4/7/2021
Outdoor concert series to return to Woonsocket this summer
Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience appear at the Levitt AMP summer music series in 2019. Organizers say the outdoor concert series will return, with some changes, to River Island Art Park this year. (Breeze photo by Charles Lawrence)
WOONSOCKET – After a year on hiatus due to the pandemic, the Levitt AMP summer concert series is set to return to River Island Art Park this summer.
Meghan Rego, director of resource development and communications for NeighborWorks Blackstone River Valley, said the 10-week concert series is scheduled to begin on Friday, July 9, and continue through Friday, Sept. 17, with the exception of Labor Day weekend. As in past years, the series will be free, and attendees are invited to bring their own chairs and blankets to enjoy the event.
Due to the extremely cold forecast this weekend, an event previously slated for the SkyView Drive-In in Scottsbluff will now only be live-steamed by the Midwest Theater. The Midwest Theater is excited to present “Mardi Gras Mambo Live” on February 13, 2021, via Livestream featuring one of our favorite Grammy Award-winning artists “Terrance Simien, and [.]
Damon Fowler Band
Englewoods on Dearborn, a restaurant that also hosts music by national and local blues acts, is set to feature Florida s own Damon Fowler this week. The guitarist, singer-songwriter and former Anna Maria Island resident released his last album “The Whiskey Bayou Session” on Tab Benoit’s Whiskey Bayou Records and plans this year to release his new record Alafia Moon, sharing a name with the Hillsborough County river and community. Fowler has also played in the Dickey Betts Band, and in the supergroup Southern Hospitality with Grammy-nominated pianist Victor Wainwright and fellow Floridian bluesman J.P. Soars. 7 p.m. today; Englewoods on Dearborn, 362 W. Dearborn St., Englewood; $7; 941-475-7501; englewoodsondearborn.com
Courtesy of “Immersive Van Gogh”
Vibrant Van Gogh
For those craving a unique art experience, the
“Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit” is just the thing to sate that desire. Taking place at Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, the digital art event utilizes the venue’s 35-foot-walls and multiple levels to present this vibrant immersion, which uses state-of-the-art technology, theatrical storytelling and animation to surround viewers on all sides with the work of the great Dutch painter. The Toronto Sun called the 60-minute, walk-through exhibit “intense and emotional, cathartic and liberating.” “Immersive Van Gogh” runs Feb. 11-Sept. 6 at Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago, 108 W. Germania. Timed tickets are $39.99-$99.99 ($24.99 for children 16 and under). All the usual COVID-19 safety protocols will be adhered to. Visit vangoghchicago.com.