Sherry Williams: News

Each Thursday at 7:30pm I treat you to a different jazz group in the intimate space known as "The Merc". The Mercantile, located at 42051 Main Street, is one of Temecula's original buildings and has been beautifully restored. I bring you straight ahead jazz there every Thursday evening. Tickets are available at the Old Town Temecula Theater box office and online at http://www.TemeculaTheater.org ALL TICKETS ARE $15
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July 15 - ROSE MALLETT, MATT POLITANO, DAVID MILLER
July 22 - JEFF STOVER, ANDY FRAGA JR. and KEITH DROSTE
July 29 - AL WILLIAMS TRIO
August 5 - STEPHANIE HAYNES and KAREN HAMMACK
August 12 - SHERRY WILLIAMS
August 19 - PATRICK BERROGAIN and LOU FANUCCHI
August 26 - HARRY PICKENS, BOB BOSS, MARSHALL HAWKINS, HAROLD MASON

This venue is a great "listening space" in Temecula that allows the audience to really hear what the musicians are saying, so to speak. I've been moved by the love the listeners give the performers and how the artists respond by taking it up another notch. Thank you for taking the time each week to support each other and this venue. I know, I know, you don't really need your arms twisted. It's a fun hang! You get to meet your neighbors and friends, trade jazz stories, solve the problems of the world.... well, sometimes. Give it a shot anyway!

Here's a sample of an evening there! The article is in the Valley News. http://thevillagenews.com/images/photos/20071004jazz



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In the early 1900s it served as Temecula's general store, later dubbed The Mercantile, the place to buy a sack of flour, tin of cling peaches, and a dill pickle from the pickle barrel. Over the years it’s had several incarnations. For most of my life it was an antique store, a place to buy an old cavalry canteen or a lace doily for a pie-crust table. The brick building, built before earthquake codes, wasn’t safe, so the city thought to tear it down. But people rallied for its rescue, and at considerable expense, it was reinforced to make it safer. Now it’s called The Merc, part art gallery, part music venue, one of the best of its kind anywhere. Last night, for Thursday night is jazz night, I went to hear the Gunnar Biggs Latin Jazz Quartet at The Merc. I bought a fruit and cheese plate and a bottle of water, and sat with Gunnar’s wife, Bonnie, and other friends at a front-row table -- Gunnar is a buddy. Something about the old brick walls gives the house a soulful acoustic. Something about Latin jazz fills my soul with something akin to joy. Sit and listen to crazy-good musicians at the top of their game spin webs of musical complexity while bopping along to the Latin beat and get transported. A stellar night of music, a night when sitting still is tough.
---Gordon Johnson

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