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March 2023 A Complimentary Arts, Entertainment and Buy Local Guide, serving Orange, Sullivan, Pike & Southern Ulster Counties

The Delaware & Hudson

From The Publisher...

by Barry Plaxen Welcome back from the Pandemic: Greenwood Lake Theater. New Rose Theatre in Walden. Hudson Valley Folk Guild in Rock Tavern.

Vocabulary Lesson: Farrago: a confused mixture.

Ricercare: an elaborate instrumental composition in fugal or canonic style, typically of the 16th to 18th centuries.

Highlights of the Month: Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Bethel.

All the Celtic music events.

Synchronicity of the Month: A Murder Mystery Brunch in Montgomery, a Murder Mystery Dinner in Eldred, and A Murder Mystery Musical in Sugar Loaf.

Kudos to: Newburgh Performing Arts Academy for expanding their roster with acting classes for adults. Four Seasons Chorale in Port Jervis for combining choral songs with African Drumming & Dance.

In This Issue:

We welcome back Barryville and Sloatsburg to our listings.

Lots of live theatre events in Cornwall, Eldred, Montgomery, Loch Sheldrake, Sugar Loaf and Warwick.

Celtic music in Cornwall, Barryville, Middletown, Milford, Newburgh, Port Jervis, Sloatsburg and Sugar Loaf.

Thanks to the many, many friends and associates who helped create this bursting-at-the-seams issue. And, as always, thanks to our advertisers who help keep CANVAS free for all.

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In Memory of: Karen Marie Marmer (1957-2020) Photo by Howard Goodman see page 20

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North East Watercolor Society Celebrates 50 Years! Reception on Feb. 26

“West Side Story BC” by Maryann Burton

It’s time to celebrate! Come and view the North East Watercolor Society (NEWS) paintings and enjoy the 50th anniversary reception in Orange Hall Gallery at SUNY Orange on February 26 from 1:00pm-4:15pm. Pianist Geoff Hamburg will start the afternoon event off at 1:00pm by playing “upbeat tunes with a party theme” interspersed with classical and contemporary pieces - many composed by him. Then, at 2:30pm, awards juror Maryann Burton begins her free hour and a quarter art demonstration, The Value of Value. In addition, a separate solo show of her works is on display in the Orange Hall Gallery Fringe. Awards and party follow from 3:45pm-4:15pm.

(Two opportunities to watch Maryann await you. As mentioned above and then, on March 9 from 5:15pm-7:45pm she will do a hands-on master class in the Gallery during which attendees get individual and group help from her after

Elaine M. Garvin Memorial Award: “October Day” by Valerie Taggert

she has given introductory explanation and demo. Art materials for participants will be provided. The topic is Using Values in Watercolor. No registration required - just come!)

Enter Orange Hall Gallery and behold!

You will be in the midst of 77 paintings of the NEWS 2023 Members’ Show. And you are drawn straight back to the Fringe wall where twenty paintings of Burton’s are installed in a solo show.

It’s my world. Welcome to it is a splendid array of Burton’s transparent watercolors. A few have been painted on Yupo paper which is slippery and gives a different effect. Her specialty is cityscapes of Manhattan although she enjoys painting quiet country scenes in New York and out-of-the-way spots at the Jersey shore. Her technique is fascinating as its loose use of the medium still allows creation of very recognizable structures.

Best in Show: “Baskets and Jars”

by Chito Delos Santos

“Creating a painting is an adventure that begins with how I perceive the world around me,” she states. “Inspiration, many times, comes from the play of light, how it creates and dissipates color, and whether it is absorbed or reflected.

This imparts mood and atmosphere, a sense of time and place. It is a challenge to express these effects on paper. The flow, spontaneity, and feel of painting with transparent watercolor thrills me.

The unpredictability of the medium is part of the fun. Whether evoking a feeling or a memory, bringing someone a sense of peace or joy, or reminding them of a familiar time or place, I like to make an emotional connection through my work.” Burton’s solo show is available for viewing through March 9.

From its inception as an art organization in 1973, the aim of NEWS was “The Promotion and Preservation of Watercolor Painting.” And this year,

Excellence Award: “Almost Home” by Alexis Lavine

2023, marks a golden milestone: the 50th anniversary. In all, forty-six members’ works are on display which includes still lifes, portraits, genre paintings, and land and seascapes, in styles from photorealistic to semi-abstracts with loose to detailed variations.

The NEWS 2023 Members’ Show is on display until March 17. This entirely in-person show exemplifies the highest standard of technical and creative quality in the water medium.

Free parking is at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, (GPS: 24 Grandview Ave.) on the Middletown campus of SUNY Orange.

For additional information, call Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891 or email cultural@sunyorange.edu.

The “Curtains” Go Up at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, March 24 & 25

Curtains is a musical mystery comedy with a book by Rupert Holmes, lyrics

by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander (their last musical), with additional lyrics

by Kander and Holmes.

Based on the original book and concept of the same name by Peter Stone, the musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusettes and follows the fallout when Jessica Cranshaw, the supremely untalented star of Robbin’

Cioffi also dreams Hood of the Old West of being in musical is murdered during theater. her opening night The musical curtain call. It is up opened on Broadway to Lt. Frank Cioffi, in 2007, and garnered a police detective eight Tony Award who moonlights as a nominations, with musical theater fan, David Hyde Pierce to save the show, winning the award solve the case, and Broadway production of “Curtains” maybe even find love before the show for “Best Performance by a Leading reopens without getting killed himself. Actor in a Musical” for the character of

Lt. Frank Cioffi, who critic Ben Brantley called “the best damn musical theatre character since Mama Rose in Gypsy!”

Packed with glorious tunes and a witty, charming script filled with delightful characters, Curtains, a hilarious journey for both performers and the audience, is at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 231 Creamery Pond Road, Chester, on March 24 & 25.

For tickets and more information visit: www.sugarloafpacny.com

Campbell Hall: Music for Humanity’s 149th Free Concert Denise Jordan Finley has been writing and playing her songs for over four decades.

Her sound is recognizable by her clear, expressive voice and intricate, unique acoustic guitar style. Her signature writing Denise Jordan Finley style showcases lyrics that portray her musings and inspection of the ordinary.

They have been said to reflect her studies of contemporary English poetry.

These ideas she puts to music that is varied, one song to the next, by a full spectrum of moods and grooves.

Jerry Mitnick: Jerry Mitnick “My musical journey has taken me down miles of many wonderful roads, meeting

wonderful people, playing music with great players, through lifetimes of unforgettable memories. I am thankful for every one along the way.”

Kathy Moran accompanies her Kathy Moran beautiful, clear voice on guitar as she sings her finely crafted songs. Her memorable stories

and ballads will touch your heart and tickle your funny bone.

“Join us for our 149th Free Performance Night to share their music, both covers and originals,” said Music for Humanity’s Barry Adelman. “It will be another great evening of music.

If you enjoy listening to great music in a small intimate setting (room for about 50 people) you’ll love this event we’ve been hosting for over 12 years every 3rd Saturday of the month at Noble Coffee Roasters, 3020 Route 207, Campbell Hall on March 18 at 7:30pm.”

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Pirates, Lost Boys, Fairies & Warriors

Talk: Historic Port Jervis Lynching

The New Rose through dance. This Theatre is proud to family friendly return to Neverland contemporary ballet with one of it’s most will have you on the beloved works, Peter edge of your seat and Pan, directed and leave you believing choreographed by in fairies and the Dee Wright-Kelly. power of happy Dee grew up thoughts! training in ballet, Don’t miss your Peter Pan’s fairies “flying” jazz and tap and has gone chance to experience Peter on to perform in regional Pan with a cast of over 30 productions of Play On!, The dancer/actors and HVC Wiz, All my Sons, Raisin in the students including Keely Sun, and made her Broadway Wright as Captain Hook, debut in the First National Lauren Tuck as Peter Pan, tour of Disney’s Aida. Her Arianna Santana as Wendy, TV credits include SNL and Audrey Tuck as Michael, VH1 Divas Live. She is also Aidan Roberts as John, an original company member Grace Salsbury as Smee, of Valley Contemporary and Isabella Curz as Tinker Dance Company under the Bell. And, of course, Pirates, Keely Wright as direction of Paige Cummings, Lost Boys, Fairies, Warriors “Captain Hook” a proud member of the Actors Equity and Sprites! Oh My! Association, and the Director of Hudson Experience the magic and adventure Valley Conservatory’s (HVC) Pre from March 3-12, at the New Rose Professional Dance Program.

Theatre, 35 East Main Street, Walden.

Originally performed in 2004, Dee’s Tickets are available at Eventbrite.com Peter Pan has become a fan favorite in or by calling 845-778-2478, or emailing the community, celebrating the magic hudsonvalleyconservatory@gmail.com. and wonder of the classic story told www.hudsonvalleyconservatory.org

On the evening of June 2, 1892, a Worden is a retired law enforcement frenzied mob dragged Robert Lewis officer, and researcher/author of historical nearly a half a mile through the streets of true crimes. His twenty-two years of Port Jervis, before hanging him from the experience as a police officer, including limb of a tree.

9-plus years as a detective, gives him a Lewis, an African American, was unique approach to the subject. no stranger to the village; he had lived Worden explores each case from a 360and worked in Port Jervis degree perspective, looking all his life. But on that at the events surrounding fateful night, Lewis stood the crime, the crime scenes accused of brutally raping and evidence, the aftermath a young, white woman and legal proceedings, and named Lena McMahon, the people involved. He and for that he would suffer is a meticulous researcher an ignominious death. with an obsessive drive to Local authorities and civic obtain as much primary Michael J. Worden leaders were powerless source material and to stop the raging mob, and, despite documentation as possible for each case. the large number of witnesses present, For the lynching book, Michael used a nobody was ever held accountable for total of 635 sources in order to tell the his murder. complete story, including some never 130 years later the complete story of before seen court records. the lynching is told. Was Lewis set up Worden, who serves as the Deerpark to commit the crime? Who instigated Town Historian and is a member of the the mob? Why wasn’t anyone held Board of Directors for the Minisink accountable? Author Michael J. Worden Valley Historical Society, will present has spent years researching the details of Local History: Lynched by a Mob on the case, uncovering court documents March 11 at 1:00pm at the Mamakating that haven’t been seen in 130 years, and Environmental Education Center, 762 tracking down the ultimate fate of Lena South Road, Wurtsboro.

McMahon.

Call to register: 845-644-5014.

GRIT: “Figures - Burden - Loneliness”

Figures - Burden - Loneliness is a remarkable exhibit featuring three artists working in three different disciplines: photography, sculpture and painting.

carefully sculpting impressions made by the wild nature appreciated in his life. To see them and to touch them is to understand them.

Liminal Spaces Geo/Physical Abstraction Photographer David Patiño specializes “My new sculptures in portraiture reflect my varied and prosaic life experiences. No scenes. longer predominantly He creates abstract in design, they images that show my fascination are accessible with words and color for all, as well as the human “Market & Magnolia” images figure. Moreover, my

by D. Patino that examine the irony of loneliness in experience as a builder a densely populated world. While his informs each piece with an intimate awareness of Physical Abstraction work can be enjoyed simply as color how material and form by M. Shuman and composition, it also explores the interact in mysterious and sometimes desire to be recognized in modern society. Patiño’s work finds beauty in astounding ways.” Morris Shuman. the mundane; it demands reverie. Most importantly, it triggers pause, if only for Beasts of Burden David Lionheart has continued just a moment.

The show runs weekends, March 4 to his pursuit April 30 at GRIT Gallery, 115 Broadway, of creating Newburgh. The reception is on March larger than 4, from 5:00pm-8:00pm featuring a live life subjects acoustic music performance by Sean through Tobin, and award-winning local wine mixed media maker Kristop Brown with his Hudson and rugged “I Understand You” by D. Lionheart Valley Wine presentation. textures, 4

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Sullivan: Fierstein’s “Casa Valentina”

RBG Comes to SLPAC, March 5

Nestled in the Catskills aux Folle, and another - 1962’s land of dirty in 2003 for Best Actor in dancing and Borscht Belt Hairspray. Film audiences comedy - an inconspicuous know him best for his bungalow colony catered scene-stealing antics in Mrs. to a very special clientele: Doubtfire and Independence heterosexual men who Day. He has made numerous delighted in dressing and TV appearances, and wrote acting as women. the book for Kinky Boots, These white-collar SUNY Sullivan thespians which won the 2013 Tony professionals would rehearse for “Casa Valentina” for “Best Musical.” discreetly escape their families to spend A Drama Desk and Outer Critics their weekends safely inhabiting their Award winner, Casa Valentina is SUNY chosen female alter-egos. But given Sullivan’s contemporary play offering the opportunity to share their secret for its 2022-2023 Sueñito (Little Dream) lives with the world, the members of Season. this sorority had to decide whether the “The pandemic proved to us that what freedom gained by openness was worth is important in our lives is our families the risk of personal ruin. and our community. To celebrate this Based on real events and infused with lesson we are producing shows that focus Harvey Fierstein’s trademark wit, this on our sueñitos or our “little dreams” moving and delightfully entertaining - the things that we strive for and the work offers a glimpse into the lives of sanctuaries we create in our homes and a group of “self-made women” as they our communities,” said SUNY Sullivan’s search for acceptance and happiness in Associate Professor of Theater and their very own Garden of Eden.

Speech, Jessica Barkl.

Harvey Fierstein is a four-time Tony Casa Valentina, directed by Nick Award-winning writer and actor. In 1983, López, will be performed at the Seelig he received two Tonys for writing and Theatre, 112 College Road, Loch starring in Torch Song Trilogy, received Sheldrake, weekends, March 3-11. a third Tony in 1984 for writing La Cage Tickets at the door.

world.

In the play, All Things David Goldstein, better Equal, The Life & Trials of known as Rupert Holmes, Ruth Bader Ginsburg by (nee David Goldstein) Rupert Holmes, Supreme is a composer, singerCourt Justice Ruth Bader songwriter, dramatist Ginsburg, also known as and author. He is widely RBG, welcomes a friend known for the hit singles of the family to her cozy Escape (The Piña Colada chambers to convey, Song) (1979) and Him over the course of ninety (1980). He is also known fascinating and often for his musicals, The funny minutes, a sense of her life and its many by Everett Raymond Kinstler Mystery of Edwin Drood, trials: losing her mother the day before which earned him two Tony Awards, she graduated as valedictorian of her and Curtains (see page 3), and for his Brooklyn high school...being one of television series Remember WENN. “In creating this play about her richlyonly nine young women studying law at Harvard while also raising a daughter lived life and hard-fought struggles, and helping her husband battle cancer... I came to ever more deeply marvel at fighting for women’s rights in the 1970’s [Ginsburg’s] strength, tenacity, sly wit, before condescending all-male courts... and compassion,” Holmes said recently. and taking courageous stands for human “All Things Equal offers each of us the rights as a voice of reason amid a chance to better know this woman, her splintering and increasingly politicized yearning for equality, and her love for this nation’s precious institutions: Ruth...

Supreme Court.

An evening with a great and Justice...and the American way.”

Holmes’ play will be performed on compassionate icon of straight-thinking American justice emerges: an RBG who March 5 at 6:00pm at the Sugar Loaf is not only “notorious” but victorious Performing Arts Center, 231 Creamery as she takes a stand for ordinary people Pond Road, Chester.

For tickets: www.sugarloafpacny.com facing the many challenges of a changing

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Three Masterworks in Montgomery The versatile Korean American violinist/violist Ye-jin Han has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, South America, and Europe extensively and has been praised for her “pure, expressive tone” and “effortless playing” at her Carnegie Hall debut.

Dr. Han has been prizewinner at many competitions, and is a former concertmaster of the Bergen Symphony Orchestra. She has developed “A Musician’s Journey” solo show, interwoven her life story and music together, and “Holistic approach to playing the violin” for avid violinists who are interested in mastering their violin with ease and joy.

Since her solo appearance with São Paulo Symphony Orchestra at age 16, Korean born pianist, Eun Ae Baik-Kim, has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in South America and the U.S. Her premiere compositions include a piano trio by Robert Pound and compositions by Dennis Ritz and Donovan Stoke, and she often participates as an adjudicator for competitions and music festivals.

Gabriel Fauré’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 is considered one of the three masterpieces of his youth. The

Ye-jin Han, violin & Eun Ae Baik-Kim, piano

sonata was dedicated to his close friend Paul Viardot, the brother of Marianne Viardot, with whom Fauré was in love.

The premiere marked a turning point in his composing career at age 31. The work quickly found its way into the programmes of artists such as Benjamin Godard, Camille Saint-Saëns, Eugène Ysaÿe, Jacques Thibaud, George Enescu, Alfred Cortot and others. Writer Marcel Proust repeatedly paid tribute to the sonata in his novel, In Search of Lost Time.

Henryk Wieniawski’s Polonaise in A-major op. 21 is one of the last works he had composed, one version for violin and orchestra, and one for violin and piano. It is a typical virtuoso style piece, where the solo violin decisively plays a dominant

role. Only in the middle fragment the relationship between the two instruments is much better balanced.

The Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his bestknown compositions, and is considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. It is an amalgam of his rich native harmonic language with the Classical traditions he valued highly, held together in a cyclic framework.

It is such a great piece of music that other (perhaps jealous?) musicians have adapted the violin part for viola, cello, double bass, flute (by Jean-Pierre Rampal), oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, tuba, theremin, organ with choir, violin and strings, violin and orchestra, and even as a piano duet. How many other classical works can claim that many adaptations?!

The Han/Baik-Kim Duo will perform these three beloved masterworks for the Grand Montgomery Chamber Music Series on March 12 at 3:00pm in the Montgomery Senior Center, 36 Bridge Street. Admission is free.

This concert series, founded by Howard & Judy Garrett, is made possible by the generous support of the Village of Montgomery.

Photography Salon

“Blowin’” by Karen Parashkevov

“The Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers’ Salon’s 2023 Yearly Contributor Photography Exhibition has ended and we celebrate the many talented artists that came together to showcase their photographic artwork,” said Karen Parashkevov, program founder and moderator.

The next Salon is on March 4 at 11:00am at the American Legion Hall, 134 Old State Road, Highland Falls.

The topic-led discussion is Showcasing Your Photography followed by a share and critique of photos. More info can be found at: www.highlandsartsalliance. org/photographersalon.

“We look forward to the 2024 exhibition and encourage members and participants of the Photography Salon to participate. It’s never too soon to prepare!” added Karen.

Nutshell Hall: Saturday Nights in Lake Huntington Event producer Zoot Damnit and Collabonation Productions have coined the ground floor of the Delaware Valley Opera Center as Nutshell Hall, in honor of the original name of that arts venue/location in Lake Huntington, previously known as the Nutshell Arts Center and now the Delaware Valley Opera Center.

After special Thanksgiving and Christmas events, they now have weekly performances every Saturday night.

March begins with Mystic Dead with Sage Clearing on March 4, followed

by Cliff Westfall with Brewster & The

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Jons on March 11 for an evening of electrified honky tonk.

New York-based country songwriter Cliff Westfall writes songs about heartache, loss, addiction - you know, funny songs. Or he can turn on a dime

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and dive headlong into a Comprised of Colin sentimental weeper.

Shore (guitar/vocals), Squeaky Feet is an Greg King (guitar), electrifying band guided Jimmy Finnegan (bass/ by the infinite potential of vocals), Brian Keller musical improvisation. (keyboards/sax/flute/ Its sonic diversity vocals), and Kevin attracts listeners with all D’Angelo (drums), types of musical tastes. Cliff Westfall performs on March 11 Squeaky Feet with The Whether it’s dance, trance, jazz-funk, Mushroom Cloud perform on March progressive rock, or metal, Squeaky 18, followed by Peak with Lee Ross, Feet delivers something for everybody. psychedlic Indie Funk on March 25.

The band specializes in cerebral and Nutshell Hall is at 6692 Route 52, stimulating compositions, accompanied Lake Huntington. Doors open: 7:00pm. by relentlessly intoxicating grooves.

Entertainment continues until 11:00pm.

Intensive Painting Workshop, Balmville

According to director Marguerite Meyerson, Riverside Art Workshops “offer small, intimate, and intensive workshops where you can get to know our artists personally, and you can actually see and participate in their demos from only a few feet away. Our contemporary, world renowned, professional artists can work with you individually for a wonderful learning experience that you’ll treasure for a lifetime.

“We are happy to offer you art workshops in the comfort of our private studio, which has breathtaking, panoramic views of the Hudson River, with plein air instruction, daily demonstrations, a generous lunch menu to order, free wi-fi, and a welcome gift.”

Andy Evansen opens Riverside’s 2023 season with two sessions: March 26-28 and March 29-31, his third visit to Riverside Art Workshops.

Evansen has received several national and international awards during his career. His workshop will focus on using value studies to identify the large shapes in the scenery. “Large shapes provide the artist with opportunities for lost and found edges. We’ll move on to color paintings with a lot of individual help.

Work by Andy Evansen

In order to loosen up, it is imperative to have a clear vision of what you want to accomplish with your painting and then execute it quickly. This class will give you the tools and confidence to do just that,” explained Meyerson.

“Because we keep the number of student to teacher ratio smaller, allowing for a better one-on-one experience, our workshops fill up quickly. In order to register, you’ll need to email us a copy of your Covid 19 vaccination records.”

For more information, call Marguerite at 845-787-4167 or email her at: MKMeyerson@gmail.com. See the ad on page 25 for the 2023 schedule. www.riversideartworkshops.com www.evansenartstudio.com

The DVAA’s Salon Series is Back!

Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Sullivan County.

(DVAA) opens the doors of Krause On March 11, at 2:00pm, enjoy Recital Hall for another enriching Salon an afternoon of storytelling as DVAA Series. In the grand welcomes Yarnslingers tradition of the “Salon,” to the Salon. The DVAA invites the program will celebrate community to experience, Women’s History learn, participate, and Month by presenting a exchange ideas with selection of stories on artists, musicians, and the subject of “female.” storytellers.

Always enlivening and DVAA Executive never dull, Yarnslingers Director Ariel Shanberg was founded in 2012 shared, “There is such by writer/musician Shindler & Davis: The Black Library great dynamic energy Ramona Jan who in the Sullivan Catskills believes that “Everyone right now, and we are has a story...or two,” excited to have this and encourages people year’s Salon Series from all walks of life to feature unique creative spin their spellbinding voices from all corners tales. of the county.”

Other presentations On March 4, at A few members of the Yarnslingers feature Brea Souders 2:00pm, DVAA welcomes The Black with a live performative reading and Library. Co-founders and artists discussion from her book, Another Douglas Shindler and Michael Davis Online Pervert on March 18, and the will host an artist talk to share The Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra Black Library’s mission as they seek to on March 26 (see page 24). celebrate Black culture and history by DVAA is located at 37 Main Street, creating a collaborative, creative, and Narrowsburg. Admission is free. Visit educational space for the residents of www.DelawareValleyArtsAlliance.org

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Goshen Art League: “Greens of Spring” and League Trio Exhibit at Realtors The Goshen Art League (GAL) will hold a reception for their currents exhibits at the Goshen Music Hall and Griffith Olivero Realtors on March 29 from 6:30pm-8:00pm.

The public is invited to view the work of “Spring Chickens” by Pat MacDonald on display in “Greens of Spring” League artists at both “Pick Flowers” by Jo Ann Johnson locations which are directly across Main together to loosely on display in “Greens of Spring” Street from each other. Refreshments interpret the emotion of the scene.” will be served.

While fellow exhibitor, At their home gallery in the Goshen Music Hall (223 Main Street) the exhibit, Ciro Attardo, said he is “Shadow” by Eugenia Mitchell Greens of Spring, showcases work “pleased to present my for “Greens of Spring” “Weeping Cherry at Twilight” oil paintings.” inspired by the Spring season. The public original

by Monica Espitia for “Greens of Spring” is invited to view this show, Monday Among Ciro’s realistic style through Friday between the hours of work, his popular Sicily series will be on display. His 9:00am-5:00pm or by appointment.

Work by Ciro Attardo While across the street at Griffith paintings are often inspired by travel and view their work Monday through Olivero Realtors (226 Main Street) local landscapes.

The third represented artist, Nancy Friday between the exhibit includes the works of three hours of League members, Ciro Attardo, Nancy Reed Jones, creates work which mimics the that of the romantic impressionists. She 9:00am-5:00pm Reed Jones and Ginirose Sivilli.

Work by Nancy Reed Jones Sivilli commented, “I’m honored to finds inspiration from painting beautiful as well as Saturday Work by Ginirose Sivilli and Sunday from 9:00am-3:00pm or by be included in this three person show local farms and landscapes en plein air.

The group show at Griffith Olivero appointment. view the exhibit at the Goshen Music at Griffith Oliverio Realtors. I enjoy the Interested parties may also make Hall during off-hours by sending an surprise and spontaneity of painting in Realtors will be on display through the watercolor. The values and colors work end of March. The public is invited to individual by-appointment requests to email to: goshenartleague@gmail.com

Exhibit: “Celebrating Black History”

In celebration of Black History Month, an exhibit by four local artists is on view in the Mindy Ross Gallery, Kaplan Hall, SUNY Orange. The show, featuring a diverse variety of mediums, includes photographs, jewelry, handmade scarves, convoluted fold books, collages, mixed media on handmade paper, and acrylic paintings.

Entitled, Honoring Black History Month, the exhibit includes “depictions “African Dancer” by Marie Perry-Edwards of our heritage and our interests” with artworks by Ronald Weathers, Mavis Alexander, Marie Perry-Edwards, and Oluwafiropo Margaret Ibitoye.

Honoring Black History Month is an “Girls’ Best Friend” by R. Weathers “African Man in Native engaging show because visitors become and contemporary Attire” by O. M. Ibitoye acquainted with the artists through the selections some of which he has individual works. Each grouping reveals composed.

The exhibit is on view through March something about the artist’s heritage as well as what each artist experiments with 24. Hours are Monday to Thursday, 8:00am-9:00pm and Friday: 8:00amand focuses on.

Come and mingle with the artists 5:00pm. Kaplan Hall is located at the at the reception on March 5 from corner of Grand & First Streets, (GPS: 73 2:00pm-4:00pm. During the afternoon, First St.,) Newburgh where free parking music will be provided by Darius is available in the college’s garage. www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs Beckford, pianist, who will play jazz 8

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Parting Glass Band’s 2023 Concerts Since 2008, The quite a few. So, mark Parting Glass band has the following dates in played the songs we all your calendar, round know - love songs, hate up your friends, and songs, whiskey songs, catch The Parting Glass death songs, life songs, Band at the following boat songs, songs about locations! adultery, songs about March 5, at 4:30pm: garbage men, songs Erie Hotel, 9 Jersey about Dutch men, Avenue, Port Jervis; songs about suffering March 12 at and green places across 5:00pm: BVH Sports the ocean!

Bar, 45 Yulan Road, This family-band Barryville; / Irish folk trio (and March 17 at sometimes quartet), 3:00pm: Dimmick consists of Al Gessner, Patti, Al & Tom of Parting Glass Inn, 101 E Harford vocals, flute, peg-leg and button Street, Milford, and... accordion (and proud owner of Al’s March 17 at 8:00pm: Dad’s Change Music Shop in Port Jervis, see ad page of Pace, 172 Pike Street, Port Jervis.

19), his wife, Patti Gessner serving up March 18 at 1:00pm: Sloatsburg vocals, whistle, harmonica (along with Public Library, 1 Liberty Rock Road, some miscellaneous objects here and March 19 at 1:00pm: Munger there!) and their son, Tom Gessner, who Cottage, 395 Hudson Street, Cornwall. plays guitar and sings, too. Friends of And if that wasn’t enough for you the band, who sometimes perform along and your friends, you can catch the with them, are vocalists/guitarists Dylan band perform every Thursday night Little and Kevin McComb. from 6:00pm-8:00pm at “the Hudson CANVAS might as well have created Valley’s Happiest Pub,” Loughrans a calendar just for the band’s St. Patty’s Irish Pub, located at 10 Schoolhouse Day gigs / celebrations, as there are Road in Salisbury Mills.

Kindred Spirits: “From Baroque to Rock” Internationally celebrated violinist Alexander Markov has been hailed as one of the world’s most captivating and versatile musicians. Whether performing as a soloist with prestigious orchestras at major concert halls around the world or playing at sports arenas in front of 25,000 people at an NBA game on his gold electric violin, Markov always makes an instant connection with his audiences.

Lord Yehudi Menuhin has written, “He is without doubt one of the most brilliant and musical of violinists...Alexander Markov will certainly leave his mark on the music lovers of the world and in the annals of the violin virtuosi of our day.”

Markov’s reputation in the 19thcentury romantic virtuoso repertoire is second-to-none. One of the few violinists in the world who performs the entire set of the 24 Paganini Caprices in a single recital, he is featured in the internationally acclaimed film about great violinists, The Art of Violin, directed by Bruno Monsaingeon. In 2006, Warner released the long-awaited DVD of the 24 Paganini Caprices and it instantly became one of the best-selling classical DVD’s on Amazon.

Markov’s musical journey goes beyond

his work as a classical violin soloist. He has composed numerous compositions, combining genres of rock and classical, featuring a unique “gold” six-string electric violin. The vision of the project is to bridge the gap between rock and classical audiences and to attract young people who otherwise never go to a symphony.

On March 17 at 7:00pm at DingmanDelaware Middle School, Route 739, Dingmans Ferry, Markov will perform a program titled From Baroque to Rock.

It includes music of Bach, Paganini, Massenet and Markov’s own works. He will be accompanied by pianist Heike Doerr and a group of Delaware Valley School District music students.

Attendance is free. Your donations both at the door or online are greatly appreciated. For more detailed information visit: www.kindredspiritsarts.org.

The Four Seasons Chorale of First Presbyterian Church Presents: “One World: A Concert of Musical Connections”

under the direction of Kathy Brink, accompanied by Seth Riehl, with Special Guests:

Kofi and Sankofa Drum & Dance Ensemble

Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 3:00PM First Presbyterian Church, 60 Sussex Street, Port Jervis

Admission is FREE.

Donations gratefully accepted.

For more info: call 570-430-1755.

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Two Solo Shows + One Group Show for Wallkill River Center for the Arts Two upcoming solo shows being held at Wallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA), Paper cut by Spider Graham and Fusion & Farrago: Painted Tangoes with Paper by Karen E. Gersch are widely different offerings, yet share a deep kinship. Each artist works in various media and across a wide spectrum of genres. Still, here they offer us respective cohesive collections of collages and mixed media pieces.

A founding member of the Big Apple Circus, among several other world known circuses, Karen E. Gersch was offered a scholarship to Pratt Institute at the age of sixteen. After earning a BFA with Honors, she embarked on a dual career of fine arts, illustration and performance arts - in circus, theater and dance.

When not touring the globe with stage and tented shows, her NYC Bowery loft served as a studio for her oil paintings and collages. “In between periods of performing and oil paintings, I’ve returned over and over to creating collages. They’ve evolved into a collaborative, organic process in which painting partners text, like a tango, in a tight embrace,” stated Gersch.

In contemplating this exhibit, WRCA Executive Director Sarah Fortner

Pierson explains, “I think Karen and Spider make an exciting combination of exhibits. Karen, a Montgomery resident is a longtime member of our organization and a fixture in the local art world while Spider is a Work by Karen E. Gersch recent transplant to Newburgh from New York whom I met during the Newburgh Open Studio Tour last year. They’re both working in mixed media and collage, but they use the medium in different and surprising ways.”

An abstract artist, Spider Graham’s work spans a wide range from cut paper designs to painting; fabric-based wall art to sculpture. He is self-taught and discovered art late in his career, initially as a quilt maker and more recently as a mixed media artist specializing in cut paper design and creations. He is also a painter, sculptor, and woodworker.

Graham explains, “I love to work

with paper because it offers flexibility and possibilities that other mediums can’t. One of the advantages of being an abstract artist is that I don’t fear ‘doing it wrong’.

Sometimes the best approach is to start with Work by Spider Graham a blank piece of paper or canvas and let the colors and forms direct you until you have something that evokes the right emotions.”

In addition to the two solo shows, WRCA’s third gallery space will feature a group show: Mixed Media & Collage.

“We were very pleased and somewhat surprised by the number of entries for this group show. The genre is a little bit out of our traditional scope of offerings and we didn’t know what the response to our call for submissions would bring.

The work is varied, exciting, and high quality,” remarks Billy Noonan, chair of the curating committee.

Of the 111 entries, 17 works were

“Botanical Self Portrait” by Ward Lamb

chosen and 15 artists are represented in the exhibit. The juror was Spider Graham, whose solo show Paper Cut will hang in the adjacent gallery. “It’s always challenging to look at the work of other artists and try to determine the significance and merit each piece offers,” said Graham. “Couple that with the reality of limited space to show off selected works, and you’re left with a sense of awe for just how much unrecognized talent is out there. It really is a humbling process.”

Artists from both exhibits will greet visitors at a free artists’ reception on March 11, from 3:00pm-5:00pm.

The work is on view March 3 to April 30 at the WRCA, 232 Ward Street (Route 17K - parking in rear on Factory Street) Montgomery.

Visit www.WallkillRiverSchool.com

Dance/Cinema and Poetry at The Ritz Safe Harbors of the Hudson’s Black History Family and Youth Festival continues through October. The festival, which is free and open to the public, features live music, dance performances, stand-up comedy, a DJ, and activities for people of all ages.

“We are thrilled to host the Black History Family and Youth Festival in our community,” said June Henley, Director of Programming at Safe Harbors. “This is an opportunity to celebrate and honor the contributions and achievements of Black people throughout history and to inspire the next generation of leaders and change-makers.”

In addition, to live performances, the festival will also include educational activities for children and families to learn about Black history and culture.

There will be opportunities for attendees to participate in a variety of interactive activities.

Shaping Dance is an exploration of contemporary Black Dance and Art. This original film by artist/choreographer Ralph M’Vore (pictured) Safe Harbors’ first Artist-in-Residence, takes a deep 10

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dive into the history and origin of popular dance and the creators who helped shape the world we live in today.

See the film on March 12 at 5:00pm.

Oftentimes, hope isn’t easy to come by or even to define. Yet, as 140+ Catholic Dominican Sisters, the Dominican Sisters of Hope, founded in 1995 from three communities in Newburgh, Ossining and Fall River, MA, have committed their lives to living and preaching the Gospel message of Hope.

“We can’t wait to share with you the ways that we bring Hope to it all,” states their mission. And one way they wish to share “hope” with you is through their support for the Festival’s Black Poet Exhibition, a night of poetry readings by local artists and creators celebrating Black poets with musical and dance accompaniment on March 25 at 7:30pm, also in Safe Harbors’ Lobby at the Ritz and part of M’Vore’s programming.

Admission is free to both events in the Lobby at the Ritz, 107 Broadway, Newburgh.

For more Festival information visit www.safe-harbors.org.

Ilya’s Classical Giants at Orange Hall

Mahavishnu Project 50th Anniversary

Classical music is Yakushev states, “The a constant source of ultimate purpose for creativity and beauty. every musician in Musicians worldwide my understanding grace concert halls and opinion is to with music written be able to connect centuries gone by; yet, with the music... classical music is ever [then] “I rely on my fresh and vibrant as ‘instincts,’ which younger generations Ilya Yakushev - photo by Dean Sullivan were developed the play grand compositions nuanced to ‘right’ way by Feltsman.” A review in their interpretations.

Life@ReadingEagle.com commented, Such is the case with pianist Ilya “Yakushev, whose playing shares Yakushev who has played at SUNY a spiritual quality with his mentor, Orange several times as well as large Vladimir Feltsman, alternates power venues throughout the U.S., Mexico, and with a silken touch.” his beloved St. Petersburg, Russia. Not Come to the William and Helen as young as when he first came to Orange Richards Theatre in Orange Hall on Hall twenty years ago, he has enlarged March 11, at 7:00pm for an evening his repertoire over those many years filled with the sounds of Mozart, and plays with a fervor of excitement Beethoven, Chopin, and Gershwin! that engages his audiences and holds Tickets are priced at $5 (students free). them from the first note of the chosen Yakushev will also bring CDs along for selections to the final of the encore. your later enjoyment.

Yakushev attended the RimskyOrange Hall is located at the corner of Korsakov College of Music in St. Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Petersburg, and subsequently came to (GPS: 24 Grandview Ave, Middletown) New York City to attend Mannes College where free parking is available. of Music where he received BM and Questions may be directed to Cultural MM degrees while being mentored by Affairs: 845-341-4891. the legendary pianist Vladimir Feltsman. www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs.

The Mahavishnu Project is and electronica. He was ranked in celebrating the 50th Anniversary the top five of Rolling Stone and of Birds of Fire - the second other magazines’ lists rankings of studio album by the Mahavishnu the greatest guitarists.

Orchestra. Birds Of Fire remains The Mahavishnu Project is led on many lists as one of the greatest by drummer Gregg Bendian albums of the 1970s. Originally well-known for his work with Jeff Beck released on Columbia Records, (1944-2023) Todd Rundgren, Pat Metheny, it is the last studio Nels Cline, and John album released by the Zorn. They are joined original band line-up

by Neil Alexander (see pic).

(NAIL, Rez Abbasi, This performance The Machine) on will also pay tribute keyboards, and Brian to the late great guitar Mooney (Piktor’s genius Jeff Beck Metamorphosis, The Mahavishnu Orchestra (1944-2023), with an Advent) on bass. additional set of Beck The Mahavishnu material. Beck was an Project has recorded English guitarist. He three criticallyrose to prominence as acclaimed live a member of the rock albums and is still band the Yardbirds, and the only band of its afterwards founded kind to receive the The Mahavishnu Project and fronted the Jeff endorsement of John Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. McLaughlin and all the original members In 1975, he switched to an instrumental of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. style with focus on an innovative sound, They return on March 9 at 7:00pm to and his releases spanned genres and The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro. styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, Phone: 845-236-7970. jazz fusion and a blend of guitar-rock www.Mahavishnuproject.com

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DiLeo’s Oscar Series in Milford

by Derek Leet

London. Career #4: Her stardom on TV. What about career #2? Called her March is Oscar series at the Milford “Mid-Career” (1952-1966) by many, Theatre, and film historian Lansbury was not much John DiLeo will introduce recognized for her brilliant four Oscar winning films performances until she in addition to a Q&A was nominated for The following each screening.

Manchurian Candidate in What do All About Eve, 1962, losing to Patty Duke John Ford, Humphrey Angela Lansbury in “Gaslight”... (The Miracle Worker).

Bogart & Ingrid Bergman I would have nominated have in common? her for her roles in The What do Thelma Court Jester (1955), The Ritter, Victor McLaglen, Long, Hot Summer (1958), writer James Agee & The Reluctant Debutante Angela Lansbury have in (1958), Season of Passion common?

(1959), The Dark at the ...“The Picture of Dorian Gray” The first group won Top of the Stairs (1960) oscars, the second group - in which she steals the did not. And the March movie in a scene with films are filled with other Dorothy McGuire, as oscar winners in various she, Lansbury, does her, categories and, not only McGuire’s, fingernails in nominated-losers in many a salon LISTENING to categories, but also non- “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” McGuire speak about her nominated GREAT acting husband, not knowing performances such as Lansbury is his mistress, Celeste Holm in All About WITHOUT SAYING A Eve and Mildred Natwick WORD!, All Fall Down in The Quiet Man. (1962), In the Cool of the Loser Lansbury is a real Day (1963), The World winner for her numerous ...The Manchurian Candidate” of Henry Orient (1964), careers. Career #1: her MGM years Dear Heart (1964), Harlow (1965), and including her nominations for Gaslight Mister Buddwing (1966). and The Picture of Dorian Gray (and a See calendar page 13 for a list of the great scene with Judy Garland in The movies at the Milford Theatre, 14 E Harvey Girls). Career #3: Her stage- Catharine Street, Milford, Sundays at superstardom on Broadway and in 4:00pm. For info: 570-300-5990.

Attention Actors! Here’s an Opportunity:

Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop is seeking actors for June 2023’s A Lovely Day to Kill Your Spouse, a comedy of a long-married couple seeking to do each other in.

Seeking: 2 males: 50ish and 2 females:

40ish. Also seeking stage manager, props person, set crew, & painters. Auditions are on March 11 & 12, Noon to 2:00pm at: Senior Center, Laurel Avenue, So. Fallsburg. Call Sally at 845-434-0209, or 845-798-8896 or gladsally@gmail.com

Clubs Calendar

sponsored by Alternative Counseling, Cornwall & Broadway Tailors, Newburgh

Anime (Dragon Ball) Club ������������������������������������������� Goshen Library, Mar 8 & 22, 5:30pm St. James Camera Club �����������������������������������St. James Church, Goshen, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Crochet Club ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Milford Library, Feb 15, 1pm Knit and Stitch ���������������������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knit & Stitch Club ���������������� Newburgh Library Town Branch, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6;30pm Knitting & Crocheting “Knitwitz” ��������� Jeffersonville Library, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” ��������������������������Liberty Library, Mondays, 1pm Knitting Group �������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine Bush Library, Feb 6, 1:30pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. �����������������������������������������www.themtharhills.org MahJong Club ������������������������������������ Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Mondays, 9am-1pm MahJong Club ������������������������������������������������������ Wisner Library, Warwick, Tuesdays. 10am MahJong Club ������������������������������������������������������������������Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10:15am MahJong Club ��������������������������������������������������������Highland Falls Library, Tuesdays, 1;30pm MahJong Club ����������������������������������������������������������������������Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6pm Narrowsburg Knitters ����������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg Library, Mondays 6pm Needle Crafts Group ��������������������������������������������������� Jeffersonville Library, Thursdays, 1pm Scrabble Club ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Ellenville Library, Tuesday, 6pm Scrabble Club ��������������������������������������������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Thursdays, 1pm UFO Support Group ��������������������������������� Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1st Wednesday, 7pm Woodland Weavers & Spinners ������������������������������������������� Callicoon Library, Mar 14, 3pm Wordle Club �������������������������������������������������������������������Goshen Library, First Thursday, 6pm 12

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Children & TEenS Calendar

sponsored by Music on Market, Ellenville and Nesin Cultural Arts, Monticello JLPL ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������Josephine-Louise Library, Walden MEEC ��������������������������������������� Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro PEEC ���������������������������������������Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

Books

Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Baby & Me infants-2 yrs ����������������������� Rushmore Library, Highland Mills, Mondays, 11am Babytime infants up to 18 months ����������������������������������Newburgh Library, Tuesdays, 10am Books & Babies Story Time w/Miss Sophie ������������������� Milford Library, Tuesdays, 10:30am Family Storytime 8yrs & under ���������������Wallkill Library, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30am Shake, Rattle & Read 1-5yrs ��������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Tuesdays, 1pm Toddler Time 18-36 months ��������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Wednesdays, 10am Rhymetime 12-35 months ������������������������������������������Florida Library, Wednesdays, 10:30am Toddletime ������������������������������������������������������������������ Goshen Library, Wednesdays 10:30am Storytime in the Park outdoors ����� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 10:30am Baby Storytime ������������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Wednesdays, 10:30am Preschool Storytime ���������������������������������Crawford Library, Monticello, Wednesdays, 11am Storytime preschool ���������������������������������������������������������Liberty Library, Wednesdays, 11am Preschool Storytime 3-5yrs ������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Thursdays, 10am Storytime 3-5yrs ������������������������������������������������������������ Florida Library, Thursdays, 10:30am Preschool Winter Storytimes ������������������Rushmore Library, Highland Mills, Fridays, 10am Read and Play ���������������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Fridays, 10am Books & Babies Story Time w/Miss Sophie ������� Dingman Branch Library, Fridays, 10:30am Love My Library Storytime ��������������������������������������������� Goshen Library, Fridays, 11:00am Storytime 1-5yrs ��������������������������������������������Chester Library, Mar 1, 7, 8, 28 & 29, 10:30am Family Storytime ����������������������������������Cornwall Library, Mar 7, 14, 21, 9:30am & 10:30am Chatterbooks Book Group grades K-2 ������������������������������Cornwall Library, Mar 8, 4:30pm “Charming as a Verb” by Ben Philippe, teens ����������������Cornwall Library, Mar 13, 6:30pm PJ Storytime �������������������������������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Mar 15 & 29, 6:30pm Book Break Book Group grades 3 & 4 ���������������������������Cornwall Library, Mar 16, 4:30pm Readzza Readzza Book Group grades 5-8 ����������������������Cornwall Library, Mar 23, 4:30pm EntertainmenT & Recreation

Music with Mr. Matt ���� multiple dates, Wisner Library, Warwick, 10:15am & 11:15am, FREE Teen Movie �������������������������������������������� First Saturday, Crawford Library, Monticello FREE Knee-High Naturalists 2-5yrs ������������������������ Newburgh Library, Mar 2, 9 & 16, 1pm FREE Dungeons & Dragons teens ����������������������������������������������������� JLPL Mar 3 & 17, 5pm FREE “Magic! The Gathering Club” teens �������������������������������������� JLPL Mar 4 & 18, 2pm FREE Ecozone Discovery Room! �������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Mar 4 & 19, 1pm-4pm Tail Waggin Tutor “Charlie” ����������������������������������������������������� JLPL Mar 6, 5:30pm FREE Anime (Dragon Ball) Club teens & adults ��������Goshen Library, Mar 8 & 22, 5:30pm FREE Lego Club ������������������������������������������������������� Dingman Branch Library, Mar 9 & 23, 4:30pm Saturday Matinee Drop-in Movie kids ���������Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 11, 2pm FREE “Strange World!” Disney film ��������������������������������������� Florida Library, Mar 11, 2pm FREE Drop In Lego Club ������������������������������������������������������������ JLPL Mar 14 & 28, 3:30pm FREE Rock & Roll Playhouse “Music of Taylor Swift” ��������� City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 18, Noon

Books: Discussions / readings / Signings sponsored by Josephine-Louise Public Library, Walden

“Seven Days in June” by Tia Williams. ������������������������������ Newburgh, Library, Feb 28, 2pm “Lavender House” by Lev A.C. Rosen ���������������������������������� Callicoon Library, Feb 28, 6pm Booklovers Club ���������������������������������������������������� Greenwood Lake Library, Feb 28, 6:15pm “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” by Stephen Greenblatt ����������������������������� Cornwall Library, Mar 1, 4pm Non-Fiction Book Group �������������������������������������������� Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 2, 2pm “Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson ����������������������������Tuxedo Park Library, Mar 2, 7pm “A Slow Fire Burning” by Paula Hawkins ���������������������������������Florida Library, Mar 3, 1pm “Local History: Lynched by a Mob” by/w/Michael Worden ������������������������������������������������� Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro, Mar 4, 1pm Tuesday Evening Book Group ������������������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 7, 5:30pm “The Island of Missing Trees” �����������������������������������������������Ellenville, Library, Mar 8, 6pm Novel Bunch Book Club �������������������������������������������������������������Milford Library, Mar 9, 4pm Chester Library Book Group ��������������������������������������������� Chester Library, Mar 13, 6:30pm Dingman Branch Book Club ����������������������������������� Pike Library, Dingman, Mar 15, 3:30pm “The Bat” by Jo Nesbo ����������������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Mar 16, 2pm Book Discussion �������������������������������������������������������������������� Port Jervis Library, Mar 16, 2pm “Another Online Pervert” by/w/Brea Souders ����������������DVAA Narrowsburg, Mar 18, 2pm “Rescuing the Planet - Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth” by/w/Tony Hiss ������� Tuxedo Park Library, Mar 19, 3pm “The Sentence” by Louise Erdrich ���������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Mar 22, 7pm “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van ����������������� Cornwall Library, Mar 23, 7pm “The Borscht Belt; Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland” ��������������� by/w/Marisa Scheinfield Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Mar 23, 6:30pm “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr ������������������������� Wallkill Library, Mar 23, 6:30pm “The Doctors Blackwell” by Janice P. Nimura ������������������ Newburgh Library, Mar 28, 2pm Book Club Meeting ��������������������������������Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Mar 30, 6:30pm

Canvas category calendar

sponsored by Matthews Pharmacy, Ellenville; Endico Watercolors, Sugar Loaf; High Withers, Goshen; and Peggi’s Place, Cornwall CANVAS cannot be responsible for errors & omissions. Please verify dates and times.

Cinema Classics & Documentaries

“All About Eve” Bette Davis, intro + Q&A w/John DiLeo ������� Milford Theatre, Mar 5, 4pm “Where the Crawdads Sing” DaisyEdgar-Jones �����Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 6, 1pm FREE “Ticket to Paradise” ���������������������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Mar 7, Noon FREE “Shaping Dance” by Ralph M’Vore �����������������������������Ritz Lobby, Newburgh, Mar 12, 5pm FREE “The Quiet Man” John Wayne, intro + Q&A w/John DiLeo � Milford Theatre, Mar 12, 4pm “Now, Voyager” Bette Davis ��������������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 13, 1pm FREE “Michael Collins” Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts ���������� Cornwall Library, Mar 13, 6pm FREE “The African Queen” Hepburn, Bogart, intro + Q&A w/John DiLeo ������Milford Theatre, Mar 19, 4pm “The Dig” Carey Mulligan ������������������������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 20, 1pm FREE “Gaslight” Ingrid Bergman, intro + Q&A w/John DiLeo ������� Milford Theatre, Mar 26, 4pm “Operation Mincemeat” Colin Firth �������������Wisner Library, Warwick, Mar 27, 1pm FREE “Sing Street” Ferdia Walsh-Peelo ������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Mar 27, 6pm FREE

DAnce

“Peter Pan” Dee Wright-Kelly, choreographer ���������� New Rose Theatre, Walden, Mar 3-12 “Shaping Dance” Black Contemporary Dance film �����Ritz Lobby, Newburgh, Mar 12, 5pm

FUndraisers

Newburgh Free Library Back Door Books (sale) �������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Montgomery Street Entrance, Mar 18, 10am-2pm Farm Arts Collective April Fool’s Fête ��Catskill Provisions Distillery, Callicoon, April 1, 6:30pm

Music - Celtic (see also In-House Music, next column on right)

Sheridan Rúitín’s Seisiún �������������������������������� Albert Wisner Library, Mar 2, 6:30pm FREE The Hooley Shooters ���������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Mar 5, 2pm FREE The Celtic Angels ��������������������������������������������Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Mar 11, 7pm Parting Glass Band ����������������������������������������������������Sloatsburg Library, Mar 18, 1pm FREE Parting Glass Band ��������������������������Cornwall Library, Munger Cottage, Mar 19, 1pm FREE The Irish Tenors ����������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 19, 8pm Brian Conway fiddle �������������������������������������������������������Albert Wisner Library, Mar 26, 2pm

Music - Classical & CHorale

Hudson Valley Ebony Strings classical, etc. ������������ Wisner Library, Warwick, Feb 26, 2pm Ilya Yakushev piano �������������������������SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown, Mar 11, 7pm Han-Baik Duo violin & piano, Greater Montgomery Chamber Music ������������������������������������ Montgomery Senior Center, Mar 12, 3pm FREE Rebel Newburgh Chamber Music ������������������� St. George’s Church, Newburgh, Mar 12, 3pm Alexander Markov violin classical & rock, Kindred Spirits Arts �������������������������������������������� Dingmans Delaware Middle School, Dingmans Ferry, Mar 17, 7pm Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra “Luminosity” � Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, Mar 18, 4pm Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra “Ladies Weekend: Everlasting Impressions” ������������ Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Mar 25, 6pm & DVAA Gloria Krause Recital Hall, Narrowsburg, Mar 26, 2pm FREE Four Seasons Chorale & Sankofa Drum & Dance Ensemble ����������������������������������������������� First Presbyterian Church, Port Jervis, Apr 2, 3pm FREE

Music - jazz

Hal Galper Trio ����������������������������������������������������� Rafters Tavern, Callicoon, Saturdays, 3pm Analog Jazz Orchestra ������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 2, 7pm Ricky Ford Quartet �����������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 5, 7pm The Brian Melvin Quartet ����������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 12, 7pm Rick Savage & SOARTET “groove port” series ���������������������������������������������������������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 25, 7pm Martin Pizzarelli Trio & Friends �����������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 26, 7pm

Poetry Readings

Ted Gill Poetry at the Church ����������������������������������� Goshen Methodist Church, Feb 27, 7pm Hayden Wayne ����������������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Mar 2, 7pm Randy Sutter ������������������������������������Java Blue Coffee & Market, Montgomery, Mar 21, 6pm Teresa Costa ��������������������������������������������������������� Soulshine Market, Pine Bush, Mar 25, 3pm Black Poet Exhibition �����������������������������������������������Ritz Lobby, Newburgh, Mar 25, 7:30pm Arie Kishon Poetry at the Church ����������������������������Goshen Methodist Church, Mar 27, 7pm

Recreation

Line Dancing “Kickin’ w/Kathy and Billy” ���City Winery, Montgomery, Sundays, 2pm-5pm Drum Circle ����������������������������������������������Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Adult Coloring �����������������������������������������������������������������Goshen Library, Mar 17, 3pm FREE

Storytelling

Yarnslingers “Female” ������������������������������������������ DVAA Narrowsburg, Mar 11, 2pm FREE

Theatre - Musical & Variety

“Curtains” Warwick Center for the Performing Arts ��������������������������������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 24-25

“Godspell: Revival Edition” ����������������������� Theatre on Main Street, Cornwall, Mar 24-Apr 2 “Disney’s The Aristocats KIDS” Warwick Center for the Performing Arts ������������������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 25, 11am

Theatre - Play

“Casa Valentia” by Harvey Fierstein ���������������������Seelig Theatre, Loch Sheldrake, Mar 3-11 All Things Equal, The Life & Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” by Rupert Holmes ������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Chester, Mar 5, 6pm “A Streetcar Named Desire” Greenwood Lake Theater ���������������������������������������������������������� The Warwick Institute of Culture, Warwick, Mar 17-26 “Paddy O’Furniture’s Wake” mystery brunch ������City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 12, 1pm “The Mystery Unfolds” dinner-theatre ������������������������������������ Eldred Preserve, Mar 25, 7pm

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

Matt Nathanson ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Mar 2, 8pm The Best of the Beatles 1967-1970 ����������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 3, 7pm An Evening With Jorma Kaukonen �����������Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 3, 8pm Mystic Dead w/Sage Clearing ������������� Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Mar 4, 7pm Lindsey Webster soul, r&b ����������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 4, 7pm Mahavishnu Project ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Mar 9, 7pm Club d’Elf w/John Medeski & an Allstar Line-Up jazz, world, rock �����The Falcon, Mar 10, 7pm Cliff Westfall w/Brewster & the Jons ������� Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Mar 11, 7pm Willie Nile folk, punk ������������������������������������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 11, 7pm Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon �������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 11, 8pm Jim Barbaro rock, jazz, folk ����������Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Mar 11, 8:30pm Cindy Cashdollar & The Syncopators swing, rockabilly, r&b ����� The Falcon, Mar 16, 7pm Grace Potter rock �������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Mar 16, 8pm Dylan Doyle Band, Justin Saladino roots, rock, funk ��� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 17, 7pm Ladysmith Black Mambazo ��������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Mar 17, 8pm Squeaky Feet w/The Mushroom Cloud ��� Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Mar 18, 7pm Deadgrass & Friends w/C Lanzbom Garcia, Dead ����������������������� The Falcon, Mar 18, 7pm Denise Jordan Finley, Jerry Mitnick, Kathy Moran folk ����������������������������������������������������� Music for Humanity series Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Mar 18, 7:30pm Herman’s Hermits w/Peter Noone ��������������� Paramount Theatre, Middletown, Mar 18, 8pm Mark Guiliana jazz, rock ������������������������������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 19, 7pm Chris O’Leary Band blues ��������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 22, 7pm Yarn r&r, bluegrass ��������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 23, 7pm Reelin’ In The Years Steely Dan ������������������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 24, 7pm Peak w/Lee Ross ��������������������������������� Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Mar 25, 7pm Quinn Sullivan & Veronica Lewis blues, r&r �������������������������������� The Falcon, Mar 25, 7pm Kofi Baker Ginger Baker, Cream, Blind Faith �������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 30, 7pm Popa Chubby Band blues ���������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Mar 31, 7pm Ryan Adams ��������������������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Mar 31, 8pm Jelly w/Dysfunktone ������������������������������Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington, Apr 1, 7pm Popa Chubby blues ���������������������������������������������������� City Winery, Montgomery, Apr 2, 8pm OPEN Mic & IN-HOUSE MUSIC

sponsored by Neil Alexander & NAIL, Newburgh Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

The Parting Glass Band Celtic �����������������Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 6pm-8pm Open Mic ��������������������������������������������������������������� Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Sundays, 3pm Andrew Jordan ������������������������������������������������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 1, 5pm Parting Glass Band Celtic ����������������������������� Erie Hotel, Port Jervis, Mar 5, 4:30pm-7:30pm Matt Nobile �������������������������������������������������������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 8, 5pm Open Mic ���������������������������������������Unitarian Universalist Cong., Rock Tavern, Mar 11, 7pm Strawberry Fields Ultimate Beatles Brunch ���������� City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 11, Noon Open Mic �������������������������������������Unitarian Universalist Church, Rock Tavern, Mar 11, 7pm Parting Glass Band Celtic ������������������������������BVH Sports Bar Barryville, Mar 12, 5pm-8pm North Country Hollow ����������������������������������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 15, 5pm Parting Glass Band Celtic ������������������������������������� Dimmick Inn, Milford, Mar 17, 3pm-5pm Parting Glass Band Celtic �����������������Dad’s Change of Pace, Port Jervis, Mar 17, 8pm-11pm Mario Rincon �������������������������������������������������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 22, 5pm Oxford Station Band folk, rock, country ���������������������� Tapped, Middletown, Mar 25, 8:30pm Sahana Rao (duo) �������������������������������������������������������City Winery, Montgomery, Mar 29 5pm

Writers Opportunity Extended Chester Library Writer’s Project submissions due date has been extended to March 1. Submissions of short stories, poems and art must be well crafted and original. All genres. Up to 3 submissions, all sent as individual attachments. One submission can be longer than 3,000

words, art sent as jpegs.

Work should be typed and submitted using Microsoft Word to idunn@rcls.org

by March 1. Include your name, phone, address, email and short bio separately.

For more information visit: www. chesternypubiclibrary.com/calendar

March 2023

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ELDRED ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Eldred Preserve, Eldred CITY ����������������������������������������������������������������� City Winery Hudson Valley, Montgomery FAL �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro MSM-AQ ������������������������������������������������� Aquinas DINGMS �����������������������������������������Dingman Delaware Middle School, Dingmans Ferry FPC ������������������������������������������������������������������������� First Persbyterian Church, Port Jervis MUNGER ����������������������������������������������������������� M DISTILL �������������������������������������������������������������Catskills Provisions Distillery, Callicoon GMCM Grand Montgomery Chamber Music ��������������������������Montgomery Senior Center NCM Newburgh Chamber Music �������������������������������������� DVAA �����������������������������������������������������������Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg HPAC ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre NFL-MONT ��������������������������������������������Newburg DVOC ������������������������������������������������������������������� Nutshell Hall, DVOC, Lake Huntington IKE �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Eisenhower Hall, West Point NOBLE ����������������������������������������������������������������������

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Cinema “Mudbound” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Recreation Drum Circle RITZ 6:30pm

Poetry Ted Gill Goshen United Methodist Church, 7pm

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The Oxford Station Band perform folk rock, classic country & Americana at Tapped in Middletown on March 25 at 8:30pm

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Cinema “Where the Crawdads Sing” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

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Cinema “Now, Voyager” Wisner Library, Warwick,1pm

Cinema “Michael Collins” Cornwall Library, 6pm

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Cinema “Operation Mincemeat” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm Poetry Arie Kishon Goshen United Methodist Church, 7pm

Recreation Drum Circle RITZ 6:30pm

Recreation Drum Circle RITZ 6:30pm

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Poetry Randy Sutter Java Blue Coffee, Montgomery, 6pm

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Music - R&B-Rockabilly....Cindy Cashdollar & The Syncopators ....FAL 7pm Music - Rock.......................Grace Potter............Bethel Woods, 8pm

Music - Rock-Funk...Dylan Do Theatre - Play.........“A Streetc Music - Classical-Rock.....Alex Music................Ladysmith Bl

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Music - Bluegrass-R&R...............Yarn..................................FAL 7pm

Music - Blues Chris O’Leary Band FAL 7pm

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Theatre - Musical.....“Godspe Theatre - Musical................“C Theatre - Play.........“A Streetc Music - Steely Dan..........Ree

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Recreation Drum Circle RITZ 6:30pm

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“Autumn Blooms” by Lana Privitera won Second Place in the Teachers’ Exhibit at Wallkill River Ctr. for the Arts

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Music - Jazz-Rock......Club d’E Dance..............................“Pet Theatre - Play...............“Casa V

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Recreation Drum Circle RITZ 6:30pm & Healy Art Studio, Port Jervis 7pm

Cinema “Sing Street” Cornwall Library 6pm

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Music...............The Best of th Dance..............................“Pet Theatre - Play...............“Casa V Music - Roots-Blues.....An Even

“Mind Trip”

by Ellen Joyce Trayer won Third Place in the Members’ Exhibit at Wallkill River Center for the Arts

“Kaaterskill Falls” by Mark Rosengarten won First Place in the Members’ Exhibit at Wallkill River Ctr. for the Arts

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Music - Celtic..............Sheridan Rúitín Seisiún.....WISNER 6:30pm Poetry..............................Hayden Wayne.......................NOBLE 7pm Music - Jazz.............Analog Jazz Orchestra.......................FAL 7pm Music.............................Matt Nathanson............Bethel Woods, 8pm

Music.....................The Mahavishnu Project.......................FAL 7pm

Cinema “Ticket to Paradise” Cornwall Library, Noon

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“Two Canada Geese” by Mike Jaroszko won First Place in the Teachers’ Exhibit at Wallkill River Ctr. for the Arts

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PARA ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Paramount Theater, Middletown s Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh RITZ ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh TMAIN ���������������������������������������������� Theatre on Main Street, Your Dance Closet, Cornwall Munger Cottage, Corwall Library, Cornwall ROSE �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������New Rose Theatre, Walden UUC �������������������������������������������������������Universalist Unitarian Congregation, Rock Tavern �������������������������������������� St. George’s Church, Newburgh SCCC ������������������� Sullivan County Community College, Seelig Theatre, Loch Sheldrake UpF ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis gh Free Library, Montgomery St. Entrance SLPAC ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center WICK ��������������������������������������������������������������������������Warwick Institute of Culture, Warwick ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall SUNYO-OH ������������������������������������������������������������ SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown WISNER ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������Albert Wisner Library, Warwick

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Dance..............................“Peter Pan”..............ROSE 3pm & 7:30pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Music - Soul-R&B........Lindsey Webster..............................FAL 7pm Music.................Mystic Dead w/Sage Clearing...............DVOC 7pm Theatre - Play................“Casa Valentina”..............................SCCC 8pm

Theatre - Play.............“Casa Valentina”..........................SCCC 2pm Music - Celtic.........The Hooley Shooters....Newburgh Library, 2pm Recreation....................Line Dancing........................CITY 2pm-5pm Dance..............................“Peter Pan”..............................ROSE 3pm Cinema........................“All About Eve”............Milford Theatre, 4pm Theatre - Play.............“All Things Equal”......................SLPAC 6pm Music - Jazz...............Ricky Ford Quartet...........................FAL 7pm

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Storytelling..................Yarnslingers.......................DVAA 2pm Dance..............................“Peter Pan”..............ROSE 3pm & 7:30pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm Music - Folk-Punk................Willie Nile.................................FAL 7pm Elf w/John Medeski..............FAL 7pm Music..........Cliff Westfall w/Brewster & The Jons.........DVOC 7pm ter Pan”.........................ROSE 7:30pm Music - Classical..........Ilya Yakushev piano...........SUNYO-OH 7pm Valentina”..............................SCCC 8pm Music - Celtic...................The Celtic Angels.....................PARA 7pm Theatre - Play......................“Casa Valentina”........................SCCC 8pm Music..................Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon......SLPAC 8pm Music - Folk..........................Jim Barbara......................UUC 8:30pm

Fundraiser......Newburgh Library Book Sale.....NFL-MONT 10am-2pm Music - Celtic.............Parting Glass Band....Sloatsburg Library, 1pm oyle Band, Justin Saladino..FAL 7pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm car Named Desire”............WICK 7pm Music - Classical.....Greater Newburgh Sym. Orch....MSM-AQ 4pm xander Markov violin...DINGMS 7pm Music - Garcia.......Deadgrass & Friends w/C. Lanzbom....FAL 7pm lack Mambazo......Bethel Woods, 8pm Music.........Squeaky Feet w/The Mushroom Cloud........DVOC 7pm Theatre - Play.........“A Streetcar Named Desire”.............WICK 7pm Music - Folk..Denise Finley, Jerry Mitnick, Kathy Moran..NOBLE 7:30pm Music..................Herman’s Hermits w/Peter Noone........PARA 8pm

Theatre - Musical...“Disney’s The Aristocats KIDS”...SLPAC 11am Theatre - Musical................“Curtains”................SLPAC 2pm & 7pm Poetry................Teresa Costa......Soulshine Market, Pine Bush, 3pm Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm ell: Revival Edition”..........TMAIN 7pm Music - Classical.......Sullivan County Chamber Orch....HPAC 6pm Curtains”...........................SLPAC 7pm Music - Blues-R&R....Quinn Sullivan & Veronica Lewis.....FAL 7pm car Named Desire”............WICK 7pm Music..................................Peak w/Lee Ross..................DVOC 7pm elin’ In The Years:..................FAL 7pm Music - Jazz...............Rick Savage & SOARTET.................UpF 7pm Theatre - Musical.....“Godspell: Revival Edition”..........TMAIN 7pm Theatre - Play/Dinner.......“The Mystery Unfolds”.......ELDRED 7pm Theatre - Play.........“A Streetcar Named Desire”.............WICK 7pm Poetry............................Black Poet Exhibition.............RITZ 7:30pm

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Music - Jazz.........Hal Galper Trio.....Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, 3pm ell: Revival Edition”..........TMAIN 7pm Fundraiser....................Farm Arts Collective...........DISTILL 6:30pm Chubby Band..........................FAL 7pm Music............................Jelly w/Dysfunktone...................DVOC 7pm n Adams...........................SLPAC 8pm Theatre - Musical.....“Godspell: Revival Edition”..........TMAIN 7pm

Theatre-Brunch........“Paddy O’Furniture’s Wake”...........CITY 1pm Recreation....................Line Dancing........................CITY 2pm-5pm Music - Classical................Rebel........................................NCM 3pm Music - Classical..........Han-Baik Duo.............................GMCM 3pm Dance..............................“Peter Pan”..............................ROSE 3pm Cinema.........................“The Quiet Man”...............Milford Theatre, 4pm Cinema-Documentary............“Shaping Dance”................RITZ 5pm Music - Jazz...............The Brian Melvin Quartet.................FAL 7pm

Music - Celtic.................Parting Glass Band............MUNGER, 1pm Theatre - Play.........“A Streetcar Named Desire”............WICK 2pm Recreation....................Line Dancing........................CITY 2pm-5pm Music......“R.E.S.P.E.C.T. The Aretha Franklin Story.........IKE 3pm Cinema.......................“The African Queen”..........Milford Theatre, 4pm Music - Jazz-Rock...............Mark Guiliana..........................FAL 7pm Music - Celtic...............The Irish Tenors.........................SLPAC 8pm

Music - Celtic.................Brian Conway fiddle.............WISNER 2pm Music - Classical.......Sullivan County Chamber Orch....DVAA 2pm Theatre - Play.........“A Streetcar Named Desire”............WICK 2pm Recreation....................Line Dancing........................CITY 2pm-5pm Theatre - Musical.....“Godspell: Revival Edition”..........TMAIN 3pm Cinema.................................“Gaslight....................Milford Theatre, 4pm Music - Jazz........Martin Pizzarelli Trio & Friends..............FAL 7pm

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sponsored by Catskill Art Society, Wallkill River School, Goshen Art League & Wurtsboro Art Alliance

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Art exhibits

CAS ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor DVAA ���������������������������������������������������������������� Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg SUNYO-MR �������������������������������������������������� SUNY Orange, Mindy Ross Gallery, Newburgh SUNYO-OH �������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Orange, Orange Hall, Middletown WRCA ����������������������������������������������������������Wallkill River Center for the Arts, Montgomery

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 James Turrell “Avaar”, Sol LeWitt “Wall Drawings”, ��������������������������������������������������������� & Francis Cape “A Gathering of Utopian Benches” CAS ongoing Bruce Young ink & graphics ���������������������������������������Greenwood Lake Library, thru Feb 28 Gene Iovine paintings �������������������������� Liberty Museum & Arts Center Window, thru Feb 28 “Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists” group show �������������������������������� ADS Gallery, Newburgh, thru Mar 3 Bethel Council of the Arts group show ���������������������������������Narrowsburg Union, thru Mar 4 Maryann Burton “It’s my world. Welcome to it”, watercolors ��������SUNYO-OH thru Mar 9 River Valley Artists Guild Art About Town: “Winter Spirits” ����������������������������������������������� RVAG members group show, Gio’s Gelato Cafe, Port Jervis & Susan Miiller oils & pastels, Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, & Joe Petrosi color pencil drawings, Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, & Joan Kehlenbeck oils & pastels Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot...................thru Mar 16 North East Watercolor Society group show �����������������������������������SUNYO-OH thru Mar 17 Judith Henry, Samuelle Green, Lizzie Wright sculpture �������������������������� CAS thru Mar 18 “Tools & Implements” group show ���������������������������������������������������������WRCA thru Mar 19 David Baldwin calligraphy ��������������������Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, thru Mar 21 Honoring Black History Month art & photography ����������������������SUNYO-MR thru Mar 24 Robyn Almquist “The Space Between You and Me” painting, collage, printmaking ����������� & Allison Maletz “Abundance” watercolors DVAA thru Mar 26 “A Study in Black & White” Community Art Show ���������Wisner Library, Warwick, thru Mar 31 Ciro Attardo, Nancy Reed Jones, Ginirose Sivili ����Griffith Olivero Realty, Goshen, thru Mar 31 “Greens of Spring” group show, Color Wheel of Seasons series #1 ������������������������������������� Goshen Art League Goshen Music Hall, thru Apr 26

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Jennifer Leonard “Artist by the Lake” �����������������������Greenwood Lake Library, March 1-31 Douglass Wilkins paintings ��������������Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Mar 1-Apr 26 “The Collaborative Works of DiMiceli, DiMiceli & Carver” ����Cornwall Library, Mar 2-Apr 25 “Reawakening” group show ����������������UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 3-Apr 23 Mixed Media & Collage group show, Spider Graham “Paper Cuts” ������������������������������������������ & Karen E. Gersch “Fusion & Farrago; Painted Tangos with Paper” �������WRCA Mar 3-Apr 30 “Figures - Burden - Loneliness” photography, sculpture, paintings ������������������������������������� Grit Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 4-Apr 30 Highland Arts Alliance Members Show ����Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Mar 13-Jun 13 River Valley Artists Guild Art About Town: “Spring Fling” ������������������������������������������������ RVAG members group show, Gio’s Gelato Cafe, Port Jervis & Susan Miiller oils & pastels, Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, & Joe Petrosi color pencil drawings, Mayor’s Office, Port Jervis City Hall, & Joan Kehlenbeck oils & pastels Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot...............Mar 17-May 31 “Portrait” group show �������������������������������������������������������������������������WRCA Mar 24-Apr 16 Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show ����������������� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Apr 1-30 Joni Wehrli sculptures, Desmond Beach fiber arts ��������������������������������DVAA Apr 1-May 7

Photography exhibits

“Along the Towpath: The D&H Canal in Mamakating, 1828-1898” ����Wurtsboro Library Suzanne L. Andrews “Nature Girl Artist” ������������������������ Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 1-30

ART & Photography receptions

North East Watercolor Society ���������������������������������������� SUNYO-OH Feb 26, 1pm-4:15pm Maryann Burton “It’s my world. Welcome to it” ������������ SUNYO-OH Feb 26, 1pm-4:15pm “The Collaborative Works of DiMiceli, DiMiceli & Carver” ������� Cornwall Library, Mar 2, 4pm “Figures - Burden - Loneliness” ������������������������� Grit Gallery, Newburgh, Mar 4, 5pm-8pm Honoring Black History Month art & photography ������������� SUNYO-MR Mar 5, 2pm-4pm Mixed Media & Collage, Spider Graham, Karen E. Gersch ������WRCA Mar 11, 3pm-5pm Highland Arts Alliance Members Show ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Mar 16, 6pm-7:30pm “Reawakening” group show ���������UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Mar 19, 1pm-6pm Ciro Attardo, Nancy Reed Jones, Ginirose Sivili �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Griffith Olivero Realty, Goshen, Mar 29, 6:30pm-8pm “Greens of Spring” group show, Color Wheel of Seasons series #1 ������������������������������������� Goshen Art League Goshen Music Hall, Mar 29, 6:30pm-8pm Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show ��� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Apr 1, Noon-4pm Suzanne L. Andrews “Nature Girl Artist” ���������� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Apr 1, Noon-4pm Joni Wehrli, Desmond Beach ������������������������������������������������������������DVAA Apr 1, 4pm-6pm 16

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Lectures, talks, master classes & demos sponsored by SUNY Orange and Town of Newburgh Desmond Center

DESM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������Alice Desmond Center, Newburgh

DVAA ���������������������������������������������������������������� Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg JLPL ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden MEEC ����������������������������������������Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro PEEC ��������������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Lectures, Demos, Talks & Master Classes are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE) (Events Not lncluded in Centerspread Calendar)

lectures, Tours & Discussions Maple Sugar Tours ������������ Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, thru Mar 19 FEE “The Many Lives of the Cornwall Public Library” Susan Kamlet ��������������������������������������� Cornwall Library, Feb 27, 7pm “The Nasty Affair in Pines Bridge” Paul Martin III ���������������DESM Feb 28, 10:30am,FEE “Hopper’s NYC” Laura Nicholls �����������������������������������������������DESM Mar 1, 12:30pm FEE “Expedition Across Africa, 1979” Barry Kass ������������������������������� DESM Mar 1, 11am FEE “Write Your Book Already” w/MJ Goff ��������������������������������� Chester Library, Mar 4, 11am “Eastern Bluebirds and other Cavity Nesters” �������������������������������MEEC Mar 5, 1pm FEE “Understanding the Northeastern Coyote” Pamela Golben ��� DESM Mar 6, 10:30am FEE “The Films & Career of Steven Spielberg” Leon DiMartino ������� DESM Mar 7, 10am FEE “Getting Great Real Estate Deals When Buying or Selling Properties” Rick Nathan ������� DESM Mar 8, 10am FEE “Learn How to Reverse Allergies Naturally” ToniJean Kulpinski ��DESM Mar 10, 10:30am FEE “Local History: Lynched by a Mob” Michael J. Worden �������������MEEC Mar 11, 1pm FEE “Prohibition in the Hudson Valley, Along the Bootleg Trail” Eleanor Rubin Charwat ����� DESM Mar 14, 10:30am FEE “Secrets That Wall Street Does Not Want You to Know When Investing Your Money” � Rick Nathan DESM Mar 15, 10am FEE “Matisse, and his Joy of Life” Laura Nicholls ������������������������DESM Mar 15, 12:30pm FEE “Understanding and Responding to Dementia-Related Behavior” Donna Davies ������������� DESM Mar 16, 2:30pm “Junior Field Biologist: Vernal Pools” ������������������������������������������MEEC Mar 19, 1pm FEE “Let’s Go on a Safari” Pamela LaLonde �������������������������������������� DESM Mar 21, 10am FEE “How To Go Through College Without Going Broke” Rick Nathan ��DESM Mar 22, 10am FEE “The History and Geography of the Goshen Turnpike” Dr. Isseks & Andy Mills �������������� DESM Mar 22, 10:30am FEE Bridge the Gap: Woodcock Walk ������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Mar 24, 6:30pm Salamanders, Frogs, and More! Walk ������������������������������������������PEEC Mar 26, 10am FEE “The Five: Jack the Ripper and his Victims” Cynthia Topps ���������DESM Mar 27, 10am FEE “Healthy Coping Strategies for Stress & Anxiety” Diane Lang ����DESM Mar 29, 10:30am FEE “Colonel Tusten and the Battle of Minisink” Andy Mills ������ DESM Mar 29, 10:30am FEE DEMO Watercolor painting: “The Value of Values” Maryann Burton �����SUNYO-OH Feb 26, 2:30pm Master Class “Using Values in Watercolor” Maryann Burton ���������SUNYO-OH Mar 9, 5:15pm-7:45pm ARTIST/Author Talks & Salons Highlands Arts Alliance Photographers’ Salon “Showcasing Your Photography” �������������������� American Legion Hall, Highland Falls, Mar 4, 11am FEE Douglas Shindler & Michael Davis “The Black Library” Salon Series �DVAA Mar 4, 2pm

Opportunity for Everyone

The Liberty Museum & Arts Center invites artists, musicians and others to participate in an exhibition being held in June of 2023 entitled Reflections on Father.

What does FATHER mean to you?

Does it immediately bring up a favorite song? Do you picture a fond memory of being together? A place that he loved?

A painful relationship? A sense of loss?

What does it mean to you, personally?

Fun you had growing up? Did he take you fishing? To the ball game?

Artists in all media, writers, musicians and anyone with memories to share are invited to submit their work and ideas.

However you would like to share your

experiences, your submissions are welcome.

The artwork will be on display at the Museum throughout the month of June as well as a concert of father-themed songs.

Also planned is a roundtable panel where people can share their memories about their fathers. Fathers-to-be are welcome, as well.

Artists and makers, writers , musicians and the public are invited to apply. Please indicate what your medium is and the nature of the proposal.

Send your ideas and photos if appropriate to the show curator, Naomi Frumess at nfrumessfnp396@gmail. com or call her at 845-807-6656.

In Memoriam: Emily Faxon Gallo (1945 - 2023)

“I’m a knitter and a voracious reader of trash.” - Emily Faxon.

Marcia Gates: Emily was the concertmaster of the “Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra” for many summers at SUNY New Paltz. Her founding of BachFest, with her friend Ruthanne Schempf, was an incredible gift to the Hudson Valley community for which I will always be grateful. So many people, myself included, have enjoyed the magnificence of the music of Bach performed at BachFest concerts over these past 23 years. Emily’s legacy lives on in our Hudson Valley community.

Rachel Crozier: The first time I played with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, she was there. At the rehearsal break, I took out my knitting (a hat). And she took out her knitting. And I knew I had made a friend. I was amazed to later discover her beautiful paintings and drawings.

I still have the knitted hat and it still doesn’t fit quite right, but the memory of knitting it with Emily makes me smile.

incredible sense of humor and sharp wit, and all of the wise words she bestowed upon me.

I am humbled and honored to have known her, and beyond grateful for the time I spent with her in this life. I am the musician I am today because of her guidance. She will live in my heart and my playing, forever and always.

Carole Cowan: Emily and I shared a stand, quartet life, uncountable numbers of gigs, sadnesses and joys, and our lives and laughs for over fifty years.

Emily was an excellent violinist and musician, a wonderful artist, and she pursued many hobbies and interests with glee and joy.

She loved performing and was generous with her talent. I will particularly treasure the little figures she drew in our orchestra parts to warn us of upcoming hazards, and/or to keep us awake!

I hope that Emily is now finding peace from the terrible disease that plagued her for so many years. We will all miss her, but Emily will long be remembered.

Lisa Bressler: Emily was an incredible violinist and musician. I remember the HVP doing a concert with Bobby McFerrin and he had us singing the parts to the last section of the William Tell Overture. When it got to the part with all of the violin noodling, “MLE” sang every note perfectly, at pitch, the only one who nailed it!

Sarah Tusch: Emily was my violin teacher from the time I was 11 years old, right through my early twenties. She was a guiding light and my guardian angel, both professionally and personally.

I will miss her beautiful spirit, her

Joël Evans: Emily was a dear friend and travelling companion during our many trips back and forth to the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Coming back home at 10:30 o’clock at night was always a grueling experience for us. I once told Emily to

bring me back the largest coffee she could at New Baltimore Service Area.

She, of course, returned with a giant styrofoam milkshake cup full to the brim with black coffee!

Ruthanne Schempf: I was Emily’s pianist and “partner in crime” for almost 40 years. It was a privilege to have such a friend and mentor. She was a superb musician and patient with me as we worked our way through violin-piano repertoire.

Inspired by the North Conway, NH Bach Festival, Emily said, “let’s start a Hudson Valley Bach festival, and also a chamber music series in Cornwall-onHudson,” and so BachFest and Potluck Concerts started in 2000. We were also a violin-piano duo called CityLights. We took fiendish delight in playing “Nice Work If You Can Get It” for wedding receptions.

We drank gallons of coffee and shared silly anecdotes and instead of good-bye, we liked to substitute other “r” words such as rigatoni, or ratatouille for “au revoir.”

Au ricercare, dear friend.

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On view at Leo’s Restaurant, Cornwall through March 21: Calligraphy by David Baldwin

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HAA Exhibits Art at 2 Alices Cafe Highlands Arts “In addition, arts Alliance (HAA) education is important is a not-forto us and we intend profit community to help support and group dedicated promote art, music to supporting and and drama within the promoting the arts Highland Falls - Fort in the Town of Montgomery Central Highlands. Nestled School District. We between the Storm also plan to provide King and Bear arts education to the mountains, the community at large communities of with lectures, lessons Highland Falls, Fort and fun creative Montgomery and projects for members West Point have and non-members long played host to alike.” numerous artists, 2 Alices Coffee “Color Wheel” by Judi Silvano writers, musicians and Lounge, 311 Hudson performers. It is with this in mind that Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, is hosting HAA was founded. an exhibit by The Highlands Arts The organization’s mission, or three Alliance from March 13 to June 13. main objectives are to support the arts, HAA artist-member Judi Silvano, promote artists, and enhance life through who is exhibiting in the show, shared, art. From the HAA website: “We aim to “Music, Dance and Painting have always raise awareness of the many talented, been part of my self-expression and have creative individuals in the Town of enriched my life immeasurably.”

Highlands through public and virtual Meet Judi and other HAA artists at the exhibitions, arts events and activities, reception at the Cafe on March 16 from and more while providing a network of 6:00pm-7:30pm. support for our members.

For more info, see ad page 20.

“Wordle” at the Goshen Public Library An invite to all from the Goshen Public Library: “Do you play the New York Times “Wordle” game online? Then come and try the Goshen Public Library’s new concrete party game of guessing five-letter

words!”

The popular online game can now be played with others every First Thursday at the Library, 366 Main Street, Goshen.

For information, call the Library at 845-294-6066.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. in West Point R.E.S.P.E.C.T. is an electrifying tribute celebrating the music of the legendary Aretha Franklin.

This concert experience takes audiences on a journey of love, tragedy, courage, and triumph. With a live band and supreme vocalists, you can experience a night of music by one of the greatest artists of all time.

The concert features all your favorite hits in one evening, including Natural

Woman, Think, I Knew You Were Waiting for Me, Chain of Fools, Respect, and many more. You’ll be out of your seat and dancing in the aisles as you lose yourself in the music that inspired a generation.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. The Aretha Franklin Story is at the Eisenhower Hall Theatre, 655 Pitcher Road, West Point on March 19 at 3:00pm.

For tickets: 845-938-4159.

Farm Arts Collective Fundraiser Farm Arts The public is invited to the 2nd annual Collective (FAC) April Fools Fête Gala Fundraiser for creates and produces FAC on April 1 at 6:30pm at Catskill original devised Provisions performances in Distillery, 16 a collaborative Upper Main Street, process with its Callicoon. This is resident ensemble. Tannis Kowalczuk, the main fundraiser The company Founder/Artistic Director of the FAC performs at home and tours with a season to support performance repertory and special pop2023 programs, Jess Beveridge, up performances. FAC also hosts the events, Company Manager shows, work of guest artists at its greenhouse and workshops. Be a gala sponsor by theatre. emailing Jess@FarmArtsCollective.org.

UUC: Hudson Valley Folk Guild is Back “We have returned to in-person and open mic performances on the second Saturday of every month, weather and pandemic permitting,” announced Maureen Black, president of the Rock Tavern chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild. “Open mic performances will be available to all. Sign-up begins at 7:00pm and open mic begins at 7:30pm.”

Jim Barbaro’s songs are like vignettes or sketches, and each is a musical chapter that fuses rock, classical, western, jazz and folk. Whatever the style, the underlying mood is always passionate, romantic and melodic.

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topped off and woven together by Jim’s dynamic, full throated vocals that range from deep and soulful to rough ‘n’ gritty to satiny smooth.

In a marketing driven industry where artists are discouraged from jumping from genre to genre, Barbaro is not afraid to take that leap and explore the many worlds music has to offer. And all you adventurous and multi-dimensional music lovers are free to come along for the ride.

The Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild is pleased to be featuring Jim Barbaro on March 11 at 8:30pm.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern is located in the Town of New Windsor at 9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern, off Route 207.

Celtic Angels, Knights & Trinity Band

A joyous celebration of everything Irish will touch American soil this spring when the energetic, exciting young stars of Celtic Angels Ireland tour the United States. Through their shared zeal and passion for Ireland’s musical traditions, this troupe enables their audiences to experience the Real Ireland for the price of a concert ticket.

Celebrating their cherished heritage through Irish dance, music, and song is something these entertainers take very seriously. Concertgoers will be enthralled from the moment the lights dim as the sweet and stirring songs of Ireland, rigorously precise dances, and traditional musicianship carry you to Ireland on wings of music.

Some of the sweetest voices under heaven make up the Celtic Angels: Victoria Kenny, Amy Penston, Eimear Crealey, Nuirgen O’Mahoney and Sari Greenberg accompanied by accomplished violinist Danielle Marien Turano - Irish to the core and seasoned entertainers all. These ladies cut their teeth in such musicals as West Side Story, Grease, and

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Quips, Quotes & Quiddities by Carol Pozefsky

Jury’s Irish Cabaret.

The Celtic Knight Dancers, featuring two former lead dancers of Riverdance, perform with athletic precision in routines that leave audiences breathless. Their rhythm and artistry are astonishing.

The Trinity Band Ensemble of Dublin round out the show with flawless interpretations of authentic Irish Trad instrumentals, and their backing of both singers and dancers is perfection!

The Paramount Theatre, 17 South Street, Middletown, is hosting The Celtic Angels and the dancers and musicians on March 11 at 7:00pm.

For tickets and more information, visit www.MiddletownParamount.com or call 845-346-4195.

CHIASMUS? WHAT’S CHIASMUS? We’ve all heard them and likely used them, but if you’re like me, you didn’t know they had a name. Chiasmus (kyAZ-mus) is a word construction in which concepts are cleverly and meaningfully reversed. Greek in origin, its plural is chiasmi.

I was given a book entitled, NEVER LET A FOOL KISS YOU OR A KISS FOOL YOU. The book is filled with chiasmi; some serious, some silly.

Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

Never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.

JFK: Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.

JFK again: Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

It was said about FDR: Roosevelt’s

genius was to treat kings like commoners and and commoners like kings.

Similarly said about Eleanor Roosevelt: No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or so distressed the comfortable.

In the book’s final chapter, this inspired spinaround from Oscar Wilde: Work is the curse of the drinking classes, and from Kermit the Frog: Time’s fun when you’re having flies.

PHOBIA Although fearless in most endeavors, I walk 5 flights of steep, spiraling steps to avoid taking a tiny elevator in a building I often visit on Manhattan’s West Side.

I am claustrophobic. A phobia is an irrational fear. Ambigu-phobia is a fear of being misunderstood. Dipso-phobia is the fear of drinking alcohol. Alopeciaphobia is the fear of baldness, anthrophobia, the fear of people and, clinophobia the fear of going to bed.

BREAKING NEWS A toy pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.

“The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland” Join us in welcoming author Marisa Scheinfield as she presents photographs of abandoned sites where resorts, hotels, and bungalow colonies once boomed in the Catskill Mountain region.

March 23 at 6:30pm Mahjong Club meets every Monday, 9:00am-1:00pm.

March 8 at 4:30pm: Kids’ Art Club.

March 30 at 6:30pm: Book Club Meeting,

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REBEL Returns to Newburgh Chamber Music Join the award-winning REBEL ensemble for Treasures of the High Baroque and Rococo, an afternoon of works by baroque composers.

REBEL is dedicating the concert to the memory of Karen Marie Marmer (1957-2020), who, with her husband fellow violinist Jörg-Michael Schwarz, led the New York-based ensemble, acting as its manager as well as performing with the group. Karen passed away in July 2020, six months after REBEL last performed for Newburgh Chamber Music (NCM). That performance marked their second appearance for NCM. Named after the innovative French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), the ensemble was formed in The Netherlands in 1991. That same year it took first prize in the Van Wassenaer International Competition in Utrecht and gave its critically-acclaimed American debut in New York City in 1992.

Since then REBEL has garnered an impressive international reputation, enchanting diverse audiences with their unique style and highly expressive and provocative approach to the baroque and classical repertoire. It has been hailed by the New York Times as “sophisticated and beguiling” and praised by the Los

REBEL Ensemble for Baroque music

Angeles Times for its “astonishingly vital music-making.”

The March program will feature works

by Georg Philipp Telemann, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Johann Georg Pisendel, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg and Pietro Boni. Besides Schwarz, the director, the ensemble includes Matthias Maute (traverso and recorder), John Moran (violoncello), and Dongsok Shin (harpsichord.)

Johann Georg Pisendel (1688-1755) was a Baroque violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden as concertmaster, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe. He was the leading violinist of his time, and composers such as Albinoni, Telemann and Vivaldi all dedicated violin compositions to him.

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (17271756) was a virtuoso harpsichordist, organist, and composer. He is best known for lending his name, as the probable original performer, to the renowned Goldberg Variations of J. S. Bach.

Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni (16861741) was a conductor and composer of operas, cantatas, oratorios, and a variety of instrumental works.

REBEL performs on March 12 at 3:00pm at St. George’s Church, 105 Grand Street, Newburgh. Plenty of parking in the lot across the street.

For tickets online, visit: www. newburghchambermusic.org or at the door (cash or check only). Proof of vaccination is not required, and masks are optional. The audience is invited to meet the performers at a reception after the concert.

Audience members are invited to bring instruments that they wish to donate to Valentina’s Instrument Donation Bank, to be repaired, if necessary, and given to Greater Newburgh Schools and music students. For further information regarding this program, or to donate at another time, contact Dr. Joël Evans at evansj@newpaltz.edu or visit: www.newburghchambermusic.org.

Abandoned Borscht

Photographer Marisa Scheinfeld’s work is highly motivated by her interest in ruins and the histories embedded within them. “One act of animated history has ended, but, as any visitor to these sites quickly learns, new acts have begun.

Guest rooms have become sanctuaries for birds. Leafy ferns have pushed their way through foundations and floors.

Overgrown shrubs and tangled weeds have swallowed staircases...” - from the prologue of her book, The Borscht Belt; Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland.

On March 23 at 6:30pm, Marisa will present photographs of abandoned sites where resorts, hotels, and bungalow colonies once boomed, a pivotal era in American Jewish history, at the Josephine-Louise Public Library, 5 Scofield Street, Walden. Copies of the book will be available.

Visit www.waldenpubliclibrary.org

“Godspell” Re-Imagined in Cornwall

In the 1990’s, the envisions God sending grunge music scene his daughter, Jess, to was instrumental in spread a new message changing culture, and of hope, forgiveness, pushed boundaries love and community of gender equality to a group of people and cultural norms. Co-producers/actors Jessica Jaber gathered in a famous and Michael E. Boyle, Jr. This “third wave” Seattle bar in the early of feminism was spearheaded by the 90’s. Her closest friend and follower, women born to the “second wave” of Judy, betrays her and completes the story feminists who grew up in the 1960’s and of crucifixion, and inevitably the death early 1970’s. of humanity’s ability to stay united, stay The original Godspell was conceived on the path of love and forgiveness. and performed in 1971, at a time when This ancient story is re-told in a more peace and love and community became contemporary setting, in an immersive paramount in the face of the Vietnam theatrical space which by its nature war, when civil rights and the birth of engenders a feeling of community, to rock and roll were driving culture, and inspire audiences to push the boundaries hippies were vogue. Twenty years later, of their own imaginations of this we experience the 1990’s, with the first message, gender leadership possibilities, war to hit the Gen Xers and our culture and their personal participation in leading experiencing a new wave of change. their own small communities to choose Within it, an awareness of fighting to acceptance, forgiveness, love and hope. protect our freedoms, leadership by The cast includes Montana Nogrady, women coming of age in this era, and Michael E. Boyle, Jr., Chelsea Camp the advent of a new music scene which Castro, Ryan Danahy, Benedict spoke of anger, sadness, depression. It Hudson, Jessica Jaber, Angela Pepe, was a time before modern technology and Sara Rahill, and the show is drove us all into the smaller world of our produced by Theatre on Main Street, phones and social media.

45 Quaker Avenue, Suite 100, Cornwall, In contrast to the original story of March 24 to April 2.

Jesus and Judas, the new production Tickets: See ad page 11.

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“Paddy O’Furniture’s Wake” Paddy O’Furniture is delicious experience in dead and his “family” City Winery’s beautiful is gathering to pay their Main Falls Room. Your respects...or are they? ticket includes a free Is his widow grieving welcome cocktail and or celebrating? Why 3-course brunch with does the coroner’s choice of entree served report say the death was during the murdersuspicious? You’ll need mystery brunch on Murder Mystery Manhattan to wade through a bit O’the Blarney as March 12 at 1:00pm at City Winery, 23 you try to help solve the crime!

Factory Street, Montgomery.

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People/Animal Portraits, Lords Valley A recognized artist whose prolific works include a wide range of themed paintings, Douglass Wilkins works primarily in acrylics and will be exhibiting landscape, animal and people portraits along with racing art at The Gallery at Chant Realtors in Lords Valley from March 1 to April 26.

Although there will be no formal reception, the show and sale will be held at the Gallery, 631 Route 739, Lords Valley, 7 days a week, 9:00am-5:00pm.

For more information, email curator Joan Polishook at mamajoan@ptd.net.

Wurtsboro Art Alliance Celebrates 18! explores the unpredictability The Wurtsboro Art of using watercolors to Alliance will inaugurate its translate what she sees.

18th Season with a grand If you love nature and re-opening on April 1! all its glorious shapes WAA will be highlighting and colors, stop by to see one of their members this month. “Nature Girl Artist” Suzanne’s work when the Suzanne L. Andrews is Wurtsboro Art Alliance has their opening reception a former biologist and on April 1 from Noon to educator who has embraced her knowledge of the natural 4:00pm. world and interpreted The Gallery, located at 73 these concepts through “Sunset from the Dock” Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, watercolors.

by Suzanne L. Andrews is open Saturdays and After utilizing dozens of photographs Sundays, from Noon to 4:00pm. that she has taken for her own reference, For further information, email with an eye for scientific detail, she contact@waagallery.org.

Greenwood Lake: “Artist by the Lake” Jennifer Leonard a/k/a Artist by the Lake, is a self-taught artist living and creating in Greenwood Lake. She works in everything from pen & ink, acrylics, calligraphy, paper tearing, photography, watercolor and presently, wood burning.

Jennifer’s pieces have been shown at the Upper Saddle River, West Milford Township, and Kinnelon Libraries, Lasell College, West Milford Gallery, St. Catherine’s and Lakeside Clubhouse. A number of her works have received first place honor including a

recycling can project to help beautify West Milford, a photograph at the West Milford Camera Club, and a bear she decorated for the West Milford 175 Year Float Celebration.

Her wood burning work also placed second at Wallisch Property.

The Greenwood Lake Public Library’s Works of Art Gallery will display Jennifer Leonard’s work for the month of March.

The Gallery hosts a new local artist every month. If interested, contact Adult Services at 845-477-8377 ext. 111.

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Herman’s Hermits at The Paramount

Art Lectures at Alice Desmond Center

Peter Blair Denis that he went on to Bernard Noone reprise the role at is a multi-talented the world-famous entertainer who Drury Lane Theatre has been delighting in London. audiences nearly Accompanied all of his life. At by his band, the age of fifteen, Herman’s Hermits, he achieved Noone currently international fame performs over 200 as “Herman”, Peter Noone a/k/a “Herman”, then and now! concerts a year. He lead singer of the legendary pop band consistently plays to sold-out venues Herman’s Hermits. His classic hits sold and his admirers span the generations. over fifty-two million recordings. In all, Today’s teen girls scream just as fourteen singles and seven albums went passionately as their mothers did back gold. in 1965, prompting VH1 to select Noone Noone performed on hundreds of as their viewer’s choice for the “Sexiest television shows and appeared with Artist of the Year”. such luminaries as Ed Sullivan, Jackie There is no doubt that Noone’s Gleason, Dean Martin and Danny Kaye, extraordinary talent, disarming wit, and portrayed the title role in Hallmark handsome features and compelling stage Hall of Fame’s Pinocchio. He also presence will continue to delight fans of starred in three highly successful feature all ages, for a long, long time to come. films for MGM: Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got Herman’s Hermits starring Peter A Lovely Daughter, Hold On! and When Noone takes place at the Paramount The Boys Meet The Girls.

Theatre, 17 South Street, Middletown, In the eighties, Peter starred on on March 18 at 8:00pm.

Broadway in The Pirates of Penzance. He For tickets and additional information, won rave reviews for his superb portrayal visit www.MiddletownParamount.com of the dashing, young hero, “Frederic”. or phone the Paramount Theatre at 845His performance was so well received 346-4195.

Edward Hopper spent much of his mature artistic career in New York City during a period of time in which the city underwent a tremendous change: skyscrapers reached record-breaking heights; urban constructions across the five boroughs were created to sustain a diverse population; and an exciting entertainment industry created a city that “Early Sunday Morning” by Edward Hopper never slept! with a traditional Yet Hopper’s quiet focus, as evidenced depictions of NYC by his training. remained on a humanHis artistic scale and largely epiphany was unpopulated.

He realized on a trip turned his attention to where he experienced its ordinary utilitarian bright sunshine and structures and outits resulting effects of-the-way places, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La on color, which was Grande Jatte” by Henri Matisse looking to record the then followed by his contrasts of new and old, public and use of simple rhythmic line and form, private aspects of the changing city. as he looked for the “essential character Laura Nicholls will present Hopper’s of things” to produce an art of “balance, NYC on March 1 at 12:30pm. purity, and serenity” creating work that Henri Matisse was one of the most became joyous, colorful and musical. influential artists of the 20th Century.

Matisse, and his Joy of Life with Laura Along with Cezanne and Picasso, his Nicholls is on March 15 at 12:30pm. work fundamentally changed the course The Town of Newburgh Recreation of modern art and affected generations of Department’s Alice Desmond Center younger painters over the course of the is at 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh. To century. Matisse’s artistic career began register: phone 845-565-1326.

NPAA: Acting Classes for Adults

“The Newburgh Performing Arts Academy, a division of the Boys & Girls Club of Newburgh, Inc., is celebrating its 19th birthday, and has just added acting for adults classes,” announced Kim Turner, (pictured) Founder and Director, herself a graduate of the High School of Performing Arts in New York City (The Fame school).

The Academy’s new program

features Vocal Projection, Physical Presence, Emotional Recall, Script Analysis, and Foundations of “The Method.”

Try out the Adult Acting Class on Thursdays from 6:30pm8:00pm at the Newburgh Performing Arts Academy, 62 Grand Street, Newburgh.

Register by visiting: www.contact.cc/3RCWSZ.z or calling 845-562-5650.

Murder is on the Menu in Eldred “We are delighted to expand our entertainment offerings,” said Scott Samuelson, chief operating officer at The Eldred Preserve. “Our formal event space is ideal for a variety of events, from theater to formal dinner service, and our wonderful chefs have crafted a menu to die for.”

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recipe for a special dinner party. Little do they know...murder is also on the menu!

Entertainment is provided by Murder Cafe, a traveling entertainment company based in the Hudson Valley. The evening includes a three-course dinner. Doors open at 6:00pm, show begins at 7:00pm, on March 25 at The Eldred Preserve, 1040 State Route 55, Eldred.

Visit www.theeldredpreserve.com/ murder-mystery-dinner for tickets.

For additional information, call 845557-8316.

GNSO Presents: “Luminosity” - Orchestral Music, Colors and Original Art Under the direction of Maestro Russell Ger, a program featuring the works of four composers exploring the interplay of music and color will be performed by the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) in a spectacular concert entitled, Luminosity.

“As sophisticated as our human languages are, they fall dramatically short when it comes to describing sensory experiences such as taste, sound and sight,” noted Ger. “Hence the old story of failing to adequately describe an arresting sunset to a blind person. So we are forced to borrow from other parts of language. In music, this is often from the visual medium of color which, in turn, is the theme of this program.

“Michael Torke’s Bright Blue Music gives an irrepressible sense of joy.

‘Working was exuberant,’ he writes. ‘I would leave my outdoor studio and the trees and bushes seemed to dance, and the sky seemed brilliantly bright blue.’

Thea Musgrave describes naming her work as follows: ‘The title Green for me represents either the freshness of youth, or for the plant life in our world on which we all depend.’

Anna Clyne takes as her inspiration Mark Rothko’s famous painting Orange,

one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, Michael Torke Thea Musgrave Anna Clyne Arthur Bliss Heidi Lanino, choreographers, (b.1980) (1891-1975) artist (b.1928) (b.1961) filmmakers and be auctioned off at a later date.” visual artists around the world. She Michael Torke’s music has been was named the 8th most performed Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Red and Yellow. The music is constructed commissioned by the Philadelphia contemporary composer in the world in three movements, like the form of Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, and the most performed living female the painting, where the finale (Orange) the New York Philharmonic, the San British composer in 2022.

During World War II, Arthur Bliss incorporates fragments from the previous Francisco Symphony, the Metropolitan two movements, just as the color does in Opera, and the English National Opera. became the BBC’s director of music.

His music has been called “some of the After the war he resumed his work as a the visual field.

“Lastly, there is Sir Arthur Edward most optimistic, joyful and thoroughly composer and was appointed Master of Drummond Bliss’ Color Symphony, uplifting music to appear in recent the Queen’s Music. Since his death, his compositions have been well represented which evokes the characters associated years,” (Gramophone).

Rich and powerful musical language in recordings, and many of his betterwith precious gemstones. Purple is amethysts and represents pageantry and and a strong sense of drama have known works remain in the repertoire of majesty; Red is rubies, wine and revelry; made Scottish-American composer British orchestras.

Luminosity will be performed at Mount Blue is sapphires, water, skies and Thea Musgrave one of the most melancholy; Green is emeralds, hope, respected contemporary composers St. Mary College’s Aquinas Hall, 330 in the Western world. Known for the Powell Avenue, Newburgh, on March spring and triumph.”

“An added bonus,” said Ger, “will clarity of her invention, the skill of her 18 at 4:00pm.

Tickets can be purchased online or be our uniquely exciting collaboration orchestrations, and the power of her with a local Orange County visual musical communication, Musgrave has at the door. Call 845-913-7157 or visit artist, Heidi Lanino, who will join me consistently explored new means of www.newburghsymphony.org Students and youth 18 and below are in conversation before the program and projecting essentially dramatic situations admitted free to open seating. then paint a canvas for each work in real in her music.

Grammy-nominated Anna Clyne is See ad page 8. time in response to the music. These may

Jazz trumpeter Rick Savage has made his mark on the NYC area jazz scene, recording and performing with the likes of Tania Maria, Gerry Mulligan, Tony Bennett, Jack McDuff, Nestor Torres, Nancy Wilson, Mark Egan and others.

Deeply rooted in the “sound & soul” of Miles Davis, he is a familiar face to Hudson Valley jazz audiences, “curates” a number of jazz ensembles and is bringing one of them, Soartet, to Port Jervis for the groove port music series.

“This collective has a unique sound with a nice blend of moods, textures and feels within a unique repertoire

of originals and Double bassist standard tunes.

David Kingsnorth We have been able has performed with to keep our jazz Oscar Brown Jr., muscles strong Richard Wyands, and supple, our Frank Jackson, initial goal, as New Jersey Ballet well as develop an and the Summit ensemble with an Symphony. original sound and “David Janeway an intimacy that Soartet is: Rick Savage, David Kingsnorth is not afraid to David Janeway & Eliot Zigmund comes from hundreds experiment in the of hours playing and, more recently, moment and has a range of technique that performing together.” - Eliot Zigmund, allows him to test the waters fearlessly... drums. he is constantly evolving, and I’ve

Soartet Soars into Port Jervis for “groove port” Music Series

never heard one player have so many different ways of texturizing” - Monique Avakian.

Zigmund has done work as a session player for Neil Sedaka, Dionne Warwick, and the Pointer Sisters among others, and has taught at William Paterson College and New York University.

The live concert happens at UpFront Exhibition Space, 31 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis, on March 25 at 7:00pm.

The gallery opens at 1:00pm for viewing the current art show (see page 25).

Tickets at the door. BYOB! For information: 845-754-1808.

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Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra: “Everlasting Impressions” “Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra (SCCO) celebrates Women’s History Month through performances of four monumental composers who leave a lasting impact on their colleagues, community and the world around them,” announced SCCO Artistic Director Andrew Trombley.

“Clara Schumann had an extensive performing career, but her brilliance as a composer was often overlooked. Amy Beach amassed a brilliant catalogue of compositions and is one of the first successful American female composers without the benefit of European training.

And across the pond a short time later, Lili Boulanger was the first female winner of the coveted Prix de Rome.

Reena Esmail, through promoting crosscultural music collaboration between the music tradition of India and the West in her compositions, will leave remarkable contributions to music history.”

Written in 1846, the Piano Trio in G minor, opus 17 by Clara Schumann was her only piano trio. During the development of the Trio, she was going through hardships in life. Her husband Robert Schumann was extremely ill. This trio was completed during the summer of 1846 when they traveled to Norderney

in attempts to of my closest friends, Suzana Bartal’s improve Robert’s wedding. I saw that the slow movement health conditions. of my Clarinet Concerto could actually While in Norderney, be turned into a piano trio as a wedding Clara suffered a gift to Suzana and her husband Eric. miscarriage. A year Suzana is a world class concert pianist, after the composition and one of her chamber music specialties of her piano trio, is playing piano trios.

Robert composed Reena Esmail Amy Beach Lili Boulanger Clara Schumann “Two years later, Suzana played this his first piano trio, trio (Saans) at a concert in Beverly Hills, (b.1983) (1867-1944) (1893-1918) (1819-1896) op.63. It is seen that Clara’s trio has had CA, with cellist Peter Myers and violinist great influences on Robert’s trio as they Vijay Gupta. And the next day Vijay and both share many interesting similarities.

I got married. I love that this one piece Amy Beach’s Trio, Op. 150 was has played a central role in both of our composed in 1938 and is steeped in the weddings!” concluded Esmail. developmental processes of late-19th The SCCO chamber music program, Akiko Hosoi Kirsten Jermé Matthew Graybil century models while quoting two Inuit Everlasting Impressions, will be at the violin cello piano “I’ve always found the story of the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, folk songs.

D’un Soir Triste, or Of a Sad Evening, Franck Violin/Piano Sonata as incredibly 219 Main Street, on March 25 at 6:00pm. was written by Boulanger in 1918, moving and romantic as the music itself,” Tickets: www.hurleyvilleartscentre.org, shortly before her death at age 24. Her states Reena Esmail. “Franck wrote the 845-985-4722, and at the door... sister, the famous composition teacher sonata for Eugene Ysaye and his wife as ...and as part of the Delaware Valley Nadia Boulanger, put the piece away a wedding present, and they premiered it Arts Alliance Salon Series, on March until shortly before her death in 1979. at the wedding, sight reading through the 26 at 2:00pm in Krause Recital Hall, “The handwriting was almost illegible,” score. It is one of my favorite pieces of 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. said renown conductor Joanne Falletta, all time, and the love and intention with Free admission. who resurrected the manuscript. “She which it was written resonates so deeply “To celebrate women’s enduring and was so sick, and her penmanship was through the music. underrepresented contributions to music, “As I was finishing my Clarinet women who attend the performance will really weak. It was her goodbye to the world. She knew she was going to have Concerto for Albany Symphony, I was receive a small gift of appreciation,” also planning my trip to Paris for one concluded Trombley. a short life.”

Maple Sugar Tours in Cornwall

Maple sugaring season is upon us and the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum is offering Maple Sugar Tours.

Learn how to identify and tap sugar maple trees, discover sugaring techniques used by Native Americans, pioneers, and modern-day farmers, and see an evaporator in action!

The tours take place weekends thru March 19 at the Outdoor Discovery Center location, 120 Muser Drive, off of Angola Road in Cornwall, where two types of tours are offered hourly.

Sugar Bush Tours: a one-mile moderate

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Maple Lane Tours: good for little legs and those with mobility issues, a short walk from the farmhouse to the Sugar Shack after a tour of the maple stand.

Wear appropriate footwear for muddy/ cold conditions and dress warmly! Preregistration is required. Register online at hhnm.org or by phone at 845-5345506. All children ages 4 and under are free but require a ticket. Visit hhnm.org.

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Grace Potter to Perform in Bethel

Grace Potter formed Grace Potter and the Nocturnals in 2002. Potter and her band parted ways in 2015. In 2011, Potter and Higher Ground founded Grand Point North music festival in Burlington, Vermont.

Potter has gained notability as a singer-songwriter, multiinstrumentalist, and actress, first appearing in an episode of One Tree Hill. She earned her first Grammy nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for You And Tequila with

Kenny Chesney.

Throughout her career, Potter has championed the Alzheimer’s Association in honor of her paternal grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She frequently participates in the “Night At Sardi’s” annual fundraiser in Los Angeles.

Internationally acclaimed rock musician Grace Potter will perform in Bethel Woods on March 16 at 8:00pm.

Visit www.bethelwoodscenter.org

Art Exhibit: “Reawakening” at UpFront Gallery, Port Jervis

“Fractal Tree” by Rosalind Hodgkins

“In the Swim” by Judith Cramer

UpFront Exhibition Space in Port Jervis will present Reawakening, an exhibition of work by Judith Cramer, Rosalind “Roz” Hodgkins (see page 26 for another Hodgkins’ exhibit) and Phyllis Chekenian.

Fresh colors are warming in Judith Cramer’s new acrylic painting entitled, In the Swim. Goldfish, turtles and lilies float across this neo-impressionist waterscape. A falling stream washes in from above and brightens the colors with

light.

Rosalind “Roz” Hodgkins created a semi-abstract painting entitled, Fractal Tree. Replicating shapes form the tree structure and leaf shapes morph into checkered particles, with patterns being the structure of life forms. Hodgkins’ watercolors are a continual exploration of our natural environment and ways of seeing in general.

Phyllis Chekenian’s art piece titled Dreams Await is a shadow box. The shallow indented space has memory-like cloud markings on the wall with two planets on tilting wire orbits that define the space. Chekenian’s juxtaposition of

a real bed and picture completes the musing of this “Dreams Await” shadow box by surrealist Phyllis Chekenian dreamscape.

Come and see this fascinating and diverse artwork during UpFront Exhibition Space’s Opening Show which is on view from March 3 to April 23.

Meet the artists at the reception on March 19 from 1:00pm-6:00pm at UpFront Exhibition Space, 31 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis.

For information: 845-754-1808.

R&R for Kids

Founded in 2014 by independent concert promoter Peter Shapiro and educator Amy Striem, The Rock and Roll Playhouse is the largest national kid-friendly live concert series having performed to hundreds of thousands of kids and their families. Hosting over 1,000 shows in more than 35 leading live music venues across the U.S., the band has filled the void for shared musical experiences between parents and children across the country. Performing songs created by the most iconic musicians in rock history, the band offers its core audience of families with children aged 1-7, games, movement, stories and most importantly: an opportunity to rock out!

Sing and dance with The Rock and Roll Playhouse at City Winery Hudson Valley, 23 Factory Street, Montgomery, as they salute Taylor Swift and her greatest songs in: Taylor Swift For Kids! on March 18 at Noon. Free admission for kids 1 and under.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Bethel Joseph Shabalala, the bandleader who brought the South African vocal harmony group Ladysmith Black Mambazo to global success, passed in 2020.

“Our Founder, our Teacher and most importantly, our Father, left us for eternal peace,” the choir said.

“We celebrate and honour your kind heart and your extraordinary life. Through your music and the millions who you came in contact with, you shall live forever.”

Cyril Ramaphosa, South African President, called him a “Veteran Choral Maestro.”

Shabalala started singing as a teenager with the groups Durban Choir and the Highlanders, before forming Ezimnyama in 1959. He later christened it Ladysmith Black Mambazo: “Ladysmith” for his hometown, “Black” for the local livestock, and “Mambazo” - the Zulu word for axe, as a metaphor for the group’s sharpness.

The group’s exquisitely harmonised a cappella songs in Zulu became hugely popular in South Africa after the release of their debut album in 1973.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo has performed for millions of people, singing a message of peace, love and harmony.

They came to global attention after they collaborated with Paul Simon on his 1986 album, Graceland. Over the years, they collaborated with Dolly Parton, Josh Groban, Emmylou Harris and many others. The group also appeared in the Michael Jackson film, Moonwalker.

In 1993, they accompanied Nelson Mandela to his Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. Their theme for England’s 1995 Rugby World Cup campaign, a version of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, reached No. 15 in the UK singles charts, and a 1998 best-of compilation album reached No. 2.

Don’t miss them as they bring their show to Bethel Woods, 200 Hurd Road, Bethel, on March 17 at 8:00pm.

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River Valley Artists Guild: “Spring Fling!”

“Half Moon on the Hudson” by J. Kehlenbeck

Art About Town, a number of traveling exhibits sponsored by the River Valley Artists Guild, will present their annual exhibit, Spring Fling! from March 17 to May 31 this year. The exhibits include photographs, prints, paintings, color pencil drawings and pastels that celebrate the visual beauty of Spring found right here in our Orange County backyards.

Spring themed paintings by RVAG members now adorn the walls at Gio’s Gelato Cafe in Port Jervis. Daniela Cooney’s acrylic paintings highlight her love of animals and the environment, Judith Cramer’s acrylic, pastel and pencil works range from Impressionism to the abstract, Joyce Lee’s paintings reflect the spirit of the landscape, Roz Hodgkins (see pg. 25) exhibits her work

“Grassy Sparklers” by Daniela Cooney

“Daffodils” by Susan Miiller at UpFront Exhibition Space in Port Curator of Art About Town, Susan Jervis, Rena Hottinger uses photography Miiller’s oils and pastels as well as abstraction in will grace the walls of her expressive paintings, Bon Secours Hospital Patty Koch is a selfcafeteria. She states, “I taught artist with nearly want to give the viewer 50 years of art experience, the appeal of color and Joan Kehlenbeck’s luminosity of spring in oils and pastels are of my artwork.” Susan’s important local, historic work is included in many buildings and scenes, important collections. For Stella Provenzano’s work more about Susan: www. reflects the beauty of the susanmiillerart.com. environment, and Judith Colored pencil drawings Weiss begins her work by Joseph Petrosi that from landscapes, then “Hummingbird” by Patty Koch celebrate the season of moves into recall and spring will be on view at City Hall in personal feeling.

“Spring Outing” by Joyce Lee

Port Jervis. Awardwinning artist Petrosi is a certified art & textile airbrush specialist.

An ongoing exhibition of oil paintings and pastel drawings by RVAG President Joan Kehlenbeck remains on view at Deerpark Town Hall. Kehlenbeck has shown regionally and is well-known in the area for her demos and workshops.

The exhibits can be seen at Gio’s, 3032 Front Street, Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, 160 E Main Street, & City Hall, 20 Hammond Street, all in Port Jervis. Deerpark Town Hall is located at 420 Route 209, Huguenot.

“Streetcar” Returns to Warwick Greenwood Lake Theater (GLT) is presenting its production of the Tennessee Williams Pulitzer prizewinning play, A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Katie Weatherford Mary Virginia Nick Pearson (Mitch) Gitana LaRae Mims.

Fragile Southern belle Blanche chose this play is its story resonates just DuBois moves to New Orleans to live as much now as when it was written with her sister, Stella, and her brutish in 1947. I am thrilled to play Stella brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, in a Kowalski. I had the opportunity to play dingy apartment. Temperaments clash, the role in 2019, and I am so excited to be able to re-visit the character and to fireworks fly and secrets are revealed.

Mims says of the production, “Part of dive deeper. She is the foil to her sister: making ethical theatre, in my opinion, grounded in realism where Blanche is is examining how the classics are still lost in fantasy. Stella has an incredibly relevant to us today, and how they have strong survival instinct that informs every shaped us, both as theatre makers and decision she makes, and ultimately leads theatre goers alike. The real excitement to her being torn between her husband for me in tackling this American classic and her sister. ” The production takes place at the is exploring the effects that this time and Warwick Institute of Culture (The these people have on modern society.”

“I’m very lucky to be playing this role WICK), 46 Bowen Road, Warwick, for a third time in my career,” says Mary from March 17-26. Due to the mature Virginia, co-artistic director of GLT. themes, the show is recommended for “Blanche is complicated, layered, lost ages 14 and up.

For complete cast listings, tickets and misunderstood. She wants magic, not realism and will go to great lengths and more information regarding this production and all of GLT’s 2023 season, to create and maintain that façade.”

Katherine Weatherford, co-artistic including student intensive workshops, director shared, “One of the reasons we visit www.greenwoodlaketheater.org.

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The Irish Tenors

Sankofa Drum & Dance Joins with Four Seasons Chorale The Four Seasons Chorale will present a concert, One World: A Concert of Musical Connections.

The chorale, under the direction of Kathy Brink and accompanied by Seth Riehl, will include music from Africa along with popular selections such as Let There Be Peace on Earth, We Shall Overcome, and What a Wonderful World. The overall theme is the interconnectedness of everyone.

The chorale’s special guest for this concert is Maxwell Kofi and Sankofa (meaning ‘going back to the roots’ in the Twi language from Ghana). Kofi is the leader and artistic director of Kofi & Sankofa Drum and Dance Ensemble.

“The ensemble is very symbolic in promoting personal and community awareness of the positive role of the arts in the villages in West Africa demonstrated through our rich cultural values passed on to us by our great ancestors ‘Nananom’,” said Kofi.

The group was originally formed in the summer of 1997 from Kofi’s community drum circles in Allentown and Stroudsburg. This group teaches togetherness in diversity and empowerment of the individual selfimage as well as community building/

2006 UN Water Conference in Mexico City; Indian Summer Festival, Netcong, NJ; Jazz Festival at the Delaware Water Gap; International Festival and First Night at the Paramount Theatre in Middletown; and eight World Trade Center Benefits in NJ, NY and PA for the Red Cross and other non-profit organizations.

Kofi has played with renowned The Four Seasons Chorale drummers such as teamwork through Baba Olatinje (of African drumming Drums of Passion), and dance.

Mickey Hart (of Sankofa is made Grateful Dead), of four drummers Baba Camara, Sikiru and three dancers led Adipoye (talking

by Kofi (an Asante drum maestro), Arthur prince from Ghana) Hall, and many more. and Yacin (a Wollof Kofi & Sankofa Drum & Dance Join the celebration of connectedness princess from Senegal). Sankofa’s performance is electrifying in terms of on April 2 at 3:00pm, at First the spiritual release in their drum, dance Presbyterian Church, 60 Sussex and songs (chants). The performances Street, Port Jervis. The concert is in the generate the same community spirit of handicapped accessible church sanctuary, sharing, oneness, joy, and love where Admission is free and donations will everyone gets involved, both audience gratefully be accepted to help defray the concert costs. For more information, call and performers.

Sankofa has successfully completed Kathy Brink at 570-430-1755.

This program is made possible with funds from the over 800 residencies in schools as well Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York as the community, from conferences to State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered festivals. Notable among them are the by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Celtic music kings The Irish Tenors burst upon the music scene in 1998. With ten best-selling albums to their credit, they have rekindled the love of all things Irish and opened the door for countless Irish groups to hit the U.S. They share company with the likes of The Three Tenors and Andrea Bocelli as the biggest money makers PBS has ever presented.

The group has performed all over the world, from Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall in New York to the Hollywood Bowl in California - they have blazed the trail from coast to coast stopping in nearly every city in between; thrilling audiences with their Irish repertoire, secular selections and holiday fare.

They will perform on March 19 at 8:00pm for their 25th Anniversary Tour at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, 231 Creamery Pond Road, Chester.

For tickets: www.sugarloafpacny.com

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