Green Space Blues Jam 2025!
Here are details for the 2025 Blues Jam:
This year’s 21st Green Space Blues Jam will be held the evening of Friday, May 16, 2025, doors opening at 7:30pm.
We’re thrilled to return to a favorite venue: Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate.
We're excited to have the awesome Blues duo Paul Rishell and Annie Raines performing live! Read more about Paul Rishell & Annie Raines below.
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 if you want to sponsor via check, or if you have questions, call the office at 781-893-3355, or email Sonja Wadman. Wondering about what being a sponsor entails? Read below about being a sponsor.
- Tickets: Buy your tickets NOW!
- Donate items to the FREE-to-access online auction opening May 14th. Email Sonja if you have a gift card or experience you’d like to contribute. Minimum value $25, please.
- Invite your friends!
- Bid, buy and win items at the FREE-to-access online auction opening May 14th. 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.
2025 GSBJ artists, Paul Rishell 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
“…Rishell is a master of country/blues styles, particularly slide played on a National steel guitar. Raines, a rare female ace blues harmonica blower, shows that she is as strong an acoustic country harp accompanist as she is a harder-edged, electrified Chicago-style lead player à la the great Little Walter…” -Billboard
GSBJ Sponsorship Levels and Benefits
Trailblazer/Gold $5,000
Top listing/logo on auction website and in event program
Logo on WLT website with link to your company’s website
One-year complimentary business membership to WLT
Ten complimentary tickets to in-person gala event on May 16, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.
Naturalist/Gold $2,500
Top listing/logo on auction website and in event program
Logo on WLT website with link to your company’s website
One-year complimentary business membership to WLT
Six complimentary tickets to in-person gala event on May 16, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.
Sustainer/Silver $1,500
Secondary listing/logo on auction website and in event program
Name on WLT website with link to your company’s website
Five complimentary tickets to in-person gala event on May 16, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.
Preserver/Silver $1,000
Secondary listing/logo on auction website and in event program
Name on WLT website with link to your company’s website
Four complimentary tickets to in-person gala event on May 16, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.
Hiker/Bronze $500
Third level listing/logo on auction website and in event program
Two complimentary tickets to in-person gala event on May 16, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.
Birder/Bronze $250
Third level listing/logo on auction website and in event program
Two complimentary tickets to in-person gala event on May 16, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.
A big THANK YOU to 2024'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.