Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Clave & Blues

Allerton Overlook, Olmsted Park 198 Allerton Street, Brookline

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents Clave & Blues, featuring Blue Ocean Project, at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! Clave & Blues is a young Cuban Music and Latin Jazz band that performs at several venues in the Boston area since 2014. The mix between Afro-Cuban rhythms Blues, R&B, and World music creates a contemporary sound that give this band its place in the New England music scene. The group includes professional musicians from Berklee College…

Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Henry Acker Jazz Trio

Allerton Overlook, Olmsted Park 198 Allerton Street, Brookline

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents the Henry Acker Jazz Trio at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! Henry Acker is a fifteen year old jazz guitarist in the style of Django Reinhardt and with abilities far beyond his years. After playing for only six years, he has already shared the stage with jazz greats Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola, Julian Lage and Andreas Oberg as well as Gypsy Jazz legends Samson Schmitt, Mozes Rosenberg, Adrien Moignard, Joscho…

Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Metropolitan Wind Symphony

Pinebank Promontory Jamaica Plain, United States

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents the Metropolitan Wind Symphony at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! The Metropolitan Wind Symphony was founded by Jerry Gardner in 1971, and was awarded the prestigious 2015 Sudler Silver Scroll Award for Community Concert Bands by the John Philip Sousa Foundation. The Symphony is made up of over 60 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists who audition for membership and seating. MetWinds presents formal performances of traditional and contemporary wind…

Summer on the Emerald Necklace: Hawthorn

Pinebank Promontory Jamaica Plain, United States

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy presents Hawthorn at Summer on the Emerald Necklace! Working from the belief that tradition is made to evolve, the women of Hawthorn chart a creative course through Appalachian and Celtic roots to the present-day. Jamaica Plain locals Heather Scott and Taylor Holland craft songs with “a weight that sits with you long after their audible presence fades” (Red Line Roots). “When they harmonize, the edges of their voices bleed together like…

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