Hydrangea Day - September 13th 10 am - 1 pm
Hydrangea Day is a day to come pick Free Hydrangeas within the cemetery. The area to choose your flowers from is Hydrangea circle, as you drive into the cemetery and go down the hill, Hydrangea circle is immediately on your left. Please plan on bringing your own shears!
Any donations are appreciated.
Free Concert - Squirrel Hill Jazz Band and the International Dancers. Sunday, September 14th 3:00 - 4:30 pm.
This fabulous Jazz Band will be playing at the Chapel at West Parish Garden Cemetery as part of the Cemetery's 300 year Anniversary celebration. Admission is Free.
The band members include:
Bob MacInnis – Cornet, grew up in a musical family and played trumpet in school orchestras, marching bands and in church minstrel shows in Lexington, Mass. He was a member of the Lexington Drum and Bugle Corps and the Arlington Legion Band for several years. While serving as a paratrooper, Bob played first chair trumpet with the 82nd. Airborne Division Corps Band. Bob is the leader of the New Liberty Jazz Band and plays Cornet with several bands in the Boston area, including the Squirrel Hill J.B.. Bob lives in N. Andover, MA
Bruce Burrell – Reeds, began playing the saxophone then the clarinet in high school. He enlisted in the US Navy where he attended the Naval School of Music. After playing with a 60-piece band at the Great Lakes Naval Station he became part of the flag band on the heavy cruiser USS St. Paul in the Korean Theater during the Korean War. An accomplished musician, he has played with many area bands illustrating his great versatility in many areas of music. Bruce is a retired Analytical Chemist-Lab Manager and lives in Burlington, MA
Tom McAllister – Trombone is a product of a musical family from the North Shore of Long Island, NY. He began with piano lessons at age four, expanded to concurrently include trombone and violin lessons. His Dixieland experience began at Lehigh University in the 1950's. After a forty year music hiatus which was absorbed by a career in the sales and marketing side of the metals industry, he fortuitously found this local jazz community in 2000, and hasn't looked back. In addition to performing with the Squirrel Hill J.B., he is a member of The Ancient Mariners Dixieland Band, and lives in Wellesley, MA
Arlene Boucher – Vocalist, was featured with the Squirrel Hill Jazz Band on CD01:“Squirrels At The Jazz Band Ball”, and CD05: “Squirrels On A Jazz Holiday”. She has been part of the music scene in the New England area for the past thirty five years. Arlene is presently the vocalist for “The New Liberty Jazz Band” from Massachusetts and was a long time banjo playing member of the New Hampshire “Amoskeag Strummers”. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Fretted Instrument Guild of America (FIGA) and as Chairman of the International FIGA Convention 1996, held in Nashua N.H. Arlene also produced a CD with the late David Huxtable and the Riverbank Jazz Band called ‘Swing That Music”. Arlene has retired from her Nurse Liason Operating Room position at the Elliot Hospital in Manchester, N.H.
Justin “Jake” Kerwin – Piano, grew up in a household with a piano in the parlor, where his father would play and sing tin pan alley tunes dating back to the 1890’s. As a youngster, he tagged along with his older brother to New York jazz spots such as Jimmy Ryan’s, and the Stuyvesant Casino, where he heard some of the great pioneers of traditional jazz. In recent years, Jake has performed with several Boston area traditional jazz bands that will “tolerate” his ragtime / honky-tonk style. Jake and his wife Marilyn are co-leaders of the Ancient Mariner Jazz Band. Jake is a retired M.I.T. Professor, and lives in Weston, MA
Richard Malcolm – Drums, a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music, has toured internationally with Zhu-Ming Zing, Luther Guitar Jr Johnson, Peter Parcek as well as others. Recording credits include Les McCann, Houston Persons, Rick Russell and numerous local bands. Some of the current Jazz bands Richard is playing with: The New New Orleans Jazz Band, the River Boat Stompers, Stan McDonald's Blue Horizon Five. You can catch Mr. Malcolm every Friday and Saturday with Shirley Lewis, the Regal Queen of the Boston Blues at Smokin' Joe's BBQ in Brighton MA.
Bill Flaherty – Banjo, Vocalist, began his musical career with piano lessons at age seven. He played at Irish Dance Halls, Pubs and on Radio Programs in the Boston area. In 1969 Bill formed a Fife and Drum Corps, trained a group of youngsters and competed in regional competitions. An interest in the banjo led to lessons and to membership in the 9:29ers Banjo Band. He has played the Dixieland style of music with numerous bands including North Shore Ramblers, Civil Disturbance Jazz Band, the New New Orleans Jazz Band and Jean Kelly & Friends. Bill plays and sings with the Squirrel Hill J.B. and lives in Burlington, MA.
I. L. Lorrie Carmichael, “Head Squirrel”- Banjo, believes her love of music comes from her grandfather, an “old time Keith Circuit Band Leader”, whose early gigs included “Picture Shows & Vaudville” at the Old South Theatre in Boston. Lorrie played tunes on the harmonica at age six, but the gift of a ukulele set her on the path of stringed instruments, which led to the plectrum and presently tenor banjo. She has performed with several traditional jazz bands in the Boston area. The SQUIRREL HILL JB was formed on Squirrel Hill Road, Wayland, MA in 1996. Lorrie has three children, is a retired Speech-Language Pathologist and lives in Wayland, MA.
Rick MacWilliams – Tuba, has been playing traditional jazz in the New England Area for 40 years. He began playing traditional jazz in high school and had made the transition to professional groups by his late teens. In addition to the Squirrel Hill Olde Tyme Band, Rick plays with the Wolverine Jazz Band and is co-leader of the Commonwealth Jazz Band. In the past he has played with the Bay State Syncopators, Happy Feet Dance Orchestra and other local groups. Rick is known for his fine sense of harmony and solid rhythm. He lives in Northborough, MA.
BILL & MARY PAUPLIS are known as the 'International Dancers'
and have performed throughout Europe and the U.S.
Depending on where they are performing,
their dance performance can include: Pace Doble, Merengue, Salsa, Tango, Waltz, and Rhumba.
** By special request, Mary & Bill Pauplis will demonstrate "the Cakewalk" Dance to the tune: At A Georgia Campmeeting