Roger Davidson Quartet Feat. David Finck, Eric Halvorson, Dennis Lichtman – Bethel, CT

Seating Chart

Doors open at 6:00pm. Try to be seated by 6:30pm to have your dinner order taken. Showtime begins at 7:00pm when we transform the space into a theater.

Out of respect for the performers and other patrons, please keep talking to a whisper during the performance.

Very Limited Occupancy. Tables seating 2, 4, 5 guests, with tables for 6, 8, 12 available upon request. Single, general admission tickets are also available. See The Attached Seating Chart. Admission Is $15.00 – $25.00 Per Person, Ticket prices may be higher for special performances. Having problems with the ticketing system? Call 203-247-4273

Parking: Please park in LaZingara’s lot or on Greenwood Ave. or School Street. Please avoid parking in P.T. Barnum Square.

Roger Davidson – Pianist & Composer Roger is a composer and pianist, with long experience in many different styles of music. Born in France in 1952, he grew up in the United States and France, with a French mother and American father. Having also gone to school in England, Switzerland and Thailand as well as the U.S., Roger accumulated extensive international experience as a young man — and continued to do so over many years. Together with his innate love of music, his travels — as well as his education — have brought him much empathy with various cultures around the world, and have taught him that all human beings are fundamentally interconnected. Experience with many forms of music has served to reinforce this awareness. With that background, he started writing and playing jazz in the 1980’s, primarily with the support and encouragement of jazz producer Helen Keane, who produced his first jazz album in 1991. Roger’s formal education includes a B.A. with a double major in German and Asian Studies from St. Olaf College (1974), a M.Mus. in composition from Boston University (1981), and a M.Mus. in choral conducting from Westminster Choir College (1985). He is also an ordained interfaith minister — having graduated, together with his wife, Nilcelia, from the New Vision Interspiritual Seminary (in New York State) in 2015. Roger lives with his wife, Reverend Nilcelia Davidson, in the New York area. They have three children, three cats, two ferrets, and over a hundred fish in a pond.

Dennis Lichtman – Clarinet Dennis is a multi-instrumentalist (clarinet, mandolin, fiddle, and more) who has been living, performing, composing, and teaching in New York City since 2002. He is a Selmer Paris Artist as an endorser of their Signature Clarinet. His music was recently used in director David Simon’s The Plot Against America (HBO) and he has appeared this year as a clarinetist on Succession (HBO) and The Blacklist (NBC). Lichtman’s newest album, Secret Workshop, features eleven original compositions inspired by the strange, unusual, and revealing objects he discovered in the off-limits workshop of his late father, an eccentric and extremely private inventor/machinist/mad-scientist. The project was made possible with a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and includes a music video directed by award-winning Mexican animator Fer Lozada. Prior albums include Jerron Paxton & Dennis Lichtman, a duo effort with the young lion of acoustic blues formerly known as “Blind Boy” Paxton, and Just Cross the River, featuring original compositions inspired by the migration of jazz legends into the borough of Queens, NY beginning in the 1920’s. Lichtman is also a member of ragtime quintet The Lovestruck Balladeers and Ghost Train Orchestra, whose 2023 album of Moondog’s music is a collaboration with Kronos Quartet. Since 2007, Lichtman has been the clarinetist and bandleader of the famed Tuesday night traditional-jazz jam session at Mona’s in downtown New York, which was profiled in the New York Times, and has been described by the Wall Street Journal as “ground zero for an emerging late-night scene of young swing and traditional jazz players.” Lichtman has performed at Carnegie Hall, major festivals throughout the United States, and on stages in Europe, Brazil, and China. He is on the faculty of several jazz and string music camps and workshops, and has led college master classes and school workshops through the Midori Foundation, Lincoln Center’s Meet The Artist Series, and Beijing’s Ping-Pong Productions.

David Finck – Bassist His resumé includes performances and recordings with some of the worlds best known musicians: George Michael, Michel Legrand, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Rod Stewart, Ivan Lins, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Steve Kuhn, Rosemary Clooney, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, John Secada, Gloria Estefan, James Moody, Paquito DRivera, Eliane Elias, Linda Rondstadt, and Sir Andre Previn who writes: “There is no one who is as good a jazz bass player and collaborator.”

Eric Halvorson – Drums Eric has performed with John Fedchock, Dave Liebman, Bob Sheppard, Dave Stryker, Donny McCaslin, Steve Slagle, Vic Juris, Scott Robinson, Adam Rogers, Joe Locke, Bruce Barth, Marilyn Maye, Beegie Adair, vocalist Kenny Washington, Fred Hersch, Mark Murphy, James Moody, and Bill Henderson; vocalist Lucy Woodward; toured internationally with Ute Lemper; Broadway stars Sherie Rene Scott and Christine Ebersole; composer Frank Wildhorn; songwriter and pianist Marvin Hamlisch; soul singer Ben E. King; blues artist George Kilby Jr. and the legendary Pinetop Perkins to name a few.

He is currently touring with vocalist Linda Eder and also works with many big bands including Josh Shneider’s ‘Love Speaks Orchestra’, the Birdland Big Band, the Bill Warfield Repertory Big Band, and the George Gee Big Band. He has performed at New York City’s top venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall (with Beegie Adair), Town Hall, Radio City Music Hall, City Center and jazz venues Iridium, Blue Note, Small’s, Smoke and Birdland.

Eric has performed at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 and 2010 and at numerous festivals including the Monterey Jazz Festival, Eleuthera Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Norwich Music Festival (UK), Silda Jazz (Norway), Radio Classica (Chile), Cork Jazz Festival (Ireland), Festival de Jazz (Colombia), Kaunas Jazz Festival (Lithuania), and the Iowa City Jazz Festival.

He is in demand on Broadway and was the drummer for the 2015 revival of Gigi. He has played in the orchestras of Book of Mormon, Moulin Rouge, Mean Girls, Come From Away, The Prom, Beautiful, Waitress, A Bronx Tale, Color Purple, Wicked, Pippin, On the Town, West Side Story, Sister Act, How to Succeed in Business, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mary Poppins, Cinderella, Shrek, Xanadu, and many others. He played the Los Angeles production of Follies in 2012. He is sought after by a variety of performers because of his rock and pop sensibilities.

We’re sorry, there are no refunds after tickets have been purchased. In the event of a pandemic, rain, snow, or other forms of weather which prohibit a performance, the performance date will be postponed and rescheduled for another date within a reasonable amount of time. If the new date is postponed, a future alternate date will be picked at the discretion of Bethel Jazz and the musical artist. The ticket holder will be notified of postponements, cancelations, and rescheduled dates via email. Tickets are non-refundable and may be transferred to another person in the event a purchaser can not make the rescheduled date. In the event, an artist cancels a date, and Bethel Jazz is unable to reschedule the artist, Bethel Jazz reserves the right to provide a substitute performer of equal quality without notice to the ticket purchaser. If a date is canceled and not rescheduled, Bethel Jazz will provide a refund (in some cases minus the Eventbrite fee) or credit for another performance at the choice of the ticket holder. Bethel Jazz will always do its best to accommodate for changes in seating, table sizes, or changes to tickets.