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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Immediate Release:</b><br>
June 2<span style="color:#1F497D">5</span>, 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:30.0pt">MIRI BEN-ARI<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt">PERFORMS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA<br>
AT BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL<br>
</span></b><img width="311" height="207" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD514B.D5399450" alt="Description: Description: NGN_0179-3.jpg"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">New York, NY – (June 2<span style="color:#1F497D">5</span>, 2012) – Today
<b>Miri Ben-Ari</b> joins <b>President Barack Obama</b> at the historic <b>Boston Symphony Hall</b> for a special performance to benefit his re-election campaign. The performance by the Israeli-born Grammy Award-winning violinist marks
<b>President Obama</b>’s final fundraising visit to Boston less than five months before the 2012 election this November. Attendees will hear from
<b>President Obama </b>about what’s at stake in the 2012 election, remarks from Massachusetts Governor
<b>Deval Patrick</b> and an electrifying performance from <b>Miri Ben-Ari</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The fundraising reception does not mark the first time <b>Miri Ben</b>-<b>Ari</b> has shown her support for
<b>President Obama.</b> In 2011, <b>Miri </b>performed at the White House at a women’s mentoring event hosted by
<b>Michelle Obama</b>, who had invited 22 remarkable women from different walks of life to mentor and inspire young students.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">About Miri Ben-Ari<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">A Grammy Award-Winning violinist originally from Israel,
<b>Miri Ben-Ari </b>has created her own unique sound by a revolutionary fusion of classical style with jazz, R&B and hip hop. This classically trained musician has helped sell millions of records by collaborating with other Grammy award-winning artists such
as Kanye West, Jay Z, Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys, Wynton Marsalis, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Patti Labelle, Brandy, Donna Summer, Janet Jackson and John Legend. She studied under the late classical master Isaac Stern and has earned the honor from New York's
Apollo Theater as an Apollo Legend. She is also known as <b><u>The Hip Hop Violinist</u></b>, the title of her latest album (Universal Records).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Miri
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">was honored as an "International Jewish Women to Watch” in 2007, she received the 2008 Israel Film Festival Visionary Award, the American Society for Yad Vashem 2011 Young Leadership Associates Remembrance
Award and is the first Israeli to receive the Martin Luther King Award from Israeli President, Shimon Peres. In 2011
<b>Miri Ben-Ari</b> was invited by America's First Lady, Michelle Obama, as a "Remarkable Woman" Mentor to be a part of the annual celebration of Women's History Month and to perform at the White House.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Miri Ben-Ari</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> is also the CEO and co-founder of Gedenk ("Remember"), a non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting awareness among young people about the Jewish Holocaust. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="http://www.miribenari.com"><b>www.miribenari.com</b></a><b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:black">For More Information:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Jennie Boddy @ PRESS HERE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">p:
</span><a href="tel:212.246.2640" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">212.246.2640</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">e:
</span><a href="mailto:jennie@pressherepublicity.com">jennie@pressherepublicity.com</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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