Deerfoot Lodge & Resort-Benefit Concert for Ovarian Cancer Symptom Awareness organization
Saturday May 27 - Free Admission - Donations graciously accepted
The Ovarian Cancer Symptom Awareness (OCSA) organization and Deerfoot Lodge & Resort present Japanese-born jazz and blues singer, pianist, and composer, Yoko Noge, at a benefit concert on Saturday, May 27 on the Chippewa Flowage in Hayward. “Jazz & Blues on the Lake” brings music by Noge as well as locally renowned musicians from the Big Fish Band and John Sonofmel to the special musical event which will help raise funds to support OCSA’s documentary in final production.
Noge was a founding advisory board member of the Ovarian Cancer Symptom Awareness Organization, and she brings her special talents to music lovers in the Northwoods to benefit the OCSA documentary entitled: Ovarian Cancer & Early Detection: The Story of a Northwoods Community Making a Difference.
“My good friend Yoko has supported our mission from our beginnings in Chicago in 2010, having performed at several music venues to help us put a spotlight on the silent symptoms of ovarian cancer,” says Vallie Szymanski, OCSA’s co-founder and executive vice president.
Deerfoot Lodge & Resort was an in-kind sponsor for the film and John Sonofmel has composed an original song which will complement award-winning composer, Enzo De Rosa, who is collaborating with the film co-producer, In My Brother’s Shoes, Inc. (IMBS), to create an original score for the documentary.
Event Details
· Location: Deerfoot Lodge & Resort - 8534 N Deerfoot Rd, Hayward, WI
· Date: Saturday, May 27
· Time: 3:00-4:30 p.m. Big Fish Band; 5 p.m. Yoko Noge Jazz & Blues; 6 p.m. - John Sonofmel joins Yoko on stage; 6:30-7:00 p.m. Yoko Noge concludes the evening
· Cost: Donations accepted on site and via www.teamocsa.org
OCSA has spent the last 18 months co-producing the OCSA documentary with IMBS, an Illinois non-profit founded to create, produce and share films about healing, resilience and human connection by writer/director Lucia Mauro and her husband, producer Joe Orlandino.
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The film will debut at The Park Center in Hayward, Wisconsin on Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 6 p.m. For information and/or to donate, visit www.teamOCSA.org.
About the Ovarian Cancer Symptom Awareness Organization (OCSA)
OCSA is a Section 501 (c) (3) charitable organization founded in 2010 to educate women and their families about the silent symptoms of ovarian cancer and the need for early detection and treatment. Donations to OCSA are tax deductible as a charitable gift. For questions concerning tax deductibility, please consult a tax advisor. For more information, follow on Facebook @ocsachicagoorg or visit www.ovariancancersymptomawareness.org. Donations to OCSA are deductible as a charitable gift. See a tax advisor with questions concerning tax deductibility.
About Yoko Noge
A native of Osaka, Japan, Yoko Noge took piano lessons for a brief period in childhood. Growing up in Osaka in the 1960s and 1970s led to heavy exposure to the blues. As a teenager, she and several fellow students from her high school formed the Yoko Blues Band, which earned first prize and a recording contract in a television contest. Attracted by the blues scene in the Chicago, Noge moved to the city in 1984 to pursue a career in jazz and blues. Beginning as a singer, she took piano lessons from Erwin Helfer and in the early 1990s established the Jazz Me Blues Band, which has since become a fixture on the Chicago musical scene. She has written a number of compositions for her group which blend ideas from Japanese folk music with Chicago blues. Noge co-founded the Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival in 1995 with Tatsu Aoki and Francis Wong. In 2006 the Chicago Tribune named her "Chicagoan of the Year," and in 2009 Newsweek Japan identified her as "one of the most respected Japanese people in the world.” She received the Foreign Minister's Commendation from the Japanese government in 2014.