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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 31, 2023 11:06 am
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Klein watches her video premiere.
Volume Two and a crew of three local acts amped up their audience for Halloween on Sunday night with a spooky video release celebration and a selection of songs that got everyone in the holiday spirit.
Musician Laura Klein started working on the video for “Faux Départ” while recovering from surgery. She happened upon unreleased tracks from her band Western Estates, deciding “this song deserves more than just an internet blast.” After working on the video for over two years, she gave it its premiere in front of an enthusiastic crowd, some dressed in apropos Halloween attire, and all surrounded in the appropriate art of the most recent Volume Two art exhibition, titled “Volume Boo!”
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Adam Matlock |
Oct 31, 2023 8:09 am
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Time for Three.
In introducing Thursday Night’s New Haven Symphony Orchestra program in Woolsey Hall, Music Director Alisdair Neale cut to the chase. “Both these works feature a lot of art — without artifice,” he said, referencing their emotional immediacy. The program, featuring Grammy-winning trio Time for Three as something along the lines of a group of concerto-grosso soloists, featured two works by American composers, both of which presented a more romantic vision of orchestral music.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 25, 2023 9:12 am
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Xiu Xiu at the Space Ballroom.
The Space Ballroom doubled up on the musical magic Monday night as the mind-blowing and meditative Mountain Movers shared a bill with longtime purveyors of passion and intensity Xiu Xiu. The crisp fall air held the promise of Halloween, only a week away, and this line up, whose music almost defies description, was so good it was almost scary.
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Babz Rawls-Ivy |
Oct 23, 2023 8:15 am
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Highly praised for her unique work, sonic artist Ash Fure is coming to New Haven and bringing a week-long interactive art installation with her, “ANIMAL: A Listening Gym.”
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Marisa Torrieri |
Oct 18, 2023 8:32 am
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Chaser Eight.
Saturday night’s Cafe Nine show — starring New Haven-area rock ‘n’ roll favorites Chaser Eight, pop-punk Gen X‑ers The Dollyrots, and Maryland-based newcomers Kings of The Wild Things — brought a much-needed serotonin boost to the week’s end. Concertgoers drove hours, from places as far away as Syracuse, N.Y. and parts of Wisconsin, to join New Haveners in packing the nightclub, leaving little room between the front door and the stage.
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Asher Joseph |
Oct 12, 2023 8:51 am
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The TV Girl All-Star Traveling Band.
A line snaked around Toad’s Place into the courtyard off of York Street on Monday evening as “Lonely Girls” and “boys who act their age” filed into the venue, headlined by TV Girl, a California-based indie pop band that took the internet by storm this year with a series of viral hits.
Wine Down CT’s end-of-summer event, Dear Summer, went down Sunday evening. If you get a chance to go to their next event, get your ticket early because they sell out fast, and I see why. Wine Down CT — which, according to Aislin Magazine, started hosting lusciously curated events as a riff on Wine Down Wednesdays, popularized by the TV show Insecure — throws fabulous day parties that draw hundreds of people to hang out, taste great food, vibe to good DJs and live music, imbibe scrumptious libations and generally have a good time.
The description online read: “In this ephemeral haven of sonic and poetic delights, the Afrogalactic Tea Party invites you to immerse yourself in a curated experience of taste and culture.”
The Sunday afternoon event at the flower and lifestyle shop Bloom on Central Avenue in Westville was part of the ongoing 6th Dimension Afrofuturism festival, a series of art exhibits, talks, screenings, and other gatherings running now through Oct. 25.
I love a tea party, and coupling one with Afrofuturism intrigued me, so I headed to the festival website to grab a ticket, which was pretty reasonable at $23. I wasn’t sure what to expect.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 2, 2023 8:33 am
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Westville Music Bowl said so long to the summer and another full season of outdoor concerts with their closing show Thursday night, headlined by none other than boygenius, a band with a name spelled in lowercase letters and stacked with uppercase talent. Singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus have been touring the country in support of their first full-length album, the record, which was released in March 2023 with a variety of opening acts. On this night it was Palehound, who also released an album, Eye on the Bat, in July.
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Adam Matlock |
Oct 2, 2023 8:28 am
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Joyce Yang.
Towering C major chords from organ and orchestra in unison. Dazzling rhythmic interplay between soloist Joyce Yang and the orchestra. An energetic rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” resuming a tradition in Woolsey Hall. Thursday night’s debut of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s 2023 – 24 season was full of triumphant moments, even as it very meaningfully kicked off the orchestra’s final season under Music Director Alisdair Neale.
Saturday night was a great night for blues. As rain pattered on the windows of Cafe Nine on the corner of Crown and State Streets in New Haven, a small and diverse crowd of music lovers sipped beers and munched pretzels as they listened to Buffalo Nichols give a lesson in the music of musicians like Robert Johnson and B.B. King. That lesson, in time, made the joint jump, with a few couples two-stepping in front of the stage.
A leading East Coast concert promoter has signed up to help book shows at the Westville Music Bowl, after teaming up with the local group that runs the ex-tennis stadium-turned-music venue.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 11, 2023 8:43 am
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Lara Herscovitch and The Highway Philosophers.
Lara Herscovitch sang through her sound check, making up lyrics apropos for the day and place: “We are not in a monsoon. It’s a beautiful day.”
Not a drop of rain was to be found on Saturday at the CT Folk Fest and Green Expo, though the heat and humidity was of the late summer variety. A full day and night of music and spoken word on two stages, as well as hourly activities for children and adults, food, drink, and a multitude of vendors awaited visitors behind the stone walls of Edgerton Park. This reporter took in a third of the acts that performed from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
At "Rohn Lawrence Through the Decades" benefit concert.
Toad’s Place on York Street lit up as a cadre of jazz musicians gathered to pay homage to one of New Haven’s own axe men extraordinaire, Rohn Lawrence, and to raise money to help young guitarists follow in the late musical legend’s footsteps.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 5, 2023 8:31 am
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Codefendants.
Sunday night was the hottest night of the week, literally and figuratively, as Space Ballroom hosted the first Northeast U.S. show featuring Codefendants, described as a “genre fluid musical collective” and comprised of three heavy musical hitters: Fat Mike, Sam King, and New Haven’s own Ceschi Ramos. The band released an album, Crime Wave, in March 2023 to much praise and adoration and have been spreading their words, music, and vibrancy with a variety of shows ranging from clubs to arenas across the country. But on this night, supported by friends and family, they hit one of hometown favorite Ramos’s original stomping grounds.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 28, 2023 8:17 am
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Frank Critelli lends vocals to Big Fat Combo.
“I don’t know about you guys, but it’s been a Friday,” said Julie Smith as she introduced local favorites Big Fat Combo, who were performing their scheduled patio show indoors at Best Video due to rain. It was about to become even more of a Friday as technical issues turned into an opportunity for the local music community to step up, step in, and turn the venerable video store and performance space into a friendly singalong for a portion of the evening.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 24, 2023 9:09 am
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Cabins, East!
On Wednesday three rock bands — Cabins, East!, Pyramid Rose Band, and headliner Laney Jones — brought loud guitars, driving drums, strong vocals, and a lot of heart to a rapturous audience at Cafe Nine, in a night that hearkened back to pre-pandemic days of casual abandon while adding a healthy dose of post-pandemic compassion and care.
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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 24, 2023 9:06 am
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Nick Aubin performs at Gather.
“Nice to see a lot of familiar faces, nicer to see the unfamiliar faces,” said Nick Aubin, the host of a weekly Open Mic Night at Gather, located at 952 State St. The coffee shop brimmed with faces, open and smiling, many of them ready to play multiple roles over the course of the evening: performer, fan, and friend. At their core, open mics form a hub for the community, a safe space for artists familiar and unfamiliar, veteran and newcomer, to showcase their creativity.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 21, 2023 8:53 am
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That Virginia at Witch Bitch Thrift.
The Black Box at Witch Bitch Thrift echoed with music, laughter, and an ever-present sense of community as AcoustiQueers made its premiere at the event space on Saturday night. A series that — according to Witch Bitch’s social media post, “creates an intimate space to celebrate queer music and queer joy” — was started by artist Eli Wood in New York City in 2017. After playing one of those events, the store’s co-owner and musician Virginia Semighini received permission to bring the series to Connecticut, where it ran until 2018. With the evolution of the Whitney Avenue thrift store to now include an event space, the series is being revived and, on this evening, features Semeghini, the New Haven-based trio Untold Joys, and a solo performance by Olive Tiger.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 17, 2023 8:33 am
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Lindley Creek.
From the stage, Joe Delillo of Audrey Mae, the regional bluegrass band opening for touring national act Lindley Creek, asked what could have been a dangerous question: “Who in here is not having a good time?” The capacity crowd at Cafe Nine responded with dead silence. Delillo smiled. “Good,” he said, to cheers. It was a joyful moment that embodied a night of bluegrass raucous enough to bring people out in droves to the club on State and Crown for a late summer acoustic throwdown.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 16, 2023 8:21 am
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Lucy's Neighbor.
Three New Haven-based bands took the stage at Cafe Nine on the corner of State and Crown Tuesday night to share new songs, try out new ideas, and ease into the kind of playing musicians can do when they have a common history and chemistry.
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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 14, 2023 7:39 am
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The Jawns perform at Gather.
Gather, the coffee shop and restaurant located at 952 State St., ran wild with drums, guitars, sound systems, and more from the four bands that performed there on Friday night. With a combined 17 band members and double that amount of audience members, the shop felt like it could burst at the seams. Instead of exploding outward, the energy in the room folded in on itself to create a volcanic mass of writhing bodies and whirring rhythms.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 9, 2023 8:26 am
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“Outcrop,” the first track from Tells or Terrier — the recent release from Jeb Bishop on trombone, Nathan McBride on bass, and New Haven improvised music stalwart Joe Morris on drums — begins with searching, pulsing notes from all three musicians, quickly finding their way into their sound. Before long, the music gains velocity, as Morris and McBride settle into a faster mode of playing while Bishop deploys the flexibility in a trombone’s tone that can make it sound like a human voice, like animal calls. There’s rigor, but also deep camaraderie, a shared sense of humor and determination, that makes the music hang together.
