Benefit: 10th Ellen's Run includes concert with Foreigner

Tomorrow is the tenth annual iteration of Ellen's Run!, this year including a concert on Tuesday evening, as well as a mini auction and barbecue tonight.

The 10K run -- well, run, walk, hop, skip, jump...however you choose to do it -- takes place Sunday, August 21 at 9 a.m. -- rain or shine -- from East Hampton High School.

Tonight's mini auction and barbecue, at a home in town right off the main drag, is from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. If you want to join in, call 631-907-1952 for more information and directions.

Proceeds from Ellen’s Run have benefitted important programs such as a new mammography center for the South Fork, a screening program for women on the Shinnecock Reservation, a unique support program for women undergoing chemotherapy at the Post-Treatment Resource Program of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Ellen’s Well providing psychosocial support under the leadership of a specially trained certified social worker for breast cancer survivors on Long Island’s East End.

Foreigner, Garland Jeffreys and Suzanne Vega headline (who knows who'll show up to sit in) the "I Want to Know What Love Is" benefit concert for Ellen's Run, East Hampton Day Care and Project Most on Tuesday (Aug 23) on the East Hampton High Athletic Field, 2 Long Lane. The gates open at 4:30 and the concert runs for four hours starting at 6:30 p.m. General admission is $50, reserved V.I.P. seating is $300, and $500 gets you a "Velvet Rop"e V.I.P. ticket that includes a party after the show. For more information call the benefit hotline, 631-725-7862, or visit http://www.hamptonsconcert.com/.