June 1st (rain date June 8th)

11 am till 4 pm

The Networking Mixer is a casual get together, once a month, for musicians, promoters, writers and club owners to meet up and network.  There is no agenda, no fee and no reason that any involved in music shouldn't go. Bring your cd's, business cards and flyers for shows and meet other people involved in the Worcester music scene.

Monday
June 2, 2008 at 9:00pm
Nick's Bar & Restaurant
124 Millbury St.
Worcester MA [map]
www.myspace.com/nicksworcester

this is a free event

Every Tuesday with guests, doing new songs, old songs, borrowed songs, blue songs and everything in the middle .

Surely you know the drill by now. Hat On, Drinking Wine brings its cool brand of rootsy originals--and an eclectic mix of covers from folks like Wilco, the Pogues, the Decemberists, and Gram Parsons--to Nick's Bar and Restaurant (124 Millbury St. in Worcester) every Wednesday from 8-11:00 pm. Great German food, plenty of alcohol in many varieties, and you can listen to us play or eat your food or chat with your friends--we'll just be happy you're there.

Wondering about the band name? For no good reason, we made up a huge list of lines from Van Morrison songs, and that phrase from the song "Madame George" seemed like the best one.

My next favorite was "Shine Your Glory," from the song "Joe Harper Saturday Morning," but "shining your glory" sounded to me too much like a euphemism for . . . well, use your imagination.

I will be guest hosting a radio show called Folk Revival on WICN (90.5 FM) in Worcester, on Thursday night (June 5). They stream on line at www.wicn.org. I am on from 7-11pm. Listen, call in, make fun of me. This should be a good time.

Scott Ricciuti, Brooks Milgate and Duncan Arsenault play this week at the ongoing Thursday music series at The Dive Bar.

Music starts at 8:30

No Cover

The Dive Bar
34 Green Street
Worcester

8:45pm The Woodrow Wilsons
A late addition to this bill, we are happy to have Boston's The Woodrow Wilsons making their First Friday debut. Two dudes, two ladies, whole lot of awesome.
http://www.myspace.com/thewoodrowwilsons

9:15pm The Points North
St. Joe Hazelwood's Chris Alspach and Regina Peterson have joined forces with percussionist Dylan Clark (Tiger Saw, Grey Milk) to form The Points North. Taking the quiet stylings of SJH and adding drums to it has produced an indie folk sound that will make you want to go home and break out your Will Oldham records. This new band should not be missed.
http://www.myspace.com/thepointsnorth

10pm Tom Thumb
I think this just about says it all:
"his latest album, The Taxidermist, is the best expression yet of the little guy's vision - a nostalgic, late evening Americana. Somewhere between Bruce Springsteen and early Peter Gabriel, between the strings of an acoustic guitar and the keys of a harpsichord" -saidthegramaphone.com
http://www.tomthumbmusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/tomthumb

11pm The Accident That Led Me To The World
"Basically, not enough indie bands today take the time to get folk and country songwriting right, but that ain’t the case with The Accident That Led Me To The World, who we’ll be referring to as TATLMTTW from here on out. Their newest album, The Island Gospel, comes across on first listen as a simple easy breezy half hour of mellow folk leanings. Further review reveals some truly haunting melodies, (seriously, don’t listen to “Caves” right before bed), wonderful boy/girl vocal interplay… and not a damned bit of percussion in sight. The instrumentaion stays stripped to the bare essentials: guitar, upright bass, banjo… and occasionally some clarinet for color."-retrolofi.com
http://www.theaccidentthatledmetotheworld.com/
http://www.myspace.com/tatlmttw

Every Wed night we have Open Mic from 8:00pm - 12:00AM

All styles of music are welcome as well as comedians.

Website; www.myspace.com/openmicatspeakersnightclub

So you enjoyed yourself at Nick's (124 Millbury St. in Worcester) at the mixer last Monday?

Now come on down and check out Hat On, Drinking Wine this Wednesday from 8:00-11:00 pm. Original music, an eclectic range of covers, and good food and drink.

This Thursday's at the Dive is going to be a lot of fun.

Organ, trombone, trumpet, drums and who knows what else. We will be playing Jazz, second line music and lots of other fun stuff.

The Dive
34 Green St
Worcester MA

8:30pm
no cover
21+

The Orange Ocean CD Release Show

Saturday, June 14th
8pm
16 Norwich St., 6th fl., downtown ---a private location!!!

other acts: AfroDZak and excellent Boston-band BAKER

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased through
fourfriendsevents@gmail.com
or they will be available at ARTSWorcester as of Tomorrow.

This is an 18+ show.
full bar and delicious vegan food will be for sale

Its gonna be a totally unique and exciting night!!!!

Come on down.
If the Celtics win, we will start a riot.

Hat On, Drinking Wine will do its usual thing this Wednesday evening from 8-11 pm at Nick's Bar and Restaurant (124 Millbury St.). Eat German food, drink alcohol, talk, listen to music.

Request anything by Hat On, Drinking Wine and we'll play it.

Request something by Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Bob Dylan, the Pogues, the Jayhawks, Bob Marley, Gram Parsons, or the Decemberists, and we'll play the one (or more) we know by them.

Here's my favorite quote from the Bob Marley biography I'm reading right now: "Marley believed that the singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah."

Siegfried
Book Launch at The Ecotarium
Thursday June 19th 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
222 Harrington Way Worcester Ma 01604

"Celebrate a new children's book about our dinosaur, Siegfried, with a reception and book signing on Thursday, June 19, 5:30-7:00pm. Light refreshments served. Free! RSVP by June 17 at 508-929-2783."

Scott Riccuiti, Troy Gonyea, Michael Thibodeau and Duncan Arsenault

Thursday June 19, 2008
The Dive Bar
34 Green Street
Worcester MA (map)

This week features music from members of Huck, The Bee's Knees, The Curtain Society and The Howl. Playing all night long.

Worcester's only craft beer bar is The Dive Bar - 80+ bottles, 16 taps and cask ale on Thursdays!

21+ No Cover
6:00pm doors
8:30pm music

Uncle Billy's Smokehouse, Hot Day at The Zoo, John Short
This is going to be an amazing night...
Tammany Hall 18+
Friday June 20, 2008 9pm
www.myspace.com/unclebillyssmokehouse
www.myspace.com/jonshort
www.myspace.com/hotdayatthezoo

Artist, anti-war activist, Catholic Worker, and long-time Art Museum faculty member Tom Lewis will be honored with a retrospective exhibition of prints, drawings, and pictures. Tom died unexpectedly in April.

The exhibit is in the Worcester Art Museum's Higgins Education Wing from June 23-August 8, 2008. There will be a special reception July 10, 5-7:30pm, to coincide with the Catholic Worker National Gathering held in Worcester.

More information: Link

Here we go again . . . This Wednesday, as every Wednesday, we'll be down at Nick's Bar and Restaurant, just off hip Kelley Square, from 8-11 pm. We'll play our music as well as covers from the bands and artists that inspire us, from Uncle Tupelo and Wilco to Dylan and the Decemberists.

I leave you with these words of wisdom from Peter Tosh's song "Legalize It," about the wondrous powers of marijuana. These are some quality lyrics, my friends. If this doesn't make you want to toke up, nothing will:

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Some call it tampee
Some call it the weed
Some call it Marijuana
Some of them call it Ganja

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Singer smoke it
And players of instruments too
Legalize it, yeah, yeah
That's the best thing you can do
Doctors smoke it
Nurses smoke it
Judges smoke it
Even the lawyers too

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

It's good for the flu
It's good for asthma
Good for tuberculosis
Even umara composis

Legalize it - don't criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Bird eat it
And they leave it
Fowls eat it
Goats love to play with it

Greendale's Pub
West Boylston Street
Worcester

Date/Time: Wednesday 06/25/08 8pm

We are recording and opening for the extremely cool duo of Zach Deputy. These guys are fun, funky, and genuinely nice people. Forget us, support them!! Their new album will be out and available. A worthy purchase.

Brilliant will be playing and early show starting at 7 on Wednesday June 25 at Tammany Hall with guests from NYC The Trembling Tuncoats. 18+

Another Thursday and another eclectic lineup of music to listen to and eclectic beer to drink.

This week, Steve Mossberg, Michael Thibodeau, Troy Gonyea and Duncan Arsenault.

The Dive Bar
34 Green Street
No Cover
21+

8:30pm

let's take some time to learn a little bit about the often misunderstood Alpaca

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca

w/ The Flock, Sins Of America and BILL