Winter is coming, and it's going to be the coldest in Beijing in over 30 years. While we wrap up in thick coats and don hats, scarves and gloves in an attempt to stave off the cold, we still feel freezing. This chill extends beyond Northern China and settles in the hearts of millions of displaced persons in Syria, who not only have insufficient clothing this winter, but no housing, medical care or food to help them survive. As they, like us, suffer the cold, the Syrian people must also endure a hailstorm of shelling and gunfire, constantly fearing for their lives with no immediate hope of relief. 400,000 people are under siege in towns and cities, trapped and starving to death.  Thousands of children have not been fed properly in months, and live with no hope of help as they wither in body and mind.  By gifting a modest donation you can help ensure these children survive the winter with food, medical care and shelter and return to them some humanity.

A group of international artists have gotten together for a fundraising event to raise awareness about this human tragedy unfolding before our very eyes. The event will include a performance of six bands and a silent auction that will include 32 artworks donated by 12 artists. The event will take place at the Dawn Dusk Club (DDC) on December 11, 2016 from 5 pm (Entrance fee is 100yuan). All proceeds will be donated to IRC (International Rescue Committee), rated A+ by Charity Watch. We may not be able to right the world’s wrongs but we can choose to try to make a difference. Thank you for your attention.

Live music performance：
ANI
HALF NOTE QUARTET
JESS MEIDER’S CHINATOWN
NANCY&THE FANTASTIC
SOLARIS
ATELIER II + Gene Earle
Fundraising silent auction：
32 donated artworks from international artists

Ani
Ani, like her music, her name, and this description, is short and sweet.

"Half Note Quartet"
"Half Note Quartet" is a Beijing based new band with a multicultural story and music background. Blending jazz, funk, blues and new arrangements of old tracks they make a unique mix of smooth and dynamic rhythms.
Anna - vocals (Greece), FengWei - keyboard (China), Pikar - double bass (China) and Claudi - drums (Greece).

Atelier II
We are interested in addressing the paradox of being out of the nature and at the same time hopelessly in it. The tragedy of being aware of the paradigm of life and not being able to overcome it has generated interesting fabrications like cultures, societies, beliefs, values, philosophies and lifestyles ranging from outrageous to ridiculous throughout the history. The artistic approach to the existential investigations on time, space, contingency, nothingness, biological life, decay and death, is a legit and seductive approach from our position of condemned conscious beings.

Jess Meider
Jess Meider’s “Chinatown” is one of Beijing’s best live original electronic bands. Their music ranges from down tempo to lively up tempo, layered with live guitar layers and Jess’s unique amazing vocals and lyrics. The best word to describe their music is “shu-fu” (comfortable).

The band features guitarist and bassist, Gao Fang. He is a native Beijinger, an accomplished composer, producer and a performance graduate of CMA. Gao Fang has been writing and arranging music for the past 15 years for his own projects as well as many well-known pop stars in China. He is now the producer of the well-known rock band “Bu Dao Weng” and his own zao-yin band “Swarm.”

Well-known as the China’s best jazz vocalist, singer-songwriter, Jess Meider hails from the US and has been a performing resident of Beijing for nearly two decades. A Songwriting graduate from the famous Berklee College of Music, she has created a name for herself with many musical journeys, including her singer-songwriter project to drum n’ bass, to rock and roll and as always, her classic standard jazz. She has released 4 self-produced albums, including “Jess Meider, Songwriter,” “Divine,” and a jazz album, “Dao.” She’s appeared on many stages...performing with Gong Lin Na, in a movie with Andy Lau and Gong Li, and a vocal cameo in Cui Jian’s movie “Blue Sky Bones.” Her voice has been heard worldwide in commercials for Audi, MG, Samsung and Durex (to name a few).

Jess and Gao Fang have been creating music together for the past 5 years. The music is a comfortable, collaborative effort; Gao Fang composes all of the music and Jess writes the melodies and lyrics. Influenced by so much jazz, Radiohead, DJ Krush, Tune-Yards.
Their first album is due to be released this summer.

N&TF
The cream of China’s top musicians have joined together from all over the world to form a band guaranteed to put any crowd in the best mood!

How to introduce this freakishly good band:

Playing in festivals and venues all over China, performing with top Mainland / Taiwan / HK & Asian pop and soul stars, the musicians of the Fantastic are taking S. E. Asia by storm. A mix of cultures and backgrounds and they all bring an energy, style and class to the stage second to none. With their own particular blend of rock, pop, dance and RnB; with their own brand of cool; with their incredible talent; You will feel so good at their show you’ll have to look down to see The Great Wall of China....

Vocals, Drums, Bass, Guitar, Keys. Simple. Effective. Making big sound for a blow out session.
As big as Niki Minaj’s bottom, (but with fewer chemicals).

SOLARIS
Solaris is a neo-psychedelic and alternative rock band that is influenced by shoegaze and post-rock music. In Stanislaw Lem 's namesake novel, Solaris is a planet that is covered by a conscious ocean. 5 youth trying to use sound wall ,emotion, poem and chant to build a mysterious space that is riddled by cosmic, ancient, addictive and self-division things. Despair and hope crisscross in echoing notes.