’Tis a week of faculty concerts, artists-in-residence, local luminaries, and other close-at-hand talents. Indulge.
Monday, March 9
What Of It?
The major international psychedlic pop band Of Montreal (who actually hail from Athens, Georgia and are part of the storied Elephant 6 collective) is at Toad’s Place tonight, with two other celebrated rock acts: alt-punk arbiters Deerhoof and eclectic guitarist Yonatan Gat. $20. 300 York St. (203) 624-TOAD.
Tuesday, March 10
Hard Folk
A diverse bill of fulsome, ferocious folk and acoustic metal talent at Cafe Nine: Southern folk/punk fusionists Steve Gilbert and Wyley Buck Boswell, the local tough-folkies The Proud Flesh, and a solo set by Dead by Wednesday drummer and local metal icon Opus. 8 p.m. 250 State St. (203) 789‑8281. $6.
Wednesday, March 11
Grace Under Leather
“Amazing Grace,” the first major retrospective of dyed-leather artist Winfred Rembert, has been at other museums — the Hudson River Museum, the Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan, and elsewhere. It comes to the artist’s New Haven hometown, where it will be up for a while at the New Haven Museum (114 Whitney Ave.). Rembert will attend tonight’s opening reception, 5:30 to 8 p.m. (203) 562‑4183.
Twice Lit
Two readings tonight at the historic Institute Library. On the library’s second floor at 6 p.m. there’s “An Evening of Poetry” with Baron Wormser, who was a poet laureate of Maine, and Guilford Poets Guild leader Nancy Meneely. On the third floor at 7 p.m. there’s the latest “Listen Here” reading by members of New Haven Theater Company, hosted by the New Haven Review. The readings tonight are of Marie Bertino’s “North Of” and Betsy Boyd’s “Scarecrow.” Oh, and don’t think you’re missing something cool on the first floor. There is no first floor. 847 Chapel St. (203) 562‑4045.
Thursday, March 12
Camera and Trombone
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra and its current artist-in-residence Chris Brubeck (the trombonist/composer son of Dave Brubeck) present a multimedia tribute to photographer Ansel Adams, plus a world premiere of a different Brubeck composition and also works by Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington. 7:30 p.m. at the Shubert, 247 College St. (203) 865‑0831.
Class Dance
Educational Center for the Arts faculty dance and choreograph their annual “Faculty Repertory” concert, 7 p.m. tonight and March 13 at the ECA Arts Hall, 55 Audubon St. (203) 777‑5451. $5, $20 per group.
Friday, March 13
Beautiful Music in the Neighborhood
Two concerts today in the same neighborhood. Neighborhood Music School instructors Julia Blue Raspe (recorder), Marshall Barron (violin), Phoebe Barron (violin), Rosamund Morley (viola da gamba), Grace Feldman (viola da gamba), and Margaret Ann Martin (keyboards) perform a 12:10 p.m. lunchtime concert of “Dances, Ayres and Fantasias” by Gibbons and Byrd. In the evening, other NMS faculty — violinist Gretchen Frazier, recorder player Lawrence Zukof, clarinettist Reesa Gringorten, cellist Yun-Yang Lin, tuba player Art Hovey, and (once again) pianist Margaret Ann Martin play “Ragtime from Joplin to Jelly Roll” at 7 p.m. 100 Audubon St. (203) 624‑5189.
Saturday, March 14
Black, White and Brownsville
The next mainstage play at the Long Wharf Theater is brownsville song (b‑side for tray). So the main (Ives) New Haven Free Public Library is screening a documentary about the same Brooklyn neighborhood, Brownsville: Black and White, 2 p.m. in the Community Program Room. Tom Ficklin and Natalia Xiomara-Chieffo host a post-screening discussion. 133 Elm St. (203) 946‑8130.
Sunday, March 15
Sage Stage
The smart, sinuous, singer-songwriter-poet-rapper Sage Francis is at Toad’s Place with New Haven-based multiinstrumentalist rapper Ceschi (who is releasing his new CD tonight), the Brooklyn duo Metermaids, Arizona acoustic punk Pat the Bunny, and Midwestern-born New York singer-songwriter Brook Pridemore.
Parade Day
The Greater New Haven St. Patrick’s Day Parade marches bagpipers, politicians, radio DJs, beauty queens, police officers, firefighters, and hundreds of other folks down Chapel Street, starting at Sherman Avenue at 1:30 p.m. and ending over by Orange and Grove.
