Jazz Musicians Play for Education

About a dozen current and former Harvard jazz musicians will perform in Sanders Theater tonight in a benefit concert for the Harvard and Neighborhood Development program (HAND).

Since the community service organization was founded in 1982. HAND has brought several hundred undergraduate volunteers into the Cambridge public school system to tutor and teach sports skills and crafts to elementary school children.

Tonight's concert will feature tenor saxophonist Donald Braden '86, who has played professionally in New York Dean '84, the event's organizer. Braden will be joined by at least ten other jazz vocalists, pianists, and guitarists.

The concert is part of a series of fundraising efforts by Hand, Which included last month's Currier House dance marathon, said Robert K.M. Hackett '85, a member of the volunteer organization.

Proceeds from the performance will help finance a Hand-sponsors conference in April which will at tempt to coordinate community service programs at more than 150 East Coast universities, Hackes said.