Nile Rodgers was honored in 2014 by the Westport Library. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Marcia Logan for WestportNow.com

The Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts has announced that its annual fundraising gala this year will headline CHIC featuring Westporter Nile Rodgers, Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, producer, philanthropist, and writer.

The Summer Gala Concert on Thursday, Aug. 11 helps underwrite the Pavilion’s 50 nights of free concerts.

CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers was organized during 1976 by Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards.

Its commercially successful disco songs include “Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)” (1977), “Everybody Dance” (1977), “Le Freak” (1978), “I Want Your Love” (1978), “Good Times” (1979), and “My Forbidden Lover” (1979).

The Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts was filled tonight for a performance by Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks. Grammy Winner Giordano’s music evokes the height of ballroom perfection, combining jazz elegance and swingin’ (or rumba-in’ or cha-cha-cha-in’) style, along with renditions of 1920s and 1930s chestnuts. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

In response to an audience request, Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks performed the “Tea for Two” cha-cha tonight as the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

It was a kick off your shoes and go dancing night at the Levitt Pavilion tonight with Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com

There was a full house tonight for the Westport Cinema Initiative screening of the 2005 film “The War Within” at the Westport Country Playhouse Barn. Written by Ayad Akhtar, a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, the film provides insights into the Muslim experience in the United States. It was held in conjunction with the Playhouse production of “The Invisible Hand” by the same author and included a talkback with its director, David Kennedy, and Westport filmmaker Doug Tirola. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Today’s second and final day of the Westport Fine Arts Festival drew hundreds of visitors despite temperatures in the 90s. A number of artists queried said they were pleased with sales at the event. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) J. C. Martin for WestportNow.com

Jerusalem-born artist Yoram Gel, a resident of Old Jaffa, Israel, shows his artistic creation of Adam and Eve today at the second and final day of thr Westport Fine Arts Festival. Gal and his son, Nimrod, 16, are in the United States for three weeks to participate in art shows in Westport, Stamford, and Geneva, Ill. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Longtime Westport Library volunteer Dick Lowenstein today rearranges the enclosed display of “highly valued or fragile” collectibles in the McManus Room on the second day of the library’s annual summer book sale.  Lowenstein said the highest price single item purchased this weekend was a first edition, signed copy of “Ghosts Along the Mississippi,” a photography book authored by Clarence John Laughlin. The photographs capture Mississippi River relics, and was influenced by French photographer Eugene Atget. The buyer paid $275. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Among Westport Library summer book sale buyers today in the McManus Room were Westport residents Sheela Hari and sons, Yashi, 11, (l), a sixth grade student at Coleytown Middle Schoo,l and Jay, 8, a third grade student at Kings Highway Elementary School. They purchased mostly classics and children’s books. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Rhythm and blues band Billy and the Showmen, featuring Billy Frenz, band leader and guitar, and Billy Foster, lead vocals and emcee, had the Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts rocking tonight.  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com