September 20, 2005 @ 3:27 pm

Jill Scott, T.I. to Take Your Order at Hurricane Benefit

by: Alyssa Rashbaum

Those artists and others will mingle and serve lunch to guest donors at the International Association of African American Music Foundation to host a fundraiser luncheon to benefit hurricane victims on September 24 from 11:30 am to 4 pm at New York City's Negril Village Restaurant at 70 West Third Street (between Thompson Street and LaGuardia Place). There will also be live and silent auctions with celebrity-donated items, including a Grand Bahamas Island vacation featuring roundtrip coach airfare, two-nights hotel accommodations and VIP tickets and backstage passes to Kool & the Gang’s concert performance; a personalized voicemail message sung by Will Downing; songwriting lessons and an autographed CD from Grammy winning songwriter Gordon Chambers; private makeup lessons from makeup artist to the stars Nzingha; an autographed skateboard from Dirty Ghetto Kids star Stevie Williams; and art from Philadelphia’s renowned October Gallery.

right Other auction items include donations from Destiny’s Child, Jaguar Wright, E. Lynn Harris, Musiq and Eric Benet, and gift packs from Atlantic, Sony and Jive. Event attendance donations are $25 at the door and $25 for lunch. Proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit a local New Orleans Grassroots Organization.

Tonight, The Highlands in Hollywood will host the "Hollywood Soaks Up Katrina" benefit, an evening of live music, comedy and a celebrity poker tournament, with proceeds going to The New Orleans Police Department and other charitable organizations. Among the three main rooms featured at the event will be The Concert Room, which will host performances by multi-ethnic hip hop collective LA Symphony, Vegas crooner Richard Cheese, Pull No Punches featuring Bokeem Woodbine and DJ Motive8 from the Black Eyed Peas. Admission to this room is $40 per ticket.

The other two rooms will feature a burlesque show, Brazilian dancers, and top shelf liquor. There will also be a prize raffle for $20 per ticket, featuring products from Prada, Kate Spade, Nike and more. For more information, check out www.hollywoodsuks.org.