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Homegrown Coffeehouse hosting Gypsy Jazz evening

Homegrown Coffeehouse hosting Gypsy Jazz evening
The Homegrown Coffeehouse is set to host An Evening of Gypsy Jazz and the music of Django Reinhardt, featuring the jazz quartet 440, led by Tomoko Iwamoto, this Saturday, February 22, at 8:00 p.m. 440 expands the gypsy jazz tradition of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli with abidance swing standards from the era of Cole Porter,...
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Dover’s Collins makes music

Dover’s Collins makes music
By Alex Oliveira Hometown Weekly Reporter Aiden Collins, an eighth grader at the Dover-Sherborn Middle School, has strummed new life into the school’s music program by hand making five electric basses for the school’s general music program taught by Tom Duprey. Duprey isn’t directing your ordinary middle school jazz band: there are no rows of folding chairs...
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