Former KISS members Bruce Kulick and Ace Frehley will seem at this 12 months’s Kiss Most cancers Goodbye II fundraiser for the American Most cancers Society, set to happen October 13-14, 2023 on Harvest Home campus in Sarasota, Florida. Kulick will carry out KISS’s “Alive III” album in its entirety on the occasion, which is able to embrace reside music on Friday and Saturday night time as properly music, comedy and different actions on Saturday afternoon. The weekend may also be interlaced with charitable raffles and different fundraising actions. With a view to maximize charitable fundraising, the occasion will embrace each in particular person viewing and reside streaming throughout parts of the occasion.
In early 2023, Harvest accomplished building of its new state-of-the-art neighborhood middle adjoining to its current facility referred to as the Venue. It contains an elevated stage, high-end PA system, superior lighting system, 16-foot video wall and built-in reside streaming package deal.
Harvest Home is a long-standing, extremely regarded not-for-profit group in Sarasota that gives housing and restoration applications for veterans, battered ladies and different people in want. Additionally they function the Harvest Church, which is a non-denomination non secular group.
Kiss Most cancers Goodbye was first held in 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee at SIR Studios. This occasion exceeded expectations, with over $40,000 donated to the American Most cancers Society.
The Kiss Most cancers Goodbye organizers mentioned: “This 12 months we challenged ourselves to seek out methods to not solely enhance our fundraising outcomes, however we additionally wish to present extra schooling about most cancers dangers and create a stronger message in regards to the significance of getting checked for early indicators of most cancers.”
Bruce joined KISS in 1984, and accompanied the band on the “Animalize” tour and continued with them till the reunion tour. Bruce is closely featured on “Kissology – Vol. 2” and “Vol. 3”, the band’s DVDs spanning their historic four-decade-plus profession.
“Alive III” was launched in 1993. It’s the third installment of the “Alive” sequence. The recording of “Alive III” happened over a number of dates (in Cleveland, Detroit and Indianapolis) in the course of the band’s 1992 tour in help of the “Revenge” album. It was licensed gold in 1994.
Frehley left KISS after the band’s 2002 “Farewell Tour” dates, saying afterwards that he took the phrase “farewell” significantly. Drummer Peter Criss has claimed that his contract with KISS wasn’t renewed in March 2004. Each expenses have been disputed by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons.
Simmons and Stanley have chosen to have the remainder of the present KISS lineup — guitarist Tommy Thayer and longtime drummer Eric Singer — gown up as Criss‘s and Frehley‘s respective “Spaceman” and “Catman” personas.
