A popular summer concert held in Pine Township since 2014 to raise money for charity will be taking a pause this year, but there are plans to resume the event in 2024, according to organizers.

The Celebrity Care Fest, which has been hosted and produced by HM3 Partners since 2015, raises thousands of dollars for charity with a concert featuring local and national music artists.

The event started with a handful of local bands and a few hundred people. In past years, crowds have swelled into the thousands to see performers including Kool & the Gang; Earth, Wind & Fire; Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Grand Funk Railroad, KC and The Sunshine Band, and Peter Frampton.

Last year’s concert featured The Jacksons; Lou Gramm, a founding member of Foreigner; and Queen V — Veronica Stigeler-Cowher, who is married to former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher.

Michael Young, a partner in HM3, said organizers decided to take a break this year because of the sheer volume of work needed to produce the show.

“We’ve taken a year off in the past,” Young said. “We’ve had help from (local music producer) Rich Engler, who really gets the credit for lining up the performers. But it’s a very large job to secure the bands and arrange the logistics for this kind of show, so we decided to take a year off and pick it up again in the future.”

The event wasn’t held in 2016 and organizers skipped the event in 2020 and 2021 because of the covid-19 pandemic.

Since its inception, the fund has donated or raised more than $2.8 million for many charitable organizations.

Last year a Unity Dinner was added on the Friday evening before the event. At the dinner, actress Jane Seymour, co-founder of the Open Hearts Foundation, and international civil rights leader Xernona Clayton were recognized for their philanthropic efforts in promoting unity and equality.

The events have been held on the Avonlea Court property in Gibsonia owned by Patrick Hampson, founder and managing partner of HM3 Partners, which sponsored the events.

The HM3 Partners Independence Fund also organizes the annual Matt Graf Golf Outing, which raises money to provide scholarships to local teens.

The Graf family recently announced that a $10,000 donation is being made from the proceeds of this year’s golf outing to the UPMC Children’s Hospital Foundation to create the Matt Graf Behavior Fund to assist students suffering from behavioral issues.

Tony LaRussa is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Tony by email at tlarussa@triblive.com or via Twitter .