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Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival expands to second day

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published August 9, 2022 at 10:14 AM EDT
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 be held this year on August 12 & 13 at Stearns Square and Tower Square Park.

Festival will open Friday evening August 12

A heralded jazz festival is returning to downtown Springfield, Massachusetts this week.

In addition to live music, the 9th annual Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival will have a variety of events, activities, workshops, and food.

This year, the festival is expanding to two days – Friday August 12th and Saturday August 13th.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Kristin Neville, the festival co-founder and executive director of Blues to Green, the nonprofit that puts on the event.
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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.
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