Salem Jazz and Soul Festival

Seventh-annual Salem Jazz
and Soul Festival set for weekend of Aug.17-18

The 2013 Salem Jazz and Soul Festival will take place the weekend of Aug. 17-18 at the Salem Willows. The
two day concert will feature performances by 12 bands from the Boston area, New York and northern Vermont.

The free festival
will also include a music-education tent, a kids’ tent, a 21-plus beer pavilion
and more than 30 artists selling hand-made goods. It will run from 11:15 a.m. to 7 p.m.
both days.

The Salem High School Jazz
band will open Saturday’s concert, followed by Tough Love Trio, Qwill and the
Soul Review Project, Eric Reardon and Noe Socha, and Aruda Wakening. Dwight
& Nicole – featuring Dwight Ritcher and Nicole Nelson -- a recent
contestant on NBC’s “The Voice” -- will headline Saturday.

Sunday will open with the
North Shore Jazz Project All-Stars, followed by The Soul of a Man, Tough Tenors:
Mike Tucker and Gordon Beadle, Greg Luttrell, and Diane Blue and Toni Lynn
Washington. Turkuaz, a 10-piece funk band out of Brooklyn, will headline Sunday.

DJ Radio Scotvoid will spin
between sets and Brian Gordon will emcee along with festival co-founder, Henley
Douglas Jr.

Salem Trolley, a festival
sponsor, will offer an inexpensive shuttle to the festival, which will stop regularly
at the Commuter Rail Station, National Parks Service Visitors Center on Essex Street, the Salem Ferry Landing on Blaney Street and the Bentley School, 25 Memorial Drive, where there will be additional parking. The festival encourages audience members to walk, ride bicycles or take the trolley to the
Salem Willows, as parking will be limited.

The
festival is a a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to producing free concerts and
donating to music education causes on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

More information: www.salemjazzsoul.org.