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EASTHAMPTON – Thanksgiving weekend has long served as a time for old friends \u2013 especially those who have moved away \u2013 to get together and renew connections.<\/p>\n
But for Chicopee native Ryan Jalbert, the holiday get-together has morphed and grown into a show that is now celebrating its 13th anniversary. The annual \u201cJalbatross\u201d concert will be held at the Marigold Theater in Easthampton<\/a> on Nov. 28 at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Jalbert grew up in Chicopee and became interested in music due to his parents\u2019 huge record collection. He noted his father was a record collector and also played a bit of harmonica. \u201cWe\u2019re going to actually make him play a little harmonica with us at the show,\u201d Jalbert said.<\/p>\n He wound up taking guitar lessons and fell in love with the instrument, which led him to study jazz guitar at Westfield State University. Looking for a bit of a post-college adventure, Jalbert followed a friend to Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n \u201cI just kind of tagged along,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought it was going to be about six months or a year or something, but 20-something years later, here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n As fortune would have it, Jalbert almost immediately joined the band he is still in, The Motet. But he\u2019d return for the holidays to see friends, and in 2012, he started the \u201cJalbatross\u201d shows to play with his brother, Colin, who is a drummer. <\/p>\n \u201cI would fly back, and it was just a way for me and my brother to have a lot of friends out and play some music. We did a lot of cover songs,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2018Jalbatross\u2019 was just sort of an umbrella term I used for different projects. But it was really meant for me and my brother Colin. I was always writing original music. I just never got around to recording it.\u201d<\/p>\n COVID changed all that. When the pandemic hit, Jalbert was approaching his 40th birthday and hadn\u2019t achieved his goal of recording original music. <\/p>\n \u201cI hadn\u2019t checked that box,\u201d he said with a laugh. \u201cSo, my brother came out to Colorado, and we recorded the record.\u201d<\/p>\n While the record is all instrumental, Jalbert said the show will mostly feature songs with vocals.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s all this vocal music I wanted to do, and because now it\u2019s a bigger event, it allows me to augment the lineup and bring in our friend Erica Tracy who\u2019s in a band called West End Blend and she\u2019s amazing and I\u2019ve always wanted to work with her,\u201d Jalbert said. \u201cShe just brings the house down.\u201d<\/p>\n The show will also have another local angle: The bass player at the show will be the one he used on the record, who just happens to be Jalbert\u2019s old friend Tim Philpott, originally from Holyoke, who now lives in Denver, Colorado. The band is rounded out by Brattleboro-based keyboardist Kris Yunker.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we started it, our friends were young, and they didn\u2019t have kids so they\u2019re always looking for a reason to come out to the bars around Thanksgiving or whatever. So, it was kind of just a fun thing,\u201d Jalbert said. \u201cWe never thought it would sustain for this long, but it\u2019s turned into this sort of a reunion, and the amazing thing is that it kept growing. Even our friends who had families were still coming out.\u201d<\/p>\n Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For more information, go online to marigold.org\/jalbatross\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. 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