LIVE MUSIC CONCERTS OUTDOORS THIS WEEKEND

Operation Gig offers outdoor concerts to the community. It's mounted forty-three concerts this season. To pay working musicians a respectable fee when donations from the audience don't suffice, it established a Musician Guarantee Fund, and that fund now needs to be replenished.

All of the money raised at tomorrow's fund raiser, featuring Isla Gray Ross and Clay Ross, will be put into the fund. To make a tax-deductible donation, go to www.operationgig.org/donate.

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Isla Gray Ross and Clay Ross

Saturday, September 17th, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

A fund raiser for Operation Gig will feature Isla Gray Ross and her father, Grammy-award winner Clay Ross. Isla is a singer and a fiddle player and is seven years old. She'll be joined by her father, Clay Ross, from the Grammy Award-winning band Ranky Tanky.

Location: 225 Argyle Road

Bennett Paster's Understated Trio

Sunday, September 18th, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

As the world around us continues to grow ever more complex, pianist and composer Bennett Paster found himself looking to music for an antidote: something to settle, to soothe, to smooth over the wrinkles of our modern lives. His new trio and set of compositions and their forthcoming recording are the results of his search, resulting in a simpler, more essential expression of jazz; music that is, in a word, Understated.

Location: 171 Westminster Road