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July 1-July 15, 2017

Volume 21 No. 7

Hudson County’s Bi-Weekly-Cultural, Lifestyle and Entertainment Publication In This Issue Pg. 2 LOVE HURTS Pg. 4

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Billy Valentino, Joey Cimino and Matt Gale of Finish This perform in Weehawken’s Hamilton Park. (Photo by Fermin Mendoza) www.hobokenlock.com

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LOVE HURTS

Hudson Shakespeare Presents Romeo & Juliet in Hudson Parks Rival Families, Two Teens in Love, A Dismal Fate Awaits

By Sally Deering

“I said I wouldn’t direct Romeo & Juliet until I “These violent delights knew what I wanted to have violent ends do with it,” Fair says.

And in their triumph die, “These young tempestulike fire and powder ous teens fall in love and Which, as they kiss, condie. There’s a song Mandy sume.”

Patinkin sings, a mashup of ‘You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught’ from South Pacific and ‘Children hat happens when Will Listen’ from Into the two feuding families poison Woods. It made me think the love of their offspring about Romeo and Juliet and with their hatred? Do the how we teach our children sins of the fathers cast evil hate and we teach them on their children? Can love bias. What are we passing ever survive when surdown to the next generarounded by hate? tion? In Romeo & Juliet, These are the questhe parents don’t know any tions that come to mind in other way to communicate Shakespeare’s Romeo & except through violence Juliet, the story of two star- and that’s what they teach crossed lovers who cannot their children.” escape the rivalry of their The two star-crossed families and although they lovers are not immersed are madly, deeply in love, in their family’s hate, but theirs comes to a tragic end. they cannot get away from This new production of it, Fair says, and in the end Romeo & Juliet by Hudit destroys their love and son Shakespeare Company destroys them.

(HSC) opens in Hudson on “When you look at RoWed, July 12th at 7 pm at meo and Juliet, Romeo’s the Secaucus Library, and indulging himself in the runs Sat, July 15 at 3 pm idea of love, poetry, evat Van Vorst Park in Jersey erything possible to avoid City; Mon, July 17 at Frank what his family wants him Sinatra Park in Hoboken, to be,” Fair says. “I’m sort and Thurs, July 20 at 7 pm of going with this very vioat Hamilton Park in Jersey lent world and I’m putting City. It explores the themes it within the 1990s, and of hate and violence that the issues we’re dealing seem to reflect contemwith now. I’m using a lot porary times, and the cast of grunge music which is features HSC newcomers based in rebellion. It helps Mackenzie Menter as Juliet to highlight the themes I and Joshua Blount as Rowant to explore within the meo. Noelle Fair directs. text. It’s really cool.”

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Mackenzie Menter as Juliet and Joshua Blount as Romeo in HSC’s Romeo & Juliet.

The Romeo & Juliet cast also features Juliana Valente as Nurse; Kamran Saliani as Friar Laurence/ Prince; Tiffany Faulkner as Mercutio/Lady Montague/ Apothecary; Leon Morgan as Lord Capulet; Taylor Baskin as Lady Capulet; Matthew Cavender as Tybalt/Paris; and Lindsay Milligan as Benvolio.

Combat director is Adele Rylands.

Performing Shakespeare can be tough on its own, but playing outside in make-shift performance venues brings challenges to the actors as well as the director, Fair says.

“One of the biggest challenges for the actors is juggling noise and distractions,” Fair says.

“You have to stay really focused. There are going to be kids who can’t sit through a long performance. You’re not going to be in a black box where everyone is well-mannered.

They deal with heat. Bugs.

And different terrain. One park is hilly without a lot of grass another is concrete which is coliseum-like. We have to adjust exits and entrances. An actor in this company has to be able to have fun and be a team player.”

For the director, putting a show up like Romeo & Juliet takes a lot of preplanning, Fair says.

“I have to pre-plan where props are going to be preset,” Fair says. “Children

watching the show think the weapons are cool and walk away with them. We don’t do an intermission, so the actors’ energy has to be sustained for two hours, so I’m mentally preparing them, physically preparing them. I come from a program where we did some weird stuff with Shakespeare. I move scenes. I weave scenes. I play with time and space.”

Fair, who also works as an actress, teaches at a Middle School in Astoria, Queens. The Jersey City resident just did a production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, where she played the role of Stella. Fair enjoys directing, she says, and she Cont’d on page 3

LOVE HURTS Cont’d from page 2 believes Shakespeare is as relevant today as it was during Shakespeare’s time.

“Why is Shakespeare still so appealing,” Fair says.

“Shakespeare was able to touch the human heart.

Beforehand, not too many playwrights got to the heart of what it is to be human.”

If you go Romeo & Juliet www.hudsonshakespeare. com

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ROLLIN’ ON THE RIVER

20 Rockin’ Bands, Musicians & Vocalists Perform Live on Weehawken’s Waterfront Lawn Chairs, Picnic Baskets, the NY Skyline and Free Music

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n a recent Sunday afternoon, Hamilton Park on Boulevard East in Weehawken, with its breathtaking view of the New York Skyline, transformed from pastoral park to electric guitar-riffing rock concert with residents and visitors chilling on its great lawn.

Mike Montanaro recruits young fans to play instruments at Hamilton Park The group rocking the crowd was Finish This, a local old school garage band that dates back to the 1970s when bandmates Joey Cimino, Billy Valentine, Mike Culhane, Mike Montanaro, John Forsdahl, Mike Waddle, and lead guitar Matt Gale’s dad were high school buddies in West New York. At Hamilton Park, the band, which knows more than 300 songs from all their years of gigging, performed a two-hour set of iconic 60s tunes like Wooly Bully and In the Midnight Hour.

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Cimino says after the show.

“Whenever you see an audience from 2 –to-80 having a good time, you know its going great. That’s why we were the opening show.

They wanted to get a good crowd – and they did.”

Finish This’ performance officially kicked-off the Hamilton Park 2017 Free Summer Concert Series happening every Sunday from 5-7 pm through Labor Day Weekend. After a break for July 4th, the series kicks off again on Sunday, July 9 with Swingadelic, followed by Big Mamou on July 16, Boulevard East Collective on July 23 and the Joe Ruddick Quartet on July 30.

In August, it’s the Annie Minogue Band with opening act Violet on Aug. 6, Donna Coney Island and South Street Station on Aug. 13, Anthony Bez on Aug. 20, The Joni Project on Aug. 27 and Zaccai Curtis on Sept. 3.

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by Weehawken Mayor Richard F. Turner and the Town Council also runs in tandem with the Pershing Park Free Summer Concert Series beginning Wednesday, July 5 with Flamenco Latino and running every other Wednesday night featuring Joe Cimino’s Rubber Room on July 19, Weehawken Jazz All Stars on Aug 2, Maxima Alerta on Aug 16, and the final show of the series, the Weehawken Singer/Songwriter

staff worked diligently behind-the-scenes to make it all happen.

“Community events like these bring people together,” Daly says. “It’s great music, and its all free.”

HERE’S THE LINE-UP Hamilton Park Summer Concert Series Sundays, 5-7 pm Jul 9 -- Swingadelic. Hoboken swinging’ jazz group

Swingadelic will perform at Hamilton Park on Sun, July 9 Night on Aug 30. (Pershing “For 14 years, Summer Park is located at the foot Concerts on the Hudson of Pershing Road on Weehas presented world class hawken’s waterfront.) artists in concerts that are free of charge to the public,” Bruce Sherman, HRPAC’s executive director says. “What could be better than listening to great music on a beautiful summer evening in a spectacuCumbia River Band perlar riverfront setting!” forms at Lincoln Harbor Park on Wed, July 12 Further down along the Hudson on Weehawken’s waterfront, the Hudson River Performing Arts Center (HRPAC) at Lincoln Harbor Park near the Chart House restaurant is also hosting its summerlong concert series – also Singer Alicia Olatuja on Wednesdays at 7 pm performs Wed, July 26 – and it features some at Lincoln Harbor Park hot acts like the Cumbia Three venues featuring River Band, singer Alicia 20 acts. It’s been a huge Olatuja, The Hillbendundertaking, Weehawken ers presenting The Who’s Recreation Supervisor TOMMY; and Pedro Donna Daly says. Daly and Cortes Flamenco Soul. the Recreation Department

Jul 16 -- Big Mamou. Influences are Buckwheat Zydeco to Gram Parsons, Clifton Chenier to The Louvin Brothers with a dash of Johnny Cash Jul 23 -- Boulevard East Collective. Bassist Rob Rolling with vocalist Caroline Guglielmi and Tino Stewart, guitarist Jim Savitt and drummer Paul Pizzuti Jul 30 -- Joe Ruddick Quartet.

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Aug 6 -- The Annie Minogue Band ~ Opening Act Violet.

Energizing Sound. Gutsy rock attitude Aug 13 -- Donna Coney Island & South Street Station.

Classic rock with tinges of country Aug 20 -- Anthony Bez. Classical and flamenco guitarist Aug 27 -- The Joni Project.

Fresh interpretations of Joni Mitchell’s legendary works Sept 3 -- Zaccai Curtis Quartet. Originals with Curtis Brothers Quartet Cont’d on page 8

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Cont’d from page 7 Pershing Park Concert Series Wednesdays, 6-8 pm July 5 -- Flamenco Latino.

Tangos and rumba forms of Flamenco with influences from Caribbean and Latin American countries

Aug 16 -- Maxima Alerta.

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Jul 19 -- Joe Cimino’s Rubber Room. Unique mix of cover songs and originals

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Aug 2 -- Weehawken Jazz All Stars. Weehawken residents who have played with a Who’s Who of jazz

Aug 30 -- Weehawken Singer/ Songwriter Night. Original tunes performed by local musicians

WED, JULY 12 – The Cumbia River Band. Colombian Cumbia music from golden years of Latin American music

WED July 26 – Alicia Olatuja. Praised by The New York Times as “a singer with a strong and luscious tone ...”

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WED, AUG 9 – The Hillbenders Presenting the Who’s Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry.

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July 2017 Cultural Happenings in & around Hudson Center Casa Colombo present PRO ARTS CURATOR’S CHOICE SHOW featuring the work of eight artists selected by eight professional curators from the Metropolitan area during a one-day portfolio review. Artists featured are: Amy Becker, Anthony E. Boone, Michael Endy, Allan Gorman, Cheryl Gross, Kerry Kolenut, Daryl-Ann Saunders, and Suprina Sculpt.”

(Pictured: The Yellow Priest by Cheryl Gross.)

THEATER

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK, Hamilton Park, JC. Thurs, Jul 20, 7-9 pm: ROMEO AND JULIET. “Think you know the most famous love story in history? Think again. The lovers are only the first layer in a web of lies and betrayals on a journey of violence between the Capulets and Montagues. Updated to the 1990s, and set to a grunge soundtrack, Romeo and Juliet struggle to escape their families’ histories and a cycle of hate that has been going on for so long that no one can remember how it began.”

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BERRY LANE PARK CONCERT SERIES, Berry Lane Park, Garfield & Woodward Aves, JC. Wed, Jul 12, 5-8 pm, ADAM FALCON. Jul 19, 5-8 pm: RIGHTY AND AMBROSIA W/PLAYIN & SYMPLE. Jul 26, 5-8 pm: VIVIAN SESSIONS and FIRST LIFE. Berry Lane Park is located close to the Garfield Ave. stop on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. (Pictured: ADAM FALCON.) LINCOLN PARK LIVE – MUSIC AT THE FOUNTAIN, West Side Ave, JC. “Lincoln Park Live – Music at the Fountain is an eight-night music

series featuring some of the most talented musicians in Hudson.

The evenings are free and family friendly, with a beautiful backdrop of a sunset behind the fountain and Pulaski Skyway. Bring blankets and low lawn chairs and pack a picnic or purchase delicious food from our curated selection of food vendors. See you at the Fountain!” Wed, Jul 12: THE ONE AND NINES. Wed, Jul 26: PEDRO CORTES AND FRIENDS. Wed, Aug 9 – WINARD HARPER & JELI POSSE. Wed, Aug 23: JACKIE GAGE. Wed, Sept. 13: ZYDECO REVELATORS. Wed, Sept 27: DAVID CEDENO AND HIS ORCHESTRA.” All concerts will be held from 7-9 pm. Sponsored by West Side Arts and Music. (Pictured: THE ONE AND NINES.)

JAZZ IN THE PARK, J. Owen Grundy Park, JC. (201) 5476921. www.jerseycityculture. org. Thurs, Jul 13, 12-2 pm.

THE FUNKY ORGANICS; Thurs, Jul 20, 12-2 pm: BRYAN BENINGHOVE; Thurs, Jul 27, 12-2 pm: ANDREA BRACHFIELD; Thurs, Aug. 3, 12-2 pm: WALTER PARKS. (In case of rain, concerts will be held in the Harborside Atrium, 34 Exchange Pl, JC.) All events are free and family-friendly. (Pictured: Walter Parks.)

SUMMERFEST SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES, Liberty State Park, JC. All concerts are held on Sundays, 5-7 pm. Jul 9: MIGHTY SPECTRUM BAND.

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Jul 16: ANDRAE MURCHISON. Jul 23: THE BRITISH INVASION EXPERIENCE. Jul 30: UNBROTHERS. Aug 6: EPICSOUL Band. Aug 13: LA CHARANGA 76. Aug 20: SCOTT WOLFSON AND OTHER HEROES. Aug 27: THE FUNKTION BAND. (Pictured: MIGHTY SPECTRUM BAND.)

SUMMERFEST TUESDAY CONCERT SERIES -- IN THE GARDEN, Liberty State Park, (The Gardens behind Liberty House Restaurant.) www. jerseycityculture.org. (201) 5476921. JC. Outdoor concerts July & August, Tuesdays, 5-7 pm. Jul 11: WILMA ANN AND THE JAZZ DISCIPLES. Jul 18: THE DYNAMICS. Jul 25: SPIRIT OF LIFE JAZZ ENSEMBLE. Aug 8: THE NEW YORK EXCEPTIONS. Aug 15: KAREEM WALKS. Aug. 22: LAUREN SHUB. Aug. 29: GORDON JAMES (pictured).

Jul 17: PETE’S DRAGON @ Canco Veterans Memorial Park.

Thurs, Jul 20: MONSTERS UNIVERSITY @ Columbia Park.

MOVIES UNDER THE STARS, Pier A, HOB. Running Wednesdays in July & August. (Note show times are 9 pm in July and 8 pm in August.) Wed, Jul 12: LA LA LAND. Wed, Jul 19: LION. Wed, Jul 26: THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, THE TOURING YEARS. Wed, Aug. 2: TROLLS. Wed, Aug. 9: THE BOSS BABY. Wed, Aug. 16: SING, with a pre-movie performance by Pre-school of Rock. Movies Under the Stars is presented by the City of Hoboken, Projected Images of Hudson County, and the Hudson County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs. (Pictured: The Beatles.)

MANA CONTEMPORARY, 888 Newark Ave, JC. 3rd Fl. Gallery, through Aug 26. ESKFF presents CHITTROVANU MAZUMDAR: UNDATED NIGHTSKIN. “In undated Nightskin, Indo-French artist Chittrovanu Mazumdar explores the creation and erasure of memory through his installations. The contrast between illumination and darkness forms a central axis in his work, which is punctuated by a sense of disembodiment and meditations on the subjective experience of time.”

GUTTENBERG ARTS CENTER, 6903 Jackson St, GTNBRG;www.guttenbergarts. org. Current Summer Artists in Residence: Anne Muntages, Florian Nitsch, and Yong Soon Min.

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Mon, Jul 10: ANGRY BIRDS @ Thomas McGovern Park. Thurs, Jul 13: THE WIZARD OF OZ @ Leonard Gordon Park. Mon,

CASA COLOMBO, 380 Monmouth St, JC. www.casacolombo.org. www.proartsjerseycity. org. Through July 9: “Pro Arts Jersey City, together with the Italian Educational & Cultural

NOVADO GALLERY, Contemporary Art, Design & Ceramics, 110 Morgan St, JC. www. novadogallery.com. Jun 29-Jul 9: A COLORFUL INTERMISSION: GALLERY ARTISTS and A WORK IN PROGRESS:

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CRAIG AIKEN AND MICAH WALKER. Fri, Jul 7, 10-11:59 pm: PAUL SANCHEZ. Sat, Jul 8, 10-11:59 pm: JOCELYN MEDINA QUARTET. Thurs, July 13, 8-10 pm: PIERCE EDENS. Fri, Jul 14, 10-11:59 pm: ABBIE GARDNER. Sat, Jul 15: JASON GREEN AND THE LABOR OF LOVE.

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Anne Novado constructs a painting (glass corridor wing). Jul 14Aug 18, B&W: GROUP SHOW featuring Caroline Burton, Heidi Curko, Luca Cusolto, Carlos Frias, Mary Giehl, Henny Harmon, Pat Lay, Sarah McCoubrey, Anne Novado, Steve Pearlman, Juan Perdiguero and Pamela Wallace. (Artist Reception Fri, Jul 21, 6-8 pm.)

series of monthly solo and dualartist exhibitions.”

AT THE CLUBS 107 BOWERS GALLERY & ARTSPACE, 107 Bowers St, JC, (201) 280-04821, kd@107bowersgallery.com.

Through July 29; Sat/Sun, 11 am - 4 pm: NOTES FROM ABROAD, Works by Claudia Alvarez, Quentin Williamston andMeridith McNeal.

DEEP SPACE GALLERY, 77 Cornelison Ave, JC. Through July 29: RAPT. New works by Loren Abbate. “The gallery features the work of emerging and well-established artists in a

FOX & CROW, 594 Palisade Ave, JC, www.foxandcrowjc. com. Sat, Jul 1, 10-11:59 pm: ANDREA BRACHFELD. Sun, Jul rdf& 9, 5-8 pm: ADAM MELCHOR/Acoustic Set in Front Bar. Thurs, Jul 6, 8-11 pm (and every first Thursday of the month): WALTER PARKS,

BRIGHTSIDE TAVERN, 141 Bright St, JC. Every first Monday of the month, RJO All Stars Jam Session at 7:30 pm. www.riverviewjazz.org. Mon: Jazz Jam Session; Tues & Wed: Karaoke; Thurs: Open Mic Night; Fri: Comedy, Private Parties, Dance, Karaoke, Open Mic; Sat & Sun, Brunch, Private Parties, Dance, Karaoke, Open Mic.

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Newark Ave, JC. www.wordbookstores.com. Jul 8 at 11 am: Beginning Readers Book Club reads FROG AND TOAD ARE FRIENDS. Jul 15 at 11 am: Middle Readers Book Club reads SKELLIG.

LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER, Liberty State Park, 222 Jersey City Boulevard, JC. (201) 2001000; www.lsc.org. Through Aug 27: ILLUSION: NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. “Get ready for an exhibition that will blow your mind! Illusion: Nothing Is As It Seems is designed to make you question your perception of the world around you, and perhaps reality itself. The exhibition’s dozens of thought-provoking exhibits explore principles rooted in magic, art, neuroscience, physics, biology, psychology, and technology. Gaze into a mirror and watch yourself morph into your inner animal. See how theater, haunted houses, Cont’d on page 15

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HEAR YE, HEAR YE! COMETH TO BOHO FOR SOME FUNETH Visit the Bayonne Renaissance Festival on July 22nd for some Medieval Fun! Where Pirates Sing, Knights Joust, and a Magician Breathes Fire in a Kilt

By Sally Deering Theater troupes have a passion for costumed period pieces and the Bayonne Theater Company has gone back to the Middle Ages to bring Boho residents and visitors some rollicking medieval fun.

The 2nd annual Bayonne Renaissance Festival happens Sat, July 22nd from noon to 7 pm and much of the entertainment is a step back in time. For instance, when was the last time you witnessed a joust, watched a pirate sing and dance, or caught a Celtic Magician dressed in a kilt breathe fire?

That’s just some of the fun Adam J. Semanchick, President of the Bayonne Theater Company and the Bayonne Renaissance Committee has up their chain mail sleeves when they turn the G. Thomas DiDomenico Park into an amphitheater filled with music, Shakespeare, games, food and lots of medieval shenanigans.

This is the second year for the Bayonne Renaissance Festival and Semanchick says 2017 is going to be a banner year for the event with more entertainment, more concessions, more children’s activities and special offerings for the adults, too.

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The Bayonne Renaissance Committee best wench and knight imitations along with a special Shakespeare performance of LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST by Stratford-UponDuncan in Jersey City.

“The theater company has only been around three years,” Semanchick says.

“We just did GOD by Woody Allen. It was wellattended. We did HOORAY Flanked by fans, Bayonne FOR HOMOCIDE, a murder mystery. This started as City Council members a Shakespeare in the Park Gary LePelusa and Sal event and before you knew Gullace it, we were running a Retheir vows will get their naissance Festival. Our first chance to say “I Do” once year we started out small. again at the Vow Renewal We’re getting bigger as we tent run by Gia Pace. go. People join us and stick “We’ll have a little around.” service; it will be RenaisThree stages will be sance-themed,” Semanchset up in DiDomenico ick says. “It’s the first year Park with acts performwe’re doing it.” ing throughout the day, Moving things along Semanchick says. The throughout the day will be Gazebo will be used for the Bayonne Theater Shakespeare’s LOVE’S Company’s troupe of 30 LABOUR’S LOST by members performing their Page 14-July 1-July 15, 2017 River View Observer

Firebreather Daniel GreenWolf Stratford-Upon-Duncan.

Other entertainers include Firebreather Daniel GreenWolf.

“This year we’re adding jousting, archery, a blacksmith, a fiddler, a bar band, and a local art show,” Semanchick says. “Our art curator Erin Kachmar runs the Jewish Community Center Art Gallery in Bayonne. About 30 artists, all Bayonne & JC artists., will be displaying their works.”

BCB Bank and Carepoint Health are sponsors for this year’s event, Semanchick says, and the theater company has been scouting acts for the event.

“We’ve been pulling acts from other Renaissance Festivals,” Semanchick says. “We’ve been scouting around and and got to meet some really cool acts. And we brought every act back from last year.”

Pirate Charles Waldron from Valhalla Pirates with Gabriel DeMaria Along with firebreather Daniel GreenWolf, other entertainers will be knifethrower Doug Stafford who also does the Philadelphia Renaissance Fair; the Valhalla Pirates featuring live cannon fire. (The leader of the Pirate crew is chiropractor Charles Waldron of Bayonne.) The Knights of Avalon will perform sword fights and the Crimson Pirates featuring Dan O’Driscoll of Bayonne will also be featured. Another musical act to take the stage will be Three Pints Shy. “They’re a really funny band,” Semanchick says.

“They’re from Manhattan.

They’ve been at the the New York Renaissance Fair for more than 10 years.”

Also on hand, Blacksmith G. Paul Salvetti from the Red Mill Museum in Clifton and archery by Jersey City Archery.

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NEWARK MUSEUM, 49 Washington St, Newark, NJ. (973) 596-6550; www.newarkmuseum.org. Through Aug 2: 2017 NEWARK BLACK FILM FESTIVAL. “Since its inception in 1974, the Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF) has become known among its peers as the longest running black film festival in the United States. Throughout the years, it has continued to provide a progressive public forum for hundreds of emerging writers, directors, producers, performers and film buffs who enjoy African American and African Diaspora cinema. Screening in the summer months, the films that are shown reflect the full diversity of the black experience in America, both past and present. Each film selection encompasses a wide range of cinematic forms and formulas, from documentary to the avant-garde, for youth and adults. The festival also features the Paul Robeson awards, a biennial competition which will be held in 2018.The Festival is free of charge to the public and receives funding in the form of special grants from foundations and corporations.

Jul 5: QUEEN OF KATWE. Jul 12: STEPS. Jul 19: SHASHAMONE. Jul 26: MILLIE & THE LORDS. Aug 2: GET IN THE WAY: THE JOURNEY OF JOHN LEWIS.

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There will be a costume contest, and more than 30 vendors selling food, drinks, fairy wings and flower crowns. The Vic Tavern of Bayonne will have a beer garden set up and an art show is also planned.

In addition, jousting will be performed by knights of the Round Table Productions of Pennsylvania.

“They’re high profile,” Semanchick says. “They used to do the Renaissance Fair in New York.”

If you go Sat, Jul 22, from noon to 7 pm Bayonne Renaissance Festival 2017 G. Thomas DiDomenico Park 375-409 Ave “A” (16th Street), BOHO Admission: $10 adults; Children 16 & under admitted free.

For more info: (201) 780-8378 BayonneRenFest@gmail.com www.facebook.com/bayonnerenfest

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