Nile Rodgers and CHIC to headline Detroit Auto Show Charity Preview

(WXYZ) — Detroit Auto Present officers introduced that Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer Niles Rodgers and CHIC will headline the Charity Preview occasion subsequent month.

The black-tie occasion, which can happen Sept. 16 at Huntington Place, returns first the primary time since January 2019 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

Rodgers was a co-founder of CHIC and is the chairman of the Songwriters Corridor of Fame.

WXYZ is proud to be the official tv associate of the Detroit Auto Present Charity Preview, and tickets are on sale now for $400 every or $700 for a pair at naias.com.

The Charity Preview will occur indoors and outdoor with leisure throughout three levels – one within the Huntington Heart Atrium, one on the present flooring and a 3rd open to the general public in Hart Plaza.

“This yr’s Charity Preview might be three events in a single,” mentioned Detroit Auto Present Chairman Joe Lunghamer. “We needed to make this first-year again an occasion to recollect by celebrating with the whole neighborhood and by that includes artists which have multi-generational attraction. It’s going to be an important night time for supporting the kids in Southeastern Michigan and our native companies, to not point out, an important night time for some critical dancing.”

The Charity Preview has raised greater than $100 million for charities over the previous 25 years. Beneficiaries this yr embody the Boys & Women Golf equipment of Southeastern Michigan, The Kids’s Heart, The Kids’s Basis, Detroit Auto Sellers Affiliation Charitable Basis Fund, a fund of the Group Basis for Southeast Michigan, Detroit PAL and College of Michigan Well being C.S. Mott Kids’s Hospital