Brookline HS Students Sing for Lung Cancer Awareness

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From a recent press release:

On March 22 at 2 p.m., talented vocal and instrumental student musicians will join forces to participate in Upstage Lung Cancer’s (ULC) Sing Out! Youth Music Festival, to benefit youth lung cancer awareness, research and treatments.

Featured performers include Sociedad Latina Youth Leaders of Boston, Sound Chasers Rock Ensemble from Winchester Music School, and Brookline High School’s a cappella groups, including Note-a-Fy, Testostertones and Perfect Pitch. Special guest for the afternoon’s festivities at Brookline High School’s Auditorium is renowned jazz group, The Follen Angels.

Deborah Morosini, MD, sister of the late Dana Reeve and sister-in-law of the late Christopher Reeve, will serve as guest speaker and performer and WBZ radio personality Jordan Rich will host the event. Funds raised by this year’s concert benefits the Genomics of Young Lung Study, an international study of young lung cancer patients ages 18-39, a group never before studied.

Tickets and information can be found here.

“As a singer, psychologist and lung cancer survivor myself, I know first-hand the importance of early detection and treatment,” says Hildy Grossman, President, Founder and Artistic Director of ULC, who will also perform at the event with her jazz group, the Follen Angels. “We want to change the public’s perception about lung cancer. It can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or smoking history. There is a growing number of young people developing this disease, and it is powerful for young people to have a voice to help raise awareness and funds to help lung cancer become a survivable illness.”

These young musicians perform songs from pop, jazz, American Songbook, Latin and rock ‘n’ roll repertoire to spread the word that anyone can get lung cancer. Currently, more lives are lost to lung cancer than breast, ovarian, uterine and colon cancer combined. ULC partners with California-based Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (ALCF) to join hands across America, promoting research and treatment for young adults with lung cancer.