Come Jam With Us During Our 2019 Downtown After Sundown Series

South Orange Village Center Alliance invites you to dine and dance under the stars as we present the 2019 Downtown After Sundown Live Music Concerts. It’s that time of the year for all to join us on Fridays for Jazz on Sloan at the South Orange Gazebo and to enjoy the Sounds in Spiotta Park on Saturdays where all style of music where rock, country, R&B, blues, reggae, big band, pop, flamenco and more will be performed. Here’s a taste of what happens from past events Around South Orange.

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With fewer resources available this season we still wanted the Downtown After Sundown quality to increase and have added more participatory events along with finding additional event sponsors and supporters to join us. This season we have added a number of sessions that will allow more musicians and patrons to participate in this upcoming 2019 Downtown After Sundown

Musicians and Singers All are Welcome - Everybody Mark Your Calendars!!!.

R&B Jam Sat May 25 - MPack R&B Jamming / Open Mic In Spiotta Park Tonight 7-10 PM

MPAC Clarence Conover R&B Jam in Downtown After Sundown

Jazz Jam Sun May 26 - Jazz On Sloan Presents Gene Ghee Jazz Jam in Downtown After Sundown 6-9 PM

Gene Ghee Jazz Jam May 26, 2019 Jazz on Sloan Jazz Jam

Blues Jam Fri, May 31 - Andy Lackow's First Outdoor Blues Jam at Spiotta Park - May 31

Blues Jam - Sat June 29 - Al Gold Blues Jam / Open Mic in Spiotta Park

Jazz NJPAC Jam Fri July 26 - Jazz On Sloan Presents NJPAC Jazz Jam f Pianist James Austin Jr

James Austin leads NJPAC Clements Place Jazz Jam 2018

NJPAC Free Live Concerts in the Heart of South Orange Village Come join us in downtown after sundown in the heart of South Orange Village when New Jersey Performing Arts Center – NJPAC in partnership with South Orange Village Center Alliance presents a night of Jazz jamming with Bandleader, pianist James Austin, Jr.

Popular series hosted by New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Department of Community Engagement is an annual series of performances featuring some of New Jersey’s finest jazz musicians, under the direction of pianist and bandleader James Austin, Jr. The sessions are a major hit with new jazz listeners as well as musicians, and enhance NJPAC’s role as the state’s principal, year-round presenter of jazz. At the wildly popular Clements Place Jazz sessions, Austin leads quartets composed of New Jersey musicians and two guest performers affiliated with Wells Fargo Jazz for Teens and the James Moody Jazz Orchestra, acclaimed jazz programs of NJPAC’s Department of Arts Education.

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Jazz Jam Sun Sep 1 - Jazz On Sloan Presents Carrie Jackson Jazz 6-9 PM

Carrie Jackson Jazz Jam Open Mic 2018

All are family friendly events. Bring your instrument and your voice and jam with us. All Musicians and Singers Welcome.

And more participatory events coming in the next update and a big thank you to our Jam Leaders and their bands along with our wonderful new supporters like New Jersey Performing Arts Community Engagement - NJPAC, New Jersey Jazz Society- NJJS.org and Rutgers institute of Jazz Studies. Downtown After Sundown is is going to be Jamming all season long, all Around South Orange, NJ.

Gregory Burrus, Live Music Ambassador

Gregory Burrus with South Orange Trustee Bob Zuckerman former Executive Director of SOVCA. Downtown After Sundown is a program sponsored by the South Orange Village Center Alliance and the Town of South Orange. https://www.sovillagecenter.org/pub/event/story/2382/

Gregory Burrus curates an manages the South Orange Village Center Alliance's Downtown After Sundown Live Music Concerts. This SOMA resident arrived in South Orange, 23-year ago and just loves South Orange, NJ. Gregory enjoys all music genres but his first love jazz began as a boy when his mother and father played jazz on the good old record player at home and took him to clubs all over Manhattan. Greg was an executive in the telecommunications industry and has consulted on telecom, technology and operational business processes systems all over the world. Now he is putting his expertise, gain from his former business environment to work producing music, art and community events across South Orange, Maplewood, Newark and other towns around Northern New Jersey and New York.

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