WESTERLY — Vendors from all around Rhode Island and Connecticut will sell annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and a plethora of garden accessories Sunday during the 37th annual Garden Market Fair in Wilcox Park, a festival of plants and all things garden-related. The fair …

WESTERLY — New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee and Fodera Guitar artist Dave Fields, whose songs have been recorded by the likes of British bluesman John Mayall, will present a night of blues-rock and beyond at The Knickerbocker Music Center Saturday night at a concert featuring Andy Huener…

BRISTOL — "Florals: Artists Inspired by Spring," an exhibition featuring florally themed works by Exhibiting Artist Members of the Providence Art Club, accompanied the opening of Blithewold Mansion this year.

Thursday, May 16

WESTERLY — Aztec Two-Step, the American folk-rock band named after a line from a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem, will perform in Misquamicut Saturday night as part of the ninth annual Springfest, a three-day extravaganza filled with music, food, carnival rides and a sky-high Ferris wheel … all i…

STONINGTON— Fusion, that much-anticipated celebration of the visual, culinary and performing arts where local artists use paints to decorate the bodies of live guest models, returns for its seventh season Friday night at the Velvet Mill Studios in Stonington Borough.

MYSTIC — Noted American poet Marilyn Nelson — who on Tuesday was awarded a $100,000 lifetime achievement award from the Poetry Foundation — will be joined by Connecticut poet Sean Frederick Forbes and musician Nora Fox Friday night at the final program of the year at The Arts Café Mystic.

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Thursday, May 9

WESTERLY — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Booker T. Jones, the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys and arguably the most famous Hammond B3 player in history, will perform at the Knickerbocker Music Center on Saturday, May 11.

WESTERLY — The Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly opens this week with one of its most anticipated exhibits. The 26th annual Regional Art Exhibit, featuring the newest and best work of artists across the northeast, will open Friday. It will be the first time for the well-known and pres…

PROVIDENCE — Just in time for Mother's Day, Festival Ballet Providence will present Tchaikovsky’s "Swan Lake," next weekend, the dance company's season finale.

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MYSTIC — Art lovers are invited to the opening reception of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts' 108th annual exhibition tonight at the Mystic Museum of Art. 

Thursday, May 2

WESTERLY — There will be plenty to quack about in downtown Westerly-Pawcatuck Saturday. That's the day when 20,000 bright yellow rubber duckies are dumped into the Pawcatuck River for a race that benefits more than 40 local schools and charities.

WESTERLY — Alfred Uhry's "The Last Night of Ballyhoo," the second play in the playwright's "Atlanta Trilogy," opens this week at the Granite Theatre for a two-week run. The play, a romantic comedy which received the Tony Award for Best Play when it was produced in 1997, was commissioned for …

WAKEFIELD – Everything’s coming up roses at The Contemporary Theater Company this spring where former Charlestown resident Eden Casteel is playing the role of Mama Rose in the classic musical "Gypsy," on stage through May 11.

Thursday, April 25

PAWCATUCK — Lighthouse Community Baptist church will continue with a tradition begun in 2007 this week — with a slight variation.

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Thursday, April 18

WESTERLY — Michael Gabrielle has been interested in fiber arts since his he was a little boy and his grandmother taught him how to knit and sew. When he stumbled upon macramé years later, after graduating from Brown, where he studied visual arts and psychology, he found it so tedious he reme…

WESTERLY — Music lovers of all ages are invited to spend an afternoon at the Knickerbocker Music Center Sunday, watching some top-notch musicians and dancing to their heart's content, all while supporting the Jonnycake Center of Westerly.

WESTERLY —  It'll be another busy week at the Knickerbocker Music Center and a bonanza for music-lovers.

NEW LONDON — Pete and Maura Kennedy will bring their "folk-laced musical tapestry" along with "skill, surprises and sweet emotion" to the iconic Unity Hall in New London Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Friday Night Folk.

PAWCATUCK — Ten Directions, a local band featuring band founder Ken Serio on drums, Michael Coppola on string guitar, Morris Trent on acoustic bass and vocalist Faye Green, will perform at The Phoenix Saturday night.

Thursday, April 11

WESTERLY — There will be plenty of vagrants, kite flyers, park strollers, statues, clerks and a certain notable nanny on stage this weekend — along with spoons full of sugar and roughly 100 other intriguing characters — when Theatre Scrapbook presents "Mary Poppins Jr," the Disney-Cameron Ma…

WESTERLY — The Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly will begin the new season with an exhibit featuring artists' interpretation of "Crossing Boundaries – Line, Shape and Edges," the theme of the spring show. 

WESTERLY — Project Fusion, a musical ensemble formed in 2010 by graduates of the Eastman School of Music, will perform Sunday, April 7, at 4 p.m. at Westerly's Christ Church. Presented by the Christ Church Arts Commission, the concert is free of admission.

MYSTIC — Mark Doty, admired globally as one of America’s most honored poets, is also a beloved savior for Christie Max Williams, the artistic director of the Arts Café Mystic.

EXETER — Tomaquag Museum, a native-led nonprofit museum, and Rhode Island’s only museum dedicated entirely to telling the story of indigenous peoples from a first-person perspective, will be holding a series of workshops this spring led by the museum’s executive director, Lorén Spears, a tra…

Thursday, April 4