Edgar Winter has been making music for more than 40 years — a legacy that will get its due at the Ridgefield Playhouse this weekend. In a recent interview, Winters said the he intends to go as far back as his 1970 debut album, “Entrance. Since then, he has gone on to record more than 20 albums, all the while broadening his musical horizons, as he noted. The younger brother of guitar legend Johnny Winter, this multi-instrumentalist (keyboards, saxophone and percussion) routinely blurs the lines of musical genres. He will be joined by Rick Derringer.
Beyond Winter, a number of musical acts are slated to perform throughout the area. Megadeth will make a stop at Mohegan Sun Arena (see the band’s video of “Foreclosure of a Dream” below), the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut takes to the stage in Norwalk, SalsaPalooza hits Hartford, Gigi Leung Wing-kei and The Best Time rock out a Chinese New Year show at Foxwoods, Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles comes to Wallingford and the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra welcomes violist David Creswell.
Art abounds, as well, from “Toy Stories” at the Westport Arts Center, “Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic” at the Bruce Museum, “Fourteen Threadless Needles,” at Gallery at Still River Editions in Danbury, “From Italy to America: Photographs of Anthony Riccio” at Fairfield University, “Charlie Hewitt: Cut and Printed, Recent Color Woodcuts” in at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, “Tropical Paradise,” at the Ferguson Library in Stamford.
Movies make their mark, too, from “Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance,” at Bridgeport’s Bijou Theatre, and “American Meat,” at Audubon Greenwich. Meanwhile, film critic Rex Reed comes to Fairfield University to talk about his lengthy career.
The stage is the place for a number of family features, including “Jack and the Beanstalk,” at the Ridgefield Playhouse, and an interesting take on the same story over at the Westport Country Playhouse with “The Stinky Cheese Man.”
Foodies will want to gather at 203 Studios in Stamford on Monday for “Fine Food for a Cause,” which will raise money for Stamford Family YMCA’s new teaching kitchen. The event honors restaurateur Joseph Bastianich and 2011 Miss America Teresa Scanlan.
Hopefully, the errands will be dispatched with speed and efficiency, so you can get on out there and enjoy the offerings.
Until next time …
