More Cool Hot Jazz Benefit for VNA Care features Henri Smith New Orleans Friends and Flavours

New Orleans comes to Needham with More Cool Hot Jazz, an evening to support VNA Care’s home health services and hospice care for the terminally ill in Needham and other area communities, on Friday, Sept. 30, at 6 p.m. in the Needham Golf Club, 49 Green St., Needham.

VNA Care includes VNA Care Network, VNA Hospice & Palliative Care, and the Stanley R. Tippett Hospice Home. VNA Care Network’s home health services focus on helping people with injuries and illnesses, such as COPD, cardiac disease, diabetes, total joint replacement and wounds, improve their health while continuing to live independently. When an illness is terminal, VNA Hospice & Palliative Care brings comfort and support to patients and their loved ones. Hospice care is provided in patients’ homes and the Stanley R. Tippett Hospice Home in Needham.

More Cool Hot Jazz kicks off with a cocktail party and cash bar, hors d’oeuvres, carving station, and silent auction at 6 p.m. Henri Smith New Orleans Friends and Flavours will perform at 7 p.m.

Henri Smith was born and raised in the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans. Today he thrills audiences with his sophisticated and dramatic vocal delivery of jazz, blues, Creole, and Cajun flavored music, touring extensively throughout the United States and Europe. He frequently performed and served as the emcee at The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the largest Jazz festival in the world. Hurricane Katrina took Smith’s home in New Orleans, so he now lives on Cape Ann, where he shares his Creole and Cajun heritage.

The evening also features dancing, dessert and live auction. Tickets for the benefit are $60 per person and may be purchased at www.vnacare.org/jazz or by calling 888-663-3688, ext. 1361.

More Cool Hot Jazz is organized by VNA Care’s Needham Area Community Cabinet, volunteers dedicated to raising awareness of and support for the agency’s nonprofit mission of caring. Gold sponsors of More Cool Hot Jazz are Louise Condon Realty and Mutual of America.