Hays Dowdy at Friends perform on Silver Spring's Veterans Plaza, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 7 pm. Free!

Please join us for another exciting Plaza Evening performance on Silver Spring's Veterans Plaza. On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 7 pm, we welcome Hays Dowdy to our stage. The performance is free!

Hays Dowdy has been playing guitar and singing for seven years, and tonight he will be performing on Veterans Plaza as both a member of his three piece band as a member of a guitar/vocal duo.

Hay’s band has been playing throughout his time at Sherwood High School. They have a mix of original music, covers and will be performing a few improvised jams. Hays will be joined in the duo by his girlfriend, Lindsey, and they will be playing a mix of originals and covers. Their genres cover a mix of hard rock, funk, garage and late 60's influenced folk.

This program is a production of the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. Read our blog at www.silverspringtowncenter.blogspot.com or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/sstowncenter or on Facebook!

The Greater U Street Jazz Collective on Veterans Plaza - Photos

The Greater U Street Collective performed on Silver Spring's Veterans Plaza on June 2, 2011. The group consists of National Endowment of the Arts Fellow, Art Cobb on drums; vocalist Cashandra Bacon (Howard University's Afro Blue); bassist Thomas View (Yah Ya Abdul Majid, Anthony Braxton, Peter Yarow, Jermaine Jackson); pianist Peter Frassrand(Curly Robinson Ensemble) woodwinds Russell Carter (Doug Carn, Webster Young); trumpeter Carl Macintyre (Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Gladys Knight, National Symphony Orchestra, Ojays). Many thanks to Don Berkemeyer, Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. Board Member for these excellent photos.

Warner Williams and Joyce Ettingoff at Silver Spring's Veterans Plaza

The Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. was very proud to host blues legend Warner Williams and Joyce Ettingoff at Silver Spring's Veterans Plaza. The performance was part of the Silver Spring Regional Center's Plaza Evening series. Warner played for more than two hours to the delight of an adoring crowd. We were pleased to also welcome SiriusXM's Bluesville program director, and a neighbor, Bill Wax to the Thursday program.

Warner Williams and Joyce Ettingoff Perform on Veterans Plaza, Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 7 pm

Join us tonight for another exciting Thursday Plaza Evening performance at the Silver Spring Civic Building. We are pleased to present one of the truly great musicians of our time—Warner Williams—on Veterans Plaza, starting around 7 pm. Joining Warner will be harp stylist Joyce Ettingoff.

Guitarist and songster Warner Williams of Takoma Park MD is one of the greatest unsung heroes of the Piedmont blues—an Eastern seaboard style that incorporates fiddle tunes, ballads, country and popular songs, ragtime, and gospel. With a jaunty rhythmic finger-picked guitar style and an eclectic repertoire that ranges from blues to honky-tonk, jazz crooning to children’s songs, Warner Williams is an old-style community entertainer of national significance. Joyce Ettingoff of Silver Spring is a wonderful harmonica player who plays throughout the metro Washington region, often with the band The Traveling BlueJayes.

Check out Warner’s music at www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3004

Tonight’s program is a production of the Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. Read our blog at www.silverspringtowncenter.blogspot.com or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/sstowncenter

SSTCi Seeks Performances for Thursday Night Plaza Evenings at Veterans Plaza (August to October)

Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. seeks individuals and groups to perform for the Thursday Night Plaza Evening series at Silver Spring's Veterans Plaza. Performers must be willing to donate their services, i.e, these are unpaid performances. The performances are scheduled from 7 to 9 pm. For more information, contact silverspringjams@gmail.com

The following Thursday evenings are available for performances at Silver Spring Veterans Plaza--

August 4
August 11
August 18

September 15
September 22
September 29

October 6
October 3
October 20
October 27