Seventh-annual Salem Jazz and Soul Festival set for weekend of Aug.17-18

SALEM, Mass. - July 22, 2013 - PRLog -- The 2013 Salem Jazz and Soul Festival will take place the weekend of Aug. 17-18 at the Salem Willows. The two day concert will feature performances by 12 bands from the Boston area, New York and northern Vermont.

The two-day, free festival will also include a music-education tent, a kids’ tent, a 21-plus beer pavilion and more than 30 artists selling hand-made goods. It will run from 11:15 a.m. to 7 p.m. both days.

The Salem High School Jazz band will open Saturday’s concert, followed by Tough Love Trio, Qwill and the Soul Review Project, Eric Reardon and Noe Socha, and Aruda Wakening. Dwight & Nicole – featuring Dwight Ritcher and Nicole Nelson -- a recent contestant on NBC’s “The Voice” – will headline Saturday.

Sunday will open with the North Shore Jazz Project All-Stars, followed by The Soul of a Man, Tough Tenors: Mike Tucker and Gordon Beadle, Greg Luttrell, and Diane Blue and Toni Lynn Washington. Turkuaz, a 10-piece funk band out of Brooklyn, will headline Sunday.

DJ Radio Scotvoid will spin between sets and Brian Gordon will emcee along with festival cofounder, Henley Douglas Jr.

Salem Trolley, a festival sponsor, will offer an inexpensive shuttle to the festival, which will stop regularly at the Commuter Rail Station, National Parks Service Visitors Center on Essex Street, the Salem Ferry Landing on Blaney Street and the Bentley School, 25 Memorial Drive, where there will be additional parking. The festival encourages audience members to walk, ride bicycles or take the trolley to the Salem Willows, as parking will be limited.

The festival is a a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to producing free concerts and donating to music education causes on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

Band bios can be found at www.salemjazzsoul.org and photos are available upon request.

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SJSF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that produces free concerts for the public and raises money to support music education programs.

Salem Jazz and SoulFestival
P.O. Box 4511
Salem, MA 01970
www.salemjazzsoul.org