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Music:
It’s Jazz at Lincoln Friday 8pm at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on the UConn campus in Storrs. Tickets $15-$42. www.jorgensen.uconn.edu
Events:
The Connecticut Flower & Garden Show brings spring inside the Connecticut Convention Center Friday and Saturday 10am to 8pm and Sunday 10am to 5pm. Discounted admission tickets are on sale now: $17 for Adults and Seniors at www.CTFlowerShow.com. New England’s only 2023 flower exhibition show covers almost 150,000 square feet, and will offer a wide variety of ideas for house, apartment, and condominium dwellers. “Gateway to Spring” is the theme of this year’s show that features expansive live gardens, a nonstop schedule of seminars and demonstrations, the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut’s annual Standard Flower Show, and hundreds of vendors displaying and selling all types of items. 23 live gardens and landscape exhibits by professional landscape designers and nonprofit organizations, including naturalistic, low maintenance, native, containers, vegetables, organic, herb, and pollinator gardens.
Maple Syrup fans! Flanders Nature Center in Woodbury is hosting maple syrup demonstrations over the next two weekends. During these events, staff and volunteers will demonstrate the process turning sap into syrup with an entertaining mix of science, stories and humor. www.FlandersNatureCenter.org
Stamford Museum and Nature Center’s Maple Sugar Fest Sundays which are starting this weekend. On Sundays, the museum will be offering special maple sugar programing including tree taping demos, games, giveaways and more. www.Stamfordmuseum.org
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie, will be presented by White Rabbit Theatre at Cheney Hall, 177 Hartford Road in Manchester Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2 pm, March 3 and 4 at 7:30 pm and March 5 at 2 pm. Tickets can be purchased at www.cheneyhall.org/buy-tickets Prices are $24 for adults, $20 for ages 65 and up, and $16 for ages under 18. Audiences should be aware that seats are general admission, and that viewer discretion is advised due to violence that takes place in the show. Food and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.
Hartford Chorale celebrates the music of noted African-American composers David Hurd and Margaret Bonds Friday 7:30pm. The Chorale will be joined by soloists Jolie Rocke and Marques Jerrell Ruff, along with members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and members of the Harlem Chamber Players. Tickets $33-$71. www.Bushnell.org
Tootsie the Musical, your favorite Dustin Hoffman movie now plays as a Musical at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford Friday 8pm, Saturday 2 & 8pm and Sunday 1 & 6:30pm. Tickets $35-$115. www.bushnell.org
Tom Cotter brings laughs to Comix Roadhouse at Mohegan Sun Friday 8pm and Saturday at 6pm and 8pm. Tickets $25-$55. www.mohegansun.com
Monster Jam 2023 roars into XL Center Saturday 1 and 7pm and Sunday 1pm! Tickets $20-$65. www.XLCenter.com
Celebrate "Dracula's Valentine" ends Sunday at "The Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum" every Fri. thru Sun. 6pm to 9pm at 103 East Main Street in Plainville, CT. Bela Lugosi's classic film "Dracula" was released on Valentine's Day in 1931, promoted as "The strangest passion the world has ever known!". Since all the classic film monsters from the silent era, well into the 1970's have a romantic eye for the ladies, the museum has decked out each figure & set in the Wax Museum for Love. So, for an unusual enchanted date, be sure to visit with your sweetheart! The museum also features displays of original movie makeups & props from "E.T.", "Godzilla", "The Exorcist" and much more! www.preservehollywood.org or 860-583-8306 or 860-817-6095.
Local Lenten Fish Fry (Courtesy of WFSB)
Hartford
J Restaurant Bar, 297 Washington St will offer a Friday Fish and Chips special... this week it's fresh Haddock!
Danbury
St. Joseph’s Church - March 24 - 5 p.m. - The maximum family cost is $25.
Derby
St. Mary-St. Michael School - Feb. 24 - 5:30 p.m. Dinner served at 6 p.m. - $30 at the door.
Montville
Chesterfield Fire Co. - Every Friday Feb. 24 to March 31 - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. - $16
Mystic
Enders Island - Every Friday during Lent - 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. seating - $20
Naugatuck
St. Francis Church Hall - Every Friday Feb. 24 to March 31 - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. - $15 for adults
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