April 2017
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RENOWNED EX-GENESIS MUSICIAN ANTHONY PHILLIPS BECOMES NEW ELEPHANTS FOR AFRICA PATRON
Elephants for Africa is delighted to announce that celebrated musician Anthony Phillips has come on board as Patron during the charity's 10thyear.
Anthony recently worked with Elephants for Africa and Dr Kate Evans, the charity's founder and director, for a collaborative book entitledHarmony for Elephants. Anthony was instrumental in providing tracks for this charity fundraising photographic book which launched at the end of 2016.
Anthony is looking forward to his role within the charity, commenting: ‘Being involved with Elephants for Africa gives me a chance to help to highlight the elephants' plight. Elephants are the gentle giants of the land, just as whales are to the sea.Beautiful, noble creatures they grace the planet - yet mankind will see them as good as extinct within 20 years.'
Dr Kate Evans is delighted to be have Anthony on board. She says: ‘With Anthony as patron, we look forward to his continued involvement with Elephants for Africa. He is creative and understands our work and our message. Anthony will be helping to share this message about our conservation work and our commitment to both elephants and communities in Botswana.'
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Editor's notes
About Anthony
http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk/index.htm
Anthony Phillips is a British composer and guitarist. He is known as a prolific writer of music for film and television, as well as being a founding member of the band Genesis, with whom he recorded the albumsFrom Genesis To RevelationandTrespass. Anthony's debut solo album The Geese & The Ghost was released in 1977 and since then he has created an extensive output as a recording artist.
Whilst Anthony continues to release solo albums to critical acclaim, increasingly his music has been much in-demand for film and television both through commissioned works and the licensing of tracks from his extensive output of Production Music. Commissions have included scores for the award-winning Survival series on ITV and the Natural World series on the BBC. Anthony's music has also been featured on commercials, films and television series throughout the world.
About Elephants for Africa
Elephants for Africa was founded in 2007 by Dr Evans who started the charity having had a lifelong passion for elephants. Kate is a research associate of theUniversity of Bristol, and a member of theIUCN African Elephant Specialist Group, the Elephant Specialist Advisory Group , theSouth African Wildlife Management Association and the Zoological Society of Southern Africa.Kate is also an honorary research fellow at The University of Exeter.
Elephants for Africa is a conservation charity, with a continued mission to build on their conservation work which is being developed through research and education with the local communities in Botswana.
About Harmony for Elephants
Harmony for Elephants is a joint project between professional wildlife photographer and biologist Mrs Lesley Wood and Dr Kate Evans, biologist, elephant researcher and founder and director of the charity Elephants for Africa. Lesley and Kate first talked about publishing a book about elephants together back in 2010 and since then the concept has grown and developed into the amazing book and music project that it is today.
The aim of the project was to publish a beautiful fine art book about elephants and elephant conservation with its own CD album of music specially written for this project, recorded and donated by several world-renowned musicians including ex-Genesis band members, Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips.
The book is available both as an A4 sized unlimited standard edition and also as an A3 sized boxed limited edition version which come with a specially produced signed and numbered limited edition fine art companion print. The limited edition books are signed by Lesley and/or Kate, and some of them have also been signed by the musicians involved, making them extremely sought after by collectors. Both editions of the book have an accompanying CD album of music composed specially for the project. The project synopsis can be viewed here:https://youtu.be/OZDp_ORT5Ps
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For interviews with Anthony Phillips or Dr Kate Evans for additional photos, and more information, please contact claire@elephantsforafrica.org / 07734 702653.