Pondering Judd (www.ponderingjudd.com) hits the road this week on their two-week “One Second Dream Tour” in support of Ireland’s Sawdoctors, with nine stops through Boston, Buffalo, Washington, Chicago and Milwaukee.

Camarojuana (www.camarojuana.com) will turn Dover into Paradise City for Karaoke lovers starting April 1, when the Seacoast’s favorite anachronism returns with their second annual, four-month-long Karaoke Kontezt.

Last year they sold out show after show, featuring three to five contestants each night, men and women dressed to the ’80s and singing along to one of the 50 tunes in the band’s set list.
Things keep getting better for the band and its fans.

“We just played Saturday night at the Muddy River, and by 10:15 room was sold out. It’s crazy. People go nuts,” says singer David Beef Broth. “I really think over last six months we’ve become more comfortable with who we are, and we’re trying to get into it more as a band, with more choreography and how much energy we put into it. Plus the music is so timeless.”

Fans of Iron Maiden, Twisted Sister and Guns N’ Roses should mark April 1, May 6 and June 3 on their calendars. Finalists will compete for $250 at the show on July 8.

Blues band Roundhouse (www.roundhouseblues.com)has started recording CD number two. “It’s a quite the process for us, so it will be a while; be patient,” says Joe Rogers in an e-mail. The band is hoping for a fall release. In January, the band traveled to Memphis for the 2006 International Blues Competition.

“Playing on Beale Street was a real treat. We did not make it to the finals, but we’re just happy to have been able to participate in the semi-finals of the coolest blues competition in the world,” Rogers says. “We met bands from all over the place, and had a great time. We did all the touristy things, like have ribs at the Rendezvous and tour Sun Studios. We got to drive by Buddy’s family car lot, and see all the cool clubs he use to play when he was a lad.”

You can check out Roundhouse live at The Press Room on Saturday, March 25.

Seacoast rock band Craving is fundraising to support their effort in the Susan G. Komen 3-day, a 60-mile walk intended to raise funds and awareness for Breast Cancer research. The team, organized and led by band friend Jenn Bogle, consists of lead guitarist Tim Deal, vocalist Brian Scanlon, and Seacoast residents Amee Philbrick and Jessica McDermott. Each participant must raise $2,200 in order to join  the walk, which takes place in August and involves three days of walking 20 miles each. Craving will host a number of fundraising events between now and then, including a benefit concert on June 17 at the Dover Brick House, with other local acts The Gray Davies, The Hate Game and others. The band is looking for financial support to help meet their fundrasing goals. Interested donors can make tax-deductable donations at www.the3day.org/Boston06/cravingacure.

Jazzmouth, Portsmouth’s jazz and poetry festival, takes place this year April 20-23. Start snapping your fingers: highlights of this year’s festival include appearances by special guests David Amram, Ed Sanders, Eric Mingus and former N.H. Poet Laureate Marie Harris.

Newburyport’s Firehouse Center for the Arts has launched a new classical music series, the “Firehouse at Home Chamber Concert Series.” Each concert will be held in the home of a friend of the Firehouse. The first concert was hosted in January at the home of Stephen Faria and Dierdre Girard, and the Boston-based ensemble Opus 21 performed. Offering works from the standard repertoire and introducing audiences to new works, violinist Sarita Uranovsky, cellist Marc Moskovitz and pianist Debra Ayers seek to reestablish the ideals of the Society for Private Musical Performances, an artistic organization founded in Vienna in 1918 to promote new works of music within the most nurturing environment possible.

The next home concert is likely to take place in late summer. Proceeds will benefit The Firehouse Center for the Arts, which is housed in a historic building that was constructed as a Market House Lyceum in 1822 and served as the Central Fire Station from the mid 1800s until 1980. A cooperative effort by the public and private sectors restored the facility, and the Firehouse Center for the Arts opened its doors in 1991. For more information, visit www.firehouse.org or call 978-462-7336.

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