Janday Wilson

Janday is a storyteller, bookworm since birth and music and pop culture junkie. She is moved by good stories, live shows, and cats.

https://jandaywilson.com/ 24 posts

Toad’s Was For Lovers

When Khamari came to town.

Janday Wilson

9 Mar 2026 · 3 min read

Slow Burning Chaos

In Saba Sams' new novel about an bar owner and an enigmatic teen runaway.

Janday Wilson

9 Mar 2026 · 3 min read

Del Comes Home

New Havener S. Holden Jaffe (aka Del Water Gap) fills College St with indie-alt-pop energy to close national tour.

Janday Wilson

5 Mar 2026 · 3 min read

Groove As Testimony

To community joyful-noisemaking, at a three-hour “Seeing Sounds” jam on Audubon Street.

Janday Wilson

2 Mar 2026 · 4 min read

From Bach to Busta

Black Violin genre-hops at the Shubert.

Janday Wilson

27 Feb 2026 · 3 min read

The Color Of Want

In Mikeo Kawakami’s novel, it’s yellow — with subtle gradations.

Janday Wilson

17 Feb 2026 · 3 min read

Fiction Stranger Than Truth

New Haven author weaves ambition into page-turning prose in new romance novel.

Janday Wilson

13 Feb 2026 · 2 min read

Music In The Key Of Unease

Zosha Di Castri’s music comes alive at Morse Recital Hall.

Janday Wilson

6 Feb 2026 · 2 min read

Solidarity Found In Sound

At a 77 Apes-A Former Friend café nine double bill

Janday Wilson

5 Feb 2026 · 3 min read

Survival Sung

Say Anything’s pop punk keeps hope alive at College Street Music Hall.

Janday Wilson

4 Feb 2026 · 4 min read

Disney Dissed

As a social-skills comic “reads the room” at Possible Futures.

Janday Wilson

2 Feb 2026 · 3 min read

A World Built In Real (11/8) Time

As Jazz Underground pops above-ground at The Cannon.

Janday Wilson

30 Jan 2026 · 3 min read

Burn It All Down

Patricide is at times a punch line as Black women reclaim power in “Is God Is.”

Janday Wilson

29 Jan 2026 · 3 min read

Patti Smith Reminds Us

That "People have the power" -- cue book-talk audience singalong.

Janday Wilson

28 Jan 2026 · 4 min read

Columbus Was A Sponge

At a Lost in New Haven music/fashion performance that sang the present to the past.

Janday Wilson

26 Jan 2026 · 4 min read

Laughing Together, Square by Square

Bingo comedy night at café nine brought us together, without phones.

Janday Wilson

23 Jan 2026 · 2 min read

Problem (Not) Solved

Clown Julia Masli’s “ha ha ha ha ha ha” taps Yale Rep audience for a different version each night.

Janday Wilson

21 Jan 2026 · 3 min read

Boston Ethereal Rocker Gives New Haven a “Listen”

Vanna Pacella cafe nine New Haven Jan. 14, 2026 “She’s only 18?” I exclaimed in amazement when audience member Steve Dreher revealed Boston-Based singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Vanna Pacella’s age. Dreher

Janday Wilson

15 Jan 2026 · 2 min read