Jazz and Chocolate Backyard Benefit Concert Series, 2025!
- ALL AGES
Come join us for three house concerts with live jazz, gourmet chocolates, wine and treats to benefit three, local, humanitarian nonprofits!
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Private Home in Midtown, Palo Alto
3100 Stockton Place Palo Alto, CA 94303About this event
- Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
- ALL AGES
Jazz and Chocolate Backyard Benefit Concert Series, 2025!
CLICK HERE to Purchase Tickets, Get Address and RSVP!
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.
Tickets are on a sliding scale from $30-$75.
All net proceeds go to our featured nonprofits; pay what you can!
Please click the blue link to the get the event address, to learn more about the musicians, nonprofits, chocolates, Chocolate Raffle, to pay in advance and to RSVP:
CLICK HERE to Purchase Tickets, Get Address and RSVP!
***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: (THIS EVENT HAS PASSED)
Diamondhead Jazz Quartet featuring Chris Cortez (of KCSM), drums, Dennis Kong, bass; Mark Davis, piano; Ken Stout, tenor sax.
Featured Nonprofit: Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, San Jose
August 2: (THIS EVENT HAS PASSED)
Tim R. Price and Friends featuring Tim R. Price, piano; Carl Herder, bass; Jeff Hanson, drums; David Dolengewicz, sax.
Featured Nonprofit: 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.
Featured Nonprofit: St. Anthony's Padua Dining Room, Menlo Park .
All shows feature the scat stylings of jazz vocalist, Laura Michele
**Bring food/clothing donations to any concert to be entered in a drawing for a box of 8 chocolates from Creative Confections! (Please see below)
Chocolate Raffle!
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:
*New or lightly used clothing
*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!
Frequently asked questions
These are house concerts held in the backyard of a modest, private residence in Midtown, Palo Alto. Please visit the RSVP link (in blue, above) to obtain the address.
Guest will receive a box of two fair-trade, hand-painted chocolates made with ethically sourced, organic filling ingredients: hazelnut gianduja (organic, caramelized hazelnut paste mixed with dark-milk chocolate) in a dark-milk chocolate shell and cardamom caramel in a dark chocolate shell. Mmmm...
Concert tickets are $30-$75, on a sliding scale. Please visit https://tinyurl.com/JazzandChocolate to purchase tickets, to RSVP and for more information.
No! The location posted on Eventbrite is only approximate! Since the event is at a private residence, we are not posting the address publicly. To receive the event address, please RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/JazzandChocolate. Thank you!
Yes. The walk from the street to the backyard is flat and has no stairs. There is some gravel on the walkway so if you are in a wheelchair, it will be a little bumpy. If you require a parking spot close to the house, please contact Laura Michele and we will save you a spot in our carport.