Jazz for Kids introduces school-age children (mainly elementary school, but open to middle school) to jazz music with an educational concert that includes jazz history, simple jazz tunes, jazzy versions of familiar children’s songs and a New Orleans-style parade. Audience participation is a key component of the concert — clapping rhythms, singing backgrounds, trying scat singing and marching in the parade with hand percussion instruments. After the education piece of the program, the Jazz for Kids band, consisting of five musicians, will present a musical instrument “petting zoo” in which children will have the opportunity to try all the band’s instruments. The program will be held at the Waverly branch of Enoch Pratt Library, which is accessible and within one block of the 32nd St. Farmers Market, where outreach for the program will take place on Saturdays leading up to the proposed program. We expect that all children and families who participate will gain greater knowledge and appreciation of jazz music and the instruments which are typically played in that style.