Music Matters 2018

Thursday, November 15, 2018
7:00 PM EST - 11:00 PM EST

Join Hip Pocket and Scott Sharrard, band leader for the late Gregg Allman, for Music Matters 2018! 

The evening pays tribute to prolific jazz guitarst and composer Grant Green with Scott Sharrard and Friends headlining and Hip Pocket opening the show. Recording prolifically and mainly for Blue Note Records, Green performed in the hard bop, soul jazz, bebop, and Latin-tinged idioms.  Critics write, “A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar ... Green's playing is immediately recognizable – perhaps more than any other guitarist.”

In addition to great music, the evening will raise awareness of clostridium difficile infections (CDI). Preventable CDIs afflict 500,000 Americans every year and cause more than 30,000 deaths. 

The event will take place at The Cutting Room, 44 East 32nd Street in Manhattan, and all proceeds will support Peggy Lillis Foundation’s fight against C. diff.

Online Ticket Sales are Closed. 

You can buy tickets at the door starting at 6:00 PM Tonight.

Can't make the show? Click below to make a donation. 

About Hip Pocket

Hip Pocket was formed with the goal of playing a single benefit show – the original Music Matters in May 1998. Over the past 20+ years we have played countless fundraisers helping to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for various causes. 
 

Acout Scott Sharrard 

Scott is best known as lead guitarist and bandleader for the late Gregg Allman. Scott has been declared “one of the best guitarists in the country” by Billboard magazine.  
 

About C. diff 

Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from severe diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon.  C. diff most commonly affects older adults in hospitals or in long-term care facilities and typically occurs after use of antibiotic medications.  However, studies show increasing rates of infection among people traditionally not considered high risk, such as younger and healthy individuals without a history of antibiotic use or exposure to health care facilities.  In recent years, C. diff infections have become more frequent, severe and difficult to treat.  

About Peggy Lillis Foundation

Peggy Lillis Foundation (PLF) is dedicated to fighting C. diff through advocacy and education. PLF has become the leading organization confronting this urgent public health threat.  Over the past eight years, it has made significant progress in educating the public, empowering advocates and shaping public policy, including:

• Participating in the White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship 
• Convening three C. diff Advocates Summits in DC and New York
• Organizing the first-ever C. diff Lobby Day in April 2018
• Securing the introduction of S.B. 102, which will mandate reporting of C. diff outbreaks in nursing homes, in the Ohio Senate 
• Presenting to an array of healthcare organizations such as Mt. Sinai Health, the Connecticut and Ohio hospital associations, Mercy Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Hospital Improvement Innovation Network
• Having our work featured in Consumer Reports, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the New York Post

Event Location

The Cutting Room
44 East 32nd Street
New York, NY