JAZZ AT THE SALISBURY CHURCH

On Friday, July 31, at 7:30 p.m. the Salisbury Church will host a toe-tapping “jazz conversation” with Dick Forman and Mark Harding performing jazz standards and tunes from the Great American Songbook.  A longtime favorite of Vermont audiences, pianist Forman is a Salisbury resident and Director of Jazz Activities at Middlebury College. His jazz groups have played on Public Radio and at regional jazz festivals.  Harding plays and teaches both guitar and bass, in a variety of styles.  Now based in the Rutland area, he has been part of the Vermont music scene for decades. The duo’s performance just might lead to dancing in the aisles (permitted).

This will be the fifth event in Salisbury’s thirty-sixth annual Summer Performance Series that will continue on Friday evenings through August 7 at the historic, but handicapped accessible, 1838 church in Salisbury Village. Although the church tower will be scaffolded for repairs during this season, the sanctuary will still be readily entered through the front doors and the on-grade rear entrance. Admission is free. A free-will donation in support of the series will be appreciated.