Sammy Hagar and James Hetfield are set for the second annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure concert benefiting the Pediatric Cancer Program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. Joining Hetfield and Hagar on Friday, May 15th at The Masonic in San Francisco are special guests (in alphabetical order): Jerry Cantrell, Pat Monahan, Linda Perry, Joe Satriani, Chad Smith and more. Each legendary artist will be performing acoustic sets - with once-in-a-lifetime musical moments, duets, jams and surprise guests planned.

Hagar reflected on last year’s show with marinij.com Entertainment, and said the following in regards to this year’s special guest: “I can’t tell you who it is,” Hagar says, “He wants to be a surprise. “I guarantee it’s really going to be cool. Everybody really wants to work together because of what happened last year — so now everybody (is calling for) ‘more duets’.”

“I don’t know what James and Jerry are planning,” he says. “And I don’t want to know. Part of the love of the show for me is having (expletive) happen that I go, ‘Wow. That was really cool!’”

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All proceeds from the concert will be donated to fund children's brain tumor research at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, one of the nation's leading children's medical facilities.

Acoustic-4-A-Cure was created by Bay Area rock legends Sammy Hagar and James Hetfield, whose vision was to raise needed funds and awareness for the Pediatric Cancer Program at UCSF by bringing together some of their legendary friends and throwing a must-see concert for fans. Highlights from their inaugural sold-out concert last year included Hetfield's acoustic rendition of The Beatles "In My Life", Billie Joe Armstrong, Hetfield and guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani bringing the house down with a medley of Bob Seger's "Turn The Page" and "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams", and the Hagar promised, "only-in-San Francisco moment" when Hetfield, Armstrong, Satriani, Pat Monahan and Nancy Wilson joined him on stage for an all-star jam of Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" to close the show.