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October 15, 2011

Benefit to support The MS Bridge

Special to The Sun

OKLA. CITY — The MS Bridge will have a benefit concert, Musical Moments, at 6 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Gaillardia Golf and Country Club. The event includes dinner and a special performance by jazz pianist and Steinway artist Joe Augustine.

Other performers for the evening are local physicians and pianists, Dr. Gilbert Haas, Dr. J. Spencer Thompson and the Canterbury Choral Society Octet.

The event will benefit The MS Bridge, an Oklahoma based nonprofit organization that provides assistance to Oklahomans with multiple sclerosis. MS Bridge also supports research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence.

A special tax incentive will be provided for all piano sales at three local music stores from Oct. 17-24. Store locations include: Edmond Music, 33rd & Broadway, Edmond (348-0004); Gilliam Music, 24th & Main, Norman (321-0080); and Larsen Music, 63rd & Northwest Expressway, Oklahoma City (843-1573).

A group of specially selected pianos will be on display on the first floor of OMRF’s new research tower, 825 N.E. 15th St. The piano sale at OMRF will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 20-21.

Every gift to the MS Bridge goes 100 percent to help Oklahomans with MS or to OMRF for research. Tickets are $150 per person, and donations are welcome. For more information, call Kelly Brown at 229-2151.

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