08/15/2025
đ¶ Live Music This Saturday: Orb Mellon (duo with Dave Robbins)
đ· Tasting Room opens at 1 PM | Music from 5â8 PM
Grab your spot earlyâthis oneâs going to be something special.
Weâre excited to welcome Orb Mellon, performing live in a duo with Dave Robbins, a veteran Connecticut blues harmonica powerhouse.
Orb Mellon is the blues moniker of Mike Malone, founder and guitarist of the 1990s indie rock band Dirt Merchants (Sony/Epic). His sound mines the raw energy of 20th-century American roots musicâparticularly the whiskey-soaked, house party Delta blues tradition. Influenced by Bukka White, Junior Kimbrough, and John Fahey, Orb delivers gritty, sonically aggressive, and ever-evolving original blues. One early reviewer described it as âblues in all its primeval glory.â
Heâs shared stages with David Johansen (New York Dolls), Daddy Long Legs, Charlie Parr, and R.L. Boyce, and was a featured performer at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. His music has also appeared in Justified, True Blood, Extant, The Good Wife, and more.
Currently, Dave Robbins leading popular New England Blues quartet, The Incredible Amplifires, collaborating with world acclaimed Chicago Blues artist, Mud Morganfield and Indie folk/blues artist, Orb Mellon. Dave also produces the popular Northeast Blues Harmonica Showcase and Northeast Blues Guitar Summit at Hartfordâs Black-eyed Sallyâs. Known affectionately as âThe Kosher Kid,â heâs a fiery Blues Harp master and major force keeping the blues and blues harp vibrant in New England
Come sip something good and soak in some seriously deep blues.