Since 1983 Florence-based musician Roger Salloom has presented a free concert conceived in the spirit of San Francisco/1967 in Northampton. This summer, the annual celebration is on Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Academy of Music in downtown Northampton.
As is the tradition, admission is free thanks to generous support from area sponsors.
This year's show features Roger Salloom performing songs from his newest CD, "LA TE DA," plus special guest performances by the venerable Charles Neville of the Neville Bros., Jimmy Weider, longtime lead guitarist for The Band and Big Pink, and masterful songwriter Eric Olsson with the funk princes, Unit 7.
This annual free concert by Salloom was held for many years and was the first rock and roll event ever at the Pines Theater.
Roger Salloom feat. Charles Neville & Eilen Jewell - La Te Da Video Codes at www.yallwire.com
About Roger Salloom
Salloom's long and prolific musical career brought him from his hometown of Worcester to some of San Francisco's most prestigious venues over 40 years ago. It was there that his band, Salloom, Sinclair and Mother Bear, played The Carousel, The Fillmore and The Avalon Ballrooms alongside contemporaries Santana, Procol Harum and BB King.
A cross between blues, roots, Americana, country, and soul, Salloom always speaks from his heart. He has a self-deprecating, humorous, everyman quality, mixed with a powerful sensitivity and depth of character.
Roger Salloom began his music career by listening and learning. At 13 years old, he was a banjo and guitar-playing novice whose influences were Pete Seeger, Jelly Roll Morton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams and Jimmy Rodgers.
His career would include time on the San Francisco and Nashville music scenes working with Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Richard Dobbins and members of Creedence Clearwater Revival before settling in Northampton in 1980. Over the course of the years, Salloom has shared the bill with artists such as Van Morrison, Santana, Cheech and Chong, Doc Watson, NRBQ, Maria Muldaur, Jonathan Edwards, Paul Butterfield and many others.
Rolling Stone Magazine called Salloom "a superb story teller with a good sense of rhythm and a great sense of timing, and the music is incredibly infectious."
To see a video of one of Saloom's songs, shot in the Blue Bonnet diner in Noho, visit
About Roger Salloom
Salloom's long and prolific musical career brought him from his hometown of Worcester to some of San Francisco's most prestigious venues over 40 years ago. It was there that his band, Salloom, Sinclair and Mother Bear, played The Carousel, The Fillmore and The Avalon Ballrooms alongside contemporaries Santana, Procol Harum and BB King.
A cross between blues, roots, Americana, country, and soul, Salloom always speaks from his heart. He has a self-deprecating, humorous, everyman quality, mixed with a powerful sensitivity and depth of character.
Roger Salloom began his music career by listening and learning. At 13 years old, he was a banjo and guitar-playing novice whose influences were Pete Seeger, Jelly Roll Morton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams and Jimmy Rodgers.
His career would include time on the San Francisco and Nashville music scenes working with Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Richard Dobbins and members of Creedence Clearwater Revival before settling in Northampton in 1980. Over the course of the years, Salloom has shared the bill with artists such as Van Morrison, Santana, Cheech and Chong, Doc Watson, NRBQ, Maria Muldaur, Jonathan Edwards, Paul Butterfield and many others.
Rolling Stone Magazine called Salloom "a superb story teller with a good sense of rhythm and a great sense of timing, and the music is incredibly infectious."
To see a video of one of Saloom's songs, shot in the Blue Bonnet diner in Noho, visit