*Bilingual singer-songwriter-pianist PORTER will have the Friday night timeslot at Mocha Coffee House this weekend. She will be at the Sandy Hook coffee house on August 15 from 7:30 to 10 pm.

Saturday night should bring some interesting music and other sounds to the Glen Road venue, when  UNDERSTATEMENT visits Mocha along with guest Kevin Luis. The show will offer acoustic, punk, rock, experimental and lyrical performances, and will also run 7:30 to 10 pm.

*Also this week a reminder that TONY SUMMO and LOU BELLOFATTO will play at 100 Church Hill as OLD SCHOOL, performing a mix of classic rock and oldies, tomorrow night. The August 16 show will start around 9:30.

Tony and Lou will be playing as a duo, but will be bringing along custom recorded tracks that give them the sound of a full band.

“Lou [will be] on keyboards and I play guitair,” Tony said via email this week. “We both sing lead and were in the popular regional band STEEPLECHASE that performed four to five nights a week from 1976 to 1982 in the tri-state area.”

Tony has lived in Newtown and Sandy Hook for 22 years, and was the manager of Newtown Hardware for 20 years before leaving that gig in 2003. Lou is a professional studio musician and producer who most recently performed with Carly Simon and worked on the film Across the Universe.

Their Old School repertoire covers everything from the Beatles to the Stones, Billy Joel to Chicago, Hendrix to Stevie Ray Vaughn, and includes 60s soul like Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, and Otis Redding “for the dancing crowd,” said Tony.

*Newtown resident and musician DARIA MUSK has a special show in store for this afternoon (Friday), and if you can get down to McLevy Green in Bridgeport for 6 pm you’ll see her opening for her folk rock hero.

This comes two weeks after Daria had been invited to play two shows during the 32nd annual SoNo Arts Festival back on August 2-3 (she played both of her shows on the same day, by the way).

Daria has the opening set for tonight’s Summer Sounds of the World concert performance, which will feature PATTY LARKIN as its headliner. This will be the second of three concerts in the 11th annual series, which is presented by Black Rock Art Center. Larissa DeLorenzo is also scheduled to perform an opening set.

The concert series will continue next week, when ODETTA performs the season finale. Showtime is also 6 pm, and the performance will begin with a set by Renard Boissiere.

*Tickets will be going on sale next weekend for a concert by REBA McENTIRE and KELLY CLARKSON, who will be at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport on Saturday, November 1. The singers are planning a tour that will have both women on the stage at the same time, for a combined non-stop show.

Prices have been set at $52.50 and $64.50 for this show, and tickets will be available through TicketMaster vendors and the arena’s box office. There is an eight ticket limit.

*RICHIE HAVENS has a pair of shows in the area this month, beginning this weekend with a show at The Towne Crier Café just over the state line in Pawling, N.Y. The folk singer and guitarist will be there on Saturday, August 16. Showtime is 9 pm, and tickets are $40 and $5 apiece.

Havens, who just released his 30th album, Nobody Left to Crown, will then be at Mohegan Sun Casino’s Wolf Den for a pair of shows on Monday and Tuesday, August 25 and 26. Wolf Den shows are free, but early arrival is always suggested due to the limited seating.

*Tickets will reportedly be on sale this weekend for blues veteran BONNIE RAITT’s return to Connecticut. Raitt has added an October 10 show in Connecticut to her recently-extended tour schedule and while her website says tickets will be on sale Friday morning at 9, it doesn’t offer ticket prices nor does it specify whether this will be in the Fox Theater or the grand spankin’ new MGM Grand at Foxwoods.

*BROOKS & DUNN, who have been a pretty major force in country music since their breakthrough album (Brand New Man) in 1991, will be at Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, October 4. The 8 pm show will also feature sets by Chris Cagle and James Otto, and tickets are going on sale this morning (August 15).

Tickets are $55, $75 and $90, and will be available through TicketMaster for 24 hours. Starting Saturday the tickets will also be available through the arena’s box office.

Until next week I’ll be seeing you... on the road.

Questions and comments should be sent to Shannon Hicks c/o The Newtown Bee, 5 Church Hill Road, Newtown CT 06470, or shannon@thebee.com, or call the office at 426-3141. Shows listed at clubs are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING SHOWS

AUGUST 15 — Porter at Mocha Coffee House, Sandy Hook; Maroon 5 and Counting Crows at Dodge Music Center, Hartford, with special guest Sara Bareilles; Judas Priest and Heaven and Hell at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville; Herbie Hancock at The Klein Memorial Auditorium, Bridgeport; Otis & The Hurricanes at Georgetown Saloon, Redding;

August 16 — Tony Summo and Lou Bellofatto (performing as Old School) at 100 Church Hill, Sandy Hook; Understatement with Kevin Luis at Mocha Coffee House; The Mayhem Festival at Dodge Music Center featuring Slipknot, Disturbed, Dragonforce, et al; Andrea & the Armenian Rug Riders at Georgetown Saloon;

August 17 — Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick at Mohegan Sun Arena; Jason Michael Carroll at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

August 18 — Soul Asylum at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

August 20 — The Allman Brothers Band and Bob Weir & RatDog at Dodge Music Center; Eddie Money at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Fen (also August 21);

August 21 — John Voket at The Brass House Restaurant & Lounge, Waterbury; Eddie Money at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

August 22 — Rascal Flatts with Taylor Swift at Dodge Music Center; Hal Ketchum & Aztec Two-Step at The Ridgefield Playhouse; The Beach Boys at Mohegan Sun Arena; Skid Row at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Guthrie Boys’ Night Out Tour at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo;

August 23 — John Mayer at Dodge Music Center with special guest One Republic; Daughtry at MGM Grand at Foxwoods, Ledyard; The Zoo at Toad’s Place, New Haven (all ages);

August 24 — Mötley Crüe at Mohegan Sun Arena, Buckcherry opening;

August 25 — Richie Havens at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den (also August 26);

August 26 — Richie Havens at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

August 27 — Badfish at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

August 28 — John Voket at The Brass House Restaurant & Lounge; Dion at Mohegan Sun’s Cabaret Theatre (nightly through August 31); Colin Hay at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

August 29 — Dion at Mohegan Sun’s Cabaret Theatre;

August 30 — Paramore at The Chevrolet Theatre, with Jack’s Mannequin and Phantom Planet opening; Dion at Mohegan Sun’s cabaret Theatre;

August 31 — Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo at The Klein Memorial Auditorium; Kid Rock & Lynyrd Skynyrd at Dodge Music Center; John Voket and Brendan Walsh at Rosy Tomorrows, Danbury; Dion at Mohegan Sun’s Cabaret Theatre.