Saturday August 9th, 2018 – Berklee / Derby Square series with Jas and Chums 5pm-7pm @ Derby Square, Salem
Saturday August 18th, 2018 – Day 1 of the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival 11am-7pm @ Salem Willows Park
Sunday August 19th, 2018 – Day 2 of the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival @ Salem Willows Park
Today’s Derby Square show (5/12/2018) has been moved to Koto restaurant at 90 Washington St Salem, MA due to expected rain. Please join us there from 5-7pm! Music by Aman Sagar.
We are happy to kick off our 2018 season with Jazz Appreciation Day on April 7th at the Salem Five Community room (210 Essex St) from 2-4 pm! Come down and say hello and listen to the amazing North Shore Jazz Project All-Stars!
Many thanks to everyone for a wonderful 2017 season! Looking forward to 2018!
Our next MusicKidz with Dara VanRemoortel will take place on Monday Nov 6th from 4pm to 5pm @ the Community Room at 135 Lafayette Street in Salem.
We need YOUR HELP to put on the funkiest little festival on the North Shore! See our Volunteering page for more details!
The Salem Jazz and Soul Festival will produce its 8th-annual City of Salem Jazz Appreciation Day concert in early April in downtown Salem.
Kicking off Jazz Appreciation Month in April, this event is coordinated in partnership between the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival and the City of Salem. Salem Five, a major festival sponsor, has donated the venue for the concert, which is free to the public.
The free show will take place in the Salem Five Community Room on the Essex Street Walking Mall, on Saturday, April 8, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Performing this year will be the North Shore Jazz Project (NSJP) All Stars, a big band made up of the North Shore’s premier high school-aged jazz musicians, directed by professional saxophonist Mike Tucker.
“The NSJP All Stars play our main festival each year, and the crowds are impressed by their talent. We want them to be featured at Jazz Appreciation Day,” said Ian Cannon the festival’s board president. “Having these young musicians on stage is at the core of what the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival is about – providing students with an opportunity to perform at no cost to the public.”
This show will open the festival’s eleventh season of producing free concerts and supporting music-education causes throughout the North Shore.
In the coming months, the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival (SJSF), a volunteer-run nonprofit, will put on:
Please visit www.salemjazzsoul.org for more information.
Today we ‘Celebrated the Life’ of our dear friend Jenny Reardon. She was our confidant, sister, mother, wife, ‘Keeper of Secrets’ and ‘Creator of Comfort and Joy’ for the thousands who passed through the doors of her public living room … affectionately referred to as ‘The Pig’. Formerly referred to as ‘In A Pig’s Eye’, the corner restaurant and watering hole in Salem, of which she and her husband Jonathan owned for decades.
Harmony Grove Cemetery’s tiny chapel was packed with Jenny’s friends and family this morning, so much so that hundreds of people packed the pews and aisles, shoulder-to-shoulder, to honor her. More people stood outside in the cold as snow began to come down, the start of what would eventually turn into a New England blizzard. The service was full of stories, song — and a little worship — and Jenny’s son Eric bravely accompanied Helen Watson-Felt and Sarah Seminski for some of Jenny’s favorite songs. The morning was capped off with renditions of “Amazing Grace” and “When the Saints go Marching in,” with festival co-founder and saxophonist Henley Douglas Jr. leading everyone out of the chapel.
Jenny leaves a hole we can’t imagine could ever be filled, yet simultaneously leaves an indelible mark on all things music in Salem. Heck the entire North Shore… but more precisely… well beyond. In addition to her many charitable contributions and volunteer work throughout the years, Jenny and her husband were founding members of the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival, now approaching its 11th season.
And it is this mark on the local music scene left by our dear friend that we announce that the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival’s board of directors has voted to dedicate the 2017 season to the memory of Jennifer Reardon. Additionally, we have permanently renamed our title sponsor to the “Jennifer Reardon Title Sponsorship” and will have a New Orleans-style second line in her honor at the Willows this summer.
We love you Jenny… and we thank you!
Click here to read more about Jenny’s incredible journey. And don’t forget to save the date for this year’s main festival August 19th and 20th. Let’s continue celebrating Jenny’s life and all the great things still happening in her name.
August 28, 2016 – Salem, MA – Bassist Ryder Hambley of Rowley, 22, a member of the NSJP All Stars while a student at Ipswich High School, recently graduated from Berklee College of Music. His band, Makutu, is up for the award from “The Deli,” an online magazine focusing on the music scene in major cities known for music.
The contest is open until Aug. 31 and votes can be cast at http://newengland.thedelimagazine.com/snacks. Makutu bills itself as a band that plays “Ambient Gloom/Spooky Indie Rock.” Its Band Camp page is https://makutuband.bandcamp.com/releases.
Hambley, a 2012 graduate of Ipswich High, was also a member of the North Shore Youth Symphony Orchestra. He won the 
Louis Armstrong award while in high school and was named Most Valuable Player at the Northeast District Festival for the Massachusetts Association for Jazz Education.
Additionally, he has shared the stage with Danilo Perez at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, with the All Stars, and has played the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival multiple times under the tutelage of NSJP All Stars director Mike Tucker.
His parents employed the state’s School Choice Program to get him into Ipswich High so he could study under the direction of Gerald Dolan, now the director of fine arts for Ipswich Public Schools.
The Salem Jazz and Soul Festival is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that produces free concerts for the public and raises money to support music education programs. Learn more at SalemJazzSoul.org
The LINEUP, SCHEDULE, FAQs, PARKING etc. for the 10th annual Salem Jazz and Soul Festival. All the info you need FOUND HERE.