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AUGUST 28, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 36
Keeping Jazz Alive
Picnic will be held in the New Holland Park on East Jackson Street on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fiddlers are encouraged to arrive around 8 a.m. to reserve a slot on the park stage. In addition to string players, individuals who play the accordion,
Fred Hughes, director of the New Holland Band (NHB) and founder of the nonprofit Jazz Alive, is a man with a musical mission. “The mission (of Jazz Alive) is dedicated to the preservation of jazz,” said Hughes. “ That includes community concerts and school residencies and assemblies,” he added. To help support that mission, “An Evening with the Fred Hughes Trio” will be presented in the chapel at Garden Spot Village (GSV), 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland, on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. In addition to Hughes on piano, the trio features Philadelphia drummer Dan Monaghan, a musician Hughes has been playing with regularly, and bass player Steve Meashey, whom Hughes has known since 1985. Hughes said the group’s repertoire will include pieces from the Great American Songbook. “I like to introduce the music of great piano players, so it will be Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, and some more piano players,” noted Hughes. Hughes’ love of jazz grew out of his experience with the First Army Band in Seoul, South Korea. Originally a tuba player, Hughes played the organ as a prelude to the NHB spring concerts. “There were no organs
See NHSAP pg 9
See Jazz Alive pg 4
Bass fiddles, banjos, violins, and more will be among the many instruments being played at the annual New Holland Summer Arts Program Fiddler’s Picnic.
Time to fiddle around
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o n M c Ve y h a s b e e n involved with the annual New Holland Fiddler ’s Picnic since its inception. He remembers Eleanor Hart, Dot and Bud Hollinger, and Jack Williams working with him, as he
served as master of ceremonies of the event, which was based on a fiddler’s picnic he coordinated in Chester County. “(New Holland Summer Arts Program (NHSAP) members) heard about (the Chester County) picnic and found out we ran that one,” recalled McVey. “(They) came down to
see us about starting one in New Holland.” After seeing how the Chester County event was run, NHSAP held New Holland’s first picnic in 1992, but it was held on the Saturday of the July Fourth weekend before being moved to Labor Day. This year’s NHSAP Fiddler’s
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