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16 - ARTS IN THE PARK • SUMMER/FALL 2022
Seagle Festival celebrates 107th year
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
Award winning NYC based Jazz vocalist June 18 - 8:00pm Recovery Lounge
In collaboration with Upper Jay Arts Center
Cole Quest and the City Pickers
Woody Guthrie’s grandson and his outstanding bluegrass group August 20 - 8:00pm Keene Valley Congregational Church
Berta Rojas
World renowned Paraguayan classical guitarist September 17 - 7:30pm Keene Valley Congregational Church
Honeysuckle
Folk and Americana traditions with a creative twist October 8 - 7:30pm Keene Valley Congregational Church
What’s going on
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world-music influences. 7 p.m., Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, 3446 State Route 28, Blue Mountain Lake. For more information and links to tickets, visit AdirondackArts.org.
Saturday, July 16
¯ Gallery: Catherine Hartung and
Damon Hartman — Featuring Catherine Hartung and Damon Hartman during the month of July. Located at 85 Main St., Saranac Lake. For hours and more info, visit www.northwindfineartsgallery.com.
¯ Book and Blanket Players: Little
Women, Concert Version — Hosted by East Branch Friends of the Arts, 4 p.m. at Keene Valley Country Club. An annual collaboration with a local music theater group that puts together a musical with kids as the singers-actors in a very intensive one week workshop. Visit www.eastbranchfriendsofthearts.com for more information.
Sunday, July 17
¯ Book and Blanket Players: Little
Women, Concert Version — Hosted by East Branch Friends of the Arts, 2 p.m. at Keene Valley Country Club. An annual collaboration with a local music theater group that puts together a musical with kids as the singers-actors in a very intensive one week workshop. Visit www.eastbranchfriendsofthearts.com for more information.
¯ Symphony Series: Lake Placid Sinfo-
nietta — 7:30 p.m. at Lake Placid Center for the Arts. More information, registration and ticketing can be found at lakeplacidarts. org or by calling 518-523-2512.
Monday, July 18
¯ Summer Sunset Series: Geo Beat — Jazz & Latin: Guitar, Vibraphone, and Percussion, 7 p.m., Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake.
Tuesday, July 19
¯ Keeseville Community Arts Festival
— Plein air painting July 19-22; community festival, art show and sale July 22-24. In the week leading up to the festival, visiting artists will be outdoors (rain or shine) painting the scenes in and around Keeseville. Artistry Community Threatre will be performing Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cindarella at the Keeseville Elk’s Lodge, with shows starting July 13 and running through the festival. For more information and a fuller schedule of events, visit www.adkaction.org/keeseville-community-arts-festival.
¯ Songs at Mirror Lake: Folk Rock
Night with Brett Dennen Trio — 7 p.m., Mid’s Park on Main Street, Lake Placid, free.
Wednesday, July 20
¯ Summer Sunset Series: Larry Lee
Ebere — Country Classics Spanning Six Decades; Chazy-based. 7 p.m., Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake. ¯ Young & Fun: Timbalooloo — 10:30 a.m. at Lake Placid Center for the Arts. More information, registration and ticketing can be found at lakeplacidarts.org or by calling 518-523-2512.
¯ Seagle Festival: “Suor Angelica” and
“Gianni Schicchi” — Sung in Italian with English supertitles. Two of the “Il trittico” trio of one-act operas by beloved composer Giacomo Puccini, of “La bohme” and “Madame Butterfly” fame, these operas are full of gorgeous arias and ensembles. “Suor Angelica” is an uplifting tale of religious redemption, while “Gianni Schicchi” is a hilarious farce full of greed and conniving. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Friday, at Oscar Seagle Memorial Theatre, 999 Charley Hill Road, Schroon Lake. More details at seaglefestival.org or call 518-532-7875.
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