MIZU (f.k.a. Issei Herr) uses the vast sound-world of the cello to expose openness, vulnerability, and a sense of wonder in her intricately looped and layered compositions. On her debut album Distant Intervals, released in Spring 2023 on NNA Tapes, MIZU distills her musical memories as a classically-trained performer and weaves together bold new narratives, centered on themes of possibility, becoming, and transformation.
Upon its release, the album received critical praise and attention from platforms such as Bandcamp Daily (as Album of the Day), Stereogum, Our Culture, New Sounds, I Care If You Listen, Foxy Digitalis, and Them, and landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Classical Crossover charts. Her performance highlights include a feature on New Sounds Soundcheck, a solo performance at the Noguchi Museum, opening for Geotic at Public Records NYC, and shows in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston.
Trained as a classical cellist at Juilliard, MIZU began her performance career as a collaborator - featuring as a solo cellist in live performances of Rachika Nayar’s Our Hands Against the Dusk, and premiering a solo cello work by Nico Muhly, amongst many other collaborations. She was also featured on the album let’s play pretend by experimental hip-hop producer and rapper Decuma, and will be featured on the upcoming album Spike Field by Maria BC (Sacred Bones Records). Issei recently completed a music residency at Pioneer Works.
Tall Juan is as tall (about 6 feet 3 inches) as he is named Juan, and in his brief career, he has lovingly commanded the art of pastiche. On his 2017 debut, ‘Olden Goldies’ Juan Zaballa introduced himself in 15 short songs as a rockabilly crooner raised on the Ramones—Iggy Pop doing an Elvis bit, maybe vice versa. The Buenos Aires-born singer made his way to Far Rockaway, Queens, where he honed his goofy brand of punk alongside former roommate Mac Demarco and songwriter Juan Wauters (from whom “tall” distinguishes Zaballa).
In ‘Atlantico’ (2020), drawing on the music of his youth, Buenos Aires-born songwriter Juan Zaballa’s second album cleverly illuminates Latin America’s rich musical heritage.
Recently he’s been introducing to his live set new songs that will be part of his third LP.
New Haven's all-vinyl dance sho-down! Soul, funk, glam, and punk! DJ B to the T Jr. and tons of special guests!
Cafe Nine is transforming into a lush TROPICAL PARADISE! Featuring the bossa nova inspired debut of the Revel Hearts (local favorite Ron Ragona- Spring Heeled Jack & Judd Williams- Amazing Royal Crowns), the original surf sounds of CT's own, Ninth Wave, as well as ambiance from your hostess, Sarah Sizzle. There will be specially crafted Tiki drinks along with a variety of Hawaiian fusion bites made especially for tonight. $10 gets you a welcome cocktail and leied. It's Half Way to Summer!
Come enjoy an afternoon of live jazz with the areas finest players. Sit in with the band and show off your chops or just sit and enjoy a cold drink while the music creates the vibe.
After playing for 20 years, Michael Coppola, on a mission to solve the age old problem of executing jazz piano voicing on guitar, created a tuning for an 8 stringed instrument. This new type of guitar, with inner high end strings was the predecessor to the 9 string "hydra", which became Coppola’s instrument for life.
Michael Coppola has become one of a small handful of guitarists who have pushed the boundaries of the instrument, and the only to come up with this unique tuning. Reviews of his CDs have been filled with descriptions such as unique, amazing, mindboggling, magical, inventive and so much more.
He has played at major guitar shows and concerts throughout the world including the
Montreal Jazz Festival, The Chet Atkins Festival, Namm, and many others, as well as
some of the country’s top jazz clubs such as the Blue Note, The Iridium,
Knickerbocker and many others.
Mainly a solo artist, Coppola has also performed or recorded with many of today’s top
musicians, especially guitarists such as Gene Bertoncini, Jack Wilkins, Tony Purrone,
Howard Alden, Stephen Bennett, Tommy Emmanuel, and Joscho Stephan. Michael
was a regular guest on Monday nights at the Iridium, invited by Les Paul himself.
Lately, he has been performing with his 17 year old prodigy daughter Michaela, who is
the CT high school Allstate jazz guitarist as well as the national honor ensemble jazz
guitarist (#1 in the country).
Michael Coppola’s album Return Of The Hydra was chosen as a top ten pick for the
year 2002, in Coda Magazine. His original composition "Movin", released on the New
Impressions album, was a winner in the 2002 John Lennon Song Competition.
Reviews and articles about his work have appeared in numerous magazines including:
Guitar Player, Just Jazz Guitar, Jazztimes, 20th Century Guitar, and Fingerstyle
Guitar. Michael was listed as a main entry in acclaimed critic Scott Yanow's 2013 book
"The Great Jazz Guitarists, the ultimate guide". Yanow names Coppola "The master
of the 9 string guitar".
SHURIKEN: Life long Rock&Rollers/composers always ready to ROCK!!! Melodic high energy Punk Rock & Roll. Japan-NYC-CT. Nonlee (High Teen Boogie/Urban Waste) on bass, Jon (Coming Out Swinging/Second Class Citizen) on guitar, Jeff on drums.
On Joetown’s media sites, fans say that the group’s music sounds like ‘Bon Scott fronting Van Halen... And after hearing Joetown’s catalog of releases, there couldn’t be a better description of what lies within. Featuring scratchy-yet-powerful, whiskey-soaked vocals that bring to mind the late great Bon and the over-the-top testosterone rock of early Van Halen, Joetown continues to win over Rock and Metal fans worldwide. Hailing from Wallingford, Connecticut, Joetown (Joe Delaney) started on the six-string at eleven years old. After cutting his teeth in Hollywood with sold out shows on the strip and a deal with TNT/Capitol Records, Joe set off on his own. Joetown was formed in 1994, and released 3 full length offerings in 4 years including ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Man’ , an album best described by the press, who proclaimed, “This is what rock and roll is all about - dirty, mean and nasty!” Joetown can be heard on many hit TV Series such as ‘RIDE” with Norman Reedus from the Walking Dead and the FX hit series ‘The Shield.’ Bad Boy Brands also claimed “People Who Rock” as the corporate theme song for their licensing group of lifestyle attire, and beverages for many years. Joe also collaborates frequently with world renowned shredder Jimi Bell (Geezer Butler, Autograph, House of Lords) on popular tracks such as their cover of “Paradise City” on Versailles Records and “Freightrain” in 2021 and “Place My Bet On Love” in 2023. Several Joetown videos including the classic, “GO!”, have aired on hundreds of video channels including
VH1 and MTV. With the addition of guitarist and bagpiper Kerry Gollarney, the band started adding bagpipes to live performances. Says Michael Browning, AC/DC Manager (1974-1979). “Good to see this band called Joetown, from another generation and continent, do a very authentic and respectful retake of the iconic AC/DC video that I was involved in “Long Way To The Top.” Joe gives some insight, “Kerry is a secret weapon! When those pipes come out the crowd goes f’n mental, it’s like a war cry!”. In recent years the band has been performing live on their flatbed stage truck at major public events such as St. Patrick’s Day parades throughout major cities in the Northeast USA. Onstage Joe has shared the stage with many of Rock’s top acts such as Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Loverboy, Motorhead, Blue Oyster Cult, Ace Frehley, The Dictators, Dick Dale, Ratt, Poison, Peter Criss, Triumph, Marshall Tucker, Lemmy, Winger, Warrant, Lita Ford, Earl Slick, Chris Slade and tons of others. Often considered one of rock’s best kept secrets, Joetown delivers an extremely powerful and energetic live concert event.
WEST ROCKERS: The West Rockers are a unique five-piece from New Haven who started mixing up reggae with thrash metal, punk and post hardcore styles (dubbed "reggae-core" by fans) back in 2006. Their first recording was in 2008, another in 2010 was sadly lost in the bowels of a New Haven University studio. They've performed around the tri-state region and have opened for touring acts such as Hamell on Trial, 20WT and The Duppies. Today, West Rockers are working on their next project and continue to play shows regularly for fans and friends.
The Red Planet does a straight-up, no-nonsense jam that covers a variety of classic tunes from The Dead, Dylan, and The Band to Johnny Cash and other roots-based, country-fied, Americana-type, standards. Their laid-back, sittin’-on-the front porch, let’s-have-fun attitude gives way to tightly worked out performances, rich with interwoven instrumental unity, guitar pyrotechnics, vocal harmony, group dynamics, and flat-out enthusiasm—all delivered with a genuine working-for-the people, non-showbiz kinda presence. It’s hard not to have a good old time, hangin’ out when they do their thing.
Presented by Andres Camilo Madariaga
Welcome to Color In Sound, a music and art experience.
I have always been inspired by music and art, that connection you feel after hearing a song, a melody or a beat. You feel inspired and ready to create something organically. The idea for Color in Sound is a visual musical conversation between artists, where live painting and live music become one. Artistic pieces will be on display and also for sale.
Music: cherrie cherrie
Tarot readings: Miranda Cohen
Art:
-Elijah Fialco @xenesthesia
-Julay Meehan @manic_pixie_cowgirl
-Andres Madariaga @andres.madariaga.art
-T-essa Schober @tess.Schober_
-Renée Luna @reneeluna_artwork
-Danny Mendez @allinclusive.ct
-Tina Sarno @TinaDSarno
-Andy Hathaway @andianna_jones
-Lila R. Khan @wiresnwaves
-Eduardo Alvarez @eduardo_o_alvarez
-Sarah Elanaya @sarah.michelle.lane
The Tines are a New Haven base indie alternative outfit. They play cleverly crafted indie rock that focuses on the balance of tension and beauty.
Both born in Dallas, Texas in 1997 to respective Smith families, singer-songwriter Jonah Paul Smith and guitarist Julian Paint Smith met in elementary school. An organic orange juice debacle at Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts’ cafeteria cemented their partnership. In 2016, the two enrolled at The New School and moved to New York City. They formed a band and released the EP “Boring the Camera” under the name Pueblo in 2017. Through their collegiate years, the band developed an idiosyncratic folk-rock sound, combining elements of Elliott Smith’s baroque-pop songcraft, Aimee Man’s irreverent adult contemporary, and The Dandy Warhols’ lighthearted, college rock singalongs. Attending Jazz Studies and English Literature courses by day, the band played shows across NYC, headlining venues like Elsewhere and Baby’s All Right, sharing the stage with rising indie contemporaries like Ritt Momney, Wallice, Mamalarky, and Toledo.
In April 2022, Closebye released their debut album, “Lucid News.” The 9-song collection anxiously processes time’s relentless passage, charting a chronology of reverie and reconciliation, estrangement and acceptance, sadness and self-forgiveness. The record’s multiple sessions took place in Bearsville, NY with Producer Tim Bright (Kate Davis, Lisa Loeb, Grey Reverend), and in Fort Worth, Texas with Producers Josh Block (Leon Bridges, Caamp, White Denim) and Robert Ellis at Niles City Sound. Upon the album’s release, the band expanded to become a solidified lineup of 5, adding multi-instrumentalist Ian Salazar, bassist Margaux Bouchgnies, and drummer Simon Clinton. The resulting live show is a testament to the quintet’s ripening sound – sweet, sharp and pithy, like the Texas oranges upon which their destiny is staked.
Paul Bergmann’s latest opus of agony, No Masters in Paradise, isn’t angling for approval or affirmation in the way early- and mid-career albums often do. A man with a pickaxe at the wall of existential meaning, Bergmann has never failed to make the pain of our time excruciatingly personal, and you can hear it in his voice in these tracks. “Piss in my Hand” recalls Tom Waits, Iceage, or late-era Leonard Cohen, where the voice itself has been denuded of warmth, when Bergmann sings “Don’t make me plastic/Don’t make me care/Don’t think there’s a part of me/I want to bare.” He’s still looking for answers, and you can hear from the resignation in his voice that he’s pretty sure there’s nothing to find—“We’re getting old/Nothing is won.” If there are no masters in paradise, it seems like the culmination of Bergmann’s oeuvre to lament that there is no paradise in mastery, either.
For some time, Paul has been writing and singing as if from a vantage point far into the future; as though uncovering rather than composing his own body of work. To date, his thirteen releases have ranged broadly across the landscape of the indie singer-songwriter. Early work in folk-pop, recorded while signed with Fairfax Recordings, has found its way into TV and film, but to dip into Paul’s work at random is to discover many different versions of the same artist. This scruffy folk punk, electro-piano torch crooner, analog psychedelian, and, occasionally, strident Neil Young disciple par excellence has crisscrossed the country in concert in support of one project or another, opening for the likes of Angel Olsen and Lou Barlow, selling out the historic Cairo Jazz Club in Egypt. Such peregrinations have concretized Paul’s thematic obsessions of the years: the life, and death, of the Creative; human desire; aging; the follies and false promises of stature and fame. In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval.
Come enjoy an afternoon of live jazz with the areas finest players. Sit in with the band and show off your chops or just sit and enjoy a cold drink while the music creates the vibe.
Formed in the summer of 2021, The Ambulance Chasers are a band from Connecticut comprised of Billy Scovill (vocals, keys, guitar), Nick Zaviglia (guitar), Andrew Byrne (drums) and Mike Tobey (bass guitar). They’ve been playing local shows in the New Haven area since forming. Shortly after forming, they began recording their debut album which came out in 2022.
The Problem With Kids Today (TPWKT) are rock & roll delinquents.
Dust Hat is rock & roll as charred as the apizza of New Haven.
The Sunday Buzz Holiday Party
CHRISTINE OHLMAN ROCKS CAFE NINE for “THE SUNDAY BUZZ MATINEE. The 11th Annual Beehive Holiday Blowout!" Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez are comin' home to the Elm City, so get ready to rock around the VERY glittery Beehive Christmas tree as Christine Ohlman, Cliff Goodwin, Lorne Entress, and Michael Colbath serve up a super-festive Soul and R&B lovers holiday show. Grab an extra helping of festive spirit and get down with the Queen. The Sunday Buzz Matinee is always a cool time, so meet up with friends for some holiday cheer, and unleash the December holiday hip-shake!!!
Coming out of the burning ashes Southern California, Nico Bones brings an eclectic dose of rock n roll to the modern world we all live in today. With a line up of shattered soldiers in a world of love and despair they bring a new entity into the divine acropolis we all know as Los Angeles. With influences from Teenage Head, The Rolling Stones, New York Dolls, and more primitive and catchy sounds of the early to late seventies.
KILLER KIN PLAYS BALL-BREAKING, HIGH POWERED ROCK N' ROLL, WITH A LIVE ACT THAT WILL HAVE YOU STONED ON PURE RAW ENERGY. ROCK THAT ACTUALLY ROLLS, AND POWER THAT DOESN'T NEED TO POP, WITH INFLUENCES INCLUDING ACDC, THE STOOGES, THE DEAD BOYS, AND MOTÖRHEAD. THE BAND WAS FORMED IN 2018 BY SINGER MATT, AND GUITARIST AND SONGWRITER CHLOE ROSE. THE TWO SOLIDIFIED THE LINE UP TO INCLUDE CLOSE FRIENDS JASON KYEK ON DRUMS, MARCO CAROTENUTO ON BASS, AND BRADY "THE CAT" WILSON ON LEAD GUITAR. KILLER KIN QUICKLY BECAME LOCALLY KNOWN FOR THEIR NO-BULLSHIT LIVE EXHIBITIONS AND FEROCITY!
-BAABES WAS BORN IN THE BASEMENT IN 2017
-BAABES DISTORT EVERYTHING
-BAABES REP BOSTON, THE WORLD AND THE WILD KIDS
-BAABES IS SLEAZY GARAGE PUNK ROCK N ROLL
-BAABES DO WHAT BAABES WANT
-BAABES SCREAM, SMASH AND BE LOUD
-BAABES ONCE KNOCK OVER A LIQUOR STORE
-BAABES LIKE THE GIRLS THAT LIKE BAABES
-BAABES IS SUICIDE IN LOVE AFFAIRS
-BAABES SOUND LIKE BLITZKRIEG ON MURDER BIKES
-BAABES SAY LISTEN
Tony Di and Friends
Come enjoy an afternoon of live jazz with the areas finest players. Sit in with the band and show off your chops or just sit and enjoy a cold drink while the music creates the vibe.
Tony Dioguardi is a Connecticut based jazz and blues guitarist who has performed with Jaimo's Jazz Band, Bernard Purdie, Jim Oblon, Guitar George Baker, Laco Deczi and Rickie Miller.
New Haven's very own punk rock Christmas spectacular. $10 suggested donation with all proceeds going to the Connecticut Food Share. Bad Santa will be posted up on his motorcycle for holiday pictures. Live performances by the Stumblebum Brass Band and, of course, the Hulls.
Hot Buttered Sundays is a pop-up created by cafe nine, Chef Skyller Melton (Ordinary, Firehouse 12), and DJ Hugh Betta. Chef Skyller features a Southern soul food menu of classics like shrimp & grits, collard greens, and mac & cheese while DJ Hugh Betta and Nature Boy spin soul, funk, disco, and R&B classics on the decks. Cognac, dark rum, and bourbon-focused cocktails are also on the menu, with the Cognac Colada being a crowd favorite from the jump. This event starts at 4 PM and goes all the way until last call or until the food runs out. Admission is free. Come down to cafe nine on Hot Buttered Sundays and feed your soul.
Mike Carabello is a multi-talented pianist in the tri-state area. Carabello is a product of the Artist's Collective Youth Jazz Orchestra under master artist in resident Rene McLean, as well as the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz. Mike has worked with bassist Nat Reeves, drummer Ronnie Burrage, saxophonist Rene McLean, trombonist Steve Davis, bassist Matt Dwonszyk, and has studied piano under pianists Rick Germanson, Andy Laverne, and Alan Palmer. He has performed at the White House for First Lady Michelle Obama, The Ninth Note Jazz Club, Black Eyed Sally's Jazz Club, The Side Door Jazz Club, and the New Haven "On the Green" Jazz Festival, to name a few. He is also the pianist for a few working projects in the Connecticut area including Erica T. Bryan and the New Mosaic, Keepers of the Vibe, and the Lost Tribe.
New Haven's all-vinyl dance sho-down! Soul, funk, glam, and punk! DJ B to the T Jr. and tons of special guests!
Chervansky, Tappan & Ice Jazz Jam
Come enjoy an afternoon of live jazz with the areas finest players. Sit in with the band and show off your chops or just sit and enjoy a cold drink while the music creates the vibe.
SANCTUARY CT is a monthly Goth/Industrial/Darkwave event operating out of New Haven, helmed by DJ R.I.C.H.A.R.D, DJ Azrael, and DJ Omegatelik!
The New Haven Jazz Underground is a grass roots, community based organization dedicated to promoting & supporting Jazz and all of it's forms in New Haven, CT. The NHJU is committed to preserving New Haven’s vibrant music scene and history, while also providing employment for local musicians, support for local business, and to the community through social interaction and activism.Normally in the best of times we would be gearing up for our 2nd annual jazz festival.
The 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month, the New Haven Jazz Underground hosts a night of jazz performance at cafe nine, with a house band/performer followed by an open jam session. It's always free admission and don't forget to bring your instrument with you to participate in the jam session immediately following the performance.
King Bolete Band is a 4-piece American music group from New Haven, CT. Formed in 2022, KBB is a collection of long-haired eccentrics whose aim is simply to explore the vibrational realm. Their unique brand of entertainment fuses hard-hitting mystical grooves with mind-bending textures and rhythms. They bring an authentic musical experience that will make anybody want to dance through a field of converging mandalas as the river of their minds float blissfully into space!
Awesome Sound Society play Ween music and celebrate the rise of the Boognish. Not just any cover band, we're a super brown Ween cover band.
Just Wingin It is a collective of modern improvisational madness.
New Haven Jazz Underground
Come enjoy an afternoon of live jazz with the areas finest players. Sit in with the band and show off your chops or just sit and enjoy a cold drink while the music creates the vibe.
Singer/songwriter Brian Dolzani’s intrigue and obsession with Neil Young’s music happened towards the end of High School when he got turned onto the entire tone of classic rock. ‘Among all this music I suddenly loved and needed, I knew Neil was special to me. The high, lonesome, mourning voice, the very strange lyrics…it was the world I wanted to be in’. As Brian’s own songwriting developed, he has always looked to Neil for inspiration.
Over the last 20 years, Brian has made acclaim for himself as a talented, well-traveled, and prolific artist, releasing 10 original independent albums. His Neil Young covers in his own shows always stand out and grab listener’s attention, as Brian’s voice is remarkably similar in tone to Mr. Young’s. A very common sentiment from listeners is ‘You sound exactly like Neil, but better!’ It’s in this spirit that Brian Dolzani has decided to launch a solo tribute show called ‘Brian Dolzani as The Loner: The Music of Neil Young’. Brian channels Neil to the amazement of listeners to the extent that people often close their eyes and think they are in the presence of the main man himself.
The Loner shows are classic Neil Young songs performed solo by Brian on acoustic and electric guitars and piano, and of course, the distinct and striking vocals.