Club Notes, Thursday, July 16

Thursday, Sean Ryan sings at Beatnik's; Lisa Marie's All Shook Up at Nick's; Darkwor and Cursed for Eternity are among the acts for metal night at Ralph's; Worcester's Got Talent takes place at Gilrein's; and Sunlea shines at the Blackstone Tap.

Friday, Stuart Ferguson performs and Sweetwilliam Farms in Upton; Skullfunked headlines Chasers; The Chicken Slacks funk up Ralph's; Henry Gale is with White Mountains, Deep Fried Eagle and more at Spiritual Haze; Monkeyfish is with Barefoot Bob at the Kaz Bar; the Have Nots play a benefit for the West Boylston Arts Foundation at Goodale Park; New Ditty joins Social Suicide and Panther Lee Johnson at London Billiards; Brokedown Serenade joins the Revival Preachers and Sawmill at the Lucky Dog; Ken Tracy Jr. returns to JJ's; Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck heads back to The Dive; Niki Luparelli and Dan Burke present the Speakeasy Combo at Nick's; Bret Talbert sings at Tom's Gourmet Marketplace; and Jug O Punch mixes it up at Fiddler's Green.

Saturday, the Matt Schwachman Band returns to the Irish Times; the Summer Slaughter Tour hits the Palladium; The Young Leaves fall at the Hotel Vernon; Owl Watcher joins rock for your face at Hotel Vernon; Ape Debris opens for Vultures at Ralph's; Chyldz Play rocks Chasers; Auntie Trainwreck pulls into Squire White's; the Red Riders head back to the Sahara Restaurant; New Pilot and Nude Black Glass teams up for a night of pop at Mill Street Brews; Treadwater's swimming at Beatnik's; Collin Raye and Restless Heart countrify Indian Ranch; and Crumb joins Ill Conceived and 16 Stitches at the Lucky Dog Music Hall.
Touched rocks Sakura Tokyo both weekend nights.

Other events:

Calliope Productions puts on Bye Bye Birdie through the weekend at its theater in Boylston.
Thursday, the Worcester Chamber Music Society puts on the Thayer Chamber Music Festival at Atlantic Union College.

Saturday morning, learn about Dragonflies in a program with the Massachusetts Audubon Society at Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary. It's Fire and Ice Day at Old Sturbridge Village, which means such things as a fire muster as well as homemade ice cream. The movie A Good Year shows for free at the Worcester Public Library.

On Sunday, the Art and Music Fest takes over Riverbend Farm in Uxbridge from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It features live music, vendors, food, face painting, kids stuff, karate and much much more. Admission, too, is free. The Oak Ridge Boys headline Indian Ranch. And there's jazz on the patio every week at the Castle Restaurant in Leicester. This weekend, it's Dick Odgren and Bob Simonelli. The 85th Romanian Festival takes place at St. Michael's in Southbridge.