An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Walsh Gallery: Fairfield

Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield

April 11 – August 16, 2025 This exhibition will present some of the highlights of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This remarkable collection investigates the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and its impact through art, by some of the most eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in […]

Dialogues: Composers Abroad at Norfolk Music Shed

Norfolk Music Shed 49 Battell Rd, Norfolk

Enjoy a program of European composers who influenced American music in various ways, both through their musical works and as pedagogues. ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74 PAUL HINDEMITH Septet for Wind Instruments ERNST VON DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintet No. 1 in c minor Frank Morelli  bassoon Kevin Cobb  trumpet and the  Norfolk Fellows   PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION 7–7:40 […]

Free – $70

7th Annual Woodies at Mystic Seaport

Mystic Seaport 75 Greenmanville Ave, Mystic

Sponsored by Yankee Wood Chapter of the National Woodies Club. Pre-registration is required. Info: Bill Lyman | 860.908.8097 | mysticwoodies@gmail.com For more information Photo: Yankee Wood Chapter

The Joke Show! at The Legacy Theater

Legacy Theatre 128 Thimble Islands Road, Branford

Saturday, July 12 at 10am & 1pm Autographed Books for sale after the show, AND meet the author himself! Based on Alan Katz hilarious book that's selling like hot cakes, […]

$25

John Boone—WHATSWHAT at Lyman Allyn

Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New London

May 3 – August 10, 2025 Attuned to idioms and their layers of meaning, artist John Boone (American, born 1951) explores the complexity of language in his word-based paintings. At once playful and serious, Boone engages the viewer with familiar phrases, initiating a conversation and inviting the viewer to imagine what comes next. WHATSWHAT features a […]

Free – $10

The Brentano Quartet at Norfolk Music Shed

Norfolk Music Shed 49 Battell Rd, Norfolk

“Hair-raising... An ensemble of exceptional insight ...” The Daily Telegraph (London) FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN String Quartet  in C Major, Op. 54, No. 2, Hob. III: 57 TIMO ANDRES Machine, Learning ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK String Quartet in G Major, Op. 106   PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION 7–7:40 PM | BATTELL RECITAL HALL For more information  

Free – $70