From left, fiddler Doug Tanner of Wendell, Ann Reed of Orange on drums, and Terry Reed of Orange on guitar perform at a previous summer’s Third Thursday Summer Street Fair. Musicians are invited to Thursday’s fair at Memorial Park to participate in an acoustic jam session.
From left, fiddler Doug Tanner of Wendell, Ann Reed of Orange on drums, and Terry Reed of Orange on guitar perform at a previous summer’s Third Thursday Summer Street Fair. Musicians are invited to Thursday’s fair at Memorial Park to participate in an acoustic jam session. Credit: Contributed photo

ORANGE — Acoustic musicians and singers are invited to gather in Memorial Park to join in the Third Thursday Summer Street Fair’s first-ever “all-star” jam session Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Invited “stars” include musical alumni of the previous fairs and any other family-friendly musicians who may like to join, according to a press release about the event.

The mostly unplugged jam calls for harmony singers, lead singers and instrumentalists to gather in fun and camaraderie to extemporaneously back each other up in songs led in round-robin fashion.

According to the release, local musician Ann Reed proposed the jam following notification that Thursday’s originally scheduled band had to cancel.

The annual summertime fair series is facilitated by the Orange Merchants Group, and features food trucks, sidewalk sales and other street attractions. Since its launch a few years ago, the series has also given rise to a musical busking scene downtown.

Rain would necessitate cancellation of Thursday’s plans, according to Brenda Anderson of the Orange Merchants Group.