Multiple Grammy Award-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Nile Rodgers & CHIC will perform at the 20th annual DKMS Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on October 15.

The evening’s program includes a live performance from Joseph Gordon, principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.

Nile Rodgers shares, “I’m so honored to be part of this momentous anniversary for such an essential, lifesaving organization. For decades, DKMS has transformed lives and given hope. We look forward to celebrating the donors, patients, and supporters whose generosity and commitment make this vital work possible.”

DKMS is a non-profit organization to fight blood cancer and blood disorders.

This year’s gala will highlight the remarkable and uplifting journey of Ezra, an 11-year-old from California who received a life-saving stem cell transplant, and his donor, Dallas Wilson, a Nashville-based country and pop songwriter-producer.

Proceeds from the evening will directly support DKMS’s mission of saving lives by registering stem cell donors, providing patients in low and middle-income countries with access to transplantation, and advancing research and development in blood cancer treatment. For ticket information, visit www.DKMS.org/gala.

“Twenty years ago, we came together in New York with a powerful belief: that every patient battling blood cancer deserves the chance to find a matching donor,” says Katharina Harf, Chairman of DKMS Global. “As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the DKMS Gala, I am deeply grateful to the extraordinary community of donors, patients, families, and supporters whose compassion has made so many second chances at life possible. Tonight reminds us not only of how far we have come, but of all we can still achieve together.”