NORTH PROVIDENCE — Organizers of the outdoor festival planned next month to help defray the medical bills of Matthew Irving before it was canceled at the family’s request will hold the event anyway — but for an array of other charities.

“The fundraiser is back on,” said Kenneth Cicerone, a local producer and talent agent who was one of the chief organizers of the event.

While the festival is still tentatively set to run Aug. 24, from noon to 8 p.m., at the North Providence High School football field, Cicerone said he would apply to have the venue changed to Governor Notte Park if the School Committee refuses to allow use of the field when it meets tomorrow night. Mayor Charles Lombardi said last night that he and the recreation director would consider use of the park on that date, but that approval is not guaranteed.

Cicerone said the North Providence Taxpayers Association decided over the weekend that so much work had gone into signing up bands, entertainers and vendors that it would be a shame to drop it when there are still many charities that need money.

The association was earmarking the money for the 21-year-old former North Providence honors students who is in Germany in the sixth day of a deliberately induced seven-day coma to free him from the cycle of pain he has endured from a rare disease since 2003. The group has decided to donate the proceeds to Hasbro Children’s Hospital, the Make a Wish Foundation and the fight against Muscular Dystrophy.

The event should raise between $50,000 and $75,000, Cicerone says.

“There was false information given to this family during their trying times,” said Cicerone, who said he had never considered his Web site, www.npelectedmustgo.com, to be anti-government, but rather anti-corruption.

“The reason I put the fundraiser on there is that the site gets 200 to 300 hits a day, and I wanted to get out the word out to as many people as possible. I want the family to know that my offer to them still stands, and if they need any help with any future fundraisers, I will be there.”

In an e-mail last week, Matthew’s mother, Nancy Irving, said she understood the fundraiser was being promoted on an “anti-government” Web site. Because her son has always been respectful of authority, the family wanted to distance itself from it.

According to the family’s Web site, www.setmattfreeofrsd.com, Mathew appears to be back on track and is again receiving ketamine treatments that were temporarily halted out of concern that the drug was raising his enzyme level to dangerous levels.

According to his mother, her son’s body is tolerating the drug, and the love and prayers of people back home “are sustaining us more than you will ever imagine.”

Among those who signed on for the fundraiser were comedian Frank Santorelli, who was Georgie the bartender at the Bada Bing Club on The Sopranos, and groups such as Steve Smith and the Nakeds, Image and Tiny from the group Tavares.

Cicerone said he still has some concerns about the way the association was treated by the School Department when it asked for the use of the football field.

“We were told nothing would be approved unless we had $1 million in liability insurance, put down a $750 deposit a month in advance, and that the School Department would have a right to cancel if the police and Fire Department details were not paid for a month in advance.”

He questioned whether other groups that have asked to use school property have faced the same requirements.

rdujardi@projo.com