
MIAMI, FL. (Top40 Charts/ PODER Magazine) - Tickets are now on sale for the first-ever PODER Benefit Concert, sponsored by Televisa and Banamex, taking place on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. The Benefit Concert will feature multi Grammy Award-winning artist
Juan Luis Guerra y 440. Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, songwriter, and self-producer has sold more than ten million records worldwide and has won numerous awards, including ten Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards and two Latin Billboard
Music Awards. In 2007, he won six Latin Grammy awards on the same night and currently holds the record for most Latin Grammys won in a single night.
The proceeds from all ticket sales will directly benefit 'YA ES HORA, iVE Y VOTA!,' a historic civic participation campaign targeting the Latino community. The 'YA ES HORA, iVE Y VOTA!,' campaign was launched through a coalition of the nation's largest, most established Latino organizations and the country's largest Spanish-language media companies to significantly increase naturalization rates and electoral participation in the 2008 presidential elections.
The PODER Benefit Concert will begin promptly at 6:30 pm with a special reception inside the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall. Ticket prices range from $200 to $325 and seats are extremely limited. To purchase tickets for this limited engagement, please call 305.949.6722 or visit www.arshtcenter.org.
About 'YA ES HORA, iVE Y VOTA!'
'YA ES HORA' is a historic civic participation campaign targeting the Latino community that was launched through a coalition of the nation's largest and most established Latino organizations and the country's largest Spanish-language media companies to significantly increase naturalization rates and electoral participation in the 2008 presidential elections. The effort has been organized into two strategic phases: 'YA ES HORA iCIUDADANIA!,' which worked to mobilize over one million eligible legal permanent residents to apply for U.S. citizenship in 2007, and now, 'YA ES HORA iVE Y VOTA!,' which seeks to register and mobilize millions of Latinos in 2008. The campaign represents the largest and most comprehensive effort to incorporate Latinos as full participants in the American political process. The national effort is lead by Univision Communications Inc., ImpreMedia, Entravision Communications, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund.