British musicians climb Kilimanjaro for Love Hope Strength September 27th – October 9th. British musicians Glenn Tilbrook, Mike Peters and Nick Harper will, this Sunday, start a journey that will see them climb Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain.The trek is the latest in a series of “Rocks” events, organised by the Love Hope Strength Foundation, that combine music, travelling and trekking to raise money and provide resources of those affected...  Read More »

The Love Hope Strength Foundation is at it again – bringing musicians to really neat location around the world with the goal of raising funds, support and awareness to fight cancer. This time around, members of The Fixx, the Gin Blossoms, Squeeze and The Stray Cats, along with Nick Harper and founding member Mike Peters of The Alarm, are climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in East Africa.

Harper and Peters will be joined by The Fixx’s Cy Cumin, The Stray...  Read More »

Sep 25, 2009

Story by: Michael Tedder

Members of the Fixx, the Gin Blossoms, Squeeze and the Stray Cats will participate in Kilimanjaro Rocks, a 12-day concert/fundraiser/journey to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in East Africa. The event, which will take place from September 27 through October 9, was organized by the Love Hope Strength Foundation, co-founded by Mike Peters of the Alarm to raise awareness and funds for cancer care in East Africa.

Fans...  Read More »

(PR) The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international rock n’ roll cancer foundation, today announced details for “Kilimanjaro Rocks”, a 12-day musical journey to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in East Africa taking place September 27th through October 9th.

Rock n’ Roll legends from The Fixx, The Gin Blossoms, Squeeze and The Stray Cats, will join Nick Harper, and LHS co-founders Mike Peters of The Alarm along with survivors...  Read More »

(PR) The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international rock n’ roll cancer foundation, today announced details for “Kilimanjaro Rocks”, a 12-day musical journey to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in East Africa taking place September 27th through October 9th.

Rock n’ Roll legends from The Fixx, The Gin Blossoms, Squeeze and The Stray Cats, will join Nick Harper, and LHS co-founders Mike Peters of The Alarm along with survivors...  Read More »

(PR) The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international rock n’ roll cancer foundation, today announced details for “Kilimanjaro Rocks”, a 12-day musical journey to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in East Africa taking place September 27th through October 9th.

Rock n’ Roll legends from The Fixx, The Gin Blossoms, Squeeze and The Stray Cats, will join Nick Harper, and LHS co-founders Mike Peters of The Alarm along with survivors...  Read More »

Sep 25, 2009

Story by: Michael Tedder

Members of the Fixx, the Gin Blossoms, Squeeze and the Stray Cats will participate in Kilimanjaro Rocks, a 12-day concert/fundraiser/journey to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in East Africa. The event, which will take place from September 27 through October 9, was organized by the Love Hope Strength Foundation, co-founded by Mike Peters of the Alarm to raise awareness and funds for cancer care in East Africa.

Fans...  Read More »

The Love Hope Strength Foundation is at it again – bringing musicians to really neat location around the world with the goal of raising funds, support and awareness to fight cancer. This time around, members of The Fixx, the Gin Blossoms, Squeeze and The Stray Cats, along with Nick Harper and founding member Mike Peters of The Alarm, are climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in East Africa.

Harper and Peters will be joined by The Fixx’s Cy Cumin, The Stray...  Read More »

New York -The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), a Denver-based international charity dedicated to fighting cancer through the power of music, rocked the East Coast with two fundraising pilgrimages and concerts in Clark, NJ and Philadelphia, PA. The events brought together thousand of cancer survivors and supporters dedicated to making a difference in cancer care both locally and around the globe.

Hundreds banded together with the mission to fight...  Read More »

By Tara Hall / LiveDaily Contributor-Squeeze co-frontman Glen Tilbrook will embark on a late-summer and fall solo tour of the US behind his recently released album, “Pandemonium Ensues.”The British singer/songwriter will begin the journey with a Sept. 10 show in Philadelphia to benefit the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a charity that supports cancer centers. The 18-city trek, which includes two dates (Oct. 12-13) with Tilbrook’s full band...  Read More »

Flyers Ray Emery and Jeff Carter took in the Philly Rocks event the other night at the Field House (12th & Filbert) to benefit the Love Hope Strength Foundation. The musical event, to benefit those affected by cancer, featured performances by Robin Wilson, of the Gin Blossoms; Mike Peters, of the Alarm; Cy Curnin, of the Fixx; and Nick Harper and Glenn Tilbrook, of Squeeze. Earlier in the day the musicians performed “Eye of the Tiger” atop...  Read More »

Event moved to Oak Ridge Park in Clark due to expected increase in attendance. By Patrick Sullivan September 11, 2009. Get ready, Union County: the 12th annual Musicfest is set for September 12 and 13 at Oak Ridge Park in Clark. Admission is free, and the event will run from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. both days, rain or shine, with three stages for musical acts and a host of other activities.

Third Eye Blind will anchor the September 12 lineup,...  Read More »

Rhondda Rocks 2009 A summer’s day, sunshine & a sponsored walk, well a sponsored walk with a slight difference! This is a warm up to next Saturday’s Snowdon Rocks 2 trek to the summit of Wales’ highest peak & Wales’ highest gig! Alarm front man Mike Peters is no stranger to walking for charity & no stranger to the effects the disease that he’s raising money for, leukaemia! The Love, Hope, Strength Foundation was set up by Mike &...  Read More »

P4 Music and Love Hope Strength present RHONDDA ROCKS with MIKE PETERS. Welsh rock legend Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, will be performing a very special acoustic charity show at Aberdare Coliseum on Saturday the 27th of June. Rhondda Rocks will be raising money in aid of the Tenovus Mobile Cancer Treatment Unit and the Love Hope Strength Foundation.

 Mike will be joined by some Very Special Guests (to be announced shortly) at the show, which...  Read More »

Jun 29 2009 by Neil Collins, South Wales Echo

LEGENDARY Welsh singer Mike Peters led a fundraising walk to Rhondda’s highest point and performed a rock’n’roll set at its summit.The frontman of 80s punk-rockers The Alarm was joined by an entourage of fans and people affected by cancer as they hiked from Aberdare to Darren Y Bwllfa.

Proceeds from the Rhondda Rocks event went directly to the Tenovus cancer charity innovative Mobile Cancer...  Read More »

(PR) The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international foundation that harnesses the power of music to make a difference in global cancer care, is taking its fight against cancer to the streets of Philadelphia in a symbolic walk that retraces the final steps of Rocky Balboa’s famous fist pumping run. Dubbed “Rocky’s Run”, participants will ascend the “Rocky Stairs” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art while being...  Read More »

(PR) The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international foundation that harnesses the power of music to make a difference in global cancer care, is taking its fight against cancer to the streets of Philadelphia in a symbolic walk that retraces the final steps of Rocky Balboa’s famous fist pumping run. Dubbed “Rocky’s Run”, participants will ascend the “Rocky Stairs” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art while being...  Read More »

A group of musicians that includes Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze, Robin Wilson of the Gin Blossoms, Mike Peters from the the Alarm, Cy Curnin of the Fixx, James Stevenson of Gene Loves Jezebel and Nick Harper, will perform at the Field House (1150 Filbert) at 8 p.m. Sept. 10 to raise money for the Love Hope Strength Foundation, which benefits cancer charities.

The artists, who make up Philly Rocks 2009, will also collect signatures for a “Prayer...  Read More »