East Hartford Community Cultural Center including music, bluegrass, celtic,and popular rock

Join us for a free concert on the Town Green at 1037 Main Street adjacent to the EHCCC. Tonight's concert is sponsored by Seagal Co, Dirosa Cleaners, Aeschliman Land Survey and Robinson & Cole

The Sounds of Summer Concerts are held on the Town Green adjacent to the EHCCC. Bring your lawn chair or blanket and enjoy the music of the Monthei Brothers with Wendy May. It's going to be a night of great Country music.

Free concert on the town Green as part of our Summer Concert Series. Tonight's concert is sponsored by Center Studios. Christine is the Swedish/American granddaughter of classical pianists. She recorded her first songs on RCA as a teen, then moved from New York to San Francisco to further study music and botany. She was a member of Bob Braye's Peace and Rhythm Unit. Her eclectic and personal style of composing was influenced by many classical and jazz musicians. She has performed with her own quartets and sextets over the years and now lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York, where she continues to write, record, and perform with her band. Saxophonist, percussionist and producer Elliot Spero founded his own ensembles in San Francisco and opened for Bobby McFarrin in the Bay Area. He engineered and produced Christine's CD's, "We Call It Music" and "My Spanish Dream" and owns a recording studio in New York.

The group's origins can be traced back to Los Angeles' vibrant pub scene in which Dublin natives Keith Roberts (vocals, guitar) and Paul O'Toole first met. Roberts was composing some Irish ballads at the time and thought a band might be in the offing. The Young Dubliners grew into a pugnacious music machine resulting in their debut, the Rocky Road EP (1994). It exhibited a hefty rock sound that made them a club favorite. Breathe followed a year later with the addition of Chas Waltz (violin, keys, harmonica, etc). By 2000, the band had morphed into a septet without O'Toole. The presence of the band sky-rocketed: The band spent much of 2001 touring Europe with Jethro Tull. In 2002 the band scaled back to a five-piece - Roberts, Brendan Holmes (Bass), Waltz, Bob Boulding (guitar) and David Ingraham (drums). Opening Act: ANDY WHITE www.andywhite.com He is an amazing singer / songwriter from Ireland with a loyal following here in the states. He has full label support from Wildflower Records, and Crysalis Music.

Join us for the first night of the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Martin Park located at 307 Burnside Ave. Music begins at 6 PM with Nothin' Fancy followed by Garvity from Sweden, Dale Ann Bradley Band and Cadillac Sky.

It's Day 2 and the music is heating up with plenty of other things to do at the festival for the whole family. Performing on this day will be Auldridge, Stewart and Ferguson with Emory Lester and Kene Hyat, Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, Claire Lynch Band, Dailey Vincent Band, Dale Ann Bradley Band, The Mueller's and The Infamous Stringdusters.

Wow! Come early and stay late you won't want to miss any of the great music happening today in Martin Park. Line-up includes: Tony Trischka Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular with special guests: Joe Mullins, Mark Johnson, Alan Munde, Bill Keith, Pete Wernick and Ron Block, Cherryholmes, Blue Moon Rising, SteelDrivers, Larry Stephenson Band, Larry Cordle, Carl Jackson and Jerry Salley, Dan Paisley & Southern Grass and Joy Kills Sorrow - 2007 Competition Winner. Family actvities, workshops, food and craft vendors and camping available on the grounds.

The final day of the Podunk Bluegrass Festival but there is still plenty of music as the 2nd annual band competition heats up with Kids Academy Performance, Joy Kills Sorrow - 2007 Champion, Blistered Fingers and Pine Mountain Railroad then the copetition for bragging rights between; 49 Fingers, CT, The Dewayn Brothers, KS, Adirondack TrueGrass, NY, Green Mountain Grass, TX, Hillbilly Water, NJ and Gold Heart, VA.

Join us for a free concert on the Town Green at 1037 Main Street adjacent to the EHCCC. Tonight's concert is sponsored by East Hartford Fine Arts Commission.Fiesta del Norte is a versatile band that plays music in the Latin genre such as Mexican (Mariachi etc), Latin (Afro-Cuban) jazz, and Brazilian. We utilize guitars, violins, horns, harp, percussion and vocals.

Lori McKenna is a mother of five from Stoughton, Mass. (pop. 27,000), about 20 miles outside Boston. There, she lives quietly—well, as quietly as a house with five children can get—with her husband of 18 years, Gene, a plumber for the local gas company. For years she drove her kids to school in a 1999 Ford Windstar minivan with 150,000 miles on it. It is fitting Lori entitled her Warner Brothers debut album Unglamorous. Lori McKenna is also an acclaimed singer-songwriter who was thrust into the limelight last year when superstar Faith Hill included three of McKenna’s songs on her Number One album Fireflies, including Hill’s poignant single “Stealing Kisses.” Hill (herself a wife and mother of three) heard in McKenna’s work what a steadily growing audience has been hearing since her 1998 debut, Paper Wings & Halo: an intimate understanding and honest expression of the realities of domestic life. There will be an opening act for this show.

Free concert on the town Green as part of our Summer Concert Series. Tonight's concert is sponsored by Blum Shapiro & Company. Biography By Laurel Tuohy, Litchfield County Times Many urbanites relocate to the country with high hopes, but never feel truly comfortable with the different pace of life. Nor do they find acceptance among the locals. Singer songwriter Kenn Morr, is not one of those stories. Though he’s lived in rural Colebrook only five short years, he has reached a level of small town comfort and familiarity that few do, due mostly to the local celebrity his roots-based acoustic rock songs have brought him. He ingratiated himself with the locals early on, though not intentionally. He moved to backwoods Connecticut for peace, quiet, seclusion and privacy but found community instead. A father to two young sons, Kenn, when he's not performing, writes and plays guitar around their schedules on the porch overlooking his lush green acreage or from the kitchen table in his 150-year-old clapboard home. For accompaniment he can count on the sound of the rushing brook across the street or the wind rustling through the tall greens. The good people and unforgettable scenery of this tiny town of fifteen hundred have quietly woven themselves into Kenn’s rich musical tapestry over the last few years. He became a local hero with his, "Moonlight Meadow Song," the closing number on his second CD, "New Moon Rising," a mix of unplugged Americana, folk, rock, and blues.

Join us on the Town Green adjacent from the Cultural Center for a free night of music. Bring your blanket or lawn chair and enjoy the music of the Dramatix. This concert is being sponsored by American Eagle Credit Union.

This is the final concert of our free summer series held adjacent to the EHCCC on the Town Green. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy the music of legendary Jonathan Edwards. It will be a night of "Sunshine".

Beoga are a five-piece traditional band based in County Antrim. The band was drawn together after ‘jamming’ in a ferocious music session at the All-Ireland Fleadh in August 2002. Their unique sound features the twin duelling accordians of Seán Óg Graham and Damian McKee, along with four times All-Ireland bodhrán champion Eamon Murray and pianist Liam Bradley. In 2005, Beoga were nominated by Irish Music Magazine for the best traditional newcomer’s award. With the addition of one of Ireland’s premier young singers, Niamh Dunne, Beoga look set to confirm their reputation as one of the most exciting acts to emerge from Ireland in recent years. The bedrock of Beoga’s music lies firmly within the Irish tradition, but they are not afraid to incorporate other genres’ nuances into their music. From bluesy riffs to Astor Piazzola-style jazz, to a raunchy New Orleans jamboree vibe, their music always returns to a wonderfully bouncy traditional sound. With a repertoire of fresh self-penned tunes and inventive arrangements, the debut album 'a lovely madness' earned 9/10 in Ireland’s Hot Press magazine and was in the list of Top Trad/Folk Albums of the year.

Experiencing an April Verch show is like a hopping a supersonic freight train from an old lumber camp in Northern Ontario, across the wide open prairie, through the Appalachians, down the Mississippi to the Louisiana Bayou, across the sea to Brazil, France, the Scottish Highlands and back, with stops at Carnegie Hall and church thrown in for good measure. An April Verch concert is equal parts invigorating, surprising, heartbreaking, heartwarming, haunting, charming, thrilling, foot-stomping, faith-restoring, and smile-inducing – all in all, utterly unforgettable. It’s a musical journey you do not want to miss, one that will have you entranced from start to finish, and ultimately not wanting to get off that train you hopped on just two hours earlier. A performer since early childhood, April Verch was a seasoned entertainer by the time she finished high school, winning step-dancing and fiddle contests, appearing across her native Canada at concerts, as an invited guest at fiddle contests and as a teacher at fiddle camps, always integrating dance and fiddling into a seamless, dynamic whole. Following a year of intensive study at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, she launched her professional career by winning Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Champion and Canadian Open Fiddle Champion titles (the first and only woman to win both). But April is not just a world-class fiddler, she is also a world-class dancer, and a singer whose voice has been hailed as “absolutely captivating” by the Toronto Star. Since signing with Rounder in 2000, she has toured tirelessly, winning over audiences not only with her sheer technical ability, but also with her charm, humor and boundless energy on stage. She crosses genres easily from Bluegrass to Brazilian to Celtic, from a jaunty Canadian folksong to a poignant contemporary ballad, and the audience is with her all the way.

The music of NewFound Road is marked by a refreshing clarity – a sense of honesty and purpose rarely heard in today’s bluegrass. For with the increased popular interest in bluegrass music has come an increased willingness to sweeten and tamper: maybe a touch of percussion here, a pedal steel there, a little piano on the chorus. Yet with their visceral, road-honed attack and disarming purity of vision, NewFound Road are a vivid reminder of the power inherent in undiluted, stripped-down bluegrass. This unflinching immediacy is bolstered by a wide range of stylistic influences, the presence of three remarkably soulful vocalists, and strong in-house songwriting talent, making NewFound Road among the most dynamic and thrilling contemporary bluegrass bands on today’s thriving scene.

The Circus is coming back to Town. If you missed them in 2008 mark your calendar and come on down. In 1998 The Circus emerged from the misty hills of Sleepy Hollow, New York and exploded upon the Hudson Valley music scene with their stunning self-produced debut release, "A Good Thief Tips His Hat". The quirky quartet then began touring throughout the northeast and rapidly developed a fiercely loyal, all-ages following. Featured recently in Relix Magazine, the New York Times and on the CBS hit show, Joan of Arcadia, the band's charismatic live performances and whimsical blend of folk, rock, hillbilly and pop have simply captivated audiences and critics alike. Their much celebrated new release "Flapjacks from the Sky" has garnered high praise from music writers, sparked generous activity at radio, and continues to invoke wave after wave of enthusiastic response from music fans world-wide. The music of Slambovia has been described as "Hillbilly-Floyd, folk-pop", "alt-country roots-rock, and "surreal Americana".