Monday, July 11, 2016
Summer jazz in Hartford's Bushnell Park is a decades-old tradition. Those who've attended previous incarnations of the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz will likely find reason to return, to…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:03PMMonday, June 20, 2016
Last summer's Fare Thee Well concerts, which took place in Santa Clara, Calif., and Chicago, were billed as the final five shows the surviving members of the Grateful Dead — Bob Weir, Phil…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:33AMThursday, March 3, 2016
Orice Jenkins, a Hartford-area composer and bandleader, is a young man — just 21 — but he creates music with a sense of urgency. "Nobody knows how much time we have on this Earth," Jenki…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:29PMThursday, February 18, 2016
A chance meeting at a seaside retreat led to a unique collaboration between two Connecticut artists, the fruits of which can be heard at the Mark Twain House on Saturday, Feb. 20. Elizabeth …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:14PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
A month after its Battle of the Batons concerts, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra announced its new Assistant Conductor: Adam Kerry Boyles, the current Director of Orchestras at M.I.T. in Ca…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:23AMThursday, January 28, 2016
For David Geisler, nailing George Harrison's tone came down to getting the tiniest details right, including finding the same strings used by the late Beatles guitarist. "After I got the guit…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:04PMThursday, January 14, 2016
With visions of lightsaber duels still fresh in everyone's minds, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra stages a musical fight of its own during a series of Masterworks concerts at the Bushnell Th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:53AMMonday, December 21, 2015
John Valby, also known as Dr. Dirty, is song parody's id. Armed only with a keyboard and a gruff barroom croak, Valby riles throngs of inebriated college students, weaving together gross-out…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThursday, December 17, 2015
One morning at Bonnaroo, the four-day music festival held every year in Tennessee, Ridgefield residents Roger Garbow and Dave Goldenberg looked out the window of a 19-foot Airstream Trailer,…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, November 30, 2015
The Hartford Public Library’s Baby Grand Jazz Series, one of the most popular, long-running jazz happenings in Connecticut, has announced its 2016 schedule, which kicks off on Jan. 3 with …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:44AMMonday, November 2, 2015
Late in 1986, with his 18-episode tenure on "Saturday Night Live" still grabbing pop-culture headlines, Canadian comedic actor Martin Short appeared in his first major movie — the iconic, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Listeners have options. With a few thumb clicks, you can bounce from song to song, artist to artist, across any genre. How can a band get you to listen to 10 songs in a row? One strategy is …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMonday, September 14, 2015
At Latter Rain Christian Fellowship, a charismatic Pentecostal church in Hartford, music prepares the congregation to receive God's word.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:28PMFriday, July 31, 2015
In the jazz world, some bandleaders prefer small-group situations. They'll hire players, improvise over a curated collection of standards and originals and attempt to create some sort of che…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55AMThursday, May 21, 2015
On the two-hour season finale of "American Idol" earlier this month, 29-year-old Guilford native Nick Fradiani beat out Nashville's Clark Beckham, becoming the first Idol winner from Connect…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMActress and singer Sara Chase, who'll perform at the Forward Festival at Hartford's Infinity Hall on Sunday, May 24, had already appeared in movies ("The Other Guys," with Will Ferrell and M…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMMonday, April 20, 2015
Sun-starved Connecticut residents can head to Meriden's Hubbard Park this weekend, April 25 and 26, for the 2015 Daffodil Festival to soak up some food, music, laughter, good times, firework…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:48PMThursday, March 19, 2015
Not long ago, scholars who published articles about the Grateful Dead phenomenon might expect their academic careers — in the words of guitarist Bob Weir — to take a step back.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:47PMNot long ago, scholars who published articles about the Grateful Dead phenomenon might expect their academic careers - in the words of guitarist Bob Weir - to take a step back.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:47PMMonday, March 16, 2015
On their current Up In Smoke tour, stoner icons Cheech and Chong team up with WAR ("Why Can't We Be Friends?", "Slippin' Into Darkness," "Cisco Kid" and, of course, "Low Rider") for half-bak…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:55PMOn their current Up In Smoke tour, stoner icons Cheech and Chong team up with WAR ("Why Can't We Be Friends?", "Slippin' Into Darkness," "Cisco Kid" and, of course, "Low Rider") for half-bak…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:55PMMonday, February 23, 2015
Michael Jackson died tragically six years ago. But did he ever really go away?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:19AMFriday, January 23, 2015
After languishing for decades on old jukeboxes, wedding-DJ playlists and your mom's favorite radio stations, the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons — think "Sherry," "Big Girls Do…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:40PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Most Friday nights, two married guys head to a rented office space in Vernon, stretch out on couches and talk about guy stuff — music, pop culture, sports, women, politics, cars, weed, mov…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:49AMMonday, November 17, 2014
Bands are used to the drill by now: take a few promotional photos (smiling, serious, pouty, ready to bust some heads) and put them on your press-kit page, so a club owner (or journalist) can…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:29PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
In 1979, a young social studies teacher named Jordi Herold opened the Iron Horse Coffeehouse in Northampton, with little sense of what would unfold over the next quarter-century.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:26PMThursday, October 23, 2014
You've heard it a thousand times: Those who can't do, teach.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:36PM 
