Jazz and Chocolate Backyard Benefit Concert Series, 2025!

Please join us for three lovely, summer evenings of instrumental and vocal jazz in Midtown, Palo Alto to raise funds for three local nonprofits that provide food, shelter and critical supplies for people in need.

Please click below to get event address, to learn more about the musicians, our featured nonprofits, the chocolates, the Chocolate Raffle and to RSVP:

Tickets are on a sliding scale from $30-$75.

Pay at the door or in advance (click the blue link above).

All net proceeds go to our featured nonprofits; pay what you can!

***PLEASE NOTE***

*The published address is only approximate! Please click on the link above to get the event address.

Doors open at 6:30 PM. Come early to nosh, schmooze and to learn more about the amazing, featured nonprofit!

Your ticket includes:

*A box of two, gourmet chocolates from Creative Confections

*A glass of wine or sparkling cider

*Hors d'oeuvres

*Speakers from our featured nonprofits

*A relaxing, outdoor evening of stellar jazz!

Concert Line-Up:

July 19: Diamondhead Jazz Quartet featuring Chris Cortez (of KCSM), drums, Dennis Kong, bass; Mark Davis, piano; Ken Stout, tenor sax. Raising money for Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, San Jose (THIS EVENT HAS PASSED)

August 2: Richard Harris and Friends featuring Richard Harris, bass; Tim R. Price, piano; Jeff Hanson, drums, David Dolengewicz, sax. Raising money for Noor Hope Foundation (delivering food, water, medical and educational supplies to orphans, widows and seniors in Afghanistan).

August 16: World renownd jazz guitarist, John Stowell with special guest, master trumpeter, John Capobianco. Raising money for St. Anthony's Padua Dining Room, Menlo Park .

All shows feature the jazz/scat stylings of vocalist Laura Michele

**Bring food/clothing donations to any concert to be entered in a drawing for a box of 8 chocolates from (Please see below)

Bring food and clothing donations to any or all concerts to be entered in a raffle for a box of 8 chocolates from Creative Confections! If you attend more than one concert, you can fill out an additional raffle ticket for each concert when you bring donations! The drawing will take place the day after the final concert on August 20. Entrees from all three concerts will be combined; you will be in the drawing if you bring donations to any of the three concert dates.

Here's a bonus: if you attend a concert and you forget to bring food or clothing donations, you can drop them by afterward (before August 20), and fill out a raffle ticket!

Needed items: non-perishable food items in cans, boxes or bags (rice, beans, cereals, tuna, soups, etc.), full size hygiene products (shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, etc.).

Thank you!

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