Besides offering a host of fine local talent to discover and enjoy, Southbury is close to Interstate 84 and therefore within fairly easy driving distance to nearby museums, music and theater in Waterbury, Danbury, Hartford, New Haven and even New York City.

During the warmer months, the Charles Ives Center in Danbury provides a wide variety of musical offerings, as do summer theaters in the area.

The Waterbury Symphony Orchestra offers a yearly concert series, with outstanding guest artists. Seven Angels Theater in Waterbury offers comedies and musicals with professional flair.
The Newtown Friends of Music sponsors a winter series, focusing on smaller instrumental groups.

Within a two-hour drive are the Berkshires and Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony. Easily accessible is the Yale School of Music summer home in Norfolk where chamber music concerts are played on weekends.