Music

Wednesday Nite Live Concert in Downtown Stamford: Felix Cavaliere and Gene Cornish’s Rascals

Four-Week Series of Evening Lectures on Beethoven Offered at Darien Library

What’s Playing at Levitt Pavilion Friday Through Wednesday, July 6 to 11

Ratso and Friends Performs Friday Night in Darien Summer Nights Series

Hear and Dance to Different Music, Taste Something Different at Norwalk’s NICE Festival on July 7

Sugar Bear Performs Friday in Darien Summer Nights Concert Series

Sugar Bear Performs Outdoors Friday in Darien Summer Nights Concert

Summer Season of 50 Shows Starts at Westport’s Levitt Pavilion This Week

Alive @ Five, Wednesday Nite Live Events Start This Week at Stamford’s Columbus Park

Singer-Songwriter Sheri Miller Performs Tuesday in New Canaan

Here’s Who Won the 2018 Darien’s Got Talent Competition [With Updates]

Saturday Night’s the Night: Darien’s Got Talent Starts at 7 PM

Atwater-Donnelly Perform Traditional American and Celtic Folk Songs Midday Saturday

Darien Summer Nights Concerts Begin This Friday, June 22, Continue Through September

Art, Music, Dance — Annual Artwalk Event Early Friday Night in Downtown Stamford

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Rascals Wednesday Nite Live performance coming

Two legendary founders of The Rascals, Felix Cavaliere and Gene Cornish, have teamed up for the first time in five years. They’ll be playing in Downtown Stamford on Wednesday, July 18. The outdoor event starts at 6:30 p.m.

— An announcement from the Stamford Downtown Special Services District

With hits that include “Groovin’,” “People Got To Be Free” and “Good Lovin’, The Rascals are widely considered the best ‘blue-eyed soul’ group to come out of the 1960s and their music is the soundtrack of a generation.

Felix Cavaliere and Gene Cornish’s The Rascals website

If You’re Going … Wednesday Nite Live events start at 6:30 p.m. in Columbus Park.

Join Darien Library for a this four-week series on Beethoven by Gil Harel, a musicologist and award-winning educator who has taught at CUNY Baruch College and Naguatuck Valley Community College. Each presentation takes place from 7 to 8 p.m. on a Wednesday in July. — from Darien Library announcements
About the Presenter
Gil Harel (PhD, Brandeis University) is a musicologist and music theorist whose interests include styles ranging from classical repertoire to jazz and popular music, as gwell as opera, medieval, and renaissance music. Previously, he has served on the faculty at CUNY Baruch College, where he was awarded the prestigious “Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching”, as well as the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China. Currently, he teaches at Naugatuck Valley Community College, where he was recently presented with the coveted “Merit Award for Exemplary Service to the College.”

Here’s what’s playing for free, outdoors at the Levitt Pavilion in Westport, from Friday, July 6 through Wednesday, July 11:
— an announcement from the Levitt Pavilion

You can get more details on the performers and the time of the performance by clicking on the name of each act. Friday: Billy & the Showmen
Established more than 50 years ago by band leader Billy Frenz, Billy and the Showmen has earned their reputation as one of Connecticut’s most enduring Rhythm & Blues bands. Billy & the Showmen deliver hard-driving R&B, Soul, and Funk from the 60’s and 70’s! The band’s repertoire includes the best of James Brown, Rick James, Percy Sledge, the Ohio Players, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett, Junior Welles, King Floyd, Average White Band, Tower of Power, Buddy Miles, Kool & the Gang, and Otis Redding. Saturday: Royal Jelly Jive

Royal Jelly Jive is bringing their unique blend of soul and rock back to the East Coast for an epic two-week run Tour highlights include playing Bottlerock, Soul’d Out Music Fest, Portland Waterfront Blues and sharing the stages with Michael Franti of Spearhead, Rebirth Brass band, and Tank and Bangas. And of course, the Levitt Pavilion’s Epstein Stage!

John Ratso Gerardi John Gerardi Darien Summer Nights

Ratso and Friends will play Friday, July 6 at Grove Street Plaza as part of the Darien Summer Nights concert series. This year John “Ratso” Gerardi will be joined with Scott Spray on bass, Fonda Feingold on keyboard and Vito Liuzzi on drums.

John promises a concert to remember as he has a few surprises ready for the crowd. Ratso and Friends have been playing Blues on Grove Street Plaza to a large and adoring audience for years. The concert runs from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Darien Summer Nights concerts are free. For more information about the concerts and who’s performing this summer, see the website.

The third annual Norwalk NICE Festival, an all-day, free, summer multicultural celebration of music, food, and dance, takes place Saturday, July 7. You may find it a lot more than nice.

This day-long event is filled with an abundance of cultural performances and numerous vendors offering a wide array of international cuisines and arts and crafts. — an announcement from the Norwalk NICE Festival, including information from the festival website

Experience live performances from multiple traditions to include live dancers with origins in Flamenco, Asian, African, and more; Live music includes Rock, Reggae, Rhythm & Blues, Latin, Folk and music across all genres. Honoring Norwalk International Cultural Exchange’s commitment to increasing awareness of the diversity of people from around the world through arts and culture, NICE festival organizers have assembled a line-up of multicultural, celebratory sounds for all ages to enjoy.

Sugar Bear, a seven-piece band that performed in the Darien Summer Nights concert series last year is back again for a performance from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Friday, June 29, at Grove Street Plaza. The band performs unique renditions of classic rhythm & blues, classic rock, soul, reggae, country and contemporary songs. Lead singer Henry Jones of “The David Henry Project” established the band in 2015 with an A-list of great musicians and singers. Sugar Bear performed for the first time last year at Darien Summer Nights to rave reviews and they are excited to return to the stage! All Darien Summer Nights concerts are free.

On Friday June 29, Darien Summer Nights welcomes Henry Jones and his band, Sugar Bear. Henry, who was formerly the lead singer of “The David Henry Project”, started his own band in 2015.

Sugar Bear is a seven-piece band that performs unique renditions of classic rhythm & blues, classic rock, soul, reggae, country and contemporary songs. Last summer, Sugar Bear performed to rave reviews when they stepped in to play for a band whose lead singer cam down with laryngitis. — an announcement from Darien Summer Nights

They played to an excited crowd who danced the night away as they rocked Grove Street Plaza.

The Levitt Pavilion in Westport boasts 50 shows this summer during weekends and weeknights including some big-name acts, kid-friendly Wednesday shows — and it’s all for free. You just have to fight traffic to get there from Darien. The Levitt features music, dance, comedy, theater and sometimes films in an outdoor setting through Aug. 25 this year, when Melissa Etheridge performs at the Levitt for a fundraising concert. The start of the season begins Sunday night, June 24 with a Neil Diamond tribute act that has already sold out.

Alive@Five, downtown Stamford’s Thursday night summer concert series, begins this Thursday, June 28 with Gavin DeGrawwith on stage, and the day before, the Wednesday Nite Live series begins in the same place, with the O’Jays. Later, Gin Blossoms plays Thursday, July 19 and Joe Jackson on July 11. Entrance fees for both concert series are $20 per person. See the Video for Alive Five and Wednesday Nite Live:

Alive@Five
The Alive@Five concerts start at 5 p.m. at Columbus Park, and are for concertgoers 21 and over. Live music from national and regional headliners, which attracts after-work crowds.

Singer-songwriter Sheri Miller performs performs her soulful, Beatles-inspired love songs, while accompanying herself on guitar and piano Tuesday night, June 26 at New Canaan Library. Her “celebration of women’s voices in music and songwriting” begins Tuesday, June 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the Adrian Lamb Room at the library. Please register online at the New Canaan Library website. Named one of Music Connection’s “Hot 100 Unsigned Artists,” Sheri Miller writes and . In honor of women’s voices in music, Sheri will also sing a wide range of popular, classic favorites, including songs by Patsy Cline, Judy Garland, and The Beatles, among others.

Seven happy contestants or contestant teams walked away with awards and prizes at the culmination of Saturday night’s 2018 Darien’s Got Talent show at Darien High School. Editor’s note: This article originally was published Saturday night. More information about the event has been announced by Darien Arts Center and has been included below at 2:12 p.m., Monday.

Cary WangThe winner in the adult category was Tom Giles, who played “Skedaddle,” his own composition on the piano. In the Children’s Category, Cary Wang, who also played the piano on stage, was the winner.

2018 Darien's Got Talent finalists from DAC

Saturday night’s the night, June 23, when 21 finalists from Darien and neighboring towns compete in Darien’s Got Talent at Darien High School. The event starts at 7 p.m.

If You’re Going … Tickets for Darien’s Got Talent are $35 and are available at darienarts.org. VIP tickets are $125 and include center section seating and entry to the post show party. Many family sponsorship options are also available at DarienArts.org.

New Canaan Library is pleased to welcome back award winning, internationally acclaimed musical duo Atwater-Donnelly, performing their compelling blend of traditional American and Celtic folk songs and percussive dance music. The performance takes place on Saturday, June 23 at 12 noon in Christine’s Garden, corner of Maple Street and South Avenue, adjacent to the Library and across from the Farmer’s Market. Attendees should bring a lawn chair or blanket for seating; please register for this program online. Elwood Donnelly and Aubrey Atwater blend beautiful harmonies and play an astonishing array of instruments including guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica and banjo. What exactly they will perform is always an unknown, because first they ‘read’ their audience.

The first night of this year’s Darien Summer Nights concerts at Grove Street Plaza will be Friday, June 22, featuring Bad Dog Buddy. A number of new bands have been added to the series, which will run through Sept. 21. The free concerts run from to 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Bad Dog Buddy is a group of local friends from Darien, New Canaan, Westport and Wilton. They met playing together in the adult program at the New Canaan School of Rock and through a shared passion for performing live music formed a band!

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Artwalk, an evening of art-related, free events as well as live music and dance, takes place from 5 to 8 p.m., Friday, June 22 on several blocks in downtown Stamford. You can stroll through Stamford’s downtown streets and visit seven galleries, where you can meet participating artists (see the list below). Along the way, you’ll find live music and dancing (take a look at that list, below, too). ________

— This information is from an announcement on the Stamford Downtown website

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The 6th annual Artwalk features more than 100 painters, photographers, sculptors, and multi-media artists, reflecting a diverse sampling of mediums, styles, and trends in contemporary art. Most of the artwork will be available to buy.