Welcome to Ridgefield

On view: Jan 25- Feb 28 
Opening reception on Friday, Jan. 25 from 4-6pm

Ridgefield Art on Main returns with an exhibition of Abstract artists from in and around Ridgefield. The show will span over two locations: The Ridgefield Library and Touch of Sedona at 452 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT. 

Artists: Eleanor O’Keefe Anderson, Heidi Lewis Coleman, Charles Gulbrandsen, Jennifer Glover Riggs, Frances Goulart, Richard Danzig, Luiza Budea, Alice Hayes, Iulian Budea, randi Nussbaum, Daniel Wade Barett, Philip Pollak, Viorica Ghetu-Vuono.

Art can be inspiring or humdrum, beautiful or ugly, worthwhile or insignificant, attentive to the world in which it is made or created seemingly in a world all its own. One thing it almost always does is promote a discussion…a conversation.

For this year’s Member Show we invite art that will spark a conversation, be it about technique or material, style or subject matter, ideas that matter deeply to the artist or ideas that may inflame the viewer. We welcome all forms of expression, so long as they encourage thought-provoking conversations.

Important Dates: (*please note, these dates have changed due to a renovation project happening at the Guild during the first few weeks of January)

Receiving: Friday, Jan. 25 from 12 – 4 and Saturday, Jan. 26 from 12 – 4, (Snow date: Sunday, Jan. 27, 12 – 4).

Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb 2, 4 – 6 pm (Snow date: Sunday, Feb. 3).

Show closes: Sunday, Feb. 17 at 4.

Pick-up of all unsold work*: Monday, Feb. 18 from 12 – 4 and Tuesday, Feb. 19 from 2 – 6 (Snow day Wednesday, Feb. 13 from 2 – 6).

*All work must be picked up during regular pick-up hours or a $20 late fee will be applied. NO 
EXCEPTIONS. If you cannot make these pick-up times, please make arrangements with a friend or family member to pick up your work for you within the time frames given. The Guild cannot be responsible for works left behind.

Entry/Fees

The Guild’s 3-part entry forms will be available to fill out when you bring your work for receiving. The show is open to all Ridgefield Guild of Artists members age 16 and older. Non-members may join when they drop off work for submission. Artists may submit up to 2 works. Fees are $15 for first entry and $10 for second entries, payable by cash, check, or credit card. Fees are nonrefundable and payable to RGA.

Criteria

All artwork must be for sale. 
Be sure your prices are correct, there will be no changes made after acceptance.

Work can be up to 52 x 52 inches, including the frame. Diptychs and Triptychs must be within the 52” x 52” restriction when assembled. They are sold as one piece unless artist pays a fee for each separate piece.

Wall-hung work must be wired and ready for hanging unless there is an artistic reason to use another method. Saw-tooth hangers are not allowed, and all work must be secure in the frame. 
Any piece that has a loose frame, falling artwork within the frame, insufficient numbers of fasteners to secure the artwork within the frame, an improper or insecure method of attaching the wire, or any other non-professional presentation will not be accepted. Sculpture must be fully assembled and secured to a stable base and weigh no more than 150lbs.

Recent pieces please! Work should have been created no earlier than 2015. Work already shown at the Guild will not be eligible.

All work must be dry and we will check to insure this. It will not be accepted.

Be sure your information is correct at the time of delivery and registering. Changes will not be allowed after the fact.

All work must be delivered within the drop-off time period. No work will be accepted after the time period is over.

All work must remain for the duration of the show. No work may be removed for any reason before the closing.

At the end of the show all work must be picked-up during the stated time periods. Any work left at the Guild after pick-up has ended is subject to a $20 storage fee. If the artist cannot pick up, we will allow someone else to do it with the artist’s permission.

Sales & Indemnity

All works must be for sale. Guild retains a 40% commission on all sales. The Ridgefield Guild of Artists will take the greatest possible care of all submitted works but will not be responsible for any damage to or loss of work submitted, exhibited, or left unclaimed.

WORKING is the extraordinary musical from Grammy and Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz (WICKED) based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with the American workforce. This highly original and universal portrait of the American workday is told from the perspective of those that the world so often overlooks – the school teacher, the housewife, the fireman and the waitress amongst many – whose daily grind and aspirations reflect the truths of the people that make up a nation. This world-premier version of WORKING features new music by Lin-Manuel Miranda (HAMILTON) with additional contributions by Daniel C. Levine.

Performances Thursday-Sunday with Matinees on Saturday & Sunday. 

Bring the whole family out for a night at The Aldrich. Join us for pizza and snacks as we start the evening with a screening of the movie Monsters, Inc.!at 6:15 pm. Following the movie, participate in a flashlight tour around the Museum.

Visit The Aldrich for FREE the Third Saturday of each month! See the latest in contemporary art and participate in family-friendly art-making workshops in The Studio.

Family Workshop: Sumi-e Self-Portraits

10 am to 12 noon; children ages 2 to 5

1 to 3 pm; children ages 6 to 10

Explore the Japanese style of Sumi-e (black ink paintings) to create portraits of you and your family on watercolor paper. Explore how different brush strokes can evoke texture, shape, and emotion as you use lines and shapes to create unique and custom portraits.

Explore the ocean in this exciting afternoon workshop! Create your own paper sea creatures to add to our three-dimensional Aldrich Aquarium installation! Will there be sea turtles? A school of fish? Anemones? You decide! Help us create a beautiful Aldrich Aquarium. All ages

With more than 20 years of stand-up comedy experience, Jim Breuer remains one of today’s top touring comedians, known for his charismatic stage antics, dead-on impressions, and family-friendly stand-up. After making his big break in 1995 when he joined the cast of NBC’s legendary “Saturday Night Live,” Breuer quickly became a fan-favorite for his original character “Goat Boy: and his dead-on impressions of actor Joe Pesci. Following his success on SNL, Breuer starred alongside Dave Chappelle in the cult favorite film “Half Baked.”

Over the years, Breuer has been something of a multi-media sensation currently appearing alongside Kevin James on “Kevin Can Wait” on CBS as well as popular films “Zookeeper,” “Dick,” “Titan A.E.” and “Beer League”; hosting MTV’s popular “Beach House” and VH1’s “Web Junk 20”; and being featured on “Comedy Jam,” “This Is Not Happening,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” and “The Marriage Ref.”

Grab a glass of wine and join us in exploring the basics of drawing the figure with artist and Aldrich staff member Noah Steinman. With a live model as inspiration, use a variety of materials such as charcoal, oil pastel and graphite sticks. Feel free to bring your own materials; no prior drawing experience necessary! Ages 21

With more than 20 years of stand-up comedy experience, Jim Breuer remains one of today’s top touring comedians, known for his charismatic stage antics, dead-on impressions, and family-friendly stand-up. After making his big break in 1995 when he joined the cast of NBC’s legendary “Saturday Night Live,” Breuer quickly became a fan-favorite for his original character “Goat Boy: and his dead-on impressions of actor Joe Pesci. Following his success on SNL, Breuer starred alongside Dave Chappelle in the cult favorite film “Half Baked.”

Over the years, Breuer has been something of a multi-media sensation currently appearing alongside Kevin James on “Kevin Can Wait” on CBS as well as popular films “Zookeeper,” “Dick,” “Titan A.E.” and “Beer League”; hosting MTV’s popular “Beach House” and VH1’s “Web Junk 20”; and being featured on “Comedy Jam,” “This Is Not Happening,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” and “The Marriage Ref.”

Dr. Michael Norris, art historian and former museum educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give an illustrated talk about George Washington through works of art drawn from area museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum and the New York Historical Society.  Norris will emphasize how artists of Washington’s on time portrayed him for posterity and how that posterity, through its own crop of artists, commemorated his deeds.

This program is part of Revisiting the Founding Era, a three-year national initiative of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, presented in partnership with the American Library Association and the National Constitution Center, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant provides 100 public libraries across the country the opportunity to use historical documents to spark public conversations about the Founding Era’s enduring ideas and themes and how they continue to influence our lives today. This program is part of a larger series called First Principles, which aims to continue this conversation into the future.

Please register.

With special guests: Cha Wa & Joe Lastie’s New Orleans Sound

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 7:30pm

Three bands direct from New Orleans are bringing Mardi Gras to CT! For more than 40 years, the internationally renowned, New Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band has taken the traditional foundation of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of Bebop Jazz, Funk and R&B/Soul. In addition to their genre-bending romps and high-octane performances, they are known for collaborations with Modest Mouse, Widespread Panic, Norah Jones and others! New Orleans brass band-meets-Mardi Gras Indian outfit Cha Wa radiates the fiery energy of the best features of the city’s street culture. Preservation Hall Jazz Band hall-of-famer, Joe Lastie brings his drumming, along with a full band direct from NOLA for a night of traditional jazz, brass-band songs and gospel. The night is complete with Mardi Gras beads at the door and Hurricanes at the bar!

Tickets: $39.50

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY IN 2018!

13,137 donors gave $1,400,887 to 416 nonprofits on March 1, 2018

Powered by Fairfield County’s Community Foundation, this dynamic 24-hour fundraising event unites our community around local causes that are closest to your hearts.

This special day allows anyone to become a philanthropist! When thousands of people come together for the greater good, transformative thinking and actions begin to happen. The Community Foundation joins individuals, families, nonprofits and companies – like lead sponsor Bank of America.

The region’s biggest philanthropic event, Giving Day 2018 made a huge impact by raising over $1.4 million, which was donated by 13,000+ individuals in support of 415 local nonprofits.

With original lead vocalist and founder Gary Brooker at the helm, Procol Harum returns to The Playhouse!

Best known for their international smash hit, “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, which is one of fewer than 30 singles to have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and, their follow-up hits “Conquistador” and Salty Dog”, Procol Harum have become one of the most beloved bands to ever come out of the UK. Still going strong in 2018, singer/pianist/composer and founding member, Gary Brooker, remains at the helm.  They recently announced a remastered & expanded edition reissue of the classic 1972 album ‘Live in Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’ to be released in vinyl LP & CD formats in late October 2018.

A funny and emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love, starring two iconic TV stars – Barbara Eden (“I Dream of Jeannie”) and Hal Linden (“Barney Miller”).

Two friends, rebellious Melissa Gardner and straight-arrow Andrew Makepeace Ladd III have exchanged notes, cards and letters with each other for over 50 years. From second grade, through summer vacations, to college, and well into adulthood, they have spent a lifetime discussing their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats. But long after the letters are done, the real question remains: Have they made the right choices or is the love of their life only a letter away?

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present the first museum survey of the work of the trailblazing artist, feminist and lesbian scholar, curator, activist, and author Harmony Hammond. Spanning almost fifty years, 1971 to 2018, the exhibition will bring together her earliest painted sculptures and sculpted paintings, mixed-media and monumental “installational” paintings of the 1980’s and 1990’s, and recent thickly painted “near monochromes,” as well as works on paper, ephemera, and publications. Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art will be on view at The Aldrich from March 3 to September 15, 2019.

For five decades, Hammond has created an inimitable approach that unites Minimalist and Postminimalist concerns—the grid, repetition, an engagement with materials, process, and site-activation—with feminist art strategies. In doing so, she recovers marginalized craft traditions that combine abstraction with a wide cast of materials: those that are scavenged and imbued with redolent stories like fabric, burlap, rope, straw, leaves, roots, pine needles, dirt, hair, blood, bone, linoleum, metal roofing, burnt wood, and grommets; and those that are traditional such as oil and acrylic paint, graphite, watercolor, latex rubber, and bronze. Through her use of primarily additive and connective processes, Hammond has created a network of meaning that “presences the body.” Her surfaces are expressive, skins endowed with fleshly textures, marks, and appendages. They exude a toughness, an imperative energy, predicated on performative muscular procedures of production such as ripping, tying, wrapping, binding, braiding, puncturing, strapping, and patching, resulting in surfaces and forms infused with social implications.

Harmony Hammond (b. 1944) was a prominent figure in the development of the feminist art movement in New York in the early 1970s. Besides her being a co-founder of A.I.R. and the journal HERESIES: A Feminist Publication of Art & Politics(1976), she is the author of Wrappings: Essays on Feminism, Art, and the Martial Arts(TSL Press, 1984), considered to be a seminal publication of 1970s feminist art; her groundbreaking book Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History (Rizzoli, 2000) received a Lambda Literary Award. Hammond attended the University of Minnesota from 1963 to 1967, and moved to New York City in 1969. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in New Mexico, teaching at the University of Arizona, Tucson, from 1989 to 2006. In 2013, Hammond was honored with the College Art Association’s Distinguished Feminist Award. Her work has been exhibited at institutions nationally and internationally.

A full-color scholarly publication, with an essay by Amy Smith-Stewart, will be available during the exhibition. This book will be the first hardcover monograph of Hammond’s work.

Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra will be performing a concert featuring their string ensemble and wind ensemble. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for seniors and students–available at the door.

Join Camerata d’Amici for their annual Winter Concert on Sunday, March 3rd at 4:00 p.m. More information to come!

In what could be the most enlightening 2 hours you’ve ever spent, this class will show you how you can actually begin using your speaking voice for commercials, films, videos, and more. Whether you choose to pursue voice-overs part-time or full-time, this could be the game changer you’ve been looking for.

COURSE INFORMATION
School Name: Ridgefield Public Schools
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Fee: $31 (Senior Discount: $24)
Limited Seating
One Session
Ages 18
Venue Phone: 203-431-2812
Email: ridgefieldcontinuingeducation@gmail.com
Registration Link: http://bit.ly/2tj7Iuk

This event brings together members of the community for a fun evening of friendly competition to benefit a great cause-RVNA Nursing Education. 

$20 Adults, $5 Students

Join us for the 2019 Kids Expo & Camp Fair at Lounsbury House. Learn about all the wonderful youth centered organizations and summer camp options for kids of all ages. There will be a variety of new and exciting camps to check out. Hope to see you there!

This event is FREE and open to the public.

We will have two sessions 11:00AM to 2:00PM and 5:30PM to 8:00PM.

For more information, email Christina Collura at Christina@lounsburyhouse.org.

Adults and teens interested in learning how to draw are invited in for a fun and instructive drawing workshop with Claire Watson Garcia, author of the celebrated book Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner, now available in a 5th anniversary revised edition. Claire is a Ridgefield resident and instructor at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, where she teaches art courses for adults. She will share the proven techniques in her book to help participants get started drawing confidence. Registration is required. A $5.00 fee will be collected at the door at cover art materials. 

Please register at www.ridgefieldlibrary.org or call 203-438-2282. 

Come support the Lounsbury House and enjoy a few drinks at Gallo Ristorante!

As seen on “America’s Got Talent: The Champions,” Tape Face returns in a funny, family-friendly show! Every once in a while, something magical reminds us that we all have an inner child that must be fed. Through simple, clever and charming humor aimed at satisfying that hunger, Tape Face has created one of the most accessible and enjoyable shows the world has ever seen. Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking – drama with no acting. Tape Face has to be seen to be believed. So what does he do exactly? Well, simply mentioning any aspect of this diverse show would be a disservice – the less you know the more you will enjoy this show. Tape Face is a character with universal appeal. Delightful, wry, many-layered and hilarious, he transcends the barriers of language and culture. You’ll laugh, you’ll scream and ultimately end up like Tape Face – lost for words.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Jefferson Starship return to The Playhouse with a night of hits – “Volunteers,” “White Rabbit,” “Wooden Ships,” “Somebody to Love,” “Crown of Creation,” “Miracles,” “Count on Me,” “Jane” and “Find Your Way Back” and many more! The band features original and historic members David Freiberg (also a founder of San Francisco luminaries Quicksilver Messenger Service) and drummer Donny Baldwin, along with longtime members Chris Smith on keyboards and synth bass, Jude Gold on lead guitar and GRAMMY Nominee Cathy Richardson anchoring the female lead vocal spot. Between 1974 and 1984, Jefferson Starship released eight gold and platinum albums, twenty hit singles, sold out concerts worldwide and lived out legendary rock and roll escapades.

There will be a table in the lobby at this show to learn more about PETA and the ethical treatment of animals.

High Art

Six Pieces for Orchestra
Anton Webern

Trittico Botticelliano
Ottorino Respighi

Cello Concerto in C Major
Franz Joseph Haydn

The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra’s commitment to world-class performances of the greatest music ever written is our history and our future!  Beethovan, Bartok, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Stravinsky and more will be played in wonderful live performances by the superb musicians of the RSO during our 2018-19 Season.

Concerts are held in the Anne S. Richardson Auditorium at Ridgefield High School, 700 North Salem Road, Ridgefield, CT and at the Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 East Ridge Road in Ridgefield, CT.  Concerts begin at 8:00 pm.

Purchasing tickets is convenient!  Order online, call the RSO Box Office at 203.438.3889 or buy tickets in person at the RSO Office.  We are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm and are located at 77 Danbury Road in Ridgefield.

THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY of The Machine with 3 Albums – 1 Incredible Night
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and an extended encore!

THE MACHINE performs Pink Floyd, America’s top Pink Floyd show, has forged a 30-year reputation for extending the legacy of Pink Floyd, selling out theaters, premier showcase rooms and casinos across North America, Europe and Asia, performing at renowned music festivals such as Bonnaroo, Riverbend, and Gathering of the Vibes, and sharing the stage with full symphony orchestras, including the Atlanta, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville and San Diego Symphonies, as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic.

The New York-based quartet performs a diverse mix of The Floyd’s extensive 16-album repertoire, complete with faithful renditions of popular hits as well as obscure gems. With stellar musicianship and passionate delivery, The Machine explores collective improvisation rivaling that of an early 1970’s Pink Floyd. Their use of expanded theatrical elements and elaborate stage displays and lighting continues in the spirit of the later Floyd of the 1980’s. The band is also known for recreating entire albums as a part of their show, accepting requests from fans, and for taking an A to Z approach in which one song is played for every letter of the alphabet. Special shows include lasers by the same company that provides classic Pink Floyd laser effects for Roger Waters and David Gilmour tours.

The members of The Machine include founding members Joe Pascarell (guitar, vocals) and Tahrah Cohen (drums), and long time band mates Stephen Bard (bass, vocals) and Scott Chasolen (keys, vocals).

A Tour and Lecture at the John Jay Homestead

Ridgefield Historical Society

4 Sunset Lane

Ridgefield, CT 06877

203.438.5821

ridgefieldhistory@sbcglobal.net

The Ridgefield Historical Society is pleased to announce a tour and lecture at the John Jay Homestead, 400 Jay Street, Katonah, NY, on Saturday, March 23 from 1 to 3 pm.  Just 20 minutes west of Ridgefield, the John Jay Homestead is the place to which Founding Father John Jay retired in 1801 after decades of public service. He had served as President of the Second Continental Congress, principal negotiator of the Treaty of Paris, Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation, and the first Chief Justice of the United States. The tour will focus on the years of his residency (many of the Jay family furnishings remain within the house) and the lecture will touch on Jay’s relationships with Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison and his work as a diplomat, jurist, and prominent citizen of the Founding Era.

Space is limited. The cost of the program is $18 for members and $20 for nonmembers. To RSVP online, please visit the event page at ridgefieldhistoricalsociety.org or call 203-438-5821. For more information about membership, please visit ridgefieldhistoricalsociety.org/member.

Join us for the first in a series of interviews presented by Emmy Award-winner Dick Cavett! Cavett will interview legends in the entertainment industry throughout the season live on The Playhouse stage. We start with Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Danner is best known for her role as Dina Byrnes in Meet the Parents, and its sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers. She has collaborated on several occasions with Woody Allen, appearing in three of his films: Another Woman, Alice, and Husbands and Wives. Danner’s celebrated television roles include “Huff” (for which she won two Emmy Awards), “Will & Grace,” “We Were the Mulvaneys” and “Back When We Were Grownups.” She is also the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.

Over the course of his five-decade career, Dick Cavett has conducted in-depth, television interviews with some of the greatest talents of our time including Salvador Dali, Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Marlon Brando, John Lennon and many more!

A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit the Leir Foundation Arts for Everyone outreach program.

Ridgefield’s older adult community is invited to attend a wonderful Senior Luncheon in our beautiful, historic setting. You’ll be treated to a delicious three-course catered lunch from a local restaurant, and special performances. Each luncheon runs from 12:00-2:00 p.m.

We are pleased to offer the 2019 luncheons free of charge, thanks to our amazing sponsors. We are incredibly grateful for their generosity and commitment.

Reservations are required and may be made by contacting our Event Office at 203-438-6962.

Imagine being able to step into the mind of one of the world’s greatest authors as she completes her masterpiece…

Austen’s Pride springs to life as Jane Austen transforms her rough draft into a beloved classic. As the characters from “Pride and Prejudice” come to life around her, Jane Austen learns to see both the story and herself in a new light. With a glorious and sweeping score, Austen’s Pride is a Connecticut premier, and we are thrilled that our audiences will be the first to see it! 

Performances Thursday-Sunday with Matinees on Saturday & Sunday. 

Star and executive producer of the Netflix original series “Magic for Humans,” Willman is a regular guest on “The Tonight Show,” “Ellen,” and “Conan.” His online videos have logged over a 100 million views. The L.A. Times calls him, “A new breed of comic who’s making magic cool again for grown-ups.”

The annual Lounsbury House Bunny Brunch will be held on Sunday, April 7 with seating at 11:00 a.m.

Comedian, actor, radio host and best-selling author, Jay Mohr has been performing stand-up comedy since he was sixteen years old. After landing his dream job of Saturday Night Live, and launching his career with Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire, he appeared in over 200 episodes of network television and over 25 feature films working with a plethora of Academy Award-winning actors, including Christopher Walken, Rene Zellwegger, Al Pacino, Angelina Jolie, Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Cuba Gooding Jr, Ellen Burstyn, Forrest Whitikar, Kim Bassinger, Matt Damon, and Clint Eastwood.

“We Will Rock You,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and “Another One Bites the Dust” are just a few of the monster Queen hits performed in this stunning recreation and celebration of the music of Queen, complete with over-the-top staging, lighting and effects. ONOQ is a spectacular live concert, bringing the look, sound, pomp and showmanship of arguably the greatest rock band of all time back to the stage.

If you enjoyed the box office smash hit, Bohemian Rhapsody, Gary Mullens & The Works will show you what it would’ve been like to experience one night of Queen. 

Musicians from the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra perform Stravinsky’s dramatic piece “A Solider’s Tale”.  The evening will also include a fund silent and live auction and champagne and dessert following the performance!  Tickets available at ridgefieldsymphony.org or by calling 203.438.3889. 

Formed in 1967, signed in 1971, and fronted by iconic vocalist Kevin Cronin since 1972, REO Speedwagon’s unrelenting drive, as well as non-stop touring and recording jump-started the burgeoning rock movement in the Midwest. Platinum albums and radio staples soon followed, setting the stage for the release of the band’s explosive Hi Infidelity in 1980, which contained the massive hit singles “Keep On Loving You,” and “Take It On the Run.” That landmark album spent 15 weeks in the No. 1 slot and has since earned the RIAA’s coveted 10X Diamond Award for surpassing sales of 10 million units in the United States.

Today, REO Speedwagon has sold 40 million albums around the globe, and Cronin and bandmates Bruce Hall (bass), Neal Doughty (keyboards), Dave Amato (guitar), and Bryan Hitt (drums) are still electrifying audiences worldwide in concert with hits and fan-favorites such as “In Your Letter,” “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” “Time For Me To Fly,” “Roll With The Changes,” the aforementioned “Keep On Loving You” and  “Take It On the Run,” and many, many more.

The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook has built a dazzling career over the last three decades bringing the music of the Great American Songbook to the world.  From recordings that have earned him five Grammy Award nominations to his Emmy nominated PBS-TV specials, his acclaimed NPR series and concerts spanning the globe – in addition to his appearances at iconic venues such as The White House, Buckingham Palace, Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall and Sydney Opera House – his work as an educator and archivist define Feinstein as one of the most important musical forces of our time.

The Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association will hold its 19^th Annual Spring Breakfast fundraiser on Friday, April 26^th, 7:30am at the Amber Room Colonnade in Danbury.  Each year, this event brings together 400 local business leaders, medical professionals, community groups and RVNA supporters to celebrate spring and make a lasting impact on those served through RVNA services and programs

Save the Date!

More details to come!

ARRIVAL from Sweden in the production ”The Music of ABBA” has sold out arenas and venues all over the world since 1995 and is the absolute best and most authentic ABBA show there is. Hits like: Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, Does Your Mother Know, Take A Chance, SOS, The Winner Takes It All, Super Trouper, Money Money Money, Waterloo, Honey Honey, Fernando, Chiquitita, Knowing Me Knowing You, Thank You For The Music, Lay All Your Love On Me, Gimme Gimme Gimme and many more are delivered with such accuracy that it’s hard to believe that it’s not the real ABBA on stage.

This production has all the features a great ABBA show needs: lovely costumes, extremely talented musicians and breathtaking singers. Millions of people all around the world celebrate this show as the best ABBA show in the world; in fact this is the only ABBA show the world needs. This production is the closest you will ever get to see ABBA!

ARRIVAL from Sweden was founded by Vicky Zetterberg in 1995 in Gothenburg, Sweden and very soon became one of the world’s most popular and most selling ABBA show band. Since the start in 1995 the band has toured in 60 countries and has appeared in several TV and radio shows all over the world. Since 2005 ARRIVAL from Sweden has made 58 successful tours in the USA.

Robert Golde, Principal, Towers | Golde will discuss his 30-year-plus career as a landscape architect during which he amassed an unusually varied and international portfolio from park planning in Shenzen, China to corporate headquarters in suburban New York, and from roof-top healing gardens at urban medical centers to master planning and implementation projects on academic campuses. Award-Winning Towers | Golde excels at preserving and enhancing the innate qualities of a site through a design that “grounds” a building project with extraordinary sensitivity to scale, character, and intended use. Golde will talk about specific projects from conceptual design through actual implementation. 

Please register at www.ridgefieldlibrary.org or call 203-438-2282. 

Ridgefield’s older adult community is invited to attend a wonderful Senior Luncheon in our beautiful, historic setting. You’ll be treated to a delicious three-course catered lunch from a local restaurant, and special performances. Each luncheon runs from 12:00-2:00 p.m.

We are pleased to offer the 2019 luncheons free of charge, thanks to our amazing sponsors. We are incredibly grateful for their generosity and commitment.

Reservations are required and may be made by contacting our Event Office at 203-438-6962.