Jubilee Gardens performs Wed Nov 26th Thanksgiving Eve 10pm-1am at Sahara 143 Highland Street, Worcester 508-798-2181. Excellent Mediteranean food, and a really nice room and bar. We're playing for tips, so please be generous when the hat comes around. We're planning to 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 planning on are ~Saturday Dec 6th ~ New Years Eve with cellist Mary Servatius !!! ~ Jan 10th and Feb 14th.
and catch Jubilee's solo show at Block 5, Green Street, Worcester on Saturdays he isn't already busy playing with the band 9pm-12:30 (Sat Nov 15,22,29...)
The Worcester Art Museum Third Thursday musical series...Thurs May 21, 2009 5:30-8pm. ....word class museum in our own backyard-- come down for music, snacks & see the gallery!
video by Joe Zupan a.k.a. Yosco with Jubilee and his song writing secrets
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."
and they are working on their 3rd album already- Jubilee just keeps writing great songs and we feel it's our obligation to the world to get these recorded! There is a song from this new project in progess on youtube. Dan is adding his guitar tracks to "Somewhere" by Jubilee...
