The One and Only CHIC Featuring Nile Rodgers Plays the Levitt in Westport

WESTPORT, CT — The legendary band CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers will perform at the Levitt Pavilion on Thursday, Aug. 11, for the performing arts center's gala fundraising event.

Sponsored by Tiffany & Co. and Poland Spring, the show is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. and various ticket and gala packages are still available. This is a rain or shine event. Click here more information about the show and to purchase tickets.

"Among music legends, Nile Rodgers is truly exceptional," states the Levitt's announcement about Rodgers. "He amplifies his legacy as a multi-Grammy-winning composer, producer, arranger and guitarist by constantly traversing new musical terrain and successfully expanding the boundaries of popular music. As the co-founder of CHIC, Rodgers pioneered a musical language that sparked the advent of hip-hop with 'Good Times,' distinguished CHIC as the 'most sampled band in history' (The Guardian, 2011), won CHIC ten Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations, and generated groundbreaking pop hits like 'Le Freak,' which was inducted into the 2015 Grammy Hall of Fame. His career-defining productions for David Bowie (Let's Dance), Madonna (Like A Virgin), Diana Ross (diana), and Sister Sledge (We Are Family), plus his work with artists like Duran Duran, INXS, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, Steve Winwood, Peter Gabriel, The B-52s, and Michael Jackson, have sold over 200 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide while his innovative, trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Avicii, Disclosure, and Sam Smith reflect the vanguard of contemporary music."