Benjamin J Creighton Griffiths

Concert for Peace

Concert For Peace: 12 May 2002
Concert for Amnesty International
The Priory Centre, St. Mary's Church, Abergavenny

"In 2001 Amnesty International was the chosen charity of the Musicians Union and members were asked to put on an event to raise funds & help campaign for the release of Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musician who had been imprisoned for 18 years by the Chinese authorities - his crime? ... gathering material for a documentary about traditional Tibetian performing arts. This year Ngawang was released and Amnesty Intrenational continues its work to raise public awareness of human rights issues so I am grateful to you for helping me to try to make a difference"

Catherine Handley.

Benjamin was 5 years old when he played in this concert!!

View movie clip from concert (asf file 1.6Mb)

The performers playing in the concert were (left to right) Rosamund Shelley - reader; Andrew Wislson-Dickson - harpsicord; Catherine Handley - flute; Eleri Darkins - Harp and (front) Benjamin - harp.

Press article from the front page of the Abergavenny Chronicle on 2nd May 2002

Updated 12 January, 2005