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Live. Life. Love. is an annual concert hosted by 107.5 The River to benefit To Write Love on Her Arms, a national suicide prevention organization. The warning signs of suicide and mental health disorders are often overlooked and looked down upon, which results in over 44,000 deaths by suicide in America each year.

The goal of this event is to create awareness, encourage those in need of help to reach out, and provide others with resources to help someone in need, all while enjoying live music!

100% of the profits benefit To Write Love On Her Arms to support mental health and suicide prevention resources.

SHOW DETAILS:

DATE: Monday, December 10, 2018 LOCATION: Marathon Music Works LINEUP: Why Don’t We, Dan + Shay, Lauv, and Kim Petras TIME: Doors @ 6pm / Show @ 7pm Tickets: On-sale Friday, October 19, 2018 @ 10am, $22 in advance / $27 at the door

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ARTISTS:

WHY DON’T WE: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Since their formation in 2016, Why Don’t We haven’t stopped…

Instead, these five young men—Jonah Marais, Corbyn Besson, Daniel Seavey, Jack Avery, and Zach Herron—have forged ahead at warp speed. In under two years, they innovatively amassed a diehard fan base through grassroots engagement in the digital arena fueled by a prolific outpouring of new music, constant social media

engagement, and sold-out cross country tours where online “likes” materialized I.R.L. into millions of screaming fans worldwide.

Prior to coming together, each member stood out as a performer in his own right. Jonah and Corbyn often livestreamed in-home performances to massive audience as Zach served up viral covers that generated tens of millions of views. Jack built a growing a subscriber base on YouTube, and Daniel etched a space in the hearts of viewers everywhere on American Idol. They crossed paths during tours and fan engagements in the midst of these burgeoning solo careers.

DAN + SHAY: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

With pristine, soaring vocals and a knack for writing expressive songs with rich imagery and strong melodies that resonate with fans, Dan + Shay (Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney) have earned their place among an illustrious group of trailblazing, genre-blurring male duos.

Country, rock, and popular music acts of the day – including the Delmore Brothers, Louvin Brothers, and the Everlys – created the template for the close harmony

and fierce instrumentation that have defined Dan + Shay. It’s the foundation of this career defining album which debuted at No 1 on the Billboard Country Album Chart.

Both men married in 2017 and Shay welcomed a baby boy. The pressure of writing and recording the follow up to their groundbreaking second album Obsessed, which won awards, set sales milestones, and spawned two No. 1 songs (“From the Ground Up” and “How Not To”), should have been daunting. But the duo had a clear mandate as songwriters and in the studio: “Let the best song win.”

They found a winner with the first single “Tequila.” The two week No 1 single is one of the Top 10 streamed country songs of 2018 and the fastest rising, highest streaming, biggest selling single of the duo’s career. Written by Dan, Nicolle Galyon, and Jordan Reynolds, the song is a strong shot with a twist. Far from being a party anthem, “Tequila” is a message about lost love and the unlikely triggers that bring those memories pouring back.

LAUV: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

For as much as he embraces modern musical innovations, Lauv picks up a thread that can be traced back to timeless troubadours.

The 24-year-old independent singer, songwriter, and producer resembles an auteur in his assemblage of electronic tones, airy beats, jazz-inspired guitars, and soulful vocalizations. A self-described “hopeless romantic,” his music could be likened to Chris Martin and The Weeknd teaming up to score a movie.

Resonating with fans worldwide, that approach yielded over one billion cumulative Spotify streams in under a year’s time, a consistent spot on Spotify’s “Top 100 Most-Listened To Artists in the World,” and a sold-out headline tour as his profile skyrocketed.

However, he took the first step on this journey at the age of five when his parents enrolled him in piano lessons. To accompany his older sisters, he picked up viola two years later before discovering guitar at nine-years-old. As the family moved between San Francisco, Atlanta, and Pennsylvania, his tastes shifted between everything from Eminem and Green Day to Underoath and The Postal Service, comprising an eclectic musical DNA. During high school, the budding talent turned his attention towards production.

KIM PETRAS: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Somewhere between 90’s American pop and 80’s European disco, rises the undeniable voice of Kim Petras. Nodding to influences as diverse as Britney Spears, Baltimora, and the “Brat Pack,” the “side bun” sporting German-born and Los Angeles-based songstress powers up a new pop paradigm, sharing intimate lovelorn storylines over explosive production.

The past year has been a meteoric ascension for Kim – with no signs of stopping. Her debut single “I Don’t Want It At All,” shot to #1 on the Global Spotify Viral

Chart just four days after its release, and the independent artist has amassed over 12 million streams on Spotify alone over the past 6 months. Kim was named Paper magazine’s “Most Likely To Dominate the Pop Charts in 2018,” and in making moves from her position as part of Spotify’s RISE program to her feature on Charli XCX’s Pop 2 mixtape, this next year is looking to be her biggest breakout yet.

Kim’s brand of escapism remains rooted in a boundless capacity for empathy. Knowing herself from the age of two, Kim notably began transitioning with female hormone therapy following her 12th birthday before receiving gender reassignment surgery at the age of 16 and making worldwide headlines. Her bravery quietly and subconsciously punctuates the music.

Ultimately, her experience and intimate understanding of pop yields a universal vision that’s as incomparable as it is inimitable.

CHARITY ORGANIZATION:

TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

To Write Love on Her Arms is a nonprofit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.

The founder, Jamie Tworkowski, didn’t set out to start a nonprofit organization. All he wanted to do was help a friend and tell her story. When Jamie met Renee Yohe, she was struggling with addiction, depression, self-injury, and suicidal thoughts. He wrote about the five days he spent with her before she entered a treatment center, and he sold T-shirts to help cover the cost. When she entered treatment, he posted the story on MySpace to give it a home. The name of the story was “To Write Love on Her Arms.”

But it was more than just a story. The words and the life it represented shed light on the reality of contrast—pain

and peace, addiction and sobriety, regret and freedom.

Soon Jamie and his friends were answering messages from people around the world. They longed to lift the heavy weight of depression. They wanted to be free from addiction or self-injury, to stay alive and live fully. They were mourning those they’d lost to such struggles, and they reached out to ask what they could do to bring hope to their communities.