Light of Day Foundation

The Light of Day Foundation, Inc., utilizes the power of music to raise money and awareness in its continuing battle to defeat Parkinson’s disease and related illnesses such as PSP and ALS within our lifetime. The Foundation’s mission is to fund research into possible cures, improved treatments and support for patients who suffer from those illnesses, their families and their caregivers, to help improve their quality of life. Light of Day – the concerts and the organization – grew from a birthday party and fund-raiser held in 1998 at the Downtown Cafe in Red Bank to celebrate the 40th birthday of artist manager and music industry veteran Bob Benjamin, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1996. Benjamin named the Foundation after the Springsteen song of the same name, with the fitting lyrics: " Well I’m a little down under, but I’m feeling okay – I got a little lost along the way – I’m just around the corner to the light of day." Springsteen wrote the powerful anthem LIGHT OF DAY, performed in the 1987 movie of the same name by Joan Jett, who starred alongside Michael J. Fox. Fox has bravely battled Parkinson’s since the early ‘90s and on one legendary night in November 2003, at the fourth annual LOD show, he brought the house down when he joined Springsteen onstage at the legendary Stone Pony for a rousing rendition of “Light of Day.”