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# Browne in this season, jamming for art’s sake
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/browne-in-this-season-jamming-for-arts-sake/
- Published: 2005-06-02T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:13:22.000Z
- Author: Carolyn Sackariason
- Tags: Education, Malibu, #archive-import

SAMOHI — Legendary singer and songwriter Jackson Browne will perform on campus this weekend, hoping to raise thousands of dollars for arts programs in the local school district.

Proceeds from the benefit concert will go to the Education Foundation of Santa Monica-Malibu’s For The Arts Endowment Fund, which to date has raised $1.5 million of its $15 million goal.

For The Arts, a campaign of the Education Foundation of Santa Monica- Malibu, is a community-wide effort with a goal to ensure that each student in public schools receives a broad introduction to the arts — music, visual arts, dance and drama — through the creation of a permanent endowment fund.

A portion of the proceeds from the Jackson Browne concert will go to specific music programs in the neediest schools next year: third grade general music in the four Title 1 elementary schools; fourth and fifth grade choral music in the four Title 1 elementary schools; and Dream Winds, which provides semi-private instrumental music instruction, at two Santa Monica middle schools. Additional money raised by the concert will be put into the endowment specifically for music programs within the Santa Monica- Malibu Unified School District.

Browne, who has a nephew in the local school district, has been a supporter of local schools for years. He performed last year with local band Venice at Santa Monica High School’s Barnum Hall, which raised tens of thousands of dollars for For the Arts.

The Education Foundation of Santa Monica-Malibu, established in 1982, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, supporting and enhancing a comprehensive range of programs within the school district.

The foundation’s mission is to raise funds in support of literacy, arts, science, technology, sports and enhancements to existing curricula. The foundation’s goal is to ensure an equitable and vibrant educational experience for Santa Monica and Malibu students with the support of the community, according to its organizers.

Linda Gross, executive director of the foundation, said the fundraising goal is nearly reached for two of the four disciplines targeted in the endowment — $25,000 is still needed for dance programs and $50,000 is still needed for drama programs at the high school level. The total endowment for the two disciplines is $400,000, with a grant given each year to expand the already existing programs.

Gross hopes to raise the remaining money so the grant can be administered this fall.

“Once we are through this weekend, I definitely will do nothing but hunt down donors to give us that money,” she said. “Those programs will get $20,000 a year and while it might not seem like a lot, it is absolutely $20,000 more than they had.”

Jackson Browne, Ozomatli and Venice will perform outdoors on the Samohi campus at the Memorial Greek Theatre on Sunday, June 5, beginning at 2 p.m.

In addition to the general and reserved seating available through TicketMaster, special gold and silver seating packages are available at www.guacfund.org.

The concert is produced by The Guacamole Fund and House of Blues Concerts in association with Artists For The Arts, a non-profit foundation dedicated to producing fundraising concerts to benefit arts and music programs in public schools.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 2, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/060205.pdf?ref=smdp.com)