Our mission remains clear and constant: Leverage the power of music to bring together community and fight melanoma through awareness, education, prevention, and charitable support for research.

Jam For Cam was founded in the fall of 2018 in honor of Cameron Fearon, a University of Georgia student and Atlanta native who quietly battled melanoma from the time he was diagnosed in his early teens until he passed away at the age 19 in August of 2018. Throughout his fight with cancer, Cameron lived with infectious joy - embracing Athens, his friends, live music, and every moment of his early college life. In the months before he passed, Cam and his friends had already begun planning a battle-of-the-bands event to showcase Athens’ vibrant college music scene in an effort to raise money for charity in a bold, new, creative way on campus. After Cameron passed, his friends brought that exact vision to life but this time as a way to raise money and awareness for the same deadly disease that took their friends life a few weeks before; launching the non-profit event as Jam For Cam in the fall of 2018 and incorporating the organization as a 501(c)3 shortly thereafter.

What began as one night of music in a front lawn for a great cause has quickly grown into one of the largest and most impactful college-town music festivals in the country. Over the past eight years, Jam For Cam has welcomed more than 40,000 attendees, and raised over $1.4 Million for charity, all while using the organization and event's platform to educate and create awareness around melanoma.

Despite the event having to postpone in 2020 due to the pandemic and again in 2024 because of the closure of the beloved Southern Brewing Company location in Athens where the event was hosted since 2019, the Jam For Cam team find a new home. In 2025, the festival moved to Downtown Athens and debuted 'Jam In The Streets' - the first large-scale, concert-style event the city of Athens has hosted since Widespread Panic's album release party in 1998. Jam In The Streets is now Jam For Cam’s flagship annual event.

Our two-pronged approach as an organization:

Educate and empower: We use our music event as our primary marketing platform to raise awareness and educate on early detection and prevention. By connecting students and young adults with resources — including where to get skin checks, and preventative measures — we aim to expand their ability to protect themselves against this potentially harmful cancer.
Fund the fight: We raise money for melanoma and cancer research organizations working on the front lines to develop new treatments and potential cures.

In alignment with our community-focused mission, Jam For Cam allocates a small portion of our fundraising each year to two additional beneficiaries: A rotating Athens-based charity, selected annually, to support meaningful local impact. Scholarships to Camp Carolina, a boys summer camp in North Carolina that Cameron attended and that played a formative role in his life.

As we prepare for our ninth year, we are grateful for the momentum and invite you to join us at the next Jam In The Streets on April 1-3, 2027 - whether that is with your attendance, partnership, or financial support. Please consider making a donation to help us continue to drive melanoma awareness, prevention, and early detection efforts across our community

Jam In The Streets 2027

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