Green Space Blues Jam in the Future
The Waltham Land Trust has held the Green Space Blues Jam, our gala benefit event featuring live music, dancing, conversation, snacks, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, for 20 years. We’re looking for input to see if changes should be implemented to make it more appealing to a wider audience. Please click the link below and provide your answers by December 1 (and respond only once). Thanks for your opinion!
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Here are details from the 2024 Blues Jam:
What: The 20th annual Green Space Blues Jam, our big fundraiser of the year, with live music, snacks, drinks, desserts, and a silent auction
Live Music by: Sonya Rae and Ryan Taylor
When: Sunday June 9th, 2024, 2:00pm to 5:00pm—it was awesome!
Where: 10 Citypoint, 500 Totten Pond Road, Waltham MA (special thank you to Boston Properties)
To Eat: Snacks and desserts, including tasty treats from Ruth's Chris
To Drink: Wine, Sam Adam's beer, Stormalong hard cider, and non-alcoholic beverages
Silent auction: Has ended.
Tickets: Buy your tickets at the door! At 10 Citypoint, 500 Totten Pond Road, Waltham MA. See you there!
How you can get involved!
- Be a Sponsor of the Green Space Blues Jam! For online credit card sponsoring, as a Business or as an Individual! Or via check, or if you have questions, call the office at 781-893-3355, or email Sonja Wadman.
- Tickets: Buy your tickets at the door! At 10 Citypoint, 500 Totten Pond Road, Waltham MA. See you there!
- Invite your friends!
- Bid, buy and win items at the FREE-to-access online auction open for viewing now and bidding at 1pm June 5th. In order to place a bid, you must create an account. If you made an account last year, it should still be there. You can reset the password if you need to, or make a new account. You do not have to provide credit card information until you win an item and it’s time to pay at the end of the auction.
Sonya Rae Taylor
Sonya Rae is a Boston-based guitarist, songwriter and singer, known for her soaring vocals, scorching guitar work and savvy song-craft, which has been likened to a “fiery female combination of Warren Haynes, Bonnie Raitt and Amy Winehouse”. After spending years crafting songs for recording artists as a signed writer for BMG Chrysalis, and after almost a decade of playing as side-woman guitarist for various singers and bands, Sonya Rae now fronts her own project, joining forces with her masterful counterpart, husband Ryan Taylor on guitar forming a powerful guitar duo.
The two have worked with or shared stage with artists ranging from Austin queen of soul, Tameca Jones, Gary Clark Jr, John Popper of Blues Traveler, John Medeski and Derrico Watson of the Victor Wooten Band. They are two of the finest young guitar players in the scene today and continue to provide audiences with high energy and soulful performances up and down the east coast and beyond.
Sonya Rae can be seen playing at New England's most popular venues, including: The Beehive, Atwoods Tavern, Menotomy Grill, Chianti’s, Bostonia, Bond (Langham Hotel), Aeronaut Brewery, Whisky on Water, and many, many more.
A big THANK YOU to this year's Sponsors!
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.