MAY SCHEDULE

THURS
5/1

Jackson & Mr. Council                

$10

Looking for something different to do? If you haven’t been able to see these guys yet, you should definitely make plans to catch this show. It’s a genuinely funny and entertaining evening packed with a fast-paced rotation of comedians and musicians. Our faces hurt from laughing so much.

FRI
5/2

$5

Adam was here in January for the first time and won over our audience with his humble talent and engaging stage presence. Accompanied by his band, he had the crowd dancing one minute, and enthralled by his acoustic set the next. He has been touted as one of the most promising songwriters to come along in years...with the craftsmanship and insight to become a major voice in American music. If you missed him last time around, you’ll want to be here for this show.

www.adamezra.com

Singer/Songwriter J. Williams is a self taught, Fairfield County based, musician. His sound is a captivating blend of chiming acoustic guitar laced with melodic electric fills all enhancing the core of the song,  J.'s vocal melody and lyrics.  Each song exudes a distinct personality, a dynamic that will draw you in a hold onto you through the performance. "I write what I know, what I feel and what I see. My hope is that when it comes out people can relate to the song and make it real for themselves...".  The truth of this statement is evident in his first release, his self-titled EP that begins with an examination of life in the opening track "Wasting Time". Which cleverly depicts a sense of unknowing in a search for a direction in life. To the more up-beat "So Long, Goodbye" that captures the need to find new horizons and be out on your own. After the release of the EP in 2007, J is looking forward to touring and the recording of his first full length release that is projected to be finished in late 2008. Accompanied by his band of long time friend Eric Foldvary on Lead Guitar, Jeff dePascale (Drums) and Matt Lobo (Bass), J and the guys have a chemistry and sound you are sure to enjoy!

www.jwilliamsmusic.com

www.myspace.com/jwilliamsband

SAT
5/3

$20

We are proud to present an evening with blues legend Duke Robillard. Duke has been thrilling audiences world-wide for more than three decades. The W.C. Handy Awards have named Robillard “Best Blues Guitarist” two years in a row (2000 and 2001), B.B. King says Duke’s “one of the great players,” the Houston Post called him “one of God’s guitarists”, and The New York Times says Robillard is “a soloist of stunning force and originality”.

Opening the night will be Paul Gabriel, an electric and acoustic Blues guitarist and vocalist performing since the late 1960's. He has shared the stage with B.B. King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Duke Robillard, Ronnie Earl, Robert Cray, Delbert McClinton and a host of others. His current CD - 'Paul Gabriel and his Blues Band - Shuffle The Deck' has been listed as a TOP TEN favorite by the International Blues Foundation.  www.paulgabriel.net

MON
5/5

TUES
5/6

$3

Every Tuesday night is Open Mic night at the Cafe. Whether you're just starting out or still going strong, you're welcome to our stage for a moment in the spotlight. Just come by Tuesday nights to get signed up on the list - doors open at 8pm. We love the variety of talent that finds its way here each week. Come in and support your local artists. Open to all ages.

WED
5/7

$3

Same set up as Open Mic, but strictly the Blues – come in at 8pm to sign up, start time 9pm, all ages. This week’s host The Paul Gabriel Trio. Paul Gabriel, an electric and acoustic Blues guitarist and vocalist performing since the late 1960's. He has shared the stage with B.B. King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Duke Robillard, Ronnie Earl, Robert Cray, Delbert McClinton and a host of others. His current CD - 'Paul Gabriel and his Blues Band - Shuffle The Deck' has been listed as a TOP TEN favorite by the International Blues Foundation. 

www.paulgabriel.net

THURS
5/8

$5

Connecticut native Darian Cunning began playing piano at age 9, gradually picking up instruments and reaching guitar at age 13. Having worked with Stephen Kellogg, David Bottrill(Tool, Peter Gabriel)Kristin Hoffmann, David Gamson(Me'shell N'Degeocello)the singer songwriter has been making his ears bigger and building an audience of colleagues and fans. Comparisons have been drawn to artists such as Stevie Wonder, Martin Sexton, Sting, and Seal. His influences are far reaching.  www.myspace.com/dariancunning

FRI
5/9

$3

Graylight Campfire is made up of current and former Rafter Bats. Dave Hogan-guitar/vocals; Brian O'Callaghan-bass/vocals; Pete May-drums. Straight-up 3 piece rock and/or roll with a little twang and a positive vibe. Good times. Great songs. New CD Check it out.  

www.davehoganmusic.com

TUES
5/13

$3

Every Tuesday night is Open Mic night at the Cafe. Whether you're just starting out or still going strong, you're welcome to our stage for a moment in the spotlight. Just come by Tuesday nights to get signed up on the list - doors open at 8pm. We love the variety of talent that finds its way here each week. Come in and support your local artists. Open to all ages.

WED
5/14

$3

Same set up as Open Mic, but strictly the Blues – come in at 8pm to sign up, start time 9pm. This week’s host The Fairfield Trio. The Fairfield Trio is a group of three friends at Fairfield University who have come together in collaboration of great music. Each member is currently studying music at the University, so you expect the most seasoned and professional performance from each personality. The group performs locally as well as on campus at various functions and events. Come out and jam with these three talented young musicians! 

THURS
5/15

$8

America is thirsty for melodic, well-written guitar-fueled rock. They need a tall drink of The Mercury Seed. They’ve made fans out of strangers and converts out of non-believers. Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone, said of the Seed, “These guys are true believers who play it and mean it from the depths of their souls.” The Mercury Seed continues to give an original spin to the time-honored two-guitars-bass-and-drums lineup. www.myspace.com/mercuryseed  

www.mercuryseed.com

FRI
5/16

$5

Harold Davis Jr. (otherwise known as FRO) is a guitarist and composer originally from Bridgeport, CT, now living in Brooklyn,NY. His music  draws from a pool of influences that include jazz, rock, funk, electronica, blues, latin and more. FRO and a revloving cast of FROhorts have been making music since 1995. FRO has opened and/or appeared with diverse national acts including Tower Of Power, Screaming Headless Torsos, Toots and the Maytals, Deep Banana Blackout, the Alex Skolnick Trio and Garaj Mahal. FRO has released two self-produced CDs: "On Your Mark, Get Set, FRO!"  and "The Paisley Album."  A third FRO CD is in the works. FRO performs in both trio and quartet settings. FRO's current band lineup includes Dan Asher-bass,  Mike Nappi on drums. Jamie Finegan plays keys & trumpet on FRO quartet performances.

FRO also plays guitar with a few bands too many in the New York City area. Some of the artists he has played with or currently plays with include Mental Notes, Wizardry, Toni Blackman, Jaeme Brennan, Etro Anime, Cheryl Englehardt, Gemini, Bazaar Royale, and Shaka Zulu Overdrive(now Red Lights To Rio).FRO also did a 5-week tour in the summer of '07, performing with Bazaar Royale opening for rapper DMX.

www.myspace.com/frorocks

SAT
5/17

$10

Philomatic Productions presents songs by Philip DiCostanzo and Matthew DeTroy (www.myspace.com/twoversions ). The band “OF” will be performing their original songs with three very special singers: Jen Durkin, Strawberry Brown and Carol Piro.

The “OF” Band members are; Philip DiCostanzo /guitar and vocals Matthew DeTroy /keyboards and vocals Dave Webster /guitar and vocals John Konya /bass guitar Hans Broecking /drums

Jen Durkin from Deep Banana Blackout, The Bomb Squad, The Mikey Hart Band, Equinox to name a few and her latest project The Durkin’s www.myspace.com/jendurkin Strawberry Brown.(aka Karen Johnstone) Karen traverses the world of music from playing keyboards for Mystic Bowie and Profile to her original music for the Strawberry Brown Band which is a collection of sounds from Latin, Reggae, Pop, World Beat and back again. www.myspace.com/karkar01 Carol Piro A lead singer and backup vocalist for the popular, award-wining group Third Sister winner of The Fairfield Weekly Grand Slam Competition. Currently working on her own developing a duo act called Bluejoy Project. www.myspace.com/carolpiro

The night will also feature singer, songwriter Kat Mulvaney, “ she has a strong voice, with a somewhat breathy/whispery female John Mayer like quality to it…………..” www.myspace.com/katmulvaney and the high energy R&B band “ The Quake” featuring Dave Webster on lead guitar, “ shakin Fairfield County” with rock, blues, country, jam-band from originals to standards. www.myspace.com/notthequake

TUES
5/20

$3

Every Tuesday night is Open Mic night at the Cafe. Whether you're just starting out or still going strong, you're welcome to our stage for a moment in the spotlight. Just come by Tuesday nights to get signed up on the list - doors open at 8pm. We love the variety of talent that finds its way here each week. Come in and support your local artists. Open to all ages.

WED
5/21

$3

Same set up as Open Mic, but strictly the Blues – come in at 8pm to sign up, start time 9pm. This week’s host The Fairfield Trio. The Fairfield Trio is a group of three friends at Fairfield University who have come together in collaboration of great music. Each member is currently studying music at the University, so you expect the most seasoned and professional performance from each personality. The group performs locally as well as on campus at various functions and events. Come out and jam with these three talented young musicians! 

FRI
5/23

$15  www.louisiana-red.com

The current blues scene in the U.S. and Europe is characterized by a wide variety of styles and musicians. However, as the years go passing by there are fewer and fewer artists left that were active during the formative years of blues music, those who participated in the development of the music. Thus, it is all the more important and cause for celebration that there are still artists such as Louisiana Red. Louisiana Red has lived the Blues. And Louisiana Red not only plays the Blues, he lives it through his guitar and his singing. Strongly influenced by Muddy Waters, Lightnin‘ Hopkins and Arthur Crudup, he has long ago found his own voice, his own style, his own form of expression. When Red performs, the songs are often only launching pad for expressing his immediate feelings in the almost lost tradition of spontaneous composition that goes back to the original Delta Blues artists an even further to the West-African griot bards. In a career spanning over half a century, Louisiana Red has played with just about every major bluesman you can name, some of the most memorable encounters being his jams with B.B.King and Muddy Waters. But it doesn’t matter who he plays with or where he appears - Louisiana Red brings the same intensitiy and enthusiasm to every stage he appears on, whether in front of 10,000 people at a festival or 100 people in an intimate club. Louisiana Red’s albums have been called masterpieces by critics, and in 1983 he won a W.C. Handy Award as best traditional blues artist. After living in Germany for 20 years, he has made a several triumphant comeback tours in the United States. But if you ask Red about it, he won’t tell you much about his success. He’ll much rather talk about his latest CD project, about a new song or a new guitar lick. Because Louisiana Red is constantly creating, always searching for another expression of his blues. For once, the hyperbole is justified: Louisiana Red is the Blues.

SAT
5/24

$5

Opening Act: Brian Dolzani Band, www.briandolzani.com

Feature Act: Nardy Boy plays their melange of funk, blues, folk psychedelic jam, www.myspace.com/igntmofo

Closing Act: Rambunction plays an edgy, danceable jazz grooves, instrumental and vocal

TUES
5/27

$3

Every Tuesday night is Open Mic night at the Cafe. Whether you're just starting out or still going strong, you're welcome to our stage for a moment in the spotlight. Just come by Tuesday nights to get signed up on the list - doors open at 8pm. We love the variety of talent that finds its way here each week. Come in and support your local artists. Open to all ages.

WED
5/28

$3

Same set up as Open Mic, but strictly the Blues – come in at 8pm to sign up, start time 9pm. This week’s host Fade to Blues. Like a Diamondback Rattler from Texas and a Water Moccasin from the swamps of Georgia, Fade to Blues' dual guitars are venomous. Driven by two incendiary guitar players that are completely different yet totally complimentary, every song that they write is from the heart and based on truth and the lives that they've lived. They are Fairfield and Westchester County's hardest rockin' ORIGINAL blues band. 

www.fadetoblues.org

TUES
5/29

$3

Our always entertaining host Dick Neal brings you a night packed with an amazing array of superbly-talented musicianship along with good old-fashioned fun. If you’re looking for something different to do, come on in, enjoy the show and have a beer and a laugh or two. You’ll be glad you came.  www.hoesite.com

WED
5/30

$7

TUES
5/31

$7