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Senior Symposia programming is developed by our board of senior advisors, but is open to participants of all ages. We regret that we can not accept cash or check payment at the door at Senior Symposia events. Unless otherwise indicated, all workshops take place from 2-4 p.m..
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Tom Reney, the renowned longtime host of Jazz à la Mode on NEPM, will discuss the rich and varied traditions of jazz during its peak popularity in the United States. He has been telling people for over 40 years about this true American art form. Tom Reney is an evangelist on the theme that the vast variety of black music and blues music, out of jazz joints and church is the bright spiritual, awe-inspired thread through his own American life.
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Tom Reney was supposed to inherit the family civil engineering business, until he found his life in the basement joints of Worcester, Massachusetts, and in blues music at large. The sounds that unlock Tom Reney had hometown names like Boots Mussuli and Jacki Byard, then Muddy Waters and Aretha Franklin. When Duke Ellington—the great orchestrator of the blues— stepped in, playing at a hospital fundraiser near Worcester, there was no going back.
Jazz à la Mode producer/host Tom Reney was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz à la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree from UMass Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.
