16 - ARTS IN THE PARK • SUMMER/FALL 2022
Seagle Festival celebrates 107th year
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SCHROON LAKE _ Seagle Festival will celebrate its 107th season in 2022, continuing as the premiere opera and musical theatre producing organization in the Adirondack region, as well as the oldest summer vocal training program in the U.S. After a cancelled 2020 season and a highly adjusted 2021 season due to the pandemic, Seagle Festival is thrilled to return to a more typical summer and early fall season for 2022. The four-show mainstage summer season includes the blockbuster musical Hello, Dolly!, by Jerry Herman, and a double bill of two one-act Italian operas by Giacomo Puccini - Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. The mainstage season will continue with the North Country premiere of Fellow Travelers, an American opera premiered in 2016 by Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce. This frequently performed new opera tells the tumultuous love story of two men working in the U.S. Government during the “Lavender Scare” of the 1950’s McCarthy Era. The mainstage summer season will wrap up with Once Upon A Mattress, the re-telling of the Princess and the Pea story by Mary Rodgers. Through the summer and into the school year, Seagle Festival will continue its focus on cultivating new audiences by presenting the children’s opera The Three Bears by Jonathan Stinson. Also touring the region in the early fall will be a revue of music of the esteemed late composer Stephen Sondheim. All the summer and fall productions will feature the 32 extremely talented 2022 Seagle Festival emerging artists, an elite group chosen from a field of hundreds of applicants. Alongside the performances, the emerging artists will participate in career training to help propel them into their professional careers. More details online at seaglefesitval.org or by calling 518532-7875.
East Branch Friends of the Arts
World class arts and music in the heart of the High Peaks For more info: eastbranchfriendsofthearts.com Gabrielle Stravelli Quartet
Berta Rojas
World renowned Paraguayan classical guitarist September 17 - 7:30pm Keene Valley Congregational Church
Cole Quest and the City Pickers
Award winning NYC based Jazz vocalist June 18 - 8:00pm Recovery Lounge
Woody Guthrie’s grandson and his outstanding bluegrass group
In collaboration with Upper Jay Arts Center
Keene Valley Congregational Church
August 20 - 8:00pm
Honeysuckle
Folk and Americana traditions with a creative twist
October 8 - 7:30pm
Keene Valley Congregational Church
