TURNER — The Mill Town Road Show will perform in the “Music for Mavis” series at the gazebo on Route 117, at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 14.

Jack D. Jolie, who lived on Music Row in Nashville during his teenage years writing country music and recording with his father, while taking serious guitar lessons from professional Nashville players. In 1976 Jolie found his mountain soul in Bluegrass music. Local bluegrass bands he played with opened for the likes of Bill Monroe, The Seldom Scene and The Johnson Mountain Boys. Eventually, in 1998 Jolie joined the Connecticut bluegrass band “Grass Routes” and stayed 12 years, recording two CD projects with them. Jolie has a wide range of musical heroes and influences, which include Waylon Jennings, Tony Rice, Charles Sawtelle, Jimi Hendrix and many others.

Terry Swett, a native of north Norway spent much of young adulthood developing a travelogue of stories, inspired by small town America. Swett also spent time along Nashville’s music row, where he shared the stage with some of the best songwriters in the business. ” That’s where I started to polish my skills as a writer,” he says. “Over the years, I’ve done a tremendous amount of solo performing, and occasionally been half of performing duets; but this is the first time since high school that I’ve been part of a complete band, and I just love it!”

Debbie Stanford has been singing harmony and lead with Terry for over 20 years. With a true and humble soul, her sweet vocal harmonies add a timeless and emotional dimension to the band’s blend of roots, Americana and original music.

John Sparrow, the most recent addition, is an all-around, seasoned player. Sparrow’s early ’60s folk beginnings have led him down many musical roads. It’s not unusual to hear him sit down and bang out some ragtime piano, or jump into a bluegrass jam playing a guitar, banjo or mandolin. But to the “Roadshow” scene he primarily brings his standup bass fiddle to provide a solid anchor to the band’s sound. Sparrow’s  bluegrass roots grew stronger in the ’70s and ’80s when he performed throughout New England with the Danville Junction Boys. In more recent years he was found pickin’ and grinnin’ with Harrison’s Hemingway Brothers band, and at the “Reunion Jamz” with “Uncle Al” Scheen, and Alden Clark, both former members of the Jud Stunk Band of days gone by.

Suggested donation is $5 to help pay the musicians. Bring a chair or a blanket for seating.