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Mark Dunlap and the Holyoke Cultural Council successfully organized the First Annual Holyoke Latin Jazz Festival on October 13, 2012 from 4:00 PM to midnight and are now planning the Second Annual Holyoke Latin Jazz Festival for Saturday, October 12, 2013. The Holyoke Latin Jazz Festival will present inexpensive live latin jazz music to expand PassportHolyoke's (PH) Discover Holyoke Day at the Winter Palace Theater(WPT) on Cabot Street in Holyoke, MA that will showcase local musicians along with world-class performers from NYC. The theater owner, Paper City Brewery, the Holyoke Cultural Council and Wiremonkey Dance cleared an enormous amount of clutter from the historic WPT for future live performances.

John Michaels and his nonprofit organization LoudJazz are now planning the line up for the 3rd Annual Northampton Jazz Festival for Saturday, September 14th, 2013.

InterTrip recorded a demo that was released in 2013 that can be heard on www.simmermusic.com under artist InterTrip.

Mark Dunlap, chair of the Holyoke Cultural Council, was the recipient of the state Cultural Council's 2011 leadership award.

Since April 2011, Simmer Music has booked the Friday and Saturday night jazz series at the Blue Rock Cafe Shelburn Falls, MA 01370. Simmer Music continues to book the Wednesday night jazz series at the Black Moon Music Lounge in Belchertown, MA since August of 2010. Since 2009, Simmer Music has booked the Sunday jazz brunch series at Champney's Restaurant & Tavern, at the Deerfield Inn in Deerfield, MA in addition to the Sunday jazz brunch series at the Cushman Market, in Amherst, MA.

In December 2009, Interplay's Composition "Big Vic" was played by Aaron Neville's band (Featuring Charles Neville) on his "Christmas Tour" throughout the northeast United States.

RELEASES our newest work | show all releases

InterTrip Demo listen	Interplay Jazz Band John Michael's Spoke listen	Disciples of Cool Disciples of Cool listen	Frain/Dunlap Jazz Trip Pull The Shades listen
Eastern Standard Time Two Shades of Blue listen	John Waynelovich A Year From Now listen	DeSesa Jazz Quartet Demo CD listen	Matthias Ockert Group Survey listen

EVENTS what's coming up

Interplay Jazz Band: show all events

06/06/2013

East Longmeadow High School 180 Maple Street, East Longmeadow, MA 01028 (web) (map)
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Private school function for teacher appreciation day. Adam Call-sax,, John Michaels-guitar, Mark Dunlap-bass

06/08/2013

Hardwick Winery 3305 Greenwich Road, Hardwick, MA 01082 (web) (map)
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. No cover charge.
John Michaels-guitar, Mark Dunlap-bass, Scott Paquette-drums

06/09/2013

Cushman Market 491 Pine Street #A, Amherst, MA 01002 (web) (map)
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. No cover charge.
Ryan Emken-sax, Dave Bilodeau-trumpet, John Michaels-guitar, Mark Dunlap-bass

InterTrip: show all events

06/02/2013

3 County Fair 54 Fair Street, Northampton, MA 01060 (web) (map)
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Ticket price TBD.
Massachusetts Wine Festival
Adam Call-sax, Dave Frain-guitar, John Michaels-guitar, Mark Dunlap-bass, Scott Paquette-drums

06/14/2013

Paper City Brewery 108 Cabot Street, Holyoke, MA 01040 (web) (map)
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. $7.00 Cover.
Paper City Brewery Tasting and Tour
Fee includes beer during the event and beer to bring home!
Adam Call-sax, Dave Frain-guitar, John Michaels-guitar, Mark Dunlap-bass, Steve Devine-drums.

Kozinski/Dunlap/Pelletier: show all events

06/07/2013

Blue Rock Restaurant 10 Bridge Street, Shelburne, MA 01370 (web) (map)
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM. No cover charge.
John Kozinski-guitar, Mark Dunlap-bass, Denny Pelletier-drums

Moment's Notice: show all events

05/31/2013

Luthiers Co-Op 108 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA 01027 (web) (map)
9:30 PM to 11:00 PM. $5 Suggested Donation.
Dick Poccia-sax, Karl Rausch-guitar, Mark Dunlap-bass, Bill Matthews-drums