My friend Cindi has a sister, who has been fighting Multiple Myeloma for more than seven years. This is the same incurable blood cancer that Geraldine Ferraro has, Mel Stottlemyre of the Yankees, and what killed Peter Boyle and more recently Roy Scheider.

To help her sister, Cindi is involved with a volunteer initiative that obviously has a very personal meaning to her. That’s why she wants her Park Slope neighbors to know that Chris and Eric Reading (pictured above), fraternal twins who are recording artists from Nashville called The Readings, are doing a grassroots, myeloma awareness raising tour partnered and hosted by Borders Books.

Chris and Eric lost their mom Bonnie at the age of 51 to myeloma- 12 years ago. The Readings gave up offers for pro baseball and medical school careers to use their musical talent to give back. A percentage of all their gigs and cd sales is donated to cancer research all these years later.

They also wrote a song called Wanda’s Song for an anti- bullying initiative in schools that they are also involved with. They are terrific and talented southern rockers with tremendous integrity.

The NYC leg of their tour touches down on April 12th at Borders Books located at 576 Second Avenue @ 32nd Street. This is a free concert for the entire family and there is probably going to be a NYC comedian, who will open the gig ( very clean too).

Myeloma is a rare orphan cancer that gets little attention until a celeb dies from it and after a day or two- that disappears as well.

Cindi felt uncomfortable asking for help in sending the word. She wrote:

“But for my sister and all the patients we’ve come to know in the last 7 years, I’ve learned to keep asking. My passion comes from them and from those we’ve known who have died way too early.”

Visit http://www.tour4cure.net/ for more information or to make a tax deductible donation to T4C, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.