Save The Seraphs Benefit Concert To Be Held Thursday

The Save the Seraphs benefit concert will be held Thursday at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.

It will feature “Brian Kirk & The Jirks” and special guests “The Magic Taxis.”

The concert is part of the effort to prevent the permanent closing of Mater Dei Prep High School in Middletown.

According to a April 17 campaign update, from the Sereph Fund:

Some $1.5 million had been generated, and by that date, the fund had collected 306 of the 440 pledges and had $952,000 in cash donations.

Mater Dei will shut down as a parish high school at the end of the academic year, but supporters of the school want to reopen it in September as an independent, private Catholic high school.

The school is registering students and scheduling classes.

Parents who want to enroll their children are asked to call Dennis Tobin, the school’s athletic director and administrative assistant to the principal, at 732-671-9100 ext. 12.

Concert tickets are on sale at the Count Basie box office. Tickets cost $45 and $59, with a limited amount of VIP $125 orchestra seats available. Those VIP tickets include a pre-show cocktail party.