UCPAC to Host Benefit Concert, 9/13

Love Hope Strength (LHS), the world's leading rock 'n' roll cancer foundation, announced today 'Rahway Rocks,' an acoustic fundraising concert to be held on Sunday, September 13, 2015, at the Union County Performing Arts Center's Hamilton Stage with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. The event will be hosted by comedian and Saturday Night Live alumnus Jim Breuer and is headlined by Mike Peters, Welsh rocker and frontman of The Alarm, Robin Wilson, lead singer of the Gin Blossoms, and Pat Dinizio, lead singer of New Jersey's own, The Smithereens. Other surprise guest artists will be announced soon and proceeds will benefit LHS and their partners Delete Blood Cancer.

Mike Peters, LHS co-founder and a two-time cancer survivor, will lead the event while still battling cancer himself. His work, along with the efforts of a long roster of musicians, staff, and volunteers, connects potential bone marrow donors with cancer patients in need. Over the past eight years, at more than 2,000 LHS events, more than 100,000 people have been inspired to get their cheek swabbed, resulting in 1,848 potentially lifesaving bone marrow transplant matches to date. "I would like to encourage anyone who cares for the life of others to join me and my family, our fans, friends and LHS and Delete Blood Cancer supporters to come together at Rahway and support our mission of saving lives, one concert at a time," Peters said.

LHS, a Denver-based cancer organization, is known for helping people "Get on the List" at hundreds of concerts and festivals across the country each year in partnership with their Manhattan-based friends at Delete Blood Cancer. LHS also has a history of hosting music-fueled charity hikes on the slopes of Mount Everest, atop Mount Kilimanjaro and Machu-Picchu, Peru, the Empire State Building, Pike's Peak and many more, and is proud to add the Union County Performing Arts Center to its long list of 'Rocks' events across the country and around the world.

Tickets are $75 and can be purchased via a link, along with more information, at http://lovehopestrength.org/rahway-rocks-913-after-rock-the-skyline/ or through UCPAC http://www.ucpac.org/hamilton-stage-events. Rahway Rocks is in tandem with the Rock the Skyline charity walk being held earlier in the day along the Jersey City shoreline, beginning at 10 a.m.

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