press release

Music festival for the benefit of breast cancer research in Tarrytown, NY


Supporting the current Breast Cancer Campaign, the organizers of the Baltimore festival arrange a festival called "Pink Party" in New York on the second weekend of november - with all its proceeds going to research on breast cancer and its therapies. 

Normally organizing the annual Baltimore festival, Mark Ryson and Christopher Bladen decided to line up a second festival this year. "When we heard about the big breast cancer campaign going to public in 2011, we both knew that we wanted to take part in it", says Bladen, whose mother herself died as a consequence of breast cancer five years ago. And they do: From november 11 to 13 Kingsland Point Park in Tarrytown, NY will host the charity festival "Pink Party". The two men from Baltimore, Maryland are looking forward to a great festival with a wide spread type of artist: "As we wanted to address as many people as possible, we decided to split up the event into three different days: On friday there will be a lot of pop gigs, while on saturday the focus is set on techno music and on sunday a lot of rock bands will perform on the two stages." Ryson explains. "We regarded it as kind of symbolism - as breast cancer concerns everybody, we wanted to create a festival that appeals to everybody." Bladen adds.
During the festival, there will be a cross-section of several different breast cancer organizations present, to inform about the early diagnosis, the risks and the therapies of breast cancer. Furthermore representatives of the "Breast Cancer Campaign"will build up a little store with the products that  recently support their work, like we already see them in the supermarkets and shops of our cities.
"Sooner or later everybody gets curious about the things we sell and our stalls which are more than just a table with leaflets on it. There are people talking about their experiences with breast cancer, how it was diagnosed and medicated. And they want to give hope to new breast cancer patients, so that that one day they'll be able to live a normal life with regarding their illness as part of it." says Alicia Hallson, initiator of the "Breast Cancer Campaign", explaining her motivations and goals for the festival.

So if you also want to support this charity festival, which is at the same time an accomplishment and many glorious and famous actors, you should come to:
Kingsland Point Park, Tarrytown, New York
on November 11-13
always between 10 AM 11 PM

tickets are available on www.ticketmaster.com for 35 $ and up.