Blue. Monday concerts are a fundraiser for the Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center (food pantry) and the Stonington Education Fund (music education in Stonington’s schools). The family-friendly concerts take place on Mondays in the summer months a Mystic River Park. (12 Cottrell Street, Mystic, CT).. This will be the 20th year for the series. In 2025 the free concerts raised over $10,000 from concert sponsorships and individual donations. The funds were split between the Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center (food bank) and the Stonington Education Fund to support music programs in Stonington’s public schools.
Monday evenings in the Mystic River Park, once again the place to picnic and enjoy great live music (family friendly, no alcohol).
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JULY 6th - Ward Hayden & The Outliers
Band members: Ward Hayden, Tyler Marshall. Sam Crawford, Greg Hall, Patrick Brown
The story of “Little by Little,” the new album by Ward Hayden & The Outliers, began like so many Bruce Springsteen songs do: in a car with the radio on, hurtling down a highway, headed for distant destinations. Except that instead of one of Hayden’s longtime favorites like Hank Williams taking him on a journey through the airwaves, it was a voice whose sour rhetoric rubbed him the wrong way and ultimately inspired action.
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JULY 13th - Loaded Wagon
Band members: Christian McGugan – Vocals & GuitarErik Eckhardt – Guitar, Mikey Winslow– Drums. Lenny Bellet – Bass, Robert Knoll – Keyboards
Homegrown in Mystic, CT, Loaded Wagon delivers a high-energy, genre-bending live show that blends the roots of Blues and Rock with the grooves of R&B and Funk, the colors of Psychedelic Rock, the hooks of Pop—and plenty more in between. Known for their dynamic covers and crowd-pleasing versatility, Loaded Wagon brings something familiar yet fresh to every performance.
From soulful bluesy riffs to funky rhythms and classic rock anthems, Loaded Wagon keeps the music moving and the audience engaged from the first note to the last.
July 20 - Sugar Ray & The Bluetones
Sugar Ray & The Bluetones have been playing their unique style of blues the world over for almost forty years. Not limited to one style, but able to play Chicago Blues in the style of Muddy Waters. Little Walter and Billy Boy Arnold; Kansas City Swing in the style of "Big" Joe Turner; Texas Blues like "T" Bone Walker and Freddie King; and the swampy Louisiana sounds of "Lazy" Lester-all played with distinctive originality. All of the members of Sugar Ray and the Bluetones have been featured on other Artists recordings which include Roomful of Blues,Hubert Sumlin, John Hammond, Johnny Winter, J.Geils, Otis Grand, Pinetop Perkins, The Mannish Boys, Sugaray Rayford, Debbie Davies, Duke Robillard, Ronnie Earl and many more.
July 27 - Sugar
Band members: Joe Michael, Guitar, Marcy Kelly, Vocals. Rickie Miller, Vocals, Izzy Malek, Keyboard / Vocals, Ed Mudrak, Trumpet / Keyboards, Ben LaRose, Drums, Matt Dean, Percussion, Nick Cancelmo, Bass / Vocals
Yeah, we've been known to rock a party or two but if anything speaks to the quality of a band it would have to be longevity. Sugar has been performing as a consistent staple in the New England music scene for over two decades now and shows no signs of giving the dance floor a breather any time soon.
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