An evening of big band jazz, featuring St. Louis Park High School music students and the University of Minnesota Jazz Band will be the focus of the annual spring arts event sponsored by the St. Louis Park Public Schools Foundation.

The University Jazz Band will be under the direction of renowned composer/conductor, Dean Sorenson, and Dr. Lance Strickland, who led the Park High band and jazz lab until his retirement in 2000, will be a featured guest.

The event, a fundraiser to benefit teacher-led enrichment programs for Park’s K-12th grade students, will be held Wednesday, March 25, at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. A dessert reception will follow the performance.

Tickets are $20 each, and can be ordered online or by mail. Information and instructions can be found at: http://www.slppsf.org....