Music & Shopping in Empire

Empire businesses including The Secret Garden, The Miser’s Hoard, Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate, Sleeping Bear Surf & Kayak and Deerings Market will promote a series of Musical Evenings through the summer on alternate Thursday evenings. The first one, on Thursday, July 14, will begin at 7 p.m. and feature music by Bo Bossa, a local four-piece ensemble that plays swing, jazz, blues, Latin, fusion and whatever else they feel like playing. The stores involved will provide refreshments and stay open late.

Dance, listen, enjoy. Made up of bass, drums, keyboards, horns and vocals, the musicians of Bo Bossa are flexible and versatile. With three vocalists, you’ll hear lots of solos and lots of harmonies and you will enjoy the variety presented between trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. Bo Bossa embraces the traditional and the standards but also loves trying new things and adding new sounds and songs to their repertoire.