Gladney Center for Adoption Celebrates - Adoption Rocks!

AUSTIN, Texas--(Business Wire)--
Friends of Gladney return to host the 2nd Annual Adoption Rocks…Health, Hope and
Happiness for Children Across America and around the World music extravaganza
supporting the Gladney Center for Adoption and celebrating National Adoption
Month. This amazing event was inspired by a friend`s personal adoption journey.
Check out this touching video that chronicles the plight of orphans in Ethiopia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0txt3snGbk.

The event is November 13 from 7-10 p.m. at the Long Center, Rollins Theater.
Show times are 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Silent auction, food and refreshments will be
served from 6:00-9:30 p.m. Click here for more information or to purchase
tickets. Musical entertainment features:

* The multi-talented John Pointer - guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and beat
box wizard

* Appeared in numerous nationally televised commercials as a human beat box,
played "Judas" in Zach Scott Theater`s award-winning production of "Jesus Christ
Superstar" and was a co-star on Fox Television`s Prison Break.

* The Famous Dumpstaphunk

* Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk consists of current and former members of the
Neville Brothers, Dave Matthews & Friends, The Funky Meters, Bonnie Raitt, Harry
Connick Jr., Emmylou Harris and Keith Richards & The Xpensive Winos.

* Sangre del Sol Fire Dance Troupe

* Welcoming entertainment, award-winning act, the "World Famous"

Gladney celebrates National Adoption Month as a time to honor and give thanks to
families everywhere who are touched by adoption and also to reflect on the 143
million orphans around the world, most of whom will never be adopted. Gladney is
committed to serving the children of the world by mobilizing our humanitarian
aid efforts and helping children who are growing up in orphanages.

The Gladney Center for Adoption is one of the oldest and largest maternity homes
and adoption agencies in the United States, placing more than 28,000 children in
permanent homes and assisting more than 37,000 birth mothers. In addition to
placing children born in the United States, Gladney`s intercountry adoption
program is committed to finding permanent homes for children in other countries.
Adoption opportunities are available in several regions of the world including
Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. A genuine commitment to children
and professionalism makes Gladney an exceptional adoption agency and a national
leader in adoption. For more information about Gladney`s adoption programs and
humanitarian aid efforts, please log onto www.gladney.org.

Gladney Center for Adoption
Jennifer Lanter, 817-896-5968
Public Information Officer
E-mail: Jennifer.Lanter@gladney.org

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