Doug Olsen to be Featured in Tonight's Dwight-Derby House Kitchen Concert Series

The following press release was submitted by the Dwight Derby House. 

The Dwight-Derby House will be alive with music tonight as Doug Olsen, Medfield Public Schools Director of Music, leads his stellar jazz quintet at the "Kitchen Concert Series."  From 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., they will perform music from jazz trumpet greats Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, Roy Hargrove, and much more. 

The event, held at the Dwight-Derby House at 7 Frairy Street in Medfield, is a "First Thursdays" event and will help to raise funds for the next phase of restoration of the house: installation of a working kitchen.

Tickets for this fun and intimate evening of jazz are $25 per person and will be sold at the door. Ticket price includes everything but the kitchen sink: beer and wine tasting, finger food and outstanding jazz by the talented Doug and his jazz quintet. 

Performing all styles of jazz and world music, Doug has been a freelance trumpeter in the New England area for over 20 years. He has played solo trumpet with the top area bands and has been a featured soloist with the USAF Band of Liberty, the Ryles Jazz Orchestra and the Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra. Doug has recorded on pop/rock, swing, jazz, and latin CD’s, including “Prozac Nation” by Bellevue Cadillac (The Sopranos, Shallow Hal) and jazz vocalist Michelle Mailhot’s “A Happy Madness.”

Get ready to tap your feet and be amazed. Join us for good food, good music and a good time.

The Friends of the Dwight-Derby House is a citizen’s group established to support the active use, restoration, maintenance and preservation of this historic property.  Today, it continues to raise funds through grants, individual and corporate donations, and sale of memorabilia. The donation of time, talent and effort by many local volunteers has also contributed to its restoration.