Week of May 11 – May 17, 2018
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Entertainment
New Lunchtime
No time to Wallow in the Mire:
Concert Series
The Doors at Caffe Lena
Rochmon Record Club Punches up
Starts in May
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Rochmon Record Club hosts its monthly Listening Party at Caffe Lena on Tuesday, May 15. This month’s feature is the self-titled debut album by The Doors – recorded in just six days and released in 1967,
“The Doors” included the songs ‘Break on Through (To The Other Side’), ‘Light My Fire,’ and ‘The End.’ The event takes place at Caffe’ Lena, 47 Phila St. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 and available online at www.caffelena.org.
Local Actors Guild of Saratoga Stage Presents: An Evening of Original One-Act Plays Girl Blue, who will perform in a free lunchtime concert series this summer, sound-checking at Caffe Lena in 2017. Photo by Thomas Dimopoulos.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — A new free monthly music series kicks off May 15 with a performance by The Dylan Perrillo Orchestra at Saratoga Senior Center. The series schedule showcases performances through October. The concept behind the new series is to provide cultural offerings during midday and mid-week, says series organizer Jonathan Greene. The series, largely funded by a grant from Saratoga Arts, is free and open to the public. Concerts will start at 12:30 p.m. and are scheduled on the third Tuesday of each month. May 15 - Dylan Perrillo Orchestra. Ten-piece band that celebrates the beginnings of jazz performing arrangements of tunes from the 1920s to the 1940s. Saratoga Senior Center. June 19 - Orchard Project. A preeminent engine of new work in the theater world, helping over 200 shows develop and go on to stages as big as Broadway and as small as a basement in Sweden. Orchard Project has made
Saratoga Springs their summer home. Ben and Jerry’s (rain location: Saratoga Senior Center). July 17 - Girl Blue. Girl Blue is the pseudonym of singer and songwriter Arielle O’Keefe. Her first single “Fire Under Water” placed 7th on Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist, with over 1 million hits the first month. Ben and Jerry’s (rain location: Saratoga Senior Center). August 21 - Tame Pacific. Featuring members of internationally-noted but locallybased Wild Adriatic. Ben and Jerry’s (rain location: Saratoga Senior Center). September 18 - Rodeo Barons. Roots rock band with modern alternative influences. Saratoga Senior Center. October 16 - Heard. Original world music with jazz roots, influences from West Africa, Brazil, places in between and points beyond. Saratoga Senior Center. For more information on the series, visit the Lunchtime Concerts Facebook page: www. facebook.com/lunchtimeconcerts.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Local Actors Guild of Saratoga Presents: The New Play Festival 2.0 - An Evening of Original One-Acts May 11-13 and May 18-20, at Saratoga Art Center, 320 Broadway. Billed as “5 shows for the price of one,” the event includes: “Internal Partners,” by Steve Maggio - a brief look at a man who experiences anxiety attacks and
the way it affects his life and those around him; “The Hook-up,” by Ken Levine - a one-night hook-up goes hilariously awry when the guy discovers the girl has a webcam, and she later learns an even bigger secret; “Choices,” by JJ Buechner - a look at how one choice you make affects the rest of your life; “(un)Declared and (un)Certain,” by Michelle Kittel - societal demands placed on children from
the perspective of a mom and her oldest daughter, a new college freshman, and “Sickbed,” by Tim Gonyea, in which Janine returns to live at her childhood home during a sickness, confronting the past and her impending future. Performances are 8 p.m. on May 11, 12, 18 and 19, and 2 p.m. on May 13 and 20. Tickets are $20. For ticket reservations, call 518-393-3496.
Mothers to be Honored at Northshire Books on May 12 SARATOGA SPRINGS — Beyond Flowers and Candy: Honoring our Foremothers is the theme of an upcoming Mother’s Day reading at Northshire Books. Five local authors featured in the new anthology “Before They Were Our Mothers: Voices of Women Born Before Rosie Started Riveting,” will read from their work at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 12. The editor Patricia A. Nugent will introduce how the anthology was conceived. Constance Dodge, Catherine Ruggiero Lanci, Joyce Hunt Bouyea, Christy O’Callaghan, and Josephine Pasciullo will read
part of their real-life foremothers’ stories, ranging from 1907-1940. “Our goal is to encourage intergenerational storytelling,” Nugent said, in a statement. “As some of us have learned too late, you can’t Google your grandmother’s first heartbreak.” The presentation will include suggestions for getting conversations started with mothers to preserve their legacy.
The reading is free and open to the public. For more information, email B4TheyWereOurMothers@ gmail.com or call Northshire Bookstore at 518-682-4200.