Fairfield Community Corner

National Arts and Humanities Month - October 2008

Jazz Master McCoy Tyner Comes to Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts

Fairfield, CT - Jazz Master McCoy Tyner joins the talented members of his quartet onstage at Fairfield University¹s Quick Center for the Arts.
Tyner¹s blues-based...

EarthTalk: Does inflating car tires with nitrogen help the environment?

Dear EarthTalk: Is using nitrogen to inflate my car’s tires really better for the environment than using air? And if so, how? -- R.M.
Whether or not it makes...

Sandy Weill is This Year's Dolan Lecturer

Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business present Sanford I. Weill and daughter Jessica M. Bibliowicz in talk about leadership, markets and globalization...

Poet Baron Wormser To Read From His Work At Fairfield University

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Fairfield, CT - Former poet laureate of Maine and best-selling author,
Baron Wormser, will share and discuss his work at Fairfield University as part...

Weekend Activities in and around Fairfield

Jonatha Brooke and Glen Phillips

First as half of the folk-pop duo The Story and later as a solo artist,
singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke has spent nearly two decades incorporating
folk, pop and rock into...

Tony Trischka's Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular Show

The avant-garde banjo stylings of Tony Trischka inspired a whole
generation of progressive bluegrass musicians; he was not only
considered among the very best pickers, he was...

Tim Reynolds and TR3 II Show

Tim Reynolds has been playing music all of his life. Starting as a
bass player in a gospel band in his hometown of St. Louis to his days
with TR3, his breakthrough electric...

McCoy Tyner Quartet

It is not an overstatement to say
that modern jazz has been shaped by the music of McCoy Tyner. His bluesbased piano
style, replete with sophisticated chords and an explosively...

Jack Klugman Live

Presented by The Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on the Campus of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut
The Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at...

Press Dough Cuts Prep Time on Frighteningly Fun Food for Little Ghouls

News From Gov. Rell week of 09/29/2008

The Met: Live in HD Presents Karita Mattila’s ‘Possessed’ Salome at Fairfield University

Fairfield, CT  -  “…I cannot think of a performance on any stage in New York right now that tops Ms. Mattila’s Salome for courage, intensity and emotional...

Rosh Hashanah Begins September 29, Resident Learns to Blow the Shofar at The Jewish Home

Residents at The Jewish Home for the Elderly are preparing to welcome in the New Year of 5769 when Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown,  Recently (9/8/08), as her husband David...

Awards to Be Presented at Fall Gala

The Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County has announced Kurt B. Hersher, of Easton, as the recipient of the Arthur and Gladys Lunin Humanitarian Award. This award was...

Don’t let dining out in the Fairfield area do you in!

Parsons Dance

The company has officially dropped Company from the name.  It is now billed as Parsons Dance.  I also neglected to include the photo credit for the two jpgs (again...

Fr. Coleman Columbiette Charity Auction

A Taste of the American Musical - Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin

Combining live performances with film clips and music, musical
theatre historian Aruthur Gang will share history, anecdotes and
legends of those uniquely American cultural...