If 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…
Composer 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…
Mohegan 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…
The 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 for e…
Press 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…
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…
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 L…
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," Jenkins s…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 a …
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, go…
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 …
At Latter Rain Christian Fellowship, a charismatic Pentecostal church in Hartford, music prepares the congregation to receive God's word.
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…
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…
Actress 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…
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…
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.
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.
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…