*COLDPLAY will be performing at The Meadows Music Theater on Saturday, May 3, and tickets will be going on sale this morning for that show. Priced at $45.27 for the lawn area and from $95.20 to $115.40 for reserved seating or general admission pit (b

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Mar 20, 2009 12:00 am

*COLDPLAY will be performing at The Meadows Music Theater on Saturday, May 3, and tickets will be going on sale this morning for that show. Priced at $45.27 for the lawn area and from $95.20 to $115.40 for reserved seating or general admission pit (be sure to specify if you want pit admission), tickets will be available through LiveNation.com or by calling 877-598-8689.

Saturday morning, tickets for THE FRAY, who will be at the same theater on Saturday, June 20, will also be going on sale. These tickets are $20/50 for the lawn area, and $40.50 to $55.50 for reserved or pit access. Jackâs Mannequin and Richard Swift will be opening that show. Purchase tickets through LiveNation.com or the phone number above.

*The March 26 date for BRITNEY SPEARS at Mohegan Sun Arena has been rescheduled to Sunday, May 3. The reschedule, according to a press release from the casino, is âdue to the grand size of the showâs production, including a 360Â° stage, acrobatic apparatus and intense visual effects.â

The current tour routing for the Mohegan Sun date does not allow enough time for travel and the needed production set-up time, the release continued. So the highly-anticipated The Circus Starring Britney Spears 2009 Tour will instead be playing Uncasville on May 2 and May 3.

Ticket holders are advised to retain their tickets for the March 26 show as they will be honored one the rescheduled date.

*On April 21, the same day their new album The Infection is released, CHIMAIRA will headline at Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport. Tickets for that show are $39.75; call 203-345-2301 to order.

The show will be part of the bandâs Music As A Weapon Tour and will include Killswitch Engage, Lacuna Coil, Disturbed, and others.

*Bay Area thrash legends TESTAMENT will be on the road for their first tour in a number of years to celebrate The Formation of Damnation, the first new studio release from these guys in nine years.

The tour will feature the classic lineup of vocalist Chuck Billy, guitarists Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick, bassist Greg Christian, and drummer Paul Bostaph. Testament will be bringing along Unearth and Lazarus AD for the tour, which kicks off May 2 and will make its way to Hartford for a show at The Webster Theater on May 23.

*Speaking of The Webster, the Hartford venue will also host an acoustic show by RYAN CABRERA on Friday, June 12, in its Underground setting. General admission tickets are $12, which is the age limit for the show too (ages 12 and up).

*Also speaking of The Webster, it was announced on Tuesday that the theater, which has been owned and run by the same family since its construction in 1937, has been sold. Justine Robertson, whose family built the Barry Square venue â initially used as a movie theater â sold the theater for an undisclosed price to John Peters, the owners of Worcester-based MassConcerts. Petersâs company has been handling the booking for The Webster since late January, and Mr Peters said in The Hartford Courant on Tuesday afternoon that he has no major plans for the club that can hold a crowd of 1,250 members, including ticket prices.

*Finally this week, radio station WPKN (89.5 FM) has been running an â8 Days a Weekâ concert series that will culminate with its spring fundraising drive, to run march 28 to April 4.

The public benefits from this series, which began on March 18 with a multi-band reggae benefit at Toadâs Place.

This weekend, however, you can catch up with the concert series when it continues at The Chefâs Table in Fairfield, where reggae singer-performer IRIE FEELINGS will perform on Sunday, March 22.

The Acoustic CafÃ© in Bridgeport will also host an event on Sunday night, that one featuring the four-piece gypsy jazz group CAFÃ MUSETTE. Acoustic finger-style guitarist Buzz Turner will open that one, which starts at 6 and has a $15 admission.

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 clubs are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING SHOWS

MARCH 20 â Half Way Home at Proud Maryâs, Newtown; Glenn Tillbrook & The Fluffers at Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield; Chuck Wicks at Mohegan Sunâs Wolf Den; String Fingers at Georgetown Saloon;

March 21 â 150 RPM at Proud Maryâs; Katarina Boudreaux at Blue Z Coffee House, Newtown; Smokehouse at Georgetown Saloon;

March 22 â Irie Feelings at The Chefâs Table, Fairfield; CafÃ© Musette at The Acoustic CafÃ©, Bridgeport, Buzz Turner opening;

March 27 â The Adults at Proud Maryâs; Tower of Power at Klein Memorial Auditorium, Bridgeport, David Sanborn opening; Kim Wilsonâs Blues Revue at Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk; Scratch the Band at Georgetown Saloon;

March 28 â Smith Bros at Proud Maryâs; Ben Folds at The Shubert, New Haven; Artie Tobia Band at Georgetown Saloon.

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*COLDPLAY will be performing at The Meadows Music Theater on Saturday, May 3, and tickets will be going on sale this morning for that show. Priced at $45.27 for the lawn area and from $95.20 to $115.40 for reserved seating or general admission pit (b

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