Cancer survivor James Chippendale, co-founder of Love Hope Strength Foundation and President of Dallas-based CSI Entertainment Insurance, spent his Saturday afternoon with Kevin Bacon on Pike’s Peak climbing 14,110 feet above sea level.
At the same time, LHSF co-founder Mike Peters of the Welsh band The Alarm led a fundraising walk to the summit of Darren Y Bwllfa from Dare Valley Country Park in Wales. Two concerts. Two continents.
Around 100 cancer survivors, supporters, and musicians including The Bacon Brothers (lead by Kevin Bacon and veteran musician and brother Michael Bacon), Cy Curnin of The Fixx, and The White Buffalo joined together on Saturday, June 27, for the first concert ever performed on top of Pikes Peak, America's most visited mountain. The hikers made the event a tribute to Farrah Fawcett, who died Thursday after battling anal cancer. At the mountaintop, the musicians performed live followed by a concert Saturday night at Hard Rock Café in Denver. Put together by the Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international foundation that uses music to make a difference in global cancer care, the proceeds will benefit global cancer care and a nationwide bone marrow registration campaign to locate matches for patients with Leukemia and other blood disorders.
Meanwhile, 4,594 miles away, legendary Welsh singer and leukemia survivor Mike Peters of The Alarm was joined by an entourage of fans, cancer survivors and fellow musicians climbing to the highest point of Darren Y Bwlffa, Rhondda, a former coal mining valley in Wales. Also on the walk was ex-Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable, The Automatic and Swansea five-piece Viva Machine. Proceeds from the Rhondda Rocks event went directly to the Tenovus Mobile Cancer Treatment Unit.