TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The University of Alabama’s Creative Campus program is sponsoring a New Orleans Jazz Benefit Thursday, Oct. 27, at 6:30 p.m. in the Moody Music Concert Hall.

The benefit is being held for transfer students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and it will feature a free “Gumbo and Jazz” Dinner.

Donations will be taken for the UA transfer students of Hurricane Katrina and the monies will be distributed by the SGA in the form of book scholarships. Donations will help those who may have been overlooked by national organizations’ funding relief and aid.

The dinner, at 6:30 p.m. in 167 Moody Music choral room, will be a New Orleans celebration with local jazz bands and gumbo catered from New Orleans Bar and Grill. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the Alabama Jazz Ensemble, which is comprised of student musicians who perform modern jazz, will perform with guest vocalist Kathy Kosins in the Moody Music Concert Hall.

Along with Creative Campus, an initiative that seeks to promote arts and cultural events on campus and in the community, this benefit is being sponsored by the Student Government Association, Honors Program Student Association, African-American Graduate Student Association and Sigma Alpha Iota

For more information, contact Erica Crabtree, Creative Campus intern at 256/679-5336.