COTTONWOOD - MUHS senior Kourtni Nelson is working through the school's Interact Club to sponsor a Hope for Haiti Concert Friday night in the school auditorium starting at 7.
"It's open for any age group," Kourtni said. "We have four bands."
Those bands are Sean Williams; Pulsic; Beautiful Mourning; and Rome Falling. Kourtni said most of the bands are alternative but one is acoustic.
"We'll also have multiple solo artists," she said.
Proceeds from the concert will go to Haitian relief organizations. Kourtni said she will probably donate the money to Yele Haiti, a foundation started by musician Wyclef Jean.
Like many young people in her age group, Kourtni was touched by the devastation of the 7.0 earthquake in southern Haiti Jan. 12.
"It was just everything that was going on," she said. "I felt helpless."
Kourtni said she was thinking about what she could do.
"I came up with the idea," Kourtni said. Then she went to the school administration to see about using the auditorium. But she learned that as an individual she'd have to pay hundreds of dollars to use the facility. So she enlisted the help of the Interact Club, an in-school service club sponsored by Rotary.
Now she's keeping her fingers crossed that the concert will draw a good crowd. "I would love to get 350 people there," she said. "I'd be the happiest girl in Cottonwood."
