Petrone, Berland Lead Effort Proclaiming July 23, 2016 as Coltrane Day

Huntington Supervisor Frank P. Petrone and Coucilwoman Susan A. Berland led their Town Board colleagues at the May 10 Town Board meeting in issuing a proclamation declaring July 23 as “Coltrane Day” in the Town.

On July 23, 2016 the Friends of the Coltrane Home will present the second annual Coltrane Day Music Festival in Heckscher Park. The event will bring together jazz aficionados for a day of performances, community jams and workshops, in conjunction with the Huntington Summer Arts Festival. The event will also raise funds the effort to restore the Dix Hills house where jazz legend John Coltrane lived the last years of his life and where his wife, Alice – a master and influential musician and composer in her own right – recorded multiple seminal recordings with world renowned musicians in the basement. The house has been designated as a historic landmark by Huntington Town and is listed on the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places.

The Town of Huntington purchased the three-acre property several years ago to create Coltrane Park and transferred ownership of the house to the not-for-profit group Friends of the Coltrane Home, which wants to restore the house for use as a museum and cultural and educational center.

In the photo: Friends of the Coltrane Home board member Joel Snodgrass (l) and board chairman Ron Stein (r) with the Town Board.