Downtown Live! Friday Night Summer Concert Series ~ Bad News Jazz & Blues Orchestra

Name: Downtown Live! Friday Night Summer Concert Series ~ Bad News Jazz & Blues Orchestra
Start: 2024-07-19T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-19T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Elm Street Plaza, 48 Elm Street, downtown Westfield MA

Schedule

Fri Jul 19 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Elm Street Plaza, 48 Elm Street, downtown Westfield MA | Westfield, MA

The ArtWorks Westfield Downtown Live! Friday Night Summer Concert Series is BACK for Season Six in the heart of downtown Westfield.
Launched in the summer of 2018, in the cozy confines of the performance space adjacent to Mina's Wine & Spirits, this downtown Westfield eight-week summer concert series tradition moves across Elm Street into the new Elm Street Plaza adjacent to Blended Vintage Market Place for the 2024 season.
These FREE community musical experiences happen each Friday evening from 7-9pm from June 28th to August 16th with several rain dates built into the mix. Beverages served up by White Lion Brewing Company will be available for purchase at each performance. All bands in the 2024 line-up have a connection to Westfield! The 2024 line-up has something for everyone.
Week Four of the 2024 Downtown Live! Summer Concert Series happens on Friday July 19 featuring the Bad News Jazz and Blues Orchestra on the Westfield Bank Stage at the new Elm Street Plaza in downtown Westfield. Westfield Bank is a major supporter of ArtWorks Westfield, with a particular interest in the Downtown Live! Friday Night Summer Concert Series, so we’ve named the stage after Westfield Bank!
The Downtown Live! Friday Night Summer Concert Series is FREE to the community to attend! The performance space opens at 6:00pm, White Lion Brewery opens at 6:30pm, and the show begins at 7:00pm. Bring a lawn chair, picnic blanket and your dancing shoes! Yes there will be dancing!! Bringing alcohol into the performance space is strictly prohibited.
About Bad New Jazz & Blues Orchestra:
Jeff Gavioli and his Bad News Jazz & Blues Orchestra, featuring vocalist Cindy Reed, is known as 'The Busiest Swing Band in Western MA' with well over 25 performances during the summer of 2023, following 30 concert performances in 2022 and 20 shows in 2021.
The band made their ArtWorks Westfield Downtown Live! Concert Series debut in August 2023 and bring their high energy and kinetic audience engagement back to center city Westfield this summer season. Jeff Gavioli is a Westfield native, WHS class of 2002, and is thrilled to be bringing the big band back to his hometown!
Based out of Northampton, MA, the BNJBO has been nominated and voted Winner in the category of 'BEST LIVE JAZZ' in the Hampshire Gazette's 2023, 2022 and 2021 Reader's Polls after being voted as finalist in the 2020 Reader’s Poll.

The Bad News Jazz and Blues Orchestra is a 19 piece 'Jump, Jive and Wail' big band that carries on the excitement of the big band era by performing music of contemporary artists such as Brian Setzer Big Band, Michael Buble`, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Bruno Mars, Flying Neutrinos, Average White Band, Tower of Power and many others. The BNJBO has developed a repertoire that mixes the swing music of the 30s & 40s with the Jump, Jive and Wail music of today.
Audience members at one moment may hear the famous Sing, Sing, Sing drum solo of Gene Krupa, followed by a driving arrangement of Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen, Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York and then Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk.

In existence since 2012, the BNJBO performs at various functions in addition to the many concerts they present throughout western and central Massachusetts and has added several outstanding musicians recently, creating an incredibly tight ensemble with outstanding jazz soloists in every section of the band.

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Downtown Live! Summer Concert Series is made possible in part through the generosity of our donors and members of ArtWorks of Westfield. Consider becoming an ArtWorks Westfield supporting member or donor.
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For more on the Downtown Live! Concerts, ArtWorks Westfield events, or ways to support and become involved ArtWorks Westfield projects, visit www.ArtworksWestfield.com
About Downtown Live! Friday Night Summer Concert Series:
Entering the sixth summer season of bringing local and region musical talent to cozy confines of downtown Westfield, the Downtown Live! Friday Night Summer Concerts series is a production of ArtWorks of Westfield Inc., an all-volunteer, non-profit community organization committed to promoting diverse art and cultural experiences in the city and supported by a grant from the Westfield Cultural Council, a local agency, supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
ArtWorks Westfield major supporting underwriters include Westfield Bank, Aero Fastener and Advance MFG. Co, Inc.
Concert Sponsors include: Vivid Hair Salon & Spa; Two Rivers Burrito; City Hotel; Westfield on Weekends; Myers Information Systems; State Presentative Kelly Pease; State Senator John Velis; Lisa Oleksak-Sullivan – Realtor; Delaney's Market; Mina's Wine & Spirits; John Morizio Berkshire Hathaway Home Services; White Lion Brewing Company; Kirby Productions; Richard "Kick" Sullivan III Lyon & Fitzpatrick LLP; BEYOND BUILDERS | Gene Borowski Lambson Square; Carellas Insurance Agency, Inc.; Wagner Rug & Flooring
About ArtWorks of Westfield Inc.:
ArtWorks of Westfield Inc., a local arts & cultural organization promoting the rich and talented artistic diversity of Westfield and the surrounding communities, is a tax exempt organization under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501 (c) (3). Membership and donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Our mission is to create and promote the widest variety of Cultural Arts, Literary Arts, Musical Events, and Performing Arts for the Westfield Community and to collaborate with businesses and invested groups to develop and maintain venues for presentations and performances.
We aspire to bring together creatives and community to engage, inform, inspire, empower, educate and entertain in the heart of downtown Westfield.