MEMO Summer Concert at Medfield Gazebo Thursday

Acoustic Fire will appear at the MEMO summer concerts at the Gazebo, July 26 beginning at 6 p.m. A popular feature during July and August in Medfield, the concerts are one of the many seasonal activities offered by the Medfield employers and merchants organization for residents of the area.

Funding in part is provided by The Needham Bank and weekly MEMO hosts. This week’s MEMO member, Rockland Trust, hosts Acoustic Fire.

In the event of rain cancellations, the Medfield Public Library will host a family movie at 6 pm.

Cancellation notices will be posted on the MEMO website:www.medfieldmemo.org and on Medfield.TVwebsite:www.medfield.tv.

Members of tonight’s local band, based in Norwood, Medfield and Walpole are rock and roll veterans, playing a wide variety of rock, country-rock and dance music.

Norwood resident Maria Breen can be found playing acoustic guitar and as lead singer. Leon Barzin and Maria Breen have been a duo on the local scene for five years.  Their first appearance at the gazebo concerts was in 2010. Their music and a clip of last year’s performance at the gazebo can be viewed at www.reverbnation.com/acousticfireduo.

Aug. 2 Medfield resident, jazz vocalist and pianist, Jeri Bergonzi will makes her premier performance on the Gazebo band stand with a quartet paying homage to jazz great Shirley Horne. According to her bio: Bergonzi grew up singing the songs of her beloved Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell while listening to the progressive rock bands of the1970’s.  She studied jazz improvisation with the legendary Charlie Banacos. The Aug. 2 performance will be hosted by The Goddard School of Medfield. 

The gazebo is adjacent to the library off Main Street. There is plenty of room for family picnics, blankets and chairs and even nice dogs on the leash are permitted.

MEMO, The Medfield Employers and Merchants Organization, which brings this series to the gazebo, is the local business organization that promotes businesses located in or serving the Medfield community. It networks, educates and supports its individual member businesses through monthly dinner meetings. It also believes that it should give back to the community that supports it and does so through seasonal events, of which the summer concert series is one.

It offers Medfield Day in the fall (Sept. 15), holiday and Christmas activities in the winter and Medfield History Day in the spring. It also provides scholarships to graduating seniors at Medfield and Tri County Regional Vocational High Schools and purchases and hangs the flags in the business area on national holidays to honor local service personnel serving throughout the world.

MEMO membership is open to all local businesses and information may be obtained on the website:  www.medfieldmemo.org or from Cathleen Farrell: Cathleen@beginningyears.com.