Music

Benefit concert for Jacob Cuff (from the Christian Cuff Band) featuring artist lineup: Jeff Lemons, Justin Lantrip, and The Yellow Roman Candles.

THE STORY

On December 29th my brother Jacob Cuff left our house in Avon, Colorado to get himself checked out at Vail Valley Medical Center nearby. He had been feeling a bit beaten down all month and was noticing small lesions on his leg and stomach. Throughout the month he had maintained a full-time schedule at two busy restaurants, so he checked the exhaustion off as just the result of working doubles for 3 and a half weeks and hadn’t grown really concerned about the lesions until that week. The next morning the doctors came in with the “right out of left-field” bit of news that they thought Jake might have cancer. Pretty hard hitting news and they immediately put him in an ambulance to University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Cancer Pavillion. They said they got him just in time, as Acute Myeloid Leukemia acts very quickly, and without treatment most sufferers die within two and a half weeks. He’s a lucky, lucky boy, and he’s been responding very well to the Chemo thus far, so we have a reasonable hope that he will be outpatiented by mid next month. He will still of course need to stay near by for his 3 time a week treatments, so life won’t go right back to normal.

The big game right now is the financial, we have just topped $500,000 and the hospital estimates that we are looking at a little over $2 million…funny number right?

Also, while you’re thinking on that, try to imagine Jacob getting Health Insurance; pretty funny huh? Yeah, he thought so too. We are working at insurance, but the premium offers for a pre-existing condition like Leukemia for a new resident are made up numbers…like wizard spells. The goal now is to get him insured, regardless of the premium offers, and that’s where everybody else comes in. Within all the benefit events for the Leukema-pa-looza we will be hosting silent and loud auctions, and offering donation incentives like private concerts and lift tickets, as well as autographed goods by folks far more famous than us. Along with this we have a slew of art work, jewelry, services, and vouchers donated by people all over the world. So keep in touch, and if you have any questions just send them along to donate@jacobcuff.org.

You may know Tom Porter as the English voice on Maine public radio, but he will not be appearing at Frontier in his capacity as a news broadcaster. Tom will be here to indulge his passion for playing Jazz. A former professional jazz pianist in his native UK Tom has played with some of the top recording artists on both sides of the pond. On February 18, he'll be joined by a superb collection of Maine-based musicians: Musical educator Tim O'Dell on saxophone. On bass is the hugely talented and experienced Sam Sherry (and he's not as old as that makes him sound!).  Percussive accompaniment is provided by the subtle and creative drumming of Mark Barnette. They'll be performing a mixture of a old and new music, including some original material and several much-loved standards.

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