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Rock superstar Rick Wakeman performs ‘Song for Samuel’ in a video to benefit Moroccan orphanage

www.assistnews.net
20 May 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Rock superstar Rick Wakeman performs ‘Song for Samuel’ in a video to benefit Moroccan orphanage
Ebay auction for Six Wives signed program will also help

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Mnistries
SHEPPERTON, UK (ANS) -- Rock keyboard legend, Rick Wakeman, has performed his beautiful composition, “Children of Chernobyl” on a new video to promote an online charity auction which supports the work of La Crèche de Tangier Orphanage in Morocco.

Samuel
This exclusive video complementing Rick Wakeman's “Children of Chernobyl” and called "Song for Samuel" has been produced by RockonDigital.com and Classic Media Group with the approval of Wakeman. (See the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlRfss3lGA)
Rick’s longtime friends and concert film producers Robert and Jo Garofalo from Classic Media &www.RockonDigital.com adopted a baby boy three years ago from La Crèche de Tangier Orphanage in Morocco. It is this charity and the many children at the orphanage who will benefit from the money raised by this exclusive auction.
People can place a bid on eBay, for an exclusive signed official Program from Rick Wakeman's Hampton Court Palace performance of the Six Wives of Henry VIII on May 1 and 2.
The program is a collectors item signed on the night of the May 2nd 2009 show by Rick Wakeman and his entire band including; Ray Cooper (Percussion), Dave Colquhoun (Electric Guitars), Adam Wakeman (Keyboards), Jonathan Noyce (Bass), Tony Fernandez (Drums), Pete Rinaldi (Acoustic Guitars) plus the Seraphim Trumpeters.
The Background:
Robert & Jo Garofalo adopted a baby boy three years ago from La Crèche de Tangier Orphanage in Morocco. It is this charity and the many children at the orphanage who will benefit from the money raised by this exclusive auction.

Rick, who has just celebrated his 60th birthday, said, “We read all the 

Scene at Rick’s Six Wives concert at Hampton Court Palace (Photo: Lee Wilkinson)
time of the plight of unwanted children and babies the world over, but little is written or spoken about of the tremendous work that people are doing to try and help even a small percentage of unwanted kids…I came to know of this orphanage through Robert and Jo and the work they are doing is heart melting…what they can do will always be limited by the finance they have so please support this charity auction as every penny counts…and even if you aren't the successful bidder, perhaps reading about the orphanage may just persuade you to help a little anyway.”
Robert Garofalo directed the recent film shoot for Rick Wakeman's performance of The Six Wives of Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace. Robert's wife, Jo Garofalo, who is the Associate Producer for the forthcoming Six Wives DVD release provides further information below;

Copy of the signed program
“We are very excited to be involved with this Rick Wakeman project and are happy to support the orphanage charity in any way we can. We are also very thankful for Rick's continued support and friendship. Our journey through the adoption of Samuel (Achraf, is his Moroccan name) begun when he was just a few months old and has since changed our lives completely. He is a beautiful little boy, full of love and character. I feel very sad that the UK system makes adoption so difficult, and so it was through the crèche in Tangier that our dream became a reality.
“Without the wonderful, un-assuming nature and support from the orphanage, I would never have got through the 7 months I was there and I now look back on that time with great fondness. We will be forever grateful to the wonderful people at La Crèche de Tangier.”
Dan Wooding, 68, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma of 45 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS); and US Bureau Chief for the Missionaries News Service (www.missionariesnews.tv) and Safe Worlds IPTV’s Faith, Hope and Charity channel. He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC., and now hosts the weekly "Front Page Radio" show on KWVE in Southern California and which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on UCB UK and Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com. E-mail:danjuma1@aol.com.
Le Creche de Tangier
Robert and Jo Garofalo