Check out the Angels in Voice HPS Benefit Concert!

Candice and Crystal Sipe are very well known to the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome community. Most of us are their fan club - grin! If you don't know Candice and Crystal, they are twins with the HPS type of albinism who have the most wonderful voices. They just posted a few video clips from their recent HPS benefit concert. Here are the links to the most recent clips, but I urge you to check out their blog too at www.angelsinvoice.com.

Candice, Crystal singing and Niece Danielle signing Jesus at HPS Benefit Concert March 2007 click on linkhttp://www.stanlucas.com/angelsinvoice/broadband/Jesus.wmv
Candice, and Crystal singing I Bowed On My Keens and Cried Holy at HPS Benefit Concert March 2007 click on linkhttp://www.stanlucas.com/angelsinvoice/broadband/I_Bowed_On_My_Knees.wmv
Candice and Crystal singing I Will Never Leave you Alone at HPS Benefit Concert March 2007 click on link http://www.stanlucas.com/angelsinvoice/broadband/I_Will_Never_Leave_You.wm
Candice and Crystal singing Thank You Jesus the song that Candice wrote at the HPS Benefit Concert March 2007 click on link http://www.stanlucas.com/angelsinvoice/broadband/Thank_You_Jesus.wmv

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