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December 13, 2005
Tres Chicas
Tres Chicas will lend their voices to the Saturday, Dec. 17, Rock for Reproductive Rights benefit for Ipas.

Art and advocacy mix Saturday, Dec. 17, with the second Rock for Reproductive Rights benefit for Ipas.

Raleigh country-rock band Tres Chicas will headline this 8 p.m. event at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro. The trio is Lynn Blakey on guitar and vocals; Caitlin Cary on violin and vocals; and Tonya Lamm, on guitar and vocals.

Also performing is Mary Johnson, a former Ipas employee and a singer-songwriter with Chapel Hill’s Pawnshop Ruby.

Back from a European tour, Tres Chicas will share selections from their upcoming Yep Roc Records album, “Bloom, Red & the Ordinary Girl.” It’s slated for a March 7 release.

Cary said the band is thrilled to promote women’s rights in their home state and to support Ipas’s mission of improving women’s access to reproductive technologies worldwide.

She said: “We especially appreciate the good work [Ipas does] for other human beings because what that means is that our music makes sense to people who think and care about other people. And what that means is that our music might, in some roundabout way, be making a difference in the world.”

Proceeds from the concert will make a difference for Ipas and the women for whom we advocate. Tickets are $15 or $12 for ArtsCenter Friends, and they can be purchased from the ArtsCenter at (919) 929-2787.

But in addition to financially supporting Ipas’s programs, the benefit brings much-needed visibility to the global campaign to gain women’s access to reproductive health care where it’s lacking and to secure it in places like the United States, where abortion rights are increasingly under siege.

Cary said: “I appreciate Ipas’s global perspective because every woman, no matter where she lives, deserves and requires the simple right to choose when, whether or how to bring a child into the world. The fact that we must fight for this right makes me outraged, but I am grateful that through music, which is what I know how to do and what I love, I can enter this fight on some level.”

For more information, contact:
Kirsten Sherk
Senior Associate, Media Relations
e-mail: sherkk@ipas.org
phone: 919.960.5612
fax: 919.929.0258