Guests at today’s season debut of the noontime Play With Your Food play reading series line up for food before the performance at Westport;s Toquet Hall. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

The American Boychoir will perform Saturday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. in a special concert at Christ & Holy Trinity Church. The world renowned vocal ensemble of the Princeton, N.J.-based American Boychoir School has been heralded as one of the nation’s premiere musical ensembles. Tickets ($45 preferred seating; $35 general adult; $15 general child under 18) may be purchased online at http://www.chtwestport.org/tickets or at the door if seats are still available. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

Westporter Mark Naftalin (r), a 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, takes a bow today with drummer Barry Urich at the Westport Library’s McManus Room after a performance before an overflow crowd. Naftalin, 71, a blues keyboardist, recording artist, composer, and record producer, was inducted into the Hall after appearing on the historic first four albums by Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the mid 1960s as a band member. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Scenes from today’s Westport Library performance by blues great and Westporter Mark Naftalin accompanied by drummer Barry Urich. Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

The Westport Cinema Initiative (WCI) with partner the Westport Library today presented a Westport Town Hall screening of “Miracle at St Anna,” a 2008 Spike Lee movie as part of the townwide WestportREADS celebration of the 2002 novel of the same name by author and musician James McBride. Posing for a photo were Trey Ellis, Westport novelist, screenwriter, professor, playwright, and essayist, whose film, “The Tuskegee Airmen” was the subject of a post–screening discussion; state Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, WCI preident; Sandra Lefkowitz, WCI executive director; Bill Harmer, executive director of the Westport Library; Kelle Ruden, Westport Library, and First Selectman James Marpe. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

The 10th annual Martin Luther King Day Celebration presented by Interfaith Council of Westport and Weston, TEAM (Together Effectively Achieving Multiculturalism) Westport and the Westport Country Playhouse is set for Sunday, Jan. 17, at 3 p.m. at the Playhouse, officials announced.

Marilyn Ward: keynote speaker. Contributed photo

The free event will feature keynote speaker Marilyn Ward Ford, the Neil Cogan Public Service Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University. Following the program, a reception will take place in the Playhouse lobby.

“In light of recent race-related incidents on city streets and college campuses, this year’s program will lift up not only the legacy of Dr. King but also help us envision ways we might move forward to fulfill his dream of a more just and inclusive society.”  said the Rev. Ed Horne, pastor of the United Methodist Church of Westport and Weston and chairman of the event’s organizing committee.

The program will include excerpts from King’s works being read by students from Regional Center for the Arts in Trumbull, and choral music will be sung by the Staples High School Orphenians and the Serendipity Chorale.

About 30 persons today attended a showing at the Westport Library’s McManus Room of the 1995 film, “Tuskeegee Airmen” a semi-fictionalized account of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-African-American Air Force squadron during World War II. The film centers on an ambitious young pilot, Hannibal Lee, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. The 106-minute film was shown in conjunction with the WestportREADS book selection, James McBride’s “Miracle at St. Anna,” a tale of courage and redemption inspired by a little-known historic event toward the end of World War II. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com