Bon Jovi kicking off concerts series
NEW YORK (AP) -February 12, 2008 The group was dedicating the kickoff concert at the Hammerstein
Ballroom in Manhattan on Tuesday night to the guitarist's father,
Adam Sambora. It came days before the opening of the band's "Lost
Highway World Tour."
Funds raised during the yearlong concert series will go to the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where Sambora's father
received treatment.
The series, organized by Stand Up for a Cure, also will feature
performances by Jerry Seinfeld, Andrea Bocelli and other artists.
Future concert dates have not yet been announced.
The non-profit group also has commissioned three mobile care
centers in the New York area, which will be named after the
rocker's parents, Adam and Joan Sambora.
According to the National Cancer Institute, lung cancer is the
leading cause of cancer-related death among both men and women in
the U.S., and will kill more people this year than breast, prostate
and colorectal cancer combined.
