Gustavo Dudamel (L), Venezuelan conductor and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will perform a benefit concert Aug. 23 at the Hollywood Bowl to raise funds for communities affected by the devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24. File Photo by Biel Alino/EPA
July 9 (UPI) -- Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform a benefit concert Aug. 23 at the Hollywood Bowl to raise funds for communities affected by the devastating earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24.
The event, titled "A Concert for Venezuela," will feature Dudamel leading the orchestra in a full program with special guest artists to be announced later.
All proceeds will support the Earthquake Recovery to Support Venezuelan Communities Fund, created in partnership with the United Nations Development Program and the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, known as CAF.
"Venezuela will always be my home, and at every moment my thoughts are with the families whose lives have been changed forever by this tragedy," Dudamel said in a statement released this week by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
