Date: Fri 18-Apr-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: SHANNON

Illustration: C

Location: A12

Quick Words:

On-The-Road-Graceland-Ladies

Full Text:

ON THE ROAD FOR APRIL 18

Can't make it to Radio 104's Earth Day in the Park/Modern Rock The Earth

concert this Sunday? If it's BARENAKED LADIES (the group...) you want to see

and aren't going to be getting up to Hartford to do so, the band is playing a

quietly-publicized, but open to the public show at Sacred Heart University

next Friday night.

Tickets for the April 25 show are on sale for $20 each, seating is general

admission, and the show starts around 8 pm in the school's gymnasium. Call

SHU's ticket office, 371-7846, for details.

Ten years after the initial release of singer-songwriter PAUL SIMON's

much-celebrated (five Grammys), multi-platinum masterpiece Graceland , Warner

Bros. Records is reissuing the album as an enhanced CD next Tuesday.

The new version will replace the old format and a complete retail conversion

is expected by early summer. The enhanced anniversary edition was developed in

conjunction with Broadway Interactive Group, a multimedia development and

production arm of Broadway Video, New York.

Among the highlights of the new version are video footage from the Graceland

recording sessions; new interviews with Simon, guitarist Ray Phiri and

Ladysmith Black Mambazo's Joseph Shabalala; a gallery of stills and footage

from the Graceland tour, including the finale in Zimbabwe; highlights from

Simon's Graceland -era appearance on "Saturday Night Live" and the "You Can

Call Me Al" video; and Simon's handwritten lyrics to the songs, along with his

track-by-track comments. PC and MAC systems will be able to play the ROM

tracks.

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

Questions and comments concerning "On The Road" (or anything music related)

should be sent to Shannon Hicks, c/o Bee Publishing Co., 5 Church Hill Road,

Newtown 06470, or send me your cyber thoughts at editor @thebee.com (put

Attention Shannon on the subject line). Include a phone number for

confirmation, por favor . If you don't have a stamp or a piece of paper or a

writing utensil that works, give me a call! Phone number at the office is

426-3141. Leave a name, though, because anonymous messages left with the

receptionist don't cut it.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

APRIL 18 - Ani DiFranco at The Palace, New Haven; Foam at Tuxedo Junction,

Danbury;

April 19 - ElectricWater at Bailey's, Monroe; Widespread Panic at The Palace;

Bob Dylan at the University of Hartford; Bellybutton at Tuxedo Junction;

April 20 - Agnostic Front at Tuxedo Junction (all ages, early), The Business,

War Zone, 25 Ta Life and Hatebreed opening; Strutter at Toad's Place, Devlyn

Grace opening; Radio 104 Earth Day in the Park, Bushnell Park, Hartford;

April 21 - Dinosaur Jr at Toad's Place (all ages);

April 22 - Dick Dale at Toad's Place, Big Bad Johns and Mill Valley Taters

opening;

April 24 - WestConn Cabaret at Tuxedo Junction;

April 25 - Wonderama at Tuxedo Junction; Barenaked Ladies at Sacred Heart

University, Fairfield;

April 26 - Paradise Alley at Tuxedo Junction;

April 29 - Warrant at Toad's Place (all ages).

MAY 2 - Marshall Tucker Band at Toad's Place, New Haven, Johnson Building Band

and Center opening;

May 3 - ElectricWater at Wings Cafe/Sikorsky Airport, Stratford; Toybox at

Tuxedo Junction, Danbury;

May 4 - The Jayhawks at Toad's Place, Blue Mountain opening;

May 5 - Sister Machine Gun at Toad's Place (all ages), Groove Fiction Sex

Ceremony opening;

May 6 - Chris Whitley at Toad's Place;

May 7 - Marilyn Manson at the Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, Helmet and

Rasputina opening;

May 8 - The Nields at Tuxedo Junction;

May 9 - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers at Toad's Place, Smokin Opey and

Cross-Eyed Cat opening;

May 10 - Ray Davies at UHartford/Lincoln Theatre;

May 15 - Entrain at Tuxedo Junction; Roomful of Blues at Toad's Place, The

Bandidos and The Bernadettes opening;

May 19 - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at Webster Theatre, Hartford;

May 20 - Collective Soul at the Webster Theatre, Hartford (all ages);

May 30 - The Nerds at Tuxedo Junction.

JUNE 8 - Dave Matthews Band at the Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, Bela Fleck

& The Flecktones opening.

AUGUST 2 - The Who at the Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford;

August 27 - Jimmy Buffett at the Meadows Music Theatre.