Saturday June 22: Major Shit Happening…

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Our Mash Tun Craft Beer Festival takes place this Saturday June 22, 2-6pm at the Bridgeport Art Center. Over 65 rare and delicious beers will be poured by over 30  world class breweries. $45 gets you a copy of the new issue of the Mash Tun Journal, a membership to the Mash Tun Society and tastes of all the brews..

Please get yer ticket online through the Mash Tun Fest website or at Maria’s or at the entrance on Saturday. See you there. enjoy.

We are also hosting the first ever Bridgeport Record Fair, organized by our pals at Sonorama. Saturday, Noon to 6pm. Woo Hoo!

 

Tuesday: June 18: DJ Catieo

Ever hear the expression, “bees knees” or perhaps tried a delicious bees knees cocktail? “There’s no profound reason to relate bees and knees other than the jaunty-sounding rhyme.

In the 1920s it was fashionable to use nonsense terms to denote excellence – ‘the snake’s hips’, ‘the kipper’s knickers’, ‘the cat’s pyjamas/whiskers’, ‘the monkey’s eyebrows’ and so on.” per the phrase finder

Sat June 15: Above the Pavement: A City Fair

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Saturday June 15 • 1pm -7pm
Maria’s and Pleasant House Bakery
960 W 31st Street
Admission: free​

​This year Version is producing a one day outdoor/indoor mini festival that will become an annual event. It is the SMALLest city fair in the world! Imagine a boutique flea market with good food meeting a county fair without rides and throw in some live music and community building, and it becomes: Above the Pavement: A City Fair.​

Above the Pavement will take place in Bridgeport during the day from 1pm – 7pm-ish at the intersection of 31st and Morgan Street, in the Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar and Pleasant House Bakery complex. Members of the Small Manufacturing Alliance (SMAll) will be vending their wares and local chefs will be serving food from both Pleasant House and Maria’s.

Participants include:

Animalia Bizarre, Blue Cabbage Designs, Bonnie, CALM, Cassie Tompkins, Cheshire Kat, Civic Goods Company, Cubivino, Debbie Carlos, Debra Vaccaro, Elixir of Love, Emily Schroeder Willis, Envision Arts, Fourth is King, foxywhoo, Hello Sleepywhale, Katherine-Anne Confections, Kevin Riordan, King Onye, Laura Lombardi Jewelry, Legacy Frameworks, Megan Pryce, Morgan Martinson, Nick Paul, Paul Crisanti Jewelry, Pear Tree Preserves, Pleasant House Bakery, Pubic Media Institute, Puffs of Doom, Red Belly Studio, Ruth and Phil’s Ice Cream, Shift x Tania Rodamilans, Spice of Life, Squasht by Les, Stu’s Kitchen, The Plant / Alewyfe Apothecary, The Wool Dispensary, Working Bikes + others​​

Thursday! Hooray For the Mixtape

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Wed: Eclectic Ladyland

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Get into the dynamic stereo mood with the sounds of ECLECTIC LADYLAND this Wednesday, June 12 with DJ Joe Bryl @ Maria’s . It’s a record riot and aural exploration into the wide reaches of left-field music showcasing the best in new releases, re-issues and rare crate diggin’ finds. It all kicks off @ 8PM, no cover.

Sabado Gigante con Los Sunny Daze – DJs Tony “The Luck of Lucien” Medina and DJ Tropicalazo

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Spinning Funk, Soul, Latin and other World Grooves pulled from their personal collections of vinyl amassed from every corner of the world -from Mexico to Maxwell Street to Bombay to Bridgeport. ALL VINYL ALL NIGHT LONG!

Sun June 9: Futility Factory presents Coloré Francais – DJ Scott McNiece & VJ Mark Pallman

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Spinning rare 45s and LPs for all you Francophiles out there, a nice collection of cuts direct from the source including Antoine, Leonie, Francoise Hardy, Pierre Vassiliu, and many many more, visually accompanied by some choice colorful works by René Laloux.

OddStyle from the Numbered Streets – DJs Scrabblor & Dookie Blaster

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Starts and ends with R&B and travels the beats between from hiphop to rock to jazz to disco.

Smokey Joe’s Southside Soul Shack

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There’s a riot going on of stone cold funk & soul this Friday @ Maria’s for Smokey Joe’s Southside Soul Shack. So, get ready to dance to the music with funk fanatics “Smokey” Joe Bryl & Matt “That’s Where It’s At” Kelly.

 

Our crate-diggin’ duo are paying heartfelt R-E-S-P-E-C-T to those rare and now dusty jukebox soul & funk jams Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar hosts its monthly residency aptly titled SMOKEY JOE’S SOUTHSIDE SOUL SHACK on Friday, June 7 (8PM -2AM) named in honor of Chicago’s premier southside soul boutique, Smokey Joe’s. Located at the corner of Halsted and Roosevelt in the Maxwell Street corridor, Smokey Joe’s was the fashion-forward destination for stylish mack daddies looking to find the most current outfit for a night out on the town.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find out what it means to me, R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Take care, TCB
Oh (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me), A little respect (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me), Whoa, babe (just a little bit), A little respect (just a little bit), I get tired (just a little bit), Keep on tryin’ (just a little bit), You’re runnin’ out of foolin’ (just a little bit), And I ain’t lyin’ (just a little bit), (re, re, re, re) ‘spect, When you come home (re, re, re ,re), Or you might walk in (respect, just a little bit), And find out I’m gone (just a little bit), I got to have (just a little bit), A little respect (just a little bit)
- Aretha Franklin’s version of “Respect” (1967)

It’s a soul explosion of all vinyl, all night. No cover!

Thurs. June 6 – The Global Griot – DJ Mwelwe

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A global mix of reggae, morna, forro, semba, salsa, bachata, samba, merengue, afrobeat, ndombolo, rai, jazz, funk, son, soukous, blues, calypso, classical, rock, bhangra, zouk, house, soca, and various types of Arabic, Indian & African varieties.