World Music and Dance Group Performing to Benefit Watertown’s Sister City Program

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Libana will perform at First Parish of Watertown as one of the Tremedal Coffeehouse Concerts.

Libana will perform at First Parish of Watertown as one of the Tremedal Coffeehouse Concerts.

An internationally renowned world music and dance ensemble will perform in Watertown as part of the Tremedal Coffeehouse series.

The group — Libana — illuminates the creativity, vision and spirit of women worldwide, according to organizers. Their performances have been described as “riveting, transformational and soul stirring, Libana takes audiences on a musical journey reflecting the universal human experience uniting us all.”

Libana will peform on Oct. 20, 2018 at 8 p.m. at the First Parish Unitarian Church of Watertown, 35 Church St., Watertown.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3590900

The proceeds benefit for the Watertown–El Salvador Sister City Project, and will support Watertown’s sister community in El Salvador, Nueva Esperanza, and regional projects in Chalatenango Province. The original relationship was with a neighboring community called Tremedal, a community that was repopulated in 1989, mainly by people who returned from refugee camps in Honduras, where some had lived for as long as 8 years during the civil war.

Find out more about the concert series at tremedal.org.

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