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Final Line-up for 4th Annual JP Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014!

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The free, 4th annual JP Music Festival will be held at Pinebank Field on Saturday, September 6, 2014 from 12–7 PM. Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/261461284013483/. The festival will have two stages, with continuous music from more than 20 artists and bands. The festival features musicians, bands, group, or ensemble members who either live or work in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. This year, Jamaica Plain-based Samuel Adams is donating use of a trolley to take residents to and from Pinebank field before and during the festival with live acoustic music on-board.

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Jamaica Plain Music Festival

4th annual JP Music Festival

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The free, 4th annual JP Music Festival will be held at Pinebank Field on Saturday, September 6, 2014 from 12–7 PM. RSVP on Facebook. The festival will have two stages, with continuous music from more than 20 artists and bands. The festival features musicians, bands, group, or ensemble members who either live or work in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. This year, Jamaica Plain-based Samuel Adams is donating use of two trolleys to take residents to and from Pinebank field before and during the festival with live acoustic music on-board.

Posters for various JP Music Festival Fundraisers
Arts

Before It Raises the Roof, Here’s How the JP Music Festival Raises the Money

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Running a free community event like the JP Music Festival is great fun — even behind the scenes. The festival itself brings together the people of JP and Boston (and many Brooklinites sneak over the border) to celebrate great, local, live music. Every year the thousands of people who come discover just how much amazing musical talent lives and works in our ‘hood. As a group of JP residents (okay, a couple of us have migrated to Dorchester), part of the fun of putting on a free community event is raising the money to pull it all off. The committee is led by Rick Berlin and Shamus Moynihan as co-producers and the festival committee is currently Margie Nicoll, Kellie Cardone, Justin McCarthy, Ferris Mueller, and Charles McEnerney.

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Morning Memo

Democratic Hopefuls for Governor to Hold Forum at Curley School

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Rise and shine, JP. Here's your Morning Memo for Tuesday, June 10. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates to Hold Forum in JP: Here's something I'd like to put on your radar, even though it's not until next Monday. The Ward 19 Democratic Committee is among the sponsors of a forum involving all the Democrats aiming to take Deval Patrick's place. The incumbent isn't running.

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Ian Adams' "Bald Guy With Octopus Neck" is one of the items up for silent auction at Art4Music on Sunday to benefit the JP Music Festival.
Morning Memo

Buy Art, Help the Jamaica Plain Music Festival

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Hello neighborhood, here's your Morning Memo for all things JP for Thursday, May 29. Add Great Art to Your Life, Support the Music Festival: On Sunday it's the single biggest fundraiser for one of JP's great events —— the JP Music Festival. "Art4Music" will be held at James's Gate, 5 McBride St., on Sunday from 1-5 p.m. You can RSVP at this Facebook page. And here's a gallery of the great local art available in the silent auction. Emily Rooney Stepping Down from "Greater Boston": One of the city's best civic affairs programs will be getting a new host come January.

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Logo of the Jamaica Plain Music Festival

Jamaica Plain Music Festival Announces Date, Sponsors

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Mark your calendars. This year's edition of the Jamaica Plain Music Festival is Saturday, Sept. 6. The annual celebration of bands with JP connections rolls into its fourth year with some nifty new elements. One that I especially like is that Sam Adams will donate use of two "party trollies" to ferry residents to the concert venues at Pinebank Field at Jamaica Pond.

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The White Squirrel of Jamaica Pond, circa August 2007

Throwback Thursday: The White Squirrel of Jamaica Pond

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Each weekday we post a random image from around the neighborhood. On Thursdays we reach into the photo archive of the Jamaica Plain Historical Society. Today we've got a real gem. Remember the Albino Squirrel of Jamaica Pond? This famous furry denizen lives on as the symbol of the JP Music Festival.

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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh
Business

Meet Mayor Walsh During First Thursday Art Walk

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Mayor Marty Walsh will be attending the Jamaica Plain News launch party on Thursday during his visit to First Thursday throughout Centre/South — please stop by and meet him. We're hosting the launch party with JP Centre/South Main Streets as the business development organization relaunches the First Thursday Art Walk. All along the Centre/South corridor there'll be music, food and drink tastings and lots of art in the various businesses and offices. The party is from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at 668 Centre St. That's the old Verizon store, between City Feed and the Smoke Shop.

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