CAVENDISH, Vt. – The Town of Cavendish and the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association invite the public to join in an evening of music with Gerry Grimo and the East Bay Jazz Ensemble on the Svec Memorial Green in
Proctorsville, on Wednesday, July 15, at 6 p.m. Thank you to the Cavendish Community Fund for sponsoring this concert.
Gerry Grimo and the East Bay Jazz Ensemble has a performing history dating back to its founding in Rhode Island, in 1976. Its musical ensemble style is reminiscent of the classic dance bands and show bands of the mid-20th century. In fact, many of the ensemble’s musical arrangements of the swing, blues, R&B, vocal,
and jazz classics in its repertoire come from that time period.
East Bay Jazz continues to perform throughout New England with a core of musicians that live in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island under the direction and management of Gerry Grimo, of Windsor, Vt.
Grimo was born and raised in Rhode Island, but has been a part of the music and arts scene in the upper Connecticut River Valley since settling in Vermont in 1988. Grimo is past treasurer for North Country Community Theatre in Lebanon, N.H., serving in the role for 14 years. He is also the regular organist and music minister for St. Anthony’s Church in White River Junction, Vt., and St. Francis Church in Windsor, Vt.,
and performs regularly with his band, East Bay Jazz, and as a freelance keyboardist, accordionist, and bassist in local area musical theater productions and with other area bands.
Grimo’s business career included more than 35 years in the banking industry, most recently as a VP-compliance officer for Mascoma Bank, in White River Junction, Vt., retiring in 2023 after 29 years.