*A fairly calm weekend is coming up locally on the music scene, but one bright spot may be the CD release party at Laszlo’s Café Friday night. POINT OF VIEW will be performing and celebrating the release of its latest effort on April 7. 5 Finger Discount has an opening set.

*For really local music, Newtown has music in two locations Saturday night. The monthly coffee house returns to Newtown Congregational Church House at 7:30. Doors open at that time for one hour of open mic, and then at 8:30 the featured performer, DAVE De ANGELIS, will be on stage. Mr De Angelis is a modern day sea chanteyman.

The church house is at 41-A Main Street, in the white building behind Newtown General Store and Newtown Savings Bank. Now that the bank’s back lot has been taken care of following last year’s renovations, there is plenty of parking in that lower lot, so you don’t have to fight with the moviegoers at Edmond Town Hall for parking spaces.

Around the corner and down the hill, live Irish music returns to Starbucks Newtown, on Church Hill Road. TOM DOYLE, MOIRA KELLY, MARGIE MANNION & BILL DEVLIN are scheduled to return with their popular program of music from the Emerald Isle, performed on a variety of instruments. That runs from 7 to 9 pm.

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

Questions and comments 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! The 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

APRIL 7 — Point of View at Laszlo’s Arts Café (CD release party), Monroe, also 5 Finger Discount; Freestyle at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury;

April 8 — Dave DeAngelis & Friends at Newtown Coffee House, Newtown; The Zoo at Tuxedo Junction; The Peacocks at Tune Inn, New Haven;

April 11 — Ben Folds Five at UHartford’s Sports Center, West Hartford;

April 12 — Creed at New Haven Coliseum, Sevendust and UPO opening; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at Hartford Civic Center;

April 13 — Mighty Purple at Husky Blues, Storrs;

April 14 — The Radiators at Toad’s Place, New Haven; Hour Zero and Adva at Laszlo’s Arts Café; Future Tense at Tuxedo Junction;

April 15 — Royal Steel Pan Band at Laszlo’s Arts Café; Peat Moss & The Fertilizers at Tuxedo Junction;

April 16 — moe at Toad’s Place (all ages);

April 18 — Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman at University of Hartford’s Lincoln Theatre (performance is by the duo, not their band Ratdog);

April 19 — The Flaming Lips at The Webster Theatre, Hartford;

April 20 —The String Cheese Incident at University of Hartford’s Lincoln Theatre; Sleepy La Beef at Tune Inn; Mighty Purple at Equator Club, Manchester; The Bloodhound Gang at The Webster Theatre;

April 21 — Amnesty Underground and Orange Glow at Laszlo’s Arts Cafe; Acoustic Junction at The Webster Theatre; Simple Jim at Tuxedo Junction;

April 22 —Electric Mayhem and Hash Clyde at Laszlo’s Arts Café; Max Creek at The Webster Theatre; The Wallbangers at Tuxedo Junction;

April 23 — radio 104 Modern Rock the Earth Day at Bushnell Park, Hartford (band line-up TBA, concert all afternoon, rain or shine); Kenny Wayne Shepherd at The Webster Theatre;

April 27 — Dick Dale at Toad’s Place;

April 28 —Popa Chubby at Towne Crier Café, Pawling, NY; The Jerry Garcia Band at The Webster Theatre; Snotty Sox, Circle Cindy and Flip You For Real at Laszlo’s Arts Café; 2 Skinnee J’s at Toad’s Place (all ages), Intensify opening; The Nerds at Tuxedo Junction;

April 29 — Shadablu and Backwash at Laszlo’s Arts Café; The Benjamins at Tuxedo Junction.

 

MAY 3 —The Vibrators at Tune Inn, New Haven;

May 4 — Mustard Plug and Edna’s Goldfish at Tune Inn;

May 5 — Spring Heeled Jack USA at Toad’s Place, New Haven (all ages);

May 7 — Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen at Towne Crier Café, Pawling, NY;

May 11 — “Weird Al” Yankovic at The Bushnell, Hartford;

May 12 — Max Creek at Toad’s Place (all ages);

May 14 — Nine Inch Nails at Hartford Civic Center, A Perfect Circle opening;

May 18 —Gunga Din at Tune Inn;

May 19 — Simple Jim at Toad’s Place, Ink opening.