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Due to a scheduling conflict in the cast, Dracula takes the place of the previously announced production of The Bridges of Madison County BRANFORD, CT February 27, 2024 – Branford’s Legacy Theatre is thrilled to announce that the hilarious, laugh-out-loud comedy, DRACULA: A Comedy of Terrors, by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen will be joining the 2024 Mainstage lineup in its Connecticut premiere! DRACULA: A Comedy of Terrors is a Bram-new comedy you can really sink your teeth into. Filled with clever wordplay and anything-goes pop culture references, it’s a 90-minute, gender-bending, quick-changing, laugh-out-loud reimagining of the gothic classic, perfect for audiences of all blood types. In the treacherous mountains of Transylvania, a meek English real estate agent takes a harrowing journey to meet a new and mysterious client, who also just happens to be the most terrifying and ferocious monster the world has ever known: Count Dracula! As famed female vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing and company chase Drac from Transylvania to the British countryside to London and back, their antics are guaranteed to increase your pulse and cause bloodcurdling screams—of laughter. DRACULA: A Comedy of Terrors just completed an off-Broadway run this January at New World Stages, to high praise. DC Theater Arts called the production “Over-the-top and bloody hilarious” and “a must-see!” while Forbes declared it “Sexy and campy with non-stop hilarity. I didn’t stop laughing for 90 straight minutes. You don’t want to miss this!” DRACULA: A Comedy of Terrors joins the 2024 Mainstage lineup September 12-29, taking the place of the previously announced production of The Bridges of Madison County. Due to a scheduling conflict in the cast, The Bridges of Madison County starring Hugh Panaro and Anne Runolfsson will be postponed until a future season. All current ticket holders for the production will be contacted by the Box Office. Tickets and subscriptions for the 2024 Mainstage Series, including DRACULA: A Comedy of Terrors, are on sale now. "This pivot in the season has been a real opportunity to put a gut-busting comedy in the same slot where the enormously successful The Play That Goes Wrong was last season,” said Legacy Theatre Artistic Director and co-founder, Keely Baisden Knudsen. “I'm excited to deliver this degree of hilarity, wrapped up in a love story to round out the season in an even more exciting way! Coupled with the fact that it will be directed by the local legend, James Andreassi himself, we know that audiences are in for a treat like no other!" Tickets for the 2024 season are on sale now and can be purchased through the Box Office (203.315.1901) or Legacy’s website, LegacyTheatreCT.org. The Box Office is open Monday-Friday, 10am-3pm on non-performance days. For a full schedule of Box Office hours and performances, please visit Legacy’s website. The Legacy Theatre is located in the village of Stony Creek in Branford, CT, at 128 Thimble Islands Road. For more information on upcoming productions, classes, community events, and sponsorship and partner opportunities, please email Kiersten@LegacyTheatreCT.org.

Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-Winner John McDaniel joins Ripley at the piano for an intimate concert of songs and stories on Sunday, March 10 at 2:00pm. BRANFORD, CT February 28, 2024 – Legacy Theatre is thrilled to welcome Tony Award–Winner Alice Ripley, the latest performer in the 2024 Sunday Broadway Concert Series, to Branford on Sunday, March 10th at 2:00pm. Ripley won the Best Actress in A Musical Tony Award for creating Diana Goodman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera Next to Normal. She made her Broadway debut in The Who's Tommy in 1992, and she was a member of the original Broadway casts of Side Show (Best Actress In A Musical Tony nomination), Sunset Boulevard, American Psycho, The Rocky Horror Show, and James Joyce's The Dead. Her film and television credits include SUGAR!, Isn't It Delicious, Inventing Anna, and Girlboss. The Sunday Broadway Concert Series is an intimate afternoon concert program featuring stars from the biggest shows on stage today, bringing Broadway talent to Branford. Award-winning performers fresh from the Great Bright Way entertain Legacy audiences with songs and stories brimming with NYC style, right here on the shoreline! The 2024 season also features five additional Tony Award nominees: Broadway's Adam Pascal (April 7), Liz Callaway (April 21), Andrea McArdle (5/12), Kate Baldwin (June 30), and Howard McGillin (October 6). The 2024 Sunday Broadway Concert Series is once again generously supported by Jana and Tom Shea and sponsored in part by WMNR Fine Arts Radio. “Each year these concerts get better and better, and I still have to pinch myself that this caliber of Broadway talent (that I waited at the stage door for in my younger years for a picture/autograph) is performing in my hometown!” said Sunday Broadway Concert Series Producer Colin Sheehan. Single tickets and livestream tickets are on sale now through the Box Office (203.315.1901) or Legacy’s website, LegacyTheatreCT.org. The Legacy Theatre is located in the village of Stony Creek in Branford, CT, at 128 Thimble Islands Road. For more information on upcoming productions, classes, community events, and sponsorship and partner opportunities, please email Kiersten@LegacyTheatreCT.org.

Bronx Marquee, I95 Guilford, CT – The community is invited to view works by Madison, CT-based painter, Don Keene, in the lobby gallery at Guilford Art Center. The exhibit, entitled Abstract Reality, features a selection of fifteen works encompassing both realism and abstraction created in the past twenty-three years. This exhibit is open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm and Sunday 12-4pm through April 7th. Entry is free and open to all. In this exhibit representational images of landscape scenes reminiscent of Edward Hopper and the early 20th American Impressionists lodge comfortably and harmonically, though simultaneously in stark contrast with, thickly executed and expressive oil imaginings more reminiscent of Edvard Munch's famous work, "The Scream". Winding up the display are four small imaginative watercolors, conceived by Keene in his studio, as part of what he considers his "morning exercises", within the past two months. Tying these disparate works together is the evidence throughout of a deft facility for handling paint in tandem with bravura drawing skills and a generous love of luxuriant color. Born in Syracuse, NY, Don Keene is a graduate, with distinction, of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He earned his Masters degree in Studio Art from the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY. His paintings have appeared in Sports Illustrated and The New York Times, as well as on covers for RCA records, among many others. Mr. Keene has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Westchester County, NY, New York City and Connecticut. He taught art in private and public schools in Westchester County for thirty-one years, as well as group classes and private lessons at his studio on New Road in Madison, CT. Mr. Keene has taught at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. To see more of his work, go to website: www.donkeene.com and Instagram: don_keene_art. For more information, contact Guilford Art Center at info@guilfordartcenter.org or call (203) 453-5947.

EAST HADDAM, Conn. (Feb. 28, 2024) – Goodspeed Musicals is holding local Connecticut children auditions for its 2024 Goodspeed production of South Pacific, on Saturday, March 30th starting at 1 p.m. in East Haddam, Conn. Goodspeed is seeking Non-Equity child actors to understudy Ngana (age 11) and Jerome (age 8). Ngana and Jerome are the children of Emile, a French man, and a Tongan woman. Interested candidates should be black presenting. Children auditions for A Christmas Story The Musical will be held at a later date. All auditions are by appointment only. Appointments may be made starting immediately. Please call 860.873.8664, ext. 721, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. to schedule an appointment. Candidates must be available for 4 weeks of rehearsal and 9 weeks of performances between May 14, 2024, (first rehearsal) and August 11, 2024, (close) in East Haddam. Interested candidates should bring a resume, photo and sheet music for a 32-bar cut of an up-tempo song and a ballad. Music must be legible and in the proper key (no lead sheets please). An accompanist will be provided. Goodspeed reaffirms its commitment to nondiscrimination and a flexible, imaginative casting policy. Performers of all ethnicities are strongly encouraged to audition.

Join ARTFARM, Oddfellows Playhouse and HartBeat Ensemble for a reading of The Amen Corner by James Baldwin on Sunday, March 3 at 5 pm at Cross Street AME Zion Church in Middletown. The second reading in the Black Presencing: Reading Plays in the Community series, The Amen Corner addresses themes of the role of the church in the African-American family, the complex relationship between religion and earthly love, and the effect of a poverty born of racial prejudice on the African-American community. The play follows a respected female pastor as she leads a church that meets in a storefront in the mid-twentieth century. Fears and suffering from her past have led her to a life of strict religious observance, and she leads her congregation without telling them of the failures in her past. Black Presencing: Reading Plays in the Community, supported by a generous grant from CT Humanities, brings together Middletown theater companies ARTFARM and Oddfellows Playhouse with Hartford-based HartBeat Ensemble to bring the work of modern African-American playwrights to the local community. Pipeline, by Dominique Morisseau, was presented on February 4, and the final reading in the series will be Kirsten Greenidge’s Baltimore on April 14. The Amen Corner is directed by HartBeat Artistic Director Godfrey Simmons and will feature actors from throughout central Connecticut. The play is presented as part of the local celebration of the centennial of the birth of James Baldwin. Cross Street AME Zion Church is located at 440 West Street in Middletown. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to help support a new roof for the Church. For more information or to make reservations, contact Oddfellows Playhouse at  (860) 347-6143 or email info@oddfellows.org.

Rob Ruggiero Directs Musical Comedy Whodunit Where the Audience Chooses a New Ending at Each Performance EAST HADDAM, Conn. (Feb. 20, 2024) – Goodspeed Musicals proudly welcomes The Mystery of Edwin Drood as its first production of the 2024 season. You’re invited to solve a crime in an uproarious murder mystery at The Goodspeed from April 5 – June 2 in East Haddam, Conn. A night with murderers has never been so much fun! [Official Press Opening will be April 17, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.] Who killed Edwin Drood? You decide! A troupe of Victorian performers invites you to play detective in this musical comedy whodunit packed with surprise. Your vote picks the guilty party from a lineup of suspicious Charles Dickens characters who leap off the page and into a gas-lit, gilded, giddy spectacle. No one is who they appear to be among the corrupt suspects in this cunning and clever show-within-a-show. You’ll be guessing motives, masks and murder ’til the final curtain. Based on an unfinished Charles Dickens novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is by Rupert Holmes (book, music, lyrics, and original orchestrations). Holmes, a current New York Times best-selling author, was the first person to singly win Tony Awards for book, music and lyrics of a musical, this for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which also won the Tony for Best Musical in 1986. The Drama Desk bestowed all identical honors with yet another to Holmes for Best Orchestration. Drood’s 2012-2013 Broadway return received a Best Revival Tony nomination. Holmes has written, arranged and conducted platinum recordings for Barbra Streisand and is a pop songwriter of Top 40 recordings including his own #1 hit “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” (Broadway: Curtains; Say Goodnight, Gracie; Accomplice; A Time to Kill). Chairman/William Cartwright will be played by Lenny Wolpe (The Goodspeed: Show Boat; The Terris: A Connecticut Christmas Carol, The Baker’s Wife; Broadway: Bullets Over Broadway, Wicked, Drowsy Chaperone). Princess Puffer/Angela Prysock will be played by Liz McCartney (The Goodspeed: Paint Your Wagon; Broadway: Funny Girl, My Fair Lady, Sunday in the Park with George). Edwin Drood/Alice Nutting will be played by Mamie Parris (The Goodspeed: A Grand Night for Singing, The Most Happy Fella; Broadway: Cats, School of Rock, On the Twentieth Century). Jasper/Clive Paget will be played by Paul Adam Schaefer (Broadway: Phantom of the Opera, Off-Broadway: Giant). Neville Landless/Victor Grinstead will be played by Levin Valayil. Rosa Bud/Deidre Peregrine will be played by Riley Noland. Helena Landless/Janet Conover will be played by Jetta Juriansz. Crisparkle/Cedric Moncrieff will be played by Paul Slade Smith (Broadway: Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, My Fair Lady). Durdles/Master Nick Cricker will be played by David Beach (The Goodspeed: Damn Yankees; The Terris: The Great American Mousical; Broadway: Something Rotten, It’s Only A Play). Deputy/Mister Nick Cricker will be played by Marcus Montgomery (Off-Broadway: Dog Man: The Musical, Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical). Bazzard/Phillip Bax will be played by Jamie LaVerdiere (The Goodspeed: Oliver!; Broadway: The Producers, The Pirate Queen). The ensemble will feature Jon Cooper (The Terris: A Connecticut Christmas Carol; Off-Broadway: Errol and Fidel), Benjamin Howes (The Goodspeed: Anything Goes, High Button Shoes; Broadway: Scandalous, Mary Poppins), Albert Jennings (Broadway: Aladdin), Miyuki Miyagi, Jacqueline Petroccia (The Goodspeed: Because of Winn Dixie), Jesse Swimm (The Goodspeed: Billy Elliot, Fiddler on the Roof, High Button Shoes; Broadway: School of Rock, Mary Poppins), and Natalie Welch. Swings for this production are Megan Arseneau and Noah Ruebeck (Off-Broadway: Nightclub Cantata, The Lieutenant). The Mystery of Edwin Drood will be directed by Rob Ruggiero (The Goodspeed: A Grand Night for Singing, Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof, Carousel, Show Boat, 1776, and many others; Broadway: High, Looped). James Gray will choreograph the production (The Goodspeed: Oliver!; The Terris: Lucky Guy; Broadway: Prince of Broadway). Music Direction will be by Goodspeed’s Resident Music Director Adam Souza (Goodspeed: Over 20 productions including The 12, Summer Stock, Gypsy, 42nd Street, Cabaret, Because of Winn Dixie; Broadway/National Tour: Wicked, Kinky Boots). Scenic Design will be by Ann Beyersdorfer. Costume Design will be by Hunter Kaczorowski (Off-Broadway: Mister Miss America, HAM). Lighting Design will be by Rob Denton (The Goodspeed: The Will Rogers Follies, Thoroughly Modern Millie; Off-Broadway: Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, The Jerusalem Syndrome). Sound Design will be by Jay Hilton who has designed countless productions at both The Goodspeed and The Terris Theatre and serves as Goodspeed’s Audio Supervisor. Hair/Wigs design will be by Tommy Kurzman (Broadway: I Need That, Gutenberg: The Musical!, The Cottage). Orchestrations will be by Christopher Jahnke (The Goodspeed: A Little Night Music, On the Twentieth Century; The Terris: Dear World; Broadway: Legally Blonde, Porgy and Bess, Les Misérables). Chris Zaccardi will be the Production Stage Manager. Casting for this production is by Paul Hardt / Hardt Casting. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. www.concordtheatricals.com The Mystery of Edwin Drood will run April 5th – June 2nd, 2024. [Official Press Opening: April 17, 2024.]  Curtain times are Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m. (with select performances at 2:00 p.m.), Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. (with select performances at 6:30 p.m.). Tickets are available through the Box Office (860.873.8668), open weekdays at 10:00 a.m. and weekends at 11:00 a.m., or online at goodspeed.org. For show highlights, exclusive photos, special events and more, visit us at goodspeed.org and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube

Old Lyme, CT—Shoreline Arts Alliance is proud to present Future Choices 2024, its 40th annual celebration of high school visual artists. This juried exhibition showcases the work of talented emerging artists from Shoreline Arts Alliance’s 24-town region—don’t miss the opportunity to see the work of some of Connecticut’s most promising artists! This year’s exhibition is at the Sill House Gallery at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and will run from March 2-March 28. The gallery is open on Wednesdays & Thursdays from 3-6 PM, and Saturdays & Sundays from noon-4PM. An awards reception will be held for artists and their families and teachers on Saturday, March 23 from 9AM – 12 noon. Future Choices Exhibition Public Hours: Mon-Tues: Closed Weds-Thurs: 3pm-6pm Fri: Closed Sat-Sun: 12noon-4pm

The Shoreline ArtsTrail 2024 Open Studios Weekend will be held November 9 & 10 from 10 am - 4pm. Artists who live and work in Branford, Guilford, and Madison are eligible to apply to be ArtsTrail member. Artists will be considered based on their mastery of methods and materials and professionalism. All considered art must be handmade by the artist. Potential members will be juried by a panel of artists for acceptance into the group. Application requirements include the application, a professional website, submission of three examples of an artist's work and a $30 application fee. The artwork must reflect mastery of methods and materials and an originality of concept. All work must be handmade in his/her/their studio in Branford, Guilford, or Madison. If accepted, artists are required to join or be a current member of the Shoreline Arts Alliance,and pay Shoreline ArtsTrail dues ($300) annually. Whether the artist has regular studio hours or is open by appointment only, each member must participate in the Open Studio Weekend in November. The application deadline is March 20, 2024. To apply, please visit the Shoreline Arts Alliance website: https://www.shorelinearts.org/shoreline-arts-trail-call-to-artists For more information email office@shorelinearts.org or call 203-421-6739.

Auditions are March 4th and 6th in Middletown for actors ages 14 - 20 looking for a powerful and challenging acting experience this spring. Oddfellows Playhouse Teen Repertory Company 2024 announces auditions for “As You Like It", the classic comedy by William Shakespeare. Audition dates are March 4th & 6th, 6:30 - 9 pm at Oddfellows Playhouse, 128 Washington Street, Middletown. Anyone wishing to audition should: *Register for one of the two evenings at www.oddfellows.org, or fill out the audition form directly at https://forms.gle/XkmKQWZMgdRvBzpp9. *Arrive on time, dress to move, and be prepared to stay the entire 2.5 hours *Open to anyone ages 14 - 20 *Everyone who auditions and commits to the rehearsal and production schedule will be cast! Rehearsals begin March 18th and will be Mondays and Thursdays, 6 - 9 pm. Performance dates May 16th - 18th and 24th-25th. “As You Like It” is a comedy about love, friendship, envy, entanglement, survival, forgiveness, confusion, nature, singing together and loyalty. It offers many engaging and challenging roles. The play will be directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Dic Wheeler. Tuition for Teen Rep is $300. Financial aid or work-study are available for all who need it. To register for one of the two auditions, go to https://forms.gle/XkmKQWZMgdRvBzpp9. For more details or more information, email info@oddfellows.org or call (860) 347-6143.

John McDaniel joins Lee at the piano for an intimate concert of songs and stories on Sunday, February 18 at 2:00pm. BRANFORD, CT February 12, 2024 – If there were no limits, no expectations...who would you be? Join Tony Award Nominee L Morgan Lee—most recently known for her breakout performance in A Strange Loop on Broadway—in a concert filled with Broadway classics, gems by new writers, and unexpected deep-cuts that explore her dreams about love, life, and a world of possibilities. Legacy Theatre is thrilled to welcome L Morgan Lee, the first performer of the 2024 Sunday Broadway Concert Series, to Branford on Sunday, February 18th at 2:00pm. She is best known for her history-making turn in A Strange Loop on Broadway, a performance that also garnered her an Antonyo Award for Featured Performance in a Musical, an Obie Award, and a Drama League Distinguished Performance nomination. In London, she was seen playing the titular role in a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl – currently in development. Other work includes well over a decade of Off-Broadway, Regional, International/National concerts, and tours with artists from Paul McCartney to Our Lady J. In the studio, L Morgan was the voice of Ornate Williams in Sugar Maple w. Fred Savage (Osiris Media) and can be found on Joe Iconis' album (Ghostlight Records), Ethan Carlson's Her Sound, vol. 3, The Rainbow Lullaby Album (Broadway Records), Soft Butter (Kauffman/Teris), and the Grammy-nominated BCR of A Strange Loop (Sh-K-Boom Records). The Sunday Broadway Concert Series is an intimate afternoon concert program featuring stars from the biggest shows on stage today, bringing Broadway talent to Branford. Award-winning performers fresh from the Great Bright Way entertain Legacy audiences with songs and stories brimming with NYC style, right here on the shoreline! The 2024 season also features six additional Tony Award–winners and nominees: Broadway's Alice Ripley (March 10), Adam Pascal (April 7), Liz Callaway (April 21), Andrea McArdle (5/12), Kate Baldwin (June 30), and Howard McGillin (October 6). The 2024 Sunday Broadway Concert Series is once again generously supported by Jana and Tom Shea and sponsored in part by WMNR Fine Arts Radio. “Each year these concerts get better and better, and I still have to pinch myself that this caliber of Broadway talent (that I waited at the stage door for in my younger years for a picture/autograph) are performing in my hometown!” said Sunday Broadway Concert Series Producer Colin Sheehan. “That said, a few of this past year’s concerts did sell out, so I suggest subscribing early to avoid disappointment. Our 2024 series is shaping up to be even more popular!” Two different (partial and full season) concert series subscriptions are now available at a discount through the Box Office (203.315.1901) or Legacy’s website, LegacyTheatreCT.org. Single tickets and Livestream tickets are also on sale now. The Legacy Theatre is located in the village of Stony Creek in Branford, CT, at 128 Thimble Islands Road. For more information on upcoming productions, classes, community events, and sponsorship and partner opportunities, please email Kiersten@LegacyTheatreCT.org.

Cast members pictured top, L-R: John Elsenbeck, Steve Spartano. Bottom, L-R: Debi Freund, Brian Cunningham Drama Works Theatre Company, a resident theatre company in Old Saybrook, will continue its 2024 season of plays with Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell. The show is directed by Ed Wilhelms and features actors Debi Freund, Brian Cunningham, Steve Spartano, and John Elsenbeck. Performances will take place March 1st, 2nd, 8th, and 9th at 7:30 PM and March 3rd and 10th at 3:00 PM. A brilliantly provocative farce, The God of Hell features Frank and Emma, a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank's old friend, Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they're visited by Welch, a government bureaucrat. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and conformity. Shepard wrote the play in part as a response to the events of September 11th. The theatre’s upcoming selections for the 2024 season include Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball, Mac Beth adapted by Erica Schmidt from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Two Rooms by Lee Blessing, and Venus in Fur by David Ives. Local actors are encouraged to check the theatre’s website for audition information throughout the year. Drama Works Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, resident performing arts company dedicated to the production of thought provoking, inspiring and relevant theatre. The theatre is located at 323 Boston Post Road in Old Saybrook, CT. Tickets for The God of Hell are available online through dramaworkstheatre.org.

Bixby Kennedy Mika Sasaki ESSEX, CT –On March 10, clarinetist Bixby Kennedy, who often appears with the New Haven Symphony, will grace the stage for the third EWS concert. Of this very talented emerging artist, Joseph Dalton of the Albany Times Union states, "Admired for his marvelous ringing tone, Bixby Kennedy is one of the most versatile clarinetists of his generation." Joining Bixby at Congregation Beth Shalom in Chester, CT will be pianist Mika Sasaki for a program focused on the vibrant musical scene of the first half of the 20th century. The season closes on April 7 with a gathering of cream-of-the-crop performers – David Shifrin, clarinet; William Purvis, horn; Frank Morelli, bassoon; Ani Kavafian and Ida Kavafian, violins; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Peter Wiley, cello; and Timothy Cobb, double bass – who will showcase Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” and Schubert’s Octet in F Major, D. 803. These world-renowned musicians have all appeared on the EWS stage before, most of them at BeethovenFest. Their joy in playing together for that event resulted in the creation of this new group, Essex Octet, so named for performing together through Essex Winter Series. See them at Valley Regional High School. Concerts begin at 3 pm and all seating is general admission. For tickets and information visit essexwinterseries.com or call 860-272-4572. Adult - $45 / Student (with ID) - $5. For all our venues, parking, entry and seating accessibility is available. Our 2024 season is generously sponsored by ASP Trust. Concerts are sponsored by BrandTech Scientific, Clark Group, Essex Financial Services, Essex Meadows, Essex Savings Bank, Jeffrey N. Mehler, CFP LLC, and Tower Laboratories. Masonicare at Chester Village is the piano sponsor for this concert and WSHU is the season's media sponsor. We also gratefully acknowledge the support for our mission of concerts and community outreach received in part through grant funding by the Community Foundation of Middlesex County, Connecticut Office of the Arts/DECD, Connecticut Humanities, Essex Community Fund, Essex Savings Bank Community Investment Program, and The Kitchings Family Foundation