The MS Bridge will host a benefit concert, Musical Moments, on Friday, Oct. 21, at 6:00 pm at the Gaillardia Golf and Country Club. The event includes dinner and a special performance by jazz pianist and Steinway Artist Joe Augustine.
Other performers for the evening are local physicians and pianists Gilbert Haas, M.D., and J. Spencer Thompson, M.D., as well as the Canterbury Choral Society Octet.
The event will benefit The MS Bridge, an Oklahoma based nonprofit organization that provides assistance to Oklahomans with multiple sclerosis. MS Bridge also supports research at OMRF’s Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence. The center, which opened in March, provides comprehensive care for MS patients and conducts research on the disease.
“For some MS patients, medications alone can cost upward of $1,000 every month,” said Kelly Brown, MS Bridge director. “MS affects every day of a person’s life. This event helps us extend a helping hand to those who need help paying for wheelchairs, physical therapy, medical tests, therapy dogs and home modifications. What we do really changes lives.”
A special tax incentive will be provided for all piano sales at three local music stores from Monday, Oct. 17, through Monday, Oct. 24. Store locations include: Edmond Music, 33rd & Broadway, Edmond (348-0004); Gilliam Music, 24th & Main, Norman (321-0080); and Larsen Music, 63rd & Northwest Expressway, Oklahoma City (843-1573).
A group of specially selected pianos will be on display on the first floor of OMRF’s new research tower, 825 N.E. 15th Street, which also houses the MS Center of Excellence. The piano sale at OMRF will be open to the public on Oct. 20 and 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
“This is a unique opportunity for people to get involved in learning more about multiple sclerosis, about research and about ways they can help,” said Brown. “Every gift to the MS Bridge goes 100 percent to help Oklahomans with MS or to OMRF for research.”
Sponsors for the event are Asbury Medical Supply, Bank of Oklahoma, LaDonna and Herman Meinders, Lou Ann and Jim Morris, OMRF and J. Spencer Thompson, M.D.
Tickets are $150 per person, and donations are welcome. For more information, contact Kelly Brown at 405-229-2151.
