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/ 30 posts

A Secret Lingers

In Chloe Mitchell Howarth's circa-1965 Irish family tale, "Heap Earth Upon It."

Janday Wilson

31 Mar 2026 · 2 min read

Nero’s Mistress Meets Du Bois’s Afro-Futurism

In “The Comet/Poppea” double-opera at Schwartzman.

Janday Wilson

27 Mar 2026 · 5 min read

Flowers While Living

Generations come together in song to celebrate still-drumming Jesse Hameen II’s 85th.

Janday Wilson

24 Mar 2026 · 5 min read

Tequila Loyalists Go Rogue

At a Restaurant Week-launching cocktail crawl.

Janday Wilson

19 Mar 2026 · 3 min read

Giant Steps

Metta Quintet summons Miles Davis & John Coltrane at Shubert’s Elm City Cabaret.

Janday Wilson

16 Mar 2026 · 2 min read

All Over

Ambition, Wrestling & Bangladeshi Cuisine

Mash up in New Haven author P. Paramita’s debut novel “Appetite.”

Janday Wilson

13 Mar 2026 · 3 min read

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