Sherry Williams: News

Treaties are negotiated by governments....
Peace is made by people.

We must be the change
We wish to see.

MK. Gandhi

Each Thursday at 7:30pm I host a different jazz group in the intimate space known as "The Merc". The Mercantile, located at 42051 Main Street, is one of Temecula's original buildings and has been beautifully restored. It's a great listening space with a wonderful piano, and you hear world class straight ahead jazz there every Thursday evening. Tickets are available at the Old Town Temecula Theater box office and online at http://www.TemeculaTheater.org ALL TICKETS ARE $15
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Jan 5 - Dewey Ernie and Gerry Schroeder
Jan 12 - Al Williams Quartet/ Henry Franklin, Ron Kobayashi and Doug Webb
Jan 19 - Cathy Segal Garcia with Karen Hammack and Chris Conner
Jan 26 - Sherry Williams, Markus Burger, Jim Linahon with Beppe Pilotto and Peter Paul Hofmann
Feb 2 - Sharon Marie Cline with Rich Eames and Luther Hughes
Feb 9 - DARK
Feb 16 - tba
Feb 23 - Carl Saunders Quartet
March 1- Jameal Dean Trio with Henry Franklin and Donald Dean
March 8 - Stephanie Haynes with Dave Mackay
March 15 - Mark Winkler
March 22 - Keith Droste with David Enos
March 29 - Yve Evans and Company
April 5 - Jim DeJulio with Brian Nova
April 12 - "Road Work Ahead" featuring Bill Mays, Peter Sprague, Bob Magnussen and Jim Plank
April 19 - Bruce Lett Trio



This venue is a great "listening space" in Temecula that allows the audience to really hear what the musicians are saying, so to speak. I've been moved by the love the listeners give the performers and how the artists respond by taking it up another notch. Thank you for taking the time each week to support each other and this venue. It's a fun hang! You get to meet your neighbors and friends, drink the local wine, trade jazz stories, solve the problems of the world.... well, sometimes.

Here's a sample of an evening there! The article is in the Valley News. http://thevillagenews.com/images/photos/20071004jazz



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http://www.youtube.com/user/filarmonicadecali#p/a/u/2/sWBjV7kVqWo

In the early 1900s it served as Temecula's general store, later dubbed The Mercantile, the place to buy a sack of flour, tin of cling peaches, and a dill pickle from the pickle barrel. Over the years it’s had several incarnations. For most of my life it was an antique store, a place to buy an old cavalry canteen or a lace doily for a pie-crust table. The brick building, built before earthquake codes, wasn’t safe, so the city thought to tear it down. But people rallied for its rescue, and at considerable expense, it was reinforced to make it safer. Now it’s called The Merc, part art gallery, part music venue, one of the best of its kind anywhere. Last night, for Thursday night is jazz night, I went to hear the Gunnar Biggs Latin Jazz Quartet at The Merc. I bought a fruit and cheese plate and a bottle of water, and sat with Gunnar’s wife, Bonnie, and other friends at a front-row table -- Gunnar is a buddy. Something about the old brick walls gives the house a soulful acoustic. Something about Latin jazz fills my soul with something akin to joy. Sit and listen to crazy-good musicians at the top of their game spin webs of musical complexity while bopping along to the Latin beat and get transported. A stellar night of music, a night when sitting still is tough.
---Gordon Johnson

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