This year’s Seacoast Concert for a Cure, an annual music festival that raises funds for breast cancer survivor support, will feature a unique lineup of national musicians with local roots. The event will be held August 5, 2010 at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH.

This year’s Concert for a Cure features the internationally-acclaimed band The Adam Ezra Group, plus reggae stars Mighty Mystic and the Strings of Thunder.

"There’s nothing like dancing the night away while overlooking a sunset on the ocean," said concert co-founder Katie Delahaye Paine. "All while helping raise funds for organizations that help cancer survivors."

Since the event began in 2005, Seacoast Concerts for a Cure have raised more than $80,000 to help dozens of people by supporting local non-profit organizations who provide much needed and valued support to breast cancer patients and their family members.

Past events have provided funding for: mammograms to those who can’t afford them; support weekends for survivors and children of those affected by cancer; the creation of the web site BreastCancerStories.org, where women can share their stories and get support on line; as well as Dana Farber’s Survivorship Program – a program that helps more and more people survive cancer every year.

Last year’s concert raised over $15,000 for local breast cancer support programs. This year’s money raised by the event will help the following organizations:

Betty J. Borry Breast Cancer Retreats which provide adventure retreat weekends for women living after breast cancer.

On Belay, a local non-profit that supports children of those suffering from cancer or other life-threatening diseases. The organization was started by concert founder and New Hampshire Volunteer of the Year, Crescentia Healy True, who sadly lost her battle with breast cancer in 2006.

BreastCancerStories.com, an online community where people touched by breast cancer can share their experiences with loved ones and with one another.

This year, attendees will also have a chance to bid on and win raffle and silent auction items including two tickets to The Colbert Report, a cruise on Lake Winnipesauke as well as several getaway vacation packages and two tickets to anywhere Southwest Airlines flies.

Once again, Seacoast Science Center will host the event, continuing its Thursday night series for an extra week. Other sponsors of this year’s event include: Appledore Engineering, Wentworth Marina, many other local businesses that are donating their time and services.

Tickets are available on the concert web site and from Bull Moose Records. Further details about the musicians, the recipient charities and the organizing team are also available on the WEB SITE.