Dinner/concert raises funds for Mercy Kitchen
It is definitely not your usual Friday night happy hour, but the evening of fine dining and music at the Biltmore Hotel will certainly be entertaining. Guatemalan concert Pianist Rolando Ortega and singer Nelita Castillo, who is also Belize’s Consul in Cancun, will pool their talents in a show to raise funds for the Mercy Kitchen. On the eve of the performance Castillo and Ortega told News 5 that ticket holders are in for a treat.
Nelita Castillo, Singer
“It’s a dinner which starts–the ticket says seven o’ clock and I think by the time everybody is seated they’ll probably have dinner at 7:30. The jazz band, Caesar’s jazz group, which plays in the Biltmore on weekends will be playing during the dinner and then after they clear everything away, about half past nine, we will start our show.”
Rolando Ortega, Pianist
“I think that they are going to listen to very good music. We are going to do our best, with Nelita. I am going to do my best in my piano. First of all, I have to say I enjoy my stay in Belize; I really like the country. I like the weather like we have right now. I like the people very much. I enjoy it, I enjoy it. This is my second time here and I really enjoy my stay here in Belize.”
Nelita Castillo
“They are going to hear what is called standard pop concert of classic, popular music from the past fifty years, more or less. We have a repertoire of Spanish songs, some Broadway show tunes, some standard tunes. We’re probably going to do two compete shows with a break in between.”
Rolando Ortega
“Its not difficult. It’s so easy because I think we speak the same language in the music field. And so it’s very easy. She likes what she does, I like what I do, and because of the years that we have been in the music field we have a very large and big repertoire and we just put it together and I hope people are going to accept our music tomorrow.”
The show is organised by the Guatemalan Ladies Association of Belize. And if you have not yet bought your ticket, then you’re out of luck. News 5 was informed this afternoon that the show has been sold out, with over three hundred tickets already purchased. At sixty dollars per person, Friday night’s dinner and show should bring in some much needed cash for the Mercy Kitchen.
