Chicago and American Cancer Society Team Up for a Second Year

Music fans and breast cancer advocates have a second chance at the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sing onstage with the legendary "rock and roll band with horns," Chicago. Last year the band joined forces with the American Cancer Society, the Official Sponsor of Birthdays®, to create Sing With Chicago, a highly successful promotion that raised tens of thousands of dollars to fight breast cancer, and saw auction winners sing the hit song If You Leave Me Now with the band at 62 concerts throughout the United States.

"The Sing With Chicago promotion was such a great time for our fans, and contributed so much to the breast cancer cause, that we wanted to do it on our 2011 tour, too," said Peter Schivarelli, Chicago's manager. "We're doing it this year in honor of our friend Paqui Kelly, the wife of Notre Dame head football coach BrIan Kelly, who is a breast cancer survivor."

This year's tour kicks off in Temecula, California on April 1, and runs through May. After touring throughout Europe in June and July, the band will resume U.S. tour dates in late July and continue through the end of the year. Fans in each city can bid on a package that includes a meet and greet with the band, two premium tickets, backstage passes, and the opportunity to sing onstage with the band. As an added bonus this year, the highest overall bidder at the end of the tour will win a guitar autographed by the band. Anyone can bid using Mission Fish, the charitable arm of E-bay. All proceeds directly benefit the Society's fight against breast cancer.

Last year's winners were so moved by the experience that they launched the Facebook group "I Sang With Chicago", where they shared stories about their concerts, and videos of themselves on stage singing with the band. To see this public group, visit http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=116983118321579&v=wall&ref=search.

Since last year's successful tour, Chicago has toured South America, Australia and Mexico, and has recorded a Christmas album with producer Phil Ramone, which will be released in October.

For more information on Sing With Chicago, visit cancer.org/singwithchicago or the auction page on Mission Fish at www.ebay.com/americancancersociety. For more information on Chicago's concert tour, visit www.chicagotheband.com and to join the American Cancer Society's movement for more birthdays, visit www.morebirthdays.com.

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