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SUMMARY:Hygienic Jazz Fest
DESCRIPTION:At a Glance\nWhat: Outdoor jazz festival featuring four bands performing across two stages\nWhen: Sunday\, October 18\, 2026\, beginning at 2 p.m.\nGates Open: 1:30 p.m.\nLocation: Hygienic Art Park\, 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT 06320\nAdmission: $10\nMain Stage: Quintessence\, FOUR\, and Scott Gordley’s Funk House\nSide Stage: Gerry Mander Trio\, performing between main-stage sets\nMusic: Jazz\, funk\, and improvisational performances\nSetting: Outdoor art and music venue in downtown New London\nOrganizer: Hygienic Art\nParking: Downtown street parking and nearby public parking facilities\nContact: (860) 443-8001 \nEvent Description\nHygienic Jazz Fest brings four bands and two stages of live music to Hygienic Art Park in downtown New London on Sunday\, October 18. The afternoon festival features Quintessence\, FOUR\, Scott Gordley’s Funk House\, and the Gerry Mander Trio in a program that moves between jazz\, funk\, and improvisational music. \nWith a $10 admission price and performances beginning at 2 p.m.\, the event offers an accessible afternoon of live music in one of New London’s most distinctive outdoor performance spaces. \nThree groups will appear on the main stage\, while the Gerry Mander Trio performs on a second stage between sets. The arrangement is designed to keep music flowing throughout the afternoon\, giving audiences an opportunity to hear all four acts without having to choose between competing performances. \nFour Bands\, Two Stages\nThe festival begins at 2 p.m. with Quintessence\, followed by FOUR at 3 p.m. and Scott Gordley’s Funk House at 4 p.m. \nThe Gerry Mander Trio fills the intervals between the main-stage performances\, creating a continuous program of live jazz. \nMain Stage Schedule \n2 p.m.: Quintessence\n3 p.m.: FOUR\n4 p.m.: Scott Gordley’s Funk House \nSide Stage: Gerry Mander Trio\, performing between main-stage sets. \nThe lineup brings together several groups with different musical identities\, giving listeners a chance to experience the range of sounds that fit within contemporary jazz. \nFrom Jazz Standards to Funk\nJazz has always been a music of interpretation\, collaboration\, and improvisation. Even when musicians begin with familiar melodies\, the rhythms\, solos\, and interactions between instruments can make every performance different. \nHygienic Jazz Fest embraces that variety by presenting several ensembles over the course of a single afternoon. \nThe inclusion of Scott Gordley’s Funk House introduces a funk-oriented element to the lineup. Funk draws heavily on syncopated rhythms\, prominent bass lines\, and tightly coordinated instrumental arrangements\, sharing a long musical history with jazz. \nFor listeners who enjoy jazz but are less familiar with its different styles\, a multi-band festival provides an opportunity to discover new musicians and sounds. \nThe alternating stages also give the afternoon a relaxed pace. Rather than sitting through one extended concert\, visitors can experience a succession of performances while enjoying the atmosphere of the Art Park. \nThe Hygienic Art Park Experience\nHygienic Art Park has become an important gathering place for New London’s arts and music community. \nLocated at 79 Bank Street\, the outdoor venue is part of Hygienic Art\, the nonprofit organization known for its galleries\, exhibitions\, concerts\, and community programming. \nThe park provides an intimate setting for live performances\, with an open-air stage and space for audiences to gather\, listen\, and enjoy music in the heart of downtown. \nUnlike a conventional indoor concert hall\, the Art Park combines live entertainment with the atmosphere of an urban courtyard. Its setting encourages the informal interaction between musicians and audiences that is especially well suited to jazz. \nThe venue regularly hosts concerts and cultural events that showcase regional talent while contributing to New London’s growing reputation as a destination for the arts. \nA New London Arts Institution\nHygienic Art’s roots reach back to 1979\, when local artists organized an independent exhibition in the former Hygienic Restaurant building. \nThe original exhibition developed into an enduring annual tradition known for welcoming artists without the conventional restrictions of a juried art show. \nOver time\, Hygienic Art grew into a nonprofit cultural organization\, preserving its historic Bank Street building and expanding its programming to include exhibitions\, performances\, educational activities\, and community events. \nToday\, the organization remains closely associated with New London’s creative identity. \nIts Art Park extends that mission outdoors\, providing a gathering space where visual art\, music\, and community life intersect. \nHygienic Jazz Fest continues that tradition by bringing musicians and audiences together for an afternoon devoted to live performance. \nAn Afternoon of Music in Downtown New London\nThe festival’s downtown location makes it easy to combine the concert with a visit to nearby restaurants\, shops\, and waterfront attractions. \nBank Street is home to a variety of independent businesses\, and the surrounding historic district offers opportunities to explore New London before or after the performances. \nFor longtime jazz enthusiasts\, the festival offers several bands in one afternoon. For casual listeners\, the modest admission price and informal outdoor setting make it an approachable introduction to the local jazz scene. \nWith three scheduled main-stage performances and a second stage providing music between sets\, Hygienic Jazz Fest is designed to keep the afternoon moving. \n\n\n  \n\nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/hygienic-jazz-fest/
LOCATION:Hygienic Art Park\, 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hygenic Art
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SUMMARY:Hygienic Art’s YART Sale Digs Into the Closets for an Art-Lover’s Treasure Hunt
DESCRIPTION:Hygienic Art’s YART Sale Digs Into the Closets for an Art-Lover’s Treasure Hunt Saturday\, Oct. 3\, when the New London arts institution empties its corners and storage spaces for three hours of abandoned artwork\, old posters\, prints\, T-shirts\, and whatever other creative oddities have accumulated over the years. \nThis isn’t a conventional gallery sale. \nHygienic is specifically pulling out unclaimed and abandoned artwork\, along with its own memorabilia and assorted odds and ends\, and offering it at what the organization describes as bargain-friendly prices. \nThere may be polished artwork worth hanging over the sofa. There may be a forgotten Hygienic poster from years ago. There may be something wonderfully strange for which no reasonable person has an immediate use. \nThat’s rather the point. \nThe YART Sale runs from noon to 3 p.m. at 79 Bank Street\, with cold adult beverages also available for purchase. \nWhat Exactly Is a YART Sale?\nThink yard sale\, except the attic belongs to an arts organization that’s been collecting things for decades. \nHygienic says it is clearing out closets\, corners and storage areas\, producing a sale that includes artwork that was never reclaimed as well as T-shirts\, posters\, prints\, merchandise and miscellaneous pieces of Hygienic history. \nThat makes this less predictable than walking into an art gallery knowing what’s currently hanging on the walls. \nThe organizers aren’t promising a neatly catalogued collection. They’re inviting people to dig. \nAnd at Hygienic\, decades of accumulation could make that interesting. \nThe Place Has Been Collecting Art Since 1979\nThe YART Sale makes more sense when you understand the institution holding it. \nHygienic Art traces its beginnings to 1979\, when a group of New London artists began staging an annual exhibition inside the old Hygienic Restaurant. \nThe idea was modeled on the independent salon tradition that challenged the gatekeepers of the established Paris art world. \nNew London’s version developed rules that remain central to Hygienic’s identity: no judge\, no jury\, no fees and no censorship. \nArtists could bring one piece and participate without first convincing a curator or selection committee that their work deserved a wall. \nIt became an annual tradition. \nThe restaurant eventually closed\, but the artists kept the exhibition alive at other locations. When the old Hygienic building itself was threatened with demolition in the 1990s\, the arts community organized to save it. \nHygienic Art ultimately acquired the property in 1998\, renovated it and reopened its galleries in 2000. \nToday the organization operates galleries\, artist live/work spaces and an outdoor Art Park while continuing the annual Hygienic Art exhibition that started the whole thing. \nSo when Hygienic says it has old art and assorted material tucked away in storage\, there is potentially quite a history behind those closets. \nSome of the Art Has Literally Been Left Behind\nThe phrase “unclaimed and abandoned artwork” is what separates this from a normal merchandise clearance. \nThese aren’t simply reproductions Hygienic ordered too many of. \nThey are pieces that\, for one reason or another\, remained behind. \nThe organization isn’t publishing a complete inventory in advance\, which preserves the garage-sale quality of the afternoon. Buyers won’t necessarily know what’s waiting until they start looking. \nHygienic itself sums up the mystery nicely: some pieces have stories\, some need new homes\, and some apparently fall into a category that requires seeing them in person. \nFor anyone who enjoys flea markets\, estate sales\, thrift shops or digging through record-store bins\, that uncertainty may be the best part. \nPosters and T-Shirts Can Be Little Pieces of New London History\nDon’t overlook the non-artwork. \nA poster from an old Hygienic event isn’t simply advertising once enough time has passed. It becomes an artifact from New London’s arts scene. \nHygienic’s annual exhibitions have been happening for more than four decades\, while the organization has also hosted concerts\, festivals\, performances and exhibitions throughout the year. \nIts Bank Street home has an even longer history. \nThe building predates Hygienic Art and was associated for decades with the Hygienic Restaurant\, once a fixture of downtown New London. The restaurant became the unlikely home of those early artist exhibitions before the nonprofit eventually took over the building itself. \nOld Hygienic shirts\, prints and posters can therefore carry a little of that history with them. \nExactly which years\, designs and events will turn up Saturday isn’t specified. That’s another part of the hunt. \nAn Art Sale That Fits Hygienic\nThere is something particularly appropriate about unwanted artwork getting another chance at Hygienic. \nThis is an organization whose best-known exhibition was built around removing barriers between artists and gallery walls. \nIts annual Salon des Indépendants has traditionally accepted work without judging whether it is fashionable\, marketable or worthy of inclusion. \nSaturday applies a similarly democratic principle to the other end of an artwork’s life. \nSomething was made. \nSomebody left it behind. \nNow somebody else gets to decide whether they love it. \nNo curator required. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nDetails\nEvent: YART Sale\nDate: Saturday\, Oct. 3\, 2026\nTime: Noon–3 p.m.\nLocation: Hygienic Art\nAddress: 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT 06320\nSale Includes: Unclaimed and abandoned artwork\, Hygienic Art T-shirts and merchandise\, posters\, prints\, odds and ends and other creative finds\nPrices: Described by Hygienic Art as bargain-friendly; individual prices have not been published\nAdult Beverages: Cold adult beverages will be available for purchase\nAdmission: No separate admission charge is listed for the sale\nPhone: 860-443-8001\nRegular Gallery Hours Saturday: 11 a.m.–7 p.m. \n\n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
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SUMMARY:Shoreline Reggae Fest at Hygienic Art Park
DESCRIPTION:Shoreline Reggae Fest at Hygienic Art Park brings four regional reggae acts together in downtown New London on Sunday\, September 6\, for an outdoor afternoon and evening of roots reggae\, dub and improvisational music. \nDoors open at 4 p.m. for the returning festival\, with Red Lion\, Glaucoma Suspect\, Jam Shed and Lazy River filling the Art Park with reggae through the evening. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. \nIt’s also a lineup with unusually deep local roots. These aren’t four touring acts passing through Connecticut on the same bill. The musicians come from the southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island music community\, and several have been playing reggae around the region for years. \nReggae Returns to the Art Park\nShoreline Reggae Fest made its Hygienic Art Park debut last summer with a lineup that included Red Lion\, Glaucoma Suspect and Jam Shed. \nAll three return in 2026. \nThat makes Sunday’s show less a collection of unrelated bands and more of a reunion of musicians who have helped build a regional reggae scene stretching across southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island. \nAnd Hygienic Art Park is particularly well suited to it. \nThe outdoor performance space sits alongside Hygienic’s galleries on Bank Street\, creating a small open-air music venue in the middle of downtown New London. There’s a stage\, room to sit and\, importantly for this show\, space in front of the stage to dance. \nFor Shoreline Reggae Fest\, the park becomes a meeting point for four different approaches to the music. \nRed Lion Brings the Roots\nRed Lion describes its sound as conscious\, uplifting reggae. \nBut the group didn’t begin with musicians learning reggae from scratch. \nIts members brought experience from several other reggae projects\, with connections to bands including Soulshot\, Large Up\, Space Mon Rah\, Dub Squad\, Inity and The High Voltage Band. \nAt the center is Eric “Irie Feelinz” Williams\, whose original lyrics and vocals help give Red Lion its identity. \nThe band’s sound sits firmly in the roots-rock reggae tradition\, where rhythm carries the music but the words matter too. \nIt’s a distinction worth making. \nRoots reggae developed as more than dance music. Social consciousness\, spirituality\, resistance and community became central to the form\, particularly through the Jamaican music that spread internationally during the 1970s. \nRed Lion draws from that tradition while making the music here in Southern New England. \nGlaucoma Suspect Crosses the State Line\nFollow the shoreline east from New London and eventually you reach another piece of Sunday’s lineup. \nGlaucoma Suspect is an eight-piece roots reggae band based in Westerly. \nThe group approaches reggae with an emphasis on the music’s original roots and its tradition of carrying social messages\, while bringing a full-band sound to stages around Connecticut and Rhode Island. \nEight musicians also give them a considerably different presence from a stripped-down reggae group. \nThe rhythm section establishes the pocket\, but a larger ensemble leaves room to layer vocals and instrumentation over it\, creating the kind of full sound associated with classic roots reggae bands. \nGlaucoma Suspect has become familiar around the local live-music circuit and isn’t new to Hygienic. The band previously appeared in the venue’s Downtown Live programming and was part of the first Shoreline Reggae Fest last summer. \nNow they’re back for year two. \nJam Shed Started in an Actual Shed\nSome band names require an explanation. \nJam Shed really doesn’t. \nThe Salem\, Connecticut\, group traces its beginnings to Wednesday-night jam sessions held in a shed. \nWhat started as musicians getting together to play became something more permanent. They worked through reggae and dub favorites\, experimented with arrangements and improvised. \nEventually\, the jam sessions became a band. \nMore than a decade later\, that loose beginning remains part of Jam Shed’s musical identity. Reggae and dub provide the foundation\, but improvisation gives the musicians room to stretch songs rather than simply reproduce them. \nThat’s especially appropriate for dub. \nThe form grew out of Jamaican reggae recording culture as producers began stripping songs apart\, emphasizing bass and drums and manipulating individual elements with echo\, reverb and other studio effects. \nIn a live setting\, that same spirit creates room for musicians to explore. \nFor a group born during jam sessions\, it’s a natural fit. \nLazy River Rounds Out the Festival\nLazy River completes Sunday’s four-act lineup. \nThe current festival materials connect the act with DJ Ben Jammin’ and dalabil\, adding another approach to the afternoon alongside the three returning live bands. \nWhy Reggae Works in New London\nJamaica is a long way from Bank Street. \nThe music isn’t. \nReggae has traveled far beyond the island where it developed\, absorbing local influences wherever musicians have picked it up while retaining one of the most recognizable rhythmic foundations in popular music. \nSouthern New England has supported its own reggae community for years\, helped by small clubs\, breweries\, outdoor stages and festivals willing to put local bands in front of an audience. \nSunday’s lineup illustrates that community particularly well. \nRed Lion draws musicians with experience across several regional reggae projects. \nGlaucoma Suspect comes down from Westerly. \nJam Shed comes from Salem. \nPut them together and Shoreline Reggae Fest becomes a snapshot of a scene that already exists around us. \nAn Outdoor Stage in the Middle of New London\nHygienic Art Park is one of the more unusual music spaces in the region. \nWalk along Bank Street and you’re surrounded by the buildings\, restaurants and bars of downtown New London. Step into the Art Park during a concert and the atmosphere changes. \nThe outdoor space was designed to function as both a public arts environment and performance venue\, with a raised stage\, sound and lighting infrastructure and space for an audience to gather around it. \nIt’s part of the larger Hygienic Art complex at 79 Bank Street\, which includes galleries and artist spaces in the historic building next door. \nHygienic’s connection to New London’s creative community goes back decades\, including its famous annual Salon des Indépendants and the grassroots effort that ultimately saved the former Hygienic Restaurant building from demolition. \nMusic eventually became another part of that mission. \nDuring the warmer months\, the Art Park turns that history inside out. \nThe gallery walls disappear. \nThe stage lights come on. \nAnd on Sunday\, the soundtrack is reggae. \nFour Bands and One Late-Summer Sunday\nLabor Day weekend usually feels like a dividing line around here. \nSummer isn’t technically over\, but everyone knows what’s coming. \nShoreline Reggae Fest offers another option before letting it go. \nThere are four acts\, an outdoor stage and hours of music beginning late Sunday afternoon. \nRed Lion brings its conscious roots-reggae approach. Glaucoma Suspect arrives with an eight-piece Westerly lineup. Jam Shed brings the improvisational spirit that started during those Wednesday nights in a Salem shed. Lazy River adds another piece to the mix. \nAnd for the second year\, it all comes together in the middle of downtown New London. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Shoreline Reggae Fest\nDate: Sunday\, September 6\, 2026\nDoors: 4 p.m.\nLocation: Hygienic Art Park\nAddress: 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT 06320\nLineup: Red Lion\, Glaucoma Suspect\, Jam Shed and Lazy River\nAdvance Tickets: $15\nTickets at the Door: $20\nAges: All ages\nSetting: Outdoor concert \nShoreline Reggae Fest at Hygienic Art Park brings Red Lion\, Glaucoma Suspect\, Jam Shed and Lazy River together for a late-summer celebration of the regional reggae scene in downtown New London. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/shoreline-reggae-fest-at-hygienic-art-park/
LOCATION:Hygienic Art Park\, 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hygenic Art
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SUMMARY:Hygienic Art Opens Two New Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Hygienic Art opens two new exhibitions Saturday\, August 29\, bringing photography\, sculpture\, glass\, painting\, and mixed-media work together for an evening of new art in downtown New London. \nBoth opening receptions begin at 6 p.m. at Hygienic Art’s Bank Street galleries. The annual f-Stops Here Juried Photography Exhibition runs from 6 to 9 p.m.\, while E Pluribus Venus celebrates its opening from 6 to 8 p.m. \nWith the receptions happening simultaneously\, visitors can move between two very different exhibitions during the same Saturday night. \nThe f-Stops Here\nThe f-Stops Here is Hygienic Art’s recurring juried exhibition devoted entirely to photography. \nThe exhibition has a long history at the New London gallery\, providing both emerging and established photographers with an opportunity to submit work for consideration by a juror rather than participating in an open-entry exhibition. \nThat distinction changes the show. \nA juried exhibition begins with a larger pool of submissions\, with works selected for inclusion based on the juror’s evaluation. Previous editions of f-Stops Here have attracted photographers working across color and black-and-white photography and have included awards recognizing standout work. \nThe result isn’t intended to represent one photographic style or subject. \nInstead\, the gallery becomes a snapshot of what photographers are seeing\, documenting and creating through the camera. \nE Pluribus Venus\nThe second opening takes an entirely different approach. \nE Pluribus Venus brings together five female artists working in dramatically different media: Catherine Gibson\, Serena Bates\, Diane Brown\, Heather Lusk and Kira Seamon. \nEven the title plays with the idea behind the exhibition. \nE pluribus unum\, the familiar Latin phrase meaning “out of many\, one\,” becomes E Pluribus Venus\, shifting the idea toward five women whose individual approaches come together within a single gallery. \nAnd their work doesn’t look remotely alike. \nFive Artists\, Five Ways of Working\nCatherine Gibson works with fused glass\, using heat to transform individual pieces of glass into larger compositions. \nSerena Bates brings sculpture into the exhibition\, including substantial three-dimensional work that changes how visitors physically experience the gallery space. \nDiane Brown works with an unusual combination of wax and oil\, creating mixed-media pieces that occupy another territory altogether. \nHeather Lusk moves in the opposite direction of monumental sculpture with miniature realist oil paintings\, where scale forces viewers to come closer and pay attention to small details. \nKira Seamon completes the group with kaleidoscopic\, dreamlike photography. \nGlass. Sculpture. Wax and oil. Miniature realism. Photography. \nThe differences aren’t something the exhibition tries to hide. They’re the point. \nTwo Shows in One Night\nPutting E Pluribus Venus alongside f-Stops Here makes Saturday’s opening especially interesting. \nOne gallery exhibition starts with a single medium and asks how many different things artists can do with it. \nThe other starts with five very different media and looks for the ideas and human experiences that can connect them. \nVisitors can spend part of the evening looking at work selected from regional photographers\, then walk into another exhibition where molten glass can share a room with bronze\, oil paint\, wax and experimental photography. \nYou don’t need to choose one. \nBoth open Saturday night. \nAn Arts Institution Built Around Access\nHygienic Art has occupied a particularly unusual place in New London’s arts community for decades. \nIts name comes from the former Hygienic Restaurant\, a longtime Bank Street gathering place that became closely associated with the city’s artists. When the restaurant closed\, the building eventually became home to the nonprofit arts organization that carries its name today. \nHygienic has since developed into a combination of galleries\, artist spaces and the outdoor Hygienic Art Park. \nIts best-known tradition remains the annual Salon des Indépendants\, where artists can exhibit without a judge or jury. \nSaturday’s f-Stops Here flips that formula by putting the selection process back into the hands of a juror. \nE Pluribus Venus does something different again\, assembling a deliberately selected group of artists around a shared exhibition concept. \nOn Saturday night\, visitors get both approaches under one roof. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Hygienic Art Openings: f-Stops Here and E Pluribus Venus\nDate: Saturday\, August 29\, 2026\nLocation: Hygienic Art\nAddress: 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT 06320 \nf-Stops Here Juried Photography Exhibition\nOpening Reception: 6–9 p.m.\nMedium: Photography\nFormat: Juried exhibition \nE Pluribus Venus\nOpening Reception: 6–8 p.m.\nFeatured Artists: Catherine Gibson\, Serena Bates\, Diane Brown\, Heather Lusk and Kira Seamon\nMedia: Fused glass\, sculpture\, wax and oil mixed media\, miniature realist oil painting and photography \nHygienic Art Openings: f-Stops Here and E Pluribus Venus give visitors two exhibitions to explore during the same Saturday evening\, from a juried photography show to five female artists working across dramatically different media. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/hygienic-art-opens-two-new-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Hygenic Art\, 79 Bank Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
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SUMMARY:Multiplier Summer Party at Hygienic Art
DESCRIPTION:Multiplier Summer Party at Hygienic Art returns for its fifth year on Saturday\, June 20\, bringing an evening of live electronic music\, local artists\, and community energy to downtown New London. Held in the Hygienic Art Park\, the annual event combines a dance-party atmosphere with a celebration of local creativity\, making it one of the city’s most distinctive summer gatherings. \nHeadlining the evening is New London-based electronic group Multiplier\, whose genre-blending sound draws from house\, EDM\, dub\, funk\, breakbeat\, hip hop\, and trip hop. Known for building hypnotic grooves layered with unexpected musical twists\, the band creates an immersive live experience that feels equally at home on a dance floor and in an art space. Support comes from DJ Brian Carter\, who will help keep the energy flowing throughout the night. \nBefore the music begins\, guests can browse a marketplace hosted by ONA\, featuring local artisan vendors. The combination of live music\, visual art\, local makers\, and outdoor summer vibes makes the Multiplier Summer Party a unique showcase of New London’s creative community. \nEvent Details\nDate: Saturday\, June 20\, 2026\nVendor Market: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.\nMusic Begins: 7:00 p.m.\nLocation: Hygienic Art Park\, 79 Bank Street\, New London \nFeatured Entertainment\n\nMultiplier\nDJ Brian Carter\nLocal artisan vendors hosted by ONA\n\nTicket Information\n\n$15 advance purchase\n$17 at the door\n\n\n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/multiplier-summer-party-at-hygienic-art/
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