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  • MoCA Some Noise | Open Mic Night

    MoCA Westport 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT, United States

    Join us for an Open Mic night at MoCA Westport featuring acoustic music, poetry, and slam poetry on Friday, March 8th at 6:30 PM! Everyone is invited to participate and attend. Get your tickets to participate or attend here. Open Mic night is FREE for Members to watch; MoCA Member Participation is FREE; General Admission $10; Participation […]

  • Performing Arts at MoCA: Frederic Chiu & David Gonzalez

    MoCA Westport 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT, United States

     Come as early as 6:30 PM to check out the current exhibition. Purchase tickets here. The Carnival of the Animals is a musical suite composed by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It comprises 14 separate pieces, each one suggesting a particular animal. It has become one of the most popular pieces in history, often serving […]

  • MoCA Some Noise | Open Mic Night: Poetry Month Special

    MoCA Westport 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT, United States

    Join us for an Open Mic night at MoCA Westport featuring acoustic music, poetry, and slam poetry on Friday, April 26th at 6:30 PM! Everyone is invited to participate and attend. Get your tickets to participate or attend here. Open Mic night is FREE for Members to watch; MoCA Member Participation is FREE; General Admission $10; Participation […]

  • Performing Arts at MoCA: Stella Cole (Jazz at Lincoln Center Emerging Artist)

    MoCA Westport 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT, United States

    Register now! Come as early as 6:30 PM to purchase a drink and check out the current exhibition. To watch Stella Katherine Cole perform is to be transported back in time. Her voice, personality, and presence all shine with a timeless quality, as if she’s been plucked straight out of an old MGM movie. The […]

  • Performing Arts at MoCA: Herlin Riley – Jazz at Lincoln Center

    MoCA Westport 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT, United States

    Register now! Come as early as 6:30 PM to purchase a drink and check out the current exhibition. Herlin Riley is a native of New Orleans. He’s a member of a New Orleans musical family (The Lastie Family). Today he’s considered to be one of the most premier and prolific drummers in the world today. The range of his musical experiences makes the demand for his drumming skills a first call for performers, recording artist and teaching engagements. Herlin started on the drums when he was three. He played trumpet through high school but went back to drums after college. Soon afterwards he began getting more calls to play drums than trumpet. In the early 80’s Herlin switched to playing the drums exclusively and was called to London, Australia and Europe to play in a 1920’s style musical called “One Mo Time“. Immediately following, he got the call to play with trumpeter Al Hirt. After leaving Hirt’s band he spent 5 years with jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal. In 1988 Herlin was invited to play with the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, which augmented to a septet and later became The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. As a member of The LCJO, Riley played a large roll in developing the drum parts for Wynton Marsalis’s Pulitzer Prize–winning recording “Blood On The Fields“. Herlin has also played and/or recorded with Harry Connick Jr., Jon Batiste, George Benson, Dr Lonnie Smith, Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, Ruth Brown, Dr John, Cubanismo, McCoy Tyner, John Clayton, Dee Daniels, Ambrose Akinmusire, Junko Onishi, Yutaka Shiina, Rufus Reid, Ellis Marsalis, Steve Turre, Terence Blanchard, Nicolas Payton, Ellis Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis, Victor Goines, Clifford Lamb and many more. Riley has collaborated with two other New Orleans drummers (Shannon Powell and Jason Marsalis) to form a group called The New Orleans Groove Masters. In 2020 The Groove Master recorded a single entitled “Get Back” during the Covid 19 pandemic. Herlin Riley is also an educator and lecturer in jazz drumming and percussion. Herlin was an adjunct professor at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Chicago, The Juilliard School of Music in New York and The University of New Orleans jazz studies program. He has four recordings as a leader “Watch What You’re Doing” & “Cream Of The Crescent” on the Criss Cross Jazz label and “New Direction” & Perpetual Optimism” on the Mack Avenue label. Herlin Riley is the featured artist in the book and video titled “New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming. In addition he wrote the forward to the book ” Drumsville The Evolution Of The New Orleans Beat“, written by Robert H. Cataliotti. Photo by James Wighams of JWP Photographer Studio in New Orleans

  • Fairfield County Dance Festival

    MoCA\CT 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, United States

    Join East Coast Contemporary Ballet and Thomas/Ortiz Dance for a summer evening of inspiring ballet, contemporary and modern dance. Performances are FREE and open to the public. New England Ballet Theatre & Ballet Hartford will be guest companies at this performance.

    Free
  • Performing Arts at MoCA: Sean Lee & John Bitoy

    MoCA Westport 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT, United States

    Register now! Waltz into a night of classical brilliance with a modern edge with the extraordinary talents of American violinist Sean Lee and Afro-Dominican pianist John Bitoy, two visionaries pushing the boundaries of the genre. Sean Lee, renowned for his electrifying live performances of Paganini’s Caprices, has shared the stage with icons like Itzhak Perlman […]