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| SFJAZZ Hurricane Relief Concerts SFJAZZ Executive Director Randall Kline today announced that the Opening Night concert of the 23rd Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival with legendary vocalist Abbey Lincoln will become a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina relief. As an organization committed to furthering the art of jazz and supporting the artists who make the music, SFJAZZ feels both a strong connection to this tragedy and a duty to contribute our organizational efforts to helping assuage the suffering in the hurricane’s wake. Kline commented, “Hurricane Katrina has had a profound and disastrous impact upon the country’s Gulf Coast region — including, of course, the city of New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz and one of the music’s centers of ongoing vitality. As someone who has been involved with jazz, both personally and professionally, for over a quarter of a century, I knew that it was imperative that SFJAZZ make a contribution that directly benefited the jazz community in New Orleans as well as the larger humanitarian effort.” The concert, which was previously planned as an SFJAZZ members-only performance, will take place on Wednesday, October 19, 7:30pm at Herbst Theatre. All net proceeds from this concert will be donated to the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic, which is providing direct relief to displaced New Orleans musicians and their families. In addition to the Opening Night Abbey Lincoln concert, SFJAZZ is also collaborating with Stanford Shopping Center on a fundraising concert in Palo Alto with Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers & The Realistic Orchestra. That concert will take place Thursday, September 29, 6-7:30pm at Stanford Shopping Center. Admission will be free, but a representative from the American Red Cross will be on-site to collect audience donations toward hurricane relief. SFJAZZ is optimistic that the jazz community will support these efforts and raise much-needed relief funds to express the Bay Area’s united concern. In addition to providing relief through the purchase of tickets to the Abbey Lincoln event, there will be an opportunity to donate additional funds to hurricane relief on-site. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |