Seventh-annual Salem Jazz and Soul Festival set for next weekend

SALEM, Mass. - Aug. 8, 2013 - PRLog -- 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 ArudaWakening. 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 Albino Mbie, 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.

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


(Please note, The Soul of a Man has been replaced with Albino Mbie, a recent Berklee college of Music graduate who performed in July’s Berklee/SJSF Summer Series.)