Upcoming Dates for Erin

August

22 - Port a cath
23 - Chemotherapy Begins
25- Jam session at the Rogers' home, all are welcome

September

6 - Chemotherapy 2
6 - 16  Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival in Winfield, KS picking and grinning
19- Chemotherapy 3
29- Music at Gods Mountain Bible Camp

October

3- Chemotherapy 4
4-7- Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival in Guthrie Oklahoma, Picking, Performing, and Grinning
15- CT scan, pray that the cancer is gone
17- Chemotherapy 5
31- Chemotherapy 6

November

11- Concordia Community Band Concert 2:00pm
14- Chemotherapy 7
22- Thanksgiving
28- Chemotherapy 8

December

3- PET scan
5- PET scan results
7- Erin and Amber play music for a private Chrismtas party in St. Jo, Missouri
12- Chemotherapy 9
25- CHRISTMAS!!!
26- Cemotherapy 10
29- Kick the cancer in the butt party, come one come all!!!
30- Erin Rogers' Benefit Concert at the Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia, KS at 2:00pm. Admission is by donation. 

January

 8- Chemotherapy 11
12- Erin Teaches Dulcimer Workshops at Bonner Springs, KS
22- Chemotherapy 12, this is the last one
26- Scenic Roots performs for the Minneapolis Conservation District


Erin in the Salina Journal:

Dulcimer therapeutic for cancer patient
by: Gary Demuth

Erin Rogers has no trouble playing her mountain dulcimer for three hours at a time.

The music that flows from the four-string, guitar-shaped instrument produces a soothing, ethereal, harp-like sound that "takes me to another place," she said.

Going to another place helps Erin deal with the headaches and nausea brought on by twice-a-month chemotherapy treatments.

The 20-year-old Concordia resident is being treated for Hodgkin's Disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes that often affects teenagers and young adults.
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