Coming Home: Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert

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Coming Home: Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert World-acclaimed award-winning Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo, this year’s recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Artist Award presented by the City of Kingston Arts Commission and the Department of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and of a Certificate of Recognition from New York State Senator Michelle Hinchey, will perform at La MaMa for the first time, accompanied by guitarist John Alevizakis. “Yungchen sings like an unearthly creature. Her voice has the power to stop time and makes everything else in the world fall away. Her voice transports you.” – Natalie Merchant PRESS RELEASE BELOW Press Contact: Rob McGann (239)-250-9544 | rolfnovo@yahoo.com September 30, 2026 For Immediate Release La MaMa Presents Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert A two part celebration of Tibetan culture and tradition through food, education, art A benefit concert supporting the One Drop of Kindness Foundation Friday October 16, 2026, 3:00-9:00pm Saturday October 17, 2026 at 7:00pm (concert) La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 East 4 St. NYC 10003) Tickets and additional information at LaMaMa.org La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, in association with One Drop of Kindness Foundation, is excited to present Coming Home: Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert at the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Saturday 17 October 2026, 7:00pm. La MaMa and the One Drop of Kindness Foundation will also present Celebrating Compassion: A Gathering of Tibetan Healing, Dance & Film, the day before the concert on Friday 16 October 2026, commencing 3:00pm. Spend an afternoon and evening exploring a multi-faceted approach to compassion through sacred art, meditation, Tibetan medicine, a documentary film on Tibetan oracles, Tibetan food and tea, stories, conversation, and dance. Join this gathering anytime 3:00-9:00pm, detailed schedule of events available at LaMaMa.org All events on October 16 & 17 serve as a Benefit, raising funds and awareness for Yungchen Lhamo’s One Drop of Kindness Foundation. Learn more about the foundation’s work and mission at www.onedropofkindness.org ABOUT YUNGCHEN LHAMO Signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records in 1996, World-acclaimed, award-winning Yungchen Lhamo has sung in more than 80 countries on all five continents. In June, she was presented with the prestigious 2026 Distinguished Artist Award by her home city of Kingston, New York. She has previously won the Australian Recording Industry Award for ‘Best World Music Album’ and Songlines ‘Best Asia & Pacific Album’ in the UK 2025 (www.yungchenlhamo.com). ABOUT ONE DROP OF KINDNESS The One Drop of Kindness Foundation was created by Yungchen Lhamo as a non-profit foundation in 2004. Through carefully selected projects, the Foundation seeks to bring specific material support and healing inspiration to distressed communities within the USA and in other countries (www.onedropofkindness.org). ABOUT LA MAMA La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. La MaMa's 65th Season, ONENESS, focuses on creating solidarity and community, exploring ways to build connections for cross-sector coalition and invites artists, activists, organizers and community members into the creative process. We build audiences that are integral to the creative process. Our local and global community members who gather in our physical, digital, and hybrid spaces to see new work, are often the first audience for that work. La MaMa believes art is a force for change. La MaMa has been honored with 30+ Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk, Bessie Awards, Villager Awards, the 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award, and most recently a 2023 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Citation. We are a creative home to artists and resident companies from around the world, many of whom have made lasting contributions to the arts, including Blue Man Group, Bette Midler, Ping Chong, Jackie Curtis, Robert De Niro, André De Shields, Adrie