award winning Jubilee Gardens releases their 3rd and possibly best album "Natural Art" available at gigs or at cdbaby.com

 Jubilee Gardens Feb 6th  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. Check back to our calendar here to be sure, as schedules do change. But the next dates that we are playing are...  March 6, April 3, May 8, June 5 

Pilgrim Church Haiti Benefit TheWoo.org 910 Main Street, Worc $10donation+ with other local bands 7-midnight, will add details and Jubilee Gardens time slot when we know...

 Jubilee Gardens performs at WCUW Sat Feb 27th 7pm $10 minimum, $8 for members,seniors,students 910 Main Street Worcester. Part of proceeds go to the radio staion-- come support community radio (91.3fm wcuw.org) and have some fun doing it!! Nice front room at the station that has been hosting musical performances~check it out!

We will be part of the Grafton Fine Arts & Music Festival again this year. Sat & Sun March 27-28, details to follow as we get them

The Worcester Art Museum asked us to play the finale show next year for their concert series, so join us in the courtyard (weather dependant) Thursday June 17th 5:30-8pm 2010 at 55 Salisbury St Worcester refreshments served, free to members , $10 non-members, and a tour of exhibit! other shows are scheduled the third Thursdays of months-- so check those out too!

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- drummer

Luis Fraire - percussion

Paul Walker- clarinet & saxophone

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 & hopefully a gig 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