Vanilla Bean Cafe is a live-performance stop in Pomfret, Connecticut, while final capacity and age rules remain show-specific. Indoor/Outdoor Café serving high quality, hand-prepared menu items. Live music can be held on Friday and Saturday nights. The Vanilla Bean Cafe calendar is open to Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun, Celtic, and Folk. Vanilla Bean Cafe handles booking by email, and submissions should include a music link and preferred dates. At Vanilla Bean Cafe, a house PA is provided. Before confirming Vanilla Bean Cafe, settle the running time and any venue-specific promotion or settlement terms. Show inquiries for Vanilla Bean Cafe are handled by its talent buyer function.
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Walrus Alley is an outdoor seasonal music job, running roughly mid-April through early October and mostly Friday through Sunday. Formerly Walrus + Carpenter, it pairs southern-inspired food, craft drinks, and an American-roadhouse social atmosphere with live performance. The public feedback circles fried chicken, barbecue, strong cocktails, busy service, and crowds. That tells a musician exactly what the room is: a restaurant bar with energy, appetite, and a patio that needs a band to add motion without starting a territorial dispute with dinner. Email is the preferred booking route. Send a live clip, lineup, dates, genre, and a concise description of your outdoor setup. The calendar is seasonal, so book early and ask what dates make sense for weather, tourism, private events, and crowd patterns. A Friday in May and a Sunday in August may have the same stage but not remotely the same audience. Bring your own PA and mics. Confirm power, stage placement, load-in, soundcheck, weather cancellation policy, wind and noise limits, set length, compensation, door, food, breaks, and whether rain sends music indoors or straight into the realm of apology emails. Outdoor production rewards equipment discipline, especially when the weather develops artistic opinions. Walrus Alley suits blues, country, roots, Americana, soul, acoustic rock, and cover acts with broad appeal and enough groove to keep a patio animated. Bring songs people recognize, a clean rig, and no illusions about competing with fried chicken for emotional priority. On some nights, it will win. Let it.
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- Age policy
- 21+
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- Acoustic, Americana, Blues, Folk, Folk Rock, Jazz, Old Time, Singer-Songwriter
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- 90 Post Road East, 06880, United States
- Venue phone
- (203) 333-2733
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