Jane Lui plays many instruments. Her collection includes an acoustic steel string guitar, a classical nylon string guitar, a glockenspiel, a small Casio keyboard, a gigantic spring water jug, a bass drum, shakers, an accordion and, on top of that, whatever she can find around the house.

In her latest video, “Rainbow Connections,” viewers can see her hitting cardboard as snare drums. In fact, Lui said she often takes sticks and mallets and proceeds to hit random objects, searching for the perfect sound.

“Everything is game: the sink, washer, dryer, bathtub. The floor is great actually,” Lui said. “There’s something really beautiful about finding sound in anything, in everyday objects, in a rubber band or a stapler, because after all, we live around these objects, and we don’t have to categorize them,” Lui said.

Thursday night, Lui will be the headliner for China Care Bruins’ fourth annual Awareness Night, along with two other performers, Goh Nakamura and Yasmeen Al-Mazeedi. The theme of the event is “Orphan Relief,” and audiences are encouraged to donate to provide surgeries for orphans in China.

Lui, who performed at last year’s Awareness Night, said she was excited to return and wanted to bring something new to the table.

“Last year, I had my band with me the whole time. This year, I’m going to have some new material. I’m going to do partially a solo set, just to switch it up a bit,” Lui said.

Michelle Hong, a fourth-year physiological sciences student and China Care Bruins chief outreach director, said she brought Lui back to perform because Kerckhoff is such an appropriate venue for acoustic artists.

“Kerckhoff Grand Salon has amazing acoustics and the ambiance of that venue is intimate. Jane liked the venue last time. The type of music she plays is very soulful, ballad-style and slightly upbeat, like Jason Mraz,” Hong said.

Lui directed the University of California at San Diego Tritones for two to three years and then went on to do clinician work with UCLA’s Scattertones. The Scattertones are also featured in one of her songs, “New Jersey,” from her newest album, “Goodnight Company.”

“The sound (of my album) is handmade; it has quirky qualities in it. … It’s classically influenced because I studied different types of music. I put different genres into my kind of music. (It has) a hand-crafted feeling,” Lui said.

After winning 2008’s Kollaboration, an event that provides a musical platform for Asians and Pacific Islanders, Lui went on to post YouTube videos to reach a larger audience. Lui said YouTube artists David Choi and Kina Grannis gave her advice with social media, and now her videos have received more than 2 million views.

Nakamura, another performer in Awareness Night and a fellow YouTube artist, said he has known Lui for 10 years. Recently, he played at Los Angeles’ Giant Robot with her. At the Awareness Night, he will perform one of his newest songs, “Walk.”

For Nakamura, the easiest part of his creative process is writing the music.

“Maybe I’ll be listening to an old Motown song and I’ll get really excited about it, but I want to do my own take on it,” Nakamura said. “I want audiences to get lost in the melodies. It’s not really about me. These songs are my kids.”

Lui also said she wants audiences to connect with her songs and realize the beauty of sound.

“I want it to be their decision, and their choice to pick a memory and connect with the song that way. Songs make them remember something, a nostalgic thing,” Lui said.