2019 SJSF/Berklee Summer Series at Derby Square

This series of free concerts runs from May through August and takes place outdoors on Derby Square (24 Front St., Salem, Mass.) from 5 to 7 p m. on the second Saturday of each month. Sponsored by Berklee College of Music and our generous sponsors (see below), the series showcases up and coming talent from Berklee. Come on out and enjoy some wonderful live music!

Location: Derby Square, 24 Front St. Salem, MA (Google Map) (Rain location, Koto, 90 Washington St., Salem)

When: 5-7 p.m., The second Saturday of every summer month (May 11, June 8, July 13, August 10 2018)

Cost: All Derby Square shows are free to the public.

May 11, 2019 5-7 p.m.

Sheila Del Bosque Trio

Born in Havana in 1994, Sheila del Bosque Fuentes is one of the most of in-demand young flutists in Cuba, having graduated with highest honors from the renowned Superior Institute of Art (ISA). Throughout her career, del Bosque has been performing with orchestras such as the Orchestra of Lyceum Mozartiano from Havana adjunct to Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, and the National Orchestra of Cuba. She was the only Cuban flutist selected as a member of the Cuban European Youth Academy and Orchestra supported by Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and directed by Thomas Hengelbrock, playing at the Rheingau Festival (2015) and the Young Euro Classic Festival (2017) in halls like the Kurhaus Wiesbaden and KonzertHaus Berlin in Germany. Sheila has played recorder, flute, and traverse baroque flute by invitation of Ars Longa, for many festivals of Ancient Music as well as many recordings including the CD: Navidad en el Caribe (Cantadas y Villancicos de Esteban Salas, la Habana, 1725 – Santiago de Cuba, 1803, Maestro de Capilla de la Catedral de Santiago de Cuba) Since 2012 she has performed with the leading Cuban dance company “Habana Compás Dance”, playing in all the major theaters and festivals in Cuba, as well as in South Korea, Mexico, and in the USA. She has played for important personalities like Pope Francis, Usher, Bon Jovi, and The Rolling Stones. In 2014 she won the first prize in the Chamber Music Competition “Musicalia.”

Awarded a full-tuition scholarship, she entered Boston’s Berklee College of Music in January, 2018 where she has had the opportunity to share the stage with musicians like Paquito d’ Rivera, Berta Rojas, and Omar Hakim.

The proposal of her music is the mix of all these worlds, a selection of contemporary and traditional Afro-Cuban music with some European and Jazz ingredients.

This show is presented by McDonalds Canal St Salem

June 8th, 2019 5-7 p.m

Staccioli & Gresino Collective

The mixture between funk grooves and jazz colors gave birth to the meeting of the guitarist Francesco Staccioli and pianist Riccardo Gresino who started to write their own original compositions. Both active musicians in the Italian area, they won a scholarship and flew to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music in September 2018. They wanted to give voice to the their music and that’s why they created a collective of musicians form all over the world who brought other freshness to the arrangements.

The project had an immediate response from the audience and that gave them the opportunity to perform in some situations, like the Berklee Guitar Funk Showcase, and to record two original videoclips.

Be prepared to experience grooves, cool melody and sparkling arrangements!

The Haviland House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc2ifg8iHE4

Space Lizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffdCn6Up-ak

This show is presented by The Lobster Shanty Salem

Aug. 10, 2019 5-7 p.m.

Safiya and Friends

Emerging from a chrysalis of positivity and consciousness, Safiya is an artist who transcends the norm by infusing her past with her future. Flavoring her sounds with musical dialects hailing from not only jazz but of her Afro-Caribbean roots. Safiya Leslie is bringing new energy and a young soul to the reggae scene today. Safiya and her powerful band possess jazz chops, urban attitude, and Caribbean beauty.

Raised in the melting pot of New York City and saturated in the cultures of her three parents: African American (Father) , Trinidadian (Mother), Jamaican (Step-Father). Safiya captures the essence of all and makes them her own. Alumni to Alicia keys alma mater, the Professional Performing Arts School, she performed for David Guetta and Yoko Ono at the United Nations(2013) as well with National Choral at Lincoln center (2011-2015).
Now a senior at Berklee College of Music, she is a dual major in Music Production and Engineering and Music Business Entrepreneurship. While she’s been at Berklee, Safiya has formed this band of a collection of musicians who have roots in the Caribbean and Latin America as well as being the founding member of a soca band, Riddim Symphony which has opened for reggae artist Keznamdi and Dancehall Artist Konshens. You can find Safiya and Friends at the Beat Brew Hall in Cambridge, The Beehive, as well as many New York locations.
in Sumer 2019, Safiya will be releasing her first album, which will explore the infusion between jazz and the Caribbean but also tell the story of the world and life, one song at a time. The album is guaranteed to allow you to collect your passport stamps from start to end.

This show is currently seeking a sponsor!

Please support these wonderful sponsors that help make our Derby Square series so great!