Sunday, July 27th | RIMHOF - Joe Parillo Induction Celebration & Performance | Pump House Music Works, South Kingstown, RI | All ages | Full bar | Free Pizza & Snacks | $25 Tickets

Jazz pianist, composer and music educator Joe Parillo will be honored by The Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame during an Induction/Concert event at Pump House Music Works, Wakefield on Sunday, July 27. In 1980, Joe began his teaching career at CCRI and moved on to the URI Music Department in 1985 serving as Director of Jazz Studies and Department Chair (2010-2016). During his four+ decades in higher education, Joe simultaneously established himself as a jazz recording artist and concert performer with more than a dozen nationally and internationally released albums as a leader, co-leader and sideman. Along the way, he was recognized as a Steinway Artist, commissioned to compose three jazz ballets and arranged and recorded more than two dozen full-length children’s productions.