The Foothills Jazz Quartet will perform Feb. 3 at the Stanley Museum during the First Friday Artwalk, presented by the Kingfield POPS. KINGFIELD — The Kingfield POPS recently announced that it will present the Foothills Jazz Quartet live at the Stanley Museum in Kingfield Friday, Feb. 3 from 6 to 8 p.m.

The event is the first in a series of First Friday Artwalk music performances that the Kingfield POPS is hosting thanks to a grant from the Maine Expansion Arts Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

The Foothills Jazz Quartet is a group of four area musicians who perform the vocal jazz repertoire of the mid-20th century. Their set list includes tunes that will be familiar to all who came of age between the 1920s and the turn of the 21st century.

The Stanley Museum is mounting a special exhibit of jazz-era photographs by Dorothy Stanley Emmons to complement the music performance.

The Foothills Jazz Quartet, which performs regularly at the Homestead Bakery in Farmington on the first and third Thursdays of each month and occasional Fridays, is well known for its engaging, entertaining performances. Audiences from here and away relish in the expressive joy and pleasure the band takes in playing jazz together.

Vocalist Siiri Stinson, a music educator and classically trained singer versatile in many genres, is delighted to be living her lifelong dream of singing in a jazz ensemble. Pianist Jim Perkins, a performer, music educator and music festival adjudicator for the past 35 years, has per- formed and recorded with countless rock, R&B, country and jazz groups. Bass player Andy Buckland, scion of a three-generation musical family, has taught music, both privately and in Farmington schools, and has performed and recorded with numerous ensembles including the well-known Maine-Acadian group, Boréal Tordu. Drummer Dan Perkins studied percussion under his father Jim Perkins, and has been playing drums for him for almost 20 years and with local groups including Parking Lot Pickers and Wicked Preserves, as well as recording for local songwriters Walter McGee, John Newsome, Steve Camden, and Larry Heald.

This event is the first in a series of informal music performances that will take place in conjunction with the First Friday Artwalks Feb. 3, March 2 and April 6, as well as at the Kingfield POPS Artwalk June 29.

For more information, contact the Kingfield POPS at 265-POPS, or visit www.kingfieldpops.com, foothillsjazzquartet.com, or stanleymuseum.org.