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Ed Broms Jazz Quartet to Launch 2009 Summerfest Concert Series

QUINCY, MA: The City of Quincy proudly announces the schedule for the 2009 outdoor Summerfest Concerts, a series of five free concerts held Wednesday evenings at the outdoor Ruth Gordon Amphitheatre in Merrymount Park. The series kicks off on Wednesday, July 8, with the Ed Broms Jazz Quartet, featuring Timo Shanko on tenor saxophone. The concert will begin at 7 pm. Admission is free. Adults and families are welcome.  All concerts are free.

Dubbed a "true Renaissance man" by the Boston Globe, Quincy's own Ed Broms leads his group in a concert of jazz standards, with special emphasis on the music of John Coltrane. Broms is a multifaceted musician who has performed and recorded nationally as a jazz, rock, blues, and classical musician. He is a member of the Grammy-winning Blue Man Group as well as the music director at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul on Boston Common. As Artist-in-Residence at Eastern Nazarene College since 2005, he and his jazz ensemble performed a monumental series of concerts in which they performed the entire catalogue of jazz great John Coltrane's music.

Under the Artistic Direction of Quincy musician Delvyn Case, the 2009 Summerfest Concert Series is sponsored by the City of Quincy and a consortium of local businesses and individuals, including Quincy Point Music Academy, Eastern Nazarene College s LEAD Program, Lisa's Dance Studio, Campus KinderHaus, Old Colony Music Together, Councilor Jay Davis, and Councilor Doug Gutro. The complete series calendar appears on the second page of this release.

The July 8 concert is sponsored by Old Colony Music Together, which offers early childhood music and movement classes for children birth through 7 years old in East Milton, Quincy, and other Boston-area locations.  Old Colony Music Together offers early childhood music and movement classes for children birth through 7 years old in East Milton, Quincy, and other Boston-area locations. Music Together is a research based, high quality, developmentally appropriate curriculum where children and their loved ones engage in songs, chants, movement, dance and instrument play. Go to www.oldcolonymusictogether.com to see a full class schedule, including free demonstration classes.

COMPLETE SUMMERFEST CONCERT SCHEDULE

July 8
Ed Broms Jazz Quartet

July 15
Denis O'Gorman, internationally-known Irish singer/songwriter.

July 22
The Spring Hill Rounders, from the summit of Spring Hill, some of the hottest Bluegrass this side of the Housatonic.

July 29
Vento Chiaro, a quintet comprised of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn.  Vento Chiaro has excited audiences nationally and internationally with its unique and captivating performances of classics and new works.

August 5
Quincy Summer Singers, led by dynamic conductor Delvyn Case, the Quincy Summer Singers is a 50-person community choir that performs classical music, folk songs, spirituals, gospel songs, and Broadway tunes.