The Soular Jazz Festival will be celebrating its fifth year of bringing Worcester County residents and beyond red hot jazz and cool green technology. Founders Ed Harlow (a well known saxophonist, composer, arranger and teacher) and Kathleen Howland Harlow (a professor at Berklee College of Music and Algonquin School Committee member) feel that the microphone is a place for inspiring as well as entertaining. They have matched renewable energy displays and activities with 6 live bands in this community, family event.
This year will mark the 5th annual festival to be held on the lawn at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church at 40 Church St. in Northborough on June 15 from 11 AM to 6 PM. The church was key to the founding of Northborough in 1746 and is still making history today. Bring a chair or a blanket and settle in for a day of fun!
The Soular Jazz Festival features local jazz artists from the faculty of the Berklee College of Music and exceptional local high school jazz bands playing on a solar powered stage. The schedule is as follows:
11 am: The Advanced Math and Science Academy jazz lab bands
12 pm: Wolverine Jazz Band- one of New England’s favorite bands playing red hot New Orleans jazz
1:15 pm: Algonquin Regional High School jazz band
2:15 pm: The Gringo Kings- Ed Harlow’s 8 piece Latin Jazz band that rocks the house (or the tent) every year
3:30 pm: Newton South Jazz Combo
4:30 pm: George Russell, Jr.& Lydia Harrell- George is a favorite professor amongst his peers at the Berklee College. His piano playing and buoyant energy win over audiences around the world!
The green activities of the day will include solar oven displays and demonstrations, electric car meet, solar powered landscaping equipment, a poster session of inspiration and invitation to action, and experiments with a parabolic mirror.
Family fun will include a Sun Fun New Orleans parade (bring a mask, umbrella or scarf to wave) and an arts table.
Food will be available, cooked from scratch to meet all dietary preferences and needs. Some of the food will be prepared in solar ovens which will be on display. Composting will be available to reduce any waste.