Simsbury Meadows summer lineup opening with benefit concert hosted by new restaurant Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant The Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center will hold its first live musical concert of the year on May 28, with a performance by the Fabulous Equinox Orchestra. The show is sponsored by Roux, a Cajun eatery opening on May 29 in town. The Savannah, Georgia-based Big Band also will perform the next day at the jazz brunch on the opening of the restaurant, which is under construction at 10 Wilcox St. They also will perform in a parade at the restaurant’s ribbon cutting. Other live performances scheduled at Simsbury Meadows, at 22 Iron Horse Boulevard, include a Memorial Day concert on May 31; Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s Talcott Mountain Music Festival on all five Fridays in July; a comedy series on the first three Wednesdays in July; a Connecticut musicians’ showcase the first three Wednesdays in August; performances by the U.S. Coast Guard Band on July 11, Aug. 29 and Sept. 12; and a show by Hootie and the Blowfish alum Darius Rucker on Aug. 28.