The UMBC student organization Music for World Peace (MWP) has spent several months organizing a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims, to be held Tuesday, March 27. Now, the group is depending on the UMBC and Baltimore communities to help MWP meet its goal to raise over $5,000 for families in need. Tickets are $10 for the UMBC community (available at The Commons Information Desk), $15 for the general public (online at Walther Productions) and $85+ for VIP seating, buffet and reception. All proceeds will benefit displaced families via the AmeriCorps’ ongoing Gulf Coast deployment fund.

The concert—to be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the UMBC Recital Hall (Fine Arts Building, 1st Floor)—will feature UMBC’s Mama’s Boys A cappella group and the UMBC Gospel Choir, as well as seven-year-old music prodigy and comedian Marc Yu. Yu has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Local congressmen and senators have also been invited to attend.

“As students and members of a global community it is our obligation to remain informed of the needs of others,” said Benjamin Link, MWP president. “The media hype surrounding hurricane Katrina has died down but the need is still great. I am confident that the UMBC community will once again demonstrate its worth in the greatest way possible, by serving others.”

MWP is grateful for generous event support from UMBC’s Office of the Vice-President of Student Affairs, Chevy Chase Bank, Sodexho food services and the Washington Post.

For more information, please email katrinabenefit@umbc.edu or call 443-465-2327.