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.