Salem Jazz and Soul Festival

12/18/2024

We had a nice time at Unity Victuals last night at our holiday party. Thanks to the staff and attendees for a fun, festive time!

12/17/2024

Salem/North Shore businesses: Please consider sponsoring our nonprofit mission in 2025. Clink on the link below to download a copy of our funding brochure and get in touch for more information.

On Saturday, August 16, 2025, the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival will return to the Salem Willows for its 19th season!

12/13/2024

Check out SOSS Records' holiday show next weekend!

Skunk Sessions returns with a "Very Skunky Christmas" joining musical forces with Krewe de Groove for a special "Krewe de Skunk!"

12/02/2024

Great news! A longtime festival supporter has pledged to match any donations made by the end of the day tomorrow, . Consider your donation doubled today and tomorrow. Please pitch in to offset the cost of producing this free, nonprofit, volunteer-run festival. We sure could use your support!

The free, nonprofit Salem Jazz and Soul Festival is raising money to fund the 2025 festival season, our 19th. Please consider donating to our nonprofit c...

12/02/2024

We're up to $310 in our GivingTuesday campaign! Thanks to those who pitched in thus far. Stakeholders, please help us to offset the cost of producing the free 2025 fest. Thank you.

The free, nonprofit Salem Jazz and Soul Festival is raising money to fund the 2025 festival season, our 19th. Please consider donating to our nonprofit c...

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to Salem Jazz and Soul Festival supporters! We truly wish you the best this holiday season. Please consider donating to our campaign this weekend, to help offset the cost of producing the North Shore's nonprofit, free festival as we enter our 19th season. (Please share this message with your network.) Thank you!

11/27/2024

Please support the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival on GivingTuesday (or before)

The free, nonprofit Salem Jazz and Soul Festival is raising money to fund the 2025 festival season, our 19th. Please consider donating to our nonprofit cause for GivingTuesday, Dec. 3.

It’s the time of year when we try to be just that little bit nicer, a smidge more thoughtful and much quicker to smile. Why not bank some of that good cheer for Summer 2025?

is a “global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.” Here on the North Shore, it’s helped not-for-profits like our upcoming 19th annual Salem Jazz and Soul Festival put smiles on music students’ faces and fund hours of free music.

Last year, you donated generously to the cause on , which helped create a robust music-learning workshop at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem and powered a free day of music last August showcasing five internally renowned musical acts at Salem Willows.

Please consider pitching in this Dec. 3 (or before) and help us keep the music playing!

We deeply appreciate your support.

-- Salem Jazz and Soul Festival Board of Directors

The free, nonprofit Salem Jazz and Soul Festival is raising money to fund the 2025 festival season, our 19th. Please consider donating to our nonprofit c...

11/20/2024

Our campaign is up early. Please consider donating to the festival's nonprofit mission on Dec. 3 or before.
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The free, nonprofit Salem Jazz and Soul Festival is raising money to fund the 2025 festival season, our 19th. Please consider donating to our nonprofit c...

10/24/2024

Last push to help the JCC sell tickets to this event. About 20 tickets remain and they organization has provided us with a discount code for 20% off while they last. Please PM us for the code.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of […]

10/22/2024

Some tickets remain for this event. We look forward to seeing you.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of […]

10/18/2024

One of our banking sponsors, Metro Credit Union, made the news!

10/18/2024

Festival co-founder Henley Douglas Jr and his BluNote Soultet will perform at this Oct. 27 event at the North Shore JCC, and then he will lead the conversation with author Larry Tye. Tickets are available at the link below. (Thanks to Creative Collective MA for making the connection.)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of […]

09/20/2024

Danny, a sophomore at Endicott College, served as the festival's first-ever intern this summer and we were so impressed with his work ethic and sunny disposition. Thanks, Danny, and his advisors from Endicott!

For the 18th season, the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival blew festive tunes throughout the Salem Willows, celebrating the city’s historic connection to jazz and soul music. For his summer internship, Danny Marczewski ’27 was part of the team that made it come alive.

08/27/2024

We were honored to provide Cynthia Napierkowski -- shown here at the 2016 Salem Jazz and Soul Festival -- with a $1,500 check for the Salem Music Boosters recently. This donation will allow Cynthia to continue to do good things for music in Salem schools. Combine this with the $1500 we recently budgeted to staff and equip a 10-week music workshop at Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Massachusetts, and we've made available $3,000 to support music education in Salem in 2024. Please continue to support the festival going forward and together we can increase these amounts across the North Shore. (Photo credit: John Andrews.)

08/25/2024

Check out Brian Cogger, our education chair, being interviewed on 7News - WHDH Boston last weekend, along with other festival stakeholders!

SALEM, MASS. (WHDH) - The Salem Jazz and Soul Festival returned for its 18th season on Saturday at Salem Willows park.The crowd gathered got downRead More

08/19/2024

The Salem Jazz and Soul Festival board would like to thank all the stakeholders who made our 18th-annual festival happen -- board members past and present, volunteers, sponsors, musicians, vendors, brewers, all the Willows businesses, the residents of the Willows neighborhood, the city of Salem -- especially Joe and Trish at Parks, the DPW crew, the Parks and Recreation and Licensing boards, Mayor Pangallo, and the councilors who assisted us. So many of you supporters and audience members bring this volunteer-run festival to life every year. As the saying goes, we're only as strong as our weakest link, and judging from how well Saturday went, all of our links are solid. Thank you all!.

08/19/2024

Sounds like our education chair Brian Cogger and his crew really engaged with the kids at Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Massachusetts last week. We look forward to teaching the kids more about the power of musict in the future!