Jazz Festival
For twenty-one years the Hot Steamed Jazz Festival has heated up the town of Essex, CT. Located on the site of Essex’s most popular attraction, the Essex Steam Train, the festival pulls into the station this weekend – June 21, 22 & 23. You can pick from cool jazz or bebop, ragtime or traditional jazz, Dixieland or blues, Calypso or Cajun. Whatever your preference the Hot Steamed Jazz Festival offers three full days of quality family entertainment and all for a great cause. All proceeds from this weekend’s event will benefit The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, founded by Paul Newman.
This camp provides children who are coping with serious illnesses the opportunity to escape to a special hideout where they can simply be kids. Paul Newman’s simple premise was that every child, no matter their illness, could experience the transformational spirit and friendships that go hand in hand with camp. With support from such organizations as Hot Steamed Jazz Festival, the camp is celebrating its 25th anniversary and now serves more than 20,000 children and their family members each year through the camp and outreach programs.
Though Hot Steamed Jazz Festival is on a smaller scale than many festivals around the country it provides a family-friendly atmosphere with audience members returning year after year and reconnecting with those they have met in the past. Many of the bands are local and others from across the country. Performers for the 2013 festival include: Dan Levinson’s New Millennium All Stars (New York), Midiri Brothers (New Jersey), Wolverine Jazz Band (Massachusetts), Bob Seeley (Michigan), Ben Mauger’s Speakeasy 6 (Pennsylvania) and Connecticut’s own Galvanized Jazz Band, Heartbeat Jazz Band, Riverboat Ramblers, Jeff Barnhart, Funky Butt Jazz Band and Sugarfoot Youth Jazz Band. Tickets are $100 for the full weekend sessions; $60 for an all-day Saturday pass (11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.); and $35 for the Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening, or Sunday sessions. Youth tickets for age 12 and younger are $8. To purchase tickets, call 1-800-348-0003 or visit www.hotsteamedjazz.com.
Two tents with on-going simultaneous performances are located on grounds adjacent to the Steam Train. There will be food vendors and picnicking is also permitted. Events will go on rain or shine. On Sunday morning there is a free Gospel service at 10:30am and all are invited. So pack up the family, snacks, picnic baskets, chairs and blankets and head on over to the Essex Steam Train yard for a weekend of some of the best jazz in New England. The list of versatile performers will have the train yard sizzling with something for everyone!
Though Hot Steamed Jazz Festival is on a smaller scale than many festivals around the country it provides a family-friendly atmosphere with audience members returning year after year and reconnecting with those they have met in the past. Many of the bands are local and others from across the country. Performers for the 2013 festival include: Dan Levinson’s New Millennium All Stars (New York), Midiri Brothers (New Jersey), Wolverine Jazz Band (Massachusetts), Bob Seeley (Michigan), Ben Mauger’s Speakeasy 6 (Pennsylvania) and Connecticut’s own Galvanized Jazz Band, Heartbeat Jazz Band, Riverboat Ramblers, Jeff Barnhart, Funky Butt Jazz Band and Sugarfoot Youth Jazz Band. Tickets are $100 for the full weekend sessions; $60 for an all-day Saturday pass (11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.); and $35 for the Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening, or Sunday sessions. Youth tickets for age 12 and younger are $8. To purchase tickets, call 1-800-348-0003 or visit www.hotsteamedjazz.com.
Two tents with on-going simultaneous performances are located on grounds adjacent to the Steam Train. There will be food vendors and picnicking is also permitted. Events will go on rain or shine. On Sunday morning there is a free Gospel service at 10:30am and all are invited. So pack up the family, snacks, picnic baskets, chairs and blankets and head on over to the Essex Steam Train yard for a weekend of some of the best jazz in New England. The list of versatile performers will have the train yard sizzling with something for everyone!
Contributed by Donita Aruny
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