Ticket money for charity
By Nyshicka Jordan
Staff Reporter

Folk and blues artist Cary Pierce will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in Ed Landreth Hall Auditorium, and all proceeds will be donated to TCU’s Up ’Til Dawn.

The concert was proposed last semester by Programming Council as a way to combine charity and entertainment, said Fabian Morice, a junior kinesiology major. He said Pierce was invited to perform because he has a large following in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

“It’s also an encouragement to go and feel good about where your money is going,” Morice said.

Lindsey Watson, a sophomore movement science major, said she was encouraged to go to the concert by a friend and that she likes knowing the proceeds are going to charity.

“I didn’t know that the concert was for charity until I decided to go and looked down on my ticket, but I think it’s pretty awesome,” Watson said.

Shelley Story, assistant dean for Campus Life, said the goal is for PC to donate yearly so that those who do not participate in Up ’Til Dawn can still contribute through proceeds raised from events.

“I am hoping that it will be something that is really successful so that each year we can increase the donations from the year before,” Story said.

Trey Doty, adviser for Up ’Til Dawn, said PC’s contributions to Up ’Til Dawn has shown growth in the overall charity.

“We’ve worked with Up ’Til Dawn for the last four years and to see that other organizations come on board to help raise money for the children of St. Jude shows that we have made large strides in the last four years,” Doty said.

The concert will also feature local group Commonbond, who are also folk and blues artists, Story said.

Concert tickets are $5 for students and $15 for non-students and are available at the Information Desk, by calling (817) 257-FROG or at the door.

Up ’Til Dawn raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Doty said 80 teams have worked to raise $750 each since October.

A celebration to mark the end of this academic year’s fund raising will be Friday in the University Recreation Center and will include such activities as sports tournaments and casino games, Doty said.

He said the activities are designed to keep participants up from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. in order to symbolize what a child in hospital has to endure.

Morice said PC will be making announcements on the radio station 99.5 FM “The Wolf” and KTCU to advertise the concert.

He said interested students can also work as crew members for the concert by calling PC at (817) 257-5633.

Nyshicka Jordan