The Doug Whalberg Band got in about 45 minutes of music tonight before the concert was cut short by a severe thunder and lightning storm that moved thorugh the area. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Scenes from tonight’s Levitt Pavilion gala performance by CHIC featuring Westporter Nile Rodgers. WestportNow.com photos and J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com

Audience members join CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers on stage during tonight’s Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts gala performance. WestportNow.com video

A select group of audience members was invited on to the Levitt Pavilion stage tonight to dance to CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Scenes from the pre-gala cocktail party tonight before the Levitt Pavilion performance by CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers. The show was delayed one hour and 15 minutes by lightnig and rain. Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com and contributed photos

Chairs were in place and ready for tonight’s Levitt Pavilion gala performance by CHIC featuring Westporter Nile Rodgers. The ticketed event is a fundraiser to provide more than 50 nights of free entertainment. A few tickets remain at http://www.levittpavilion.com.  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Brothers Carson and Connor Einarsen, both Staples High School graduates who studied filmmaking in college, took their location shooting tonight to Church Lane outside of Christ & Holy Trinity Church. Their “no-budget” feature film being made in collaboration with the Westport Library is titled “An Inconsistent Story in Stealing.” It is described as a neo-noir movie about a former thief who is sucked back into the town she despises, to hunt down something she stole long ago. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Westport resident and veteranarian Irwin Lebish on the keyboard and his son Scott on the guitar entertained an audience of over 50 people tonight at the Westport Library’s McManus Room. The father-son duo, who played selections ranging from the bossanova to the Great American Songbook, were sponsored by Westporter Lee Greenberg as part of her longtime free entertainment program offered to the public. Irwin said he is influenced by Jazz greats John and Gay Mehegan of the 1970s, and he continues to pursue their art. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

The threat of rain did not deter a sizable turnout for tonight’s performance of Secret Agent 23 Skiddo, in the weekly Melissa & Doug children’s series at the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com