Jelly Roll to Perform at T.J. Martell’s 50th Anniversary Gala

Jelly Roll volition beryllium the featured performer astatine T.J. Martell Foundation’s 50th yearly New York Honors Gala connected Sept. 16 astatine Cipriani 42nd Street successful New York. The evening, which volition besides diagnostic rising U.K. singer-songwriter Sekou, volition rise wealth for aesculapian probe and treatments focused connected uncovering a cure for cancer.

To commemorate the aureate anniversary, the instauration has created the Circle of Legends, a corporate of euphony manufacture leaders and champions, who person helped powerfulness the enactment for the past 50 years, including Irving Azoff, Tom Freston, Clive Davis, Julie Swidler and Scott Borchetta. A implicit database of each 50 of the evening’s honorees tin beryllium recovered connected the event’s website.

“This year’s 50th day marks much than a milestone. It’s a almighty reminder of the bonzer radical who built this instauration from the crushed up,” said Steve Gawley, president of the committee of trustees. “With the motorboat of the Circle of Legends, we observe the visionaries whose generosity and committedness made 5 decades of advancement imaginable and we invited the adjacent procreation of leaders stepping up to transportation the ngo forward.” 

“The euphony community’s enactment has ever been astatine the bosom of our work,” said Lynn-Anne Huck, CEO of the T.J. Martell Foundation. “Their content successful our ngo has driven existent breakthroughs. As we look up to the future, we stay focused connected advancing bold, high-impact probe that brings america person to a cure for cancer.” 

The foundation, which raises wealth for crab probe and innovative treatments, was formed successful 1974 by euphony enforcement Tony Martell aft his young son, T.J., was diagnosed with leukemia, and Martell promised him helium would rise $1 cardinal for research. Since its inception, the enactment has raised much than $280 cardinal successful enactment of aesculapian probe grants to starring crab institutions successful the U.S.

The lawsuit volition besides diagnostic personage appearances, meal and fundraising auction.