Here at Klekolo, we are bustling with holiday preparations.
This year Thanksgiving falls on November 28th.
Yes, we are open stop in
for coffee between your family traditions and bring some with you to share.
One of our traditions is to recognize what we are thankful for.
Here at Klekolo World Coffee, we are thankful for a lot
including and not limited to:
YOU and your participation in this community experience that is a coffee house.
All of our friends and customers.
Everyday conversations and connections.
Imagination and creativity inspired by you!
Our Amazing bakers and their delicious talents.
All the talented musicians who have shared their sound with us!
Each Artist who has featured their creativity on our walls.
Our Skilled Roasters and the experiences that brought us together.
The small farm farmers that grow our beans with love and care.
First Church, Youngs Printing and our symbiotic relationships.
Hajjar management team and the maintenance crew that takes care of us.
Each other and everyone who has worked here.
“I am pieces of all the places I have been, and all the people I have Loved. I’ve been stitched together by Song lyrics, book quotes, adventure, late night conversations, moonlight and the smell of coffee” Brooke Hampton
Thank you!
May your celebrations, friends, family and Holidays feed your soul.
Autumnal brilliance and Samhain’s intensity bring this season in with beautiful colors and introspective thoughts.
Halloween is Klekolo World Coffee’s favorite holiday! I mean we serve Witches Brews and warlocks all year long keeping the spirit alive. Klekolo is often described as Goddess or Witch centric and well we are. Concocting drinks has always been a potions class.
“When Witches go riding and black cats are seen, The Moon laughs and whispers tis near Halloween.”
Klekolo has several events left this month including :
“Children accompanied by their parents are invited to “trick or treat” All participating businesses and offices will have a poster displayed in their window”
Come in costumes and bring your own candy bag to fill!
We Love Halloween! Do stop in and check out our decor and try our new fall menu! This menu includes some wild stuff, apples, pumpkins, dragon’s fire, pirate treasure, spiders, headless horsemen and more. Our naturally flavored Organic, Fairtrade pumpkin spice coffee is on tap too!
Maps will be available at the gazebo on the South Green in Union Park and on our city website on Friday, October 18th. http://www.cityofmiddletown.co
October 22nd – Tuesday sessions 7pm – 9pm
Robert C Fullerton Live at Klekolo!
Robert C Fullerton – singer/songwriter
” everything is “looked at through blue eyes” – a touch of jazz, blues, a little bit of soul.
Robert’s interpretations and Originals are his own style of “Acoustic SouL” http://www.rcfullerton.com/
October 29th – Tuesday sessions 7pm – 9pm
Someone You Can Xray Acoustic Live!
“….Someone You Can Xray offers sonic touchstones summoning pleasant aural images of Hot Tuna, It’s a Beautiful Day, and Jerry Goodman if he got left off the Mahavishnu Orchestra tour bus and joined the Tedeschi-Trucks Band.”
– Rick Koster, The Day https://www.someoneyoucanxray.com/
October 31st – Thursday 7pm – 9pm
Halloween Party- Time Of Day with Glen Carta acoustic!
Acoustic Musicians and a Halloween party!
Costume contest Prizes Lots of fun!
A bit of Halloween lore….
Samhain is the Irish word often used for this season.
The name of the feast from which Halloween originated.
Samhain is pronounced SOW-in, with the first syllable rhyming with “cow” (or, if you prefer, with “sow” as in a female pig).
Samhain means Summers end.
According to Celtic lore, Samhain is a time when the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead become thinner, allowing spirits and other supernatural entities to pass between the worlds to socialize with humans. It is the time of the year when ancestors and other departed souls are especially honored.
“Every day is Halloween isn’t it ? For some of us!” Tim Burton
Low Ceilings has 8 Cd’s out since Jan. 2015. The Newest a Solo release was May 2018.
I believe Low Ceilings is working on another CD already!
“Low Ceilings is an indie-folk project currently based in Windsor, CT. While the group has taken many forms over the years, its core has always been Ben Mueller, who writes the songs; produces, records, and mixes the albums; and handles guitar and vocals live.
Low Ceilings’ recordings tactfully straddle the line between lush production value and intimate, basementy lo-fi in a way that only a college career in the Boston DIY scene could make possible.
While attending Emerson College, Mueller, a Connecticut native, started the group with some friends and released an EP and two full-lengths as a full band.
Boston, a veritable cornucopia of music venues formal and informal, gave them plenty of room to play.
They belted their folky rock with a progressive tilt everywhere they could: basements, bars, living rooms, and venues like Club Passim, Club Bohemia, and The Middle East.
Since then, the band has also performed across New England, notably in an empty swimming pool in Nashua, NH; The Met in Pawtucket, RI; and Cafe Nine in New Haven,
CT. Digital Wheat Paste’s TJ Foster called their self-titled LP
“tremendously impressive record…songs that somehow sound intimately lo-fi and carefully polished all at the same time.”
After finishing school and moving back to Windsor,
Low Ceilings became a Mueller solo project.
The 5-song EP Least Favored Painting, out May 1st 2018, is the first release since the change. And change is good:
CT Scramble wrote of the EP that
“throughout its almost beachside strummings, there is a weary urban beat mysticism that permeates its mood, weighing down what could be easily sunny pop songs with something more literary, wistful, and vibey.”
Mueller is currently performing solo
and working up to the next Low Ceilings full-length.”
“Alex Forest is a Country Singer/Songwriter with southern roots stationed out of New England. His baritone melodies infused with nostalgic hometown lyrics provide a unique experience that listeners of all genres can appreciate. Influenced by 20th and 21st century artists, you can find elements of Sinatra to Cash to Sheeran within Alex’s music, making him what most likely could be called a Country Crooner with a Bleeding Heart
Alex traverses through the North East creating stories that are evident within his song writing. Life lessons, lost loves, and other experiences are constantly shaping his sound. His latest project, his debut EP: L.O.V.E., is where he puts words to song about breakups, hometowns, and crappy cars. In September 2018, Alex was invited to be a Vineyard Vines Club Artist at Fenway Park in Boston, MA. This past winter and spring Alex was nominated as a Best Country Artist, Singer-Songwriter, and Overall Artist for CTNOW and Best of Hartford Magazine 2019.” From Alex’s Website
Alex is a new Musician for Klekolo we are happy to check his work out.
Matt & The Skeleton Crew just started their first Tour
STILL STRANGERS
on the East Coast this Month.
Klekolo Is the second stop on this tour
8/7/19 – Wednesdday @ 7pm. @klekolo
Odds & Ends was released in January this year and is getting wonderful reviews!
“Matt and the Skeleton Crew has crafted an album that, like some of the best, synthesizes drastically different genres into something silky smooth and beautiful in all the right ways.”
-The Lowell Spin
Oceans – wow this song hit me as so smooth and settled inside in a way that makes me want to listen on replay for days. Very visual and lyrically emotional!
Matt & The Skeleton Crew
Massachusetts based Indie/Pop-Rock band
Matt Silverstein – singer, songwriter, guitar, instrumentalist, mixer
with him this tour is
Christian Henderson – drums
Teddy Murphy – bass
Bryant Clark – Guitar
Cal Hamandi – Key boards
Matt creates songs that blend imaginative arrangements with memorable melodies and clever, yet intimate lyrics. These artistically crafted lyrics and melodies will have you tapping your feet and eventually singing along.
Rumor has it these guys will be working on their
first full length Album this fall!
For more info check out this interview from Musicians Interviewing Musicians
Find out where Matt & the skeleton crew are next and what is up on their
Thank you, Rodrigo Flores, for your photo!
Photo from Low Ceilings Facebook page
