This year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit is as star-studded as ever, with headliners Paul Simon, Mary J. Blige and Elvis Costello, and hosts that include Whoopi Goldberg and Julianne Moore.
But organizers say the sold-out event, set for Thursday night at New York’s Beacon Theatre, is taking on additional significance this year. It marks the 10th Love Rocks concert and the 40th anniversary of God’s Love We Deliver, the nonprofit that provides medically tailored meals to New Yorkers that need them, at a time when federal cuts to food programs have increased demand for that work. And the more difficult fundraising landscape makes events like Love Rocks, the nonprofit’s biggest of the year, even more essential.
