Coming Home: Tibetan Singer Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert at La Mama Experimental Theatre

World-acclaimed award-winning Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo, this year’s recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Artist Award presented by the City of Kingston Arts Commission and the Department of Arts & Cultural Affairs, and of a Certificate of Recognition from New York State Senator Michelle Hinchey, will perform at La MaMa for the first time, accompanied by guitarist John Alevizakis.

Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa

66 East 4th Street

New York, NY 10003

Tickets:

$108 Donor Ticket includes Day Pass for Celebrating Compassion Day, Friday 16th

$40 Adults

$25 Students/Seniors

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Press Contact: Rob McGann

(239)-250-9544 | rolfnovo@yahoo.com

September 30, 2026

For Immediate Release

La MaMa Presents

Yungchen Lhamo Live in Concert

A two part celebration of Tibetan culture and tradition through food, education, art

A benefit concert supporting the One Drop of Kindness Foundation

Friday October 16, 2026, 3:00-9:00pm

Saturday October 17, 2026 at 7:00pm (concert)

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 will also present 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. Join this gathering anytime 3:00-9:00pm, 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.

QUOTES ABOUT YUNGCHEN’S WORK

“Yungchen sings like an unearthly creature. Her voice has the power to stop time and makes everything else in the world fall away. Her voice transports you.” – Natalie Merchant

“Yungchen joined our Real World Records label in 1996. The label was founded in 1989 to provide gifted musicians from around the world with access to state-of-the-art recording facilities, with the aim of bringing the music of the world to the world. We were lucky to work with Yungchen’s wonderful voice and music, which encapsulate the spirit, understanding and compassion of Tibetan culture.” – Peter Gabriel

“Her voice is astonishing in range, rich in vibration, and filled with a rare kind of beauty that uplifts, restores, and stays with you long after the last note. Lhamo’s seventh album, One Drop of Kindness, is a glorious reminder and golden encouragement for us to do precisely that.” – Neal Copperman, AMP Concerts

“Lhamo’s voice is not only beautiful, but strong. Her phrasing, control and depth of emotion are unsurpassed. This, combined with her purity and poignancy, will enchant and impress any listener." - Leslie Holmes, Denver Advocate

“I truly believe that voice has a vibrational energy to connect, empower, heal, and transform all human beings." - Yungchen Lhamo

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