The British Memorial Garden Trust, Inc. will present a free community concert and ceremony on September 11, 2008 to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.  The concert will feature British music and will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan.  The concert and ceremony will last an hour.

 Performing this year at the annual event are Welsh soprano Rebecca Jenkins, the New York Scottish Pipes and Drums Band and the Comrades Male Voice Choir from Wales, among others. There will also be an honor guard of British Police Officers, who will have flown in especially for the occasion. .

 The concert is being sponsored by ICAP, with a private reception following sponsored by Barclays Capital.

 The Trust has built a garden in Hanover Square that will celebrate British-American unity and memorialize the 67
 British lives lost on September 11, 2001.

 “This year’s concert will be about moving forward, as well as remembering the victims,” said Ms. Hellman.  “We find strength and purpose in looking ahead, while learning
from the past.”

 The British Memorial Garden Trust’s Memorial Concert is part of the September Concert Series and New York-London
Sister Cities Program.   It will end with the musicians and audience singing “Let It Be” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.  An international initiative, September Concerts, are being held all over the world on September 11^th, including a British Memorial Garden Trust UK, Ltd. concert in London’s Grosvenor Square held simultaneously with the New York concert.

 “The British Memorial Garden is being built not only to commemorate the British victims of 9/11,” said Camilla G. Hellman.  “It is also dedicated to celebrating the strong historic ties of friendship and unity between the United States and the United Kingdom.  A gift to the City and people of New York from the British-American community and friends, this British garden at Hanover Square is being funded by donations from individuals, corporations and foundations.”

              For additional information, please contact:

                                                                                Peggy A. Brown

                                                                                British Memorial Garden Trust, Inc.

                                                                                216 East 45^th Street

                                                                                New York, NY  10017

                                                                                212 682-7945