Ottoman Turks in concert

Last year, Lauren Goin, then a senior at Lake Highlands High School, teamed up with 15 students from various other area high schools to host a one-day music festival called Hope Healing Cancer. Besides providing great exposure for the young bands performing at the festival in the Granada Theater and creating a rousing good time for the hundreds of young people attending, the event raised $106,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and qualified Goin as one of LLS’ Student Visionaries.

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This year’s Hope Healing Cancer festival is being organized by a new team of seniors led by Episcopal School of Dallas’ Evellyn Hargrave, a candidate for LLS Student Visionary of the Year. Her Cure Quest Dallas team includes Lyla Zicarelli (ESD), Matthew Kenyon (LHHS), Lauren Lockhart (Hockaday), Erin Muriungi (ESD), Grayson Gilbert (Jesuit), Grant Bomersbach (Jesuit), Mariam Gillett (ESD), Rachel Schwarz (Aledo), James Gary (Greenhill), Jay Miller (Highland Park High), Emmy Moss (ESD), Ethan Yau (St. Mark’s), Taylor Mackey (Cistercian), Lillian Hagen (Booker T. Washington) and Mya Raskin (J.J. Pearce).

The music festival will be held Feb. 23 at the Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Avenue. Bands will perform from noon to 6 p.m., and doors open at 11 a.m. A silent auction will include tickets to sold out concerts by Kendrick Lamar, SZA, AC/DC, Post Malone and Jelly Roll, along with autographed sports memorabilia by Dirk Nowitzky, Dak Prescott and others. A full bar and concessions will be available. Attendees of all ages are welcome.

Bands books so far include Ottoman Turks, a well-known country blues band, Paige Hill Music, who recently won Best Country Song at the Dallas Entertainment Awards, Isaac Sloane and the Sound Brigade, nominated for Best Blues Group at the Dallas Entertainment Awards, Kick!, a student band from Booker T. Washington and This Saturn Factory, an HP/UP student band. Boone Pyeatt from 95.3 KHYI radio The Range will serve as emcee for the evening.

Tickets may be purchased here and donations may be made here.

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  • Carol Toler

    Blogger CAROL TOLER and her husband, Toby, are the parents of four LHHS graduates. She has an MBA from SMU and is the proud recipient of the Exchange Club of LH's Unsung Hero Award and Councilman McGough's Blake Anderson Public Service Award. She received LHHS PTA's Extended Service Award, FMJH PTA's Charger Award and a Life Membership from the LHFC PTA. She has moderated candidate debates for Dallas Mayor, Dallas City Council and RISD Trustee races and taught seminars on garnering publicity for nonprofits. She completed training with Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation and Inside RISD, and she's a sustaining member of LH Women's League. She has served on the boards of After8 to Educate, Dallas Free Press, Healing Hands Ministries and Camp Sweeney and chaired fundraisers for multiple Dallas nonprofits. Email ctoler@advocatemag.com.