Jack Tamul, John Boehr, David Boehr, James T. Miller: News

The Audubon Benefit Concert is set for January 28, 2012. The Concert will be in Fort Lauderdale at the Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships port aboard a docked ship. Tickets are by invitation only and all proceeds will go to Audubon Everglades Restoration programs.

The benefit concert for the Florida Audubon Society has been changed until January 28, 2011. The concert will be in the afternoon on a cruise ship of the Royal Caribbean Line (in port)in Fort Lauderdale. This will be a fun event and I will post details as they become available.

Our March 3, our benefit concert in Jacksonville was a great success and a SRO sellout and we raised a significant amount of money for Equinox Documentaries, Inc. Our next benefit concert will be for Florida Audubon on November 10 at the Miami Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.

We will present Pahayokee:A Plea for Life on November 10, 2011 on behalf of Florida Audubon at the Miami Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables. We will post further details as they become available.

JIm Miller will travel to the Glades sometime in December and into January to record wintering species such as Whippoorwills and to record owls. We hope to release another CD of sounds from Everglades national park in 2011.

We will have a benefit concert on March 3, 2011 in Jacksonville, Florida at the Friday Musicale. The benefit is for Equinox Documentaries, Inc , a non-profit group that makes nature and historical documentaries about Florida. Go to www.equinoxdocumenataries.org to l,earn about Equinox. Friday Musicale has been presenting music in Jacksonville since 1980.

Jim Miller will visit the Glades at the end of April to record natural sounds at the end of the wet season. When the Glades naturally dry up between November and April, the water that is present tends to accumulate in sloughs or gator holes (dug out by gators to pool the available water into shallow pools). Fish and birds then congregate around the sloughs and gator holes -this concentration presents an excellent opportunity to get close to large numbers of birds.

John Boehr is now in New York singing with the New York City Opera.

The Santa Fe New Mexico benefit concert on February 25. 2010 of Pahayokee:A Plea for Life on behalf of the Santa Fe Conservation Trust and presented by Santa Fe New Music was a great success. We were able to raise about $1,000.00 for the Conservation Trust. The Santa Feans who attended the concert were warm and gracious . In addition to the wonderful singing of John Boehr as accompanied by his father, David Boehr on piano, we presented a 20 minute photo slideshow of the Everglades and a talk about how Pahayokee:A Plea for Life came into being and why we travelled to Santa Fe to present our oratorio about the plight of the Everglades.

John Boehr will perform in L'etoile at the Austin Texas Lyric opera from January 30 until February 7, 2010.

John Boehr is in New York City preparing to cover the title role of Don Giovanni for the New York City Opera. Don Giovanni will be performed from November 8-22, 2009.