Music Fest Coincides With New CD

Singer-songwriter Tom Potosnak has performed for very few audiences lately.

Guests at the Westborough Spring Festival Music Fest this Saturday will hear selections from the reason why.

"Subject To Change," the Westborough resident's third CD, came out earlier this month.

Potosnak plans to include some of the 11 new songs in his show at 1 p.m. at the Bay State Green stage at Bay State Commons.

Music Fest is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It's part of the Westborough Spring Festival hosted by the Rotary Club of Westborough.

"This festival really is the first thing I have going on, performance-wise, in a while," said Potosnak, who owns Exhibit Sense in Westborough ("we design and produce trade show exhibits for companies" for trade shows).

"When I'm recording, I really don't perform, because it takes a long time to put together a CD from writing the songs to perfoming them, getting different musicians to do things along with me."

"Probably in the fall, that's when I'll start ramping up a bit, because that's a great time for a guy like me. I usually play my shows on my own. The summer time, people are on vacation. The 35-and-up crowd really appreciates my stuff. And when the fall comes and people are gathering back in, they want to go out on a Friday or a Saturday night to see a show, my show is appealing."

Potosnak performed at Music Fest last year, he noted.

This time, he'll play tunes from each of his CDs, as well as familiar ones.

"The title track (to 'Subject to Change') was written about a situation where I went back to my hometown in New Jersey because one of the guys I went to school with was just diagnosed with a serious illness and passed way," he said.

"I kind of rode around town, went back to the old places I used to go to."

The Music Fest schedule is: 10 a.m.: Elwood Craze; 11 a.m., Penguin Apocalypse; noon: Luanne Crosby; 1 p.m., Tom Potosnak; 2 p.m., Still River; 3 p.m., High School Quintet.

The Rotary Club of Westborough has organized the spring festival, which runs Friday to Sunday.

The presenting sponsor is Roche Bros.

The title sponsor is Avidia Bank.

The platinum event sponsors are Ball Financial, Elite Dental Care, and St. Mary’s Credit Union.

The major sponsors are Curry Printing, and the Westboro Tennis and Swim Club.

The gold sponsors are Carruth Capital, Central One Federal Credit Union, Marlborough Savings Bank, and the YMCA.

The silver sponsors are Coldwell Banker, and Mugford’s Flower Shoppe.  

The bronze sponsors are Andrew Abu Realtors, Alexander & Aronson, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Commerce Bank, the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel Boston-Westborough, Westboro Dental, the Boroughs JCC, Smith & Sullivan Co., UMass Memorial, United Home Experts and Veola Water.

The contributors are Dolan & Maloney, E.L. Harvey and Sons, Endless Mountain Solar Services, Gallagher Real Estate, Gary Sanginario, P.C, Mackintire Insurance Agency, NAPA Auto, Northern Energy Services, Traci Portnoff, Sager & Schaffer, and Uhlman’s Ice Cream.

The participating supporters are Julio's Liquors, the Westborough High School Student Council, Cumminngs School of Veterinarian Medicine, Westborough Civic Club, Westborough Historical Society, NAPA Auto, Westborough Lion's Club, Sure Fire Dogs, and ReMax Prestigue.