Club Notes, April 23, 2009

Tonight, Thursday, Tammany Hall is hosting the Pulse's Worcester Music Awards; Duncan Arsenault's always got something cooking at The Dive; and Go Gadget Go opens for the mighty Flock at the Lucky Dog Music Hall.

Friday, Rose Colored Glasses rocks the Kaz Bar on Route 20; Therefore I Am joins Transit and Canada's Confide upstairs at the Palladium; Jim Devlin sings at the Irish Times; Hat On Drinking Wine (which has a new album out available for download at www.myspace.com/hatondrinking) does Assumption College's version of Relay for Life; Bill McCarthy strums his acoustic at Greendale's; Katrin sings at Block 5; The Change Up's on the bill at Ralph's; Zack Borer and the Dave Rivers Group share the bill at the Lucky Dog Music Hall; the legendary AC/DC tribute Touch2Much is back in black at The Raven; The Demisers, The Wandas, Traphiq and New Pilot make it an awesome night of pop at Mill Street Brews; The Weight of Gravity's landing at Spiritual Haze; and Skullfunked and Uncle Billy's Smokehouse open for Ernie and the Automatics at Tammany Hall.

Saturday, Cathy's Clown heads out to Watertown to play the popular Boston Swing Dance series at the St. James Armenian Church; World in Arms joins the lineup, which includes Back of Tha Neck and Few And Proud, at the all-ages venue QVCC; Dan Burke's leading the Orange Ocean at The Dive Bar; Hallelujah The Hills joins Hey Now Morris Fader, The Wandas and Werewolves at Ralph's; the Cassevettes return to the Dive Bar; Torbin Harding's down at The Q; Leaving Eden rocks The Raven; No Alibi returns to one of its favorite spots – Greendale's; MojoSonic's filling The Rose Garden; The Jennifer Lee Band is always warmly welcomed at the Whistle Stop; Clamdigger's slipping on its rubber boots at The Nines; Jason James is ripping it up at The Galway Bay; Andy Cummings sings cover tunes at Vincent's.

Other events:

Hymn to Earth – Photography by Ron Rosenstock is on display at Alternatives Unlimited through May 31. Garden in the Woods in Framingham opened for the season last week.
On Thursday, modern, jazz and ballet students put on a Spring Dance Concert at Holy Cross's Fenwick Theatre at 7 p.m.

On Friday, Assumption College is putting on a performance of the Fantasticks at the Hanover Theatre; there's a fund raiser with local comedians at Hotel Vernon.

On Saturday from 2-4 p.m. there's an author signing and reading at Booklovers' Gourmet in Webster with Michael Presutti, whose new book is Last Words, in which a bio-terror virus lets loose on the world. Humans and animals are infected, and the world is filled with terror and madness. Apparently this collection of short stories will “haunt you long after you've finished it,” so if you enjoy being tormented by such things, it's the perfect read. Also Saturday, in honor of Autism Awareness Month, children's author Christopher Tremblay talks about and signs copies of “Beyond the Dragon,” an autism awareness sports book for kids, at Barnes and Noble in Worcester from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Also, has it been three years already? The Wine Vine on Highland Street (right near the Sole) is celebrating its three year anniversary with an event on Saturday evening from 5-8 p.m. The festivities include a grand wine tasting and food pairing with a visit from Chef Chris Palios. Palios is from Sofia's Tuscan Grille and will be demonstrating how to make food exciting every day with his new line of locally made and hand-crafted spices (which are available exclusively at the Wine Vine). Crystal Brook Farms owner, Ann, too will be on hand. This master cheese maker will be talking about her specialty goat cheese line. Also, special offers, a free rose and baguette to the first 50 customers, as well as prizes and gift baskets.

The Wine Vine, which is also sponsoring the Pet Rock Festival (buy any bottle with an animal theme and 5% goes to Pet Rock) is also sponsoring a wine dinner with the Sole Proprietor on May 4 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. in the Wine Vine's Tasting Loft. Tickets are $59, and feature a six course dinner with Dominic Mercuria, the “wine guy.” Dinner includes cheese, antipasto, shrimp, clams casino, salmon, flan and much more, each course paired with the perfect bottle. Visit http://www.winevine.org/.