featuring

Combo Sabroso Sizzling Latin Jazz

& Roomful of Blues

Grammy Nominated, Legendary R&B Band

A Ticketed Benefit Concert (see inside for more info)

CARTHARTESCathartes, the developers of Portwalk Place, is a New England-based private real estate development firm. With more than 25 years of experience, they have witnessed the transformative power of communities and have dedicated their efforts to developing environments that bring together work-life balance, wellness, sustainability and community engagement.

CREARichard Smith is the founder/producer of Cuzin Richard Entertainment Agency, CREA, a full-service entertainment agency since 1976. CREA has brought top entertainment to northern New England fairs, festivals, colleges and clubs as well as regional stages for more than four decades. He is pleased to work with Cathartes in presenting the Portsmouth Jazz & Blues Festival at Portwalk Place, now in its second year.

VETS COUNT For more than 11 years, Vets Count has provided critical and timely financial assistance and services when no other resource is available to veterans, service members, and their families, to ensure their dignity, health, and overall well-being. As the philanthropic arm of Easter Seals Military & Veterans Services, Vets Count has provided services to more than 11,700 individuals for challenges including suicide prevention, employment, homelessness, substance misuse treatment, transportation, legal concerns, mental health issues resulting from post-traumatic stress and/or traumatic brain injury. In addition, emergency financial assistance for food, utilities, housing, rent, emergency shelter, fuel assistance, vehicle repair, child care, gasoline, and medical bills is also provided.

CREATIVE DESIGN Lori Decato Metz, Idea Outfitters

PRESS & PRINT MEDIA/RADIO Laura Pope, Pope Media Network

SOCIAL MEDIA Lynn Davey-Maguire, LD Creative Solomon Strategic Business Development, Community Marketing

PHOTOGRAPHERJohn Hauschildt, Rum Doodle Studios RumDoodle.com

TV Neil Portnoy of Portsmouth Public Media ppmtvnh.org

Our sincerest thanks to festival and performance stagesin PORTWALK PLACE ~Marriott Residence Inn Row 34 BRGR Bar British Beer CompanyGreen Elephant ARIA Hampton Inn & Suites Harbor Events CenterProfile Coffee & Wine Bar

Thanks to the Bank of NH for hosting an info table at Bank of NH in Portwalk Place.

Marriott Residence Inn

BRGR Bar

Green Elephant

Hampton Inn & Suites

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Profile Coffee & Wine Bar

ARIA

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British Beer Company

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Stages@PortwalkPlace

All festival performances indoors at Portwalk Place, located between Deer and Hanover streets.

Open to the public. Food and beverage available.

On-site, hourly parking in the Portwalk Garage, with an entrance on Hanover Street.

DIRECTIONS:

www.portwalkplace.com/getting-here

To Honor Their Service: A Night of Jazz & Bluesnew Evening Concert!

RUSS GRAZIER QUARTET & PMAC JAZZ INSTITUTE BAND Marriott Residence Inn Sets: Noon, 2:40, 4:15

The PMAC Jazz Institute Band, led by saxophonist Russ Grazier, features members of the Jazz Institute faculty with special guest appearances by PMAC youth and adults students. The band performs an eclectic mix of

modern and classic standards offering a fun and exciting musical experience for the entire family.

PETE PETERSON BRGR Bar Sets: 12:40, 2:45, 4:20

An outstanding blues soloist on guitar and vocals, Portsmouth resident Pete Peterson traces his major musical influences to Southern Gospel and R&B, music he was exposed to when growing up in Florida. He also performs with his band, Rhythm Method,

ranked by New Hampshire Magazine as New Hampshire’s best Blues band.

CHARLIE JENNISON, MARK SHILANSKY & SARAH KERVIN Green Elephant Sets: 1:15, 2:50, 4:15

Charlie Jennison is an established performing musician, best known for his work as a jazz pianist, improviser, studio musician and arranger for several Big Bands including the Capitol Center and Seacoast Big

Bands. A native of Concord, jazz pianist/vocalist Mark Shilansky is also a composer, sideman, recording artist, teacher, arranger and producer who tours internationally. New York-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Sarah Kervin is influenced by jazz, gospel and blues, and has performed with Manhattan Transfer, Ben Folds and Afro Blue.

MATT LANGLEY QUARTET & JODY BREGLER Hampton Inn & Suites Sets: 12:45, 2:30, 4

Renowned musicians and performers Matt Langley, Bill Wightman and Cliff Clegg, along with guest percussionist Jody Bregler, combine saxophones, keyboard, guitar and vocals to

create a funky, cool twist on carefully selected jazz, pop, and rock numbers with a smattering of original gems. The musical offerings feature an eclectic array of genres, full of scintillating sax, soaring keyboard and guitar licks, bold harmonic vocals, all with intuitive interaction and exchanges between Matt and the band. Matt Langley is spark plug/collaborator for great bands including Tongue & Groove, Soggy Po’ Boys, Charlie Kolhase, Carri Coltrane and more.

ANDREW EMANUEL QUARTET Profile Coffee & Wine Bar Sets: 1:30, 3:45, 5

Bandleader Andrew Emanuel, a jazz saxophonist who draws on the influences of Coltrane, Parker, Rollins and Davis, has shared the stage with several notable musicians including Steve Wilson, Marshall Gilkes and

Allen Vizzutti. He shares the stage with blues and jazz guitar player, Keith Perry, multi-genre drummer Chris Salemme and in-demand bass player Scott Kiefner.

CARRI COLTRANE TRIO ARIA Sets: 1, 2:15

Lauded vocalist, songwriter, teacher and producer Carri Coltrane began performing at age nine and has been showered internationally with hundreds of excellent reviews and received

worldwide airplay for her recordings – Flamenco Sketches, Child Inside My Heart and The First Time, all produced by Eugene McDaniels. Her song, “Meet Me on the Moon”, recorded by Phyllis Hyman, went gold in 1990 and is now platinum. Carri’s former producer, the late Eugene McDaniels had huge hits, writer of big seller; Hundred Pounds of Clay, wrote Grammy Award winner songs for Eric Clapton, Roberta Flack, Quincy Jones, and more! She is joined on stage by Gary Gemmiti on drums and Woody Allen on guitar.

BAZA Row 34 Sets: 1:30, 3:35

BAZA celebrates the tradition of the guitar and harmonica duo, performing original and pre-war country blues from the 1920s and 30s. This New Hampshire-based duo

features Doug Philbrook, on resonator guitar and vocals and Geof Goodell, on harmonica and vocals. Their live shows feature dynamic instrumental interplay andgritty, soulful vocals reminiscent of early blues.

MICHAEL VINCENT BAND British Beer Company Sets: 2, 3:15, 5:10

The Michael Vincent Band formed13 years ago in New Hampshire. Members of thisseasoned blues band forged their signature sound during a road trip to Mississippi in 2009, when they

toured extensively in honkytonks, from Chicago and Austin to Memphis. Brian Owens of Metronome Magazine describes them as “Sporting great tone, tasty fretboard flash, and B3 chops…”

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A CONCERT TO HONOR THEIR SERVICE: A NIGHT OF JAZZ & BLUES

featuring

Combo Sabroso Sizzling Latin Jazz

Local kings of Latin jazz, Combo Sabroso features Matt Jenson on piano and vocals; Manolo Mairena on congas and vocals; David Rivera on drumset and vocals; Yaure Muniz on trumpet and Winston Maccow on bass.

Roomful of Blues

Grammy Nominated, Legendary R&B Band

ROOMFUL OF BLUES are the enduring Providence-based, eight-piece, horn-driven, blues band with swagger and chops, legendary for their live shows, Grammy-nominated five times with more than 25 albums to their credit. Led by guitarist Chris Vachon, fronted by singer Phil Pemberton (since 2010), the band includes longtimers Mark Earley and Rich Lataille on saxophones and newer members John Turner on bass, Carl Gerhard on trumpet, Chris Anzalone on drums and Rusty Scott on keyboards.

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A Percentage of the Proceeds to Benefit Vets Count vetscount.org/nh

Portsmouth Harbor Events + Conference Center on Portwalk Place 6:30-10pm (doors open at 6pm)

TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE www.facebook.com/portwalkplace/

Tickets $30 advance, $40 door (cash only)