Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean and the group Jurassic 5 will be coming to Harvard for a May 6 show, Undergraduate Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 announced yesterday.

Though the contracts have yet to be signed, Lee said both acts have verbally agreed to perform next week.

The show will take place at the Bright Hockey Center, which seats roughly 3,000, and ticket prices will be $32.50 for people with Harvard ID’s and $37.50 for non-Harvard affiliates.

“Jurassic 5 is really popular at Harvard and Wyclef is such a big artist we thought that the two would make a really great, show,” said Lee.

The announcement comes one week after the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) said that the group Outkast would not be coming to Harvard because HCC’s bid of $55,000 was far below the group’s normal fee.

The concert will be the first HCC show in the Bright Hockey Center, a venue the commission has worked for months with the College’s administration to secure.

Lee said that Bright’s large seating capacity relative to Sander Theater makes booking popular and expensive bands possible while keeping ticket prices reasonable for students.

Lee said that despite the $55,000 the HCC will pay to the performers and the tens of thousands it will spend to produce the show, the commission will likely break even or make a small profit.

Growing Pains

Next week’s event will be a major victory for the HCC, which has faced numerous obstacles since it held its first concert last winter—a successful Sanders Theater show featuring The Roots and Black Eyed Peas.

The first troubles occurred last spring, as the HCC tried to secure the band Dispatch for a spring concert.

A high-ranking Undergraduate Council member who spoke under the condition of anonymity said Lee may have violated council by-laws by placing a bid on the band without permission from the council.

“She sent off what she thought was just a non-bindng bid,” the council member said. “She thought she was just finding out if Dispatch would be available for a certain price, but she was legally bound to pay that price and have the concert that date.”

After Dispatch accepted the $12,500 bid, the plan was shown to college administrators who, according to the council member, rejected the spring date of the proposed concert.

“We were bound by the contract for a date in the spring at that price, and we couldn’t do the concert for the spring,” the council member said.