Steven and Clarissa Kirsch, formerly of Stephen’s Jewelers, have donated a ladies 1 diamond ring (worth $3,000) with a round brilliant cut and green center diamond to raffle at the Jazz Society’s Mardi Gras Costume Ball & Contest on Saturday, March 2 in the Hotel Hot Springs. Proceeds from the Mardi Gras provide funds for the Jazz Society’s University of Arkansas in Monticello jazz camp scholarships as well as free and low cost concerts.
All evening, new and exciting diversions are planned: a costume contest for $1,000 in cash prizes; an extraordinary silent auction; dancing to two exceptional bands; honoring Queen Jazz VII and her King Jazz VII, Dana and Don Gooch; juggling, magic, and singing….and the list goes on. There will be Mardi Gras cuisine and adult beverages for purchase. While costumes are not required, it sure does make the evening fun.
The Mardi Gras Costume Ball & Contest is on Saturday, March 2, from 6:00pm till the fun ends (if it ever ends) in the Hotel Hot Springs’ Ballroom (305 Malvern Ave.) Get your friends together to make a table of ten for only $600. Tables and tickets ($60 pp) are online at HSJazzSociety.org or call 501-627-2425.
This is the only fundraising event presented by the Hot Springs Jazz Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to perpetuating, promoting and preserving Jazz Music, an original American art form. The Jazz Society is funded in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, Hot Springs Advertising and Promotion Commission, Morris Foundation, and Elisabeth Wagner Foundation along with numerous other corporate and private sponsors.
