I’ll be en route to Austin today for my first Austin City Limits music fest, and I was glad to see that there’s a large international charitable component (beyond Bon Iver being there, of course). While musicians including Robin Wilson (Gin Blossoms, remember?) are hiking to raise funds for cancer research in East Africa as part of the Kilimanjaro Rocks trek, domestically the Love Hope Strength Foundation will be hosting bone marrow registration in Zilker Park for people potentially interested in being donors to the 30K people in need of a marrow match. The cheek swabs usually cost $65 a pop, but the Foundation has partnered with LIVESTRONG to make them free to concert-goers. It coincides with LIVESTRONG Day tomorrow, a commemoration of the 13 years since Lance’s cancer diagonosis. Timely, eh?
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