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January 2006 –
Worcester’s dance scene just got a lot hotter with Club Caliente, 816 Main Street, offering four steaming theme nights in a “Miami-style setting.” Their “Sexy Thursdays” feature house, techno, hip-hop, R & B, reggae, and reggaeton sounds. “Fridays on Fire” have hot hip-hop, R & B, reggae, reggaeton and Latin music with “Sizzling Saturdays” bringing the house down with non-stop salsa, merengue, bachata, and reggaeton. For anyone still standing, “Scorching Sundays” have a hot cumbia, ballenato, Tex-Mex, and salsa flavor. Admission is $5 and the club’s promising special promotions and prizes every night, starting with its logo-imprinted flashing cup bearing its signature “Caliente” drink. Doors open at 10 p.m., 8 p.m. on Sundays. Ladies get in for free on Thursday and Sunday nights and before 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
The original Rovezzi’s Ristorante on Route 20 in Sturbridge now hosts guitarist Nunzio Rosselli every Wednesday night from 6 to 9 p.m. Rosselli, who graduated from the Berklee College of Music and performs on a Hill Madrid classical guitar, can be heard playing his mix of classical and improvisational music on his self-released CD “Beyond the Causeway,” which you can sample on his web site, nunziorosselli.com.
Andy Rome, the former owner of Leominster’s highly successful Club Liquid who recently purchased House of Brews, 16 Putnam Street in Fitchburg, hopes to receive the license transfer in January and rename his new acquisition Club Karma. The venue currently features a Latin night with merengue, salsa, and bachata sounds on Wednesday, hip-hop dance music Thursday through Saturday, and Alternative Night on Sundays. “We are still tweaking the schedules and a lot is subject to change, but right now that’s where we are,” Rome says.Stay tuned.
Dana Wright & Friends, who include saxophonist Andrew Hickman, acoustic bassist Phillip Madison, and drummer Tony Dintino, have settled into a regular Thursday night gig at Zipango’s, 270 Shrewsbury Street in Worcester. Led by former Sleepless Knight Wright on guitar, the all-instrumental group starts the night with jazz standards before entertaining the post-dinner crowd with a cross-section of rock, funk and blues. “The material is quite varied,” Wright says. “We go from Cole Porter, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus to James Brown, The Meters, and Frank Zappa.” They perform from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., so stop in and check them out.
Me & The Kid will be alternating with Cowboy Matt & Butterfly Joe in hosting the Tuesday night singer/songwriter open mic at the Java Hut, 1073A Main Street near Webster Square. The bi-weekly Youth Poetry Workshop and Reading, which will he held this month on January 2, 16 and 30 and hosted by Mareh Labenski, will continue to alternate with Sou MacMillan’s Monday Mini-Readings. MacMillan also hosts the Shakti Women’s Writing Workshop every Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5p.m. and shares in the Sunday night Poets Asylum host duties with Jon Wolf. Def Poetry Jam’s Jive Poetic will be stopping by on January 22.
