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Springfield Jazz Festival Returns, But To New Location

The Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival will leave its original location in Court Square for Stearns Square.
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The Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival will leave its original location in Court Square for Stearns Square.

An interview with festival producer Kristin Neville

After a one-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, a popular jazz festival is taking place this Saturday in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The “Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival” has moved to a new location – historic Stearns Square in the heart of the city’s dining district.

The festival is free, but because of COVID-19 protocols, people wishing to attend are being asked to RSVP through the event’s website.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Kristin Neville, executive director of Blues to Green, the nonprofit that produces the festival.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.