Green Space Blues Jam 2025

Green Space Blues Jam 2025  

Our 21th Annual Green Space Blues Jam will be held on Friday, May 16th, 2025. Join us in person for an evening of live music, a variety of delicious snacks, assorted desserts, beer, wine, Stormalong hard cider, non-alcoholic drinks, and an online silent auction (May 14th through May 18th 6PM) for a great cause at Stonehurst, 100 Robert Treat Paine Dr, Waltham MA 02452.

Your ticket supports the work of the Waltham Land Trust to preserve and protect open spaces in our community.

This year we are thrilled to have live in person, Paul Rashel and Annie Raines!

For 31 years Paul Rishell & Annie Raines have been hailed as one of the world’s best blues duos. They have recorded 6 albums together including the W.C. Handy Award-winning Moving to the Country (2000), and received numerous award nominations from the Blues Foundation. They have performed and recorded with John Sebastian, Susan Tedeschi, Pinetop Perkins and Rory Block. They have opened for Ray Charles, Dr. John, and Little Feat, and performed on international radio and TV shows including Late Night with Conan O’Brien and A Prairie Home Companion.

From 2011 to 2022 they worked as Visiting Artists in the American Roots Music Program at Berklee College of Music in Boston, teaching Country Blues techniques and history to new generations of aspiring musicians. They continue to perform American roots music and their own compositions at festivals, concert halls, and clubs all over the world.

"While their guitar, harmonica, and vocals are roiling, muscular, and masterful, their shows are down home- friendly and fun-loving." - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe

The WLT would like to thank all the 2024 GSBJ sponsors: BXP (formerly know as Boston Properties), Aurora Architects + Builders, The Village Bank, Anonymous Donor, The Nelson Companies, Ltd., Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, Ruth's Chris Steak House, David Hutcheson, Marie Daly, John & Betsy Dieckmann, Bentley University, Sumo Liquors, Boston Beer, Stormalong, Committee to Elect Sean Diamond, Mike Williams & Anna Sura, Barbara Jacobs & Ted Nyder, Karen Sebastian LLC, Nadene Stein & Ty Sandefur, Elinor & Jack Marcou Charitable Foundation, Failla & DeFrancesco Family Dentistry, Heather May for State Representative/Committee to Elect Heather May, Anna & Clarence Richardson, Waltham Farmers’ Market, Diana Young, Watertown Savings Bank, 128 Business Council, and Dan Melnechuk & Amy Rothstein.