*ZOX’s next local performance is this weekend. The cool band whose CD I’m wearing out but have yet to see perform live will be at Toad’s Place on November 12, sharing opening duties for the next SUBLIME show with The Limit. Tickets for this all-ages event are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. The show is open to all ages.

*THE LIZ McNICHOLL BAND is also playing close to home this weekend. They’ll be at Redding Roadhouse on Saturday night. Showtime is 9:30.

*HAT CITY BLUES BAND is still very much around, even though we haven’t heard too much recently from the band. The guys have been playing private shows and out-of-area events lately, but return to our area next weekend with a November 19 show at The Lodge, which is in the Southford section (out by Oxford) of Southbury.

The following night the band will be back at Redding Roadhouse.

*SIDESHOW will be at The Red Door Café in Watertown on November 19.

*Reminders for this weekend: KANSAS headlines tonight and tomorrow night (Friday and Saturday) at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den. Showtime is 8 pm both nights.

Also, after three decades in the music business, Little Feat continues to truck down the highway, now taking its Barnstormin’ Tour through the U.S. and Canada. They stop at Mohegan Sun on Sunday, November 14, for a 7 pm concert in the Wolf Den.

All of these are free shows – get there early if you want a seat.

Next weekend’s Wolf Den shows are THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND on Friday, November 19, and SAWYER BROWN on Saturday, the 20th. These are both 8 pm shows.

*For those who like to plan ahead: Toad’s Place in New Haven has added a January 8 concert by MOUNTAIN to its calendar. The band, along with RICK DERRINGER, will then be at Ridgefield Playhouse on January 15.

Until next week I’ll 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 CONCERTS

NOVEMBER 12 — Kansas at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den, Uncasville (also November 13); Badfish at Toad’s Place, New Haven, Zox and The Limit opening (all ages); Frank Carillo & The Bandoleros at The Georgetown Saloon, Georgetown; Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart at Towne Crier Café, Pawling, N.Y., Bill Staines opening;

November 13 — Kansas at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; DNR at The Georgetown Saloon; Ash Creek String Band (8 pm show) and XIT (10 pm) at The Acoustic Café, Bridgeport; Acoustic Alchemy at Towne Crier Café (also November 14);

November 14 — Little Feat at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; The Misfits and Agent Orange at The Webster Theater, Hartford (all ages); Spontaneous Combustion at The Georgetown Saloon; Acoustic Alchemy at Towne Crier Café;

November 15 — Something Corporate at Toad’s Place (all ages); BR549 at Café Nine, New Haven;

November 17 — Howie Day at Toad’s Place, Tristan Prettyman opening (all ages);

November 18 — Jane Siberry at Towne Crier Café;

November 19 — SideShow at The Red Door, Watertown; The Derek Trucks Band at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Sister Funk at The Georgetown Saloon; Hat City Blues Band at The Lodge, Southbury; Reel Big Fish at The Webster Theater, Monty’s Fan Club opening (all ages); Souled Out at Black-Eyed Sally’s BBQ & Blues Café, Hartford; Darik & The Funbags at Toad’s Place, Zoom and Tyme Peace opening; Livingston Taylor at Towne Crier Café, Kate Taylor opening; Sawyer Brown at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

November 20 — Shawn Colvin at The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies & The Performing Arts; Johnny Winter at Toad’s Place, New Haven, featuring James Montgomery, Bobby T & The Electric Circus, and The Lost Forty Fives (all ages); Hat City Blues Band at Redding Roadhouse; Greg Piccolo at Black-Eyed Sally’s; Jeffrey Gaines at The Acoustic Café; Taking Back Sunday at The Webster Theater, Hartford, Atreyu, Funeral For A Friend and Like Yesterday opening; Old School Revue at The Georgetown Saloon; Sawyer Brown at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Livingston Taylor at Towne Crier Café, Kate Taylor opening;

November 21 — Greg Brown at Towne Crier Café, Garnet Rogers opening; Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams at The Acoustic Café; All That Jazz at The Georgetown Saloon (early show).

November 23 — Kenny Wayne Shepherd at The Webster Theater (all ages).