Yesterday afternoon, Simple Plan held their annual Simple Plan Foundation benefit event at the Montreal Science Center in Montreal, Canada. The event attracted a couple hundreds of guests which included fans, friends and families of the band members and various important personalities of the music industry.
At the press conference, that took place at 10:30am, a couple hours before the benefit event started, Simple Plan announced that this year, they managed to raise more than $250,000 which will be later donated to 27 charities and organisations thoroughly chosen by the band. “This is the largest amount awarded annually since the start of our foundation,” said Jeff Stinco. Thanks to the donations, the Sainte-Justine Hospital will be able to set up a multimedia room for its patients with chronic illness and the Dr Julien Foundation will be able to pursue its Garage music project, which supports young people who want to play musical instruments.
When the attendees were let in, the band took a couple minutes to greet them and followed with an acoustic concert that included songs like Jet Lag, Astronaut, Summer Paradise, Untitled, Everytime and for the first time ever – an acoustic version of This Song Saved My Life, which you can check out below:
During the event, the participants were also able to take part in a silent auction that included some very interesting items, such as a signed plaque commemorating 1 million sold units of Simple Plan albums in Canada, dinner with the members of the band, acoustic guitar signed by Katy Perry, hockey stick signed by Simple Plan, a round of golf with Chuck, guitar lesson given by Jeff, Sebastien’s suitcase and many more items.
Towards the end of the event, the band also took time to mingle among the crowd and take pictures and sign to every fan around.
Make sure to check out the updated albums in the gallery that feature pictures from the press conference and from the benefit show itself.