Harmonica player Chris DePino has been added to the "all-star" band with Andy Chatfield, Mark Crino, Johanna, Jeff "Axlovin" Howard, Julie Corbalis, and Matt Splain that will be performing Led Zeppelin IV this Saturday January 14, 2012.

In addition to Led Zeppelin IV, the group will also perform songs by Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Sonny & Cher, Johnny Cash & June Carter, Concrete Blonde, and Brandi Carlile.
 
Click here for more information about the Stanley Maxwell plays Led Zeppelin project.

By special request, Andy Chatfield will be playing drums with an "all-star" band that includes bassist Mark Crino of Stanley Maxwell, Johanna, Jeff "Axlovin" Howard, Julie Corbalis, and Matt Splain,  performing the album Led Zeppelin IV in its entirety:
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 6pm
4th annual "Wish You Were Here" Pasta Dinner
Franco American Club
40 Barlow Street
Bristol, CT 06010
Tickets: $20

This event will be a benefit for the AJR Nocera Memorial Scholarship Fund. Tickets which include dinner are $20, and can be purchased by calling David (860-418-9172), Sharon (860-589-5345), or Tony Nocera (860-966-3095), or via e-mail (sport33dj@aol.com or csbeatla34@gmail.com).  The Nocera family is also seeking out raffle prizes for this event.

Donations to the AJR Nocera Memorial Scholarship Fund can also be made directly to the Main Street Foundation: checks should be made payable to Main Street Community Foundation; in the memo write in "AJR Nocera Memorial Fund". Any support you can provide this cause will be greatly appreciated.


At the first annual dinner in 2009, the group performed Pink Floyd's album "Animals" in its entirety. At the second annual dinner in 2010, the group performed Pink Floyd's album "Wish You Were Here" in its entirety. At the third annual dinner in 2011, the group performed Led Zeppelin's album "Houses of the Holy" in its entirety.

Here is a video of me playing percussion with Todd Clouser's "A Love Electric" (Todd Clouser, guitar; Chris Bates, bass; Adam Meckler, trumpet; Greg Schutte, drumset; Rick Parker, trombone; Bryan Nichols, keyboard) on the tune "This Means Love" at The Lily Pad in Cambridge, MA on Friday, July 29, 2011.

I will be performing on several dates of Todd Clouser's "A Love Electric" summer tour over the next week:
 
Saturday, July 23 at The Outer Space (Hamden, CT) - playing drums with Stanley Maxwell. John Shannon's Wings of Sound rounds out the bill.


Friday, July 29 at The Lily Pad (Cambridge, MA) - playing percussion with Todd Clouser's A Love Electric.
 
 

 
You can find more details, and the rest of my summer schedule, on the Music < Events page.
 

The Middletown Commission on the Arts has launched an exciting new project in collaboration with the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Business District: the "Arts Walk at Riverview Plaza", which features street performers, vendors, and arts groups during summer weekends on Main Street at Riverview Plaza. The "Arts Walk at Riverview Plaza" is located between Amici Italian Grill and Cold Stone Creamery.


Stop by the booth for Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts this Saturday, July 16 between 1pm and 2pm to hear me play percussion in a duo with saxophonist Eric DellaVecchia. You can enter to win tickets to Trey McIntyre Project, and later you can see art and performances by Center for Creative Youth students (2pm to 5pm), and listen to Irish band Ceol Go Maidin (6pm to 8pm).