Save June 17 for a night that will help support a local charity Send Hope Not Flowers. The maternal health charity - which funds safe birth programs across the Pacific - is hosting a fundraiser which also doubles as an album launch for Sydney singer Julie Kerr.

Julie was discovered by Jermaine Jackson in 2012, after the Jackson Five singer stumbled upon Kerr's music video for a song called Papergirl.

Jackson's mentorship and encouragement of her work sparked the new sound behind Kerr's latest release - an album called Carry On. Featuring heady pop layered with overtones of soul and blues, Julie and her band will play a number of new singles on the night.

Julie helped get Send Hope off the ground and wanted to do something to draw attention to the devastation caused when mothers die in childbirth across the developing world.

Tickets are $28, which is the cost of delivering a baby gift bundle to a mother in need, from npc.org.au/member_events/send-hope-not-flowers.