It’s a week rich in community, of the musical sort. On Monday, the blues community gathers, on Tuesday a grand folk/rock ensemble passes through town, on Friday a high-energy hip-hop musical theater show hits the Shubert and on Sunday the …
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This Week in New Haven (May 21-27)
Music, some of which accompanies lyrical images of pratfalls, abounds this week in New Haven. You’ll find power pop, ballet scores, memorial funk, Dylan and the Dead tributes, and suspenseful zombie horror chords. Dig in.
Monday, May 21
Be grateful …
Songbirds of a Feather
There was a time when singer/songwriter/bandleader James Velvet had a popular monthly tentpole gig leading one of the area’s best-known folk-rock acts, hosted a weekly acoustic music series at local coffeehouses, played bass or rhythm guitar in other people’s bands, …