Pierogi, kites and rock ’n’ roll: 5 enjoyable issues to do that weekend

Late August could also be sneaking up on us, however Worcester’s summer season calendar clearly has no intention of going quietly.

This weekend brings music to phases indoors and out, two celebrations with critical cultural taste and a brand-new competition filling the sky over Institute Park. Whether your excellent weekend entails pierogi and polka, leap blues beneath the celebs, a 15-foot kite or sufficient KISS and Poison nostalgia to make you rethink the mullet, there’s a lot to select from.

Here are 5 picks for the weekend:

1. Back in bloom with Jubilee Gardens: After an extended “time out,” Jubilee Gardens returns to the stage Sunday, Aug. 23, at 6 p.m. for an evening of unique music and a fundraiser for WCUW 91.3 FM. Singer-songwriter Jubilee Connolly leads an unusually colourful ensemble on the FrontRoom, with a lineup that includes guitar, keyboards, violin, oud, harp, bass, drums and percussion for a mixture of world, folks, pop and rock—all constructed round Connolly’s unique songs. Gang of three opens the night, that includes vocalist John Solaperto, Evan Harriman on keys and Dan Hunt on guitar. The present takes place at WCUW, 910 Main St., with a urged minimal donation of $20 on the door, payable by money or Venmo. Light refreshments served, or friends can carry their very own.
2. Letting the Love Dogs out! Downtown Worcester will get a critical dose of swing Friday, Aug. 21, when the Love Dogs headline the ninth annual Jazz+ Live behind The Hanover Theatre. The seven-piece band brings greater than 20 years of leap blues, New Orleans R&B and early rock ’n’ roll to the out of doors stage, full with blazing horns, boogie-woogie piano, guitar, soulful vocals and sufficient vitality to make sitting in that garden chair more and more unlikely. Gates open at 5 p.m., with the present starting at 6, and the picnic-style setup contains meals vans and money bars; friends might also carry their very own meals and non-alcoholic drinks. Tickets are $30 prematurely for common admission—carry your individual chair—or $175 for a stage-front VIP desk for 4. General admission will increase to $35 on the day of the present.
3. Pierogi, polka and a attainable pączki showdown:  Bring your urge for food—and maybe your accordion—to the White Eagle on Saturday, Aug. 22, for the 5th Annual Polish Festival in Worcester’s Canal District. Running from midday to six p.m., the celebration options Polish and American meals, distributors and a full afternoon of conventional music and dance, with the Piast Children Folk Dancers at 12:30 p.m., Krakowiak Folk Dancers at 1:30 and the EFO Polka Band from 2 to six. Organizers are additionally teasing a attainable pączki-related contest, which looks like a superb motive to reach hungry. And if six hours of festivities someway aren’t sufficient, DJ Voy retains the celebration going contained in the White Eagle from 8 p.m. to midnight.
4. Let your weekend take flight: Worcester is getting its first-ever kite festival on Saturday, Aug. 22, with a day of shade, tradition and sky-high spectacle from midday to five p.m. The centerpiece is the disclosing of a 15-foot community-created kite impressed by a Guatemalan barrilete, joined by synchronized kite flying, a kite contest, artwork reveals, reside music, performances, distributors and meals vans. The occasion brings collectively artists and organizations together with Technocopia, Guardians of Traditions, the Southeast Asian Coalition of Massachusetts, the Guatemalan Center of New England, The Village and the No Evil Project for a celebration designed to be as a lot about group as it’s about what’s flying overhead.
5. Rock and roll all nite, have nothin’ however a great time: Break out the face paint, teased hair and no matter leather-based survived the primary time round: two tributes to rock’s gloriously extreme eras take over the out of doors stage at Ralph’s Diner on Saturday, Aug. 22. KISS Forever pays homage to the platform-booted, makeup-covered spectacle of KISS, with the anthems that helped make the band synonymous with larger-than-life enviornment rock, whereas Nothing But a Good Time brings the party-hearty glam metallic of Poison, the band behind ’80s staples together with “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” and, naturally, “Nothin’ But a Good Time.” Expect a double dose of huge hooks, greater hair and unapologetic rock ’n’ roll nostalgia. The 21-plus present is $15 on the door.

For extra occasions, go to the Discover Central Massachusetts events calendar. 

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