Charity Work
In January 2005, Harper played 2 shows in Thailand to raise money for Indian Ocean tsunami relief.
In 2007, 2008 and 2010, he climbed Mt. Snowdon with the Love Hope Strength Foundation to play near the summit and then played at evening gigs, all in aid of cancer charities in the surrounding area.
In October 2007, he joined a 38-strong team of musicians including Glenn Tilbrook, Mike Peters and Cy Curnin, along with mountaineers and cancer survivors, who, again in aid of the Love Hope Strength Foundation. The group took part in a 14-day trek to 18,500 ft Mt Everest base camp, where they performed an acoustic concert. This Everest Rocks trek culminated with a grand finale concert in Kathmandu on October 29 and raised more than US$250,000 for the only charitable cancer hospital in Nepal, situated at Bhaktapur (approx. 10 miles east of Kathmandu). Alex Coletti (producer of MTV's Unplugged series) filmed the trek for a documentary, Everest Rocks, which premiered on the Palladia channel on September 7, 2008 and was also released on DVD.
In October 2008, the setting was Macchu Picchu and the concert was Peru Rocks. Then, in September 2009, he again joined Love Hope Strength trekkers to undertake another charity trek called Kilimanjaro Rocks. The musicians, supporters and cancer survivors scaled the 19,341 feet (5,895 m) peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The trek raised funds for bone marrow drives and the main cancer centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
Harper now hosts his own Love Hope Strength fundraiser, Avebury Rocks, which first took place on July 9, 2011 and will again be held on July 7, 2012. The day's events include a 20-mile walk starting and ending at Avebury Stone Circle, a 6-mile walk for those who join in the afternoon, and a concert in the evening. Headliners at the 2011 concert included Newton Faulkner, Cy Curnin and Jamie West-Oram of The Fixx, and Harper himself.
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