A benefit concert, raising funds to help Mount Si High School’s Jazz Band 1 travel to New York to perform in the Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival, starts tonight at 6:15 p.m. at Piccola Cellars, 112 W 2nd St., North Bend.

Tickets for “Little Town Blues” are $75 per person, which includes admission, heavy appetizers, desserts and a drink. To purchase tickets, visit http://www.mountsibands.org.

All proceeds go toward sending the band to the Essentially Ellington competition. All but $15 of the ticket price is tax-deductible.