Dean Falcone’s Vomitorium Wednesday night at Cafe Nine in New Haven

Tom invites one and all to Dean Falcone’s 18th annual Vomitorium night of music at Cafe Nine on State Street in New Haven. Tom invites one and all to Dean Falcone’s 18th annual Vomitorium night of music at Cafe Nine on State Street in New Haven. Photo: Contributed Photo: Contributed Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Dean Falcone’s Vomitorium Wednesday night at Cafe Nine in New Haven 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

NEW HAVEN >> Don’t wait until you’re all stuffed full of tryptophan, laying on the coach in your turkey-and-stuffing-induced coma AFTER Thanksgiving dinner.

You can break out the vomitorium the night BEFORE Thanksgiving this year, as for the second straight year Dean Falcone presents what this year will be his 18th annual Thanksgiving Vomitorium at Cafe Nine on the Wednesday night BEFORE the holiday.

Besides, it frees you up to work stocking shelves – or join the stampede – at Wal-Mart or the mall on Thanksgiving night. That’s how you really always have wanted to celebrate the season, isn’t it?

This year’s Vomitorium will feature a special tribute to The Kinks, Falcone said. Showtime is 8 p.m. Admission is a mere $5.

Falcone, who has played over the years in any number of bands, including The Manchurians and The Shellye Valauskas Experience, Dean and the Dragsters, One Hundred Faces and The Excerpts, will be joined this year, as always, by an all-star cast of good friends.

And generally speaking, Falcone’s friends tend to be pretty good musicians.

This year’s crop will include Ed Valauskas, Jim Balga and “special guests TBA!” Falcone said.

So what exactly IS the Vomitorium?

For the uninitiated, it’s where attendees get to “overcook perfectly good songs and violate them!” Falcone said in a press release.

“Watch friends and enemies battle their way through songs they don’t know!” he said. “Watch in amazement as audience members are unwillingly dragged to the stage to sing! See who fills the Vomitorium buckets with holiday cheer! See all your favorite bar stars!

You never know who is going to show up or what they’re going to play – and often they don’t, either, until it happens, he said.

Call Mark Zaretsky at 203-789-5722.