MAUMEE, Ohio — A Toledo musician and small business owner is receiving an outpouring of community support as he faces a battle with stage-four pancreatic cancer.
About 100 people gathered Sunday at the Village Idiot in Maumee to support Dave “Klassik” Kwyer, bassist for the band Boogie Matrix Mechanism and owner of a popular local food truck. Kwyer, a father, husband, musician and businessman, is undergoing an intensive chemotherapy treatment plan that has forced him to step away from performing, his business and the community he has supported for decades.
In response, local musicians, artists, vendors and venues have come together to launch Koncert4Klassik, a series of benefit shows that donate 100% of proceeds directly to Kwyer and his family…