Second Annual Hot Stove, Cool Music: The Fenway Park Sessions Set to Rock Red Sox Nation at Fenway Park

Theo Epstein, Peter Gammons To Lead July 12 Charity Concert
Benefiting the Foundation to Be Named Later: Tickets on Sale Friday May 26  

BOSTON (May 25, 2006) — Music and baseball are teaming up once again this summer to hit another homerun for charity at the second annual Hot Stove, Cool Music: The Fenway Park Sessions. The charity fundraiser takes place on Wednesday, July 12 at Fenway Park at 6:00 p.m.

This special benefit concert features performances by a host of Boston sports, music and entertainment all-stars including Kay Hanley; Buffalo Tom featuring Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein; ESPN Commentator Peter Gammons & the Hot Stove All-Stars; The Gentlemen; The Click Five; Red Sox pitcher Lenny DiNardo; and Juliana Hatfield.  The show will be emceed by Mike O’Malley, star of the hit CBS show Yes Dear. Concert organizers will announce additional artists and special guests as the event approaches.  

Tickets for Hot Stove, Cool Music: The Fenway Park Sessions are $50, $75 and $100 and are available beginning Friday, May 26 at noon via redsox.com or by calling the Red Sox ticket office at 877-RED-SOX9. The gates will open at 5:00 p.m. and the entertainment will begin at 6:00 p.m. All proceeds will benefit Epstein’s ‘Foundation to Be Named Later,’ a branch of the Red Sox Foundation. Last year’s concert raised more than $300,000 for the Foundation to Be Named Later. 

“Hot Stove, Cool Music has become a staple on Boston’s entertainment event calendar,” said Gammons. “The concert blends two of my passions, music and baseball, while benefiting a very worthy cause. I am grateful to the entertainers, the Boston Red Sox and the sponsors who have given their time and effort to make this event possible. It is yet another homerun for local charities and the Boston sports and music community.” 

“We wanted to lead-off the second half of the season with a special event, while raising money for important causes,” Theo Epstein said. “Combining baseball and music in a city that is passionate about both will yield great rewards for the community. Add in the history of Fenway Park and you have a great event.”

About Foundation To Be Named Later

The Foundation To Be Named Later (FTBNL) was launched in Spring of 2005 by Paul Epstein, a social worker in the Brookline Public School system, and his brother, Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein, with the mission of raising funds and awareness for non-profit agencies in the Greater Boston area serving disadvantaged youth. 

The chief fundraiser for FTBNL is the Hot Stove, Cool Music Concert Series.  In July 2005, the FTBNL benefited from the inaugural summer concert, Hot Stove, Cool Music: The Fenway Park Sessions.  In October of 2005, FTBNL distributed its first round of gifts to eight non-profit agencies chosen for their outstanding work with youth. The principal beneficiaries of FTBNL are:  BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life), The Home for Little Wanderers, Horizons for Homeless Children, Molo Care, Roxbury Youthworks, Steps to Success, Treehouse Foundation and West End House Boys and Girls Club.   

About Hot Stove, Cool Music

Hot Stove, Cool Music is a bi-annual charity concert and musical variety show held at the Paradise Rock Club and Fenway Park. The event was created in December of 2000 by ESPN Commentator and former Globe Baseball Columnist Peter Gammons and Boston Herald Sports Writer Jeff Horrigan. Over the past six years, Hot Stove, Cool Music has raised more than $500,000 for the Jimmy Fund and has become a staple on Boston’s entertainment calendar. Last year’s inaugural Hot Stove, Cool Music: The Fenway Park Sessions raised more than $300,000 for Theo Epstein’s newly formed Foundation to Be Named Later, a branch of the Red Sox Foundation.