Benefit Concert

Tuesday June 19th, 2007
8pm

Rosslyn Spectrum Theater
(Indoor, air-conditioned 400 seat auditorium)
1611 N. Kent Street
Arlington, VA 22209
(2 blocks from the Rosslyn metro, blue and orange DC metro lines)

Doors open at 7:30pm. Come early for the best seats and to learn more about our work in Nicaragua!

This concert is sponsored by Razoo, a new online web platform to connect, inspire, and empower individuals to make positive change in the world. Razoo is officially launching on July 31, but you can check it out at www.razoo.com!

Concert tickets $20 - Tickets will be waiting for you at Will Call the evening of the show. Please bring proper identification to pick up your tickets.

Raffle tickets $5 - Raffle for gift certificates to popular local vendors. Receive two raffle tickets for the price of each one if you buy your concert ticket before the day of the show!

Braddigan (of Dispatch) and Taylor Carson have teamed up with Nica HOPE to deliver what promises to be memorable evening of music and inspiration. The concert proceeds will benefit Nica HOPE's mission of providing opportunities for socioeconomic advancement and economic development in impoverished communities throughout Nicaragua.

The union of Braddigan and Nica HOPE is a compelling story of shared passions drawing lives together. Wade McMullen, a key contributor to Nica HOPE, and Brad Corrigan (aka Braddigan) realized a special relationship was on the horizon when McMullen recognized a picture taken by Corrigan of Ileana, a girl he had met while working with community members in La Chureca, an impoverished barrio located in the Managua city garbage dump.

This connection brought Brad into a community of passionate individuals committed to positive change in poverty stricken communities in Nicaragua. These events and the relationships they fostered were important catalysts leading to the realization and formation of Nica HOPE. Though ideas for vocational school education projects had been developing for months among the would-be founders of Nica HOPE, it was a trip to Nicaragua in December of 2006 and the potential for this Benefit Concert that sparked and fueled the idea for the formation of an organization that would establish a network of schools with the vision of changing the face of economic opportunity in Nicaragua.

Braddigan continues the Dispatch legacy by spending time building relationships, both locally and overseas, and by investing in a community of listeners who desire more than just music. Copies of Braddigan’s new music documentary “Side of the Road”, featuring Braddigan’s work at the city dump in Managua, will be sold at the concert.

Arlington, VA-based musician Taylor Carson and bandmates Patrick Thornton and Jamie Watkins are new friends of Nica HOPE but have a long legacy of using their music as a platform to benefit the wider global community, having contributed their support to a wide array of charitable efforts over the years. They are looking forward to continuing their support for Nica HOPE as they promote Carson's second album Tangled in Truth, released in March 2007.