Jacquelyn’s Jewels 2026

A Jazz Dinner Gala benefiting Maranathan Academy, a nonprofit alternative school for critically at-risk children and adults.
About this Event

Awards Dinner: 5:30 PM (Table or Premium Ticket Purchase Required)

Jazz Concert: 7:00 PM

Jacquelyn’s Jewels is a jazz gala celebrating humanitarianism, great jazz, education, and sealing the juvenile offender to penitentiary pipeline. The gala benefits Maranathan Academy, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) alternative school exclusively for critically at-risk youth and adult students. Maranathan Academy’s primary goal is breaking intergenerational cyclical dependency on government assistance.

Attendees will be inspired by honorees Barbara Royal and Stanley Virciglio, and captivated by an extraordinary evening of performances featuring Elias Hendricks of Vox Fortura, a Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist; international jazz legend Marion Meadows; and iconic Grammy-nominated vocalist Kenny Lattimore.