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Selected Appearances And News of Note:
September 11, 2010 -- With The Chris Humphrey Big Band in Blue Hill, Maine. Fine band and Chris is a first-rate musician.
August 26, 2010 -- With The Portland Jazz Orchestra at One Longfellow Square, Portland. A forward-looking group of Southern Maine's finest, with a book mainly written for the band.
August 25, 2010 -- With Nick Ludington, guitar, and Jan Van Voorst, drums, at The Local Buzz, 327 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth 7-10. This trio played lots about a decade ago and it will be a joy to play again.
July 25, 2010 -- With The Tom Porter Quintet at The North Star Cafe. Mr. Porter plays piano, joined by Frank Mauceri, saxophone, Mark Barnette, drums and Sam on bass. What a fun band!
July 17, 2010 -- With Tony Gaboury at The Local Buzz, Cape Elizabeth. There is no greater band than the one we have for you!
February 10, 2010 -- HAITIAN RELIEF BENEFIT with The Tom Porter Quintet at The Frontier Cinema and Cafe, 14 Maine St - Fort Andross, Brunswick.
November 8, 2009 -- With The Portland Jazz Orchestra, South Portland
November 2, 2009 -- With Mike Arciero at One Longfellow Square, Portland
November 1, 2009 -- With Frank Mauceri, Gelato Fiasco, Brunswick
September 22, 2009 -- Debut of The Zach Ovington Trio at One Longfellow Square, Portland
August 1, 2009 -- With The Chris Humphrey Big Band. Benefit supporting The Genesis Network's work against child trafficking and slave labor in Burma and Thailand.
October 24, 2008 -- Duo with saxophonist Matt Langley, Solo Bistro, Bath. Mr. Langley is amazingly good.
August 15, 2008 -- Sam and Dylan aboard the Amistad, a replica of the ship which was the site of a slave-led mutiny in 1839. Coordinated by The Amistad Arts Collective.
April 17, 2008 -- Frank Mauceri Quintet, in concert at Bowdoin College, Brunswick. The Band: Frank on tenor saxophone, Tim O'Dell, saxophones, Mark Tipton, trumpet, and Steve Grover, drums.
November 9, 2007 -- With Chris Humphrey, piano and vocals, Dave Wells, tenor saxophone, and Steve Grover, drums, live radio concert on Maine Public Radio
August 17, 2007 -- The Campion Ensemble, live radio concert on Maine Public Radio. With Chris Humphrey, piano and vocals, Jeff Witherell, drums and piano, Amrit Robbins, trumpet and Dylan Sherry, saxophones.
July, 2007 -- I am saddened by the passing of luthier Tom Williamson of Brunswick, Maine. Tom was a guitar builder and restorer of the very highest order and a close friend. Tom chose to leave a very light footprint on this world but it's a much sadder place without him.
June 16, 2007 -- Sam Sherry & The Campion Ensemble (Neil Pearlman, piano, Jeff Witherell, drums and Dylan Sherry, saxophones), Fort Williams Park, Cape Elizabeth.
November 2, 2006 -- URSA MAJOR in concert at the Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston with Jeff Witherell, piano, Dylan Sherry, saxophones and Jan van Voorst van Beest, drums. Opening for Roswell Rudd and the Mongolian Buryat Band.
August 7, 2006 -- URSA MAJOR in concert at the 39th Annual Monday Night Jazz Series, Hartford, Connecticut. Chris Humphrey, piano & vocal, Matt Langley and Dylan Sherry, saxophones and Jan van Voorst van Beest, drums.
May 19, 2006 -- URSA MAJOR in concert, Olin Arts Center, Bates College
April 26, 2006 -- Sam Sherry, double bass & Dylan Sherry, saxophones, Cape Elizabeth Arts Commission
September 17, 2005 -- Ursa Major at the Third Annual Rockland HarborFest Jazz and Arts Festival, Rockland, Maine
May, 2005 -- The Arts Commission of Cape Elizabeth, Maine has generously awarded a grant to support the recording of Sam's jazz song-cycle based on Kahlil Gibran's THE PROPHET. Many thanks to the Commission!
January 30, 2005 -- Sam Sherry & Ursa Major with special guest Mark Kleinhaut at the Maine Jazz Alliance, Brunswick
November 12, 2004 -- Sam Sherry & Ursa Major LIVE on Maine Public Broadcasting, Bangor
November, 2004 -- The Gibran National Committee of Lebanon has graciously endorsed Sam's work on a jazz song-cycle based on Kahlil Gibran's monumental work, THE PROPHET.
August 8, 2004 -- Sam Sherry & Ursa Major at the FESTIVAL OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE, Longfellow Square, Portland