D&H CANVAS July 2017

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Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Marlboro & Ellenville

July 2017

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Publisher’s Column

by Barry Plaxen For our June issue, the cover’s digital image of Elaine Giguere (see page 12) should have been credited to the design team of Hans Küng, Brandi Merolla, and Bruce Bidwell.

Thanks again, Elaine, for your 42 years of dedication and energy in making the Upper Delaware a vibrant arts destination, and for administering the NY State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grants to the fabulous creative community in Sullivan County.

What a joy it was, on June 17, to meet your “450 or so personal friends” as they celebrated “Elaine’s Reign”.

Love and joy to you always.

Synchronicity of the month: Rick Larrimore gives tribute to Rod Stewart in

Highland Mills and the real Rod Stewart will perform in-person in Bethel.

Just for fun: Can you find the two Oscar Hammerstein II quotes in this issue?

Welcome White Sulphur Springs to the fantastic roster of hamlets in our calendar.

Welcome back former Sullivan writers/ actors Paul Austin and Rilla Askew, visiting us from Oklahoma.

We’ve got Ikebana, beatboxing, witches, neo-burlesque, events for kids, free concerts, free museum days, free Shakespeare, tenminute plays, and a Memorial Service for the great Chris Farlekas. Read on!

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Letters to the Editor I wanted to acknowledge and thank you for the important impact and effect that your publication, CANVAS, has had for both artists and art lovers in our region. You make a significant contribution to disseminating valuable information about our vibrant artistic communities that otherwise might go unnoticed. The arts are so important in our culture and your hard work to produce, publish and distribute each issue in a timely manner and make CANVAS readily and conveniently available in so many locations, free of charge, is very much appreciated.

- Paul Gould, Hudson Valley Gallery

In July 2004, when I first met Tannis, Brad and the NACL thespians, they were in the middle of the field at the Gorzynski Farm in Cochecton Center. I got a flat tire on the way home from the Delaware Valley Opera, and I stopped to ask for a phone so I could call AAA. (I don’t remember if they were out in the field helping to plant or to harvest for Tannis’ future husband Greg who ran the farm, or preparing an NACL-style site-specific play.) They fixed my tire, and when Tannis found out who I was she told me who they were and that she had been phoning my office earlier that day to ask for more copies of our first issue of CANVAS for their theatre. So I reached into the trunk and gave her the extra copies.

How’s that for “there are no accidents!”

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Calendars

Art & Photography ����������������������������������18 Category �������������������������������������������������15 Children & Teen’s ������������������������������������18 Demos, Lectures & Master Classes �������14 Music - Pop, Folk, Rock, etc., �����������������14 July 2017 Calendar ����������������������������16-17

Columns

May I Have A Word With You �����������������30 Meet Me in the Greenroom ���������������������19 Wellness Modalities ��������������������������������31

Stories

Ann Hampton Callaway ��������������������������22 Ariel Shanberg, DVAA �������������������������������7 ARTery Gallery, Milford ���������������������������28 Artists’ Market, Shohola ����������������������������5 Bethel Woods �������������������������������������2, 22 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor � 4, 25 Chris Farlekas Tribute Memorial ���������������5 Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen ���������19 Cragsmoor Historical Society �������������������8 Crawford Arts Association, Pine Bush ����23 Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �27 Dead End Cafe, Parksville ������������������������8 Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg ��4,7,12,25 Delaware Valley Opera ���������������������������22 Downing Park Planning Committee ����������9 DUSKLIT, Sugar Loaf �����������������������������27 Electricmeg ���������������������������������������������25 Florida Public Library ������������������������������24 Forestburgh Playhouse ��������������������������29 Foundry 42, Port Jervis ��������������������������24 Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley ��28 Glen Arden, Goshen �������������������������������23 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra � 9 Greenwood Lake Library ������������������������24 Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall 13

Hurleyville Arts Centre ��������������������������� 27 Ikebana Society of America ������������������� 23 In Memoriam: Hugh Bodie ��������������������� 29 Jeffrey Stocker ����������������������������������� 3, 25 Joseph Sundwall, artist �������������������������� 23 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford ������������������� 31 Liberty Museum & Arts Center ������������������7 Livingston Manor Library ����������������������� 31 Mount St. Mary College ����������������������������9 NACL Theatre, Highland Lake ����������� 2, 10 Ode to CANVAS ������������������������������������ 26 On the Lawn Concerts, Sugar Loaf ��������11 Orange County Arts Council ������������������ 24 P. Austin, R. Askew & K. Hada, writers �� 25 Pacem in Terris, Warwick ������������������� 5, 30 Pamela Mather-Cathy & Michael Piotrowski �23 Parksville USA Music Festival 2017 ���������8 Phillipsport Community Center �������������� 22 Pike County Arts & Crafts, Milford ��������� 12 Port Jervis Council for the Arts �������������� 22 Port Jervis Summer Concert Series �������11 Riverfest 2017, Narrowsburg ��������������������4 Robert Milby, OC Poet Laureate ������������ 26 Rock Hill Summer Concert Series ����������11 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf �������� 10, 27 Seven Freedoms Music Ctr., Montgomery ��8 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville �������������� 26 Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville ������������� 3 Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville ��� 8 Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg ���������� 22, 25 Wallkill River School, Montgomery ������������13 Warwick Summer Arts Festival �������������� 12 Warwick Village Garden Tour ����������������� 28 Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh ���9 Weekend of Chamber Music ����������������� 21 West Point Band ������������������������������������ 13 Wurtsboro Art Alliance ������������������������������6 Wurtsboro Board of Trade ������������������������6 Wurtsboro Founders Day ��������������������������6

F. Douglass’ Powerful July 4 Speech Back by popular Susan B Anthony’s unique demand! For those who life has challenged Yeagermay have missed the Drouse to show young presentation of the new women that Anthony play Lion of Anacostia: was more than just a face The Last Interview of on a gold dollar. Actor/ Frederick Douglass at playwright Giblin worked the Crawford Library for 5 years researching in Monticello during Douglass, and came away Black History Month, from the project amazed Left to right: G. Giblin, R. Yeagerthe Sullivan County at the depth and quality Drouse & G. Oliver King.

Museum has scheduled a of this intelligent and self Photo by Jonathan Fox repeat performance to coincide with Douglass’ educated man. famous Fourth of July oration of 1852.

Jonathan Fox of the River Reporter This enlightening story explores the wrote about the February performance, “This unprecedented collaboration and the unique performance of Lion Of Anacostia brought friendship between Douglass and lifetime to life...Douglass’ words with tremendous friend Susan B. Anthony from the Abolition passion.” In addition, “...the often combative Era before the Civil War and through the friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Women’s Suffragette Movement of the late Douglass is well portrayed and insightful.”

19th century. In addition, it explores the unique The performance is done in Readers life of Frederick Douglass and his rise from Theatre format, directed by nationally slavery to statesman and his unique bond with recognized director Jeffrey Stocker. historical figures of his time especially John Lion of Anacostia will be performed at the Brown and Abraham Lincoln.

Sullivan County Museum & Historical The cast includes G. Oliver King as Frederick Society, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, on July A. Douglass, Regina Yeager-Drouse as Susan 2 at 2:00pm. Tickets will be available at the B. Anthony and playwright/producer Gregory door or by calling 845-434-8044 in advance.

F. Giblin as the news reporter Tom O’Brien.

Note that this presentation is being offered King has said he is “honored and humbled as a fundraiser for the Museum and will be to explore Douglass’ great compassion for followed by a Q&A with the playwright and his fellow man, as well as his greatest fears.” actors. Light refreshments will be provided.

Saturday, July 1 Poetry............................Hudson River Poets...............Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, 1pm Theatre - Play........................“The Jag”............Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, 2pm & 8pm Festival..A Gathering at Bethel Woods: Celebrating Peace, Love & Music..Bethel Woods, 3pm Theatre - Musical........“I Am Woman” Presby Players..................Marsh Hall, Port Jervis, 7pm Music - Latin-Salsa Dance...................Soñando!.......................The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Music - The Dead...........Dead on the Tracks .....The Falcon-Underground, Marlboro, 7pm Music.....Hurley Mountain Highway...Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, 7pm FREE Music - Rock-R&B-Country..Benny Havens Band...Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point 7:30pm Theatre - Musical..................“Funny Girl”..............................Forestburgh Playhouse, 8pm Music.........................................Walter Parks.........................Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm Music..........................The Blues Saints...........Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, 8:30pm Cabaret.............................“Eighties Explosion”.....................Forestburg Tavern, 10:45pm

Sunday, July 2 Music - Swing-Blues.........Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis ......The Falcon, Marlboro,10am-2pm Music - Jazz.................Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch.......Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, 1pm Theatre - Play......................“The Jag”..........................Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, 2pm Theatre - Dramatic Reading..”The Lion of Anacostia”..Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, 2pm Opera.“A Visit From the Bronx Opera” Parksville USA Music Festival.Dead End Cafe, Parksville, 3pm

Theatre - Musical.......“I Am Woman” Presby Players...................Marsh Hall, Port Jervis, 3pm Theatre - Musical..................“Funny Girl”..............................Forestburgh Playhouse, 3pm Music - Jazz Fusion.....“OZ Experience”: Omar Hakim & Rachel Z ....The Falcon, Marlboro, 7pm Museum - “Through Different Lenses: Views From Two Centuries”...............................................

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ARTIST OPPORTUNITY: Visual Arts From amateur to professional, visual artists of all ages and levels are invited to submit works for the annual three-day art show at the Church of St. Joseph in Wurtsboro.

Prizes are awarded based on media.

Winners are chosen by vote of exhibit attendees. A special section for children’s art is included.

Exhibit dates are July 9-11, 4:00pm-

8:00pm, with awards, 50/50 raffle and silent auction results announced on July 12 from 7:00pm-8:00pm.

Visit www.stjosephwurtsboro.com (click on news events) or phone 845-8884522 (rectory) and 845-866-8011 (ask for Mildred).

Deadline for submissions is July 5, 7:00pm.

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CAS: Free Art Classes for Kids in July! husband lived in Roscoe for 15 years before JULY 1-30 EXHIBIT Lavern Kelley never intended to make a moving to the “Big Easy” (New Orleans), in living as an artist. He probably never could 2015. You may have seen their gallery, The have explained why he picked up a pocketknife Outsider’s Studio, at 41B Main Street a and began carving and recreating the life he while back. Andrea is a passionate and prolific mixed media artist who saw around him at his has shown her work in family farm in Oneonta. galleries and museums He just felt compelled across the country. She to do it. He had never has been an art teacher heard of Thomas Hart for over 20 years, Benton or Grant Wood, working with children or the other artists of of all ages in public, his time who were also famously depicting the “Ford 1948-1950 Blue Log Truck” by L. Kelley parochial and private life of the American worker and farmer. He schools. Andrea thinks being an art teacher is a lot of fun - she especially loves watching didn’t know he was part of a movement!

Kelley’s sculptures and drawings, on the magic happen - the magic that is watching display at the Catskill Art Society (CAS) kids’ imaginations soar!

Painting, drawing, printmaking, clay, from July 1-30, are not only a time capsule of farm life in rural New York in the early collage and wood sculpture FREE art classes 20th century - but also part of a larger arts with Andrea for kids ages 4-9 (exceptions movement that helped bring a nation out of can be made for interested budding artists outside the age bracket) begin July 5 and will its Great Depression.

CAS will host an Artist Talk with the take place four mornings a week, Tuesdays curator of Kelley’s show, Sydney Waller, on through Fridays, ending July 28. Choose July 1 at 3:00pm followed immediately by either the 9:30am-10:30am class or the an opening reception from 4:00pm-6:00pm. 10:45am-11:45am class. No registration is All are welcome and refreshments will be required and parents are welcome to stay and work with their kids or to drop them off! served.

Visit www.catskillartsociety.org/classes for FREE KIDS’ ART CLASSES information about the classes.

Who is Andrea Brown? Andrea and her See CAS ad on this page for contact info.

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Riverfest 2017 & Tree Inspired Paintings RIVERFEST 2017

What started off in 1991 as a modest gathering of artists displaying their work and celebrating the beauty of the Delaware River has flourished over the past 27 years into a flagship event. Today, over 50 artisans and craftmakers come from around the region for Riverfest, a street fair celebrating the interplay of art, music and river ecology.

The 27th Annual Riverfest, presented by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance and sponsored

by Catskill Regional Medical Center, takes place on July 23 from 10:00am-4:00pm on Main Street in Narrowsburg.

Everything for sale at Riverfest is artistmade, and the person who is selling it is the artist him/herself. Broom makers; potters; jewelers; textile, wood, and glass artists; writers, and painters. Get a book signed by the author or watch a chainsaw artist create a new sculpture, a potter throwing clay, or a fly tier making the perfect fly for the perfect catch.

Ample free parking can be found at the

Fireman’s field/ball field on DeMauro Lane. A complimentary shuttle service from the parking area to the Tusten Theatre will be provided.

Admission is free.

PETER FIORE: “PINE VARIATIONS” “I am interested in making the simple profound, always searching for that universal moment in our commonplace world,” says Peter Fiore. “My tree ‘portraits’ continue “Tangle” by Peter Fiore the pursuit of communicating a complexity of feelings within the works, while also seeking to display the unique character within a single tree,” he says. “I like to visit a motif repeatedly to learn it’s faceted nature throughout the year.

This white pine tree’s proximity to my studio allows frequent visits.”

Pine Variations, an exhibit of paintings

by Fiore, opens with a reception on June 30 from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the Delaware Arts Center’s Alliance Gallery, 37 Main Street.

The exhibit is on view through July 29. Peter will be showing paintings of closely cropped pine trees, branches dancing from edge to edge, anchored by a steady central trunk.

For information, phone 845-252-7576.

“Chris Farlekas Tribute Memorial” The ongoing tributes and in between them, will to Times Herald-Record read essays (if I have not (and CANVAS) writer and been able to memorize them beloved community icon by then). I expect my part to Chris Farlekas (1929-2015) be no more than an hour. I continue this month, helping will provide an opportunity to insure that his involvement at the end for anybody to and impact with the arts, offer a brief anecdote about students, veterans, domestic Chris - as is my custom when abuse victims, poverty and doing a memorial service for civil rights continues. someone.”

Drew Willard first met Chris Drew is a 1977 graduate of the Farlekas five years after hearing US Military Academy and served about him from a mutual friend on active duty as a Signal Corps - finally meeting Chris on a trip officer in the Federal Republic to the Peoples Republic of China, of Germany and the Republic of in the summer of 1985. Through Korea, and left the service to go to Chris’ mentoring, Drew developed seminary in 1984. He is currently his skills as a Biblical storyteller, the pastor for the United Church translating and paraphrasing those of Christ at The Villages in north Drew Willard stories he tells from the Christian gospels. The central Florida. scripts of many of these presentations have The service will be held at Pacem In Terris, been recently published as Gospel Pilgrimage 96 Covered Bridge Road, Warwick, on July Stories, which also features his original 15 at 5:00pm. All are invited. (Seating is not artwork as illustrations. The Sabbath stories handicapped accessible, and you may wish to from that book will be told intermittently with bring a pillow or seat cushion!) recollections of Chris Farlekas.

Admission is open to the public, and a “The structure of the Chris Farlekas Tribute free-will offering is welcomed to support Memorial will be a “tandem telling” of a day the Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund, a donorin the life of Christ from Mark chapters 2-5, advised fund of the Community Foundation as an intimate story concert,” Drew explained. of Orange and Sullivan.

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“The Art of War” in Shohola It’s often said that both countries in a war think God is on their side. It’s equally true that both parties have art on their side. Depending on your point of view, artistic creations have helped make the world safe for democracy, or been used to dehumanize “the enemy” to make it easier for soldiers to kill them.

The Barryville Area Arts Association is sponsoring an exhibit titled, The Art of War, that includes art from both sides of the World Wars.

Special sections are devoted to the use of children in war propaganda, and the use - by both sides - of racial and ethnic stereotypes.

Several original WWII posters on loan from the Pike County Historical Society will be on display, including Norman Rockwell’s famous Freedom From Want poster.

The exhibit includes obvious choices like Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Same Wants You. But there is lots of lesser known art that has disappeared because it makes many of us

Above: World War II poster

“Freedom From Want”

by Norman Rockwell, 1943.

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uncomfortable.

“Some of these posters and prints are highly offensive, so this exhibit is not for the faint of heart,” says BAAA member Nick Roes, who selected the prints for inclusion.

“We placed a higher value on historical accuracy than audience comfort. People will disagree on which works of art cross the line, but whatever your politics, you’ll be amazed to see what a big part art has played in the history of war.”

The opening reception on July 1, from 4:00pm6:00pm, will include a brief presentationandagroupexhibit of local artists including Eloy Argueso, Isabelle Bajda, Jane Brennan, Richard D’Ambrosia, Mef Gannon, Debbie Gioello, Adrienne Markowitz, Stephanie McClure, Susan Miiller, Dixie Rich, Kelly Ryan, and Joan Standora.

The Art of War takes place at the Artists’ Market Community Center, 114 Richardson Avenue, Shohola, PA. Call 845-557-8713.

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W ur t s b or o: F ou n d e r s Da y & Mo r e!

THE FAIR Save the Date! On July 15 from Noon6:00pm, the Wurtsboro Board of Trade presents the annual Wurtsboro Founders’ Day Street Fair! The Fair is back to the full length of Sullivan Street where it all began over 20 years ago. This is an entire day full of family fun! There are lots of local venders selling art, crafts, jewelry, and clothing. The kids can enjoy activities like bouncy houses, a petting zoo, and scavenger hunt, a wood carving demonstration by the Stump Devils (brothers Jake & Eric Polick), and much more!

Let’s not forget the yummy fair foods we all love along with local restaurant offerings!

THE MUSIC 11:00am-1:00pm: The Carl Richards Band plays country, old rock & roll, with a touch of blues. Carl loves crowd participation during his shows by bringing people out of the audience to play tambourine and sing along.

1:00pm-2:00pm: Steady Pulse is a local cover band that plays music by Bad Company, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Beatles, Cheap Trick, and Guns n Roses, to Mellencamp, Badfinger, Green Day, Bryan Adams and much more.

1:00pm-3:00pm: The only music act not performing at Veterans Memorial Park: John Platt & John McCormack perform in the Mamakating Library.

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2:00pm-4:00pm: Side F/X, jamming since 1989, includes vocalist Dan Greenberg, drummer Mike Reddington, lead guitarist Joe (Moe) Orrio and Chris Fairfield on bass guitar. “Side F/X plays the classic rock that you danced to in the 60s!” exclaims Greenberg.

4:00pm-5:00pm: The Rock Ridge Trio play rock & country tunes. “We play acoustic music entwined with warm vocals!”

5:00pm-6:00pm: Rock City Academy in Pine Bush offers students an opportunity to develop basic music skills. Those who wish to explore their potential can engage in music writing classes and bands and can have an opportunity to have their band or original music recorded. See students from Rock City Academy perform and “Live the Dream!”

Be sure to bring blankets or chairs! Free parking is available at Jerry’s Collision!

Visit www.wurtsboro.org for more details.

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July 22: Art with Found Objects.

WURTSBORO ART ALLIANCE Pre-registration required; call to ask about The Wurtsboro Art Alliance’s (WAA) John Neilson Gallery will offer coloring class size limitations and ages: 845-988-7180. books and a paper marbling project for the kids THE WAA ART LECTURE SERIES hosted by Kitty Mitchell during the Fair.

The WAA hosts a lecture series on the 2nd The next WAA show, Buildings & Structures, opens on July 1 with a reception from Noon- Saturday of each month at the Neilson Gallery.

On July 8 at 5:00pm, Seiso Paul Cooper 4:00pm. The show runs through July 29.

“With our buildings and structures theme, and Karen Morris of Two Rivers Zen it is a good month to announce a new venue Community from Narrowsburg, will present for WAA members to display art. We’ll Sitting Within the Impulse of the Poem: From Haiku to Tanka to Lyric, and have an artistic presence Back Again. in the new Mamakating This workshop begins Environmental Education with basic instruction in the & Interpretive Center, practice of zazen or “just located on the corner of sitting” meditation as a South and Haven Roads,” way of entering a focused says WAA President Brent experiential study of the Lyons. “The Center will here and now sensibilities hold several town offices and offer area recreational “Washed by the Sea” by John Kocijanski of poetic forms, Haiku and information as well as meeting spaces for local Tanka.

Seiso Paul Cooper, director and guiding organizations. A respite area will be available for hikers enjoying the trails along the teacher at Two Rivers, is an ordained Soto Bashakill. A centerpiece of the building will be Zen priest and an awardwinning author and poet. Karen Morris is a psychoanalyst in a mural by WAA member Steve Duffy.”

NEW: The WAA is offering FREE art Narrowsburg and NYC who specializes in creativity and adult onset trauma. She is also classes for the community in July & August! an award-winning author and poet.

July 6: Self-Portraits in Acrylics.

Admission is Free. Donations will be July 20: Intro to Watercolor. accepted at the door to help support the WAA. July 20: Create A Colorful Silk Scarf.

Meet DVAA’s Ariel Shanberg

The board of directors of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) is pleased to announce that Ariel Shanberg joined the organization as Executive Director in June 2017. Shanberg succeeds Elaine Giguere who co-founded and oversaw the non-profit arts organization for 42 years.

“The Board of Directors is excited and thrilled with Ariel’s selection as our Executive Director,” says DVAA Board President Jeffrey Allison. “He is experienced in managing arts organizations, but even more importantly, he has a passion for the arts and how the arts build community. We look forward to introducing Ariel to everyone.”

From 2003-2015, Shanberg was the Executive Director at the Center for Photography (CPW) at Woodstock. Under his leadership, CPW received numerous accolades including the 2009 Spotlight Award from the Lucie Foundation for significantly altering the landscape of photography, and the 2014 Ulster County Executive Arts Award for Arts Organization of the Year. In 2014, CPW’s residency program was listed as one of the top twenty programs in the United States.

“I couldn’t be more thrilled to be joining the staff and board of DVAA at this exciting juncture. Elaine’s remarkable vision and leadership of DVAA has truly transformed the cultural landscape of Sullivan County and I am looking forward to building on such

Elaine Giguere & Ariel Shanberg

a proud legacy,” says Shanberg. “With the rising popularity of our region and the vital role the arts play both in Sullivan County’s economy and the quality of life it provides, DVAA, through its role as the Arts Council of Sullivan County and its rich range of programming including its galleries, offerings at the Tusten Theatre, Riverfest and the Big Eddy Film Festival, is uniquely poised to strengthen the vast network of creative voices that are making this area their home, and connect them with new and enthusiastic audiences.”

“Ariel’s experience with community development and running an arts organization, along with his personal commitment to artmaking, makes him uniquely qualified to take the reins,” says Giguere, who will retire at the end of June. “I feel confident that DVAA will be in good hands with Ariel at the helm.”

Ambitious Barn Exhibit at Liberty Museum

In one of its most ambitious exhibits in its 20-year history, the Liberty Museum & Arts Center (LMAC) is presenting Barns of the Catskills 2017, a multi-media presentation of the beauty and importance of barns in the Catskill Mountains.

Barns and farming have always been an integral part of the Catskills and the LMAC is endeavoring to document and preserve this heritage. The Museum is seeking to document the agricultural presence in the Catskills, our immigrant ancestors’ attempts to farm in a difficult environment and the barns that provided the necessary shelter and storage and to further document the rebirth of farming in our mountains.

Curated by designer and LMAC founding board member Sharon Green, the exhibit features a breathtaking variety of barn photographs, both historical and current, paintings of and inspired by the region’s barns and the collected stories of the contributors to the exhibit, floor plans and architectural renderings, and artifacts culled from the diverse array of barns in our region. While many barns have been converted into living spaces and business venues, the rebirth of farming in the Catskills has given a new lease on life for hundreds of barns which had sat empty and neglected for years.

“When I first put out the call for exhibitors, I had no idea what to expect,” says Green. “The response was amazingly diverse with people

“Shawangunk Ridge Barn” by Rich Klein

from all around the region generously sharing their family photos and stories with us.”

The exhibit includes the photography of Rich Klein, Marcy Bernstein of Roost Studios in New Paltz and the 50 photograph project of Laverne Black documenting the barns of the Catskills, on loan from the Time and the Valleys Museum in Grahamsville. There are watercolors by Lee Parks and Caroline Harrow and an array of barn artifacts and historical photographs contributed by the barn owners themselves and much more.

In conjunction with LMAC’s 20th anniversary, the exhibit will run through July 29. A reception with many of the contributors to the exhibit will be held on July 2, from 5:30pm-8:30pm with food and refreshments and Americana music by the popular band Little Sparrow.

LMAC is located at 46 South Main Street, Liberty. For information: 845-292-2394.

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Parksville USA Music Festival 2017

and Principal Conductor; he In 1966, a group of musicians is joined in the company’s was planning a performance of hierarchy by his son Handel’s Messiah. While this Benjamin, who is BxO’s performance never happened, Managing Director. it was the genesis of what BxO has had a long-time became the Bronx Opera relationship with the Dead (BxO). Michael Spierman End Cafe, having performed took the heart of the Messiah there numerous times during group and formed an opera Dead End’s long-time history company that would be based of performances. at the Bronx NYU campus The Spiermans are bringing (of which Mr. Spierman was a few of their singing-actors a graduate). This organization was to be known as the Parksville USA Music Festival to Parksville, to celebrate the Producer, Tom Caltabellotta & BxO’s 50th anniversary year “Heights Opera.” It was as the Michele Koury Caltabellotta (1950 - 2011) for the Parksville USA 2017 Heights Opera Company that the group first performed on November 24, Music Festival.

See and hear them at the Cafe, 6 Main Street, 1967. The opera was Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

The Bronx Opera name was born in 1968. It Parksville, on July 2 at 3:00pm. A delicious is the third-oldest opera company in NYC, and full buffet dinner is served after the concert.

For more information: 845-292-0400 the only one which presents all productions in English.

The festival is sponsored by the Michele Michael remains BxO’s Artistic Director Koury Caltabellotta Foundation.

Family-Friendly Free Folk Concert!

S & L is folk duo Steve Agostini and Leon Swyka, two long time Montgomery residents who have come together to play their take on some great tunes from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s.

A concert, dubbed the The Healing Power of Music, just might be a real hootenanny so come on by, bring your friends and sing-along

with S & L on July 16 at 3:00pm for Seven Freedoms Music Center’s Coffeehouse Music Series.

A free community event, all ages are welcome! Seven Freedoms is located at 22 Railroad Avenue, Montgomery.

For information: 845-457-1463.

World War I Weekend in Grahamsville

July 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. forces sent overseas to fight in World War I. The Time and the Valleys Museum will be honoring the men who fought in the war and the women who supported the troops, by hosting a new exhibit and weekend of special programming on July 8 & 9.

The new exhibit, A Rendezvous with Death: Local Sacrifice in the First World War highlights Sullivan County residents who participated in WWI. It includes photos, artifacts and little Leonard (on motorcycle) & Dale Houghtaling known facts and interesting American soldiers from WWI. information about the war.

Rust starred in the Broadway The new exhibit can be musical hit Pump Boys and viewed through Labor Day Dinettes, has appeared in during Museum hours.

People Magazine, performed July 8 at 2:00pm: Military with Pete Seeger and Peter, Historian Charles M. Breiner Paul & Mary, and has released will give an overview of WWI, several recordings . including the different armies The songs reflect the involved, impact of new experiences the soldiers weapons and how the Treaty encountered as well as of Versailles set the stage for the songs of the families over 100 years of warfare. A remaining on the home front. short presentation on Dr. Karl Marine Harry Garritt & other The program includes songs Connell, a former Claryville WWI soldiers in Haiti, circa 1916 by some of America’s most resident who invented the beloved songwriters like Irving Berlin and Connell Gas Mask, is also included.

George M. Cohan, and includes How Ya July 9 at 2:00pm: Mark Rust, multiGonna Keep ‘em Down on the Farm, Yankee talented singer and musician from Woodstock Doodle Dandy and Over There. will perform The Songs of World War I, a For information, contact the Museum, 332 stirring presentation of favorite songs of Main Street, Grahamsville, at 845-985-7700.

Cragsmoor Lecture

Robi Josephson (see photo) brings Enterprise & Courage: The Civil War Years at Lake Mohonk to Cragsmoor, tracing the earliest days of the mountain house tradition and those who scratched a living from the Shawangunks and fought a civil war far from their mountain homes - now vanished villages near Mohonk.

The July 22, 4:30pm illustrated lecture is at the Cragsmoor Historical Society, 349 Cragsmoor Rd. Donations accepted. Refreshments served.

Book sales benefit the Society.

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GNSO’s Free “Toe-Tapping” Concert The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO), enjoying its most successful season to date, will perform its annual free summer concert on July 29, 4:00pm at Mount Saint Mary College’s Aquinas Hall.

The Lord of the Dance program has “something for everyone,” according to Music Director Russell Ger, and “will leave the audience tapping their toes.”

“Dance has always been one of the primary functions of music,” Ger explained. “In ancient days, tribal dances were used for all kinds of important rituals and ceremonies; in the courts of Europe, formal dancing was a required protocol in aristocratic interactions; and in much of Latin America, dance was the way that genders socialized together.”

“This program,” Mr. Ger continued, “is a celebration of many different kinds of dance music. From the irresistibly jazzy rhythms of Bernstein and Shostakovich, to Dvořák’s Bohemian ebullience, to Ravel’s hypnotic Bolero, to Johann Strauss’ playful and rambunctious polkas.”

Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 is a suite in eight movements. The work consists of a collection of movements which derive from other works by the composer.

Leonard Bernstein’s 1944 Broadway

musical On the Town is really an expanded version of Bernstein and Jerome Robbins’ ballet, Fancy Free, though the music is completely different. Today On the Town is remembered as the source of the tune New York, New York. When Bernstein extracted the Three Dance Episodes from the score some months later, he dutifully made sure that famous tune figured prominently into one of the episodes.

Concluding his first year at the helm of the GNSO, Ger has become well-known for ebullience himself through his informed and witty commentary from the podium at each program. Since September 2016, audiences for the orchestra’s performances have virtually doubled, and this response enabled the GNSO to add an extra concert in March.

Lord of the Dance will be presented at the airconditioned Aquinas Hall, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh. There is no charge for admission, however donations are encouraged.

Nick Valentine & Atlas to be Honored Wright and Joseph Fratesi of Atlas The Downing Park Planning Industries.

Committee is a grass roots Nick Valentine, a life long community group that formed in the resident of Newburgh and owner of late 1980s to revitalize Newburgh’s Broadway Tailors (see ad below), then neglected historic treasure: is a former member of the Downing Downing Park.

Park Planning Committee and a Incorporated in 1987, the DPPC passionate advocate for Newburgh. is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt Wright and Fratesi have not only corporation. It’s efforts on behalf Nick Valentine been instrumental in of Downing Park are bringing several business governed by contract with enterprises to Newburgh, the park’s owner, the City but they have also of Newburgh. enhanced Newburgh’s Every year the DPPC cultural and artistic life honors individuals and by hosting and staging art organizations that nurture shows. the community. On July Joseph Fratesi & Thomas Wright Tickets for this gala 15 at 6:00pm, at the Photo by Meredith Heuer Park’s Shelter House, the DPPC will honor fundraising event are $60 and can be purchased former Newburgh mayor from 2003-2011, by calling Tony Sculley at 845-591-4938 or Nick Valentine, and entrepreneurs Thomas Karen McCarthy at 845-857-5030.

Free Day at Washington’s Headquarters

Admission to Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site and the Museum is free on July 2, 1:00pm-5:00pm, compliments of Newburgh Deputy Mayor Regina Angelo.

Celebrate the site’s 167th birthday! Independence Day not only represents the birth of our country, but it is also when Washington’s

Thank you, Regina!

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Headquarters was opened as the first publicly owned historic site in the nation in 1850.

To celebrate, make a whirligig to use in your July 4th celebrations! In the 18th Century it was a child’s toy that still excites children and adults alike. It’s a free take-home craft for all ages.

For information: 845-562-1195.

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A Party to Celebrate 20 Years - and Neo-Burlesque!

FUN FOR THE FAMILY! Everyone’s invited to Highland Lake for a mid-summer night party celebrating two decades of dedication to artistic exploration and cultivation of community by the North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL). A professional, non-profit theatre arts company, NACL has developed 20 original ensemble theatre productions and countless public spectacles. In 1997 NACL was born in a small rented studio in Toronto, the love child of Winnipeg actress Tannis Kowalchuk and American director Brad Krumholz.

Twenty years on, the company continues to thrive, presenting and producing innovative new works of theatre art in Highland Lake, New York City and beyond.

The company creates and tours devised theatre performances, collaborates with an international circle of artists, and presents a performance season featuring work by local and visiting artists. Committed to supporting theatre training at all stages in an artist’s development, NACL offers artist residencies, professional development retreats, master

classes, workshops, and early education drama classes.

On July 8 doors will open at 7:30pm. The evening includes live music, food, video flashes of the past, and visions of the future, celebrating 20 years of exploration and discovery!

ADULTS ONLY! The Slipper Room is the brainchild of performer and producer James Habacker.

When it opened in 1999, neo-burlesque was in its infancy. Before that time there had been some random shows in lofts and bars around the city, but the Slipper Room was the first venue built specifically to showcase the work of this burgeoning new collective. It was an art project in itself, an artist run venue designed to nurture emerging talent, and push performers to reach their true potential.

The early shows were mostly comprised of performance artists, drag queens, experimental dancers, sideshow acts, and anyone who showed up with an idea, no matter how outrageous, messy, lewd, or illegal. Very often in the early days there were not enough performers to make up a full show, and James, master of ceremonies, would ply his friends with drinks, dress them up in outrageous costumes and quickly concoct a plot before pushing them out on stage. It wasn’t long before word got

around about this new artist collective, and enough young talent presented themselves at the Slipper Room to make it possible to put up high quality shows every night. James allowed performers a forum to push themselves and try out new work without fear of censorship. He also added comic relief with his wide variety of characters, his satirical wit, and his love of Vaudeville.

Whether it’s salacious Mel Frye or loquacious Walt Whitman, The Slipper Room emcee is sure to ensnare you in his web of intrigue and indiscretion, leading the talented and tawdry band of nouveaux vaudevillians - burlesque dancers, acrobats, comedians, magicians - in a variety show that each year raises the temperature of Highland Lake to the hottest on record! July 22 at 8:30pm.

NACL is located at 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake. Visit www.nacl.org or phone 845-557-0694 for tickets.

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Sugar Loaf Witches!

SP Projects and the Seligmann Center for the Arts are presenting Season of the Witch, a group exhibition of new work exploring ritual, magick, and modern-day mysticism, curated “Kybel” by Evie Falci

by Sarah Potter of SP Projects.

The exhibit reflects on the ways artists engage in ritual to reveal their personal beliefs and spirituality through the creation of their artwork. The potent archetype of “the witch” is utilized here to represent a creator whose power comes from within. Like modern day shamans, artists are the ultimate magicians, able to turn the intangible into the tangible; the immaterial magically materializes.

Working intuitively while referencing the powerful language of symbols, all of the artists in this exhibition turn art-making into a modern day magical practice.

The Season of the Witch reception takes place on July 22, from 6:00pm-9:00pm.

The show runs through September 4.

The Seligmann Center is located at 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf.

For further info: 845-469-9459.

FREE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES Port Jervis: Monday Nights in the Park

the concerts will be held at DUMC, Sussex St. Sugar Loaf: On The Lawn

The Broome Street Band Wind Ensemble

The Broome Street Bands are an all volunteer group of musicians. Hosted by the Drew United Methodist Church (DUMC) in Port Jervis, the beginnings of the Broome Street Bands trace back many years to a small group of musicians who wanted to play live music for the DUMC services. That first group were called the Swinging Stewards and the founding members included Hank Ranich and Albert Gessner (of Al’s Music Shop in Port Jervis). Today, they march in parades and have now expanded to include a variety of four other musical ensembles. All ages are represented in their groups - from baton twirling children to retired seniors along with music teachers, professional musicians, amateurs and hobbyists.

Port Jervis’ new free summer concert series, Monday Nights in the Park is held in Farnum Park, 21 Ulster Place. The Broome Street Band Wind Ensemble performs on July 10 & 24 at 7:00pm. In the event of bad weather

Side By Side Family Band performs at “On the Lawn” on July 6, 6:30pm.

On the Lawn, free weekly concerts in July and August, boasts “a place for everyone”, says co-producer Richard Logothetis of Lycian Stage Lighting in Sugar Loaf. The concerts are held every Thursday at 6:30pm, and offers different “sections” with different amplification.

“We have the main seating area in front of the bands set for clear audio reproduction of the music, and locations for easy listening, an “overflow section” with lower level volume and with smaller speakers equalizing for a more mellow sound,” explained Logothetis.

“Some people want to sit and chat, eat a little food and listen to the music as background for their picnic. The easy listening section addresses that, while the real band-lovers sit up front. A third area under the tent has somewhat similar sound as in the front with lower volume.” They have also installed a system for the hearing

impaired. Just ask at the ice cream counter!

Cars with proper tags for folks with disabilities can park in the parking lot directly across from the entrance. Parking is allowed along Kings Highway, Wood Road, and up the bypass (CR13).

“We have also installed a larger tent for more people to fit under in case of rain,” writes coproducer Susan Logothetis. Susan reminds us that, “we have a knitting tent, a tent with lights so the needleworkers don’t have to stop stitching when the sun goes down.” Now THAT’S user-friendly!

Bring a chair, blanket, and picnic (and needlework - maybe Sudoku?) to On The Lawn, Sugar Loaf Crossing, 1405 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf. See ad page 28 for the July roster.

Visit www.onthelawnconcerts.org Rock Hill: Summer Concert Series

by Derek Leet “That’s right, it’s time for More Music by the Seat of Your Pants with Steven Schwartz, Kenny Windheim, Eric Nies, Bobby C, and Joanna M. Gass,” says their facebook page.

That is not an under-estimation!

My first experience with Joanna M. Gass and the Search and Rescue Orchestra was at their concert in the Phillipsport Community Center this spring. Even knowing the first rate musicianship of the instrumentalists from

Joanna M. Gass & The Search & Rescue Orch.

previous experiences did not prepare me for the emotional impact of Joanna’s performance.

Her charismatic vocalism, with her eclectic mix of jazz, pop and disco, is worthy of any great world renowned performer, past and present.

Truly, when she sings, you MUST hold on to the seat of your pants!

In a way, this quintet is possibly the best that can be witnessed on the local scene. Don’t miss them as they open the season for the Rock Hill Summer Concert Series on July 5.

The free concerts are every Wednesday in July and August at 6:30pm at the Rock Hill Farmers Market Park, 223 Rock Hill Drive.

Join your friends and family, bring a chair or blanket and your picnic basket!

In the event of rain, the concerts, sponsored

by Steve’s Music Center and the Rock Hill Business & Community Association, are relocated to the pavilion at the Rock Hill Fire Department, 61 Glen Wild Road.

Visit https://rockhillny.org/summer-concertseries/ for the line-up. See also pgs 14 & 16.

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PCAC Back at Borough Hall for 66th Show Pike County Arts With Milford’s new and Crafts (PCAC) council members, has been a bedrock of Mayor Sean Strub, and the arts community the determined efforts of since its founding in members Bridget Peek 1950, hosting monthly and Dawn Lombard, art demonstrations, Borough Hall (111 W. workshops and art Catherine Street) will exhibits. once again host PCAC’s PCAC’s long history 66th Annual Member and founding by the Show from July 7-10.

Artwork by Joanne Wojcik community’s last The reception will be generation of artists (several are still active held on July 7 from 6:00pm-8:00pm with members), and its importance in attracting music performed by guitarist Walt Edwards, artists, students and patrons to the town and food provided by PCAC members and cannot be overlooked. Past summer exhibits generously donated by local restaurants. have recorded over 1,000 visitors from all New members are always welcome. Email over the tri-state region. pcacinc@yahoo.com for information.

New Exhibit & New Name in Narrowsburg Nighttime landscapes are alluring - the limited light sources, subtle color palettes, and veiled textures draw us into a quiet world.

We experience these landscapes as secretive, private, sensual, isolating, haunting, soothing, ethereal, magical, mystical, transcending.

Curated by Alexis Siroc and Alan Wood, featuring 68 artists, an exhibit entitled Night Watch, nighttime pieces of the Upper Delaware “Earliest Light” by Ann Higgins River Valley, opens at the Delaware Arts The Delaware Arts Center’s Loft Gallery, with Center is at 37 Main Street, a reception on June 30 from Narrowsburg.

7:00pm-9:00pm.

The Arts Center’s name The exhibit is on view through will soon be changing to the July 29.

Elaine Giguere Arts Center, A small group of painters honoring Elaine and her even took to the night in early 42 year stint at the helm of April for a nighttime plein air experience - the work from this “Elaine Giguere” digital portrait the Delaware Valley Arts event will also be on display in by Hans Küng, Brandi Merolla, Alliance. Way to go, Elaine! and Bruce Bidwell.

For info: 845-252-7576. the exhibit.

Warwick’s 17th Summer Arts Festival Lucinda (Cindy) Henry.

The Warwick Summer Cindy taught thousands of Arts Festival (WSAF) will students, including Melissa, transform Warwick from the importance of discipline, July 26-August 5. This movement and the arts. year, the WSAF will bring Under Cindy’s advisement, attention to the arts with Melissa’s mission is to public performances and continue with high standards exhibitions celebrating of training, professional Warwick’s history in the productions and a creative year of its Sesquicentennial. and supportive environment.

Throughout the festival, The WCPA will include the musicians and dancers will Dancer’s Studio, the Actor’s perform in unassuming Melissa Padham Maass (left) & venues such as local farms Marcella Bumpus at the WSAF, 2016. Studio, the Black Box and fields. Founded by Elizabeth Reese in Theater and the Warwick Dance Collective.

Melissa is following in the footsteps of 2000, Melissa Padham-Maass returns as her grandfather, Leo Kaytes, and uncle, Leo festival director for her 4th season.

Padham-Maass has recently announced R. Kaytes, “fording every stream” with her that she is re-opening the Dancer’s Studio, involvement in local charities and community renamed as Warwick Center for Performing organizations, holding numerous prominent Arts (WCPA), which was a dance and positions within the arts Visit www.warwicksummerarts.com for performing arts staple in the community for more than 30 years under the direction of more about Warwick’s Summer Arts Festival.

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Wallkill River School of Art: “Orange County in Bloom”

For the past several years, on July 8 from 5:00pmthe Wallkill River School of 7:00pm. Awards for 1st, Art (WRS) has been fortunate 2nd, and 3rd place will be enough to work with several given in two categories: Best volunteer master gardeners Painting and Best Floral of the Cornell Cooperative Arrangement, which will be Extension (CCE) and other determined by the Peoples’ volunteer floral artists. At the Choice votes. beginning of every month, As an organization with this group, referred to as strong agricultural ties to the the Floral Divas, volunteer community, theWRS hopes to their time to create one-ofuse this competition to bring a-kind floral arrangements attention to the true beauty of to complement the current our local agriculture, while exhibits. Utilizing flowers highlighting the incredible Artwork by Dennis Fanton from both their personal and community volunteer work done by the Floral Divas. As gardens, they work diligently to find the most with any group show, one can expect to see suitable floral species, varieties, and vases to work in a wide range of styles, techniques, and enhance the works on display, and the overall mediums; however, the most diverse element atmosphere of the gallery. of the exhibit will be the subjects chosen by This July, the WRS will be partnering each artist. The agriculture of Orange County with volunteers from the CCE’s master has different levels of importance to a variety gardener program to host an exhibit titled, of people - especially artists. Whether it is Orange County in Bloom. This group show a drawing of a bowl of apples from Roe’s will feature work depicting Orange County’s Orchard or a landscape painting of Hoeffners bounty and floral arrangements interpreting Farm, it’s clear where our local artists tend to those paintings through flowers grown and find their inspiration! arranged by the volunteer gardeners.

In addition to the competition, there will The exhibit will be on display at the WRS also be a solo exhibit of acrylic works by artist from July 1-30, with an opening reception Naomi Genen in the WRS Patchett Gallery.

Kids: West Point!

On July 22 at 6:30pm West Point Band’s Quintette 7 will present its annual Kids’ Night concert, titled Road Trip Across America.

More than just a concert, Kids’ Night is an immersive musical experience where children get to sing, dance, march, and move along with the members of the band.

Be sure to arrive at 6:00pm for the instrument petting zoo, where your child can get up close and personal with the instruments of the band!

Admission is free to the concert at Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point.

Kids: Turtles!

Artwork by Naomi Genen

For the past eleven years, Naomi has been inspired to paint the beauty of the Hudson Valley region and the inter-coastal region of Miami, FL Naomi taught art in junior high school for twelve years in Brooklyn and ten years at Round Hill Elementary School in Washingtonville.

Now that she is retired, she spends her time painting. Most of her paintings are in acrylics, with a few in oils. There isn’t a particular subject matter that Naomi prefers; rather, she finds inspiration in the people and places that surround her. A proud WRS represented artist, Naomi has enjoyed painting with the Wallkill Plein Air painters.

The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street, Montgomery. For info: 845-457-2787.

Come to the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, on Muser Drive, Cornwall, on July 15 at 10:00am to learn about native turtles and their amazing adaptations, and meet some turtles up close!

Enjoy free same day admission to the Wildlife Education Center with paid admission to this program.

For info: 845-534-5506 x204.

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Lectures, demos

sponsored by SUNY Orange & Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus MSM-DC ������������������������������������������������������ Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC �������������������������������������������������������������Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Lectures & Demos & Master Classes are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE)

lectures Hurleyville Maker’s Lab TOUR ������������������������������������������Hurleyville Makers Lab, Tuesdays, 6pm Peace Lab: Non-Violent Communication DISCUSSION ����� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Tuesdays, 7pm “Latin America’s Political Pendulum” DISCUSSION ���������������������� Cornwall Library, Jun 14, 7pm “How to Get Started Kayaking” Donald Urmston ���������������������������������������������MSM-DC Jul 5, 1pm “Initiation and the Spiritual Quest” Nathan Rosenblum �������������������� MSM-DC Jul 5, 6:30pm FEE “Hindenburg: “Oh, the Humanity!”” George Burke ����������������������������MSM-DC Jul 6, 9:30am FEE “Overview of World War I” Charles M. Breiner & “Connell Gas Mask” ���������������������������������������� Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Jul 8, 2pm FEE “Ellis Island: Gateway to America” Jeffrey S. Dosik, Q&A, film �����������Chester Library, Jul 8, 2pm Full Moon Hike ������������������������������������������� HHNM Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall, Jul 8, 8pm Frog Frolic ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Jul 9 & 30, 1pm FEE “Murder & Mayhem in New York City” Leon DiMartino ����������MSM-DC Jul 10 & 17, 10am FEE “Looking Back at the Jazz Age” Nancy Von Rosk ������������������������������MSM-DC Jul 11, 9:30am FEE “Cary Bayer’s Thoughtmail: Mastering the Inner Technology for Happiness & Success” ������������ MSM-DC Jul 11, 10am FEE “Andrew Wyeth: A Brief Retrospective” Laura Nicholls �����������������������MSM-DC Jul 12, 1pm FEE “Malala Who?” Joan Monk ������������������������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Jul 12 & 19, 2pm FEE “Get Organized! How to Keep Track of Your Medical Paperwork” Puja A.J. Thomson ��������������� MSM-DC Jul 12, 6:30pm FEE “Information about Asbergers” ���������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Jul 12, 6:30pm “Alexander Hamilton: Washington’s Indispensable Partner” Rand Shelot ��MSM-DC Jul 13, 2pm FEE Russia DISCUSSION Tony Nappo ������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Jul 13, 6:30pm “Decoding Your Dreams” Nurit Nardil ���������������������������������������������������MSM-DC Jul 14, 11am FEE Annual Secret Garden TOUR ����������������������������������������������Milford Garden Club, Jul 15, 10am-4pm Gardening with Rain Barrels ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Jul 16, 1pm “David Smith: A Sculptor Who Defined Power, Structure, Movement, & Progress” Laura Nicholls MSM-DC Jul; 16, 1pm FEE “Working at the Culinary Institute of America” Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer ����������������������� MSM-DC Jul 17, 1pm FEE “How to Publish a Book with Amazon” Marianne Sciucco ��������������������MSM-DC Jul 18. 6pm FEE “Caring for body, Mind, & Soul: For Caregivers” Donna Davies ���������������MSM-DC Jul 19, 10am Pets and Pet Care Dr. D’Abbraccio �����������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Jul 20, 6:30pm Dragonfly Walk ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Jul 22, 1pm FEE “Enterprise and Courage: The Civil War Years at Mohonk” Robi Josephson �������������������������������� Cragsmoor Historical Society, Jul 22, 4:30pm Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk ���������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Jul 23, 1pm FEE “Conversational Art” Mary Lawrence �����������������������������������MSM-DC, Jul 25 & Aug 1, 10 am FEE “Not Your Ordinary Love Song” Mary Lawrence ������������������MSM-DC Jul 26 & Aug 2, 10am FEE SCIENCE CAFE “New findings on the human immune system: It’s enough to make you sick!” � Joel Brind La Casa Vicina, New Windsor, Jul 26, 7:15pm “Growing Up in Monticello: A Cooke Family Remembrance” George & Ed Cooke ����������������������� Crawford Library, Monticello, Aug 3, 6:30pm Demos & ARTIST TALKS WALK Glenn Zweygardt sculptor �������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 1, 1pm TALK Paul Cooper & Karen Morris zen poetry ����������John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Jul 8, 5pm Joseph Sundwall oil portrait painting ������������������ Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, Jul 13, 1:30pm “Liquid Lead Dancing” Trevor Copp & Jeff Fox ���������������������� Hurleyville Arts Centre, Jul 15, 7pm Jesse Jones WCM Music Talks & Concert ������������������Catskill Distillery, Bethel, Jul 20, 7:30pm FEE Andrew Waggoner & Musicians “The Musical Soul” WCM Music Talks ����������������������������������������� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Jul 27, 7:30pm OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano ���������������Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Robert Kopec & Solo Bajo jazz ������������������������������������������������ Dos Amigos, Fair Oaks, Wednesdays, 7pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ����������������������������Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals ���������Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Marc Von Em soul, blues, funk ���������������������������������WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, Last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Joanna Gass and the Search & Rescue Orchestra ��������������� Brew, Rock Hill, Tuesdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm Annie Mash Duo ����������������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 2, 2pm The Americana Music Sessions, Hosts: Jacob & David Bernz ���������Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 2, 7pm Songwriter Sessions Host: Jason Gisser ��������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 5, 7pm Jim & Michelle Iannucci ������������������������������������������������������ Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jul 7, 7:30pm Rock Hill Ramblers ������������������������������������������������������������������������Brew, Rock Hill, Jul 8, 6:30pm-8:30pm Alice Leon & Ed ����������������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 9, 2pm Pat Collins ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jul 14, 7:30pm Songwriters Anonymous open mic ���������������������������������������������������Artists’ Market, Shohola, Jul 15, 2pm Rob Schiff ������������������������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 16, 2pm Roots & Blues Sessions Host: Petey Hop ������������������������ The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 19, 7pm Old Friends �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jul 21, 7:30pm Paul Davis ������������������������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 23, 2pm Rene Avila ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Palaia Winery, Highland Mills, Jul 28, 7:30pm Don Lowe �������������������������������������������������������������������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 30, 2pm 14 Delaware & Hudson CANVAS July 2017

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock, etc. sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill and Al’s Music Center, Port Jervis CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times

Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ����������������The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Music for Humanity folk ���������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm Hurley Mountain Highway ����������������������������� Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 1, 7pm FREE Soñando! Latin, salsa dance ���������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 1, 7pm Dead on the Tracks The Dead ������������������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 1, 7pm West Point Band’s Benny Havens Band ������������������������Trophy Point Amphitheater, Jul 1, 7:30pm FREE Walter Parks ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Downtown Barn, Liberty, Jul 1, 8pm The Blues Saints ������������������������������������������������������������ Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Jul 1, 8:30pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis swing, blues ���������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 2, 7pm “OZ Experience”: Omar Hakim & Rachel Z jazz fusion ����������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 2, 7pm Ben Perowsky, John Mededski & Steven Bernstein jazz fusion �����������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 3, 7pm “The Other Band” Fourth of July Celebration �����������Main Street Stage, Liberty, Jul 4, 12:30pm-4:30pm Joanna M. Gass and the Search & Rescue Orch. ��Farmer’s Market Park, Rock Hill, Jul 5, 6:30pm FREE The Black Dirt Band �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Goshen Village Green, Jul 5, 6:30pm Weather Vest chamber jazz fusion �����������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 5, 7pm Mark Sganga Trio lite jazz, Beatles �����������������������Run 4 Downtown Park, Middletown, Jul 6, 6pm FREE Side by Side Family Band ����������������������������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 6, 6;30pm FREE Fémina Patagonian rap fusion, Sarah Perotta ����������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 6, 7pm Mr. Roper Americana roots ����������������������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 6, 7pm Dayna Kurtz & Robert Maché folk rock ������������������������������������������������The Falcon. Marlboro, Jul 7, 7pm John Mellencamp, Emmylou Harris and Carlene Carter ���������������������������Bethel Woods, Jul 7, 7:30pm All Star Tribute to Steely Dan rock ��������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 8, 7pm Dylan Doyle Band blues, rock ������������������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 8, 7pm Rick Larrimore “Tribute to Rod Stewart” ������������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 8, 7:30pm Bandit Band ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm MiZ ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Jul 8, 8:30pm Petey Hop & Friends roots, blues ����������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro. Jul 9, 10am Broome Street Wind Ensemble ���������������������������������� Farman House Park, Port Jervis, Jul 10, 7pm FREE Ben Perowsky, Scott Colley & Adam Rogers jazz fusion ��������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 10, 7pm Lustre Kings ���������������������������������������������������������� Farmer’s Market Park, Rock Hill, Jul 12, 6:30pm FREE Soul City ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 12, 6:30pm FREE Breakneck Annie Americana ��������������������������������Run 4 Downtown Park, Middletown, Jul 13, 6pm FREE Green River Band ���������������������������������������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 13, 6;30pm FREE Eric Lipper “American History through Folk Songs” ��������� Greenwood Lake Library, Jul 13, 7pm FREE Myles Mancuso Band blues, rock �����������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 13, 7pm Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge & Lauren Alaina ������������������������������������������������ Bethel Woods, Jul 13, 7pm Foreigner 40th Anniversary Tour, Cheap Trick ����������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 14, 7pm Willa & Co. Quartet r&b ������������������������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 14, 7pm Carl Richards Band ���������������������������������������������������� Veterans Park, Wurtsboro, Jul 15, 11am-1pm FREE Steady Pulse ������������������������������������������������������������������� Veterans Park, Wurtsboro, Jul 15, 1pm-2pm FREE John Platt & John McCormack ����������������������� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Jul 15, 1pm-3pm FREE Side F/X �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Veterans Park, Wurtsboro, Jul 15, 2pm-4pm FREE Rock Ridge Trio ������������������������������������������������������������ Veterans Park, Wurtsboro, Jul 15, 4pm-5pm FREE Allen Frishman, Breakneck Annie, Ronzo music & magic � Phillipsport Community Center, Jul 15, 7pm Os Clavelitos samba band, Kindred Spirits Arts ���������������������������������������� Milford Theatre, Jul 15, 7:30pm Halley Hiatt ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm Steve and Leon folk duo ��������������������������Seven Freedoms Music Center, Montgomery, Jul 16, 3pm FREE Incubus, Jimmy Eat World & Atlas Genius ������������������������������������������������ Bethel Woods, Jul 16, 6:45pm Times Square doo wop ��������������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 16, 10am Ben Perowsky, Cyro Baptista, Billy Martin jazz fusion ����������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 17, 7pm Lot 14 rock ������������������������������������������������������������� Farmer’s Market Park, Rock Hill, Jul 19, 6:30pm FREE Dale Hammond & Friends ������������������������������������������������� Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 19, 6:30pm FREE Elissa Jones Trio soul, lite rock ����������������������������Run 4 Downtown Park, Middletown, Jul 20, 6pm FREE OC5 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 20, 6;30pm FREE Dan Bern folk, rock, pop �������������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 20, 7pm Mustangs ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Pine Bush Gazebo, Jul 21, 7pm FREE Peter Prince, Moon Boot Lover funk, rock �������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 21, 7pm Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends alt-rock �����������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 21, 7pm Fred Zepplin classic rock ������������������������������������������������� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 21, 7pm Rod Stewart, Cyndi Lauper �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 21, 7:30pm DeadGrass Garcia ������������������������������������������������������������ The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 22, 7pm Chicago, The Doobie Brothers ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 22, 7:30pm Brian Kastan improv group: swing, funk, Latin, �������������������������������Amity Gallery,Warwick, Jul 22, 8pm Joe Benjamin and a Mighty Handful pop, rock, jazz ���������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 23, 7pm Broome Street Wind Ensemble ���������������������������������� Farman House Park, Port Jervis, Jul 24, 7pm FREE Mickey Barnett ������������������������������������������������������Farmer’s Market Park, Rock Hill, Jul 26, 6:30pm FREE The Feds ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 26, 6:30pm FREE Poet Gold’s POELODIES spoken word, hip-hop. new music ������������������� The Falcon Underground, Jul 26, 7pm Hurley Mountain Highway classic rock ��������������Run 4 Downtown Park, Middletown, Jul 27, 6pm FREE Marc Berger & Ride �����������������������������������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 27, 6;30pm FREE Jeremy Baum’s JB3 Trio soul jazz ��������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 27, 7pm Eric Skinner ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Pine Bush Gazebo, Jul 28, 7pm FREE Brantley Gilbert, Tyler Farr & Luke Combs ��������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 28, 7pm Jim Weider’s PRoJECT PERCoLATOR guitars ��������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 28, 7pm The Vine Brothers ������������������������������������������������������� Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Jul 28, 8:30pm Floyd Pink Band ��������������������������������������������� Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 29, 7pm FREE Blondie & Garbage ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 29, 7pm Tom Freund & Friends alt-folk-surf �����������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 29, 7pm Chris Rubino & The Newburgh Soul folk, rock, pop ������������Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 29, 7pm Mamma’s Marmalade ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm Saints of Swing swing & more ��������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 30, 10am Ameranouche Gypsy Jazz Flamenco Swing �����������Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Jul 30, 3pm-6pm Ben Perowsky, Jamie Saft & Brad Jones jazz fusion ���������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 31, 7pm Trading Ashes folk ������������������������������������������������Run 4 Downtown Park, Middletown, Aug 3, 6pm FREE Free Shrimp Band ���������������������������������������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Crossing, Aug 3, 6;30pm FREE Annual Grateful We’re Not Dead Concert �������������������Poplar Grove Cemetery, Phillipsport, Aug 5, 5pm

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sponsored by Hudson Valley Planning & Preservation, Monroe; Matthews Pharmacy, Ellenville & Jeffersonville Hardware CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times.

Cabaret

“Eighties Explosion!” ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Forestburgh Tavern thru Jul 2 “Beach Party” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Forestburgh Tavern, Jul 4-16 “An Evening with Ann Hampton Callaway” Bradstan Cabaret Series ���� Bethel Woods, Jul 8, 8pm Mark Rust “The Songs of World War I” ��� Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Jul 9, 2pm “Girl for All Seasons” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Forestburgh Tavern, Jul 18-30 “Time of My Life! 30 Years of Dirty Dancing!” ��������������������������������� Forestburgh Tavern, Aug 1-13

Cinema

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” George Clooney �������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 17, 8:30pm “Bonnie & Clyde” Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Estelle Parsons, w/discussion George Burke ���� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Jul 18, 9:30am “Dirty Dancing” w/surprise guests ���������������������������������������������� Hurleyville Arts Centre, Jul 22, 6pm Festival of Films ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Warwick Drive-In, Jul 27, 8pm “Kedi” documentary ������������������������������������������������������������ Hurleyville Arts Centre, Jul 28 & 29, 7pm “Monterrey Pop” ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 31, 8:30pm

Dance

Music - jazz (See also jazz-Fusion, Page 14)

Live Jazz Brunch with The Jazz Cats ��������������������������� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 11am Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ������� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Eric Person Band ����������������������������������������������������The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble ��������������������������������������������� Limoncello, Goshen, Jun 30, 8pm-11pm Jazzmosis ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Downtown Barn, Liberty, Jul 7, 8pm Jamie Baum & Short Stories, Raina Sounds Trio ������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 9, 7pm Jazz Jam w/ Doug Weiss �����������������������������������������The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 12, 7pm bigBANG �������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 20, 7pm Ben Perowsky Matt Munisteri & Danton Boller ������������������������� The Falcon Marlboro, Jul 24, 7pm Theo Hill PROMETHEAN piano ������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 30, 7pm

Opera

Bronx Opera concert/cabaret, Parksville USA Music Festival �����������������Dead End Cafe, Jul 2, 3pm “Trouble In Tahiti” Leonard Bernstein, Delaware Valley Opera �������������� Tusten Theatre, Jul 28-30

Poetry Readings

Festivals

Fourth of July Celebration ���������������������������������������� N. Main Street, Liberty, Jul 4, 10:30am-4:30pm Celtic Festival �����������������������������������������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jun 17, 2pm-10pm Riverfest �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Main Street, Narrowsburg, Jul 23, 10am-4pm Warwick Summer Arts Festival �������������������������������������������������� Warwick, Sugar Loaf, Jul 26-Aug 5 1st Annual Liberty Festival ���������Firemans Park Pavilion, White Sulpher Springs, Jul 29, Noon-9pm 1st Annual Cornwall Art Festival ������������������������������������������������������������Cornwall, Aug 5, 10am-4pm Festival of Wood ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Grey Towers, Milford, Aug 5 & 6

Milkweed Poetry ������������������������������������������������������������Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 6:30pm EXHIBIT “Raptor Rapture” Diane Bliss, poetry ��������SUNY Orange Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, thru Aug 1 Hudson River Poets ��������������������������������������������������Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jul 1, 1pm FREE Ingeborg ������������������������������������������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jul 6, 7pm The BLISS Ensemble music & The Value of Nature Poets �������Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Jul 9, 3pm Host: Jared Levine ������������������������������������������������������������Phillipsport Community Center, Jul 9, 6pm Dennis Bressack & Justin Bressack ��������������������������������� Montgomery Book Exchange, Jul 11, 7pm Poetry and Spoken Word Open Mic Calling All Poets ������������� Empowering Ellenville, Jul 14, 7pm Paul Austin poetry & Rilla Askew prose �������CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Jul 15, 7:30pm Poetry Cafe Margaret Fox & William Seaton ������������������������������ Florida Library, Jul 21, 7pm FREE Paul Austin & Ken Hada �������������������������������CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Jul 22, 7:30pm Poetry Slam & Music Jam ����������������������������������������� Pennings Market, Warwick, Jul 26, 6pm-10pm Paul Austin poetry & Rilla Askew prose ���������������� Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg, Jul 27, 5pm Hudson River Poets ������������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Jul 27, 7pm FREE Dennis Bressack & Justin Bressack ���������������Stillwater Gallery, Jones Farm, Cornwall, Jul 28, 7pm Christopher Wheeling Poetry at the Church �������������� Goshen Methodist Church, Jul 31, 7pm FREE

FundrAIsers

recreation

Davalois Fearon Dance Co., Barrington Hinds ������������Wickham Woodlands, Warwick, Jul 28, 6pm

Fairs

Old Fashioned Country Fair �Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Bloomingburg, Jul 8, 11am-7pm Founders Day Street Fair ��������������������������������������������� Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, Jul 15, Noon-6pm DUSKLIT Interactive Art Bazaar & Dance Party ������� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 29, 6pm-12am

Sullivan County Historical Society “The Lion of Anacostia” dramatic reading �������������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Jul 2, 2pm Florida Library Diane Edgecomb “A Thousand Doorways”, storytelling ��private home Jul 12, 7:30pm PBA of Woodbury Beatles Festival ��������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 15, 2pm-10pm Weekend of Chamber Music dinner and concert ������Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville, Jul 15, 5pm Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund Tribute Memorial Service �������Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Jul 15, 5pm Downing Park Planning Committtee dinner Shelter House, Downing Park, Newburgh, Jul 15, 6pm Phillipsport Community Center yard, book & bake sale ������������������������������������������Jul 22, 9am-3pm KenFest for MS ���������������������������������������Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 22, 2pm-10pm Catskill Art Society dinner & honor ceremony ��������� Beaverkill Valley Inn, Lew Beach, Jul 28, 6pm Poplar Grove Cemetery “Grateful We’re Not Dead Concert” ��������������������� Phillipsport, Aug 5, 5pm

Holistic - Intuitive

Morning Meditation ����������������������������������������������������������� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Sundays, 10:30am

Magic

Allen Frishman, The Amazing Ronzo + music ��������������Phillipsport Community Center, Jul 15, 7pm

Music - Band

United States Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus � Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Jul 6, 7pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ������������������������������������������� Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 10, 7pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band �����������������������������������������������������Pine Bush Gazebo, Jul 14, 7pm FREE West Point Band “Independence Day” �������������������Trophy Point Amphitheatre, Jul 8, 7:30pm FREE Blues Festival “Bill Perry Day” �Bertoni Sculpture Garden, Sugar Loaf, Jul 30, 11:30am-6pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ������������������������St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Bullville, Jul 31, 7pm FREE Maybrook Wind Ensemble ���������������������������������������� Wooster Grove, Walden, Aug 2, 6:30pm FREE

Music - Classical

Weekend of Chamber Music dinner and concert ����� Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville, Jul 15, 5pm WCM Summer Music Festival ��������������������������������� Callicoon Farmers Market, Jul 16, 11am FREE WCM Music Talks w/Jesse Jones ���������������������� Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Jul 20, 7:30pm WCM Summer Music Festival �� Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville, Jul 22, talk: 7pm, concert: 8pm Krista Bennion Feeney violin, Gregory Hayes harpsichord, John Feeney bass ��������������������������������� Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Jul 23, 5pm WCM Summer Music Festival ��������������������������CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Jul 27, 7:30pm Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra “Lord of the Dance” ��������������������������������������������������������� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, Jul 29, 4pm FREE WCM Summer Music Festival �� Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville, Jul 29, talk: 7pm, concert: 8pm WCM Summer Music Festival ��������������������������������������Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 30, 3pm Classical Music Celebration Kindred Spirits Arts ��������������������������������������Downtown Milford, Aug 5 The Serenade Orchestra ����������������������������������������������������������Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Aug 6, 5pm

Moonlit Drumming Maxwell Kofi Donkor ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingman’s Ferry, Jul 8, 6:30pm NACL Theatre 20th Anniversary Celebration ��������� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jul 8, 7:30pm DUSKLIT After Dark Dance Party ���������������������Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 29, 9pm-12am Benny Havens Band “Dancing Under the Stars” Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Aug 5, 7:30pm

Storytelling

“Shorts & Sweets” Carol Montana, w/dessert �������Delaware Youth Center, Callicoon, Jul 7, 5:30pm Diane Edgecomb “A Thousand Doorways” ������������������������������������������� private home, Jul 12, 7:30pm Diane Edgecomb “Stories for the Earth” ���������������������������������Florida Library, Jul 13, 6:30pm FREE “Shorts & Sweets” Carol Montana, w/dessert �� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Jul 28, 7pm FREE Campfire Storytime ��������������������������������������������� Glenmere Lake, Florida, Jul 6 & 20, 7:30pm FREE

Theatre - Musicals

“Funny Girl” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Forestburgh Playhouse, thru Jul 2 “I Am Woman” Presby Players, musical revue ������������������������������Marsh Hall, Port Jervis, thru Jul 2 “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” �������������������������������������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 4-16 “Disney’s Newsies” �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 18-30 “The Slipper Room” adult variety show ������������������� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jul 22, 8:30pm “Bye Bye Birdie” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 1-13

Theatre - plays

“The Jag” by Gino Dilorio ���������������������������������������������Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Jun 30-Jul 16 “The Lion Of Anacostia” by Gregory Giblin, dramatic reading �������������������������������������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Jul 2, 2pm “Noises Off” by Michael Frayn, Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ��������Rivoli Theatre, Jul 7-16 “Bedroom Farce” Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �Playhouse/Museum Village, Monroe, Jul 8-23 Ten-Minute Play Festival­dramatic reading �������������������������������Foundry 42, Port Jervis, Jul 14, 7pm “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Shakespeare ���������������������Salesian Park, Goshen, Jul 15-23 FREE “The Foreigner” by Larry Shue �����������������������������������Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Jul 21-Aug 13 “Keeners!” by William Burke ������������������������������������ NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Aug 5, 7:30pm

Schools & Conservatories

Rock City Academy Founder’s Day Street Fair �Veterans Park, Wurtsboro, Jul 15, 5pm-6pm FREE WCM Fellows’ new works + WCM rehearsal Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville, Jul 28, 7pm FREE

July 2017

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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July 7FREE ������������������������������������ Seven Freedoms Record Store & Music Cafe, Montgomery BW ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods CAS Catskill Art Society ���������������������������������������������� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor CAS-LK ���������������������������������������������������������������������� CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor CTMW Creative Theatre Muddy Water Players �����Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe DCAT ����������������������������������������������������������Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel

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MONDAY

Please check the schedule for Art & Photography Receptions, pg. 18 See page 3 for July 1 & 2 See page 18 for July 1 & 2 Art recceptions

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Festival 4th of July Celebration N. Main Street, Liberty 10:30am-4:30pm (The Other Band: 12:30pm-4:30pm)

Music - Jazz Fusion Ben Perowsky, John Mededski & Steven Bernstein FAL 7pm

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Music “Broome Street Wind Ensemble” Farman House Park, Port Jervis, 7pm

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Music - Jazz Fusion Ben Perowsky, Cyro Baptista & Billy Martin FAL 7pm

Music “Broome Street Wind Ensemble” Farman House Park, Port Jervis, 7pm

Poetry Christopher Wheeling Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Music Pine Bush Community Band St. Paul’s Church, Bullville, 7pm

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Music - Jazz Weather Vest FAL 7pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Beach Party” FT 6pm Theatre - Musical “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” FP 8pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Girl for All Seasons” FT 6pm Theatre - Musical “Disney’s Newsies” FP 8pm

Theatre - Musical “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” FP 2pm & 8pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Beach Party” FT 6pm Poetry Milkweed,Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm Music Lustre Kings ROCK 6:30pm Music Soul City WG 6:30pm Music Jazz Jam FAL 7pm Fundraiser - Storytelling Diane Edgecomb “A Thousand Doorways” Private Home, 7:30pm Theatre - Musical “Disney’s Newsies” FP 2pm & 8pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Girl for All Seasons” FT 6pm Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm Music - Rock Lot 14 ROCK 6:30pm Music Dale Hammond & Friends WG 6:30pm

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Theatre - Musical Disney’s Newsies” FP 2pm & 8pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Girl for All Seasons” FT 6pm Theatre - Musical “Disney’s Newsies” FP 8pm

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Cinema “Monterrey Pop” BW 8:30pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Beach Party” FT 6pm

Music The Black Dirt Bandits Goshen Village Green, 6:30pm

Poetry Dennis Bressack & Justin Bressack Montgomery Book Exchange, 7pm

Music - Jazz Fusion Ben Perowsky, Jamie Saft, Brad Jones FAL 7pm

Theatre - Musical “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” FP 2pm & 8pm

Theatre - Musical “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” FP 8pm

Music - Jazz Ben Perowsky, Matt Munisteri & Danton Boller FAL 7pm

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Music Joanna M. Gass and the Search & Rescue Orchestra ROCK 6:30pm

Cinema “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

BW 8:30pm

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WEDNESDAY

Cabaret & Dinner “Beach Party” FT 6pm

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Music Pine Bush Community Band WG 7pm Music - Jazz Fusion Ben Perowsky, Scott Colley & Adam Rogers FAL 7pm

TUESDAY

DEAD �����������������������������Dead End Cafe, Parksville FAL ���������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro FAL-U �������������The Falcon Underground, Marlboro FP ���������������������������������������Forestburgh Playhouse FT �������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse Tavern GWL ���������������������������������Greenwood Lake Library

Cabaret & Dinner “Time of My Life! 30 Years of Dirty Dancing!” FT 6pm Theatre - Musical “Bye Bye Birdie” FP 8pm

July 2017

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HAC �����������������������������������������������������Hurleyville Arts Centre JONES ������������������ Stillwater Gallery, Jones Farm, Cornwall KARP ��������������������������������������Karpeles Museum, Newburgh MAMA ��������������������������������� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro MONTBK ����������������������������������Montgomery Book Exchange MSM-AQ � Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh

MSM-DC �����Mount St. Mary College NACL �������������������������������������������������� NFL ����������������������������������������������������������������� NOBL ������������������������������������Noble C PACEM ������������������������������������������������������� PEEC ��Pocono Environmental Educ

THURSDAY

Cabaret & Dinner............. “Beach Party”..................................FT 6pm Music - Lite Jazz-Beatles........Mark Sganga Trio ............. RUN4, 6pm Music.........................Side by Side Family Band ................SLX 6:30pm Poetry...................................Ingeborg................................ NOBL 7pm Music - Patagonian Rap.......Fémina, Sarah Perotta ................FAL 7pm Music - Americana-Roots.......Mr. Roper .........................FAL-U 7pm Storytelling.Annual Storytelling Campfire.Glenmere Lake, Florida, 7:30pm Theatre - Play......................“The Jag” ............................ SHAD 8pm Theatre - Musical......“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” ........... FP 8pm

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Cabaret & Dinner............. “Beach Party”..................................FT 6pm Music - .Anericana.........Breakneck Annie ....................... RUN4, 6pm Music................................Green River Band .......................SLX 6:30pm

Storytelling..Diane Edgecomb “Stories of the Earth”..Florida Library, 6:30pm

Music........Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge & Lauren Alaina..... BW 7pm Music - Folk.Eric Lipper “American History through Folk Songs”.GWL 7pm Music - Blues-Rock.........Myles Mancuso Band ...................FAL 7pm Theatre - Play......................“The Jag” ............................ SHAD 8pm Theatre - Musical......“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” ........... FP 8pm

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Cabaret & Dinner.......“Girl for All Seasons”...........................FT 6pm Music - Soul-Lite Rock........Elissa Jones Trio ................. RUN4, 6pm Music............................................OC5 ...................................SLX 6:30pm Music - Folk-Rock-Pop.........Dan Bern ................................FAL 7pm Music - Jazz.......................... bigBang ...............................FAL-U 7pm Music - Classical & Talk.Weekend of Chamber Music.DCAT 7:30pm Storytelling.Annual Storytelling Campfire.Glenmere Lake, Florida, 7:30pm

Theatre - Musical “Bye Bye Birdie” FP 2pm & 8pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Time of My Life! 30 Years of Dirty Dancing!” FT 6pm Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm Music Maybrook Wind Ensemble WG 6:30pm

Theatre - Play........

Music.United State Music - Folk-Rock..

Music...John Mellenc

Theatre - Play........

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Theatre - Musical...

Music - Jazz..........

Cabaret..................

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Poetry - Spoken W

Theatre - Play Reading

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Theatre - Musical...

Cabaret..................

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Poetry & Prose..Paul Austin & Rilla Askew.DVAA Narrowsburg 5pm Cabaret & Dinner.......“Girl for All Seasons”...........................FT 6pm Music - Classic Rock........Hurley Mountain Highway ..... RUN4, 6pm Music.............................. Marc Berger & Ride .....................SLX 6:30pm Cabaret & Dinner Cinema.......................... Festival of Films .....Warwick Drive-In, 8pm “Girl for All Seasons” FT 6pm Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets ........................ NFL 7pm Music - Soul-Jazz.......Jeremy Baum’s JB3 Trio ...................FAL 7pm Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm Music Mickey Barnett ROCK 6:30pm Music - Classical.....Weekend of Chamber Music ..........CAS 7:30pm Theatre - Play.................“The Foreigner” ....................... SHAD 8pm Music The Feds WG 6:30pm Theatre - Musical........ “Disney’s Newsies” ......................... FP 8pm

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Music - Rock...........

Poetry Cafe....Marg Music.................... R Theatre - Musical...

Theatre - Play........

Music-Jazz, Fusion..Thunderhead Organ Trio.Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm Theatre - Play........

Theatre - Musical........ “Disney’s Newsies” ......................... FP 8pm Cabaret..................

Theatre - Play............... “Bedroom Farce”........................CTMW 8pm

Poetry & Music Slam & Jam Penning’s Market, Warwick, 6pm-10pm

Spoken Word-Music POELODIES FAL-U 7pm

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Cabaret......“Time of My Life! 30 Years of Dirty Dancing!”....FT 6pm Music - Folk..................... Trading Ashes ........................ RUN4, 6pm Music............................... Free Shrimp Band .......................SLX 6:30pm Theatre - Musical...........“Bye Bye Birdie” ........................... FP 8pm Theatre - Play.................“The Foreigner” ....................... SHAD 8pm

Fundraiser.C Dance.....Da Cabaret & Dinner...

Music........Brantley Cinema - Document Storytelling...... “Sh Music.....................

Music - Groove.......J Poetry...............Denn Theatre - Play........

Theatre - Musical...

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Opera....................

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Cabaret..“Time of

2017

e, Desmond Campus, Balmville �������������������������������������������������� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake �����������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Free Library Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall ������������������������������������������������������� Pacem In Terris, Warwick cation Center, Dingmans Ferry

PHILL ���������������������������������������������������������� Phillipsport Community Center PT �������������������������������������������������������������� Paramount Theatre, Middletown PWO ���������������������������������������������� Palaia Winery Outdoors, Highland Mills RIV Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ���� Rivoli Theatre, So.Fallsburg ROCK ���������������������������������������������������������Farmer’s Market Park, Rock Hill RUN4 ��������������������������������������������������� RUN 4 Downtown Park, Middletown

FRIDAY

weets” Carol Montana.Delaware Youth Ctr, Callicoon, 5:30pm

...............“The Jag”...............................SHAD 8pm es Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus.PT 7pm ......Dayna Kurtz & Robert Maché............FAL 7pm

camp, Emmylou Harris and Carlene Carter...BW 7:30pm

.............“Noises Off” ................................RIV 7pm ...............“The Jag” ............................ SHAD 8pm ....“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” ........... FP 8pm .......Jazzmosis......... Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm ........... “Beach Party”...........................FT 10:45pm

... Foreigner, Cheap Trick......................... BW 7pm ush Community Band...... Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm .......Willa & Co. Quartet........................FAL-U 7pm Word......Open Mic.........Empowering Ellenville, 7pm

g....Ten Minute Play Festival..Foundry 42, Port Jervis, 7pm

.............“Noises Off” ................................RIV 7pm ........ “Bedroom Farce”........................CTMW 8pm ...............“The Jag” ............................ SHAD 8pm ....“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” ........... FP 8pm ........... “Beach Party”...........................FT 10:45pm

.........Mustang..................Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm

Prince & Moon Boot Lover, Reeves Gabrels...FAL 7pm

.....................Fred Zepplin ........................FAL-U 7pm garet Fox & William Seaton... Florida Library, 7pm Rod Stewart, Cyndi Lauper................ BW 7:30pm ...... “Disney’s Newsies” ......................... FP 8pm ..........“The Foreigner” ....................... SHAD 8pm ........ “Bedroom Farce”........................CTMW 8pm .....“Girl for All Seasons”....................FT 10:45pm

Catskill Art Society.Beaverkill Inn, Lew Beach. 6pm avalois Fearon Co., Barrington Hinds .WICK 6pm .....“Girl for All Seasons”...........................FT 6pm y Gilbert, Tyler Farr & Luke Combs ....... BW 7pm tary.............“Kedi” ..................................... HAC 7pm horts & Sweets” Carol Montana ......... MAMA 7pm .........Eric Skinner............Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm Jim Weider’s PRoJECT PERCoLATOR ...FAL 7pm nnis Bressack & Justin Bressack .......JONES 7pm ..........“The Foreigner” ....................... SHAD 8pm ...... “Disney’s Newsies” ......................... FP 8pm ........The Vine Brothers ................ DCAT 8:30pm ........“Trouble In Tahiti” ......................TUST 8pm .....“Girl for All Seasons”....................FT 10:45pm

.........“Bye Bye Birdie” ........................... FP 8pm old Flavor Repair...... Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm ..........“The Foreigner” ....................... SHAD 8pm My Life! 30 Years of Dirty Dancing!”.FT 10:45pm

SHAD ����������������������������������������Shadowland Stages, Ellenville SLGMN ������������������Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf SLX On the Lawn Concerts �������������������� Sugar Loaf Crossing T&V �����������������������Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville THRALL ������������������������������������������� Thrall Library, Middletown TROPHY ���������������������Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point

SATURDAY

Recreation....Moonlit Drumming Maxwell Kofi Donkor .......... .PEEC 6:30pm Fair......Old Fashioned Country Fair ....Our Lady of theAssumption Ch..Bloomingburg, 11am-7pm Music - Rock.............. Tribute to Steely Dan .............................. FAL 7pm Music - Blues-Rock.......Dylan Doyle Band ..............................FAL-U 7pm Theatre - Play.......................... “Noises Off” .......................................RIV 7pm Music...West Point Band “Independence Day” ..................TROPHY 7:30pm Music - Rod Stewart.............. Rick Larrimore.............................. PWO 7:30pm Recreation............NACL 20th Anniversary Celebration............ NACL 7:30pm Theatre - Musical......“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” ........................ FP 8pm Theatre - Play............................ “The Jag”.......................................SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play...................... “Bedroom Farce”...............................CTMW 8pm Music....................................... Bandit Band........Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm Cabaret...........“An Evening with Ann Hampton Callaway”............... BW 8pm Music...............................................MiZ....................................... DCAT 8:30pm Cabaret...................................“Beach Party”................................. FT 10:45pm

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Fundraiser....PBA of Woodbury Beatles Festival...... PWO 2pm-10pm Fair.................Founder’s Day Street Fair.........Wurtsboro, Noon-6pm Fundraiser...Weekend of Chamber Music dinner/music................WCM 5pm Fundraiser.....................Chris Farlekas Legacy Fund........................PACEM 5pm Fundraiser.Downing Park Planning Committee,Shelter House, Newburgh. 6pm Theatre - Play.......................... “Noises Off” .......................................RIV 7pm Theatre - Play......“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”....Salesian Park, Goshen, 7pm Music & Magic....Allen Frishman, Breakneck Annie, Ronzo...............PHILL 7pm Poetry & Prose............Paul Austin & Rilla Askew..................CAS-LK 7:30pm Music - Brazil............Os Clavelitos Samba Band........Milford Theatre, 7:30pm Theatre - Musical......“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” ........................ FP 8pm Theatre - Play............................ “The Jag” ....................................SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play...................... “Bedroom Farce”...............................CTMW 8pm Music.......................................Halley Hiatt...........Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm Music - Jazz...................Eric Person Quartet ...The Wherehouse, Newburgh,9pm Cabaret...................................“Beach Party”...................................FT 10:45pm

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Fundraiser..Yard & Book Sale..Phillipsport Community Center, 9am-3pm Fundraiser..................KenFest for MS......................... PWO 2pm-10pm Theatre - Play...................... “Bedroom Farce”................... CTMW 2pm & 8pm Theatre - Play....................... “The Foreigner” .................. SHAD 2pm & 8pm Cinema..................“Dirty Dancing” w/surprise guests.................... HAC 6pm Theatre - Play.......“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”...Salesian Park, Goshen, 7pm Music - Garcia.......................... DeadGrass......................................FAL-U 7pm Music - Classical........Weekend of Chamber Music....WCM talk:7pm, music:8pm Music - Swing-Funk-Improv..Brian Kastan&Friends.Amity Gallery, Warwick, 8pm Poetry..........................Paul Austin & Ken Hada.....................CAS-LK 7:30pm Music.....................Chicago and The Doobie Brothers................. BW 7:30pm Music - Folk....................... Music for Humanity......................... NOBL 7:30pm Theatre - Musical............... “Disney’s Newsies” ................................ FP 8pm Adult Variety Show...............”The Slipper Room” ..................... NACL 8:30pm Cabaret............................ “Girl for All Seasons”........................... FT 10:45pm

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Festival..Liberty Festival..Firemans Park Pavilion, White Sulphur Springs, Noon-9pm Music - Classical..Greater Newburgh Symph. Orch..... MSM-AQ 4pm Art Bazaar................DUSKLIT Interactive Art Bazaar..........SLGMN 6pm-9pm Cinema - Documentary................. “Kedi” ........................................ HAC 7pm Music....................................Floyd Pink Band ................................. PWO 7pm Music..................................Blondie & Garbage ..................................BW 7pm Music - Alt-Folk-Surf........Tom Freund & Friends............................... FAL 7pm Music - Folk-Rock-Pop....Chris Rubino & The Newburgh Soul ....FAL-U 7pm Music - Classical.........Weekend of Chamber Music...WCM talk:7pm, music:8pm Theatre - Musical............... “Disney’s Newsies” ................................ FP 8pm Theatre - Play....................... “The Foreigner” ..............................SHAD 8pm Music.............................Mamma’s Marmalade....Downtown Barn, Liberty, 8pm Opera.....

“Trouble In Tahiti”....................................TUST 8pm Recreation...........DUSKLIT After Dark Dance Party.........SLGMN 9pm-12am Cabaret............................ “Girl for All Seasons”........................... FT 10:45pm

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Festival..............1st Annual Cornwall Art Festival.....Cornwall, 10am-4pm Festival..................Festival of Wood ......Grey Towers, Milford, 10am-5pm Music - Classical.............Classical Music Celebration.........Downtown Milford Music & Dance....Warwick Summer Arts Festival...Memorial Park, Warwick, 5pm-10pm Fundraiser...Grateful We’re Not Dead Concert..Poplar Grove Cemetery Phillipsport, 5pm Recreation.................. ..”Dancing Under the Stars” ............TROPHY 7:30pm Theatre - Play.......................... ..”Keeners!” ............................... NACL 7:30pm Theatre - Musical................. “Bye Bye Birdie” ................................... FP 8pm Theatre - Play....................... “The Foreigner” ..............................SHAD 8pm Cabaret.........“Time of My Life! 30 Years of Dirty Dancing!”....... FT 10:45pm

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TUST ���������������������������������������������������������Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg UUC ������������������������ Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern VET ����������������������������������������������� Veteran’s Memorial Park, Wurtsboro WCM Weekend of Chamber Music � Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville WG ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Wooster Grove, Walden WICK ������������������������������������������������������ Wickham Woodlands, Warwick

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Music - Roots-Blues.....Petey Hop & Friends ....... FAL10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch................ DCAT 1pm Theatre - Play......................“The Jag”............................... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play....................“Noises Off” ................................ RIV 2pm Cabaret................. Mark Rust “Songs of WWI” ................... T&V 2pm

Theatre - Musical..“I Am Woman” Presby Players...Marsh Hall, Port Jervis, 3pm

Theatre - Musical......“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” ........... FP 3pm Theatre - Play............... “Bedroom Farce”........................CTMW 3pm Poetry & Music.BLISS Ensemble & The Value of Nature Poets.TUST 3pm Poetry..........................Host: Jared Levine....................... PHILL 6pm Music - Jazz.Jamie Baum & Short Stories, Raina Sounds Trio .FAL 7pm

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Music - DooWop.................. ....Times Square .........................FAL10am-2pm

Music -Classical.Weekend of Chamber Music.Callicoon Farmers Market 11am

Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch................ DCAT 1pm

Theatre - Play.“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.Salesian Park, Goshen, 2pm

Theatre - Play......................“The Jag” ............................ SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play....................“Noises Off” ................................ RIV 2pm Music - Folk................... Steve and Leon” ....................... 7FREE 3pm Theatre - Musical......“Disney’s The Little Mermaid” ........... FP 3pm Theatre - Play............... “Bedroom Farce”........................CTMW 3pm Music........Incubus, Jimmy Eat World & Atlas Genius... BW 6:45pm

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Festival...............Riverfest........Main Street, Narrowsburg, 10am-4pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch................ DCAT 1pm

Theatre - Play.“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.Salesian Park, Goshen, 2pm

Theatre - Musical........ “Disney’s Newsies” ......................... FP 3pm Theatre - Play.................“The Foreigner” ....................... SHAD 3pm Theatre - Play............... “Bedroom Farce”........................CTMW 3pm Music - Classical..K.B. Feeney, G. Hayes, J. Feeney, Trio..PACEM 5pm Music - Pop-Rock-Jazz.Joe Benjamin and a Mighty Handful.FAL 7pm

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Music - Swing +.................Saints of Swing .....................FAL 10am-2pm

Festival..Blues Festival “Bill Perry Day”..Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, 11:30am-6pm

Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch................ DCAT 1pm Opera...........................“Trouble In Tahiti” ......................TUST 2pm Theatre - Musical........ “Disney’s Newsies” ......................... FP 3pm Music - Classical.Weekend of Chamber Music.Liberty Museum, 3pm Theatre - Play.................“The Foreigner” ....................... SHAD 3pm Music - Gypsy-Jazz-Swing.........Ameranouche ....... DCAT 3pm-6pm Music - Jazz....... Theo Hill PROMETHEAN piano .................FAL 7pm

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Art exhibits CAS ������������������������������������������������������������Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DVAA ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg SUNYO-KH ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH ����������������������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall WRS ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wallkill River School, Montgomery

Group Show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, ongoing Georgia Chambers etchings, paintings ����������������Georgia Chambers Art Gallery, Callicoon, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �������� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork ��������������� Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Carolyn Duke pottery �������������������������������������������������Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones �����������������Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Lisa Strazza paintings, John Strazza photographs ���������������������� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show ���������������������������� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, ongoing Ron DeMuth & Madeline Tully “Bursts of Color!” ������������������� ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Jul 3 4 Pastelists �����������������������������������������������������������������������2Alices Coffee Lounge, Newburgh, thru Jul 8 “In The Good Old Summertime” Crawford Arts Association ������������������������������������������������������������� Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, thru Jul 13 “Webster’s Picturenary” Goshen Art League ������������������������������������Goshen Music Hall, thru Jul 24 Wearable Art Fashion Show �������������������������������������������������������������������Rail Trail, Hurleyville, Jul 22 Printmaker’s Exhibition “Bon Marché ” ��������������������������Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Jul 29 “Barns of the Catskills 2017” paintings, photographs ���� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, thru Jul 29 Peter Fiore paintings, “Night Watch” group show ������������������������������������������������� DVAA thru Jul 29 June Moss &Tom Dillon: An Introspective ��������������������������������Gallery 222, Hurleyville, thru Jul 30 Josiah Dearborn “Surface” handmade jewelry & objects, Artists of Excellence Series ��������������������� SUNYO-KH thru Aug 1 “Summer” Port Jervis Council for the Arts: Art & About series ���������������������������������������thru Aug 31 Susan Miiller “Floral-Themed Oils” Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria Joseph Petrosi color pencil drawings Port Jervis City Hall, Mayor’s Office Joan Kehlenbeck “Florals & Ocean Triptychs” Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot “Summer” group show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������WRS thru Sep 15

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Tate Billings & Frank Shuback “Bombs Bursting in Air”, mixed media ������������������������������������������� CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Jul 1-23 “Buildings & Structures” Wurtsboro Art Alliance �����������John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Jul 1-29 Phyllis Lehman, Pat Foxx & Susan Sciarretta “Far & Near” plein air paintings �Amity Gallery, Jul 1-30 Lavern Kelley retrospective ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� CAS Jul 1-30 Orange County in Bloom group show, Naomi Genen “Expressive Acrylics” �������������� WRS Jul 1-30 “The Art of War” art posters, + Group Show �������������������������������� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Jul 1-30 Liza J. Smith-Simpson & Carol Margreither “Sea & Sky” �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jul 6-Aug 1 Pike County Arts & Crafts Summer Exhibit �������������������������������������Milford Borough Hall, Jul 7-10 Gala Art Show Hemlock Farms Artists ������������������ Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 7-30 “Fly Fishing the Catskills” ������������������������������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Jul 8-31 “ShelfShowShelfShowShelfShow” small sculptures ����������������������������Narrowsburg Union, Jul 15-22 “Studio Monday Art Group” Show �������������������Daniel Pierce Library, Grahamsville, Jul 15-Aug 31 Pamela Mather-Cathy & Michael Piotrowski paintings, photographs, wood block prints, etc. �������� Glen Arden, Goshen, Jul 17-28 Ikebana NY Tachibana, Japanese floral art ��������������������������Glen Arden, Goshen, Jul 22, Noon-4pm “Season of the Witch” ������������������������������������������������������ Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 22-Sep 4 “Knitting Warwick Together” Tree Sweater Project ����������������������������������������� Warwick, Jul 26-30 DUSKLIT Interactive Art Bazaar ���������������������������Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 29, 6pm-9pm

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale ����������������������������������������������������� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing William Gould “Hudson Valley Views & Beyond” �Leo’s Pizzeria & Restaurant, Cornwall, thru July “Raptor Rapture” Steven Sachs, photography & Diane Bliss, poetry ����������SUNYO-KH thru Aug 1 Austin McK. Francis “Catskill Rivers and Trails” ���������Morgan Outdoors, Livingston Manor, thru Aug 21 Ben Halpern documentary photographs ��������������������������������� Livingston Manor Library, thru Sep 20 “Hudson Valley Landscapes” group show ����� Storm King Tavern Restaurant, Cornwall, thru Sep 30

NEW photography EXHIBITS

Bob Skinner “American Dreams” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ CAS Jul 1-30

ART & Photography receptions

Peter Fiore paintings, “Night Watch” group show �������������������������������������� DVAA Jun 30, 7pm-9pm “Buildings & Structures” Wurtsboro Art Alliance �������John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Jul 1, Noon-4pm Lavern Kelley retrospective, Bob Skinner “American Dreams”, �������������������������������������������������������� CAS Jul 1, talk: 3pm, reception: 4pm-6pm Tate Billings & Frank Shuback “Bombs Bursting in Air”, mixed media ������������������������������������������� CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Jul 1, 4pm-6pm “The Art of War” art posters, + Group Show ��������������������Artists’ Market, Shohola, Jul 1, 4pm-6pm Phyllis Lehman, Pat Foxx & Susan Sciarretta plein air paintings ��� Amity Gallery, Jul 1, 5pm-7pm “Barns of the Catskills 2017” �������������������������Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 2, 5:30pm-8:30pm 18

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Gala Art Show Hemlock Farms Artists ����� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 7, 5pm-8pm Pike County Arts & Crafts Summer Exhibit ������������������������Milford Borough Hall, Jul 7, 6pm-8pm “Fly Fishing the Catskills” ��������������������������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Jul 8, 1pm Orange County in Bloom group show, Naomi Genen “Expressive Acrylics” � WRS Jul 8, 5pm-7pm Liza J. Smith-Simpson & Carol Margreither “Sea & Sky”........ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jul 8, 6pm-9pm “ShelfShowShelfShowShelfShow” small sculptures ��������������� Narrowsburg Union, Jul 14, 7pm-9pm Ben Halpern documentary photographs ��������������������������������������Livingston Manor Library, Jul TBA Ikebana NY Tachibana, Japanese floral art ������������������������� Glen Arden, Goshen, Jul 22, Noon-4pm Wearable Art Fashion Show ������������������������������������������������ Rail Trail, Hurleyville, Jul 22, 4pm-6pm “Season of the Witch” ���������������������������������������������� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 22, 6pm-9pm

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HHNM ���������������������������������� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ������Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC ������������������������������������������������������������ Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

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Teen Book Club �����������������������������������������������������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Fridays, 3:30pm “The Adventures of Captain Underpants” by Dav Pilkey, ages 8-12 Newburgh Library, Jun 3, 1pm Spring StoryTime babies, toddlers, & caregivers ���Crawford Library, Monticello, Jun 5 & 12, 10am “The Hidden Gallery” discussion& craft ����������� Josephine Louise Library, Walden, Jun 22, 4:30pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs ����������������������������������Greenwood Lake Library, Wednesdays, 6pm FREE Teen Movie Matinee �������������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, 1st Saturday, 1pm FREE Saturday Family Movie ���������������������� Crawford Library, Monticello, 2nd-5th Saturdays, 1pm FREE “Lego Batman” �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Jul 1, 2pm FREE “The Secret Life of Pets” ���������������������������������������������������������������Hurleyville Arts Centre, Jul 1, 2pm “The Jungle Book” (2016) ������������������������������������������������������������Hurleyville Arts Centre, Jul 8, 2pm “The Aristocats ” �������������������������������������������������������������������������Hurleyville Arts Centre, Jul 29, 2pm Museums

“Birds On The Wing” interactive exhibit ��� HHNM-CoH Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Meet the Animals “Rascally Rabbits” �������������� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Eco-Zone Discovery Room ��������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Jul 15 & 30, 1pm-4pm Recreation, Entertainment & Lectures

Storytime 3-5yrs ������������������������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Mondays 10am FREE “Madagascar: A Musical Adventure” ������Forestburgh Playhouse, Thurs. & Sat., 11am thru Aug 19 Fourth of July Celebration ��������������������������������������N. Main Street, Liberty, July 4, 10:30am-4:30pm Campfire Storytime ��������������������������������������������� Glenmere Lake, Florida, Jul 6 & 20, 7:30pm FREE Little Eco Explorers: “Fish” ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Jul 8, 1pm Diane Edgecomb “Stories for the Earth”, storytelling ������������ Florida Library, Jul 13, 7;30pm FREE “Turtles” ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������HHNM Jul 15, 10am Creature Feature Weekend: “Reptile Roundup” ������������ HHNM-CoH Jul 15 & 16, 1pm & 2:30pm Steve and Leon folk duo ������������������Seven Freedoms Music Center, Montgomery, Jul 16, 3pm FREE Morley the Magician ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Jul 22, 2pm FREE West Point Band’s Quintette 7, Kids Night concert, petting zoo at 6pm �������������������������������������������� Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Jul 22, 6:30pm FREE

Schools & Conservatories Budding Artists �������������������������������������������������������������������������������Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing Desmond Campus Student Art Show ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, thru Aug 1

Museums Woodstock Festival History ���������������������������������������������������������� Museum at Bethel Woods, ongoing Terwilliger House Museum ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville, ongoing “Tunnels, Toil and Trouble: New York City’s Quest for Water” and “Rondout-Neversink Story & Water and the Valleys” Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, ongoing Multiple Sullivan County Exhibits ��������������������������� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing Pinchot Mansion Tours ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Grey Towers, Milford, ongoing Knife Making History................................................Wawarsing Knife Museum, Napanoch. ongoing “The History of Baseball”.................................Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru April “Unpacked & Rediscovered “ ��������������������������������� Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, ongoing Railroad Museum ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Port Jervis Community Center “The History of Medicine” ���������������������������� Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Aug 31 “Love For Sale: The Commercialization of the Counterculture” ����������� Bethel Woods thru Dec 31 “Through Different Lenses: Views From Two Centuries.”.................................................................

Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Jul 2, Noon & 3pm Independence Day Celebration ��������������������������������������New Windsor Cantonment, Jul 4, 10am-5pm & Knox’s Headquarters, Vails Gate, Jul 4, 10am-5pm “A Rendezvous with Death: Local Sacrifice in the First World War ” ��������������������������������������������� Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Jul 8-9

Meet Puck and Bottom: Fairies Dancing in Salesian Perhaps one of the most popular of all the Shakespearian plays is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As comedy, it sits and pivots on the universal themes of love and its all too numerous complications. And now, with the long awaited summer in full view, what could be a more appropriate selection for the Cornerstone Theatre Arts’ 8th annual Shakespeare in the Park than the Bard’s most widely known and well-liked comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

And in the park it will be! The secretive and mysterious Salesian Park, in the center of Goshen, has its own atmosphere and connection with nature. And in that spirit, it is the appropriate location for what has become a highly anticipated event in the Cornerstone Theatre Arts’ repertoire.

This most lovable of all Shakespearean theatre is not only popular with the general public, but reportedly the members of the Cornerstone Theatre have collaborated, or maybe conspired, to insure its selection as

the play for the park.

If one is even briefly familiar with the play, it is widely recognized as art that is open to wide and varied interpretations, some deep and mysterious and others easily Brittany Pierce apparent, and lots of fun. Naturally and quite thankfully, thespians are inclined to be a creative and fun loving lot and when the opportunity to play with roles, mistaken identities and personal ambiguities presents itself, the juices of inspiration and imagination began to flow. And so it is with cast and crew at Cornerstone Theatre Arts as this endeavor takes shape. This Midsummer Night promises to be not just a representation of an Elizabethan poet, but in practice, it will reflect the creative and varied imaginations of the Cornerstone Theatre artists in union as they join with the poet.

The cast for this Shakespearean adventure is rumored to be one of Cornerstone’s strongest. Strongest in the sense that this group

of players in Goshen has been growing and expanding over a number of years, and now they are as ready as ever to explore the varied and more creative aspects of theatre. Co-director Jim Haines and adapter Brittany Pierce commented recently, “This year we are paying homage to the great Walt Disney in his love of all things magical and childlike.

Midsummer fits the bill in that there is magic, fairies, true love, wooing, conflict, and, of course, a happy ending. We plan to use classic Disney songs and some other surprises to make this a family-friendly, easily accessible version of Midsummer.”

The play as a whole will pay tribute to Disney and especially his music. This is a production of many colluding minds and calloused hands.

In that list of characters there is always a favorite or two. For this writer, Puck has always been at the top of the list. As a

mischievous spirit, Puck is described as a “shrewd and knavish sprite” and “that merry wanderer of the night.” This role of Puck will be brought to life by veteran Orange County actor, Brittany Pierce, who, as mentioned, will also be co-directing this production with Cornerstone’s Artistic Director, Ken Tschan.

There is also, of course, Bottom. It is Puck and Bottom who make things happen in this play and as such are two to watch carefully.

But Bottom as a pivotal character will be played by Jim Haines, who interestingly will be making his stage debut with the Cornerstone Theatre Arts in this in-the-park production.

As July settles into Orange County, the moist and warm air of a midsummer’s day will find the seclusion offered by evening in Goshen’s enchanted Salesian Park. There is a place to enjoy the brilliance of Shakespeare and the talents of the Cornerstone Theatre Arts! A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be presented on July 15 & 22, at 7:00pm with Sunday Matinees on July 16 & 23, 2:00pm.

Bring a lawn chair and picnic!

No reservations needed.

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Inhabiting Two Musical Worlds: Jesse Jones, Resident Composer, WCM 2017 Edition

by Philip Ehrensaft If not for an arm broken during an arm wrestling match when Jesse Jones was in his late teens, we would be hearing him on stage as a concert pianist rather than being one of the rising stars among living American composers. Jones is the resident composer at the 2017 edition of the Catskill’s two-week long Weekend of Chamber Music, (WCM), running from July 15 to July 30.

A word of warning to readers: Jones is now a professor of composition at Oberlin, my alma mater, so I bring an innate favorable inclination towards an Oberlin prof. Oberlin and, more recently, the Hudson Valley’s Bard College are unique among American liberal arts colleges; their highly-ranked colleges are twinned with nationally renowned classical music conservatories.

You have to be damned good to land a teaching gig at Oberlin. Jones’ compositions are indeed, damned good.

Born in 1978, Jones grew up in rural New Mexico. He was home schooled by his mother to become a concert pianist. The arm wrestling came via his blue-collar construction entrepreneur dad. As Jones’ arm was healing as best it could, he took up the mandolin as an instrument he could handle. The family moved to Oregon when Jones approached college age. He performed progressive Bluegrass as a mandolinist and vocalist while earning B.A.

and M.A. degrees in classical composition.

Jones’ outstanding bluegrass mandolin playing landed Jones on NPR’s Prairie Home Companion. If you want to hear just how good Jones is on the mandolin, check out YouTube for his stunning solo performance of Georgia On My Mind.

With that parallel Bluegrass career, one would expect a good dollop of today’s common crossovers between classical music and other genres in Jones’ compositions. That is not the case, even when the mandolin is involved.

Jones mostly moves in two parallel musical worlds: “I don’t think there is much stylistic bleedthrough between my bluegrass music-making and my ‘classical’ composition, but playing the mandolin has given me a good understanding of string instruments. And, beyond that, there is something of the vocal quality of a bluegrass singer that I often try to mimic in

my compositions - certain inflections, a gritty vocal quality that might help inform any melody I write.”

After completing his M.A. at the University of Oregon, Jones headed to Cornell University’s rigorous doctoral program in composition.

Jones became intrigued by the microtonality that is present in many threads of nonwestern art music and folk music. Microtonality means building musical scales along shorter intervals and different organizational principles than the twelve equally spaced tones of Western music.

Microtonality entered into works by composers like Charles Ives, Bela Bartok, Gyorgi Ligeti, James Tenney, Terry Riley, John Adams, and especially the late Joe Maneri, who both taught microtonal classical composition at the New England Conservatory of Music and performed microtonal jazz as an outstanding saxophonist. Jones’ doctoral thesis on microtonality became a book, Microtonalis, which is an important reference on composing this kind of music.

When Jones was doctored up in 2012, he was awarded the very prestigious Elliot Carter Prize from the American Academy in Rome. That was followed two years later by a Guggenheim Fellowship. His third string quartet was commissioned by the Juilliard String Quartet and performed multiple times on both sides of the Atlantic. That’s a very short list of the awards that have come Jones’

way. One reason for the recognition that comes Jones’ way, I think, is the breadth of his output: orchestral music, chamber music, opera, choral music, solo vocal music, electronic music, film music, and music composed in tandem with visual art.

What will Jones’ music sound like when you catch one of his compositions at a WCM concert? Here’s the LA Times music critic Mark Swed’s take on a Juilliard String quartet performance of Jones’ Whereof Man Cannot Speak: “Jones works in eerie microtones, producing glassy surfaces like a mystically still sonic pond onto which he throws pebbles and generates ripples. He employs sliding tones, fluttering effects, modal melodies and, at one point, the Dies Irae theme in pizzicato. One hears bits of Ben Johnston’s microtonal string quartets and hints of Eastern European holy Minimalism.

It’s an engaging, well-written piece, grit-free.”

Meet Jones at the Catskill Distilling Company in Bethel on July 20 at 7:30pm for WCM’s An Evening with Jesse Jones: Conversation, Music and More!

Hear Jones’ music along with Scriabin, Domenico Gallo (1730-1768), Stravinsky, Messiaen, Waggoner, Beethoven and Bach from July 15-30 in Jeffersonville, Callicoon, Honesdale, Livingston Manor and Liberty.

Visit www.WCMconcerts.org and/or see ad page 20 for concert details, or call 646-8610378 for a brochure.

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From Brandeis to Broadway to Narrowsburg

Leonard Bernstein was on his honeymoon in 1951 when he began composing his one-act opera, Trouble in Tahiti, a candid portrait of the troubled marriage of a young suburban couple.

Written between his Broadway masterpieces On The Town and Candide, the opera draws upon popular songs styles to deliver an uncompromising critique of post-war American materialism. Beneath the couple’s marital discord is a profound longing for love and intimacy. Their spiritual emptiness, in contrast to a veneer of happy consumerism, creates the heart of the drama and is emphasized by sudden stylistic shifts in the music.

The opera was given its initial performance at the first annual Festival of Creative Arts at Brandeis University. It was an auspicious occasion, only slightly marred by the fact that the procession of speakers who preceded it delayed the curtain until 11:00pm! There was even some pretty stiff competition two nights later when Marc Blitzstein’s soon-tobe-famous adaptation of Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera was also first unveiled.

Shortly before that world premiere on June 12, 1952, Bernstein said, “It’s a lightweight piece. The whole thing is popular-song inspired and the roots are in musical comedy,

or better still, American musical theatre.”

But what becomes immediately apparent upon listening to the opera today is that our ever increasing concern with the domestic life and culture of suburbanites has given this deft picture of that group an even greater significance than the composer could have then realized.

After some re-writing and then a performance at Tanglewood in November 1952, Trouble in Tahiti was offered as part of the then famous and highly respected NBC Opera TV season. (They performed all their operas in English). The great mezzo soprano/ actress Beverly Woolf and baritone David Atkinson starred. Then, in 1955, the opera ran on Broadway as part of a triple bill.

The Delaware Valley Opera performs the one-act opera following The American Songbook, which is the first half of the program, on July 28-29-30 in the Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg.

The opera features Jenny Gac and Matthew Samluk (see photos), with Meredith Huveneer, Tshombe Selby and Amit Khaneja as “The Jazz Trio”, serving as a combination Greek Chorus and Narrator.

Tickets: www.delawarevalleyopera.org or the box office 845-252-7272.

Art & About: “It’s Summertime!”

Summerprovidesartists on canvas. Susan Miiller with a visual banquet of is the recipient of several diversity, from exquisite awards including Orange and rare plant life to Arts Grants in 2016, 2014 common weeds. If it has and 2009 for Deerest roots, shoots, flowers Deerpark, an invitational and leaves, is waxy, show of the area artist’s fragile, sturdy or brittle, decorations of fiberglass terrestrial or aquatic - it deer. Susan has been is featured in the Art and teaching faculty at SUNY About: It’s Summertime! since 1999. Her work exhibit sponsored by the is included in galleries Port Jervis Council for and important public the Arts. and private collections.

A diverse and wide- “Sunflower & Blue Sky” by Susan Miiller “Using a wide variety open theme, the show includes photographs, of painterly techniques, my work obtains a paintings and pastels by artists who celebrate beautiful presence of surface.” the visual beauty of summer’s diversity.

NEW! at Deerpark Town Hall: florals & Featured artists are Joan Kehlenbeck, Susan ocean triptychs. River Valley Artist Guild Miiller, and Joseph Petrosi. president, and Cuddebackville artist Joan NEW! at City Hall: Color pencil drawings. Kehlenbeck has shown her paintings and Joseph Petrosi is a certified art specialist, pastel drawings regionally. Joan includes textile airbrush specialist, and award-winning local, historic buildings and scenes in her artist. Readers of the Times-Herald Record work. Her submission for Deerest Deerpark chose him as Best Ink and Pencil Artist in will be permanently displayed in Deerpark. the Hudson Valley (2012). He founded PAPA The exhibits can be seen Bon Secours (Paterson Association of Progressive Artists) Hospital 1st floor cafeteria, Port Jervis, in the 1970s. “I hope people looking at my Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot and Mayor’s artwork will enjoy the burst of color and Office in City Hall, Port Jervis thru Aug. 31. serenity of the scene.”

Email susanmiiller@yahoo.com or visit NEW! at Bon Secours: Floral-themed oils PortJervisCouncilForTheArts.org for info.

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Bradstan Cabaret Series at Bethel Woods

The Bradstan Cabaret Series features three performances by curator Scott Samuelson, Bradstan Country Hotel co-owner and founder of “Inn Cabaret” who is dedicated to continuing the cabaret tradition in Sullivan County, in collaboration with Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Ann Hampton Callaway is one of the leading champions of the great American Songbook. One of the finest singer/ songwriters of her generation, the statuesque performer dazzles music lovers as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, and educator. A born entertainer, her unique singing style blends jazz and traditional pop, making her a mainstay in concert halls, theaters and jazz clubs as well as in the recording studio, on television, and in film. She is best

known for her Tony-nominated performance in the hit Broadway musical Swing! and for writing and singing the theme song to the hit TV series The Nanny.

Aplatinumawardwinningwriter, Callaway’s songs are featured on six of Barbra Streisand’s CDs. The only composer to have collaborated with Cole Porter, she has also written songs with Carole King, Rolf Lovland and Barbara Carroll to name a few.

Ann is a devoted keeper-of-the-flame of the great American songbook. She brings fresh and original interpretations to these timeless classics and works to uphold the canon.

Enjoy her performance for the Bradstan Cabaret Series at Bethel Woods, 200 Hurd Road, on July 8 at 8:00pm.

For tickets, phone 1-800-745-3000.

Magic & Music in Phillipsport The July music night at the Phillipsport Community Center opens with author/ performer Allen Frishman playing tunes and performing a comical magic act, followed

by Spring Glen Corners’ favorite The Amazing Ronzo a/k/a. Ronald Gross. Gross is a graphic designer. He’s been doing magic and mental illusions since he was 12 years old.

Winding up with the fun and traditional music of Breakneck Annie (see photo), it takes place on July 15 at 657 Red Hill Road in Phillipsport.

Doors open at 6:00pm, homemade food & desserts available for purchase, with music at 7:00pm. Suggested donation: $2. Don’t miss the Center’s yard & book sale on July 22, 9:00am to 3:00pm.

Sundwall Gives Lessons in Pine Bush

by Sal Aiello On a Sunday afternoon, not long ago, I was part of the audience during a Middletown Art Group meeting where artist Joseph Sundwall was going to demonstrate. Along with 30 other artists I watched Joe create a portrait in a little over 90 minutes using just six oil colors. What I saw convinced me this was a man who not only knows painting, but also can eloquently share his knowledge with accompanying commentary. I came away from that Sunday meeting extremely impressed.

Joe began his career in art long ago as a third grader in Chicago with a successful first oil painting. Then recognizing his talent and under the influence of his parents and tutelage of his teachers of the time, he steadily moved forward. He studied in Kansas City to become a graphic designer and then moved onto NYC to develop into a fine artist producing wonderful canvases of landscapes, still-life, birds, nudes and, of course, portraits.

Throughout his extensive career Joe was curious about “watching how the work gets done”. Technique, along with his talent and perceptive eye formed his unique style of painting. Research into the materials he uses to

get the best possible results was another method of making his final work look brilliant.

When looking at Joe’s work, his brush strokes and use of color show his economy of thought and how he is “interested in putting down on the canvas no more than is necessary to get the point across.” This is something most artists strive for and miss the mark. Joe has accomplished this in his work whether it is a bird, a basket with kittens, a reclining nude or portrait.

Now living in Montgomery, Joe can be seen teaching classes at the Wallkill River School or trooping around the area painting in plein air, and, of course, demonstrating his painting technique.

It is with great excitement that the Board of Directors of the Crawford Arts Association (CAA) announce that Joseph Sundwall, renown portrait artist and art demonstrator, is coming to Pine Bush on July 13, at 1:30pm to demonstrate his technique to the CAA membership, friends of CAA, students and other interested persons. Sundwall’s demo will take place on the second floor of the Town of Crawford Government Center, Route 302.

There is no charge for this demonstration and refreshments will be served.

The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging Ikebana has a venerable history spanning more than 550 years in Japan with practitioners worldwide. Much of this history encompasses the development of traditional styles of ikebana: rikka and shoka. The art form has not remained static, with modernized versions appearing in the 20th century and the development of completely new styles in the 20th and 21st centuries. A modern style, freestyle or “jiyuka”, is a way for the arranger to express his/herself with few of the constraints that characterize traditional arranging.

Members of the NY Tachibana chapter of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society of America will display their ikebana creations on July 22 in the Rhinebeck Room at Glen Arden, 214 Harriman Drive, Goshen from Noon-4:00pm.

Chapter members will be on hand to answer questions and talk about their arrangements and the art of ikebana.

This exhibition honors the founder of NY Tachibana, Toshiko Shindo Alden, who passed away earlier this year. Her 100th birthday would have been this July. Mrs. Alden was an accomplished flower arranger and instructor, teaching classes in the region and throughout the northeast for decades and sharing her love of flowers and ikebana with hundreds of students.

Pamela Mather-Cathy and Michael Piotrowski were long time Ikebana students of Mrs. Alden. A respected Master Teacher

Toshiko Shindo Alden

to both Pamela and Michael, they decided to honor her passing and their time together with an exhibition of their art in other media at Glen Arden: Pamela’s work in photography, acrylics and finger paints and Michael’s in oils, wood block prints and monoprints, July 17-28.

See ad on page 29 for more information.

The private lessons with Mrs. Alden included a demo of a traditional flower arrangement style, an opportunity to use similar materials to create an arrangement, then constructive comments and correction. Once in a while, there was a silence, as she looked and looked, and then spoke one of her highest praises, “Nicely done.”

Pam & Michael’s comment to Toshiko Shindo Alden, on her many decades of dedicated service to the Art of Ikenobo Ikebana, its traditions and her many students: “Nicely done.”

Leo’s Cornwall location presents: “Hudson Valley Views & Beyond: Photographs by William Gould” through the end of July!

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“A Thousand Doorways” in Florida A special House Concert benefitting the Florida Public Library will be held on July 12 at 7:30pm at the home of Diane Arcieri, 100 Wheeler Road, Florida.

Enjoy a special preview performance entitled A Thousand Doorways by master storyteller Diane Edgecomb as she prepares to take this show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. Diane will share her harrowing, revelatory journey in Turkey to collect the vanishing stories of the people of

Kurdistan: a fairytale landscape of shepherds, caravans, guard towers, impossible mountain passes and the mysterious Eggs of the Ancient Tree.

Refreshments served.

For tickets to A Thousand Doorways, RSVP: Diane. arcieri@gmail.com or call 845651-7659.

Diane will also be telling Stories of the Earth at the Library on July 13 at 6:30pm. Register online at www.floridapubliclibrary.org for this free family program.

“American History through Folk Songs” Originally from Rockland County, Eric Lipper started out on a toy piano that he got for his 2nd birthday. After fronting his own original rock bands in high school and at SUNY Purchase, Eric took an opportunity to play keyboards with the oldies group The Platters. This led to performances at such high profile shows as The Drifters, The Chiffons, Lou Christie, Bobby Lewis and others. He has been involved in many types of music roles: singer, guitarist, arranger, producer, composer.

His eclectic nature and skill on a multitude of instruments has led to him writing arrangements for flute, violin, cello and trumpet.

Inspired by the ghostly 1920’s recordings of

The Carter Family, Eric started the folk group, The Tweedlers.

Their album Old’ Timin’ was released in 2007. The group spent 5 summers entertaining at county fairs all around the northeast to fans who refer to themselves as “Tweedlerheads.”

It is primarily from this repertoire that he has designed a show that he will bring to the Greenwood Lake Public Library on July 13 at 7:00pm.

Lipper will perform a selection of dark and funny colorful tales entitled, American History through Folk Songs at the Library, 79 Waterstone Road, Greenwood Lake.

Registration in person at the Library or by phone is required: 845-477-8377, ext. 104.

10 Minute Plays in Port Jervis “In 1923, Pierre Loving published an anthology of ten minute plays which included offerings by such notable playwrights as Arthur Schnitzler, Ferenc Molnar and August Strindberg. However, the more generally accepted “official” debut of the form as a genre dates to the Actor’s Theater of Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays, which premiered in 1977. The new format, then dubbed “Polaroid playwriting,” which was part of the festival, quickly evolved into a dynamic form that offered thrilling possibilities.

“Now a proven form of theater, these short plays are highly popular with audiences the world over. Several of the most prominent contemporary playwrights including David Mamet, Christopher Durang, Craig Lucas, Tony Kushner, David Ives, August Wilson, and many others have successfully presented offerings in this genre.

“It seems that rather than constrain and impose limitations, the form offers writers the opportunity to tell their stories quickly in a more focused and dynamic manner. A good number of actors enjoy and excel at the demands of playing a variety of roles in quick succession. And audiences who are fans of these plays relish the broad spectrum of 24

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theater available to them at one sitting.”

- Theatredatabase.com A popular anthology of 10-minute plays describes the genre this way: “A ten-minute play is a streak of theatrical lightning. It doesn’t last long, but its power can stand your hair on end.”

The Orange County Arts Council will give audiences the opportunity to see for themselves, when it presents the inaugural Ten Minute Play Festival on July 14 in The Loft at Foundry 42, 42 Front Street, Port Jervis.

Beginning at 7:00pm, eight one-act plays of approximately ten minutes in length by Orange County writers will receive a scriptin-hand reading by area actors. Many of these plays will be read aloud for the first time publicly. Following the readings, there will be an informal meet and greet, when the audience will be afforded the opportunity to ask questions of the playwrights, directors and actors.

The Orange County Arts Council works daily to integrate the arts into the many aspects of Orange County life, support the County’s many creative resources, and enrich the quality of life for all Orange County residents.

Tickets can be purchased by phone in advance at 845-469-9168, and at the door.

Poetry and Prose: Austin, Askew, Hada Writer, director and actor Paul Austin, is remembered as the force behind the iconic Liberty Free Theatre that had a long run on South Main Street. Then in 2015, he and his spouse, writer/actor Rilla Askew, moved to Oklahoma, disappointing their NY and PA fans. Perhaps they wanted to “sit alone and talk, and watch a hawk makin’ lazy circles in the sky”, but “Yeow-A-YIP-I-O-EE-AY”, they are back for a visit and brought along another writer-friend.

Ken Hada is a professor at East Central University where he directs the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival. His poems has been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, received the Western Heritage Award, and named finalist for the Spur Award and Oklahoma book awards. He has six published poetry collections and two e-books.

The Oklahoma triumvirate will be reading three different programs, mostly new poetry and

Paul Austin & Rilla Askew

Ken Hada

some new prose and be doing book signings on July 15 at 7:30pm (Paul and Rilla) and July 22 at 7:30pm (Paul and Ken) in the CAS Laundry King, 65 Main Street, Livingston Manor.

Then on July 27 at 5:00pm they will be presenting their Debut Readings: Rilla reads from her new novel and Paul reads from his new sequence of 15 narrative poems, Mother and Son, at the Delaware Arts Center, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg.

Suggested donation: $10 to benefit Catskill Art Society and Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.

Music, Poetry, & Beatboxing!

BLISS & VALUE OF NATURE POETS Meg Montgomery a.k.a. Electricmeg is a trumpet player, composer, producer, educator, lecturer and multimedia artist. She specializes in helping people to engage with their “inner quanta” in order to live a life of passion and purpose. Winner of the 2017 Sullivan County Artist in the Community Grant Visionary award and Co-winner of the 2017 Sullivan Heritage Grant, Electricmeg presents two events in July.

The BLISS Ensemble (see photo) & The Value of Nature Poets will perform on July 9 at 3:00pm at the Tusten Theater, 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg.

Electricmeg’s grant winning project, The Value of Nature Multimedia Extravaganza, engages junior high school students in the creative process with a lecture on quantum energy and an invitation to write a poem entitled The Value of Nature and then read it in a professional setting. The event will be accompanied by a performance by Electricmeg’s BLISS Ensemble, which will reprise the Liberty Trifecta of Peace, Love & Joy (premiered in Liberty, 2016). Special

guest Clark Gayton, currently performing with Bruce Springsteen, Bruno Mars and other rock/pop acts, will join the BLISS Ensemble for this concert. In addition, Electricmeg will project a slideshow of her Sullivan County nature photography during the performance.

FIRST ANNUAL LIBERTY FESTIVAL Electricmeg is collaborating with Livingston Manor’s Haven For Humanity to produce the 1st Annual Liberty Festival on July 29 from Noon-9:00pm at the White Sulpher Springs Firemans Park Pavilion.

The festival will include a series of lectures, workshops and performances, seeking to engage the community in creative energy, wellness and the regenerative mindset. Special guest Kaila Mullady, 2015 World Beatbox Champion, current America Vice Beatbox Champion, Loop Station Champion and three-time reigning Beatrhyme Champion, will present a beatboxing workshop in the afternoon and a performance in the evening. $10+ donation, advanced ticket sales only.

Visit http://libertyharmonyfestival.org or call 845-747-4546 for further information.

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY: Acting Artistic Director Jeffrey Stocker of Presby Players and the American Readers Theatre has over 30 years of teaching and directing in NYC, Portland, OR and Flint, MI. He has directed actors Cliff Robertson, Francis Sternhagen, and Marian Seldes and also directed for Christopher Durang and Edward Albee in NYC at the National Arts Club.

Stocker is bringing his expertise to Port Jervis in on-going acting classes, for beginners to

professional actors, for adults (Monday nights) and youth (Sunday afternoons) ages 10-17.

Stocker’s 5-session workshops in Marsh Hall, 60 Sussex Street, Port Jervis, involve scene study, monologues, and auditioning technique. Performance opportunities are available. For information call 917-902-4174.

Visit Presby Players Facebook page for auditions and upcoming productions.

Join the fun and learn the craft of acting!

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New Poet Laureate’s Ode to CANVAS Orange County Historian Johanna Yaun recently announced at the West Point Cadet Library that Village of Florida resident Robert Milby has been named Orange County’s Poet Laureate for 2017-2019.

As Poet Laureate, Milby’s duties will include creating pieces of literature in poetic forms to commemorate Orange County events, its people and places. “It is fitting to honor a contemporary poet such as Robert Milby here at West Point under the famed Poe Arch,” Yaun said. “Orange County has a diverse population who all contribute to the fabric of our county. We believe Mr. Milby will represent our community well and give voice to it through his poetry.”

Milby, 47, is the author of five poetry books and has hosted events throughout the county since 1995. He began writing poetry in 1987 as a student at James I. O’Neill High School in Highland Falls. Milby hosts poetry series at the Mudd Puddle Café in New Paltz, Florida Public Library and Noble Coffee Roasters in Campbell Hall.

Visit www.robertmilby.com for more about Robert.

“I’m extremely honored to earn this recognition,” said Milby. “I will use this position to bring poetry to a variety of audiences in Orange County.”

CANVAS is honored to be the recipient of Milby’s inaugural poem as Poet Laureate celebrating our 13th anniversary!

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Orange County Historian Johanna Yaun & Orange County’s Poet Laureate: Robert Milby.

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Ode to CANVAS The CANVAS was born thirteen years ago, on Stone Schoolhouse Road; raised in diverse communities between the Delaware and Hudson rivers, CANVAS serves the Arts on a vibrant scroll; in a basket; a landscape of hue, fragrance, texture, and taste.

CANVAS is free in his youth; free in her youth, and has a long and storied life ahead.

A vanguard, and defender of all who make Art; who love Art; who live Art; in our verdant dominion, north of the big city, and South of Albany.

Robert Milby May 22, 2017

Drama and Comedy at Shadowland With the New York premiere of The Jag, the hilarious and heartfelt family drama by Gino DiIorio, Shadowland Stages continues its commitment to new works. The Jag continues its ‘rolling world premiere,’ having opened at New Jersey Repertory Company under the direction of Shadowland’s Producing Artistic Director Brendan Burke this past winter.

‘Bone’ Chicarella comes home to convince his aging father to restore and sell the family’s prized possession - a 1967 Jaguar sedan. But Dad’s a drunk, they’ve never seen eye to eye, and Bone’s intent might be not so pure of heart.

So they call in Carla, a Jaguar expert with limited social skills. As this mismatched trio struggle to restore the car, family secrets and the real power of the Jaguar are revealed.

Dan Grimaldi, best known as a veteran of the hit HBO series The Sopranos, anchors the cast as ‘Chick’ Chicarella, the family patriarch and classic car buff. Grimaldi is a member of the Actors Studio and won a SAG Award for his work in the ensemble of The Sopranos. In addition to television roles on Blue Bloods, Law & Order, and NYPD Blue, he also earned a Ph.D. from the City University of New York and teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kingsborough Community

Estelle Bajou & Dan Grimaldi in “The Jag”

College in Brooklyn.

Shadowland’s production of The Jag directed by Brendan Burke, with Dan Grimaldi, Christopher Daftsios and Estelle Bajou, runs June 30-July 16.

The Jag is followed by The Foreigner, July 21-August 13, a comedy by Larry Shue about a shy Englishman whose fear of strangers is so severe that when he is introduced to new people they are told he cannot speak English. Hilarity ensues when they assume he cannot understand them and they speak their minds. Directed by Burke, Christopher Daftsios (also in The Jag) plays the title character.

“Highly recommended!” - Barry Plaxen Shadowland Stages is located at 157 Canal Street in Ellenville.

Box office: 845-647-5511.

“Liquid Leading” in Hurleyville at H.A.C.

DUSKLIT: 35 Installations by 62 Artists

The rules of ballroom dance Seeing a petite woman dip a man have been evolving since day who’s over six feet tall can strike one. But, according to dancer and the viewer as odd and different, actor Trevor Copp, they’ve still but it breaks the traditional a ways to go to before reflecting boundaries set by gender roles. our current contemporary It’s clearly possible for anyone society. to dance what has typically been Copp has since travelled prescribed for female dancers around the world and experienced and male dancers, and it doesn’t ballroom culture in thirteen matter who leads. In the end, it’s different countries. (He admits, a negotiation. part jokingly and part seriously, Alida Esmail & Jeff Fox “Let’s create a dance where it’s that nothing clears a ballroom floor faster than just like a conversation,” Copp says. “That’s two men dancing. Although it’s acceptable for what we want to move towards.” Copp two women to dance - because of a usual lack and Fox have already pried the door to this of partners - it’s unacceptable for two men to conversation wide open. And it’s not looking dance.) like it’s going to shut anytime soon.

And it’s more than just the gender/sex Billed as Performance/Lecture Ballroom makeup of the couple: “I’m talking about no Dance, Liquid Lead will be at the Hurleyville relationship that anyone regards as remotely Arts Centre on July 15 at 7:00pm with healthy looks like one person dictating to Copp & Fox’s TEDx Talk: “How we solved the other.” He doesn’t understand why some the problem of who leads and follows.” sparkles and lashes suddenly make this kind Then on July 16, at 11:00am Liquid of unequal relationship acceptable. Why, he Lead presents a workshop titled Liquid Lead asks, does ballroom still act as a space for this Dancing, the gender-neutral system of partner kind of “problematic content”? dancing developed by Trevor Copp and Jeff In the fall of 2015, Copp and Jeff Fox Fox. Absolutely no experience or partner introduced liquid leading to an audience at required! a TEDxMontréal event. They, with the help The Centre is located at 219 Main Street, of Alida Esmail, a former student of Copp’s, Hurleyville. Visit www.hurleyvilleartscentre. demonstrated ballroom as it’s traditionally org or phone: 845-707-8047. See ad pg. 24. done and as Copp and Fox prefer to do it.

Student & senior discounts available.

DUSKLIT is an annual one night art bazaar presented at the Seligmann Center, 23 White Oak Drive in Sugar Loaf as part of the Warwick Summer Art Festival (see page 12). Olivia Baldwin and Cody Rounds have curated over 35 art installations and performances that challenge visitors to accept experience, rather than object, as art. At twilight (6:00pm-Midnight) on July 29, sixty-two artists from across the country will transform the DUSKLIT artists “Haus of Femanon” Seligmann Homestead into a landscape Photo by David Aronson Photography Studio By engaging in these installations, visitors will of multisensory environments!

“DUSKLIT provides space for artists to join the bazaar as an essential collaborative execute new and interactive ideas on an element, bringing DUSKLIT to life.

The event will be followed by an After enchanting site with deep roots in art and magic,” says Rounds who has exhibited Dark Dance Party (9:00pm-Midnight) her multimedia works on the property. “In featuring regional DJs Öberon and Jonathan turn, the community has the opportunity to Strænge. Refreshments will be available for experience art, not as spectators, but as an purchase.

DUSKLIT received partial funding through integral part of the work.”

Featuring performance art, music, dance, the Orange County Arts Council 10th acting, poetry, and other artistic genres, Anniversary Community Arts Grants. A free DUSKLIT includes elaborate projected shuttle bus sponsored by West Point Tours environments, sensory deprivation will run between the Chester Park & Ride installations, site-specific sound and dance and the Seligmann Center from 5:30pmperformances, jello catapults, improvisational Midnight. Seligmann Center parking is acting, and participatory transformations. limited. Additional parking available at the Many offer opportunities to play with Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center on experimental approaches to art making by Kings Highway.

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Playhouse Hops with “Bedroom Farce” havoc on everything they Four couples, three touch and assuring that no bedrooms, two neurotics and one will get any sleep! one hilarious night of chaos!

Directed by Les Trevor and Susannah are Ferguson for Creative on the verge of a break-up, Theatre-Muddy Water and they’re determined to Players, the Playhouse take their friends and family at Museum Village down with them! This selfcontinues its 22nd season absorbed young couple with Alan Ayckbourn’s disrupts the lives of three Pictured left-right: Jessica Markman, comedy, Bedroom Farce. other couples on the night a Stephanie & Angus Hepburn party is being given, with the onstage action Performances take place July 8-23 at the taking place in three separate bedrooms. As the Playhouse at Museum Village, Route evening progresses, this unstable pair travels 17M, Monroe. Tickets include dessert at from bedroom to bedroom, raining hysterical intermission! Box Office: 845-294-9465.

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Village Garden Tour in Warwick

This year, the Warwick Valley Gardeners are changing their traditional Countryside Garden Tour to a Warwick Village Tour to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Warwick Village!

With over thirty gardens featured in this self-guided walking and driving tour, encompassing numerous areas of the Village of Warwick, participants will enjoy small, charming grounds, demonstrating the love and delight of gardening in small spaces, as well as the uniqueness of Warwick Village.

Additionally, Warwick musicians and artists will enhance areas of the tour.

The tour takes place on July 8, from 9:00am to 4:00pm. Rain date: July 9. Tickets can be purchased the day of the tour until 2:00pm at Railroad Green on Railroad Avenue in Warwick. Tickets include a guide book describing all gardens, a map of walking and driving routes, and parking suggestions.

Visit www.warwickvalleygardeners.org or call 845-987-8508 for information.

“Gala Art Show” in Lords Valley For more than twentycomprised of the reception five years, the Gallery area, central hallway and at Chant Realtors has large conference room, is offered an opportunity well lit and equipped with for local artists to exhibit a professional hanging their work. Associate system.

Broker George Schmitt The Gala Art Show and his associates share featuring a group show a keen interest in the arts, by the Hemlock Farms and many well known and Community Artists, award winning artists have “Bridge Over Spey” by Joan Polishook works in mini and maxi been featured at the gallery. A summer group formats, opens on July 7, from 5:00pmshow featuring artists from the Hemlock 8:00pm at the Gallery at Chant Realtors, Farms Community kicks off a year of two- 631 Route 739, Lords Valley, along with month period solo or group shows featuring music and refreshments. artists from near and far. The gallery, which is Call 570-775-7337 for additional info.

“Sea & Sky” at The ARTery, Milford Liza J. Smith-Simpson aircraft and the human has had careers in many yearning for transcendence. fields, but her passion is She states, “triangles have art. She has heard from a strong grounded base that customers, “We love this appear to look up into the because it reminds us of heavens.” the beach we got engaged Carol Margreither at!” or “It was just like the continues exploring the sunset or bird we saw!” archetypal mermaid. Her Just as she has had many recent monoprint series careers, she also works in capture mermaids swirling many mediums that she and buoyant, cheerful and “Flight Paths VII” by L. Smith-Simpson uses interchangeably from optimistic. She utilizes watercolor to acrylic. lumiere metallic and Liza loves the grandeur of pearlescent colors combined the sky, sea and beyond into with traditional printmaking space. She can adventure out methods. Carol is the sole beyond her comfort zone and proprietor of Books and into a geometric exploration Prints in Milford. of triangle motifs. She does Sea & Sky, an exhibit of this through her Flight Paths work by Liza and Carol, and The Future is a Portal takes place at the ARTery series. The airport near her Gallery, 210 Broad home has helped her with the Street, Milford, from July inspiration for both series.

6-August 1. The public Constructing abstracts and is invited to an opening collages with a rich color reception on July 8 from palette, Liza connects both “Shadow Dancing” by C. Margreither 6:00pm-9:00pm. series with the physical configuration of For information, call 570-409-1234.

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In Memoriam: Hugh Abdullah Rashid Brodie

Cabaret & Kids

february 7, 1933 ~ April 5, 2017

When asked to describe to celebrate Hugh’s himself, he says, “I am extraordinary life and music a creator,” then, “I am a at the Hugh Brodie Memorial searcher.”

Celebration Concert on Storied Jazz veteran Hugh June 7 at The Falcon in Brodie made his final trip to Marlboro.

Awardwinning the astral plane on April 5, photographer Joe DiMaggio 2017. He played tenor and presented videos of Hugh. soprano sax, clarinet, flute, “I photographed Brodie over sang, and like his second the years and every time cousin Ella Fitzgerald, scatted it was totally exciting. His with relevant melodic fluency. personality and soul always Hugh devoted his entire life came through. I think back to jazz, developing his own on one of our conversations sound, creating his own music about the sound and vibration and executing his own unique of music going on to infinity Photo by Tom Bushey musical visions. He was taught and encouraged in the Universe and that every note and lyric by the greats before him and he, in turn, passed lives on. This is how the whole world will on his knowledge to many who played on the remember Hugh.” bandstand with him or who sought him out at Hugh loved his family, his friends, and his home in Monticello. fellow musicians with a strong, infectious In 2013, Hugh was awarded a Certificate spirit. His influence and music will live on of Appreciation by the Jazz Foundation of and on.

America. It said in part, “Your artistry and recordings have reached to the spiritual and Excerpt from “Jazz is a River” emotional core of the true Jazz Experience.”

by Helena Clare Pittman, CANVAS, 2007 Hugh had many recordings to his credit, Hugh Brodie walked in carrying his horn traveled the world, produced his own music, case. Paul West announced his name, and appeared in films, and modeled. they embraced. They hadn’t seen each other Hosted by Christopher Dean Sullivan, in forty years. Hugh had a picture that was over 35 Jazz icons and friends gathered passed around during the break. Ramona

Hanna, wife of the preeminent Jazz pianist, Sir Roland Hanna, whose tribute the trio (Paul West, Eddie Locke & Richard Wyands) was playing, passed it to me. The photo was snapped at the Concord in 1952. Hugh and Paul and a stage full of Jazz musicians backing up Sammy Davis, Jr. I later learned that Hugh had toured with Wyands, playing with the great saxophonist, Illinois Jaquet.

Hugh assembled his horn for the second set. Paul invited him up. Hugh sat down and some kind of magic fell over the room. The musicians’ attention seemed pulled in, focused on each other. This was a reunion. “Watcha got, Hugh?” asked Paul. And the melody - almost delicate - of Brodie’s sax wove together with that sound we’ve come to rely on at Albert’s Liberty House - Jazz surely as profound as any played at Birdland, or the Vanguard, or uptown at Ryan’s where Locke played drums for the great trumpet player, Roy Eldridge.

Hugh Brodie wears his venerable stature lightly...wears his years of playing with Sonny Stitt, Dizzy, Clifford Jordon, on top of the beat with Max Roach...wears experience with reserve, dignity. Second cousin to Ella, looking like Sonny Rollins and sometimes sounding like him. His sax sound is soft, melodic, sweet, expansive. Hugh Brodie scat sings Take The A Train holding with his cousin Ella...wears time Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise.

The renowned Forestburgh Playhouse does not just offer mainstage productions. For 30 years, the Playhouse has also been famous for its cabaret shows.

Are you an early bird or a night owl? The resident company (ResCo) performs a different cabaret show with each main stage musical or play. Pre-show cabaret and buffet dinners are every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday at 6:00pm with cabaret beginning at 6:40pm.

For night owls, the Late-Nite Cabaret is every Friday & Saturday right after the mainstage performance (approx. 10:45pm) with food, drink and song at the Forestburgh Tavern!

This year, treat your youngsters to the joy of live theatre! Every Thursday & Saturday at 11:00am thru August 19, the ResCo stars in Madagascar: A Musical Adventure, based on the DreamWorks animated motion picture.

Join those hilarious, plotting penguins and their animal friends as they escape New York’s Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar!

Box Office: 631-261-2900

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May I Have A Word With You ...

Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky MASH NOTES Margaret: “I am not so think as you drunk I am.”

Hawkeye to cook: “So what’s the slop du jour?”

Margaret to Frank: “Act like a man, you sniveling twerp!”

PA System: “Due to circumstances beyond our control, lunch will be served today.”

PA System: “It’s payday. All personnel will kindly form an orderly stampede.”

Hawkeye: “She’s offered her body to science; time and time again.”

Klinger to Colonel Potter: “You bellowed, oh top of the heap?”

WHOSE WORDS ARE THESE? To ease me of this power to think, that through my bosom raves, I’ll headlong leap from hell’s high brink, and wallow in its waves.

Though devil’s yell, and burning chains may waken long regret; Their frightful screams, and piercing pains

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will help me to forget.

From The Suicide’s Soliloquy by Abraham Lincoln.

AND THESE? “It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I do not know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert Einstein.

Embolalia are useless or hesitation words or utterances in speech such as ‘like’, ‘oh’, ‘uh’, ‘you know’, ‘I mean’, etc.

Haiku is an abbreviation of Japanese ‘haiku no ku’ meaning unserious or comic verse.

Q is the only letter not in the name of any state in the United States.

Quarantine comes from the Italian word ‘quaranta’ meaning forty - the number of days a ship was kept outside port if the ship’s people had a contagious disease.

Rickshaw is from Japanese words meaning ‘man power carriage’.

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Nardini, Vivaldi & More at Pacem “SPECIAL! Our co-musical directors playing together. Always a remarkable event!,” announced Lukas Franck of Warwick’s unique concert hall, Pacem In Terris. Franck is referring to violinst Krista Bennion-Feeney and harpsichordist Gregory Hayes.

Hayes plays regularly for the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. BennionFeeney is a concertmaster of Orchestra of St. Luke’s, a member of St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble since 1983, and a frequent soloist with both ensembles. John Feeney is principal double bass of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

As a violinist, Pietro Nardini (1722-1793) was praised by Leopold Mozart for the unsurpassed “beauty, purity and equality of his tone,” and by contemporary poet/ musician Schobart for moving even “icecold aristocrats” to tears. For Krista, Pietro Nardini’s e minor Violin Concerto embodies the essence of the bel canto “beautiful singing” style. Simpler accompaniments put the focus on the soloist, allowing the violin to sing a story to the audience.

Nardini’s writing is not triumphant, not about heroics. It’s all about heart. This doesn’t mean his rarely performed Violin Concerto in e minor is easy to play. “On the contrary,” says Krista. “It requires a great

Krista Bennion & John Feeney, Gregory Hayes

deal of nuance and shading. You play with your heart on your sleeve while keeping in mind it’s primarily an 18th century piece.

With Nardini, you just hover at this delicious place without crossing into sentimentality.”

Nardini wrote it in 1760 as a sonata, then later on in the 19th century the piece was orchestrated by a couple of other composers.

It is now solely performed as a concerto as the original sonata version is lost.

Krista Bennion Feeney, joined by Gregory Hayes and John Feeney, will return full circle to Nardini’s original conception of the piece, performing it at Pacem in Terris as a sonata on July 23 at 5:00pm. In addition, Krista will be playing a Vivaldi Sonata and Gregory will hopefully perform a Baroque harpsichord solo.

Pacem in Terris is located at 96 Covered Bridge Road, Warwick. Tickets go on sale at 4:00pm. Visit the Frederick Franck sculpture garden and museum. Bring a seat cushion.

For information: 845-986-4329.

Wellness Modalities: Massage Therapy Massage therapy history dates back thousands of years to ancient cultures that believed in its medical benefits. The first written records of massage therapy are found in China and Egypt, 2700 BCE. The first known Chinese text is titled, The Yellow Emperor’s Classic Book of Internal Medicine.

Massage therapy began as a sacred system of natural healing. However, cultural shifts rendered it a disreputable form of indulgence for extensive periods of history. Enduring these turns, massage therapy has experienced resurgence in modern times. Today, massage therapy stands as a highly respected holistic healing method practiced across the world.

“Therapeutic massage is a general term that describes any type of massage modality that helps relieve pain, reduce stress, and work on a specific problem - such as a frozen shoulder.

“People tend to assume therapeutic massage means deep tissue massage, and that they will get a very strong massage. But this is not always the case. Deep tissue massage is great at breaking down scar tissue and getting your blood circulating, but it may not be what you need on a particular day. A good therapist will apply the specific techniques and the right amount of pressure to address your needs, and sometimes that’s a lighter touch.

“Deep tissue massage it is a great way to manage pain. Deep tissue massage - as well as the other therapeutic massage methods - can give you a lot of relief from chronic pain.

“A deep tissue massage will leave you dehydrated. That’s why your therapist gives you water when it’s over. It is very important to drink plenty of water after a therapeutic massage.” www.rejuvenationsmassagetherapy.com Going back to using energy modalities rather than deep tissue massage, Rock Tavern massage therapist Debra Sheafe states, “Massage is so nurturing and healing and so important because we are tactile, even with energy work...all the different modalities, massage is a gateway to receptivity, allowing the body to feel nurtured and receptive to vibrational cellular healing.” See ad pg. 21.

Halpern’s Livingston Manor Photos

when printed, become the The Livingston Manor photographs now on exhibit Free Library has partnered at the Livingston Manor with the Agudas Achim Free Library.

Synagogue to present an Halpern’s photographs, exhibit of documentary only a small portion of photographsbyBenHalpern. which are presently on The exhibit will be on display display, show the essence through September 20. of one small community Leni Santoro in The within the larger whole, and Catskill Chronicle: without meaning to, he gives “When Ben Halpern left Photo: The Catskill Chronicle Livingston Manor he must have left a piece a glimpse into his own nature as well.”

An artist’s talk and reception will be of his heart behind, for he has been returning ever since to recapture those illusive pieces scheduled this summer at the Library, 92 Main of a town’s spirit on bits of film which, Street. Call the library for info: 845-439-5440.

Sounds of Brazil Heard in Milford

Os Clavelitos is a 6-piece American Samba band based in New York City whose original music combines traditional Brazilian rhythms (samba, baiao, bossa nova, and frevo) and English lyrics. Os Clavelitos’ music is highly rhythmic, energetic, and rich in harmony and melody. The band also performs traditional Brazilian music sung in Portuguese.

Explore Brazil’s traditions&transformations in music, song and dance, when Os Clavelitos performs for the Kindred Spirits Arts program on July 15 at 7:30pm in the Milford Theatre, 114 E Catherine Street.

Call 570-296-2600 for information.

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