Let's Welcome C.C. Arshagra to the Middletown Music Festival Emcee Crew!

The 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival, August 8-9 @ Middlesex Community College

C.C. Arshagra 

• Poet of the Year, Boston/Cambridge Poetry Awards (Voted top 3 in State of MA Open Mike Ballot System)-nomination 2001
• Best Poetry Publication, Boston/Cambridge Poetry Awards 2001  “What Manner of Character” Book 3 of “The Open Mike Poems’ chapbook series
• Marcel Kopp Award, Boston Poetry Awards 2000 (A one of a kind award) Created and presented to C.C. Arshagra by famed satirist Jimmy Tingle for “Poet Who Participates Most in the Open Mikes” 
• Producer’s Award, Cambridge Community TV, 1998-00 
• Skilled poet/jazz collaborator:
• With’ Zen Bastards’ Approx. 2001-03
• With ‘ Ken Field’s Jazz Jam Ensemble” 2000-05
• A 3 time “Featured Poet” with Jeff Robinson Trio’s Poetry Jazz Jam - Approx. 1999-2004
• Recording artist:
• With recording artist Kemp Harris, “Freedom of Speech” Little Dog Records, MA
• With recording artists Brian Haley, Keiffer Infantino, Dennis Sullivan, “The Jew Christian Muslim Song”, Plan 9, MA - Band: “C.C. Arshagra and the Say”
• With Recording Artists Alvin B. Carter Jr., Orice Jenkins, Mel Hsu, Monique Jarvis, “With You”, Riverway Studio, CT Ira Sakolsky, Grammy nominated composer/arranger
• Director/producer: local access TV shows: 
• “XY Eli Dance Party”, HCT, Hartford CT Early 1980s
• “The Worlds On”, SCAT, Somerville, MA Late 1980s
• “Stone Soup Poet”, CCTV, Cambridge, MA 1998-00
• Radio show producer, “The Divide & Conquer News Report” 20014-15 Season 1
• Radio show producer/host/spoken mind poet, “The I Do Not Know Show” 2012 – (Current)
• WESU 88.1 FM Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
• Author:
• Poems 1996 and Emotional Geography 1996
• 3 part “The Open Mike Poems” chapbook series: 1. Scared Sacred, 2.  Death of an Ego, 3. What Manner of Character
• 4 CD experiment set of Spoken Mind Poetry “The ID (Inkless Dialogue) Poems” Vol. 1
• Producer/founder: TheHumanRoom & TheOpenVoice
• a two tiered organic arts, free speech, and activist venue concept
• Founder: CulturalCommunicationArts
• Veteran Open Mike featured poet, reader, performer; and collaborator
• Publisher: press22publishing
• Professional lyric writer
• Appeared in a documentary ”Who Owns Jack Kerouac” by Jack Shea 
• Trained Contact Improvisation (CI) movement artist
• Owner/designer/decorator: South Main Upholstering Co., New Britain CT (Pre-Artist life)
• New Britain, CT native, and returned current resident after traversing the world in search of art

HannaH's Field LIVE at The 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival August 8-9 @ Middlesex Community College!!

"I love this song and the story it tells. Take your time to be still, to be the natural you. I am proud to be a part of this video!" J Cherry

Catch HannaH's Field at the 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival this weekend Saturday and Sunday @ Middlesex Community College. You can see HannaH's Field on Sunday @ 3:45 on the Cedar Grove Stage. TWO stages. TWO days!! LIVE and LOCAL... this is GREAT music!!

DRUM CIRCLE! The 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival on August 8-9 kicks off with a COMMUNITY DRUM CIRCLE!

Blessing The Cedar Grove with DRUMS!! 

Drum Circle with

Andrew Prue! 

CEDAR GROVE

Middlesex Community College

100 Training Hill Rd
Middletown, CT

DRUMMING @ 1PM 

Andrew handmade many of the drums in his collection! 

The 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival, August 8-9 @ Middlesex Community College

Mr. Sparks & JCherry

East of the River artists and producers, JCherry and Tim Sparks, of Portland are at it again with the 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival at Middlesex Community College, Saturday and Sunday, August 8-9. Two stages and two days of music. Brought to you by JCherry Presents,  with support from the Middletown Commission on the Arts, Middlesex Community College, and WESU 88.1FM. 

The festival will take place in the Cedar Grove at Middlesex Community College. In case of rain the festival will be held indoors at Founders Hall. There will be local vendors, local food, yoga, belly dancing, hula hooping, outdoor games and lots of dancing.We are excited to have Middletown Art Academy provide live art painting!

This year we have another stellar line up with thirteen bands, and six acoustic acts. Stage times are scheduled so that you can catch all of you’re favorite artists. On Saturday you can catch, Jennifer Hill, gigglejuice, JCherry & The Strawberries, Someone You Can Xray, Joey Batts & Them, SuperTrance, and StraddleDaddy on the Cedar Grove Stage, and Robert C. Fullerton, Julia Autumn Ford, and Erica Lynn, on the Acoustic Stage. 

Sunday catch Kalimur,, Randomizer, The Terry Rand Band, Hannah’s Field, The Balkun Brothers, and The Michael Cleary Band on The Cedar Grove Stage, and Joe Paresi, Rust’d Keys, and Seat Of Our Pants, on The Acoustic Stage. Tune into VOICE of the CITY airing on WESU 88.1FM, Tuesday nights from 8-9PM to catch a preview of the 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival. Also visit jcherrypresents.com for artists bios, videos, and all festival information. Live and local… this is one great festival! 

Contact:

Jennifer Shafer Wood 

860.770.4111

JCherry and Tim Sparks of Portland, producers of the The Middletown Music Festival

Sympetalous... the Poet... Man of many words is part of the Emcee crew!! The 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival, August 8-9 @ Middlesex Community College

Sympetalous

Capricorn born, Wonderbread raised in a long ago time of Apple Pie Mom and a rusted ol' 2 tone Chevrolet, Stan the Man came of age in the 60s, partied thru the 70s, buckled down in the 80s, raised a family in the 90s, then re-configured for a new millenium, so dubbed Sympetalous: a million spoken words emerge, grace the aire, the occasional ear, but nary a published page (don't do submissions, but will take requests!)