Environmental Artist and Ernesto Mayans Gallery artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford & Composer Tim Janis collaborate for the world premiere of The Way of the Rain - Voices of Hope, a benefit concert for NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) & The Way of the Rain (nonprofit organizations) at Carnegie Hall. A Music, Art, & Film Experience - An Homage to Planet Earth.

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With special guests: Former Vice President Al Gore, Academy Award-winning director Robert Redford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author & poet N. Scott Momaday, Multi-Platinum-selling artist Loreena McKennitt, Grammy Award-winning artist Robert Mirabal, Top Billboard, Grammy and Emmy-nominated Celtic violinist Máiréad Nesbitt, and from Celtic Woman & Riverdance Lynn Hilary. 

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Additional performers include Alex Boye', Laura Dias, The Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra (Conductor Julien Benichou), and The Way of the Rain - Voices of Hope Choir (Choir Master Matt Vanzini). Projections by Floyd Thomas McBee.