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).
Concert-only tickets as well as gala tickets, which include the concert as well as a pre-show cocktail party and after-party, will go on sale to the public on the Levitt Pavilion website at http://www.levittpavilion.com starting at noon on Wednesday.
