Previous Fundraisers
Brunch to Benefit Parents Count March 17, 2013
A brunch
to benefit Parents Count will be held on Sunday March 17, 2013.
We again
had hot dogs for the children and also Marie’s famous lemon
pound cake.
Was held
at the Princeton Unitarian Church,
Parents
Count Jazz Fundraising Event May 3rd
Parents Count announced a gala event featuring the Clifford
Adams Quartet with special guests and Doris Spears, the Duchess
of Jazz.
On Friday,
May 3rd, we mingled at the Unitarian Universalist Church in
Princeton, NJ to celebrate a wonderful evening of vibrant music,
hors d’oeuvres, and lots of surprising prizes. The festivities
took place from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
PHOTOS
FROM THIS FUND RAISER ARE HERE
Clifford Adams has been playing live jazz since he was
17 years old and performed with Patti Labelle and the Bluebells.
Over the years he has played at Trenton jazz club, the Fantasy
Lounge, with such greats as Sonny Stitt, James Moody, George
Benson, Shirley Scott, Gene Ammons, Don Patterson, and Charles
Earland. In 1973, Clifford was with the horn section during
the Stylistics world tour. Later, he went on to perform with
Kool and the Gang for many years, and his trombone solo can
be heard in the hit song “Joanna.” Clifford has since
recorded a number of solo albums including “The Master
Power,” “Cliff Notes,” and “Love’s
Gonna Get You.”
'The Duchess', Doris Spears was born in the Mississippi
Delta and partially raised in Gary Indiana and Chicago IL, where
as a teen-ager she immersed herself in the music of Jazz, Blues
and R & B. By the time she was 17 she was already singing
professionally in Chicago Jazz clubs and concert halls. In the
80's Lionel Hampton met Doris at the New York Public Library
in Bryant Park, invited her to audition, and immediately asked
her to tour with him. The rest, as they say, is history. "A
Tribute to Billie Holiday" and "The Duchess: Jazz
& Juke Joints" are two of her most popular CD's.
Parents Count is an anonymous, confidential support group and
educational organization designed to help parents prevent child
abuse and neglect. In 2007, the last year for which we have statistics,
there were 2 million reports of child abuse and neglect.
Parents
Count focuses on parents as the primary avenue for prevention
and believes parents are the source of the creative changes
that must take place for this situation to reverse itself.
Aall
proceeds of these events went towards helping Parents Count
to make a difference.
Contact: Joyce Mohamoud (Sadly passed
in 2021)
We held
a couple of fund raisers in the past. A link to one of them
is HERE.
