Upcoming Arts & Events: April 23–May 6, 2026
The next two weeks favor the intimate room over the grand hall: Fairfield Theatre Company carries most of the calendar, with the Quick Center stepping in for a piano program and the Glee Club’s spring pops concert. The prevailing mood is live music in close quarters, with one science-forward film event tucked into the Warehouse.
Bob Margolis Blues Band
A local blues date opens the window at StageOne, where the room tends to reward directness over production. The theme is straightforward electric blues in a seated setting, the kind of club-scale show that depends less on spectacle than on feel and timing. Fairfield Theatre Company StageOne, Thursday, April 23 at 8 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
Save Ferris, with Adrian and Meredith
The Southern California ska band arrives on a Friday slot built for velocity rather than delicacy. The theme is horn-driven, late-nineties pop-punk and ska, staged in a seated theater even if the energy points elsewhere. Fairfield Theatre Company StageOne, Friday, April 24 at 8 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
Alison Brown
Brown’s banjo playing has long operated at the border of bluegrass, jazz, and contemporary acoustic music, and StageOne is exactly the sort of room where those distinctions matter. The program centers on instrumental work and ensemble precision rather than showmanship for its own sake. Fairfield Theatre Company StageOne, Saturday, April 25 at 8 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
Thee Sinseers, with DESMONDES
The billing promises East L.A. soul rather than revivalism in quotation marks. FTC’s event page emphasizes lush harmonies, a brass section, and the group’s Penrose/Colemine pedigree, which suggests a concert built around arranged ensemble sound more than loose jamming. Fairfield Theatre Company StageOne, Sunday, April 26 at 7 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
Joanna Chang, PhD, DMA — Musical Postcards: A Transatlantic Journey from Beethoven to Bernstein
Chang’s program is organized as a chronological recital linking European and American composers to the development of an American art-music tradition. The evening takes place in the Wien Experimental Theatre, which points to a recital format: piano, ideas, and close listening. Quick Center, Monday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
Fairfield University Glee Club Pops Concert — Glee2K
The Glee Club turns to pop music from 1990 to 2010, with student soloists and the Pops Band filling out the sound. The theme is millennial-era radio and deep cuts recast for choral performance, which makes this less a standard choir concert than a campus pops show with a fixed period sensibility. Quick Center, Wednesday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, with Hitch & the Giddyup
Keith-Hynes arrives at StageOne on a bluegrass-adjacent bill that looks built for agility and close musicianship. FTC lists a standard 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show structure, which means a conventional seated concert night, but the material points toward fiddle-led acoustic momentum rather than quiet recital. Fairfield Theatre Company StageOne, Thursday, April 30 at 8 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
The Kingston Trio
A legacy folk act in StageOne is, among other things, a reminder that some repertories survive by staying singable. The theme is classic American folk revival material presented in a seated theater format, with the room sized for recognition, memory, and close attention to songs that long ago entered common circulation. Fairfield Theatre Company StageOne, Friday, May 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
The Little Things That Run The World
Offered in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society’s Fairfield region, this Warehouse event shifts from concert mode to science-and-film programming. The structure is unusually clear: doors at 4 p.m., film at 4:30, free admission, and a theme centered on the small organisms and systems that make larger ecologies possible. Fairfield Theatre Company Warehouse, Sunday, May 3 at 4:30 p.m. The program is free.
Bre Kennedy, with Abigail Rose
Kennedy’s StageOne appearance closes the window on a songwriter’s note rather than a spectacle. FTC’s page gives it the usual small-room concert architecture—7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show—which suggests an evening built around lyrics, arrangement, and the incremental force of a live set. Fairfield Theatre Company StageOne, Tuesday, May 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
Howie Day, with Brian Jarvis
Day remains associated with early-2000s acoustic-pop introspection, and StageOne is the sort of room that tends to flatter that material. The format is a straightforward seated concert, with the focus on songs and delivery rather than theatrical production. Fairfield Theatre Company StageOne, Wednesday, May 6 at 8 p.m. Tickets are listed through the venue.
Listings are curated and verified at publication. Scheduling changes may occur. Omissions are intentional.
