Ray Hardman
Host / Producer, Where Art Thou? / Arts ReporterRay Hardman is Connecticut Public’s Arts and Culture Reporter. He is the host of CPTV’s Emmy-nominated original series “Where Art Thou?” Listeners to Connecticut Public Radio may know Ray as the local voice of “Morning Edition”, and later of “All Things Considered.”
Ray started his career at WFSU in Tallahassee, Florida while pursuing a Master’s Degree in Opera Performance. He now lives in West Hartford with his wife Kathleen, his two teenage boys, and Charlie, the naughty Black Lab. He also fronts a garage rock band called “The Radiation.”
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After a COVID hiatus last summer, Capital Classics Theatre Company is back with the Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival. The return to live, outdoor performances on the campus of the University of Saint Joseph happens to coincide with the company’s 30th anniversary season. -
Hartford’s Sonia Plumb Dance Company is back for a second year with the Columns Dance Festival in Bushnell Park.Late last summer Sonia Plumb, artistic…
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The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival has launched an initiative that uses classical music as a conduit for conversations about race and diversity.The…
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COVID-19 has affected all of us. In one way or another we’ve all had to deal with isolation, loss and change. And by we, of course, I mean practically the…
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Abstract sculptor Leonardo Drew is returning to his Connecticut roots with a new exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Two Projects includes an outdoor…
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Independent record stores in Connecticut and around the world will celebrate “Record Store Day” this Saturday. For people who prefer their music in vinyl…
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The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield celebrated the opening of a new addition over the weekend.The museum is actually three preserved…
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The 34th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival gets underway in Hartford later this week. After last year’s all-virtual festival due to COVID concerns, this…
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The Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz will return to Bushnell Park this summer. The festival, which draws upwards of 50,000 people each year, was silenced…
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Jazz bassist Mario Pavone has died. The Connecticut musician was 80 years old.The Waterbury native actually got an engineering degree from UConn but…
