Photo Credit: Sami Dickerson[/caption]The Peace Concert not only benefited Ebola patients in Liberia, but also provided excellent entertainment for students and parents who attended. A total of seven acts performed for the audience on Thursday, December 18.
To begin the concert, President Jacob Larson and Vice President Ben Wirzba of the Peace Club, supported by teacher Marc Sprintz, explained that the contributions to the event that night would be directly given to Liberian communities that the Peace Club had been in contact with and that were being over run with Ebola. Larson and Wirzba went on to explain that Liberian communities would lose entire families to the illness and it would then spread, causing fear in the rest of the community. During the concert, short intermissions were used to show videos about the communities being supported.
The acts that were included were the OHS Improvicons, Andie McKinnon, the Apollo’s Panthers (solely represented by Ashley Badstein), Snowmotion (comprised of sophomores Katie Clark and Nicole Cassida), poet Samantha Nance, guitarist Cameron Price, and Diali Cissokho and Austin McCall.
Because of the Peace Club’s cause, many Liberian community members will be freed from the Ebola sickness. To learn more about the illness, check out these New York Times videos: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/ebola/index.html.
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