BON JOVI To Launch Cancer Benefit Concert Series
February 6, 2008, 16 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Mitchell Peters from Billboard.biz:
BON JOVI, JERRY SEINFELD, BRIAN WILSON and ANDREA BOCELLI, among others, will perform in various New York City venues throughout 2008 as part of the inaugural Stand Up For A Cure concert series, designed to raise funds and awareness for lung cancer research at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
In the week leading up to the U.S. leg of its Lost Highway world tour, Bon Jovi will launch the series with a sold-out concert on Feb. 12 at the 3,500-capacity Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. The intimate show will be dedicated to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora's father, Adam Sambora, who received care at Memorial Sloan-Kettering before passing last year from cancer.
"Cancer is relentless; you can't stop it," Sambora tells Billboard.biz. "Hopefully this money will help find answers."The upcoming benefit concert -- which is being sponsored by CityView Racquet Club, with AEG Live donating its time to handle production -- has already raised $1 million, according to Sambora, who will open the show with a 30-minute solo set. The money, he adds, will fund two mobile hospice units for low-income neighborhoods in New York. The units will be named after Sambora's father.
Tickets for the Bon Jovi benefit concert were priced between $275 and $1,500.
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