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A slew of '70s rockers, from Rod Stewart and Santana to Elvis Costello, The Damned, Blondie, Cheap Trick and The Fleshtones can be found on Connecticut stages this week. - The new "Hartford Live!" concert series outside the Old State House will kick off Thursday night with Jamaican reggae star Burning Spear.
- The Fab 4 Music Festival Aug. 6 at Simsbury Meadows features eight different bands playing Beatles songs, plus a band playing only Monkees songs and a band playing Badfinger songs.
- The Black-Eyed & Blues Fest, organized by Black-Eyed Sally's restaurant and featuring top national and local blues acts as well as food and drink, is held on July 30 and 31 this year in Bushnell Park.
- Musically known as Ysanne, Marshall has been a performing artist since high school and has the music project “Emotionally Strung Up” to her credit.
- The 11th annual free Salsa Meets Jazz Festival is held in Bushnell Park July 23 from 1 to 7 p.m. The festival, which was held in Elizabeth Park for much of its history, celebrates how Latin jazz, salsa and folkloric music have influenced each other.
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Food & Drink
- Dari Delite, the East Windsor ice cream shop that has delighted residents of the town for 66 years, announced that the store would close for good at the end of the season.
Arts & Theater
- "Secondo," a sequel to the hit "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti," is at TheaterWorks Hartford. Reuniting the director, playwright and star of the first show, it's now 10 years later and Giulia Melucci is still in the kitchen, only this time she's talking about marriage rather than dating.
Music
- A slew of '70s rockers, from Rod Stewart and Santana to Elvis Costello, The Damned, Blondie, Cheap Trick and The Fleshtones can be found on Connecticut stages this week.
GAMES & TRIVIA
Movies
- A movie about a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan, which was shot in the New Haven area, will premiere in that city on July 7.
More Things To Do
- This week's Courant arts picks include eclectic rocker Adrian Belew, an "Encanto" singalong at the Xfinity Theatre.
Hartford Magazine
- Michael Stubbs of Eskridge, Kansas, a retired film industry location manager with a love of history, painstakingly researched the story of the Connecticut Kansas Colony, as these settlers were known.
