Last Friday, Happy Feet held its fourth annual Concert for a Cure with its customary amount of success. Students from all grades poured out to the Berkeley clock tower to watch talented performers like Sally Thompson ’17, Katie Freedy ’16, Austi Critchfield ’16, Jack Eppink ’16, the Berkeley Melodivas and the band Alien vs. Predator vs. Brown vs. the Board of Education showcase their unique talents. This year’s Concert for a Cure kicked off with the Alien vs. Predator vs. Brown vs. the Board of Education rendition of “Friday I’m in Love” by the Cure which band member Ed Todd ’16 described as “especially memorable” because “during the performance we reached a high score of 50,674 [on Guitar Hero].” The next performer was Critchfield, singing “Hometown Glory” by Adele, chosen with the “whole idea of graduation and leaving; I keep having these moments of recognition that I’m going to miss the little things when I’m gone,” said Critchfield. The concert moved on to Thompson and Freedy’s rendition of a song from the smash hit musical Hamilton,  Eppink’s tribute to Green Day, finally ending with the Berkeley Melodiva’s “Killing Me Softly.” Thompson fondly recounted her performance after she left the stage, noting that, “people were comparing me to Twenty-One Pilots and that’s by far the best compliment I’ve ever received in my life.”

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Maya Gandhi

Alien vs. Predator vs. Brown vs. the Board of Education (Will Blake '16, Brad Grundy '16, Ankush Bikkasani '16 and Ed Todd '16)

Concert for a Cure, Happy Feet’s annual fundraiser for cancer research for Relay for Life, gives the Berkeley community the chance to come together to raise money and awareness for a disease prevalent in the lives of so many. Students had the chance to purchase snacks and baked goods,  as well as luminaries for their loved ones, with the proceeds going to Relay for Life. Congratulations to the Happy Feet club for hosting another wildly successful Concert for a Cure.