In NYC: La MaMa Presents Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert
La MaMa Presents: Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert
A two part celebration of Tibetan culture and tradition through food, education, art
Editor’s note: Over the summer we covered the Rise Up, Sing Out benefit concert for the First Amendment as an act of unity amid the attacks on the Constitution.
A benefit concert supporting the One Drop of Kindness Foundation
The celebration and concert took place on:
Friday October 16, 2026, 3:00-9:00pm
Saturday October 17, 2026 at 7:00pm (concert)
At La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre
(66 East 4 St. NYC 10003)
Tickets and additional information at LaMaMa.org
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, in association with One Drop of Kindness Foundation, is excited to present Coming Home: Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert at the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Saturday 17 October 2026, 7:00pm.
La MaMa and the One Drop of Kindness Foundation also presented Celebrating Compassion: A Gathering of Tibetan Healing, Dance & Film, the day before the concert on Friday 16 October 2026, commencing 3:00pm. Spend an afternoon and evening exploring a multi-faceted approach to compassion through sacred art, meditation, Tibetan medicine, a documentary film on Tibetan oracles, Tibetan food and tea, stories, conversation, and dance. Participants could join this gathering anytime 3:00-9:00pm, with a detailed schedule of events available at LaMaMa.org
All events on October 16 & 17 serve as a Benefit, raising funds and awareness for Yungchen Lhamo’s One Drop of Kindness Foundation. Learn more about the foundation’s work and mission at www.onedropofkindness.org
ABOUT YUNGCHEN LHAMO
Signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records in 1996, World-acclaimed, award-winning Yungchen Lhamo has sung in more than 80 countries on all five continents. In June, she was presented with the prestigious 2026 Distinguished Artist Award by her home city of Kingston, New York. She has previously won the Australian Recording Industry Award for ‘Best World Music Album’ and Songlines ‘Best Asia & Pacific Album’ in the UK 2025 (www.yungchenlhamo.com).
ABOUT ONE DROP OF KINDNESS
The One Drop of Kindness Foundation was created by Yungchen Lhamo as a non-profit foundation in 2004. Through carefully selected projects, the Foundation seeks to bring specific material support and healing inspiration to distressed communities within the USA and in other countries (www.onedropofkindness.org).
ABOUT LA MAMA
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. La MaMa’s 65th Season, ONENESS, focuses on creating solidarity and community, exploring ways to build connections for cross-sector coalition and invites artists, activists, organizers and community members into the creative process. We build audiences that are integral to the creative process. Our local and global community members who gather in our physical, digital, and hybrid spaces to see new work, are often the first audience for that work. La MaMa believes art is a force for change.
La MaMa has been honored with 30+ Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk, Bessie Awards, Villager Awards, the 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award, and most recently a 2023 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Citation. We are a creative home to artists and resident companies from around the world, many of whom have made lasting contributions to the arts, including Blue Man Group, Bette Midler, Ping Chong, Jackie Curtis, Robert De Niro, André De Shields, Adrienne Kennedy, Cole Escola, Bridget Everett, Harvey Fierstein, Diane Lane, Charlotte Brathwaite, Charles Ludlam, Haruna Lee, Tom Eyen, Spiderwoman Theater, Tadeusz Kantor, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Meredith Monk, David and Amy Sedaris, Stephanie Hsu, Julie Taymor, Kazuo Ohno, Tom O’Horgan, Heather Christian, Andrei Serban, Liz Swados, and Andy Warhol. La MaMa’s vision of nurturing new artists and new work from all nations, cultures, races and identities remains as strong today as it was when Ellen Stewart first opened the doors in 1961. For more info, visit: lamama.org.
Banner Image: Yungchen Lhamo album cover. Image Credit – Yungchen Lhamo
One Drop of Kindness Foundation
The One Drop of Kindness Foundation was created by Yungchen Lhamo as a non-profit foundation in 2004. Through carefully selected projects, the Foundation seeks to bring specific material support and healing inspiration to distressed communities within the USA and in other countries
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