Just Think of it: Your choir, visiting and performing throughout the Baltics, in many of its greatest capitals, and including one great 'group sing' in St. Petersburg or Tallinn ... without having to change hotels, buses or trains!

Enjoy People-to-people relations, ON LAND & SEA!
Experience none of the hassles of loading, unloading, packing and unpacking that a normal concert tour in the Baltic region entails! Travel overnight while on board. Have plenty of time to prepare for your concerts in the privacy of your cabin all tour long...

Space is filling up fast; don't be left on shore without us!

Contact Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, Inc. for more information and to sign up. For a quote request, please fill an application form at:
www.faf.org/grouptours/SoB-cruise/ home_SoB.htm

Representative Christopher Shays visited the FAF offices on the second sad anniversary of the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. He came by to offer thanks for the service based concert tours by EagleSong (IL), the RSVP Singers (CA), and FAF's own Youth Symphony for United Nations (each of these ensembles traveled to New Orleans to give free to the public concerts as part of the foundations' New Orleans Reclamation Concert Tour project.)

The Congressman is Co-Chair of the Congressional Arts Caucus and, as such, stated "I take great joy in events that promote the arts and imagination."

He went on to praise FAF and its programming that enables concert tours to become volunteer and service opportunities: "You should be proud of your achievements ... in particular I commend you on your continued efforts to provide support and hope to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans."

MUSICIANS, YOUTH ENSEMBLES & VOLUNTEERS - May/June 2008
With lives still devastated and homes still lost, Louisiana needs your presence, support and performances much more now than ever. (Eagle Song choir, above, donating instruments to kids who lost theirs in the hurricanes, during our free to the public concerts there.)

Take Part in a Performance / Service Tour
The New Orleans Reclamation Concert Tour
A project of the Youth Symphony for United Nations

JOIN US! YOUNG MUSICIANS, YOUTH ENSEMBLES & VOLUNTEERS ...

Perform locally throughout the regions affected by Hurricanes Katrina an Rita during this concert tour that brings support to local residents and to volunteer workers in Houma, Slidell, and New Orleans.

ALSO: Encourage "tag-along" companions to join your ensemble and enable them to participate in volunteer reclamation efforts throughout New Orleans and Houma in partnership with local projects such as the ACORN and Habitat Houses.

Musicians, students, teachers, and others: Make lifelong friendships with local artists & families - Join us in this VolunTourism effort now!

RECENT COMMENDATIONS
In honor of our second, major service tour through music to New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin named June 25, 2007 in honor of the Youth Symphony for United Nations

"Providing relief to regions struck by natural and man-made disasters, I commend the members of the youth symphony for using their impressive talents to help those in need and I encourage each of them to continue to provide service through the arts. I also applaud the continued efforts of the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation (FAF) to promote mutual understanding and global cooperation through improved cultural exchange," Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

After winning awards for service in 2006, the U.S. Senate has awarded the project a Certificate of Appreciation "In Honor of Your Dedication to Uplifting Our Youth."

Free travel will be offered to performing arts group directors in 2008 in advance of the group tour. Directors or their assigns can travel to their concert tour destination twice ... free of charge, too! FAF's external support enables its participant leaders to familiarize themselves with the itinerary of their upcoming tours abroad. FAF's familiarization pre-tour trips are funded in part by the foundation and its cultural partners worldwide. All directors and group leaders who's ensembles or groups are planning to travel with FAF in 2008 are eligible to apply.

Contact us for current familiarization opportunities: Friendship Ambassadors Foundation · 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830
EMAIL: Friendlyam@faf.org PHONE: 1-203-542-0652 FAX: 1-203-542-0661

Pictured above: FAF Executive Director Patrick Sciarratta in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with representatives from the Young Peoples Chorus of New York City, meeting with Bulgarian media prior to a concert tour there.

"Add another Quote and make it a Gallon!" Groucho Marx

Thank you very much, for all of your hard work! We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Scandinavia and we all know that this was due to your countless hours on our behalf. - Prescott Master Adult Chorale to Scandinavia, June 2007

Omigosh! The trip was fabulous! Everything was really spectacular. Thank you so much for all your work, and for arranging the most satisfactory, well-organized and fun trip we could possibly have wanted. We would love work with you again! Smith College Tour to China, May 2007

All is well, and we're back in one piece! What a phenomenal tour it was! (FAF's European Operations Manager) Szilvia Fulop-Agoston was a delight to work with and took care of us very well. The students, staff and I are very excited about the tour, and sad that it is over. - Friends University Choir to Germany, May 2007

I have been traveling with the Friendship Ambassadors since 1983 ... Thanks FA for another great experience! - The Chattooga Gymnastics Team of Marietta, Georgia Tour to Germany and Austria, July 2007

The Movement Laboratory Youth Ensembles' 'Goodwill thru Dance Program' has traveled with FAF for over 20 years ... Thanks FAF for helping ... We will continue to create illuminate and teach peace." Judy Williams Henry, Founder and Director.

Some recent comments on FAF's Youth Assembly at the United Nations in August 2007: "Simply Fabulous!, the youth assembly set the tone for a future set up for humanity. It was most amazing for me meeting youths of my age, who have done so much even with all the constraints." - Aduragbemi Ogunbanke, Nigeria (shared on Facebook.com)
"I concur! It (FAF's Youth Assembly) was truly a life changing experience. I know that I have grown from the conference and am ready to take over the World with the help of my peers!" - Queen JaneiLe, Drexel University (shared on Facebook.com)

Sister Cities programs offer the opportunity to transform concert tours into diplomatic 'missions'.

Friendship Ambassadors Foundation has joined with the town of Greenwich to create and develop a Sister Cities relationship between it and Vienne, France.

The FAF team along with adult and youth arts ensembles from Greenwich are preparing for two years of concert tours through this new Sister Cities Project. In 2008, Greenwich, Connecticut's well-respected adult Choral Society, under the direction of Maestro Paul Mueller, plans to visit Vienne, France to inaugurate the new relationship between the two cities. In 2009, the Greenwich High School Honor Choir is planning to travel to Vienne, live in homestays, and offer joint concerts and workshops with their young, French peers.

FAF is able to use this expertise to help other cities and towns find interesting Sister Cities relationships, too - and perhaps more importantly, when one exits, the foundation knows how to maximize the potential of these diplomatic relationships to benefit the traveling ensembles and volunteer or educational groups it serves. Give FAF the chance to enhance your concert tour in 2008.

Pictured above are Frank Juliano, Executive Director, Greenwich Arts Council, FAF Music Director Yin-Chu Jou, Robert Luce, Board Member of the Greenwich Choral Society, and Dr. Jeffery Spector, District Wide Director of the Arts for the Greenwich, CT school system.

email: friendshipambassadors@faf.org

phone: 203 542 0652

web: http://www.faf.org