Poor People's United Fund

12/05/2024

Stunningly beautiful (New York City Jazz Record)

Spellbinding (The Boston Globe)

One of the best jazz ensembles in the world (Jazz Podium, Germany)
December 14, 2024- Church of the Covenant -67 Newbury St Boston MA


The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its 52nd Annual Christmas Concert featuring the premiere of Mark Harvey’s latest composition Peace, Good Will to All, inspired by Charles Ives and marking the 150th anniversary of his birth. The concert will also celebrate Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday year with several of his Sacred Concert pieces, showcasing Aardvark vocalist Grace Hughes in Tell Me It’s the Truth and Come Sunday. Jazz-infused carols will include What Child Is This, and the band will present an Aardvark perennial, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed on the very first Aardvark Christmas concert in 1973.


Tickets are $20 at the door. Proceeds will support the Poor People’s United Fund, an organization that works to alleviate the suffering of poor and homeless people in Greater Boston.

04/04/2022

Families for Justice As Healing has been working to end the incarceration of women and girls. They are at a critical moment in their fight to pass the Jail and Prison Construction Moratorium Bill. The House version of the Moratorium Bill is stuck in the Judiciary Committee and has to be voted out by April 15. We're continuing to push for the Senate Bill to get to a floor vote. Please go to their wesbite to sign up to help.

No New Women’s Prison Earlier this year, Families for Justice as Healing and the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls filed groundbreaking legislation to establish a 5-year moratorium on jail and prison construction and expansion (S.2030 and H.1905). JOIN THE...

12/29/2020

Extended to the New Year!

Feel the spirit of the season with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra's 48th Annual Christmas Concert! Join us for a virtual celebration of the classic Nutcracker Suite to benefit the Poor People's United Fund and help provide food to those in need.
Donate Here: http://ppuf.org/

Join us in celebrating Aardvark’s 48th Annual Christmas Concert as we revisit the band’s performance of the Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite, originally ...

12/18/2020

Get into the Christmas spirit with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra's 48th Annual Christmas Concert! Join us for a virtual celebration of the classic Nutcracker Suite to benefit the Poor People's United Fund and help provide food to those in need.

Donate Here: http://ppuf.org/

Join us in celebrating Aardvark’s 48th Annual Christmas Concert as we revisit the band’s performance of the Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite, originally ...

06/17/2020

https://www.facebook.com/PuertoLibre http://twitter.com/PuertoLibre1 Ella Fitzgerald - Somewhere Over The Rainbow ___________________________________________...

06/17/2020

Today would have been Kip's 94th Birthday. As a friend said, "She would have been a powerful 94 year old, if only...."
Love and miss you, Kippy!

10/04/2018

Please Join us this Saturday 10/6 @ 1pm in honoring Kip and her tireless efforts for Peace & Justice. All are WELCOME! Please share our event with all of your facebook friends. The weather looks perfect for the unveiling of her memorial on Dartmouth btw Boylston & Newbury. Thank you. ☀️🙏💗

09/17/2018

Kip Tiernan Memorial is really happening! Placed on its site last Saturday. Dedication October 6th at 1 PM! Join us to celebrate the life and work of a powerful advocate for poor and homeless people.

11/28/2017

UPCOMING!!!
..on a Musical and Christmasy Note...🎶...

Please join PPUF at the upcoming December 9th concert offered by the trumpeter-composer Mark Harvey and his effervescent Aardvark Jazz Orchestra.

Enjoy the extraordinary jazz carols and music that form the heartbeat of their historic 45th Annual Christmas concert. Partial proceeds will benefit PPUF, for which we are very grateful!!

We look forward to seeing you on December 9, 2017 at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston from 7:30-9pm!! Tickets will be sold at the door.

Admission: $20
Information: 617-452-3205 or 617-776-8778

11/20/2017

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