It was an effective one-two punch Friday.
Music lovers could listen to good music while supporting women who are fighting cancer.
Proceeds from Friday night’s Angiepalooza presents Phil Vassar concert at the Capital Region MU Healthcare Amphitheater will go to the Red Slipper Warrior project — a nonprofit focused on empowering girls and women fighting cancer.
This was the ninth Angiepalooza and the first one at the new amphitheater.
The annual event began in 2012 after event organizer Tim Tinnin lost his wife, Angie, to cancer.
“We’ve always done downtown in the past,” Tinnin said. “We kind of outgrew the downtown. Plus, we figured out that we really needed to take that next step. … It was time to move out here, and why wouldn’t you want to come out here? It’s beautiful.”
Tinnin said going into the event that he wasn’t sure how much it would bring in, but was expecting a decent turnout.
Tickets were still available Friday afternoon, he said.
“There’s so many variables as far as we don’t know how many people are going to show up,” he said. “In Jeff City, there’s always a last-minute push. It’s going to be a good turnout, we know that, but we just don’t know exactly how many are going to show up.”
Besides production costs, all the proceeds go to the Red Slipper Warrior Project.
Tinnin started the project in 2020.
It provides local cancer patients with red sequined slippers to remind the patients they’re still beautiful, a backpack to serve as a go-bag to take whatever they need for treatment, and children receive Hope, a stuffed lop-eared bunny wearing her own red slippers.