scroll down to see their list of gig dates~ and to see great review of their new CD
Aug 7th 10pm-1:30am at Sahara ~ 143 Highland Street, Worcester 508-798-2181. Excellent Mediteranean food, and a really nice room and bar. We perform at this venue the first Saturday of each month
and we will be back Fri Aug 27th at The Amazing Things Arts Center 160 Hollis Street Framingham Ma 8pm www.amazingthings.org beautiful venue, coffee, teas, snacks, art exhibit to check out too !!
Fri Sept 24 New Vienna Coffee House inside Unitarian Church 65 Main St Westborough, doors open 7, opening act at 7:30pm
Sat Sept 25th Jubilee Gardens participates in Main South Celebrates Festival held in Crystal Park, Main St (across from Clark Univeristy) Worcester~~ food, fun, great family day! more details soon....
Check out this great review from Metronome Magazine on our new CD Natural Art!!!
Top 5 for
May 2010
JUBILEE GARDENS
NATURAL ART
Jubilee Gardens is the brainchild of singer-songwriter-guitarist Jubilee David Connolly who leads a superb band of players that include guitarist Dan Hunt, Ed Melikian on oud, cellist Mary Servatius, Paul Walker on saxophone & clarinet, percussionist Joe Zupan, violinist Rainer Reichel, keyboardist/recording engineer Paul Provost and Gail Hunt on bass and vocals.
On their latest album Natural Art, the group blends jam band, pop, folk, world, country, and (I can't help but hear) the band Chicago minus the horns in a seemlessly organic way (it must be the guitar work). Eclectic, dreamy and inventive, Jubilee Garden's music crosses genres and listener's boundaries with it's timeless sound and evocative subject matter. The instruments blend beautifully together creating a colorful tapestry of sound. Connolly's vocals are perfectly suited for the material while his guitar playing is equally compelling. This is truly an album of meticulously written and performed music by a band of accomplished players. [D.S.]
Contact--www.jubileegardens.com
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and gail has a new video camera~check out her artsy renditions of live performances on youtube of songs.... "If You Told Me" and "After Glow" and more...
video by Joe Zupan a.k.a. Yosco with Jubilee and his song writing secrets
"I've put both Jubilee Gardens albums on my IPod so I could really listen intently without distractions, and I think it is a tragedy that you all have day jobs! You all are so good, you all ought to be known far beyond Worcester Massachusetts." - Colin McCullough www.ourrenewablenation.org
from Scott McLennan's article in Telegram & Gazette Jan 15, 2008 about meeting up with Jubilee, Dan & Gail in the studio and upcoming gigs ...
"the work was painstaking. Yet, the music itself was so beautiful and well crafted that listening again and again became intoxicating".......
"Dan Hunt's searing guitar licks, Mary Servatius' dramatic cello, and guest appearances by baritone sax player Neal McNanna and doumbeck player Leon Manoogian were a few of the items worthy of a spotlight during the mixing process- and that was just during two songs."
"Connolly's songs take full advantage of that instrumental arsenal. Folk, jazz, rock and world-beat music color the tunes"..."artfully create sparks with cultural collisions".....
"newer songs have more of a political bent..One jaunty, cartoony folk song of the sort The Beatles used to break up it's more serious sounding songs lets Connolly poke fun at president Bush without sounding acerbic. Another popular song from the repertoire making it onto the new record is 'Gold and Metal Man,' a jazzy groove heated up by Connolly's criticism of consumer culture."
"These songs are so good that the mixing process is just a matter of editing. I'm just trying to pick out which parts of the songs to spotlight at different times. "
- Roger Lavallee/ mixing engineer at Tremolo Lounge.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette's Best Of 2006 about our first self-titled CD....
" Jubilee Gardens delivered a richly textured album of their multi-culti jazzy folk pop."
Jubilee just keeps writing great songs and we feel it's our obligation to the world to get these recorded! check out youtube. Dan is adding his guitar tracks to "Somewhere" from the new CD Natural Art...
original music by Jubilee Connolly
band photos by Jon Sher~except with sun behind us is by Scott Terassi at Amazing Things gig
check out myspace.com/jubileegardens This site was recently made much cooler by Gail's sister Alanna-- a big thanks to her!!!
CD's (even the new one!!!) are available at CD Baby.com (and downloadable from their site), at our gigs, or email us. You can also purchase at Jelly's Discs, Park Ave., Union Music on Southbridge Street, The Futon Company on Highland Street, all in Worcester. And now at Some Enchanted Evening 234 Main Street in Spencer (someenchantedevening.us)
Jubilee Connolly- singer, songwriter, guitarist
Dan Hunt- guitarist
Ed Melikian- oud player (his Mediterannean band's site)
Joe Zupan- drums & percussion
Loui Fraire - percussion & drums
Rainer Reichel- violinist
Gail Hunt- bassist & background vocals
Paul Provost - piano/organ
Mary Servatius - cello- away getting her PHD, but back in town for visits & gigs once in a while!
to email the band at musiclyne@yahoo.com
or call us at 508-792-4585
Scott McLennan from Worcester Telegram & Gazette, wrote a wonderful piece
about the band and the new self-titled CD. It appeared in paper Thursday June 1, 2006. Here's a few excerpts...
"The record is a nice snapshot of a Jubilee Gardens that quickly grew
from an interesting little side project to, well, a 10-piece band...
Connolly's music is a kaleidoscope of sounds, pulling Latin American rhythms,
the hypnotic grooves of raga music, and the mysterious airs of Arabic music
under the umbrella of sophisticated arrangements that fuse jazz, pop and folk elements."
musiclyne@yahoo.com
