Date:  September 1, 2011

Place:  Davies Symphony Hall  201 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, cA

Time:   6:30 p.m.: Cocktail reception  8 p.m.: Performance begins, followed by a dessert reception

Post-concert: DJ will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas will spin at an exclusive after-party for concert guests with special guest MC Hammer (location to be announced at the concert)

Cost:   $250 each for rear balcony seats; $250 each for American with Disabilities Act special wheelchair seating for those who require it; $500 each for balcony seating; and $1,000 each for main floor seating; available at http://www.theconcertforucsfbch.com or (415) 476-6400

Mark your calendars for next week’s star studded Benefit for The UCSF’s Children’s Hospital.

Alanis Morissette, seven-time Grammy Award winner and hailed as one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music, will headline The Concert for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital on Thursday, September 1, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.  Acclaimed comedian and special guest Jay Leno will open the show, which is being underwritten by the Salesforce.com Foundation.

Funds raised through ticket sales will go toward building a new home for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, one of the nation’s best children’s medical facilities.  Located at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus near downtown San Francisco, the new UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay will be part of a 289-bed integrated hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients.  Upon completion in 2014, the 183-bed children’s hospital will set a new world-class standard for patient- and family-centered health care, safety, sustainability and translational medicine.