Friday, September 08, 2006

Fine Food and Music Highlight Bonaire Fundraising Events September 15-17

Two Bonaire programs will be holding fundraising events on Bonaire during the weekend starting Friday, September 15th with a dinner prepared by Bonaire’s Culinary Team, and culminating with a benefit concert by Michele Henderson, a rising star from Dominica, on Sunday, September 17th.

The Bonaire Culinary Team dinner, being held at the Plaza Resort at 7pm on Friday, September 15th, will feature award winning cocktails by Jane Coffie and the award winning three course dinner menu by the team of Isidoor, Vernon, Egbert, Floris, and Vladimir. The menu is the same one that the team presented at the “Taste of the Caribbean Culinary Olympics” held in Miami this past July - an appetizer of marinated conch ceviche served with a yogurt-cucumber ice cream; a main course of herb stuffed leg of lamb with papaya stew, cheese gratinee tutu, pork stew topped with Angostura cardamom chili glazed okra; and dessert in the form of a chocolate mousse mango jelly, ganache, cake, pastry, and ginger caramel sauce.

The purpose of the fundraiser is to raise funds for the Culinary Team’s 2007 team practice and competitions. There are only 125 tickets available for this event, each at a price of NAF 70 / US$ 40. To reserve your tickets, contact Ruud Vermeulen or Margreth Kloos.

And on Sunday, September 17th, Michele Henderson, an up and coming singer from the island of Dominica, will entertain an audience of over three hundred people aboard the Freewinds cruise ship. Henderson’s music runs the gamut from Zouk and R&B to Jazz, Reggae, and Retro Soul, singing in English, French and Creole.

Approximately 200 tickets are left for Michele Henderson’s concert, at a price of NAF 25 / US$15. The concert starts at 7:30pm and is scheduled to end at 9pm. Funds raised from the sales of tickets to the concert will go to benefit Basisschool De Pelikaan - Bonaire’s only charter school for elementary-level education (ages 4-12). To purchase tickets, contact the Pelikaan School directly.
(Sources: New Releases, E-Mail Notices, The Bonaire Reporter (subscription required))