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Nice review of the Hoop City Jazz and Arts festival. Could this be an annual STCC event?

Celebrate the Fourth of July in style! The Hoop City Jazz Festival will be held here on the STCC campus on July 4th Weekend.

Free Admission • Ample free parking • Assistance for the physically-challenged
An international food court • Setta McCabe, director of public relations at Springfield Technical Community College, provided the line up. Here it is, with comments from Hoop City Jazz Festival organizer, John Osborn.

Saturday, July 4:
Music will start at 1:00 pm ending at 8:30 pm
(Just in time for the fireworks, which are visible from behind the Springfield Armory Museum)
1:30 Marcus Pitts/Carl Neal Project
3:00 David Davis graduate of the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford
4:30 Lin Rountree from Detroit, similar to Louis Armstrong, high energy
6:30 Urban Jazz Coalition from Ohio, pioneers of smooth jazz; we're excited to have them here

Sunday, July 5
1:30 Charles Langford local jazz musician, saxophone player, lot of music rooted in new Orleans jazz, and NYC in the 50s
3:00 ESP from Syracuse, a young, very accomplished group
4:30 Ron Gill jazz vocalist from Boston, now living in South Carolina; sings in the tradition of Duke Ellington, and Billy Strayhorn who composed Take the A Train. The 6-member back-up band is reminiscent of the big-band feeling.
6:00 The Berklee Latin Jazz All-Stars Closing out the festival, this group from the Berklee School of Music was voted best college jazz band 2008 by Downbeat Magazine. The group is coming in from Venezuela on an international tour.

This is the third annual Hoop City jazz and Art Festival, this year held on the campus green at Springfield Technical Community College. Mr. Osborn noted that Hoop City, of course, is a reference to Springfield as the birthplace of basketball, and said that people coming from out of town may want to include a visit to the Basketball Hall of Fame.