Community Corner
18th Annual Healing Garden Country Music Fest with Jennifer McCarter, Scott Neubert, and the Sourmash Special Guesters Band
This Year’s Healing Garden Music
Fest features great talents, and great people, from as far as Nashville,
Tennessee, and Ontario Canada, and as near as The Greater Waltham region
stretching from Quincy to Boston to the North Shore to New Hampshire.
Jennifer
McCarter - Jennifer grew up in the Smoky
Mountains; singing along to country legends like Dolly, Emmylou Harris and Bill
Monroe in her mountain home. Her passion for country music led her to
Nashville. Jennifer and her sisters were signed to the Warner Brothers label,
and charted several hits - including, The Gift, Timeless and True
Love and Up and Gone. Jennifer became known for her authentically
country voice.
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The McCarters were featured often on
The Grand Ole Opry and many other television shows, including “The American
Music Awards,” “The Dolly Show,” “Hee-Haw,” and multiple appearances on TNN’s
“Nashville Now.”
They also toured, among others, with
Randy Travis and Kenny Rogers, and performed for years in eighteen countries in
all. You’ll love Jennifer McCarter’s true-to-her-roots country singing
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Scott
Neubert is the guy behind Smash Recording,
in Nashville, Tennessee. With decades of experience in playing, recording,
producing, arranging, writing and singing, Scott and his group of top-notch
musicians help make your song sound the best it can be. To boot, he’s a
fine sonqwriter and performer in his own right. You’ll be warmed by his
writing, singing, and guitar-playing. Oh, and Jennifer’s husband Andy Hull (drums) will set in for a few numbers with Jennifer and
Scott.
The
Sourmash Special Guesters Bandan
All-Star castof some of the finest country music musicians in the northeast, or
anywhere, comes together today for a rousing set of songs. Edmond Boudreau (mandolin, vocals), Kathy Burkly (drums),
Matt
Leavenworth (fiddle, vocals), Sandy Martin (bass, vocals), Chuck Parrish (guitar,
vocals), and Jim
Spellman (guitar, vocals) will intertwine
their wares for our listening and dancing pleasure. If there’s a Country
Music Healing Garden event, well, then, there’ll surely be a contingent of the
Special Guesters Band. This year’s “Sourmash” group is in great part
named with respect to memory of the great writer and performer John Lincoln
Wright.
Todd
Sterling, who “grew up on Haggard and
Jones/the Beatles & the Rolling Stones…”, was born in Ontario but grew up
in Alberta, Canada, where he first fell in love with Country Music. Todd’s
just-released album was recorded in Nashville, and produced by none other than
his longtime friend Scott Neubert!
100% of the ticket proceeds will be
donated to the Mount Auburn Hospital towards a future Healing Garden for
patients and families.