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This Weekend!
6th Annual
Rock The Cure Concert
Weekend
May 2nd,
3rd and 4th, 2008
To
quote the all-time great film The Blues Brothers, "We're
getting the band back together!"
Come help us celebrate the 6th Annual Rock The Cure with the
long awaited reunion of
Tim
Sigler's Lucky Town Band and
special guests the
Street Team from the School of Rock.
It's an all-weekend event this year, so save the dates on your
calendar!
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Our great new 2008 logo - it's featured on our 2008
merchandise!
Check out our
merchandise
page!
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Friday,
May 2nd
A candlelit, intimate acoustic night, celebrating survivors and
women going through treatment for breast cancer. Welcome to the
Rock The Cure line-up to
Trick 27,
an acoustic duo with 200+ songs on their request list! O'Gara's
Shamrock Room, 8pm to 11pm. No cover charge, just a $20 donation
to request a song, or $40 to get up and sing with Todd and
Rick.
Saturday, May 3rd Full-blown concert event, featuring
Tim Sigler's Lucky Town Band.
For the Lucky Town faithful and Springsteen fans, there'll be
one full set of your favorite Bruce hits, the way the band
hasn't played them in over a year. Later, Tim will mix it up
with classic rock and country hits to keep you dancing all night
long. Opening for Lucky Town, and back by popular demand, is
the
Street Team from the St Paul School of Rock.
They blew the crowd away last year, with a fantastic set of 80's
and 90's rock covers, and are coming back to fill the dance
floor and warm up the crowd. Along with a night of great music,
there will be a live auction, silent auction, all new merchandise to buy, a
drawing for two plane tickets, and more!
Set
times:
School of Rock:
8:00 - 9:00
Luckytown:
9:30 - 10:30
Tim Sigler Band:
11:30
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Live Auction
Back by popular demand, you can buy Tim Sigler! Get your
friends together, then join Tim at Macaluso's Road House
in St Paul for one of his Thurs night acoustic shows. Your
VIP party will make up the set list; Tim's like a human juke
box, and will play your requests all night long!
Silent
Auction
Back by popular demand silent auction items include guitars
autographed by Bon Jovi and Bret Michaels, plus a drawing to
win 2 round-trip plane tickets. Must be present to win!
Sunday,
May 4th
Rock The Cure is partnering with the MN Thunder soccer team, to
raise awareness and money at their home games during their 2008
season. May 4th is their home opener, and
Tim Mahoney
will sing the national anthem, brought to you by Rock The Cure.
Look for additional Rock The Cure/MN Thunder events to be
announced soon!
Merchandise A limited number of 2008 event shirts will be available
again this year, featuring an all new, fantastically cool Rock
The Cure logo. For $100, you have the opportunity to buy a name
for the back of the shirt, celebrating a woman who has bravely
beaten breast cancer, honoring someone who fought the fight till
the end, or representing a business who wants to contribute to
the cause. To send in your $100 name donation in the "In Honor
Of," "In Memory Of" or "Thanks To" categories, please contact me
at
angie@rockthecure.org.
Sponsors
As always, we want to thank our sponsors. Because of them, we
are able to donate 100% of proceeds from ticket and merchandise
sales: Rolling Rock, Willie's American Guitars, Bailey
Nurseries, CW Twin Cities, Warner Stellian, Piper Breast Center, United Hospital
Breast Center, Central Pediatrics, School of Rock, St Paul
Corner Drug, MN Thunder, Rebel Ink, Stoyles Printing, and
Winthrop & Weinstine.
Join
us!
Everyone who walks in the door during our Rock The Cure weekend
at O'Gara's makes a difference in the fight against breast
cancer. Band together with us, and pass this e-mail on to as
many people as possible. Your support is so valuable, and we
appreciate you all!
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Tim Sigler and Rock The Cure President Angie Palomo
harmonizing at our 2007 Acoustic Night. |
Now available: GB
Leighton/Rock The Cure 2008 Color Calendar!
Email Angie at
info@rockthecure.org
to order your
LIMITED EDITION
calendar before they sell out completely! Thanks to Brian and the
band, Steve Wewerka Photo, Willie's Guitars, Rolling Rock and
Bianchi-Rossi Tours for making this possible.

Rock The Cure donates
$16,000 in 2007
On Sunday, May 13th, Rock The Cure presented a check for
$16,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Twin Cities
Race for the Cure at the Mall of America.
More information
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