Jan 7 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... Feb 4, March 3...
Vincents Sat Feb 11th 10pm 49 Sulfolk St Worcester~ not much dance space, but fun place to hear music!
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM Thursday June 21st 5:30-8pm 55 Salisbury St Worcester join us for a wonderful evening of music in the courtyard (weather dependant, inside cafe in case of rain) for a drink, some light munchies & non-stop fun!!!
new song by Jubilee Connolly called Eighteen Days, written for the amazing changes in Egypt
Top 5 for May 2010 by METRONOME MAGAZINE
JUBILEE GARDENS NATURAL ART
...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.]
check out some live performances on youtube of songs by Jubilee Gardens.... "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...
