Historic Downtown Sanford is ready to swing into springtime with an event previously known as the Sanford Art Walk which was every third Saturday with a new event revolving around art, jazz and some of your favorite local independent businesses. Sanford Art and Jazz Night is the product of Historic Downtown Sanford’s booming arts community. Out of the covid chrysalis,...
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The Sounds of Sinatra are heading to Sanford! Yes, you read that right. Join us for David Robert's Trio Frank Sinatra Birthday Celebration at West End, and enjoy your favorite ballots this weekend! Roberts will be accompanied by Julian Bond on keys, Charlie Silva on upright bass and the smooth sounds of Sinatra will be sung by none other than David Roberts...
Following in the immediate wake of Orlando’s No Day Off livestreamed music telethon over the weekend, Historic Downtown Sanford is getting in on the action with a week’s worth of livestream shows from mainstay venue West End Trading Co. It’s an idea with legs, putting some money in bands’ pockets directly through online donations, keeping the venue in watchers’ minds,...
Sometimes good ideas and kind intentions can even outpace a virus. In this case, it was local musician, actor and author Andy Matchett, who came up with the idea of staging a virtual live-music telethon to benefit musicians hit hard by the lightning-fast economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on our community. In short order, Matchett had a location -...
