SALISBURY TWP., Pa – A music festival is set for this weekend in honor of a man who lost his life to cancer five years ago.<\/p>\n
The Do it For Dom Music Festival<\/a> not only remembers Dom Bridgeman but also raises awareness.<\/p>\n Dom’s dad Ray Bridgeman, the President of the Do it For Dom Focus Foundation<\/a>, and James Pepe with Cancer Support Community – Greater Lehigh Valley<\/a>, joined 69 News at Sunrise Thursday.<\/p>\n The festival, which is in its fifth year, kicks off at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Steel Pub Sports Bar & Grille in Bethlehem. It will feature live music, a silent auction, and food and drinks, the\u00a0Do it For Dom Focus Foundation said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n It will help support cancer research and awareness.<\/p>\n Ray said Dom grew up in the Lehigh Valley and was in the restaurant business. Dom created the mission and the concept of the foundation while he was still in the hospital.<\/p>\n Dom died of cancer in 2021.<\/p>\n “Music was such a big part of his life,” Ray said.<\/p>\n He said that’s why it was a natural process for organizers to create an event about music.<\/p>\n Pepe said the silent auction will help raise funds for cancer research.<\/p>\n He said the\u00a0Cancer Support Community – Greater Lehigh Valley offers social and emotional support for anyone impacted by a cancer diagnosis, including the person diagnosed as well as their family members, colleagues, friends, and caregivers.<\/p>\n The organization offers support groups, individual counseling, and healthy minded\/healthy body activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa – A music festival is set for this weekend in honor of a man who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,14908,157],"class_list":["post-239494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-greater-lehigh-valley","tag-lehigh-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}