Arts & Entertainment

The Weekend BDB Arts Section April 6

Live Music throughout the region!

Bethel Cinema, Movies and Showtimes

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JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME

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KID WITH A BIKE

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SALMON FISHING IN YEMEN

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LIVE MUSIC


Gomez & Sadlon Perform Smooth Jazz at the Aldrich Museum's First Friday Event!

April 6  258 Main St, Ridgefield, CT 

Gomez&Sadlon, a smooth jazz duo featuring guitarist Thom Gomez and saxophone/flutist Rick Sadlon, will be performing at the Aldrich Museum’s  First Friday Contemporary Cocktail Party on Friday, April 6 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

The Gomez & Sadlonjazz duo performs a wide range of music that features a repertoire of popular jazz, pop, rock and even some country musical selections from the American Songbook performed in an easy jazz style. Their music has been described as contemporary, melodic and smooth, yet artistic and they have the ability to interpret the music in a manner that everyone will recognize and enjoy.

The Aldrich Museum is located at: 258 Main Street in Ridgefield, CT. Admission is $10.00 for museum members and $15.00 for non-members. Drinks, munchies and docent-led tours are provided with admission. You can get more information by calling Jamie Pearl at: 203-438-4519 ext: 18 or email Jamie at:jpearl@aldrichart.org  More information is also available at: www.aldrichart.org/events

 You can hear a sample of the music of Gomez&Sadlon at:www.myspace.com/smoothjazzexpressions

 

Molten Java, 213 Greenwood Ave, Bethel, CT

FREE

We feature a variety of live performers every Friday and Saturday night. Check our web site or in-store calendar for more info OR take a chance and just show up! You never know what you're going to see! Our musicians play for tips so, please, support local music and thank them with loads of cash 


Murphy Brothers at My Place's Tap Room

8 Queen St, Newtown
FREE

The Murphy Brothers will be playing Classic Rock at My Place's Tap Room every 1st Saturday of the month!

 

Billy Michael at Proud Mary's!

19 Main St, Newtown, CT | Get Directions » 
FREE

There's something for everybody with Billy!  He play a variety of popular music from all eras: The Beatles, The Kinks, Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Nat King Cole, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Lovin' Spoonful‚ and many more. And, who knows? He might just call you up onstage to sing a Dusty Springfield tune.


LIVE MUSIC at Demitasse this Saturday

April 7, 2012, 7:00 pm

Demitasse, 3 Glen Rd, Sandy Hook

FREE

Live acoustical music every Saturday

Come down for a latte and dessert

Murphy Brothers at My Place's Tap Room April 7, 2012, 8:00 pm

My Place, 8 Queen St, Newtown, CT 

FREE

The Murphy Brothers will be playing Classic Rock at My Place's Tap Room every 1st Saturday of the month!

 

 Next Week: JOHN LENNON IMAGINED

Featuring The Nutopians

Listen To The Band Here 

 

The Nutopians are a unique, 8-piece ensemble that celebrate the genius and artistry of John Lennon.

In a show that rave reviews have called "magical," the ensemble gives remarkably fresh treatments to Lennon's songs from both Beatles and solo years, often inspiring a whole new appreciation for the icon's music.

Their debut CD "Imagined" won the Independent Music Award for Best Tribute Album of 2010.

April 13 @ 8:00 PM

$30 Advance/ $35 Door

 

ART

Coming in May, Tickets must be purchased in advance.:  Crazy Making: The Art of Sherri Wolfgang

How Art Saved the Soul of Sherri Wolfgang

Tickets must be purchased in advance.

In 2004, a storm of mental illness swept through Sherri Wolfgang’s world and tore her life apart.

For 25 years, her business, The Dynamic Duo Studio, Inc., was an award-winning design and illustration firm in New York, producing everything from the covers of the New York Times Magazine, Der Spiegel, Forbes and Barrons to ad campaigns for Coca-Cola, IBM, Burger King, MTV and Nickleodeon to the sets for movies such as “Zoolander.”

But in the end, the illness — bipolar disorder — would cost her her business and threaten to destroy her and her two young daughters.

In 2006, Wolfgang, a Westport resident, began the project she has titled “Crazy Making,” a scathing, existential series of paintings about the ravages of mental illness.

That series is going to be at the center of a benefit cocktail reception and exhibition at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan on the evening of May 18.

The exhibit, sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness - Connecticut, is titled “Art Talks” and will feature “unabashed works by and about those with mental illness,” including members of the ArtShip program at New Haven’s Fellowship Place.

The reception and exhibition are the Fairfield County kickoff for the annual NAMIWalk to raise awareness and combat the stigma of mental illness, and will include a talk on “Breaking Through: Retraining the Brain for Recovery,” by Morris D. Bell, Ph.D., ABPP, professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the Yale School of Medicine.

The benefit and exhibit will be at the Silvermine Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, May 18th. Tickets will not be available at the door but must be purchased in advance on the NAMI website: http://www.namict.org/art-talks.php.


COMING SOON

The Connecticut Film Festival returns to The Palace and downtown Danbury this April! More than 75 films will be screened during the festival along with workshops, discussions, and parties! April 26- April 29  Downtown Danbury

 

AZTEC TWO-STEP & Pete Fornatale Present The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook

(And some Aztec classics too!)

Renowned Folk-Rock Duo Aztec Two-Step will perform the music of Simon & Garfunkel (and some Aztec classics too) with Pete Fornatale providing commentary and personal anecdotes from interviews with Paul and Artie.

Rex Fowler and Neal Schulman are known for bringing the folk/rock music of the 1960's into the 70's and beyond. They continue to be one of acoustic music's most respected and enduring acts.

 

Legendary broadcaster Pete Fornatale is one of the most recognizable voices on rock radio. Architect of progressive FM radio in the 1960's, he has been a fixture on the New York dial for the past four decades.

 

    May 5 @ 8:00 PM

$30 Advance/$35 Door

 

 

 

 

 


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