50 Concerts in 50 states for Epilepsy awareness

Sound Investment will play at the Party Place and Event Center in Saluda, Saturday, March 23. Partnering with the largest non-profits in the world of epilepsy, Candlelight Concerts for Epilepsy Awareness is proud to announce the first nation-wide epilepsy awareness endeavor – 50 Concerts in 50 States. It’s a network of coordinated live events over one weekend in March 2013.

Candlelight Concerts, along with Epilepsy Foundation (www.EFA.org), CURE: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (www.CureEpilepsy.org), Team Epilepsy (www.TeamEpilepsy.com) and Doose Syndrome Epilepsy Alliance (ww.DooseSyndrome.org), are standing united to raise epilepsy awareness on this single weekend of March 22-24.

At each event, volunteers will be present to distribute information regarding epilepsy and answer questions.

Events will vary in size from intimate house concerts with 20-40 attendees to 18,000-plus seat arena shows with nationally known touring artists. Artists from all genres – classic rock, folk, jazz, singer/songwriters, orchestras, electronic, comedians, plays and more – will all perform with the same objective, to distribute information and raise epilepsy awareness.

All volunteers get involved with the singular purpose to change the way the world sees and understands epilepsy.

This national network of events grows out of Candlelight Concerts for Epilepsy Awareness – a webcast house concert series based in Pennington, N.J. Started and run by Eric Miller, whose wife Carolina, passed away in August 2011 at the age of 25 as a result of epilepsy.

Since that time, Miller has worked tirelessly to raise epilepsy awareness in her honor and in honor of all those living with or lost to epilepsy.

For more information, visit www.CandlelightConcert.org/50.asp or www.Facebook.com/CandlelightConcert.

Quick facts about Epilepsy

• 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime.

• 1 in 10 people will experience a seizure

• About 50,000 people a year die in the US from epilepsy related causes – prolonged seizures, accidents, SUDEP

• 3 million in the US, including 300,000 under the age of 14, live with epilepsy.

• More people live with epilepsy than autism, Parkinson’s disease, Cerebral Palsy and Muscular Dystrophy combined. There is no cure for epilepsy.

– article submitted by Jackie Ewendt