Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Club notes, Dec. 23

Tomorrow's Christmas Eve, and if you're like me, you've got family and friends to hang out with and presents to exchange. But if you are headed out, you could try karaoke at Ralph's.

Tomorrow night, many of you will be looking for something to do after the Christmas Day festivities. There's Sips at the Ship, which is an open reading at the Hotel Vernon and it's a special Christmas show with The Flock at the Lucky Dog.

On Friday, The Hurricane Horns (Steve Lefebrve and Pete Levesque among the fantastic brass squad) are joining Duncan Arsenault and Brooks Milgate at the Dive Bar; there's a benefit show for Dominic Mallary at London Billiards with Pit Fall, Bad Habit, Last Lights and more; Reveille Reborn is at the Palladium; The BYOB (Bring Your Own Blues, which is a strange name given that they're the ones bringing the blues, I think) plays at Greendale's; Hoodrat leads a Christmas hangover party at Ralph's; The Breakfast jams at Mill Street Brews in Southbridge; Jason James is playing out at the Wheelock Inn in Millbury; Bill McCarthy's strumming and picking tunes at the Galway Bay; and Mocha Java's partying at the Blue Plate in Holden for a Day After Christmas party with Jon Short opening.

Saturday, Four Year Strong, Set Your Goals, A Loss For Words and more play downstairs at The Palladium; Uncle Billy's Smokehouse is rocking Greendale's; The Alchemystics open for Mass Elite at Tammany Hall; Soulstice is out at Partner’s in Fitchburg; Torbin Harding sings at The Q; Chris Reddy sings at the Grafton Inn; The Rectangle Club joins The Sift and Shane Hall (who is the lead singer of The Rectangle Club) at Ralph's; Hell's House Band is at the Lucky Dog; Jennifer Lee plays her originals, and covers, with her full band at the Whistle Stop in Oxford; John Cate does his folk rock originals at Vincent’s; The Cosby Sweaters do their '80s thing at the Galway Bay; and Art Beatz spins at the new Industrial lounge called The Boiler Room at 70 Winter St.

Other stuff going on around town:
Linda Dagnello’s paintings hang at ARTSWorcester through Jan. 10. That exhibit is called Silent Conversations. Pop Euphoria, which is a great exhibit of pop art from around the world, is also at ARTSWorcester through mid January. The Worcester Art Museum just unveiled Watercolor-Bodycolor, which a collection that is seldom seen at the museum because it is so sensitive to light. The collection is a historical survey from around the world painted with water-based pigments.
On Sunday, The Poet’s Asylum meets at Jumpin Juice and Java on Chandler Street. This week’s feature is the Mighty Mike McGee. McGee is an international spoken word artist, writer, performer, slam poet and comic who has performed in thousands of venues throughout North America.

Interviews coming up on WCUW: Listen to a chat with Rob Orciuch and Steve Sullivan from Mocha Java on Wednesday, Dec. 24, on WCUW 91.3 FM.

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