Blues Beat: Live music scene comes alive
Domenic Forcella
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The live music scene continues to grow its return. Check the venues as the weather will determine some shows.
Friday, Orb Mellon Brings his Trio To Jerry s Pizza and Barroom. The Trio Performs Original boogie and blues. Orb Mellon, the master picker, is backed by blues drummer Mark Hennessy and Dave Robbins on harp.
Orb Mellon mines the raw energy of 20th Century American roots music, particularly whiskey fueled house party delta blues. Influenced by the likes of Bukka White, Junior Kimbrough, and John Fahey, Orb Mellon performs pure, sonically aggressive, and ever transforming original folk blues, free from any quaintness or historicism, prompting one early reviewer to identify Orb Mellon’s work simply as blues in all its primeval glory. Mark your calendars for a nice hot pizza with a dash of blues.
Baked Shrimp is ready for summer.
The event is presented by Ed Maier s Asbury Park-based ElmThree Productions and Arrowhead Ranch in association with Baked Shrimp, a Long Island, New York-based jam trio.
“It’s been a perpetual lovefest of just music and learning and trying to build the scene back,” said Baked Shrimp drummer Jager Soss, who between classes in the jazz studies program in the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, State University of New York, has been planning the festival with his bandmates.
“All us working musicians kind of took a stumble this last year and some change,” Soss said, “so my friends and I, we’re all just trying to build it back a little bit, day to day.”
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A Connecticut reality show star will headline a drive-in fundraiser next week.
Javier Colon, a winner on NBCâs âThe Voice,â will perform Saturday, April 17, at the first-ever Easterseals drive-in event. The drive-in will be at the 34th Annual Crystal Ball in Farmington.
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Javier Colon will perform Saturday, April 17 an Easterseals drive-in event at the 34th Annual Crystal Ball in Farmington.
Held at the Farmington Polo Grounds, the reimagined annual event will feature entertainment, live and silent auctions, a gourmet boxed meal and signature drinks.
Colon is a Connecticut native who was born in Stratford and pursued a degree in music education from The University of Hartford. He is a former member of EmcQ and The Derek Trucks Band. He was the winner on the first season of NBCâs âThe Voice.â