Live Jazz Listings for October 2023 WRIU 90.3FM Kingston RI
**** if you would like an event to be listed please email [email protected] (temporarily) **** Best if two weeks in advance!
URI Guitar Festival returns October 18-22 https://www.uriguitarfestival.org/copy-of-general
See link for dates, info and venues
URI Fine Arts Center Calendar:
Thurs Oct 12 URI Jazz Combos I Emmett Goods, coordinator 7:30pm $15 adults, $10 students
Sun Oct 15 Music as Storytelling on Broadway Nick Jemo (trumpet) and Jesse-Ray Leich (drums) 3pm Edward’s Auditorium ** will also be live streamed, must register https://web.uri.edu/humanities/music-and-storytelling-on-broadway FREE
Tues Oct 17 URI Jazz Combos II Emmett Goods, coordinator 7:30pm $15 adults, $10 students
Sat Oct 21 Guitar Fest : FRENCH NIGHT 8:00 pm Prelude: Mandolin Trio Feature Artists: Matthias Duplessy, Contemporary Guitar Jeremy Jouve, Classical Guitar Amit Kavthekar, table The Great Necks, Guitar Trio (Adam Levin, Matthew Rohde, Scott Borg)
Thurs Oct 28 Jazz Big Band I / Thad Jones Tribute/Neal Hefti 8pm $10-15
PRONK! Providence Honk Fest Monday Oct 9 10am-5pm Dexter Park
Askew 150 Chestnut St Providence RI [email protected]
Thurs Oct 5 Free Funk Thursday with Autocrats 8/8:20pm
Sun Oct 15 Funky Submarine (funky Beatles music) 1/1:30pm $10/15 All ages 16 and under FREE
Thurs Oct 19 John Allmark Jazz Quintet 7pm $10
Fri Oct 20 Buffalo Nichols (slide Steel guitar) with Pete Bernhard of the Devil Makes Three 8/9pm $15
Chan’s 267 Main St, Woonsocket RI 401-765-1900 http://www.chanseggrollsandjazz.com/calendar.htm check for prices
Fri Oct 6 Sugar Ray & The Bluetones 8pm $20/25
Sat Oct 7 Joe Moss high energy Chicago Blues 8pm $20/25
Sat Oct 14 Duke Robillard’s 75th Birthday Bash 8pm $30/35
Sat Oct 21 Bruce Mattson Band NOLA funk/R&B with a Crescent St Swagger 8pm $15/20
Fri Oct 27 Jeff Pitchell and The Texis Flood 8pm $25/30
Sat Oct 28 Quinn Sullivan guitar Blues toured with Buddy Guy 8pm $30/35
Contemporary Theater Company 327 Main St Wakefield RI contemporarytheatercompany.com
Live Jazz Monday nights 7:30pm
Courtland Club 51 Courtland St, Providence, RI 02909 (401) 227-9300
Live jazz every Sunday at 6 & 8:30 Leland Baker Trio
Greenvale Vineyards 582 Wapping Rd Portsmouth, RI
Sat Oct 7 Annette Sanders, Greg Wardson piano, Dick Lupino bass, Rick Wells drums 1-4pm
Sat Oct 14 Brian James Quintet
Sat Oct 21 Mark Lewis Sax, Greg Wardson piano, Dick Lupino bass, Rick Wells drums 1-4pm
Sat Oct 28 Zahili Gonzalez Zamora pianist, composer, bandleader and educator 1-4pm
Greenwich Odeum 59 Main St. East Greenwich RI greenwichodeum.com 401-885-4000
Wed Oct 18 Upstairs At The Odeum 7:30-9:30 No Cover Local artists
IMAGO FOUNDATION for ART 36 Market St, Warren RI 401-392-1322 www.imagofoundation4art.org
Sun Oct 8th, 4 – 6pm EVENING SKY + 1: TISH ADAMS with: CHRIS BROOKS – Pedal Steel Guitar GINO ROSATI – Guitar JOE POTENZA – Bass ERIC HASTINGS – Drums
Java Madness 134 Salt Pond Rd Wakefield RI javamadness.com
Sun Oct 10 To Be Continued Band New Orleans Jazz 9:30-11:30
The Knickerbocker Music Center 35 Railroad Ave, Westerly RI 401-315-5070 knickmusic.org
Wed Oct 4 Al Copley Quintet 6:30/7:30-10pm $15 free dance lessons at 7pm
Fri Oct 6 Diane Blue’s All Star Band 7/8pm $20
Sat Oct 7 GA20 7/8pm $20 Blues
Sun Oct 8 Women’s Voices 6 Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez and more Benefit! 1pm doors /2pm-7pm benefits Institute For The Musical Arts Rock and Roll Camp for Girls $15 tax deductible donation
Wed Oct 11 Gary Gramolini & The Grinders 6:30 doors 7:30-10pm music dancing lessons at 7pm $10
Fri Oct 20 Knickerbocker All Stars ft. Brian Templeton and “Monster” Mike Welch 7/8pm $20
The Met 1005 Main St Pawtucket RI 401-729-1005 themetri.com
****Tues Oct 3 New Providence Big Band 6:30/7pm $10
Music Mansion 88 Meeting St, College Hill, Providence RI (@ corner of Congdon St) www.musicmansion.org
Sat Oct 21 “Tish Adams Presents…” Dave Zinno Jazz Trio with Jay Azzolina – guitar & John McKenna – Sax 1-3pm $20 In Advance (available ONLY from me, via PayPal) Please send all payments to: [email protected] $25 @ DOOR, Day of Show – CASH ONLY $10, with STUDENT ID, @ DOOR, Day of Show – CASH ONLY
Narragansett Café 25 Narragansett Ave, Jamestown RI 401-423-2150 narragansettcaferi.com
Fri Oct 6 Brass Force 8-11:30pm
Sat Oct 7 Neal & The Vipers 8-11:30pm
Sun Oct 8 Blue F.O. 4-7pm
Sat Oct 14 Mark Cutler and Men Of Great Courage 8:30-11:55pm
Sun Oct 15 Carl Ricci & 706 Union Band 4-7pm
Narrows Center For The Arts 16 Anawan Street Fall River, MA 508-324-1926 narrowscenter.org
Fri Oct 6 Coco Montoya 7/8pm $45/48 Blues
Sat Oct 7 Larry McCray 7/8pm $33/36 Rust belt blues shouter and guitar slinger
Fri Oct 20 Entrain 7/8pm $33/36
Nick-A-Nee’s 75 South Street Providence RI 401-861-7290
**Marty Ballou & Friends every Tuesday 8pm **
October Music Schedule
*Every Monday The House Combo
**Every Tuesday Marty and Friends
***Every Wednesday The Bluegrass Throwdown (various artists)
Thur. 5th Gary and the G Men
Fri. 6th The Free Radicals
Sat. 7th 4pm Back Porch–9pm Greg Sherrod
Sun. 8th 4pm Geo Trio ****JAZZ
Thur. 12th Thomas Casale
Fri. 13th The Teledynes
Sat. 14th Steve Snuffer and Green Eyed Soul
Sun. 15th 4pm Ginny and The Gin Boys–9pm Common Molly and Balloon Thief
Thu. 19th South Coast Brass Band ****
Fri. 20th Mark Cutler and The Men of Great Courage
Sat. 21st 4pm The Low Key 3–9pm Rory and the Blues Hounds
Sun 22nd 4pm 4th Sunday Jazz
Thur. 26th Fox Force Four plus One
Fri. 27th Molly Maguire
Sat. 28th Nick-a-Nees Halloween Bash with Tanya McIntyre and the Professors
Sun. 29th 4pm 5th Sunday Jazz
The Ocean Mist 895 Matunuck Beach Rd Wakefield oceanmist.net
Sat Oct 7 Big Lux Violin with a Hip-Hop Flare 8:30/9pm $15/20
Sun Oct 15 October Fest With a Polka Band DENNIS POLISKY & THE MAESTRO’S MEN 1-7pm
Fri Oct 27 WUNSCHFEST: Jungle Dogs, The Ravers, Wunsch Box, & More Benefit concert for Vera Wunsch Education Fund 8-12pm $20
The Parlour Providence 1119 N. Main St. Providence, RI 401-383-5858 theparlourri.com
Perro Solado 19 Charles St Newport RI Perro Solado 19 Charles St Newport RI 401-619-4777
Mondays John Monllos 5:30-8:30pm Jazz guitar
Pumphouse Music Works 1464 Kingstown Rd Peace Dale, RI pumphousemusicworks.org
Fri Oct 6 Neil & The Vipers 7/8pm $12 ALL AGES
Sun Oct 15 Rusty Hughes (Jazz Pianist) 6/7pm $20
Sat Oct 28 Funky Submarine (funky Beatles) 7/8pm $10 ALL AGES
The Red Door 49 Peck St Providence 401.753.9800 reddoorpvd.com
** Thank God It’s Monday Jazz Night**
Mon Oct 9 Greg Silva Trio 7-10pm
Thurs Oct 12 John Allmark Quintet 7-10pm
Mon Oct 16 Joe Potenza & Friends 7-10pm
Mon Oct 23 Leland Baker & Friends 7-10pm
The Royal Bobcat 422 Atwells Ave Providence RI [email protected]
Wednesdays Paper Moon Jazz Band 7:30-10pm
Saturdays Kweku Aggrey & Marcus Grant Jazz 8-11pm
Sardella’s Italian Rest 30 Memorial Blvd Newport 401-849-6312
Wednesdays Live Jazz 7pm
The Stadium Theatre 28 Monument Sq Woonsocket RI 401-762-4545 stadiumtheatre.com
Sat Nov 4 Purple Xperience with Marshall Charloff performing Prince $31, $36, $41, $46 8pm
Sat Nov 11 Gunhild Carling Sweden’s Queen Of Swing $31, $36, $41, $46 8pm
The Strand 79 Washington St Providence RI thestrandri.com
Tues Nov 7 Lettuce 7 :30/8 :30pm $35/40 FUNK
Union Station Brewery 36 Exchange Terrace Providence, RI 401-274-2739 unionstationpvd.com
Wednesdays Funk & Jazz Night 8-11pm Soul Pocket with Leland Baker