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Jul 13, 2023 9:11 am
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Zepeda and Omonte.
Shaki Presents, a.k.a. Rick Omonte, brought an evening of cumbias to Bregamos on Wednesday night, centering on California DJ Turbo Sonidero, who combines the old Latin American dance with elements of hip hop to create his own style. All the elements came together to create a mesmerizing mix of rhythms and voices, just right to propel dancers’ feet across the floor.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 11, 2023 11:31 am
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Courtesy Yale Peabody Museum
This torosarus skull, now part of the collection of the Yale Peabody Museum, was found at Lightning Creek in Wyoming in 1891 by American paleontologist John Bell Hatcher. A few years later, Hatcher would go fossil hunting in Patagonia and write a book about that expedition that would be published in 1903. Even with his success at the time, he may not have predicted that his star in paleontology would rise to the point where, in 2018, author and fellow paleontologist Lowell Dingus would publish a book about him called King of the Dinosaur Hunters.
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Jul 10, 2023 10:48 am
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Tijoux at Sunday's ULA event.
Songs and art of hope and strength came to Bregamos Community Theater as international hip hop artist Ana Tijoux headlined an afternoon and evening of food, history, and artistic vision — for an event put together by Unidad Latina en Acción to celebrate 21 years of operation as an immigrant rights activist group.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 10, 2023 8:37 am
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Bajzelle plays at Gather.
A crowd assembled in the basement of Gather, at 952 State St., lit only by a few strings of red bulbs and the lurid screens of old-fashioned television sets. The scene felt intimate and grungy, stripped to the bare essentials of a show: lights, sound, and people. David Taylor Coffey, soft spot, and Bajzelle prepared to fill Gather with a buffet of genres and sounds. The audience swelled inside the confined space, with enough enthusiasm and energy to fill a stadium. What was an empty basement transformed into a party as soon as someone plugged in the mic.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 7, 2023 9:20 am
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Conor Perreault of Human Flourishing at Never Ending Books.
In the sweltering heat and dim lighting of the side room of Never Ending Books, at 810 State St., three acts redefined their music through their own distinct experimental sounds. Lit by the strings of fairy lights in the window, and cooled by electric fans, Human Flourishing, reCAPTCHA, and Excavator turned music on its head, gutted it for parts, and then took it for a joyride.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 7, 2023 9:17 am
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Chuck Roth, a.k.a. watergh0st, held the late-night audience in suspense as his hands flew across the fretboard of his electric guitar. The music Roth made fell somewhere else, part of and yet separate from rock, jazz, folk. The genre it might belong to didn’t matter. It mattered only that the music connected.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 3, 2023 8:49 am
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Celine Who at Seeing Sounds.
Celine Who let out a melisma of notes that floated through the air of the skate park in Edgewood Park. They commingled with the voices of vendors and of friends chatting, the scents of arepas and vegan Caribbean food. On the other side of the skate park, Eastine Akuni pumped out music from a second stage to a crowd brought to their feet on the lawn in the shade. It was early in the day for the second year of Seeing Sounds, the music and art festival organized by Trey Moore. Already a few hundred had arrived, and many more were coming.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 3, 2023 8:39 am
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Peter Stampfel at Never Ending Books.
“Oh, you have no idea what’s gonna happen to you tonight,” said folk legend Peter Stampfel, climbing onto the small stage in the side room of Never Ending Books, at 810 State St. He pulled his chair closer to the mic, plugged in his electric ukulele, and opened a plastic water bottle and a bag of cherries. Supplies in place, Stampfel prepared to bring his audience into a new realm of music: hopeful, nihilistic, at once pushing boundaries and revisiting tradition, and all perfumed with the earthy scent of marijuana.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 26, 2023 9:11 am
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Mical Teja.
On Saturday evening the annual New Haven Caribbean Heritage Festival finished a day of festivities on the New Haven Green with a blazing concert of soul, reggae, and soca, courtesy of the festival and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 23, 2023 7:57 am
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Elm City Robots performs at Gather.
The interior of Gather, a coffee shop and community spot located at 952 State St., looked like a magical grotto. Low lighting shone over chalkboard-graffitied walls hung with vines. Amidst the vibrant scene, local bands Elm City Robots and Model Decoy prepared to play the third week of their Thursday night June residency.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 22, 2023 8:46 am
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Absofunkinlutely performs at College Street Music Hall for May Music Day.
On Wednesday, Make Music New Haven sought to fill the air with something other than pollen: sound. In honor of Make Music Day, a worldwide celebration of music, the local branch organized 31 artists to perform at 17 different locations in the greater New Haven area.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 20, 2023 10:18 am
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Arms Like Roses
Mondays have a reputation for being a difficult day to enjoy anything, but this Monday at Cafe Nine you could get a heavy dose of pulse-pounding music to reenergize you for the week ahead. The three bands that made that happen last night were New Haven’s own Arms Like Roses and two Boston-based acts, Women in Peril and Cameron Lane.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 20, 2023 8:57 am
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The dancers in the circle were lifting up their own spirits and the spirits of those around them. They were participating in a culture that was now in its third generation of practitioners. And, as was explained, they were helping strengthen and preserve it; if they didn’t, they could lose it.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 19, 2023 8:33 am
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Click Tracks in the groove.
The buttery warmth of the baritone saxophone, the silky strum of the upright bass, and the percussive pops and slick slides of tap shoes: all three came together in musical conversation with one another at Best Video this past Friday night as the band Click Tracks took to the performance space’s indoor stage. A rain burst dashed hopes of an outdoor show, but did not impede the exuberant and energetic fusion of a multitude of music forms in the night ahead.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 14, 2023 2:38 pm
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Bill Lowe let out a cry from his tuba, guttural and keening, ecstatic and heartbreaking at the same time. Ken Filiano responded in kind from his bass. Hafez Modirzadeh joined in with a moan from his saxophone. Naledi Masilo unspooled a string of skittering vocalizations. Taylor Ho Bynum release a plaintive wail as Kevin Harris laid down ominous piano lines. Luther Gray arrived with a rattling drum line that solidified into a rhythm that Lowe emphasized with snapping fingers. As he directed each of the players to take solos, Lowe broke into smiles. The music may have spoken about complex emotions, but there was great satisfaction in the telling.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 12, 2023 9:02 am
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Angelique Kidjo and New Haven Symphony Orchestra at the Arts & Ideas Festival.
A crowd of people swarmed New Haven Green like ants on a picnic blanket Saturday to witness the opening of the 28th annual Arts & Ideas Festival. “Are you ready to rise with me?” asked Rev. Kevin Ewing, A&I’s board chairman. “In case you didn’t know it, that’s the theme of this year’s festival.”
Before long, the attendees would not only feel their spirits rise, but would rise to their feet from the uplifting music and vibrant atmosphere — featuring international superstar Angelique Kidjo and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 12, 2023 8:59 am
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Grupo Tentación on the Green on Sunday.
Under a crisp and clear Sunday sky, two bands — Grupo Tentación and QUITAPENAS — brought highly danceable Latin beats to the New Haven Green for the second night of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 7, 2023 1:27 pm
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Franz Ferdinand performs at College Street Music Hall.
Outside, the air Tuesday night was thick with smoke from Canadian wildfires. Inside College Street Music Hall, the air was thick with smoke of a different kind, illuminated by bright lights and filled with the particular haze that comes from a crowd of people, jittery with excitement.
They were gathered to see the Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand, packed in shoulder to shoulder and trading water bottles and sips of beer. From teenagers to those who had been teenagers when the band formed, roughly 20 years ago, everybody was in high spirits and ready for the show.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 1, 2023 9:04 am
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Haven String Quartet at Yale Art Gallery.
“Think about the relationship between listening and looking.”
So encouraged Jessica Sack, curator of public education at the Yale University Art Gallery and organizer of “Playing Images,” at an event that combined artwork with the music of the Haven String Quartet.
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Brian Slattery |
May 31, 2023 8:53 am
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A strutting, triumphant anthem from Daniprobably. A sweet, country-inflected song of hope from Alexandra Burnet and the Stable Six. A rambunctious, sparking collaboration between Mightymoonchew and Dooley‑O. All these New Haven favorites and more appear alongside several other Connecticut bands in a state-spanning, 12-track compilation from Verso Records — a new nonprofit label attached to Westport Library that marketing manager and New Haven music scenester Brendan Toller hopes will become a harbinger for the future.
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Maya McFadden |
May 26, 2023 3:19 pm
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The McKoy family wins the day at Celentano school art auction.
Not wanting to get outbid for a third year in a row, Nicole McKoy showed up to a Prospect Hill auction ready to spend big to be extra sure she’d win the drawings made by her two favorite artists — who just so happen to be her daughters.
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Brian Slattery |
May 26, 2023 8:17 am
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Midnight Psychic.
Unapologetically pounding drum machines. Guitars and basses suffused with enough effects to meld with the keyboard washes in the background. Vocals floating in a sea of reverb. The sound of darkwave — a morose, sexy strain of music that rose out of punk and new wave in the early 1980s and has turned out to have a persistently long life — washed over Cafe Nine on Thursday night as three bands showed an eager audience how it was still done, four decades in.
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Brian Slattery |
May 23, 2023 8:34 am
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Trey Moore.
“Love Drugs,” the first cut from the New Haven-based musician Trey Moore’s new album Psychedelic Love Drugs, starts as a smooth number, a sultry guitar, a gentle rhythm. “Reality,” Moore sings. “I want it now.” As if in response, the song kicks into a new mode, with swirling keyboards, a dirty drumbeat, lush strings. It’s a signal for what the album has in store; as the name implies, Psychedelic Love Drugs is about expansion — mentally and musically.
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Brian Slattery |
May 22, 2023 8:51 am
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Mali Obomsawin.
“It’s good to be in the building where we recorded this album,” said Mali Obomsawin at the beginning of her sextet’s set at Firehouse 12 on Friday night. “Feels full circle. It’s good to be back.”
David Sasso, at far left, recording the new album with Jacob's Ladder.
Hunkered at home with his Martin D28 guitar one Blursday evening during the lockdown depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, David Sasso heard familiar melodies come out a new way.
Fast forward to May 2023: Sasso returned home to debut a bluegrass take on a traditional Jewish prayer service, with an album of said music about to drop.
