How do creative people recover from COVID-19? One musician wrote a children's song about personal hygiene and social distancing.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMAs Connecticut moves tentatively toward Phase 3 of reopening in mid-July, bars, indoor venues and larger outdoor events may be given the green light to stage concerts but the limitations are…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AMNekita Waller, a singer from Middletown, will be Connecticut’s 17th state troubadour, according to a statement released by the Connecticut Office of the Arts and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Wal…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:45PMThree major Connecticut theaters — Hartford Stage, Long Wharf and Yale Repertory Theatre — have announced what they’ll be doing next year. Who better to break down trends and highlight…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:55AMWhen all is said and done, the Kronos Quartet — violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt and cellist Sunny Yang — might be remembered as the most eclectic musical e…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:35AMEvery so often, you crave the middle: The heart of an artichoke, the center of a Tootsie Pop, the halftime show. In music, that could mean the stuff between the intro and outro; a groovy bri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:55PMPower pop — think Big Star, Cheap Trick, the Knack, the Bangles — is often appallingly short on power, says New Haven guitarist Dean Falcone. “To me, it’s the Who’s ‘I Can’t Ex…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:00AMJazz. At the library. Dig it. Starting on Jan. 7, the Hartford Public Library rolls out its 15th season of free, hourlong Baby Grand Jazz concerts, which take place on Sunday afternoons at 3…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMPull into a new city, just before sundown, and park the van. Load in, play a gig for adoring fans, pocket a wad of cash from the smiling venue owner, grab a delicious meal, and sleep between…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:21AMThe year's most engaging urban-planning book comes from an unlikely source: activist and musician Dar Williams, a folk-festival and Lilith Fair veteran, who independently released her first …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMPetra Jarrar, 20, writes hook-drenched, danceable, optimistic pop songs. She sings them with swagger at NYC venues like the Bowery Electric and the Bitter End. Recently, the Fairfield native…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:49PMThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra's season-opening "Eroica" weekend just got even more heroic. On Oct. 7, before the second night of the HSO's "Beethoven's Eroica" Masterworks Series at the Bu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:08AMOnce a month, the Uncertainty Music Series injects a heady dose of spontaneous composition, white-knuckle improv and electro-acoustic weirdness into the New Haven nightlife scene. This has b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:28PMAt a small, unassuming church in Rocky Hill, Mike Wilcox hosts monthly concerts featuring some of Connecticut's greatest musical talent, both known and unknown. Now in its second full season…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe unspoken theme of this year's Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, which takes place in Bushnell Park from July 14 to 16, might be this: Go ahead and dance. You've earned it. New Haven-bas…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PMTrumpeter Haneef N. Nelson never imagined he'd be a leader in the Greater Hartford jazz scene. "Before college, I didn't know anything about Connecticut north of New Haven," Nelson says. "Th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:20AMPianist Randy Weston has been a regular visitor to Hartford for more than 50 years, from 1950s jam sessions at Hartford Jazz Society president Art Fine's house in Bloomfield to more recent p…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:15PMIt's a great time in history to discover new music — whether it's new to you, new to everybody, or somewhere in-between. DJ-curated streams play day and night on Internet radio stations. O…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:50AMRead these words out loud: Yogibogeybox. Mrkgnao. Peloothered. Mumchanciness. Now use "sausage" in a sentence. As a vowel. You've got it, you're there, you're soaking in it: The sound-world …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:46PMThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra announced its 2017-2018 Masterworks Series Tuesday, offering music lovers a season full of traditional favorites and a few surprises. Music director Carolyn K…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMBritten had a dachshund; Wagner, a Newfoundland named Russ. Pictures reveal that Debussy's collie was probably way happier than its owner. "Playing With Dogs," an upcoming pops concert by th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:01AMToward the end of the Jazz Age, the music world ushered in a new phenomenon: the all-girl band. Connecticut's contribution was the Novelty Syncopators, a New Britain-based group formed in th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:44AMGet ready, 2017 listeners: Here comes the protest music. "Meditations on Freedom," a new album by tenor saxophonist and Connecticut native Noah Preminger, recorded in December and released o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:33PMA few weeks ago, a tall man in a suit entered the lobby of The Courant. He was 30 minutes early for our meeting. "I don't like to talk about myself," says Ron Surrey, pastor of the New Mt. O…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:02AMSomewhere between a chamber music concert and a casual hang lies "Scribing the Void," an off-center offering by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra at Real Art Ways in Hartford on Jan. 26. "Scri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:23AMIf you attend only one, free multidisciplinary conference celebrating the legacies of David Bowie and Prince this year, make it this one: "Blackstar Rising & the Purple Reign" at Yale Univer…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMComposer Albert Hurwit never studied music. "Somebody once asked me: 'Is this section Andante?'" Hurwit says. "I said, 'I don't know, but that's how I cook spaghetti'." Hurwit, 85, is a Hart…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMohegan Sun Casino still isn't old enough to drink, but that won't stop it from celebrating its 20th anniversary with a monthlong bevy of entertainment options. A few stats: in 20 years, the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThe Hartford Symphony Orchestra's upcoming season offers new twists, concepts that have worked in the past, and a reduction — from four to three — in the number of performances offered f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:20PMPress Play is a column exploring the underground musicians of Connecticut. If you have new music to share, send it to [email protected]. "Until My Body Breaks," the title of Olive Tiger's d…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:22PMSummer 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…
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