Jazz Musician Tuey Connell to Perform at Westminster School

Westminster School continues its Friday Nights in Gund series on Nov. 4 with a musical performance by Tuey Connell and Friends, a jazz group.

Connell, a 1986 Westminster graduate, is a musician and recording artist whose professional accomplishments include the CDs “Under the Influence” and “Songs for Joy and Sadness,” on which he presents original songs, sings, and plays the guitar and banjo. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, House of Blues, throughout New York City and in Europe and Mexico. Several musicians from New York City will accompany him during his Westminster performance.

Connell’s Westminster School concert is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the school’s Armour Academic Center. The school is located at 995 Hopmeadow St. in Simsbury. Refreshments will be served after the presentation and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour Academic Center.

The Friday Nights in Gund series is made possible by generous grants from The Ensign Bickford Foundation and the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund.