Tomorrow we ride

Dear friends,

This coming weekend I will saddle up to ride the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) with 6,000 fellow cyclists to raise money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). Today I am asking for your support ... tomorrow we ride.

The PMC raises more money for charity than any other single event in the country - $455 million since 1980 and $41 million last year alone. This year's goal is $45 million! This amazing gift is possible because a lot of people ride and care about a cure.

I've made a personal commitment to ride and raise $7,200. I hope you can help me achieve this significant goal. 100% of your donation will go to cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through it's Jimmy Fund.

This year my mission is especially personal as my father has been undergoing treatment at Dana-Farber.

Please donate to my PMC ride with one of the following links:

Click here to make a $1,000 donation
Click here to make a $500 donation
Click here to make a $250 donation
Click here to make a $100 donation
Click here to make a $50 donation
Click here to make $25 donation
Click here to make a donation of any other amount

The PMC supports DAF Direct to designate PMC riders for a charitable gift Click here to support my ride with a gift from your Fidelity Donor Advised Fund

Thank you,
Andrew Garland

Your donation is tax deductible and 100% will go to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. If you prefer to write a check, please make it out to the PMC, The Jimmy Fund or Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and mail it to me directly at:

Andrew Garland
24 Clifton Drive
Kingston, MA 02364
US

If your employer has a matching gift program, ask your Human Resources department for a form, and follow the process for matches.

To learn more about the Pan-Mass Challenge, please visit www.pmc.org.

Spring 2015 Newsletter

Greetings from Seattle,

This weekend we close Ariadne auf Naxos here at Seattle Opera.  It is a great privilege to make my role debut with the likes of Kate Lindsey, Sarah Coburn and Maestro Lawrence Renes. 

Seattle is the first long trip away from home since August. This season has been an ideal combination of quality work and time at home. Highlights from this season include a recital with Warren Jones at my Alma Mater, UMass Amherst and again at Swarthmore College, plus recitals in Cincinnati and at the Longy School of Music, Messiahs with several orchestras including the Colorado Bach Ensemble, New Year's Day with Boston Baroque, a Verdi opera with professional-quality Boston Youth Symphony, the St. John Passion with Boston Baroque and the great John Mark Ainsley, a masterclass at the New England Conservatory and a Schubertiade at the South Shore Conservatory complete with Austrian desserts.

Donna and I will perform a special program for the Casement Fund in Brooklyn featuring song cycles by Lee Hoiby / Walt Whitman, Stephen Paulus / Ted Kooser and America 1968 by Tom Cipullo and Robert Hayden. May 21 at the South Oxford Space in Brooklyn. May 30 I brush up on my Russian to join Chorus Pro Musica and the BoSoma Dance Company for Stravinsky's Les Noces.

In the Summer I will return to the Duxbury music festival in a program of songs by Gene Sheer, Richard Pearson-Thomas, Ricky Ian Gordon and others.

In the fall I will be at home again to sing La Bohème with Boston Lyric Opera in a terrific cast including Kelly Kaduce, James Maddalena, Jesus Garcia and Jonathan Beyer.   October 2-11. In December I get to participate in one of the most fascinating projects yet: Schubert and The Beatles with New York Festival of Song. Dates and venues TBA. December 19-20 I make my debut with the Colorado Symphony in their Messiah.

March I reprise one of my favorite roles: Dandini in La Cenerentola, this time at Bob Jones University where I appeared as Rossini's Figaro in 2008. Not widely known for it's opera program, Bob Jones has a surprisingly good technical theater department and a large, appreciative audience.

April I get to sing in The Magic Flute with Boston Baroque in a cast including Mary Wilson, Nicholas Phan and Sara Heaton. Back by popular demand, the Schubertiade will have another performance on April 17. If you're good, there will be desserts.

Thank you for reading.

- Andy