BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Country music performer Vince Gill and London-based a cappella group The Swingle Singers will headline the second “Songs for Sight,” a unique musical celebration benefiting people in Alabama with low vision, March 4, 2011, in UAB’s Alys Stephens Center.

“Songs for Sight” was imagined and organized by Alie B. Gorrie, 18, of Mountain Brook, who was diagnosed as an infant with optic nerve hypoplasia, a genetic form of vision impairment. Gorrie, legally blind in one eye and with 20/80 vision in the other, wants to raise awareness as well as funds for the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation and support research efforts for the Optic Nerve Imaging Center.

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