Date: Fri 04-Jun-1999

Publication: Bee

Author: SHANNON

Quick Words:

Cranberries-Femmes-Phelps

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ON THE ROAD/SHANNON HICKS

Final reminder that THE VIOLENT FEMMES will be in New Haven this weekend. The

Boston trio will be at Toad's Place on Friday, June 4, for an all ages show.

Tickets are $25 in advance, or $30 at the door. Double Dong and Paradise

Vendors both have opening sets.

GWAR has been added to the New Haven club's schedule, with a show on Tuesday,

June 29, also all ages. Skinlab has the opening job for that show. For July,

LUSCIOUS JACKSON will be returning to the club on the 1st. This is another all

ages show. No opener has been named yet.

Hope you wrote the July 12 FISH date that had been announced for Toad's Place

in pencil on your calendar, because the show has been postponed, without

explanation. The postponement came from the band, not the club, and there is

no hint of what the new date might be yet. Keep your pencil at the ready...

Tickets will be going on sale this weekend -- Saturday, June 5, 10 am -- for

JEWEL at The Meadows in Hartford on July 28. Rusted Root will be opening that

show.

Tickets for THE CRANBERRIES' return to Connecticut -- but to the Oakdale, not

the Meadows -- are also going on sale Saturday morning. Dolores O'Riordan and

men will be at the Wallingford theatre on Sunday, August 2. Tickets are $30.50

and $40.50 apiece.

Last week's column included quite a bit of information concerning the ANN &

NANCY WILSON performance at Mohegan Sun Casino (July 2), and an even earlier

column mentioned the June 25 HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH. While tickets are

necessary for those shows, the casino has a busy summer schedule that includes

a wide variety of free PErformances. Among the performers who will be in

Uncasville this summer, free of charge, are JIM CAPALDI and DAVE MASON, July

9; JOHN KAY & STEPPENWOLF, July 19; JOHN MAYALL, July 20; ROOMFUL OF BLUES and

DUKE ROBILLARD, July 25; THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, August 9; JOAN JETT & THE

BLACKHEARTS, August 10; and BLUE OYSTER CULT, August 26.

MATTHEW PHELPS returns to The Towne Crier in Pawling this weekend. Phelps, a

senior at New Fairfield High School last year, was also the 1998 season

champion of the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association. Phelps will be

playing the opening set for JOHN WHELAN, the seven-time all-Ireland accordion

champion, and his band from Ireland.

The June 5 show at the Crier will be Phelps' final performance in the US until

the end of the summer. Beginning soon, he will be competing individually and

as a member of the Grade 1 Halifax Regional Police Pipes and Drums in Halifax,

Nova Scotia.

Tickets for Saturday night are $17.50 and can be reserved by calling the club

at 914/855-1300.

Until next week, I'll be seeing you... on the road.

Questions and comments concerning "On The Road" (or anything music related)

should be sent to Shannon Hicks, c/o Bee Publishing Co., 5 Church Hill Road,

Newtown 06470, or shannon @thebee.com. Include a phone number for

confirmation, please . If you don't have a stamp or a piece of paper or a

writing utensil that works, give me a call! Phone number at the office is

426-3141. Shows listed on the calendar at club locations are for ages 21 and

over unless specified.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

JUNE 4 -- Free Style at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury; The Violent Femmes at Toad's

Place, New Haven;

June 5 -- Harvey and the Wallbangers at Tuxedo Junction; Moppin Sauce at Fat

Daddy's, Watertown; The John Whelan Band at Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling, NY,

Matthew Phelps opening;

June 6 -- Leftover Salmon at Toad's Place (all ages), Blueground Undergrass

opening; The McKrells at Towne Crier Cafe;

June 8 -- Firehouse at Toad's Place (all ages);

June 11 -- Channeling Jim at Tuxedo Junction; Shakedown at Toad's Place (all

ages), Carnival Dogs and Smoke the Prophet opening;

June 12 -- Big Orange Cone at Tuxedo Junction; Moppin Sauce at TK's, New

Haven;

June 13 -- Volunteer Jam at The Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford (Charlie

Daniels Band, The Marshall Tucker Band and Molly Hatchet);

June 16 -- Vanilla Ice at The Webster Theatre, Hartford, Earth Crisis and

Grinspoon opening;

June 18 -- Susan Tedeschi at Toad's Place; Culture at The Webster Theatre, Jah

Works opening;

June 18-20 -- 4th Annual Gathering of the Vibes at Seaside Memorial Park,

Bridgeport (with Gov't Mule, John Scofield, Deep Banana Blackout, Strangefold,

Percy Hill, et al);

June 19 -- Men at Work at Mohegan Sun Casino (Wolf Den), Uncasville; Ozzfest

'99 at The Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford (Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie,

Deftones, Slayer, Primus, et al); Mighty Purple at Arts Barn, Madison;

June 20 -- 27th Annual Reggae Music Festival & Skate Show at Woodbury Ski

Area, Woodbury, featuring Big Mountain, Djoliba, Victor Essiet & The

Mandators, et al;

June 22 -- Beenie Man at Toad's Place (all ages);

June 24 -- Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan & Shemekia Copeland at the Oakdale,

Wallingford; Spring Heeled Jack USA at Toad's Place (all ages), Shades Apart

opening;

June 25 -- Hootie & the Blowfish at Mohegan Sun Casino (Wolf Den); Simple Jim

at Toad's Place, What Up! and 13 O'Clock opening;

June 26 -- J. Geils Band at The Meadows; Seal at the Oakdale Theatre, Joan

Jones opening;

June 27 -- The Allman Brothers Band at The Meadows; Susan McKeown & The

Chanting House at Towne Crier Cafe, Kila opening;

June 29 -- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers at The Meadows, Lucinda Williams

opening; GWAR at Toad's Place (all ages), Skinlab opening.

JULY 1 -- Bonnie Raitt at the Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford; Luscious Jackson

at Toad's Place, New Haven (all ages);

July 2 -- Moppin Sauce at Shenanigans, Norwalk; Ann & Nancy Wilson at Mohegan

Sun Casino, Uncasville;

July 3 -- Motley Crue and The Scorpions at The Meadows Music Theatre,

Hartford, Noise Therapy opening; The Sloan Wainwright Band at Towne Crier

Cafe, Pawling, NY, Cosy Sheridan opening;

July 8 -- Cher at the Oakdale, Cyndi Lauper opening;

July 9 -- Too Skinnee J's at Toad's Place (all ages), 6 Under Par and

Intensify opening; Jim Capaldi & Dave Mason at Mohegan Sun Casino's Wolf Den,

Uncasville (free show);

July 17 -- The Brian Setzer Orchestra at the Oakdale Theatre;

July 18 -- The Beach Boys, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons at the Oakdale;

July 19 -- King's X at Toad's Place (all ages), Protein and Misconception

opening; John Kay & Steppenwolf at Mohegan Sun Casino's Wolf Den (free show);

July 20 -- Steve Miller Band at The Meadows, George Thorogood opening; John

Mayall at Mohegan Sun Casino/Wolf Den (free show);

July 22 -- Frank Black & The Catholics at Toad's Place (all ages), Reid Paley

and Mollycoddle opening;

July 23 -- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers at Toad's Place, The Providers and

John Lamb Band opening;

July 24 -- Bob Dylan & Paul Simon at The Meadows; The Verve Pope at Toad's

Place (all ages, ealy show), Papa Vegas opening;

July 25 -- Roomful of Blues and Duke Robillard at Mohegan Sun Casino/Wolf Den

(free show);

July 27 -- N' Sync at The Meadows, Jordan Knight and Five opening; Luciano at

Toad's Place (all ages);

July 28 -- Jewel at The Meadows, Rusted Root opening;

July 30 -- Yellowman & The Sagittarius Band at Toad's Place;

July 31 -- New England Reggae Sunsplash at The Meadows (Coco Tea, Mikey

General, Luciano, Beres Hammond and Buju Banton).