LOCAL SINGING SENSATIONS TO PERFORM BENEFIT CONCERT FOR CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA
07/19/2010
ENTERPRISE (July 19, 2010) - The Grace Place Church (5730 Shell Field Road, Enterprise 36330) will host a benefit concert for the Children's Hospital of Alabama featuring local talent on Saturday, Aug. 14 at 6 p.m. Admission is free but donations for the hospital will be accepted.
Performers will include local singer/songwriter Chad Boswell, music and voice teacher Teresa Young, The Grace Place Worship Band and 10-year-old Joseph Rushing. Rushing is a former patient who received surgery and chemotherapy at Children's Hospital for cancer diagnosed when he was only three weeks old. Thanks to the care he received, he is now in remission and living the life of a typical fifth-grader who enjoys baseball, singing and playing the drums.
The Children's Hospital of Alabama is the 10th busiest pediatric medical center in the United States. Ninety-five percent of the children in Alabama diagnosed with childhood cancer and other blood disorders are treated by the UAB Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Children's Hospital, the single largest provider of specialized pediatric services for all forms of cancer, leukemia, brain and spinal cord tumors, hemophilia and other bleeding disorders and sickle cell diseases. Children's is also home to the Lowder Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, the only pediatric bone marrow transplant program in the state. For more information, visit www.chsys.org.
