*CHARISMA has a show tonight at J.C. Hooks Bar & Grill. This venue is at 550 Chase Avenue in Waterbury (right next to Carmen Anthony’s; telephone 203-755-3632). The six-member band promises live music that will make its audience get up and dance. Showtime is 9:30 pm. Band bios and other details are available at www.geocities.com/CharismaBandCT.

*A benefit concert for the victims of the fire at The Station back in February is being planned at The Webster Theatre in Hartford next weekend. As mentioned last week the show will include sets from national and local acts; this week The Webster’s website is listing DOUBLEDRIVE, STEPHEN PEARCY, GARGANTUA SOUL, BRAND NEW SIN and 6 GIG as participants. The June 29 show is also expected to include an all-star jam with members of CINDERELLA.

Equipment and collectible raffles will also be held and will feature items from ZAKK WYLDE, OZZY and NIGHT RANGER’s BRAD GILLIS, POISON, SOIL, DREAM THEATER, and more. All money collected during the event will be forwarded to The Rhode Island Foundation, to be distributed to Rhode Island charities for the victims.

Check the club’s website, www.WebsterTheater.com or call its box office, 860-525-5553, for details. I’ll add whatever I can to this notice in next week’s column.

*Also coming up at The Webster are shows by O-TOWN, direct from MTV, tomorrow night; DEREK TRUCKS BAND, July 16, with Tony Furtado & The Feed opening; and STRANGEFOLK, July 17, with Midnight Jamboree opening.

*Tickets for a show called Rock Never Stops… featuring WHITESNAKE, WARRANT, SLAUGHTER and KIP WINGER, which stops at The Meadows in Hartford on July 12, are on sale, priced at $15 for the lawn, $27.50 and $45 for reserved/pavilion seating.

*BLONDIE will be performing at Mohegan Sun Arena on July 3. Tickets, at $33 and $49.50, are available through the arena’s box office, 800-200-2882.

*For those of you who, like me, will be out of town the weekend of July 13 and will therefore miss THE BLUE MAN GROUP when it plays the Oakdale Theatre there’s good news this week: The show will be at Mohegan Sun Arena two nights later. Tickets for the July 15 show are $20 and $35, and on sale.

*Tickets for THE BEACH BOYS at Mohegan Sun Arena will be going on sale next Wednesday morning. The perpetual boys of summer will be in Uncasville on August 5; tickets are priced at $33 and $38.50. Contact the arena’s box office by calling 800-200-2882.

*Also on sale next week, on Thursday morning, will be the tickets for INDIA.ARIE, who will be performing at Mohegan Sun Arena on August 7. Tickets for that show are set at $27.50 and $38.50. THE DOOBIE BROTHERS will also have tickets going on sale Thursday morning. Their show, on August 13, has ticket prices of $38.50 and $55.

*Going on sale in a few weeks will be the tickets for a headlining show by STEVE WINWOOD, also at Mohegan Sun Arena. Winwood will be performing in Uncasville on Friday, August 8; tickets will be going on sale at 8 am Tuesday, July 1, priced at $44 and $55. Use the box office number in the previous listings for ticket purchases.

*Show dates for MARIAH CAREY’s revamped tour of North America (which has been rearranged to include more intimate venues than her original scheduled was calling for) was released this week and includes a September 12 at the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford. Most shows on this tour, being called The Charmbracelet Tour 2003 – An Intimate Evening,” are going on sale June 21.

According to a press release, Carey is asking fans to help her decide each night’s set list. Fans can vote for their favorites via her official website (www.MariahCarey.com) or her recently launched Honey B. Fly Fan Club (www.monarc.com/MariahCarey/HoneyBFly).

*The music of JUNE CARTER CASH isn’t the genre usually included in this column, but it’s (a) something that I’ve enjoyed and (b) something that’s been influential on generations of music lovers and musicians that I wanted to close this week’s column with the note that Dualtone Records has announced it will be releasing Wildwood Flower, a new album JCC has recorded shortly before her death last month, on September 9. 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

JUNE 20 — Off The Hook at Carl Anthony’s, Monroe; Julia DeMato & New York Soul at The Colorado Brewery, Danbury (18+ show); E.Tow Concrete at The Empress Ballroom, Danbury, Dioxide (and others) opening; Charisma at J.C. Hooks Bar & Grill, Waterbury; Charlie Daniels Band at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den, Uncasville; John Valby at Toad’s Place, New Haven; Christina Abbott at The Studio at Stamford Center for the Arts; Hieroglyph and Green Inside at The Acoustic Café, Black Rock; Debbie Davies Band at Black-Eyed Sally’s BBQ & Blues Café, Hartford; Orrin Bolton at The Annex, New Haven, Rough Mixx opening; Amy Fradon at Towne Crier Café, Pawling, N.Y.;

June 21 — The Dead with Steve Winwood at Meadows Music Centre, Hartford; Willie Nelson at Ives Concert Park, Danbury; The Beautiful Mistake and Fallout Boy at The Empress Ballroom, The Posterchild, Tribute To Home, et al opening; Christina Abbott at The Acoustic Café, Black Rock/Bridgeport, Russell Wolff opening (official CD release party for Abbott); Side Show and Hot Lunch at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury; Reckoning at The Colorado Brewery, Reckoning Acoustic opening (18+ show); Talib Kweli at Toad’s Place (all ages); Club Lucy at The Webster Theatre, Hartford; Bill Perry Band at Black-Eyed Sally’s BBQ & Blues Café;

June 22 — CT Blues Society Blues Challenge at Black-Eyed Sally’s BBQ & Blues Café featuring The Hoodoo Band, Gina Gunn & The Bullets, and Larry Wiley & The Bluestalkers;

June 23 — Maroon 5 and Jason Mraz at The Webster Theatre, Frankie Perez opening (all ages);

June 24 — Wilco and Sonic Youth at Oakdale Theatre;

June 25 — Rock The Mic 2003 at the Meadows, featuring Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Fabolous; Third World at Toad’s Place (all ages); Los Platinos at Tuxedo Junction, Bomb Squad and Fuzz opening;

June 26 — Tom Crowley Band at The Acoustic Café;

June 27 — Off The Hook at Proud Mary’s, Newtown; Lucinda and Promize at CityCenter Green, Danbury (7:30 show, no rain location); Halfbrass at The Colorado Brewery; Kicked In The Head at The Empress Ballroom, Slim Pickins, The Pelicans, et al opening; Sol Dog at The Red Door Café, Watertown.

; The Stephen Gaspar Band at The Acoustic Café; Walter Trout & The Radicals at Black-Eyed Sally’s BBQ & Blues Café; Base 2 CD release party at The Webster Theatre, with Noledge, Side Effect, Lesson, Rise and Subtle Mischief.