NORWOOD -- Jazz, show tunes and the Great American songbook will be featured July 17 and Canadian blues will be the highlight July 21 at the Norwood Village Green Concert Series.

The Dave Alderson Quartet featuring Tiffany Alderson with Sarah Simon as guest artist performs Sunday, July 17 at 7 p.m. in the village park bandshell.

Dave Alderson has played played trumpet and flugelhorn professionally for over 40 years. He has been the band director at J.W. Leary Junior High School in Massena since 1992. Tiffany Alderson is an eighth grader who began music lessons at age five with Suzuki violin, followed by dance, piano, trumpet and now voice lessons with Sara Simon-Shult. Simon-Shult spent many years as vocal music teacher at Parishville-Hopkinton Central School before becoming a stay-at-home mom. They will be joined by Bill Vitek on piano, Dan Gagliardi on bass and Kyle Tupper on drums.

The J.W. Jones Blues Band, described by the Globe and Mail as “one of Canada’s top blues guitar stars,” will perform Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m.

The energetic band has played in Canada, the United States, across Europe, and in Australia and Brazil.

Some of the biggest names in blues today, including The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Rod Piazza, Anson Funderburgh with Sam Myers, The Mannish Boys and the legendary Hubert Sumlin have invited him to join them on stage.

The band’s new record, "Midnight Memphis Sun," features special guest stars Hubert Sumlin and Charlie Musselwhite, while past CDs have had world-class musicians David ‘Fathead’ Newman (Ray Charles sax player), Little Charlie Baty, Junior Watson, Colin James, and multi-Grammy nominee Kim Wilson who appears on two discs and produced ‘My Kind of Evil’ in 2004.

The band’s music has garnered radio-play worldwide, including heavy rotation on commercial radio stations, and has been featured the internationally syndicated House of Blues Radio Hour. In 2009, Guitar World Magazine featured a CD called ‘Guitar Masters Vol. 2’ that put Jones alongside guitar stars B.B. King, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana and more.

Admission to both concerts is free but there will be a “pass the bucket” fund collection. For more information, visit norwoodvillagegreenconcerts.org.