Programs:

“Hot Topic Foundation School of Rock” programSchool of Rock

provides a Board Certified Music Therapist, donated instruments, and/or digital recording studio
equipment to Children’s Oncology Group treatment centers. This program currently operates in
many of the country’s top hospitals, including:

  • The Eugenia Litta Children’s Hospital at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  • Mattel Children’s Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • University of California San Francisco Children’s Hospital at UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
  • North Carolina Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Tomorrows Children’s Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders, The Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital, Hackensack, NJ
  • Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
  • Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Duke Children’s Hospital, Durham, NC
  • Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Egelston and Children’s Scottish Rite hospitals
  • Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

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By Eleanor Bothwell (Age 9, cancer patient at North Carolina Children's Hospital)

Beyonce"Stars Night Out"

 

is a program that provides young cancer patients the chance of a lifetime. They get to meet some of today’s top music artists while enjoying personal photographs, autographs.

and special concert seating.  Artists lending support to young cancer patients through
RAC’s “Stars Night Out” program include:

  • Bon Jovi
  • Beyoncé
  • Gwen Stefani and No Doubt
  • Rob Thomas and Matchbox Twenty
  • Edwin McCain
  • Barenaked Ladies
  • Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Mary J. Blige
  • Goo Goo DollsBaeonce
  • Nelly Furtado
  • Sister Hazel
  • Avril Lavigne
  • Black Eyed Peas
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Dave Matthews Band
More Stars Night Out events are planned for 2009.

"Gifts from the Heart"

Serves children unable to leave the hospital. This program brings the gift of music to their bedsides, with help from major recording labels.  Children receive a gift bag containing CDs, concert DVDs, t-shirts, temporary tattoos, gold ribbon pins, glow sticks and more. RAC deeply appreciates the generous support of the following record labels and artists:

  • Universal Records
  • A & M Records
  • Interscope Records
  • Geffen
  • Rounder Records
  • Reprise Records
  • Gavin DeGraw
  • Jack Johnson
  • JoJo
  • Sister Hazel
  • The Darcie Miner Band
  • John Taglieri
  • 3 Doors Down
  • Matchbox Twenty
  • Allison Krauss
  • Godsmack