Hunt For Red Joe-Tober
The Joe Hunt Group takes aim at the Lilypad on Sunday, 19 May 2024.
If you showed up early, David Haas Group was in the house with a clarinet, “modular synthesizer,” and all the jazz trimmings.
The Jamaica Plain Music Festival is coming!
Also known as the JP Music Fest. That’s got more zing.
It will be the 12th edition, coming your way in September, and each year is organized with tender love and care by a neighborhood community that loves live music and knows how to have a good time. This is a bottom-up affair, by and for the people, and it needs your support.
If you missed the annual Smell The Love fundraiser, you can still donate below!
If you missed the fundraiser show in March at the American Legion Hall with Rick Berlin, Colonel Broccoli and the Legion Basement Band, and Fantastic Trees, you can still donate below!
And if you won’t or didn’t make it out to Midway Cafe on June 4 in time to catch the annual classic fundraiser John Casey’s JP Bar Wars, you can still donate below!
Do your part to keep Jamaica Plain fresh AND funky.
Gil Aharon, founder and owner of the Lilypad, was in the house. Poking around, attending to various details at the front and back of the house. It was a quiet Sunday night, and Aharon was free to shoot the breeze in between his errands.
One item revealed: a new mural is incoming. The funky, artsy joint is known for its murals at stage right and left. There may well be a new mural already in place at stage left. As for stage right, the wall is whited-out, apparently in preparation for a new design.
When it’s coming, or what the new design will look like, Aharon can’t say for sure. He seemed happy to entrust the assignment to the same artist who painted the previous murals. How to describe the style? Something like a fan fiction, fantasy mash-up of the royal court peeled off the side of playing cards and minor players from Alice In Wonderland.
Colorful, puzzling, and a bit tripped out. You’re going to love it.
The Joe Hunt Group was equally relaxed, playing a mix of whatever songs delighted them, including Irving Berlin’s “Changing Partners” and the jazz standard “Wonder Why.”
Guitarist and Berklee prof John Wheatley was wandering by in the street and invited himself to sit-in with the group. Or maybe Joe Hunt invited Wheatley? Details lost to the sands of time. After a quick jog home around the corner to pick up his ax, the professor was live on stage. Just another beautiful night in Inman Square.