L'Angelus Concert and Dinner

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Friday, April 25th, 2014
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Mount St Mary Hospital Foundation partners with Oak Bay Beach Hotel for L�Angelus
Final weekend of A Tribute to Nashville to help raise funds for Music Therapy program

What: The Mount St Mary Hospital Foundation has partnered with the Oak Bay Beach Hotel to welcome L�Angelus, the final performers for the eight part Tribute to Nashville series in the David Foster Foundation Theatre.

L�Angelus
Expert musicians, incredible singers and topnotch live entertainers, L�Angelus combines the best of Louisiana�s music traditions: Cajun fiddle tunes for the dance crowd, saxophone driven swamp-pop, and New Orleans influenced R&B. The result is a live show that rolls along with what Michael Doucet of Beausoleil calls �the instrumental energy of a freight train that knows no boundaries.� And the band is all from one Louisiana family. Audiences across North America and Europe are drawn to the �joie de vivre� that radiates from the stage.

Why: Funds raised from ticket sales for the weekend performances will benefit Mount St Mary Hospital Foundation. Each dollar received directly and positively impacts lives by supporting the delivery of life-affirming programs like music therapy to the residents of Mount St. Mary Hospital.

When: Friday, April 25 & Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 6 p.m.

Where: David Foster Foundation Theatre, Oak Bay Beach Hotel, 1175 Beach Drive

Tickets: $89 per person, available through Mount St Mary Hospital Foundation (250-480-3138)
 $10 of each ticket benefits Mount St. Mary Hospital Foundation
 Ticket price includes a carefully prepared and themed three-course dinner

Additional information:
 $70K annually is required to operate the Music Therapy program at Mount St. Mary Hospital
 Music therapy is an interpersonal process in which therapists use music and all of its facets-physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual-to help residents to improve or maintain their health. In some instances, the client's needs are addressed directly through music; in others they are addressed through the relationships that develop between the client and therapist.
 Music therapy is used with individuals of all ages and with a variety of conditions, including: Alzheimer�s, Dementia, and Parkinson�s. It is used with individuals who have physical handicaps and sensory impairments
 Music Therapy can improve learning, build self-esteem, reduce stress, support physical exercise, and facilitate a host of other health-related activities.
 In 2004, the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund generously made a grant to start the Music Therapy program at Mount St Mary Hospital

About Mount St Mary Hospital Foundation
The Foundation raises funds to enhance the care, comfort, dignity and respect of vulnerable members of our community that reside at Mount St. Mary Hospital. The 200 residents at Mount St Mary Hospital are living here as their final home and all have complex care and/or palliative needs. The age range is from 36 � 103 and there has, over the last few years, been an increase in younger people being admitted who may also be managing mental health conditions as well as condition�s such as Parkinson�s, Alzheimer�s, multiple sclerosis, stroke or head injury.

About the Oak Bay Beach Hotel
Reopened in the fall of 2012, the new Oak Bay Beach Hotel has been completely rebuilt on the same spectacular oceanfront lot where the previous hotel sat for more than 80 years. Oak Bay is a residential community with its own village centre, just six kilometres outside of British Columbia�s capital city, Victoria. Today, the Oak Bay Beach Hotel offers 100 hotel rooms and 20 luxury residences. Built to five-star standards, hotel and residential amenities include seaside mineral pools, a fitness studio, Boathouse Spa & Baths, The Snug pub, the David Foster Foundation Theatre, Kate�s Caf� and a fine-dining restaurant with a 1,600 bottle tasting room. Not only is this Victoria�s first combination full-service luxury hotel and private residence, it is also the only commercial waterfront development in Oak Bay, set across Beach Drive from the prestigious Victoria Golf Club.

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Media Contacts:
Brian Cant, Tartan Group: 250-592-3838, 250-896-3844 (cell) or [email protected]
Kathleen Burton, Mount St Mary Hospital: 250-480-3138 or [email protected]