*Fans of Irish music, here’s some good news: First, EILEEN IVERS will be at Crowell Concert Hall, on the campus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, on September 12. Ivers will be playing the 441-seat on the Friday evening of a weekend-long event, the Wesleyan Celtic Routes Festival, which will also offer performances on Thursday by Mick Moloney with Jerry O’Sullivan and Dana Lyn, and then performances on Saturday by 2in2 at 4 pm and then Liz Carroll, John Williams and Dean Magraw at 8.

Tickets for Ivers’s show, which starts at 8, are $18 for adults, and $16 for senior citizens and students. Tickets for the other concerts are about the same. Call 860-685-3355 or send email to BoxOffice@Wesleyan.edu for details.

Workshops will also be part of the festival, including a fiddling workshop with Liz Carroll, a guitar workshop with Dean Magraw and a flute workshop with John Williams, all at 2 Saturday afternoon. An Irish Seisun, or jam session, led by P.V. O’Donnell will also take place, with anyone from the campus and community invited to join the fiddler for a free open event at Wesleyan’s World Music Hall. Use the phone number or email address above for details.

The second part of my good news this week is that The Bushnell has released its schedule for 2003-04 and on the Hartford venue’s calendar is a March 11 concert by the band. Tickets for the 8 pm show are on sale and range from $25 to $45 apiece. Contact the Bushnell at 860-987-5900 or www.Bushnell.org.

*Just a reminder for you that Newtown-based MARY BETH SIPPIN AND GOLDRUSH has the closing concert tonight for this year’s Brookfield Town Hall Summer Concert Series. Showtime is 6:30, the concert will run until about 9 pm, and there’s no admission charge. The band performs “high energy acoustic country music.” The town hall is at 100 Pocono Road, just off Route 25.

*radio 104’s next Five Bands For Five Bucks show at The Webster Theater in Hartford is coming up on September 5 and will feature LESS THAN JAKE headlining, along with Reliant K, Yellowcard and Drunkin’ Beer Nuts on the bill. The fifth band is still being decided upon, apparently.

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 club locations are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

AUGUST 22 — Fiend Fest featuring The Misfits and The Damned at Toad’s Place, New Haven, also The Dickies, Balzac, Agnostic Front and DI opening (all ages); Fred Eaglesmith Band at The Acoustic Café, Bridgeport; Lucky Peterson Organization at Black-Eyed Sally’s BBQ & Blues Café, Hartford; Adrian Legg at Towne Crier Café, Pawling, N.Y., Buzz Turner opening;

August 23 — Them Bones at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury; The Zambonis at The Acoustic Café; Bile and Nocturne at The Webster Theatre, Hartford, Tragedie Ann opening; Toni Lynn Washington Band at Black-Eyed Sally’s; Ra at Toad’s Place, Side Project and Hedcase opening (all ages);

August 24 — Sevendust at Toad’s Place (all ages); Hall & Oates and Kenny Loggins at careerbuilder.com Oakdale Theatre;

August 25 — Steely Dan at Mohegan Sun Arena;

August 26 — Anthrax at The Webster Theatre, Lacuna Coil and E-Town Concrete opening;

August 27 — Melissa Etheridge at careerbuilder.com Oakdale Theatre;

August 28 — Def Leppard at careerbuilder.com Oakdale Theatre; Twizted at The Webster Theatre, Marz, Matt Zane and Society One opening; Mystic Bowie & The Uplifters at Black-Eyed Sally’s;

August 29 — Darik & The Funbags at Toad’s Place, Ink opening (all ages); Glen Roth, Kevin Ryan & Aaron Brady at The Acoustic Café; Walter “Wolfman” Washington at Black-Eyed Sally’s; Tubesteak, Hether Deep, C4 and Core Release at The Webster Theater;

August 30 — The Zoo at Tuxedo Junction; The Tim Sather Band at The Acoustic Café; Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice at Black-Eyed Sally’s; James Cotton Blues Band at Towne Crier Café, Pawling, NY;

August 30-31 — Dave Matthews Band at Meadows Music Centre; Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen at Towne Crier Café;

August 31 — CT Blues Society Blues Challenge finals at Black-Eyed Sally’s featuring Shorty & TheAll-Stars, Hoodoo Blues Band, Jim Shipley Band, Groove Blenders, Ryan Hartt & The Blue Hearts, and Larry Wiley & The Blues Talkers.

SEPTEMBER 3 — Meat Loaf at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Cyndi Lauper opening;

September 4 — Grover Dill at Toad’s Place, New Haven (all ages); Julianna Theory at The Webster Theater, Hartford, Count The Stars, Punchline and Hopesfail opening;

September 5 — Peter Frampton at The Fox Theatre/Foxwoods Casino; SideShow at Captain’s Cove, Bridgeport; Ol’ Dirty Bastard at Toad’s Place (all ages); radio 104 Five Bands For Five Bucks at The Webster Theater with Less Than Jake, Reliant K, Yellowcard, Drunkin Beer Nuts (and fifth band, TBA);

September 6 — Crosby, Stills & Nash at careerbuilder.com Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford; John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band at CityCenter Green, Danbury (rain location Ives Concert Hall); Mariah Carey at The Fox Theatre/Foxwoods Casino; Billy Bob Thornton at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den, Uncasville; Reach 454 at The Webster Theater;

September 7 — Spam Brando at CityCenter Green (follows performances by Catholic War Veterans Drum Corps & US Coast Guard Band Masters of Swing, closing concert of Summertime Festival 2003; no rain location); Maceo Parker at The Webster Theatre, Dreamswell and Sister Funk opening; Billy Idol at The Fox Theatre/Foxwoods Café;

September 9 — Tommy Stinson & The Figs at Toad’s Place, New Haven; Julianna Theory at The Webster Theatre, Count The Stars and Punchline opening.

September 10 — Steely Dan at the Oakdale Theatre;

September 11 — Anthem at Black-Eyed Sally’s BBQ & Blues Café, Hartford;

September 12 — Mariah Carey at the Oakdale Theatre; Saves The Day and Taking Back Sunday at The Webster Theater; From Autumn To Ashes at Toad’s Place, Cave In, Every Time I Die and Funeral For A Friend opening (all ages); Sam Cockrell & The Groove at Black-Eyed Sally’s;

September 13 — An Acoustic Evening: Carpenter, Colvin, Griffin & Williams at The Fox Theatre/Foxwoods, featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin & Dar Williams; SideShow at Shenanigan’s, South Norwalk; Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Heather Hardy at Black-Eyed Sally’s;

September 14 — Fighting Gravity at The Webster Theatre, Stephanian, Far From Here, Raine and Brown Couch opening;

September 16 — Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at Rentschler Field, East Hartford (tickets on sale August 9); Sizzla at Toad’s Place (all ages);

September 19 — John Valby at Toad’s Place; Vonda Shepard at The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and Performing Arts, Ridgefield; Anthony Gomes at Black-Eyed Sally’s;

September 20 — SideShow at Shenanigan’s, South Norwalk;

September 24 — Skid Row at The Webster Theatre, Roadhouse opening;

September 26 — Credence Clearwater Revisited at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den (also Sept 27); The Nerds at Toad’s Place; Johnnie Marshall at Black-Eyed Sally’s;

September 27 — Credence Clearwater Revisited at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Ill Nino at The Webster Theater, Spineshank, 40 Below Summer and Scrape opening;

September 28 — The Bacon Brothers at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den;

September 30 — The Starting Line at The Webster Theatre, Homegrown, The Early November, Senses Fail and Alister opening.