*The last time OLD SCHOOL played at Proud Mary’s (just a few weeks ago), I understand the place was standing room only all night for Tony Summo and Lou Bellofatto. Let’s see if we can do the same thing when the guys return, which will be Saturday, February 27.

Tony and Lou also have dates set up for the lounge at 19 Main Street in Newtown on March 12 and March 27.

*The NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK show at the MGM Grand Theater on May 21 has sold out.

Fans can rejoice, however, to learn that a second show has been added at the Mashantucket venue on Saturday, May 22, at 8 pm. Tickets have already gone on sale (sorry, notice from the casino last week was after deadline), priced at $55 to $75.

*Meanwhile, tickets for THE FRAY, who will be in Mashantucket on April 25, are going on sale this morning (February 19), priced at $40 and $60.

*One of pop music’s most actively touring artists will bring his own take on a Storytellers concert to The Klein Memorial Auditorium in Bridgeport on April 4.

Tickets for a BEN FOLDS solo concert — just Folds and his piano, actually — have been put on sale through Fairfield Theatre Company, priced at $37.50. Visit FairfieldTheatre.com for details and tickets.

Kate Miller-Heidke will be opening.

*Also just announced this week by Fairfield Theatre Company is a March 14 show by Blues Hall of Fame inductee and 2007 Grammy Award winner David “Honeyboy” Edwards, with special guest Rocky Lawrence, and an April 1 co-headlining event featuring The Duke Robillard Band and Johnny A.

Both shows will take place on FTC’s StageOne, and tickets for both are $47.

Fourth generation musician JESSE RUBEN will return to the theater’s StageOne on March 5, and tickets for that show are $15.

*Tom DeLough’s ANGELS & AIRWAVES has been scheduled to perform one of the special “under the dome” shows this spring at The Oakdale in Wallingford. Tickets for the May 8 show will be going on sale February 19 (this morning), but I can’t seem to locate the ticket prices themselves. Visit LiveNation.com Friday morning or after for those details, I suppose.

And a reminder that AVA released its latest album, LOVE, on Valentine’s Day, and free downloads of what I already think is a very good album are available at AngelsAndAirwaves.com.

Until next week, I’ll be seeing you… on the road, where I will continue to wonder why at least two of our local television stations (WTNH and FOX-61) continue to call the cameramen and women who shoot video (or the digital equivalent) to accompany news stories photographers. They’re not shooting photos. They’re shooting video.

They aren’t photographers. They’re videographers. Their cameras shoot video or digital, not still photos.

Yet the news reports continue to run with credits that say “Reported by So-and-So” and “Photography by So-and-So,” and that’s just wrong. I don’t go around calling myself a videographer, after all.

Any thoughts? Anyone? 

Questions and comments should be sent to Shannon Hicks c/o The Newtown Bee, 5 Church Hill Road, Newtown CT 06470, or shannon@thebee.com, or call the office at 426-3141. Shows listed at clubs are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

 

UPCOMING SHOWS

FEBRUARY 19 — Off The Hook at Redding Roadhouse, Redding; Kala Farnham at Mocha Coffee House, Sandy Hook; Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell at Quick Center/Fairfield University; Greytooth at The Acoustic Café, Bridgeport; John Mayer at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Michael Franti and Spearhead opening; Alien Ant Farm at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den, UNcasville;

February 20 — Stephen Pascuzzi at Mocha Coffee House; Hot 8 Brass Band at The Ridgefield Playhouse; Buddy Jewell at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Dylan Connor with Kaiser Cartel at The Acoustic Café;

February 24 — New Found Glory at The Webster, Hartford, Saves The Day, HelloGoodbye, Fireworks, et al opening; Fat at The Acoustic Café;

February 25 — Flogging Molly at The Webster, Frank Turner and The Architects opening; Cyril Neville at Fairfield Theatre Company; Dennis DeYoung at The Ridgefield Playhouse; Hoe at The Acoustic Café;

February 26 — JP Shannon at Mocha Coffee House; Phil Lesh and Bob Weir at Mohegan Sun Arena; Bobby McFerrin at Ridgefield Playhouse; Cyril Neville at Infinity Music Hall; John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den.

n; Snoop Dogg at The Webster;

February 27 — Bill Devlin & Friends at Mocha Coffee House; Old School at Proud Mary’s, Newtown.

; The Black Eyed Peas at Mohegan Sun Arena; The Verve Pipe at Infinity Music Hall (note: billed as “alternative takes, an acoustic evening”); Soul Asylum at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

February 28 — The Verve Pipe at Infinity Music Hall (note: billed as “alternative takes, an acoustic evening”).