Trinity United Methodist in Ewing is set to present two Candlelight Concerts for Epilepsy Awareness in October.
The concerts are held in honor of Carolina Miller, who passed away from SUDEP — sudden unexpected death in epilepsy— at 25 years old in August 2011. Miller was diagnosed with epilepsy in her teenage years; the cause was unknown.
Not unlike autism, epilepsy is a spectrum of disorders. Miller was like many people living with epilepsy; her seizures were infrequent and controlled with medication. She was not aware of the threat of SUDEP. Neither was her husband, Eric Miller, who created and runs the concert series as part of his efforts to raise awareness around epilepsy in Carolina’s honor.
In March 2013, he took this effort nationwide with 50 Concerts in 50 States for Epilepsy Awareness. Over a single weekend artists such as Eric Clapton, Garbage, Colbie Caillat, Imagine Dragon, Aimee Mann, Rita Coolidge and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis supported the cause.
This October the series continues in Ewing.
Collective Soul’s Ed Roland brings his Sweet Tea Project October 14.
For the past two decades, Atlanta native Roland has been the front man and heart of the platinum-selling rock band Collective Soul. He has written seven #1 radio hits, and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.
For Roland’s Sweet Tea Project, he teamed up with a group of friends and musicians for a new approach to his classic hit-making style.
Singer/songwriter Sofia Nicole of East Brunswick is set to open the show.
Marshall Crenshaw, Jill Sobule and Freedy Johnston perform in-the-round Oct. 19.
These three unique performers plan to play their hits — Crenshaw’s Someday, Someway and Cynical Girl, Freedy Johnston’s Bad Reputation and Sobule’s I Kissed A Girl and Supermodel — together for the first time.
Bensalem’s singer-songwriter Craig Smith is set to open.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
More information is online at candlelightconcert.org.
