Cancer Can’t Kill Love Benefit Concert raises over $10,000 for cancer research
The spirit was alive and so was the memory of Joanne and John “Butch” McGoldrick as hundreds of people turned out to raise a glass (and some money) for cancer research at the Third Annual Cancer Can’t Kill Love Benefit Concert on Saturday, August 29.
With all of this year’s proceeds going to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Home Reporter’s own Meaghan McGoldrick—whose mother, Joanne, lost a brief battle with Leukemia in 2013 and whose father, Butch, succumbed to Mesothelioma in 2008—was ecstatic with the turnout and the close to $13,000 raised for cancer research this year.
“It’s all very overwhelming and surreal,” said McGoldrick, who, with her two previous benefit concerts, raised close to $8,000 for cancer research. “The whole thing is definitely bittersweet but to see so many people from all walks of life come and honor not only the memory of my parents, but everybody that they know personally, that has been affected by cancer is incredible.