Jefferson Historical Society Presents Sues Garage Free Concert June 6

JEFFERSON – Sue’s Garage is a seven-person rock band, chock-full of talented musicians who’ve been trained classically and have professional experiences everywhere from the concert stage to Off-Broadway.  After the group originally performed at an event at the home of their friend, Suzanne Pastor, they asked if they could continue to meet there for rehearsals in Sue’s Garage!  Now they bring their talents to the Maple Museum in Jefferson to perform a free concert of the best of 60’s and 70’s rock music! The free concert is Friday, June 6, 7pm, in The Maple Museum, 221 Creamery St. Jefferson.

Scott Blum, drummer/percussionist, has performed in dance bands, theatre productions, parades, circus, festivals, orchestra, opera, radio, television, and studio recordings.  He lives part time in Florida where he can be seen performing and teaching with Sarasota Contemporary Dance, The Scott Blum Jazz  Quartet, Strings Con Brio, The Sea Notes Dixieland Jazz Band, The Jacobites, First Brass, Piping Hot, Manatee Concert Band, Sun Coast Concert Band, The North Port Concert Band and many others. He is an active member of the Association of Florida Teaching Artists and Arts for Healing.  Dorothy Blum, also a percussionist, plays percussion with the Manatee Community Concert Band, strings Con Brio Orchestra,  Sun Coast Concert Band, and Northport Concert Band. Dorothy is a member of the Association of Florida Teaching Artists and provides classes in drumming and watercolor.  Dan Kruger grew up in North Jersey playing in Rock, Country, Blues, R&B bands through the 70's and 80's. He's thrilled to rediscover his rock’n'roll roots and the great music scene of the Catskills.  Tom Feterman studied voice after high school and has since performed in musical review shows and musicals in local theatres.  After moving to NYC in 1979 he went to countless auditions and continued his study of voice and dance.  He performed in an off-Broadway original musical called 'Pink Cadillac'.  Over the years he performed in cabarets and in Summer Stock shows in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.  Bonnie MacSaveny danced, choreographed, sang, and acted for 20 years in Musicals and Theater in NYC and around the country.  In the 1980s she fronted a band singing songs from the American Songbook.  Maggie Parent was a serious classical violinist as a young person, having played in orchestras at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and traveling as an orchestra player to Europe during summers as a teenager.  As an adult, Maggie took a different path.  She spent far less time on music, pursuing a successful career in business as an executive in the financial services industry.   Tim Mukhergee is an accomplished musician and composer. He has written many modern classical pieces, including a song series for mezzo-soprano and classical guitar which premiered at the National Opera Center in New York City, and a recently performed string quartet, which he plans to professionally record in the coming months.  In addition to composing, Tim also plays in various music ensembles ranging from classical, to rock and jazz to electronic experimental music.  Of all these activities, Sue’s Garage is just pure fun.  "We enjoy making music together with such wonderful friends.”

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CREATE Council on the Arts, and from a Fairgame Grant.