Region’s top rock bands reunite for benefit show

Staff report

Warren

The third annual Breast Cancer Benefit Reunion Concert will be 7 p.m. Sept. 4 at Packard Music Hall.

Also, the BBQ Blues Jam Benefit will be 1-9 p.m. Saturday at Up A Creek tavern in Howland, where it has been staged the past two years.

The benefit, hosted and organized by Tommy McCoy, has raised approximately $10,000 in donations for the Trumbull Memorial Hospital Foundation oncology fund over the past two years. This year’s events — expanded to two days — will again include a reunion of many local music stars.

The admission price will remain the same: $10 at the door for either Saturday or Sunday. A $15 donation will cover both venues; it can be paid at the door at Up A Creek or in advance at the Packard Music Hall box office.

Mark Matash, owner of Up A Creek, will once again donate barbecue and provide an outdoor venue to host all the live music for the BBQ Blues Jam

The Sept. 4 concert at Packard Music Hall will be in a concert-club format, and will include a large dance floor, table seating and concessions offering food and alcoholic beverages (balcony seating will be available if needed).

Some of the finest musicians to come out of the region will perform. The roster is still growing, but so far the lineup will include former members of The Shaddows, M.F. Rattlesnake, Poppy, Mom’s Apple Pie, L.A.W., Holes in the Road, Country Honks, Attica Wahoos, Poobah, Blue Ash, Sideshow, Merry Christmas, and The Rapscallions (The Quick) featuring Mariano Longo and Tommy McCoy, complete with horn and string sections.