*The first announcement for a summer show at The Meadows, errr, I mean the blandly renamed Dodge Music Center in Hartford has been made and its for OzzFest 2006.

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Mar 17, 2006 12:00 am

The festival will return to Hartford on Sunday, July 30, and tickets will be going on sale this morning (Friday, March 17) at 10 am. Seats are priced at $65.50 and $85.50 for the reserved pavilion area, while lawn seating is $35.50. Tickets will be sold thorugh TicketMaster outlets and the box office at The Chevrolet Theater (formerly the Oakdale) in Wallingford. The Dodge Centerâs box office hasnât yet opened for the season.

Mainstage acts already announced include SYSTEM OF A DOWN, DISTURBED, HATEBREED and LACUNA COIL. Second Stage performers will include ZAKK WYLDEâS BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, ATREYU, UNEARTH, and at least nine others.

A major Mainstage performer will be announced on May 23.

*Going on sale at 4 pm today will be tickets for THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND, with special guests THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND and DICKEY BETTS & GREAT SOUTHERN, who will be at The Chevrolet Theatre on Sunday, May 21.

Tickets for that show are all $38.50, and will be sold through TicketMaster and the theaterâs box office.

*Also going on sale are tickets for THE NEW CARS and BLONDIE. This show will be going on sale Saturday, March 18, at Mohegan Sun Arena. The double bill will be in the Uncasville arena on Sunday, June 25. Start time is 7 pm.

Tickets will be going on sale at 10 am Saturday through TicketMaster vendors â in person, online and over the phone. No ticket sales will be taking place Saturday morning at the casino.

Remaining tickets will be available at Mohegan Sun beginning Monday morning at 10.

A programming note: The New Cars â with original Cars members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes, joined by new members Kasim Sulton, Prairie Prince and rock legend Todd Rundgren â will release their first single in March, and a live album in June. The concert tour will offer updates of old songs and some of the new material.

*Mocha Coffee House in Sandy Hook will host BRIAN DOLZANI tonight, performing from 7:30 until 10 pm.

Upcoming shows at the Glen Road locale include DAN SAWYER on March 24, and then FAIRFIELD CROSSING on March 31.

*JOHN VOKET, Newtownâs musical pied piper when it comes to Relay For Life 2006, will be in Monroe this weekend. He returns to Last Drop Coffee Shop on Saturday. Start time is 8 pm and donât let the storefront of the coffee house fool you â inside is a comfortable seating arrangement of sofas, wicker chairs and stools, with soft lighting, plenty of delicious refreshments hot and cold, and of course plenty of good tunes.

*BILL SIMS JR, accompanied by ANDY HESS (of GOVâT MULE) will headline and kick off the 3rd Annual Black Rock Blues Festival next weekend.

The weekend-long festival will be at The Black Rock Art Center, Black Rock Castle, Taco Loco, Ray Kellyâs Tavern, The Green Room and The Blue, and will include concerts, workshops, a blues brunch, and a multi-location presentation of Martin Scorseseâs The Blues â A Musical Journey. The festival will run from Friday, March 24, until Sunday, March 26, with free and ticketed events.

For the full schedule and information visit BlackRockArtCenter.com or call 203-367-7917.

Tickets for the Sims-Hess show are $15 if reserved in advance, or $20 at the door (remaining performances over the weekend will cost no more than $5). The Sims-Hess show will be at the art center, 2838 Fairfield Avenue, and showtime is 7:30 pm.

*Finally this week, a benefit concert for The Kim & Tim Donnelly Music Scholarship at Fairfield University will take place at The Acoustic CafÃ© in Bridgeport on Saturday, April 8. Performances will be offered at 7 and 9 pm, featuring PROPHETS OF FUNK, ERIC DONNELLY TRIO and BRIAN TORFFâS BRASS ROOTS QUARTET.

Tickets are $15 general admission, or $10 for students, and 70 percent of the eveningâs proceeds will go into the music scholarshipâs fund.

For reservations or additional information contact the cafÃ© at 203-335-3655 or visit AcousticCafe.com.

Until next week Iâll be seeing you... on the road.

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 club locations are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING SHOWS

MARCH 17 â Brian Dolzani at Mocha Coffee House, Sandy Hook; Jonathan Edwards at University of Hartfordâs Wilde Auditorium, West Hartford;

March 18 â John Voket at Last Drop Coffee Shop, Monroe; Hat City Blues Band at 59 Bank Street, New Milford; Children of Bodem at Toadâs Place (all ages); Lys Guillorn at CafÃ© Nine (CD release party), with Tyler Trudeau Attempt;

March 21 â Robert Cray Band at The Ridgefield Playhouse;

March 22 â Alexa Ray Joel at Toadâs Place, Donât Tell Muddy opening (all ages); Sean Paul at The Webster Theater (all ages, dress code will be enforced);

March 23 â Billy Joel at Hartford Civic Center (sold out, but check with venue for last-minute released seats);

March 24 â Dan Sawyer at Mocha Coffee House; KC 101âs Matt Hoopes Birthday Tour featuring Reliant K, The Rocket Summer and Maxeen at The Webster Theater; Bill Sims, featuring Andy Hess, at Black Rock Art Center, Bridgeport (kick-off event for 3rd Annual Black Rock Blues Fest);

March 25 â Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams at The Acoustic CafÃ©, Brookfield;

March 28 â Billy Joel at Hartford Civic Center (sold out, but check with venue for last-minute released seats);

March 29 â Nickelback at Mohegan Sun Arena, Chevelle and Trant opening; Dream Theater at Chevrolet Theatre, Wallingford; Apathy at Toadâs Place (CD) release party; Sevendust at The Webster Theater;

March 31 â Fairfield Crossing at Mocha Coffee House; Sublime at Toadâs Place.

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Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

Clarity on Reservoir Road and the Rochambeau Trail

Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

Who is Calling Newtowners Stupid?

Appreciate your perspective. Rather than litiate all of your opinions expressed here, here....I would like correct your opinion about the BOS having the final authority on road discontinuance decisions. State statute (CT GS 13a-49), requires the BOS' decision to be approvate by a majority vote at a regular or special town meeting (just like the one Newtown had a few years back to decide to spend the money to build an addition onto the High School). In towns that no longer have any town meetings, that responsibility would fall on the town's representaive government, or legislative body....in Newtown's case, our Legislative Council. Failure to follow this statutory process is but one of the reasons the town/the BOS is being sued.

There are many private roads in Newtown where they property owner owns right to the center line, for example this is often true in the lake communities. Many of these roads predate and do not conform to the Town's roads standard and therefore the Town never accepted them into the Town road system. Does the Town actually own this road?

It’s important to clarify the tone and context of Derek Pisani’s remarks, particularly the satirical line about suing Newtown for "Gross Stupidity." This was clearly a tongue-in-cheek jab at the exhausting culture of legal threats that’s become a staple on the local Facebook Group forums. It was a reflection of frustration over endless regulatory hurdles and obstructionism, and the desire to avoid common sense solutions not an insult aimed at residents. Satire, is meant to provoke thought and highlight the absurdities. If we are unable to distinguish between satire and literal threats, perhaps the comment hit closer to the truth than we’d like to admit. Rather than focusing on Pisanis style, we should be discussing the substance of what he’s pointing out: that Newtown’s progress is being routinely blocked by a small but vocal contingent who seem intent on saying “no” at every turn. They are saying no to any development, no to common sense solutions to crowd control, etc. Newtown deserves leaders who are willing to call things as they see them, even if their language ruffles feathers. That doesn’t mean they lack respect for constituents—it means they care enough to challenge the Mob and push for solutions. Isn't that what we elect people to do? I applaud Pisani's dedication, he certainly has earned my vote. Regardless, let’s not reduce conversation to tone-policing and outrage. Let’s focus on the issues that matter.

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*The first announcement for a summer show at The Meadows, errr, I mean the blandly renamed Dodge Music Center in Hartford has been made and its for OzzFest 2006.

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