Tag Archives: live bands

This Week in New Haven (May 28 – June 3)

River City Extension

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)

Chuck Prophet at Cafe Nine on Wed 5/23

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 …

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Songbirds of a Feather

James Velvet with The Ivory Bills

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, …

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This Week in New Haven (March 26-April 1)

Alcest upstairs at Toad's Place, Sunday 4/1

Bingo, Beckett, ballet and belly dancing…

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The Friendliest Rock Show on Earth

Seth Adam and friends at Stella Blues

“Thanks for coming out to my favorite New Haven bar,” welcomes Seth Adam, local-rock nice guy and ever-gracious host. “I used to host to the open mic here on Tuesdays.”

Mr. Adam has been a fixture in the local music …

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