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For information on any and all of The Putney Inn Overnight Packages, please call our Marketing Dept, at 802.387.5517 or e-mail us at: sales@putneyinn.com .


SPECIAL EVENTS:

Join us for Live Jazz every Friday in the Lounge at the Putney Inn!
Green Mountain Mambo will be performing at the Lounge at the Putney Inn on Friday nights at 7:00 p.m. Band members Dan DeWalt and Steve Sonntag play a combination of standard and original jazz and Latin jazz music. The band performs original compositions by pianist Dan DeWalt and trumpet/flugelhorn player Steve Sonntag. DeWalt has been performing regionally for the past 30 years on trombone and steel pan as well as piano. His venues have included the Clinton White House and the Newfane Common.

Steve Sonntag is a member of the Amherst Jazz Orchestra, the Jeff Holmes Big Band, the VJC Big Band and the Al Alessi Band. He currently is a music professor at Westfield State College and at University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The other half of the horn section is anchored Clayton DeWalt, a rising star in the trombone world, who is currently based in Boston, MA and Pittsburgh, PA. Clayton DeWalt started recording professionally in his early teens and comfortably plays jazz, classical, rock, R&B and Afro-Caribbean. Toshiko Akiyoshi, Nancy Wilson, Cecil McBee, The New York Voices, the Jimmy Sorsey Orchestra, the Gene Krupa Orchestra, Bob Moses, Dave Samuels, Patrizio Buanne, The Temptations, and Regis Philbin are just a few of the various artists he has played with. He can be heard on recordings with The New York Voices (MCG Jazz), The Three Rivers Jazz Orchestra (Sea Breeze Records), Catro, Azucar, and others.

Dave DeWalt is currently pursuing his M.M. in Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory of Music and earned his B.S. in Music Education from Slippery Rock University.

The rhythm section features Wim Auer on bass, along with either Julian Gerstin on congas or Ben James on the drums.

Wim Auer first met Dan DeWalt and Draa Hobbs in 1980 when he returned from England and performed with Prime Rib Band and he has been performing with extensively with them since. Auer initially played electric bass with Antares, a regional jazz collective, through the 1970s.

Julian Gerstin’s percussive explorations have led him from the folk traditions of Ghana and Cuba to popular music from Nigeria to Brazil, as well as jazz styles from New Orleans brass bands to avant-garde experimentalism. He currently performs with the Caribbean/Mideastern jazz group As Yet Quintet, Afro-Cuban dance ensemble GrupoPalo Santo, Cajun band Lil’ Orphans (on washboard!), Brattleboro’s Brass Band Project and accompanies the Brattleboro Women’s Chorus, River Singers and others. Gerstin teaches music at Keene State College and the Vermont Jazz Center (where he also serves on the board), as well as community percussion classes at the Loft.

Percussionist Ben James is familiar to many since he grew up in Guilford, VT playing drums and continued playing during his moves to Boston, New York, and San Francisco before coming back to the northeast. He currently plays drums and percussions throughout the region with various music groups.

For more information, or for reservations for dinner, contact The Putney Inn at 802-387-5517, 800-653-5517 or info@putneyinn.com.

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Every business meeting, social occasion, and family gathering is an affair of note at The Putney Inn. From sales breakfasts to board-of-directors dinners, we do it all, and we do it with meticulous attention to detail.

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