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Filling a void
Cancer Sucks! concert is a different kind of charity event
Hard rock act Rev Theory headlines this year's Cancer Sucks concert, Saturday at Cain's Ballroom. Courtesy
By KAREN SHADE World Scene Writer
Published: 11/22/2009 2:21 AM
Last Modified: 11/22/2009 11:42 AM
For the last four years Cancer Sucks has put on a big show the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
"What's a good weekend that there's not a lot going on that everybody's looking for something to do," organization founder Rick Horton and the Cancer Sucks team asked themselves.
Now, everyone expects a great line-up of local music, auctions and fun all in the name of finding a cure for cancer.
Saturday's Cancer Sucks concert will be the fifth year for the event. This year's headliner is national act Rev Theory (short for Revolution Theory), a band with respectable performance on the Billboard rock, hard and alternative album charts with its 2008 release "Light it Up."
Having the New York based-band "is pretty cool for us because we haven't had anybody that big for our show before."
Horton is also excited by the local line-up of music, which includes Sweatin' Bullets, Pedal Point, Chuk Cooley and the Demon Hammer, Drive-by Sonata, Brandon Davis (My Solstice), Another Alibi and the William Joseph Band (performing acoustic).
There will be no black-ties (unless someone wants to wear one). Instead, Cancer Sucks takes an informal approach to fundraising that is more accessible to people, Horton said.
"I think we fill a void in the charity world that allows people to be charitable and be part of a charitable cause without it being a formal occasion for them," he said. "You can show up in your shorts and your flip flops, and hang out and raise money for cancer research and not worry about, 'What am I wearing," It's an informal approach to fundraising."
Horton founded Cancer Sucks in 1998 following the loss of his mother, Donna Holland White, who died of brain cancer.
Last year, Cancer Sucks donated more than $50,000 to cancer research to the Gateway for Cancer Research, a nonprofit charitable organization based in Schaumburg, Ill., which supports cancer research in clinical studies in the hopes that a cure will be discovered.
Like last year, this year's donation made from the concert will be made in memory of the late Jan Dean, the well-known Tulsa radio personality who died of cancer in 2007.
Cancer Sucks invites participants to enjoy the night while helping support an important cause. During the concert event, participants will have the chance to win auction items such as floor seats to the KISS Dec. 8 concert at the BOK Center and autographed music memorabilia.
"Everyone wants to help someone," Horton said. "It's human nature, but not everyone wants to go to a black-tie event. Not everyone wants to go to a bake sale We have events that are fun."
CANCER SUCKS!
When: Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday
Where: Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N.
Main St.
Tickets: $10 plus fees, available
at tulsaworld.com/cains and (866)
977-6849.
Karen Shade 581-8334
karen.shade@tulsaworld.com
By KAREN SHADE World Scene Writer
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