The Salem Insider

Insiders guide to food, entertainment & living in Salem Massachusetts for tourists and residents.

Salem Spring Fling

Spring Charity Battle Royale

By Glen Hughes on 7 Comments
Categories: community, events, seasonal, spring

We were planning on running an article about Salem’s Spring Fling today however, we got a last minute email about another event that made us change this post a bit.  You might remember a post we did called “Wine Wars” discussing how some notable events in town sponsored by Pamplemousse or Salem Wine Imports always [...]

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Frankie Mannings 85th Birthday party at the Roseland Ballroom

Jazz Supper Club at Sixty2 on Wharf

By Forrest on 3 Comments
Categories: music, nightlife, restaurant

This post by regular TheSalemInsider.com contributor Forrest Frazier. I received an email from local eatery Sixty2 on Wharf the other day which put me in a nostalgic mood.  For years I worked as a DJ in Boston, New York and through out the US spinning jazz, big band and swing music during the neo-swing movement [...]

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Juan P Chavez

Salem Jazz and Soul Festival

By Glen Hughes on 2 Comments
Categories: community, events, music

Salem’s Jazz and Soul Festival kicked off on the right foot with Afro-Cuban Jazz musician Juan Chavez and his band made up of fellow Berklee students. The weather might have been chilly Saturday afternoon but the band was hot, playing a mix of salsa and jazz that had everybody on the front steps of the [...]

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The Indefinite Article rocks the ‘kok

By Glen Hughes on 1 Comment
Categories: music, nightlife

Salem rocks even on a Monday night. Sometimes you find interesting music in unlikely places. Last night I went out to see The Indefinite Article, a Boston jazzy hip-hop phenom. Now getting major label attention and touring to support their second CD, The Indefinite Article played to a packed house at the Bangkok Paradise. The [...]

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