Daniel’s good friends John and Emily are organizing a memorial for Daniel’s birthday on Sunday, April 18th, 2010.

The memorial event will include live music at the HOPE Farmer’s Market (5th & Waller, Sunday 11am-3pm) and then a 5-mile run around Town Lake by members of the Daniel Frouman Memorial Running Club to raise money for a non-profit organization, The Nicaragua Project, “dedicated to sustainable community development in impoverished areas of Nicaragua.”

Here is some more information from Emily:

On April 18, 2010, please join the friends of Daniel Frouman and the HOPE Farmers Market to celebrate the life of an extraordinary man. The Daniel Frouman Jazz Extravaganza will feature a day of live music written by and for Daniel, the Serie Project (a nonprofit committed to celebrating Latin American art) in the HOPE Gallery, a run around Lady Bird Lake, and a silent auction.

The silent auction and the run will benefit the Nicaragua Project’s initiative to fund educations for children in need. For every $35 raised, a child will be sent to primary school for one year with school supplies. Every $400 raised will pay for one year at a university. More information on this can be found at http://www.thenicaraguaproject.org/tnp/How_Can_I_Help.html

The runners will begin at the HOPE Farmers Market at 2:30p and will run along Lady Bird Lake to Longhorn Dam and back along the South shore. It is approximately 5 miles. Each runner is asked to find a sponsor for $35 to be donated to The Nicaragua Project. Each sponsored runner will send a child to primary school for one year!

Where: 414 Waller St Austin, TX 78702

When: 11a-3p on April 18

Interestingly enough, while Daniel’s official birthday is April 18th, he was actually born on April 17th right before midnight. April 18, 1976 was Easter Sunday and since it was very close to midnight, our parents’ request to have his birth date recorded as being on the 18th instead of the 17th was accepted and he was also given the middle name of Pasquale.