Jam to raise money for Jubilee Café
Concert organizers hope to gain enough donations to cover holiday operations
Jubilee café experiences a rise in expected costs during the holiday season, so three bands are playing today to help cover some of those costs. The Noise FM, Midnight Vinyl and Darren Denny are playing at Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union at 7 p.m.
Friday, November 30th, 2007
A concert benefiting Jubilee Café tonight will feature three local bands, and 100 percent of the profit will go toward the café.
The concert is in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union at 7 p.m. The bands performing are The Noise FM, Midnight Vinyl and Darren Denney. There is no admission fee, but those who attend are asked to donate $5.
Jubilee Café is constantly in need of funding, and Mark Darling, Leavenworth senior and organizer of the event, hopes the event, which he has been planning since September, will raise several hundred dollars.
Bryan Wassenberg, Marysville junior and coordinator of the café, said the hoped the donations from the concert, along with other recent donations, would give the café enough money for the holiday season. The café needs about $300 a week to function.
“The busy parts of the year get really hard because it takes students to set things up and get things running, and when midterms are coming around, funding gets put to the wayside,” Wassenberg said. “Right now everyone is getting ready for finals and not really thinking about that stuff.”
Darren Denney, Leavenworth freshman and singer and guitarist of his band, said this was the perfect way for him to help a good cause.
“There’s not too many places like Jubilee to begin with,” Denney said. “Students can come to the show and have a good time, and beyond that, they are helping people eat, and that’s especially important around the holidays.”
Denney said his band played alternative music similar to Incubus or the Foo Fighters. The Noise FM is an alternative band that plays shows across the Midwest. Midnight Vinyl is a ska band that has won the McCollum Hall battle of the bands recently.
Jubilee Café serves breakfast to those in need every Tuesday and Friday morning in restaurant style at First United Methodist Church.
Kelli Stout, Derby senior, is the co-director of the Center for Community Outreach, which is sponsoring the concert. “Jubilee Café is such a great thing, because it has been around so long and it goes through winter break,” Stout said. “It’s something these people count on, and it’s so important that the students here connect with the community.”
— Edited by Jeff Briscoe
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