Field Collection with Date for Calendar View
I couldn't get Calendar to play nice with Field Collections.  It seems like I needed to somehow provide for the custom calendar row plugin or calendar items within the field collection view (it's too complicated).

Ultimately, I went with the FullCalendar module, which is built on the FullCalendar jQuery plugin.

It's very clean, simple to setup, and it plays very nicely with everything I'm throwing at it.  If Calendar and Field Collections make any further progress with their development, I might revisit them, but for now this fits the bill.