Events for Saturday May 20, 2023
NJ Renaissance Faire
Family-friendly festival featuring entertainment for all ages in an interactive setting: music, comedy, knight jousting, a human chess match, sword fighting, fire breathing, aerialists, comedy, music, food, merchant village, and more. $25 admission. 240 Eayrestown Road, Southampton. njrenfaire.com.
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Pennington Day
Live music, food, kids' activities, quilt show, and more. Rain or shine. South Main Street & East Curlis Avenue, Pennington. www.penningtonday.org.
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Winery Weekend Music Series, Terhune's
Join family and friends in our historic apple orchard this spring for our Winery Weekend Music Series. Grab a glass of one of our award-winning wines, sit back, relax, and enjoy live music from local artists each week. Styles range from Jazz and Blues to Folk and Rock. Music plays from from 2pm-5pm. With 17 varieties of wine made with Terhune’s own grapes as well as three wines from our apple cider, tasting flights are a great way to sample the wide offerings. Warm up with delicious hot mulled wine. Our Barn Door Café will have light fare, while cheese plates and chips & salsa baskets are available at the winery. Perfect to enjoy with a glass of wine! No reservations are needed. No outside food or pets, please. Groups maximum of 8. Live music on Saturday and Sunday from 2pm-4pm - May 20 - Chris P
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CMS Kids: Exploring Dvorák, Princeton University Concerts
Princeton University Concerts ("PUC") welcomes The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ("CMS") back to Princeton for the final family program of the 2022-23 season— "CMS Kids: Exploring Dvo?ák," curated for kids ages 3-6 and their families. Performances will take place on Saturday, May 20 at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM in the Lee Rehearsal Room at the Lewis Arts Complex. Host Rami Vamos and the professional musicians of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will guide audiences in an exploration of the theme of identity through Antonín Dvo?ák's Quartet in E-flat Major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 87. This inclusive concert experience is adapted for neurodiverse audiences, including children with autism or other special needs. The performance is presented in a judgment-free environment, and is less formal and more supportive of sensory, communication, movement, and learning needs. Tickets for Princeton University Concerts' family programs go quickly and are only $5 for children and $10 for adults. Tickets are available at puc.princeton.edu, or by phone at 609-258-9220 (Mon-Fri, 11AM-4PM).
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Colors of Indian Music, West Windsor Arts Council
Roohaniyat, a music and culture center, presents Navrang, Hindi for colorful and beautiful, featuring music in Hindustani, Carnatic, Folk, Quawaali, and Sufi styles and rendered in various languages like Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and Punjabi, accompanied by traditional Indian music instruments like tabla and harmonium. Register. $25. 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, 609-716-1931. www.westwindsorarts.org
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No Name Dance, Central Jersey Dance Society
Central Jersey Dance Society presents our No Name Dance: 7:00pm-8:00pm: Hustle lesson (beginner/intermediate) taught by our talented, award-winning instructor Donna Boyle. 8:00pm-11:00pm: Open dancing to a great playlist of California Mix, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Night Club 2-Step, Hustle, and Latin dance music with Donna Boyle as DJ. Location: Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street (for GPS, use: 1 Monument Drive), Princeton, NJ 08540. No partner needed; newbies, singles, and couples are welcome. Sanitation stations provided. Dancers are encouraged to bring their own bottles of water. Admission: $15/adult, $10/full time student with ID. For more information: call 609-945-1883, email VolunteersCJDS@gmail.com, or visit www.centraljerseydance.org.
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Blues for an Alabama Sky, McCarter Theater
May 6 - May 28 In a Depression-era Harlem apartment building, a close-knit group of friends has become a chosen family. New roommates Angel and Guy — a recently fired blues singer and a promising costume designer with Paris in his sights — live across the hall from Delia, a social worker who sparks a relationship with the hardworking doctor Sam. Their lives are upturned when a Southern newcomer Leland arrives and falls hard for Angel, who is torn between a stable life in New York City and an exhilarating overseas adventure with Guy. Angel chooses her path, but the decision leads to devastating consequences that shift the trajectory of everyone’s futures and long-held dreams.
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