Music to Cure MS: The 7th Annual Accelerated Cure Project Benefit Concert

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opera, songs, chamber music
to support the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis

Sunday, October 4, 2009, 3-5 pm
Park Avenue Congregational Church
50 Paul Revere Rd, Arlington, MA

Tickets:
$20 in advance | $25 at the door
Students and elders: $10
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Marion's
Music to Cure MS donations page

The 2009 concert is over, but you can still donate to Accelerated Cure Project through FirstGiving.com

- and then download music from the concert, donated by our generous artists.

Please do not download music without donating to the Accelerated Cure Project, for which this fundraiser was created!

Another way to support the Accelerated Cure Project:

About the concert

Sing to Cure MS has become Music to Cure MS, to celebrate all our musicians: voice, violin, flute, piano... Read about past concerts

This year's program

Want more music to cure MS?
The MIT/Wellesley Toons present their
4th annual Multiple Sclerosis Benefit Concert
November 7, 2009

Why these concerts are happening | What can I do to help? | What are these concerts like?

Why these concerts are happening

Recent research on Multiple Sclerosis has been enthusiastic, active, and somewhat random.

Art Mellor is an Arlington, MA resident whose response to receiving a diagnosis of MS has been to build an organized framework for this research, with the goal of curing MS by determining its cause.

The remarkable organization he founded in 2001 has grown into a national non-profit with a name to match its goal: Accelerated Cure Project, which aims to accelerate the process of MS research in two ways:

With a large-scale, multidisciplinary Repository of blood samples and data from people with MS and matched controls.
- Learn about the MS Repository.
- Read about the 20 projects already supported by the Repository!
With a Cure Map to establish and document what is and isn't known about the causes of MS.
- Learn about the Cure Map.

Who is organizing these concerts, and why does this subject matter so much to me? I'm Marion Leeds Carroll, a former opera singer and stage director. I was diagnosed with MS in 1988, and am now using a cane full-time. But I can recognize and support a good idea when I see it. And I can still organize a concert - and, if my health permits, sing a song on the program.

What can I do to help?

Attend the concert (visit the Buy Tickets page)
Perform in the concert (visit the Mailing Lists page)
Work off-stage to make the concert happen (visit the Get active! page)
Sponsor the concert (visit the Support us page)
Publicize the concert (visit the Get active! page)
Advertise or run an ad exchange in the program (visit the ads page)
Help us raise more funds for the Accelerated Cure Project (visit About the Accelerated Cure Project)

What are these concerts like?

Past concerts have featured arias, art songs, and classical vocal ensembles, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan scenes, a children's chorus, and other instrumentalists.

This year, as we change our name from Sing to Cure MS to Music to Cure MS, we expect to enjoy more instrumental and vocal chamber music.

Read about past concerts.