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Aug 7, 2023 8:25 am
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Jim LoPresti shakes away the stress with his bamboo leaf rattle.
If asked where one might go in New Haven for a moment or two of meditative stillness, few people would suggest Crown Street, known for its bustling and crowded restaurants and bars as well as a bevy of sounds that would challenge any symphony. But one place offers, among other wellness and restorative practices, a chance to take in an hour of music made specifically to center its participants and give them a chance to remain present and thoughtful in their minds and bodies.
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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 3, 2023 9:09 am
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Jakki Cousins and Azora Lindsay at the keyboard at Wilson library.
Hanhe Choi and Azora Lindsay ran around the Music Room at Wilson Branch Library like kids in a candy store.
But instead of tooth-rotting sweets, the 23-month-old and 2‑year-old kiddos were focused on a range of keyboards, drums, and shakers, as pleasing to the ears as candy would be to the tongue.
The toddlers rushed from instrument to instrument, touching everything they could and figuring out how to create the loudest sound. Before long, the room filled up with a cacophony of joy.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 31, 2023 9:05 am
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Love n' Co at Saturday's Folk on the Edge.
In 87° weather, under the scorching afternoon sun, Love n’ Co and The Lost Tribe made the thick, heated air dance with compelling rhythms and infectious energy.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 28, 2023 8:46 am
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Issue 11 cover featuring coeditor Mar Pelaez.
Connectic*nt, a bimonthly zine that has created a space for artists and writers from across the state to experiment with words and visuals — as well as an ever-growing community that thrives on sharing with and uplifting each other — turns two years old this month. The anniversary issue, the zine’s 11th, will be released this Saturday, July 29, complete with celebratory events including a DJ-centric dance party (now famously known as Club C*nt) at Diesel Lounge on Friday night and a zine fair at Bradley Street Bike Co-op on Sunday.
Under the helm of current coeditors Zoe Jensen and Mar Pelaez, the publication has come a long way from Jensen’s original plan of publishing a single zine that included the art and writing of friends who had been distanced from each other during Covid shutdowns. The public demand for more, and the fun being had by everyone involved, was too much to not let it become a regular and permanent part of the new normal.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 27, 2023 9:02 am
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"Rockin' Richard" and Bobby Mapp at The Towers.
A local music legend got his due Wednesday night during a celebration at The Towers of Bobby Mapp, who was the original drummer for The Five Satins and is now a resident at the senior living community located at 18 Tower Ln.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 26, 2023 8:54 am
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Psychedelic Don Ho Down Orchestra
On any given night you can walk past Christopher Martin’s, the restaurant and bar at 860 State St., and hear the clinking of glass and animated conversations from inside, or from one of the many outdoor tables that line its sidewalks. On Tuesday evenings, however, you can hear live music, and on this Tuesday, it was the music of the Psychedelic Don Ho Down Orchestra, a band comprised of seven stalwart and seasoned musicians from the New Haven scene.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 25, 2023 9:08 am
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Westville neighbourhood lines up to buy homemade pies.
The air over Beecher Park, located at Mitchell Library at 37 Harrison St., rang with chatter, music, and a heavenly mixture of sugar, spice, and everything nice.
Westville Village Renaissance Alliance hosted on Monday evening the latest installment in Hi-Fi Pie Fest, its weekly summer pie baking competition, a community-centric event complete with food and live music.
It’s “really just getting people together,” said WVRA Executive Director Lizzy Donius, who sported a Hi-Fi Pie Fest t‑shirt bearing the words “Come for the music, stay for the pie!” The slogan, said Donius, is interchangeable. Some people come for the pie and stay for the music.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 25, 2023 9:03 am
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Maya Elise and the Good Dream.
On Monday night three acts — Low Ceilings, Kendra McKinley, and Maya Elise and the Good Dream — brought the warmth of connection and culture to an appreciative crowd at Never Ending Books, turning the communal spot at 810 State St. into a sanctuary.
Welcome to Tulsa -- with Dylan lyrics at the airport terminal.
Tulsa — As a touring folk-country singer-songwriter’s band kicked into gear, a regular pointed to a stuffed possum wrapped in Christmas lights suspended over the bar. The possim, he said, had a backstory.
As he spoke, I knew we’d come to the right place to find people to help start the Independent’s new multi-city arts reviewing initiative.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 21, 2023 9:39 am
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The Storytellers.
“Storytellers assemble,” said Zach Andersen into his microphone, as he beckoned the three singer-songwriters who would be joining him on The Cellar at Treadwell stage Thursday night. It was the 13th installment of Storytellers in The Cellar, the bimonthly event that finds Andersen and guests rotating through their songs and the stories behind them. This evening also happened to be the second anniversary of the series, which began in July 2021 and has not seen any repeat performers yet, save for Andersen, who curates, hosts, and performs at each one.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 20, 2023 9:26 am
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John McCrea.
The Westville Music Bowl really lives up to its name. Sitting in the center feels like being dropped to the bottom of an enormous serving piece, with nowhere to look but up at the great blue walls of seats around you, the evening sky above, or the stage straight ahead. On the menu for Wednesday evening: Cake, a now-venerable alternative rock band hailing from Sacramento, California.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 17, 2023 3:07 pm
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Sallow Friend.
Four bands made an emotional evening of music at Never Ending Books Sunday night, as Nose Bleed, Sallow Friend, Mildly Allergic, and Kitchen gave a rapt audience songs that were by turns energetic and meditative, angular and wistful.
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Brian Slattery |
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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Brian Slattery |
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.
