D&H CANVAS August 2021

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Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Damascus, Ellenville & Marlboro

August 2021

art • cinema • dance • festivals • holistic living • music • opera • poetry • theatre

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Kudos to: Cornell Cooperative Master Gardeners of Orange County for their participating members’ floral arrangements interpreting Wallkill River School artists’ paintings in June.

It was a remarkable exhibit, with the floral arrangements “spreading out” and enhancing the size and beauty of the paintings, more than doubling the enjoyment and excitement of each and every “pair” of paintings/floral arrangements, melding each into one artwork: a medium in and of itself.

My favorite was Lily Norton’s inspired floral arrangement for artist Mitchell Saler’s Fireworks (see page 12).

Beverly Poyerd for her choices of piano solo works accompanying SUNY Orange Cultural Affairs’ Middletown Art Group’s virtual exhibit (July 1-Aug 19) making the often tedious viewing of a virtual exhibit as exciting, peaceful and retrospective as an in-person exhibit viewing.

Jim Eigo for his bringing an actual

by Barry Plaxen Synchronicity of the month: One Holocaust composer in Newburgh and four Holocaust composers in Hurleyville.

Vocabulary Lesson: Second Viennese School: The Second Viennese School is the group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, particularly Alban Berg and Anton von Webern, and close associates in early 20thcentury Vienna.Their music was initially characterized by late-Romantic expanded tonality and later by atonality.

Cajon: a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces with the hands.

Highlights of the Month: World famous astronomer Carl Sagan and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in Damascus.

Opera Cowgirls in Callicoon Center.

Festival Day for vinyl LPs to Warwick in both June and July. Many record collectors traveled from far and wide to Warwick for these events.

In this issue: Art in Milford, Newburgh, Port Jervis, Warwick, and Wurtsboro. Art-making in Hurleyville. Art-journaling in Shohola; Festivals/Fairs in Bethel, Livingston Manor, Mountaindale and Pine Bush; Poetry in Campbell Hall and Highland Mills; Live Theatre in Damascus, Ellenville, Forestburgh, Goshen and Sugar Loaf; History in Grahamsville, Magic in Walden; and Music EVERYWHERE! It takes an extended family to create a monthly arts newspaper, and without the help, assistance, input and creativity of our many “submitters” and their expertise and time-consuming efforts, CANVAS would not exist. Our heartfelt thanks to all those who take the time to supply us with information.

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STORIES Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh ��������������������9 Artery Gallery, Milford ���������������������������������5 Artists’ Market Community Center, Shohola 18 Farm Arts Collective, Damascus ����������������3 Delaware Valley Opera �������������������������������6 Forestburgh Playhouse ����������������������������17 Goshen Green Farm ��������������������������16, 20 Hudson Valley Film Festival ���������������������16 Hudson Valley Jazz Festival ���������������������19 Hudson Valley String Quartet ���������������������6 Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre �������4, 22

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“Dream on the Farm” August 4 to August 8 See page 3 photo provided by Farm Arts Collective In Memoriam: Joseph A. Di Bello �������������� 15 Jackie Horner Memorabilia Auction ����������� 21 Josephine-Louise Public Library, Walden ��16 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford ������������������������9 Liberty Museum & Arts Center �����������������21 Mamakating Environmental Education Ctr. 16 Michael Piotrowski, artist ����������������������8, 18 Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh ������23 Newburgh Chamber Music �����������������������21 On the Lawn, Sugar Loaf �������������������������19 Orange County Arts Council ���������3, 4, 9, 18 Pine Bush First Fridays ������������������������������5 Phillipsport Community Center �����������������18 Poplar Grove Cemetery, Phillipsport ����������9 Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh �������������������4 River Valley Artists Guild, Port Jervis �������20 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville �������������������7 Shandelee Music Festival ������������������������10 St. Joseph’s Church, Wurtsboro �����������������6 String Trio of New York �������������������������������4 Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center ������������7 Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra ��������22 Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville 16 Upfront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis �������19 Warwick Drive-In Theater ���������������������3, 16 Woodbury Public Library, Highland Mills ����9 Wurtsboro Art Alliance ��������������������������������8

Art @ the Drive-In Going to the movies in Warwick?

Every night through August 14, the Warwick Drive In will be screening artwork from Orange County high school “Self Portrait” (wood, students before fabric & stone) by Madeleine Curley, the first film and Pine Bush H.S. again during the intermission. Since July, seventeen schools participated in this first ever showcase at a drive in theatre, the Orange County Arts Council’s Student Art Showcase.

Soundtrack music for each school features original compositions by the group A.M.P. Attendees at the drive in will be given QR code information to direct them to the Council’s website where they can access details of each student’s submission.

Take your time and enjoy the gifted, talented and inspired students of Orange County when seeing the films at the Drive In! If you have any questions, email education@ocartscouncil.org

Let “Carl Sagan” & “Lynn Margulis” Take You On a Tour Farm Arts Collective (FAC), an ensemble of “perfarmers” will premiere its newest performance installment of Dream on the Farm.

FAC artistic director Tannis Kowalchuk is a long-time theatre maker and co-owner of Willow Wisp Organic Farm. She has attracted and trained an ensemble of over 25 actors, musicians, stilt walkers and writers (many of them farmers) to create original site-specific performances.

Kowalchuk and the ensemble have committed to presenting a decalogue of plays about climate change from 20202030. The decalogue is titled Dream on the Farm and this August will be the second performance installment of the series.

The collective operates out of a theatre venue located in a greenhouse on Willow Wisp Organic Farm and was founded as an agri-cultural organization in 2018 with a mission to intersect farming, performance, food, and ecology as lifesustaining practice for the community.

The Dream on the Farm 2021 storyline follows the journey of two scientists, Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis (American scientists who were, at one time, married). The microbiologist and the

astronomer, played by Jess Beveridge and Hudson Williams-Eynon, are reunited in a boxing ring by a ringmaster referee played by Kowalchuk to compete in a sport in which the referee challenges them to “help save life on the planet.”

The adventure follows the two scientists who are tasked to take a competitive fact-finding journey across the farm (with the audience in tow).

Margulis meets a microbe on the farm’s Hudson Williams-Eynon and compost pile; a funghi on a decomposing Jess Beveridge as“Sagan” and “Margulis” log; an exhausted hungry on themes that explore the butterfly singing her lament in world through two lenses: the a field of flowers; and a corn microscope and the telescope. escaping the monoculture of The competition concludes an industrial farm. with the scientists presenting On the other side of the farm, their findings to the judges in a Sagan meets the Atmosphere, climatic dance of ecology, and a beatnik in a greenhouse the results deliver a climate smoking a hookah; the change message that is urgent Hydrosphere, a dancing stilt and poignant. walker kicking up a storm; and Dream on the Farm runs Sonny, a man designing a way to escape planet earth, like Kowalchuk a.k.a. the August 4-8 at 7:00pm at a billionaire space explorer “ringmaster referee” Willow Wisp Organic Farm, 38 Hickory Lane, Damascus, PA, 5 (except he is not a billionaire!).

The performance, filled with original minutes across the Delaware River from music played live by musicians and Callicoon.

For tix: www.farmartscollective.org composed by ensemble composers For more information: 917-566-7698.

Doug Rogers and Rima Fand draws

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O.C. Live Presents S3NY Orange County Arts Council’s (OCAC) music committee, composed of professional musicians throughout the region, have developed a creative solution to support musicians. O.C. Live offers musicians the opportunity to directly connect with audiences, and provides our community with enriching local performances.

Now hybrid, audiences can attend in person or tune in to OCAC’s social media to listen to the local musicians.

The audience is able to learn and connect with musicians during interviews conducted during the intermission.

Formed by three artists who honed their musical skills during the legendary era of “loft jazz” in New York in the early 1970s, the String Trio of New York is one of contemporary music’s most enduring chamber ensembles.

Guitarist James Emery, bassist John Lindberg and the late violinist Billy Bang co-founded the groundbreaking ensemble amid New York’s next fertile phase, the “Downtown Scene”. Forging the path for the genre-defying Jazz, Western Classical and World Musicinformed Chamber discipline that is so prevalent in today’s adventurous musical environment, the S3NY has remained

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Rob Thomas, Tony Marino & James Emery

active and thriving over its entire 40year history.

One the most creative chamber ensembles in contemporary jazz, the S3NY is now comprised of guitarist James Emery, violinist Rob Thomas and bassist Tony Marino.

S3NY performs live in the Ritz Theatre Lobby, 107 Broadway, Newburgh, on August 14 at 2:00pm.

For tickets or to watch virtually, visit: www.ocartscouncil.org The OCAC music committee includes Dion Placencia, Neil Alexander, Everett Collie, Aeden Lebron, Tom Kennedy, and Waylen Roche.

O.C. Live will offer concerts in Goshen and Newburgh in August. For a complete listing, visit www.ocartscouncil.org

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Hurleyville: LEIMAY Residency Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre (HPAC) is hosting multidisciplinary artists Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya with their New York City-based LEIMAY Ensemble for a performing and teaching residency, August 4-14.

LEIMAY will present an outdoor public art work, lead workshops and discussions that offer multiple opportunities to engage through embodied dialogue with the artists while they are in residency.

LEIMAY is a Japanese term symbolizing the moment of change as in the moment between darkness and the light of dawn, or the transition from one era to the other. Founders Garnica and Moriya are a Colombian and Japanese artist duo working in the visual and performing arts. Their work is rooted in questions of being, perception, interdependency, and coexistence.

They look to expose the multiplicity of spatial and temporal intervals that exist within the body, between materials and

environments.

Ensemble members at HPAC include: Masanori Asahara, a Japanese born dancer, choreographer and improvisation artist; Ricardo Bustamante, a Colombian born dancer, choreographer and dance teacher; Krystel Copper, a second-generation immigrant dance artist born to parents from Argentina and Portugal; Irena Romendik, a Ukrainian visual artist based in Brooklyn for the past two decades; and Jeremy D. Slater, an intermedia artist working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, installation, and words.

All workshops are bilingual (English/ Spanish) and outdoors if weather permits.

Refreshments and facilities are available.

Prices for workshops, performances and dinners range from free to $40 per event.

For a full schedule and to register, visit www.hurleyvilleartscentre.org.

HPAC is located at 219 Main Street, Hurleyville. For further information, call 845-985-4722.

Pine Bush: First Fridays, Music, UFOs

“Artists’ Notes” at the ARTery Gallery

Supported by the Town Summer Concert at the of Crawford and the Gazebo from 7:00pm Pine Bush Chamber of -9:00pm. Popular local Commerce, local artists, classic rock, blues & artisans, makers and country ensemble, musicians are showcased Side F/X Band will along the Main Street perform. sidewalk and Gazebo Bring a chair or area of downtown blanket!

Bring a snack, Aug. 6: Side F/X Band Pine Bush on the first or consider grabbing Fridays of months May dinner to-go from a to December from restaurant on Main 4:00pm-7:00pm. It’s a Street. There are also wonderful opportunity two restaurants right to stroll the sidewalks of on the premises with a quaint town’s historic outdoor tables. district!

In addition, from Visitors are invited Tuesdays through Aug. 13: Midnight Slim & LaurieAnne to explore the hamlet’s Sundays, the Pine Bush local small businesses UFO & Paranormal and restaurants, many of Museum offers regular whom offer specials just interactive tours. During for the event. Eat, drink, the guided walk-though, and browse the vendors’ groups are led through unique wares, as you numerous displays enjoy live music by local and exhibits, each talent! depicting a mysterious Plus, an August-Only Aug. 20: The Dan Brother Band and inexplicable event bonus: The August 6, 4:00pm-7:00pm reported in New York’s Hudson Valley.

First-Friday event will be directly You can reserve tickets for guided followed by the Town’s Family Night tours online at pinebushmuseum.com

The ARTery Gallery Working with acrylic, presents Artists’ Notes ink and mixed media, featuring the works of she expresses a range Laura Dudes and Claude of emotion, thought and Larson. This collective feeling of newly found exhibit showcases colorful freedom. works in acrylic, textile Claude Larson’s style and mixed media. A delight is represented in both to the eye and food for the abstracted and nonsoul, these creations have representational work. something for everyone to Her intention is to evoke take in and enjoy. feelings of both calm and Through short videos, joyful energy through viewable from your the use of color, shape “Stay Calm” by Laura Dudes smartphone, each artist and pattern. She is shares their inspiration delighted to be sharing and creative practice. her artistic process in Experience the artwork this interactive show as from Laura and Claude’s she debuts over forty personal perspectives. new works.

Visitors are welcome Show dates run to add their own words from August 12 to or sketches in this September 6. Meet the interactive exhibit, with artists at the opening materials supplied at the reception on August 14 gallery. from 6:00pm-9:00pm Laura Dudes has at the ARTery Gallery, “Contemplations Series”

by Claude Larson pivoted from her usual 210 Broad Street, Milford process of using photographic reference. PA. Refreshments will be served.

For this exhibit, her paintings are For more information, call 570-409created strictly from her imagination. 1234 or visit arterygallery.com.

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Opera Cowgirls in Callicoon Center

by Barry Plaxen After seeing the notice from Delaware Valley Opera (DVO) that the Opera Cowgirls were performing for them in August, I asked for a description of the ensemble.

“Oh, how to describe the Opera Cowgirls! Perhaps the best description is: ‘Rossini meets Nashville?’,” was the response from DVO. “Here’s a clip from one of their concerts (they invited a guest “tap dancer” for this performance): https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=eKR2BKlGWks. So I clicked on the link. The result?

Well, watching a soprano sing Rossini’s Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville while a tap dancer strutted his stuff, I could not help but smile all the way through the delightful tidbit. “More!

More!” I wanted more. I just had to watch other YouTube suggestions.

My smile never faded as I watched a Cowgirl sing the Habanera from Carmen accompanied by a banjolele, mandolin, cello (plunked, not bowed), miniaccordion, a tambourine and dulcimer.

More fun!

The Opera Cowgirls have been delighting audiences with their clever

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The Opera Cowgirls are galloping to Callicoon Center August 14 & 15!

blend of opera, country, and rock, truly bringing Grand Opera to the Grand Ole Opry, melding The Three Tenors with The Dixie Chicks!

The DVO’s end-of-the-summer gig is a rollicking concert by the Opera Cowgirls: Divas! Dolly! Done Me Wrong! that they know you’ll absolutely love.

The “Cowgirls” perform for the DVO on August 14 at 8:00pm and August 15 at 2:00pm in the performance barn at Callicoon Hills, 1 Hills Resort Road, Callicoon Center. Tickets can be purchased at: www.myrivertickets.com/ categories/concerts Pre and post opera dinners across the street in the Conover Club Restaurant can be made at www.callicoonhills.com.

Show your ticket or program and get a 10% discount.

For information: 845-482-2420.

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Multi-Generational Art in Wurtsboro Every year, the Ave Maria Guild of St. Joseph’s Church in Wurtsboro sponsors an Annual Parish Art Show.

Artworks by adults, teens and kids grades 9-12, 5-8 and K-4 are displayed.

Prizes are awarded in all age various categories, and you, the viewing public, are the voters!

The artworks can be seen August 7 from Noon to 8:00pm and August 8

from 10am to 6:00pm in St. Joseph’s Summer Church Hall, 180 Sullivan Street. All purchased artwork benefits the Guild.

Then, on August 9 from 7:00pm8:00pm, category prizes and 50/50 raffle baskets will be awarded.

Refreshments are also on sale. Masks are optional for those who are vaccinated.

Visit www.stjosephwurtsboro.com

One Rare & Two Well-known Quartets Hans Krása (1899-1944) was a Czech composer, murdered during the Holocaust at Auschwitz.

He helped to organize the well-documented cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Krása, whose primary influences were Mahler, Schoenberg and Zemlinsky, also felt an affinity with French music, especially the group of composers known as Les Six, and made a number of trips to France to study under Roussel. His rarely heard String Quartet, Op. 2 (1921), which conjures up sounds of Jazz and the second Viennese School, will be performed alongside two of the world’s most popular quartets, both by Czech composers,

Smetana’s Quartet #1 “From my Life” and two movements of Dvorak’s String Quartet #12, “The American”, for which he uses the bird songs, spirituals, and folksongs of small-town Iowa in the 1890s as melodic inspiration for this joyful, energetic work.

The Hudson Valley String Quartet will be performing Music from Bohemia on August 6 at 5:30pm at Temple Beth Jacob, 290 North Street, Newburgh.

This is an outdoor concert (indoors if rain). Tickets support the work of the JCC of Newburgh. For tickets, visit: www.newburghjcc.org/annual-outdoorshabbat.html

Ellenville’s Shadowland Stages: 37 Plays in 97 Minutes Shadowland Stages announces the return of live theatre (and live audiences) with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] to be joyously performed on The Main Stage.

This first production back celebrates theatre itself in this hilarious romp.

Artistic Director Brendan Burke said, “We’re thrilled to be able to re-open our doors and to produce this play, gathering together to celebrate theatre and the communal magic only live theatre can provide.”

With a script by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, and with Burke directing, the play can best be described as: 3 actors. 37 plays. 97 minutes.

“They said it couldn’t be done. Or maybe they said it shouldn’t be done.

Either way, we’re doin’ it! Three madcap ‘scholars’ in tights perform the entire Shakespeare canon in this hilarious irreverent romp,” said Elena K. Holy, Managing Director.

Proof of full Covid-19 vaccination with an FDA or WHO authorized vaccine is required for entry. Guests under the age of 12 and those guests who are unvaccinated due to a disability will be required to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72

hours of the performance start time, or a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within 6 hours of the performance start time in order to enter the theatre.

Additional information on the vaccination requirements and safety protocols may be found at ShadowlandStages.org/faqs/.

Shadowland’s patrons will be welcomed back by a fully-vaccinated cast, crew, and staff; and staff who interact with patrons will be masked at all times. Patrons are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance, so that they can enjoy touchless entry.

The show previews August 13 at 8:00pm with an Opening Night celebration following the August 14, 8:00pm performance.

Shows continue through September 5 at 157 Canal Street, Ellenville.

Note: there will not be a THE CAST: “First Saturday” matinee James Taylor Odom Julia Register Brandon Rubin performance for this show Purchase tickets in advance at www. so that all may enjoy The Blueberry ShadowlandStages.org or call the box Festival in Ellenville prior to Opening office: 845-647-5511. Box office walkNight. up sales begin two hours prior to show.

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center: 14 Plays in 140 Minutes link for the streaming The 5th Annual Orange presentation can be found County International 10 at: www.10minplaysfest.

Minute Play Festival has com/events. They will also selected fourteen plays be posted to YouTube for the for presentation on two following week allowing evenings. worldwide viewing.

This year 186 playwrights “Actors and directors from all over the world from the Hudson Valley submitted scripts. The have joined to stage each of selection committee of the plays in our state of the distinguished professionals art theater,” said Festival chose fourteen plays.

Paul Ellis Director/Producer Paul Each evening seven plays will be presented for a live audience Ellis. “The Sugar Loaf Performing and streamed live to the internet. The Arts Center is pleased to have this

exciting event as part of the summer events this season.”

The Festival takes place on August 6 & 7 at 7:30pm in the Pavilion at the Sugar Loaf Arts Performing Center, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf.

This program is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

For information or to reserve tickets: https://10minplaysfest.com/events

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May I Have A Word With You...

Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky Who Will Date You? The words and phrases you use, that’s who!

An online culture and lifestyle website provides a list of words and phrases that label you OLD and prompt an instant eyeroll from the under 30 crowd: I’ll be there with bells on, pardon my French, mobile phone, slacks, dungarees, pocketbook, drugstore, pantyhose and tape. “Please tape the game if I’m not home in time.”

I asked 25 year old Reuben what word he and his friends would use instead of ‘tape’. His answer: “I’d use ‘record’ instead of ‘tape’ but the real answer is that people my age don’t have cable so they don’t say things like that.”

Thank you, Reuben. You’ve made me happy as a clam.

Innocent of Outcome On a July morning in 1997, the last day of his life, fashion designer Gianni Versace walked the few blocks from his daily coffee at News Café to his mansion, both on Ocean Drive in South Beach, Florida.

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Five years earlier, I sat at the News Café and wrote in a matchbook sized diary: The News Café is the epicenter of South Beach society. From an outside table, we watch motorcyclists, rollerbladers, beautiful bodies of all genders, and waiters dashing every which way, balancing huge salad bowls and frothy cappuccinos. Uncle Nat and I are happily sipping tall, frosty orangeades.

My uncle and I saw each other rarely since he’d moved south and we were savoring every moment and loving the scene.

Versace’s 50 years of life ended that morning in 1997 as he climbed the steps of his mansion, shot down by a serial killer.

My beloved, bachelor uncle, a humble and gentle man, died a year later, leaving his ardent love of family, his World War II stories, and every cent of money he had saved, just for us kids, 4 nieces and a nephew.

If you look online now, you’ll find: “News Café, an Ocean Drive fixture for more than 30 years is closed. The windows are boarded up and a chain barricades the front door.”

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An Exhibit & “Yart” Sale, Wurtsboro The Wurtsboro Street, Wurtsboro, Art Alliance (WAA) with WAA has announced a members selling bigger, bolder and smaller affordable more beautiful show artworks and other for August titled, miscellanea.

August Spectacular!

The exhibit, Featured Artists running through One of the August 31, includes featured WAA artists “A Dog’s Play” by Rick Loggia subjects ranging from for the month is Rick landscape paintings, Loggia. Rick creates nature photography, acrylic on canvas florals and figurative seascapes with a art to the abstract and mysterious luminosity purely imaginary. and meditative beauty.

Nearly thirty artists Serene and tranquil will display their for meditating during prints, photographs, these times, Rick’s watercolors, oils and attention to detail is “Geraniums and Strawberries” acrylics, pastels, fiber mesmerizing!

by Michael Piotrowski art, collages, and hand crafted jewelry Next we have Michael Piotrowski. and pottery.

Among his many exhibits far and wide, The opening reception for the show Michael will present his prints and on August 7 from Noon-2:00pm will paintings. He is also the featured artist coincide with the WAA’s Yart Sale on for the Orange County Arts Council’s the same day from 10:00am-4:00pm. Open Studio this month. See page 18 for A gallery fundraiser, tables will be set more information. up in the parking lot next to the WAA’s The WAA always welcomes new John Neilson Gallery, 73 Sullivan members. Visit www.waagallery.org

In The Voice of A Library Each work is ‘spoken’ in the voice of a library!

Haiku, free verse, and other styles of poems are featured in an outdoor display for all ages to enjoy at the Woodbury Library, Highland Mills “Rushmore Memorial” Branch through August 13.

There’s no audio aspect - it’s all print so there’s no listening - the ‘voice of the library’ is more an artistic conceit than a literal description.

Stop by at 16 County Route 105, Highland Mills, to see what the library has to say. 845-928-6162.

OCAC & Ann Street The beautiful Hudson historian and Executive Valley is rich with history, Director of the Al Held breathtaking landscapes Foundation. He previously and home to thousands of served as curator at the artists who build the diverse Dorsky Museum at SUNY cultural communities New Paltz. throughout the region.

The exhibit is available The Orange County for viewing and sale both in Arts Council (OCAC) is the online gallery (https:// honored to highlight some ocartscouncil.org/shop/) of the region’s artists by and at Ann Street Gallery, partnering with the Ann 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, Street Gallery for OCAC’s where selected works Honorable Mention: awardwinning first annual juried exhibit, “Contention” by Stephen Delray. including pieces and honorable mentions will be Hudson Valley Imprints.

Daniel Belasco, juror, is an art on view through August 15.

Grateful We’re Not Dead, Phillipsport Join along for a night of the Cemetery. Bring of tunes among the your lawn chairs and tombs for the 6th annual flash lights for a great Grateful We’re Not Dead community event! fundraising concert on Artists performing will August 7 at 5:00pm at the be: Barbara Dempsey, Poplar Grove Cemetery, the Kurt Henry Band, 180 Phillipsport Road, Jeff Entin, Debbie Phillipsport.

Fisher and Company, Food and beverages are and Mike & Annie available for purchase.

Baglione.

The Kurt Henry Band Suggested donation is $5 For more information, per person. Proceeds go to maintenance visit: www.poplargrovecemetery.org

Kindred Spirits Arts’ August Events The 5th annual Classical Music Celebration will take place on August 7.

Most of the performances are outdoors, there is no admission, and the variety of music in this festival may surprise a lot of listeners. “The idea is to expose people who just happen to be walking around Milford that day as well as music lovers to the beauty and the astonishing variety of classical music,” says Yosif Feigelson, artistic director of Kindred Spirits Arts Programs, event producer.

The official opening will be held at 1:30pm at the Milford Community House, corner of Broad & Harford Streets. Visit www.kindredspiritsarts.org for the full schedule.

Empire Wild is a genre-bending trio founded by Ken Kubota, Brandon Ilaw & Mitch Lyon. Ken and Mitch bring all

the cello has to offer: bowed, plucked, chopped and more. Brandon can be found singing and playing anything from a cajon, sometimes a guitar or piano, maybe some ankle bells. All classically trained, the trio met at Juilliard.

Empire Wild: Americans in Paris features treasures from the American Songbook juxtaposed with music by French composers from the early 20th century. See the trio on August 21 at 5:30pm at the Milford Park Gazebo, W. Catherine and 5th Streets, Milford.

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The Shandelee Music Festival: Broadway, Chamber Music, Solo Piano & Jazz

Aug. 10: Sergey Antonov, cello & Ilya Kazantsev, piano.

Music by: David Popper, Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff & Karl Davidov.

August 12: The Ulysses String Quartet.

August 14:The Neave Trio.

August 21: The Alethia Piano Trio.

Music by: Germaine Tailleferre, Haydn and Schubert.

Music by: Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Brahms.

Music by: Beethoven, Schumann and Dvořák.

World-class concerts will once again performed at Shandelee in 2017.

Trivia: In 1870 Count Wilhorsky, a changed her last name from “Taillefesse” grace the mountains above Livingston Popper had a very successful career patron of the arts, presented Davydov to “Tailleferre” to spite her father, who Manor, when The Shandelee Music as a cellist, beginning in 1867. He was with a Stradivarius cello constructed had refused to support her musical Festival (SMF) returns studies. for its 28th season!

The SMF is The 2021 Sunset committed to the Concert Series health and safety of its will offer seven guests, artists and staff. live performances Limited seating will beginning with the be available to allow August 7 opening for social distancing; night concert and the Pavilion will be reception celebrated completely sanitized at the Arnold House before and after August 17: Steven Lin, piano.

Barn & Greenhouse, every concert; SMF Music by: D. Scarlatti, Chopin, August 19: Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra face masks will be August 7: Michael Winther Beethoven, Debussy & Liszt. featuring Broadway star and vocalist extraordinaire Michael a prolific composer of cello music, in 1712. This cello, now known as the available for purchase at the box office; Winther performing music from the writing four concertos, a Requiem for Davidov Stradivarius, was owned by and family and friends will be seated Great American Songbook. three cellos and orchestra, and a large cellist Jacqueline du Pré until her death together, while other reservations will be The SMF returns to its climate- number of smaller pieces, in addition to and is currently on loan to Yo-Yo Ma. seated at a distance. controlled, fully accessible Sunset a string quartet. His shorter showpieces This year, for the first time in its “Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) Concert Pavilion for the Evening of were written to highlight the unique composed her String Quartet over history, the SMF will offer simultaneous Chamber Music series, An Evening of sound and style of the cello, extending a creative two-year period between virtual concerts!

Piano Masterworks and a surefire treat the instrument’s range. He is also known 1917-1919 and dedicated the work to The opening night reception at the for jazz fans: a jazz orchestra performing for a book of cello études that is widely Arthur Rubinstein. When the work was Arnold House, 839 Shandelee Road, selections from Chopin, Debussy, used by advanced cello students. premiered in 1919, Tailleferre was invited Livingston Manor, begins at 7:00pm. All Bartok, Bach, Tchaikovsky and others, Karl Yulievich Davydov (1838-1889) to join Les Six, a group of world famous Pavilion concerts at 442 J Young Road, “re-imagined” by Mike Fahie. was a Russian cellist of great renown, composers, pushing the boundaries Livingston Manor, begin at 8:00pm.

Composers new to Shandelee described by Tchaikovsky as the “czar of music beyond impressionism and Reservations are a must for this audiences this year are Karl Davydov of cellists”. He composed four cello Wagnerism.” (classicalexburns.com) expanded SMF season. For additional and Germaine Tailleferre. A cello/piano concetos, chamber music, and works for Trivia: Born Marcelle Germaine information and reservations call 845piece by David Popper (1843-1913) was cello & piano and cello & orchestra.

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Cabaret

“Diamonds are Forever” w/dinner ����������������������������������Forestburgh Tavern, Aug 3-6, 6pm Erin Crosby “Crazy About Patsy Cline” w/dinner ������Forestburgh Tavern, Aug 10-13, 6pm Douglas Ladnier w/dinner ��������������������������������������������Forestburgh Tavern, Aug 17-20, 6pm Carolyn Saxon w/dinner �����������������������������������������������Forestburgh Tavern, Aug 24-27, 6pm

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The Mike Jackson Trio HVJF �����������������������������Mattingly’s Tavern, Florida, Aug 14, 8pm The Altered 9 HVJF ���������������The Brewery at Orange County Hops, Walden, Aug 15, 5pm Ciampa-Levin-Siegal HVJF �����������������������������������Buckbee Center, Warwick, Aug 15, 6pm Jeff Lederer’s Sunwatcher Quartet ����������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 15, 7pm Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra ������ Shandelee Music Festival, Livingston Manor, Aug 17, 8pm Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker Quartet ������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 22, 7pm Glenn Heller Trio “groove port” ��������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Aug 28, 7pm

Opera - Variety

“Goonies” ������������������������������������������������� Morningside Park, Hurleyville, Aug 9, dusk FREE “Mission Impossible” ���������������������������� Morningside Park, Hurleyville, Aug 16, dusk FREE Hudson Valley Film Fest 2021 ������������������������������ Warwick Drive-in, Aug 18 & 19, 8:30pm “Shrek” �������������������������������������������������� Morningside Park, Hurleyville, Aug 21, dusk FREE “Groundhog Day” ��������������������������������� Morningside Park, Hurleyville, Aug 23, dusk FREE The Maltese Falcon” ���������������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Aug 27, 6pm FREE “Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark” & family Yoga ������������������������������������������������������ Morningside Park, Hurleyville, Aug 28, dusk FREE “The Matrix” ����������������������������������������� Morningside Park, Hurleyville, Aug 30, dusk FREE “Grease” & family Yoga �������������������������� Morningside Park, Hurleyville, Sep 4, dusk FREE

Milkweed Poetry Workshop ������Zoom-Milkweed Art Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 6:30pm Outdoor Poetry Display �����������������������������������Woodbury Library, Highland Mills Aug 1-13 Margaret Fox & Annie Christain �������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Aug 5, 7pm

DANCE

Theatre - Musical & Variety

Hudson Valley Flamenco �������� Crawford Library Outdoors, Monticello, Aug 18, 6pm FREE

FAIRS & Festivals

First Fridays Family Night.................. ������� Main Street, Pine Bush, Aug 6, 4pm-7pm FREE Second Saturdays ������������������������������������������������� Mountaindale, Aug 14, 11am-10pm FREE Summerfest ��������������������� Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, Aug 21, 9am-4pm FREE Harvest Festival ���������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 29 & Sep 5, 11am-4pm

FUNDRAISERS

Wurtsboro Art Alliance YART Sale! ����������������� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Aug 7, 10am-4pm Poplar Grove Cemetery 6th annual “Grateful We’re Not Dead” concert ���������������������������� Poplar Grove Cemetery, Phillipsport, Aug 7, 5pm Liberty Museum & Art Center Jackie Horner Fund ������������������������������������������������������������� Horner Estate Memorabilia Auction Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 21, 2pm

Museums Not listed in Centerspread

“One Teacher, Eight Grades, One Room” ���Time & the Valleys, Grahamsville, thru Sep 6 “Lights, Color, Fashion: Psychedelic Posters and Patterns of 1960s San Francisco” �������� thru Dec 31, Bethel Woods

Music - Broadway

Michael Winther Shandelee Music Festival ������������The Arnold House Barn & Greenhouse, Livingston Manor, Aug 7, reception:7pm, concert:8pm Empire Wild 2cellos & guitar, Classical & B’way � Milford Gazebo, Aug 21, 5:30pm FREE

Music - Classical & Klezmer

Hudson Valley String Quartet ������Temple Beth Jacob outdoors, Newburgh, Aug 6, 5:30pm Annual Classical Music Celebration Kindred Spirits Arts: Mountain Winds Woodwind Quintet �� Ann Street Park Gazebo, Milford, Aug 7, 2pm FREE Jane MacAlla Livingston organ & harpsichord ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Milford, Aug 7, 3pm FREE Brass Quintessence ��������������������������������������������Dimmick Inn, Milford, Aug 7, 4pm FREE Yuris Gute & Palak Oza string duo ���������� Ambience Furniture, Milford, Aug 7, 5pm FREE Greg Giannascoli marimba �������������� Delmonico Cottage Green, Milford, Aug 7, 6pm FREE Sergey Antonov cello & Ilya Kazantsev piano ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Shandelee Music Festival, Livingston Manor, Aug 10, 8pm Ulysses String Quartet ���������������Shandelee Music Festival, Livingston Manor, Aug 12, 8pm Neave Trio ����������������������������������Shandelee Music Festival, Livingston Manor, Aug 14, 8pm Steven Lin piano �������������������������Shandelee Music Festival, Livingston Manor, Aug 17, 8pm Aletheia Piano Trio ��������������������Shandelee Music Festival, Livingston Manor, Aug 21, 8pm Sullivan County Community Orchestra & Big Galut(e) “Sounds of Jewish Culture” ������� Big Galut(e) & students: Klezmer Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Aug 28, 4:30pm & Big Galut(e): Klezmer Monticello High School, Aug 28, 9:30pm & SCCO: Classical Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre, Aug 29, 3pm

Music - jazz in restAURANTs/BarS “FREE” Means “No Cover ChaRGE” HVJF ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Tribute to Bill Evans HVJF �����������������UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Aug 11, 7pm HVJF Ensemble On the Lawn ��������������������������Sugar Loaf Crossing, Aug 12, 6:30pm FREE Skye Jazz w/Mark Sganga HVJF � Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Aug 13, 6pm FREE Valerie Naranjo, Barry Olsen, Bryan Carrott HVJF �� Buckbee Center, Warwick, Aug 14, 2pm String Trio of New York OC Live Music Series ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������� virtual & Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, Aug 14, 2pm The Big Band Sound HVJF ������������������������Vern Allen Park, Washingtonville, Aug 14, 4pm Art Lillard’s Blue Heaven Swing Sextet HVJF ������Mulberry House, Middletown, Aug 14, 6pm FREE The Eric Person Quartet HVJF ����������Stanley Deming Park, Warwick, Aug 14, 7pm FREE Cloudburst HVJF �����������������Thomas Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, Aug 14, 7pm FREE

“Opera Cowgirls” Delaware Valley Opera �Callicoon Hills, Callicoon Center, Aug 14 & 15

Poetry Readings

Recreation

YART Sale! ����������������������������������������������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Aug 7, 10am-4pm “The World Goes Round” Kander & Ebb �������������������Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 27-Aug 8 “Dream on the Farm” Farm Arts Collective Willow Wisp Farm, Damascus, Aug 4-8, 7pm “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” ������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 10-15 “Babes in Arms” Rodgers & Hart ������������������������������ Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 24-Sep 5

Theatre - Play

“All’s Well That Ends Well” by William Shakespeare, Cornerstone Theatre Arts �������������� Salesian Park, Goshen, July 31 & Aug 1 Fifth Annual O. C. International 10 Minute Pay Festival ��������������������������������������������������� virtual & Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Aug 6 & 7, 7:30pm “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” � Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, Aug 13-Sep 5 “Buyer & Cellar” ������������������������������������������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Aug 17-22

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock, etc.

Jon Bates Band r&b, funk ���������������������������������Town Hall, Cornwall, Aug 1, 6:30pm FREE Sexmob ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 1, 7pm HillBilly Parade �������������� Jarvis Boone Memorial Amphitheater, Chester, Aug 3, 7pm FREE Dale Hammond & Friends ��Wooster Grove Memorial Park, Walden, Aug 4, 6:30pm FREE Still Surfin’ On the Lawn ������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Crossing, Aug 5, 6:30pm FREE Funk Junkies �������������������������Clinton Street Bandstand, Montgomery, Aug 5, 6:30pm FREE Laura Garone & Southern Fried Soul ������Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Aug 5, 6:30pm FREE Popa Chubby’s All Star Band Rolling Stones ��������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 5, 7pm John Burdick OCLive Music Series �������������������virtual & Co-Lab, Goshen, Aug 6, 12:30pm Side F/X Band blues, rock, soul ���������������������������������� Pine Bush Gazebo, Aug 6, 7pm FREE Callicoon Station �������������������������������������������������������Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Aug 6, 7pm Zac Brown Band ���������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 6, 7pm Scott Sharrard guitar ������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 6, 7pm Poplar Grove Cemetery 6th annual “Grateful We’re Not Dead” concert ���������������������������� Poplar Grove Cemetery, Phillipsport, Aug 7, 5pm Big Ska Band w/Joe Ferry ����������������������UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Aug 7, 7pm E’lissa Jones ��������������������������������������������Stanley Deming Park, Warwick, Aug 7, 7pm FREE James G. Barry Band �����������������������������������������������Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Aug 7, 7pm Jane Lee Hooker Band blues ������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 7, 7pm Main Street Music Revue rock, pop, jazz ���������Town Hall, Cornwall, Aug 8, 6:30pm FREE Leslie Mendelson pop, rock ��������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 8, 7pm Hudson Blue ����������������� Jarvis Boone Memorial Amphitheater, Chester, Aug 10, 7pm FREE The Feds ������������������������������Wooster Grove Memorial Park, Walden, Aug 11, 6:30pm FREE Midnight Image �������������������Clinton Street Bandstand, Montgomery, Aug 12, 6:30pm FREE Callicoon Station �����������������������������Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Aug 12, 6:30pm FREE Brian Mitchell Trio funk, rock, roots ���������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 12, 7pm Midnight Slim & LaurieAnne rock, country, blues �� Pine Bush Gazebo, Aug 13, 7pm FREE Mike Brown �������������������������������������������������������������Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Aug 13, 7pm Hollis Brown r&r ��������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 13, 7pm Oz Noy’s Super Moon fusion �������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 14, 7pm Poison Love ��������������������������������������������������������������Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Aug 14, 7pm RivalsNY classic rock ���������������������������������������Town Hall, Cornwall, Aug 15, 6:30pm FREE Chuck James ��������������������������� Crawford Library Outdoors, Monticello, Aug 16, 6pm FREE Floyd Pink ��������������������� Jarvis Boone Memorial Amphitheater, Chester, Aug 17, 7pm FREE Hillbilly Parade ������������������Wooster Grove Memorial Park, Walden, Aug 18, 6:30pm FREE Fisher and Kean ���������������������� Crawford Library Outdoors, Monticello, Aug 19, 6pm FREE Nicole DeLoi & Neil Rambaldi �����������������Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Aug 19, 6:30pm FREE Professor Louie & the Crowmatrix On the Lawn �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Aug 19, 6:30pm FREE Sass & Brass ������������������������Clinton Street Bandstand, Montgomery, Aug 19, 6:30pm FREE Harry Connick, Jr. and his Band ����������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 19, 8pm Larry Chance & The Earls DooWop ���� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Aug 20, 6pm FREE The Dan Brother Band blues, rock, soul ����������������� Pine Bush Gazebo, Aug 20, 7pm FREE Lucas Rotman ���������������������������������������������������������Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Aug 20, 7pm Music listings continued on page 14...

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augus BETH-O ������������������������� Temple Beth Jacob outdoors, Newburgh BOONE ����������������Jarvis Boone Memorial Amphitheater, Chester BW ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Bethel Woods CORNER Cornerstone Theatre Arts ��������� Silesian Park, Goshen CORNWALL �������������������������� Riverlight Park, Town Hall, Cornwall

DEMING ��������������������������������������� Stanley Deming Park, Warwick DESMOND ��������������������������������������� Desmond Center, Newburgh DVO Delaware Valley Opera ��� Callicoon Hills, Callicoon Center FAL ��������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro FB & FT �������������� Forestburgh Playhouse & Forestburgh Tavern

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Cabaret & Dinner “Diamonds are Forever” FT 6pm Music HillBilly Parade BOONE 7pm

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“Fireworks” by Mitchell Saler & floral arrangement by Lily Norton. See pg. 2.

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Theatre - Musical “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown FB 8pm Music -Classical Antonov & Kazantsev SMF 8pm

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NOBL �������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall PBGAZ ��������������������������������������������������������� Pine Bush Gazebo PHILL-O ����������������Phillipsport Community Center, Outdoors POPLAR ������������������������� Poplar Grove Cemetery, Phillipsport RAFT ����������������������������������������������� Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon

RIDAY

hn Burdick...Co-Lab, Goshen, 12:30pm ight..Main Street, Pine Bush, 4pm-7pm Valley String Quartet..BETH-O 5:30pm monds are Forever”.................FT 6pm de F/X band“Family Night”...PBGAZ 7pm ott Sharrad guitar...................FAL 7pm m on the Farm...............WILLOW 7pm allicoon Station...................RAFT 7pm Minute Play Festival......SLPAC 7:30pm ac Brown Band.......................BW 7pm d Goes Round” Kander & Ebb.....FB 8pm

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RITZ �������������������������������������������� Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh SHADOW ����������������������������������� Shadowland Stages, Ellenville SLPAC ������������������Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center Pavilion SLPAC-O ���������� Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Outdoors SLX On the Lawn ���������������������������������������Sugar Loaf Crossing

SATURDAY

Fundraiser............Yart Sale.........Wurtsboro Art Alliance, 10am-4pm Music - Jazz........................Hal Galper Trio.......................RAFT 3pm Music - Classical..Annual Classical Music Celebration..Milford, 2pm-7pm Fundraiser - Music..“Grateful We’re Not Dead” Concert.POPLAR 5pm Music - Ska....................Big Ska Band w/Joe Ferry..................UpF 7pm Music.......................................E’lissa Jones.......................DEMING 7pm Music.................................James G. Barry Band..............RAFT 7pm Theatre - Musical.........“Dream on the Farm...............WILLOW 7pm Theatre.........................Ten Minute Play Festival.......SLPAC 7:30pm Theatre - Musical......“The World Goes Round” Kander & Ebb.....FB 8pm Music - Broadway...Michael Winther....Arnold House, Livingston Manor, 8pm

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Fair.............Second Saturday........Mountaindale, 11am-10pm Music - Jazz.......String Trio of New York................RITZ 2pm Music - Jazz....HVJF Naranjo-Olsen-Carrott ...Buckbee Center, Warwick, 2pm by “Crazy Abut Patsy Cline”..FT 6pm Music - Jazz........................Hal Galper Trio.......................RAFT 3pm e Jazz, w/Mark Sganga.......SLPAC-O 6pm Music - Jazz..HVJF The Big Band Sound..Van Allen Park, Wshngtnvl,4pm dnight Slim & LaurieAnne...PBGAZ 7pm Music - Jazz...HVJF Art Lillard’s Blue Heaven Swing Sextet...MULB 6pm Music - Jazz.............HVJF Eric Person Quartet...........DEMING 7pm Mike Brown........................RAFT 7pm Music - Jazz......HVJF Cloudburst....Morahan Park, Greenwood Lake, 7pm Hollis Brown...........................FAL 7pm Music....................................Poison Love..........................RAFT 7pm rks of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 8pm Music - Fusion.................Oz Noy’s Super Moon...................FAL 7pm A Good Man, Charlie Brown”....FB 8pm Opera - Variety...................Opera Cowgirls.........................DVO 8pm Music - Classical......................Neave Trio............................SMF 8pm Music - Jazz.....HVJF Mike Jackson Trio....Mattingly’s Tavern, Florida, 8pm Theatre - Play..“Complete Works of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 8pm Theatre - Musical.....“You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown”.......FB 8pm

uglas Ladnier...........................FT 6pm Chance & The Earls.............SLPAC-O 6pm he Dan Brother Band........PBGAZ 7pm Denhert & The New York Unit...FAL 7pm Lucas Rotman......................RAFT 7pm d Skynyrd w/Kansas...............BW 8pm rks of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 8pm uyer & Cellar”.............................FB 8pm

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Fair.....Summerfest.....Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, 9am-4pm Fundraiser..Jackie Horner Estate Memorabilia Auction.LMAC 2pm Music........................................U-Nice.......................DESMOND 2pm Music - Jazz........................Hal Galper Trio.......................RAFT 3pm Music - Classical-B’way.....Empire Wild........Milford Gazebo, 5:30pm Music - Folk-Blues............Breackneck Annie...............PHILL-O 7pm Music............................Rich & the Jumpstarts.................RAFT 7pm Music - Jerry Garcia.........Deadgrass & Friends...................FAL 7pm Music -Folk...Bruce T. Carroll, Jim Pospisil, Jerry Mitnick...NOBL 7:30pm Cinema......................................“Shrek”..........................MORN dusk.

Music..................James Taylor & Jackson Browne........BW 7:30pm Music - Classical..............Aletheia Piano Trio.....................SMF 8pm Theatre - Play..“Complete Works of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 8pm Theatre - Play.......................“Buyer & Cellar”.............................FB 8pm

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SMF ����������������������������� Shandelee Music Festival, Livingston Manor UpF “groove port” series ���� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis WILLOW ����������������������������������������������� Willow Wisp Farm, Damascus WOOSTER ���������������������������������������������Wooster Grove Park, Walden

SUNDAY

Theatre..............“All’s Well That Ends Well”.......CORNER 2pm Theatre - Musical..“The World Goes Round” Kander & Ebb....FB 3pm Music - R&B-FUNK......Jon Bates Band.........CORNWALL 6:30pm Music..................................Sexmob..................................FAL 7pm

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Theatre - Musical..“The World Goes Round” Kander & Ebb....FB 3pm Music - Rock-Pop-Jazz.Main Street Music Review..CORNWALL 6:30pm Music - Pop-Rock..........Leslie Mendelson.......................FAL 7pm Theatre - Musical.........“Dream on the Farm............WILLOW 7pm

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Theatre - Play.“Complete Works of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 2pm Theatre - Musical...“You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown”....FB 3pm Opera - Variety...................Opera Cowgirls.....................DVO 3pm Music - Jazz..HVJF The Altered 9....Orange County Hops, Walden, 5pm Music - Jazz...HVJF Ciampa-Levin-Siegal..Buckbee Center, Warwick, 6pm Music - Classic Rock............RivalsNY............CORNWALL 6:30pm Music - Jazz.....Jeff Lederer’s Sunwatcher Quartet........FAL 7pm

22 Theatre - Play.“Complete Works of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 2pm Theatre - Play....................“Buyer & Cellar”............................FB 3pm Music - Rock.......................Higher Love........CORNWALL 6:30pm Music - Jazz...Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker Quartet.....FAL 7pm

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Music - Jazz...........Hal Galper Trio.......................RAFT 3pm Music - Klezmer....Big Galut(e) & Nesin Students......HPAC 4:30pm Maltese Falcon”....................JLPL 6pm Music.....................Nailed Shutt & Moonshine Creek.......DEMING 6pm rolyn Saxon..............................FT 6pm Festival..............................Harvest Festival............BW 11am-4pm Music - Jazz......................Glenn Heller Trio.........................UpF 7pm my & the Parrots ..................SLPAC-O 6pm Theatre - Play.“Complete Works of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 2pm Music.............................Patti Greco Sunshine..................RAFT 7pm ergson Solo & Trio.................FAL 7pm Music - Classical...Sullivan County Chamber Orch.....HPAC 3pm Cinema & Family Yoga.“Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark”.MORN dusk Mike Brown..........................RAFT 7pm Theatre - Musical.......“Babes in Arms” Rodgers & Hart.......FB 3pm Music - Beatles.............The Complete Let it Be...................FAL 7pm ohn Fogerty.......................BW 7:30pm Music - Acoustic Pop.................The AL’s........CORNWALL 6:30pm Music.....................................Old Dominion.....................BW 7:30pm n Arms” Rodgers & Hart...........FB 8pm Music - Klezmer +................The Klezmatics.....................FAL 7pm Theatre - Musical.......“Babes in Arms” Rodgers & Hart...........FB 8pm rks of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 8pm Theatre - Play..“Complete Works of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 8pm Music - Klezmer..........................Big Galut(e)..............MONT-HS 9:30pm

Music - Jazz........................Hal Galper Trio.......................RAFT 3pm l & Iggy Azalea.......................BW 8pm Cinema & Family Yoga............“Grease”..........................MORN dusk n Arms” Rodgers & Hart...........FB 8pm Theatre - Play..“Complete Works of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 8pm rks of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 8pm Theatre - Musical.......“Babes in Arms” Rodgers & Hart...........FB 8pm

Festival..............................Harvest Festival............BW 11am-4pm Theatre - Play.“Complete Works of W. Shakespeare”.SHADOW 2pm Theatre - Musical.......“Babes in Arms” Rodgers & Hart.......FB 3pm

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Art exhibits

CAS-LK ��������������������������������������������� Catskill Art Society Laundry King, Livingston Manor DVAA ���������������� Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Elaine Giguere Arts Center, Narrowsburg WRS ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������Wallkill River School, Montgomery

“Summer Nights” group show ������������������������������������������������������������������� WRS thru Aug 15 “Hudson Valley Imprints” ��������������������������������Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Aug 15 Middletown Art Group �������������� Virtual: www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs, thru Aug 19 Lee Parks mural paintings ��������������������������������Liberty Museum & Arts Center, thru Aug 21 Donna Kallesser oils & pastels ����������� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Aug 27 Jaanika Peerna “Ice Memory” �����������������������������������Gallery 222, Hurleyville, thru Aug 29 Robb Gomulka “The Boy in the Bubble” �������������������������������������������������� WRS thru Aug 29 Paula Arwen Owen “Paper Tales” ������������������������������������������������������������ WRS thru Aug 29 “Fantasy & Mythology” group exhibit ������������������������������������������������������ WRS thru Aug 29 “The Country Roads Art Show” group show ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Blooming Grove Antiques, New Windsor, thru Aug 29 Troy Anthony McConico “Finding More” �������Woodbury Public Library Virtual Gallery, thru Aug 31 Frank Shuback “From Past to Present” found object wall sculptures and collages ������������ Griffith Olivero Realty, Goshen, thru late Aug TBD Goshen Art League “Braving the Storm” group show ���������������������������������������������������������� Orange County Emergency Center, Goshen, thru Sep 3 Group Invitational Exhibit 12 artists ������������������������������������������������������CAS-LK thru Sep 5 Forrest Myers Laser’s Daze �������������������Livingston Manor Farmer’s Market site, thru Oct 1 “Lights, Color, Fashion: Psychedelic Posters and Patterns of 1960s San Francisco” ������� Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec 31

NEW ART EXHIBITS

“August Spectacular!” group show �������������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jul 29-Aug 31 River Valley Artists Guild Art AboutTown: “It’s Summertime!” ���������������������������������������� Group Show Gio’s Gelato Café, Port Jervis & Susan Miiller summer-themed oil paintings Port Jervis Library & Gene Iovine still life paintings Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis, Jul 29-Aug 31 Valley Central, Pine Bush & Washingtonville HS students �����Warwick Drive-In, Aug 1-7 Group Show ����������������������������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Aug 6-Sep 26 2021 Annual Parish Art Show adults, teens & kids art ��������������������������������������������������������� St. Joseph’s Church, Wurtsboro, Aug 7-9 Orange-Ulster BOCES & Newburgh Free Academy students � Warwick Drive-In, Aug 8-14 “Artists’ Notes” Laura Dudes & Claude Larson �����ARTery Gallery, Milford Aug 12-Sep 6 “Reflections” group show �����������������������������������������������������������������������WRS Aug 16-Sep 15 Tony Canger paintings ���������������������������������Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Aug 21-Sep 25 “Watercolor!” group show, Mary Endico, juror ��������������������������������������WRS Sep 3-Oct 10

Photography exhibits

David Nicholls “Venice” ����������������������������� Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, ongoing Woodstock Memorabilia & Photos ������������������������Stray Cat White House, Bethel, ongoing “Along the Towpath: The D&H Canal in Mamakating, 1828-1898” ��� Wurtsboro Library The Fix “Becoming Visible” ����������������������������������������Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, thru Sep 25

ART & Photography receptions

“August Spectacular!” group show ������������������ Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Aug 7, Noon-2pm “Artists’ Notes” Laura Dudes & Claude Larson �ARTery Gallery, Milford, Aug 14, 6pm-9pm Group Show ����������������������������������UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Aug 15, 1pm-6pm “Watercolor!” group show, Mary Endico, juror ������������������������������ WRS Sep 25, 5pm-7pm

Children & Teens Calendar

JLPL ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������Josephine-Louise Library, Walden PEEC ��������������������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

Books

Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Miss Lucy’s Toddler Story Time �������������������� Pine Bush Library Outdoors. Mondays 10am Toddler Time Tuesdays 2½-4yrs �����������������������������������������������������JLPL Tuesdays, 10:30am Summer Reading Program 7-12yrs ��������������������������Bradley Field, Walden, Tuesdays, 2pm Summer Reading Program 12-Teens ����������������������������������������������������JLPL Tuesdays, 6pm Storytime in the Park ���Mamakating Library, Veteran’s Park, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 10:30am Storytime on the Lawn 1-5yrs �������������������������������Ellenville Library, 10:30am, thru Aug 11 Miss Chrissy’s Pre-K Story Time ������������� Pine Bush Library Outdoors, Wednesdays, Noon Summer Reading Program 4-6yrs �����������������������Bradley Field, Walden, Wednesdays, 2pm Baby Rhyme Time up to 2½ yrs ���������������������������JLPL Wednesdays & Thursdays, 10:30am Storytime with Miss Sophie ������������������������������������� ZOOM Milford Library, Fridays, 10am Stories & More 2-5yrs, bring blanket �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Crawford Library Outdoors, Monticello, Wednesdays & Fridays, Noon EntertainmenT & Lectures See also Fairs & Festivals page 9

JLPLSummer Reading Program Annual Ice Cream Party all ages ����������������������������������� Bradley Field, Walden, Aug 4, 2pm 14

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“Emperors of the Deep - A Presentation on Sharks for Teens” ������������������������������������������ Zoom & Ellenville Library, Aug 4, 3pm College Preparedness for Teens ������������������������������ Zoom & Ellenville Library, Aug 6, 2pm “Magic! The Gathering Club” teens & up ����������������������������������������JLPL Aug 7 & 21, 2pm Museums

Eco-Zone Discovery Room ���������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Aug 8, 1pm-4pm

Lectures

sponsored by SUNY Orange and Desmond Center MEEC ��������������������������������������� Mamakating Environmental Education Center, Wurtsboro PEEC �������������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry Lectures, Discussions, Talks & Walks are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE) (Events Not lncluded in Centerspread Calendar)

lectures - Discussions - Talks - Walks Critter Connection 3 critter trainings ������������������������������������������������������ MEEC Aug 1, 1pm “The Fears Artists Face” “Creative Differences” discussion ����������������������������������������������� Artists Market Shohola, Aug 1, 2pm “Aromatherapy & the Scents of Relaxation” ��������������������� Pine Bush Library, Aug 3,Noon “Is Water Important?” Science with Frank ����������������������������MEEC Aug 6, 12:30pm FEE Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk ������������������������������������������������������PEEC Aug 7, 10am FEE Guided Nature walk with The Outside Institute ������������������������������������������������������������������� Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston Manor, Aug 7, 10am FEE Nature Walk ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Aug 8, 10am “Common Snakes of the Hudson Valley” Pam Golben ������������������������� MEEC Aug 8, 1pm “The History of Wintoon: A Grand Neversink Estate” Laura Brock ��������������������������������� Zoom & Time & The Valley’s Museum, Grahamsville, Aug 8, 2pm FEE “Keeping our Community Clean & Beautiful” discussion �Florida Library Aug 11, 6:30pm Senior Scam Presentation ������������������������������������������ Montgomery Library, Aug 12, 10:30am Wilderness Walkabout �������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Aug 14, 1pm FEE “Amazing Moths!” Pam Golben �����������������������������������������������MEEC Aug 15, 8:30pm FEE “Historic Castles in Sullivan County” John Conway ������� Liberty Library, Aug 17, 6:30pm “The Monarch’s Tale” Sheryl Lynch ������������� Cornwall Library Outdoors, Aug 19, 4:30pm Open Studio Tour Michael Piotrowski ��ZOOM - Orange County Arts Council Aug 19, 5pm Science Cafe “Bone Grafting Options for Implant Dentistry” John F. Carpenter ���������� “ Zoom-Hudson Valley Science Café, Aug 25, 7:30pm “Enviroscape: Watersheds and non-point source pollution” seminar w/Devan George ��� Wallenpaupack Area HS, Aug 27, 10am-5pm Nature at Night ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Aug 28, 1pm FEE Bug Exploration ������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Aug 29, 10am FEE Bridge the Gap: Pond Paddle ����������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Aug 29, 1pm

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock, etc. ...continued from page 10

Lynyrd Skynyrd w/special guest Kansas ����������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 20, 7pm KJ Denhert & The New York Unit urban folk, jazz ���� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 20, 7pm U-Nice OC Live Music Series ���������������virtual & Desmond Center, Newburgh, Aug 21, 2pm Breakneck Annie acoustic folk/blues �������������Phillipsport Community Center, Aug 21, 7pm Rich & the Jumpstarts �������������������������������������������Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Aug 21, 7pm Deadgrass & Friends Jerry Garcia ������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 21, 7pm James Taylor & Jackson Browne �����������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 21, 7:30pm Bruce T. Carroll, Jim Pospisil, Jerry Mitnick folk, Music for Humanity ��������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Aug 21, 7:30pm FREE Higher Love rock ��������������������������������������������� Town Hall, Cornwall, Aug 22, 6:30pm FREE Dead & Company ������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 23, 7pm 8th Grade Science Band �������Jarvis Boone Memorial Amphitheater, Chester, Aug 24, 7pm FREE The Dan Brother Band ����� Wooster Grove Memorial Park, Walden, Aug 25, 6:30pm FREE Hot Rod On the Lawn �������������������������������������� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Aug 26, 6:30pm FREE The Differents ��������������������� Clinton Street Bandstand, Montgomery, Aug 26, 6:30pm FREE Stacy Cohen & friends ���������������������Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Aug 26, 6:30pm FREE Arlen Roth & The Pay Pals blues ��������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 26, 7pm Jimmy & the Parrots ���������������������Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Aug 27, 6pm FREE Mike Brown �������������������������������������������������������������Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Aug 27, 7pm Chris Bergson Solo & Trio blues ���������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 27, 7pm John Fogerty ���������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 27, 7:30pm Nailed Shutt & Moonshine Creek ������Stanley Deming Park, Warwick, Aug 28, 6pm FREE The Complete Let it Be Beatles ������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 28, 7pm Patti Greco Sunshine ����������������������������������������������Rafter’s Tavern, Callicoon, Aug 28, 7pm Old Dominion ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 28, 7pm The AL’s eclectic acoustic pop ������������������������ Town Hall, Cornwall, Aug 29, 6:30pm FREE The Klezmatics Klezmer + ��������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Aug 29, 7pm TBA �������������������������������Jarvis Boone Memorial Amphitheater, Chester, Aug 31, 7pm FREE Hillbilly Parade ��������������������� Clinton Street Bandstand, Montgomery, Sep 2, 6:30pm FREE Aerial Acoustics Tribute to 1st responders Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Sep 2, 6:30pm FREE

In Memoriam:

Joseph A. Di Bello

September 21, 1942 - June 1, 2021 “The fourth quarter clicked to a finalizing stop. “It’s over. Good game,” said Coach, as he embraced Di Bello at the sideline. “Follow me, son.” On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Joseph A. Di Bello of Maybrook, formerly of Middletowen and Montgomery, was summoned to join his mates on the Final Gridiron. A graduate of Middletown High School, Di Bello’s athletic prowess, (football, baseball (PBA) and track and field), was surpassed only by his academic fondness for De Bello Gallico.”

So says the first paragraph of Joseph’s obituary - fitting and more than likely, written by the talented writer himself.

To put it quite simply: Joe helped keep this newspaper alive. Just a few years after CANVAS’ inception in 2004, when Joe was running his Gallery & Frame shop in Montgomery, he became a subscriber. He eventually decided to join the team and help us produce this local-labor-of-love by contributing two columns, Meet Me in The Greenroom and Meet Me in The Library, then donning an advertising hat and selling ads. And if that wasn’t enough, he also helped distribute the paper every month. His innumerable contributions to this newspaper for the past 11 years will forever be appreciated and remembered.

The following are memories, anecdotes, paeans to Joe - a way to express our love to our contributor, mentor, friend.

- Barry & Sophia Herewith, culled from his almostmonthly Meet Me in The Greenroom and Meet Me in The Library CANVAS columns, and his online critique website are samples of his writings: quips, phrases, alliterations, references, descriptions, etc.

Re: Forestburgh Playhouse: “Thank your lucky footlights”...

Re: Choreographing Cinderella: “The superior competencies of a well known Dee Wright...

Re: Preparing a Shakespeare play: ...“the juices of inspiration and imagination begin to flow” - and - “...a production of many colluding minds and calloused hands.”

About a Broadway-aspiring actress: “Her story has a seductive undertone as gentle as an alluring whisper: ‘Come on along and listen...’ she seems to say.”

About another aspiring thespian: “Can’t say if it was the legendary rumble or the rattle, but she was unmistakenly drawn by that oft’ repeated lullaby to theatre.”

About retaining old books and their power: “There are books that bind (no pun intended).”

educated, witty, adventerous, Describing seven local live and mostly unapologogetic, theatre companies: “If theatre especially about how he be the food of love, play on.” thought and what he believed.

“And despite pandemic He had a multitude of interests restrictions, the imaginative and talents. He was in many novelist continues to compose, ways a “man for all seasons.” the inspired poet continues Joe was also a man of many to arrange words and the contradictions! For example: resourceful painter with brush how many former football continues to create. But players do you know who, of the arts, is theatre left while coaching the High unmoored and adrift?”

School Football team, also “An armed conflict and directed the High School its consequences have few Drama Club? allies. And it matters not if Joe loved the Opera! the causes are intelligible However, he equally enjoyed or even justified; the human going to the Metropolitan experience stands naked and Opera House in Lincoln raw.”

Center, and the Grand Ole “Not without note is the fact that Shadowland Theatre Painting by Karen E. Gersch Opry in Nashville.

Joe loved food, cooking is snuggled at the head and eating! He could of the Roundout Valley, happily enjoy dining at carefully caressed on each the finest restaurants, or side by the Shawangunk throwing some sausage, and the mountains known onions, and peppers on a as Catskills. With the small grill in the parking arrival of “Honky-Tonk lot of Giants stadium in Highway,” let there be no the Meadowlands. hesitation: “There is music And, just a quick word in this mountain.”” about the local Rusty Spur Thank you, Joe! Receiving a Remington Saloon. This place was sculpture at his retirement party Joe’s pride and joy! We Joe brought the arts, met every Friday afternoon theater, music, and opera at a bar in Joe’s barn. to life with his knowledge Anyone and everyone was and appreciation. He would invited! pack up his little red wagon May God Bless You Joe and we would spend the day Di Bello! picnicking on the lawns of - John Schmall Boscobel or Tanglewood.

We had dinners and fun My memory of Joe times with his Rusty Spur revolves around his passion gang. for theatre and for the arts.

Joe was the love of my life and I am grateful for Joe at his Rusty Spur Saloon Joe didn’t just come to the the years we shared and am proud that he Playhouse or write reviews and articles chose me to be his companion for the last he invested himself 100% in his projects chapter of his vibrant life. He encouraged that had to do with the Playhouse.

Joe was always incredibly kind to our and supported my professional achievements and continuing education. young actors. He remembered each of I can’t be sad for his passing because his them individually and wrote paragraphs prognosis was grim. I do miss him dearly and paragraphs about their performances and their talent. He had a keen eye for as he leaves a big empty space.

Joe’s life has had a positive impact skill and always a kind word for a budding on so many of us. Let’s share the stories artist.

I remember Joe with gratitude because about a life well lived, set his spirit free, he truly “got it” when it came to the and relish our good memories.

- Joy LaRiviere theatre and our little barn in the middle of the woods. Joe understood, fostered Joe was very intelligent. He was and nurtured the arts as a journalist and physically and mentally tough, highly as a human being and for that, I am truly

grateful to Joe and will miss him dearly.

- Franklyn Trapp, Artistic Director, Forestburgh Playhouse What stood out in his reviews for Cornerstone Theatre Arts was his love for Goshen and its deep history, and sharing that with everyone; he was always the educator. He wasn’t afraid to truly critique theater. He was passionate about the arts, but he also wanted to encourage and make them better. He was never mean; he also did it in a way that made you want to be better.

I will truly miss him.

Brittany Pierce-Caiazza From the time I was born in 1942 until I graduated from Middletown High School in 1960 I lived at 48 Prospect Avenue in Middletown. Joe Di Bello lived at 44 Prospect Avenue.

Among other great memories was the day Joe and I decided we wanted to go to work and earn a real paycheck instead of caddying at the local golf course. One of our parents drove us to a “black dirt” farm in Florida where we teenagers were hired to pick and pack celery for 55 cents per hour.

I describe this black dirt farm experience as the worst job I ever had. We arrive at 5:30 on a hot, sticky and overcast morning where onions, on the farm next to ours, are rotting and casting a smell that had me on the edge of losing my breakfast. At the end of the first five hour “picking” shift, Joe and I were at least 50 feet behind the more experienced, and tougher, farm laborers from Puerto Rico.

The remaining three hours of the day were spent in the washing and packing house where we were soaking wet until we went home...and Joe loved it. I lasted less than two weeks and Joe stayed the rest of the summer and several summers thereafter.

Joe’s love of the soil and the joy of farming continued throughout his life as witnessed by the organic farm he and his family cultivated in Montgomery so it was no surprise when I heard that Joe requested his ashes be spread in the black dirt next to the Wallkill “where the river runs north” (a favorite quote of Joe’s).

Joe felt that the black dirt location represented his first job and the river flowed north near his beloved school where he was the principal...his last job.

For sure, his ashes being added to the famous “black dirt” enrichened that soil even more.

- Chris Evans

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National Moth Week in Wurtsboro Celebrate National Moth Week with the Mamakating Environmental Education Center, “where history, adventure, and education meet the great outdoors”, 762 South Road, Wurtsboro.

Moths are the “cousins” of butterflies and just as interesting and beautiful.

Join naturalist extraordinaire Pam Golben for an evening program on August 15 at 8:30pm to learn fun facts about moths.

Then head outside to view what is attracted to a lure light, and search for moth caterpillars, too.

Call to register: 845-644-5014.

The Pratt in the Hat Frances Pratt’s hats make a bold statement as does her southern charm and pithy expressions which she garnered through a lifetime of service to her community fighting for racial equality, voting rights and education.

Beneath the brims of hundreds of colorful hats is a woman who shares her wisdom, humor, and personal experiences about being black

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in America, then and now, in Words and Wisdom by Frances Pratt, a short film by directed by Susan Hilliard, (co-owner of Goshen Green Farm - see page 22), that will be shown at the Hudson Valley Film Festival at the Warwick Drive-In August 18 & 19, at sundown (about 8:30pm).

There will be a live band each night and 27 films of all genres.

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Play with a Deck of “Magic” Cards!

Magic is a card game where you are a wizard casting spells and summoning creatures.

Your goal is to defeat the opposing wizards.

The Josephine-Louise Public Library, 5 Scofield Street, Walden, invites interested card players to come to the Library on August 7 and/or August

21 at 2:00pm for a game of Magic!

All experience levels are welcome. If you have your own cards, bring them. If not, the library will provide some for you to borrow. Ages 13 + are welcome to attend. Register at the Main Desk.

Email: Dan at dantonna@rcls.org

The History of Wintoon The Time and the Valleys Museum is sponsoring its first dual in-person and virtual program: The History of Wintoon, A Grand Neversink Estate, on August 8 at 2:00pm on Zoom and at the Museum, 332 Main Street, Grahamsville.

Summer resident and descendent Laura Brock will speak about the history of Wintoon, an estate built by her great grandfather Clarence Roof in 1882. Roof’s adopted daughter married surgeon and inventor Karl Connell who developed the first all American gas mask used in World War I. They raised their family in Wintoon in the 1920s and 30s.

Attendance is limited to 30 and registration is required. To register email

info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org with your name and number of attendees, and put “In Person Registration” in the subject line, or call 845 985-7700.

To attend the program virtually on Zoom, email info@timeandthevalleysmuseum. org for the link, and put “Zoom Program Registration” in the subject line.

Celebrating 75 Years of The Forestburgh Playhouse!

Forestburgh Playhouse, the oldest continuously operating summer theater in NYS, hires a company of more than 50, including Equity actors to play the leading roles, and non-Equity actors who form the Resident Acting Company, (the ResCo) who perform in all main stage musicals, as well as the cabarets.

Cabaret acts are performed by the ResCo and guests artists in the Forestburgh Tavern, Tuesdays to Fridays at 6:00pm. Dinner is served.

Musicals and plays are performed on the Main Stage, Tuesdays thru Sundays.

“Crazy About Patsy Cline” starring Erin Crosby, August 10-13 The wildly talented Erin Crosby is back on the Tavern Stage singing the beloved hits of the incomparable Patsy Cline. Hear tunes like Crazy, Walking After Midnight, and more!

“There and Back Again” starring Carolyn Saxon, Aug. 24-27 Carolyn Saxon, who starred in the Forestburgh Playhouse production of Ragtime is back!

Carolyn will feature the best of jazz, musical theatre and more with her amazing vocals.

Carolyn Saxon

Douglas Ladnier

Douglas Ladnier in Concert: August 31-September 3 Singer, actor, writer, composer, director and producer Douglas Ladnier is returning to the Tavern Stage and will wow you with his soulful, gorgeous vocals, a loving tribute to the best of Broadway.

“The World Goes ‘Round” July 27-August 8 The World Goes ‘Round is a stunning revue of the songbook from the multiTony award-winning team of John Kander & Fred Ebb. Filled with humor, romance, drama and nonstop melody, this title is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going.

With hit songs from Chicago, Cabaret and more, The World Goes ‘Round is a musical theatre treat for all audiences.

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown August 10-15 Happiness is great musical theatre!

With charm, wit, and heart, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. This revue of songs and vignettes is filled with fun, comedy and lots of heart. Prepare to be utterly charmed and fall in love again with Charlie Brown and his friends.

“Buyer & Cellar”, August 17-22 Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor, he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar (Barbara Streisand!). It is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.

Rodgers & Hart’s “Babes in Arms” August 24-September 5 Rodgers & Hart’s Babes in Arms, with the WORLD PREMIERE of a fresh, witty and relevant script by acclaimed playwright Douglas Carter Beane, is the quintessential ‘Hey, kids, let’s put on a show’ musical, boasting one of the greatest scores ever written. With delightful production numbers and

The ResCo performs in “Diamonds Are Forever” through August 6 in the Tavern.

classic Broadway tunes, Babes in Arms tells the story of a plucky group of young artists that want to produce and perform a musical...in a barn!

What could be better for the Forestburgh Playhouse!? A marvelous way for the crew to end their 75th Anniversary Mainstage Season. The “Miracle in the Forest” is located at 39 Forestburgh Road, Forestburgh.

For tickets: www.fbplayhouse.org or call 845-794-1194.

All attendees must be fully vaccinated 2 weeks prior to attending shows inside the Tavern or Theater. Proof of vaccination must be shown upon arrival.

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Music Night in Phillipsport The members of Breakneck Annie started out as friends and then became bandmates. The five-piece band consists of Anne Baglione, Graham Vest, Bill Buskey, Gene Muller, and Terry Seeley.

The group plays a mix of old-time folk and blues with strong harmonies that they like to call “back porch music”.

Join other music lovers for an outdoor concert (indoors if rain) at the Phillipsport Community Center, 657 Red Hill Road for Music Night on August 21 at 7:00pm.

A $10 suggested donation includes

music, Andy’s “famous” pie, and a nonalcoholic drink.

Please wear a mask when inside.

For information call 845-313-1772.

Art Journaling in Shohola Art Journaling promotes the creation of a visual diary of your thoughts, memories, and emotions. And there are no rules! Your personal journal can be filled with any combination of things: art, imagery, words, collage, and anything else you care to add.

Art journaling is not complicated, and can be done 15 minutes a day, once a week, or whenever you feel like it. It can help us learn about both what inspires and discourages us. Other benefits include: stress reduction, increased self-awareness, problem solving, skill

development, and the joy of creation.

Artist Mef Gannon will present an Art Journaling workshop on August 21 at 3:00pm where you’ll learn how any book or pad can house your journal. You may bring your own book and supplies or use the books and supplies available at this free workshop.

These include books, pads, markers, watercolors, acrylics, tape, brushes, and lots more at the Artists’ Market Center, 114 Richardson Avenue, Shohola.

Pre-registration is required as space is limited: barryvilleareaarts@gmail.com

OCAC’s Virtual “Artist Studio Visit” Michael Piotrowski Studio Visit with is a painter/printmaker Michael Piotrowski on residing in Middletown August 19 at 5:00pm. with a studio in Goshen.

Tickets are free for For 40+ years he was a OCAC members; $10 lighting/set designer suggested donation with dance companies for non-members. across the U.S. He Registration is taught at Brooklyn mandatory to attend College, SUNY New this virtual event. An Paltz and guest lectured email with the event at Vassar College. link and password to Michael’s paintings, login will be forwarded woodblock prints, and to those who register. monoprints have been This program is included in group, Michael Piotrowski is the featured made possible from solo, and multiple artist for OCAC’s “Artist Studio Visit” donations from people invitational exhibits. His work ranges like you. 50% of donations go to the artist from 5×7 national print exchanges and 50% go towards the Orange County to 4-foot square Steamroller prints at Arts Council. Please consider making a Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, donation at www.OCArtsCouncil.org.

Utica. He was a finalist for a National For additional information on Michael Park Residency at Chaco Canyon, New Piotrowski’s work, visit his website at Mexico. https://www.michaelpiotrowski.com.

The Orange County Arts Council, Newburgh Free Library’s events may in partnership with the Newburgh be found by visiting their website at: Free Library present a virtual Artist https://www.newburghlibrary.org.

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The 12th Annual Hudson Valley Jazz Festival: “It’s A Collaborative” The Hudson Valley Jazz selling jazz album of all time.

Festival is a celebration of jazz During that time, Evans was also primarily featuring groups led playing with Chet Baker.

by Hudson Valley resident jazz Evans’s harmonic language artists, held in various locations was influenced by impressionist such as clubs, cafes, restaurants, composers such as Debussy and parks. and Ravel. His versions of jazz “The participating venues are standards, as well as his own often producers of the individual compositions, often featured shows. In that regard, they hire thorough reharmonizations.

Robert Kopec: Port Neil Alexander: Port Steve Rubin: Eric Person: Mike Jackson: Jervis & Greenwood Lake Jervis, Warwick, Walden Sugar Loaf Warwick Florida with guidance from the festival.

Musical features included added Musicians themselves also create tone chords, modal inflections, a concert by taking on the role unconventional substitutions, of producer and performer in and modulations. one. It’s a collaborative,” claims Evans received 31 Grammy Festival Producer Steve Rubin. nominations and seven awards, Now in its 12th year, the and was inducted into the Down schedule (at press time) includes Beat Jazz Hall of Fame. eleven performances from August 11-15 in Port Jervis, August 12: Sugar Loaf Art Lillard: Mark Sganga: Gabriele Tranchina: Valerie Naranjo: Joe Vincent Tranchina: Sugar Loaf, Washingtonville, The free On the Lawn Middletown Sugar Loaf Sugar Loaf Warwick Sugar Loaf Warwick, Greenwood Lake, summer weekly concert series Florida, Middletown and Walden by Robert Kopec and guests on August interpretation of traditional jazz will repeat last year’s HUGE success over 50 musicians! See the full schedule 11 at 7:00pm in UpFront Exhibition repertoire, block chords, and trademark with the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Space, 31 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis. rhythmically independent, “singing” Ensemble, this time with a quartet at www.hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org (UpFront also offers jazz concerts for its melodic lines continues to influence jazz and vocalist: Lew Scott, Gabriele groove port series. See calendar.) pianists today.

August 11: Port Jervis Tranchina, Bob Magnuson, Steve William John Evans (1929-1980) Classically trained, in 1958 Evans Rubin and Joe Vincent Tranchina.

The festival opens with a Tribute to Bill Evans with Richard “Stretch” Bruyn, was a jazz pianist and composer. His joined Miles Davis’ sextet, which in Bring chairs to the August 12, 6:30pm Neil Alexander, Bryan Kopchak, use of impressionist harmony, inventive 1959, recorded Kind of Blue, the best- outdoor concert at Sugar Loaf Crossing.

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“It’s Summertime!” in Port Jervis

Meet Our Advertisers: GOSHEN GREEN FARM Goshen Green Farm: Building Community Through Food, Art, and Education

“Eagle” by Patty Koch

Art About Town, “Transcendent Sunflower”

by Susan Miiller sponsored by the River “Painted Vase with Fruit” Valley Artists Guild, will present working

by Gene Iovine their annual It’s Summertime! exhibits with pencil, pastels, acrylic and oils on canvas. He displayed at three Port Jervis locations.

Art lovers can see a group show by moved to Sullivan County in 2010 and RVAG members at Gio’s Gelato Café. exhibits his work regionally.

Another solo show to be enjoyed Mediums and artists include: pastels by Joan Kehlenbeck, acrylics and oils by will be at the Port Jervis Free Library, Daniela Cooney, acrylics and pastels where Susan Miiller will display her

by Judith Cramer, paintings by Roz summer themed oil paintings. Curator Hodgkins, oils by Patty Koch, oils by of Art About Town, Miiller shares the Mitchell Saler, photos by Marge Saler mysterious luminosity and meditative and illustrations and paintings by Nilus juxtapositions of her close-up florals.

Locations are: Gio’s Gelato Cafe, 30Williams.

Viewers (and diners!) can enjoy a solo 32 Front Street. Bon Secours Cafeteria, show of still life acrylic paintings by 160 E. Main Street. Port Jervis Free Gene Iovine at Bon Secours Hopsital Library, 138 Pike Street, through Cafeteria. Gene has been creating art in August 31.

For info: susanmiiller@yahoo.com various mediums for the past forty years

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For over 25 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer.

Goshen Green Farm is a small CSA permaculture farm run by women artists, which also boasts a farm store. A modest, family-owned farm specializing in beyondorganic, biodynamic, and permaculture growing techniques, without the use of chemicals and GMOs, the farm incorporates different principles that add vitality to the plants and soil in its raised beds such as crop rotation/

composting/cover cropping/ natural fertilizers/companion planting.

The historic greenhouse cultivates seedlings and plants for sale. And farm to table and other events, including yoga, are held in the spacious barn.

The farm store features freshly picked seasonal produce.

Open to the public, it is located at 3317 Route 207, Goshen, and is open Saturday and Sunday 11:00am4:00pm through October, as is the farm to food truck.

Meals can be enjoyed on site at picnic tables. Visitors are welcome to walk the trails.

For additional information, visit www. goshengreenfarm.com or call 845-596-5403.

Jackie Horner Memorabilia Auction Jackie Horner (1932-2020) was a child actress, known for Smilin’ Through (1941), Panama Hattie (1942) and Calling All Kids (1943). The inspiration for one of the most beloved films of the 1980s, Dirty Dancing, she was a beloved dance instructor in the Catskills, and later in life at Liberty Fitness Center and Villa Roma.

An auction of her memorabilia will

help benefit the Liberty Museum and Arts Center (LMAC). “We are starting a fund in her name to help put on a yearly dance related event,” LMAC Director Robert Dadras informed CANVAS. LMAC’s Horner Estate Memorabilia Auction will be held at LMAC, 46 S. Main Street, on August 21, at 2:00pm. See ad on page 5.

For information : 845-292-2394.

Back LIVE!: Newburgh Chamber Music During the long period With pandemic without live performances, restrictions easing after Newburgh Chamber nearly 18 months, NCM Music(NCM)co-presented will present two concerts a series of concerts previously cancelled in through ALIVEmusica, early 2020. a collaboration of “Newburgh Chamber Mid-Hudson chamber Music is thrilled to be back organizations, streamed with live performances,” from the Howland said Carole Cowan, Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Cultural Center in Beacon, which artistic director of the organization, which featured a wide range of chamber music has brought classical and contemporary performers. The concerts are available by music to the heart of Newburgh for 20 years. See ad page 6. visiting: newburghchambermusic.org

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SCCO: “Sounds of Jewish Culture” - Klezmer & Chamber Music The Nesin Cultural Arts (NCA) supported Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra (SCCO), in collaboration with critically acclaimed Klezmer band Big Galut(e), will present Sounds of Jewish Culture. This series of workshops and public performances, to be held August 25 to 29, will kick off SCCO’s sixth season as Sullivan County’s own resident professional chamber orchestra.

The winner of the Simcha Prize at the 2017 International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, Big Galut(e) is comprised of five nationally recognized musicians who perform a unique repertoire of Jewish music. Described as ‘soulful and unselfconsciously poignant’, ‘jubilant’ and ‘a real treat for open minds’, their music represents a variety of Jewish musical styles that span five continents and six centuries. (See photo.)

On August 25 & 26, Big Galut(e) will conduct workshops for music students participating in the NCA Summer Arts Academy. This will culminate in a student performance side-by-side with band members on August 27. Due to limited seating space, the audience will be limited to student families.

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presented throughout the weekend: 1. Big Galut(e) Family Concert including a side-by-side performance with students in the NCA Summer Arts Academy workshops on August 28 at 4:30pm at Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre.

2. An interactive concert by Big Galut(e) that is “sure to have the audience clapping and dancing the night away” on August 28 at 9:30pm at Monticello High School Auditorium. To purchase tickets, visit nesinculturalarts.eventbrite. com. Questions? Call 845-798-9006.

3. A SCCO Chamber Music Concert featuring music written by Jewish composers persecuted during the Holocaust and those oppressed by the Nazi regime on August 29 at 3:00pm in the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre.

SCCO chamber players will perform Hans Krása’s (see page 6) Passacaglia & Fugue, in addition to a string trio by Gideon Klein (1919-1945), and string quartets by Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944), Hans Gál (1890-1987) and Pavel Haas (1899-1944).

Gideon Klein was a Czech pianist, classical music composer, educator and organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt

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concentration camp along with Krása, Ullmann and Haas.

While Viktor Ullmann’s works of the 1920s still clearly show the influence of Schönberg’s atonal period, his compositions from 1935 onwards, including the String Quartet No. 2, are distinguished by a musical development that is more independent of Schönberg’s inspiration. Highly charged musical expression and masterly control of formal structure are characteristic of Ullmann’s unmistakable personal style.

Hans Gál’s style is rooted in the Austro-German musical tradition, but from the early 1920s he had developed his own musical language, to which he remained true throughout his long career. He never followed prevailing fashions, nor abandoned his belief in the importance of tonality.

Pavel Haas was an exponent of Janáček’s school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. On his arrival at Theresienstadt,

he became very depressed and had to be coaxed into composition by Gideon Klein. Haas wrote at least eight compositions in the camp, only a few of which have survived.

Tickets for Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre performances may be purchased at: hurleyvilleartscentre.org.

Call 845-693-4119 with any inquiries.

Seating capacity at all venues will remain limited and safety protocols will be followed as per CDC guidelines.

Masks will be required for all upcoming SCCO and NCA events. Please purchase tickets in advance.

For more information, visit www. nesinculturalarts.org, or email: marina@ nesinculturalarts.org

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Fun Events Coming Up! August 4 at 2:00pm

The Summer Reading Program Annual Ice Cream Party for all ages and families takes place on Bradley Field, under the pavilion!

August 27 at 6:00pm Classic Movie Night: “Maltese Falcon” Community Room

Opportunities Artists - Adults-Teens-Kids The annual Parish Art Show at St. Joseph’s RC Church in Wurtsboro, will take place August 7-9. There is a small per piece fee for submissions (no charge for kids’ submissions), Deadline for entries is August 4, 7:00pm. For information and entry forms: email stjowurts@frontiernet.net or call the rectory at 845-888-4522 or Mildred at 845-866-8011.

Photography The Delaware Highlands Conservancy’s 4th annual juried “nature” photo contest for the Upper Delaware River region is open to professionals amateurs and youths under age 18. Submit entries via the Conservancy’s website from August 2-31. Winning photos will be hung at the ARTery Gallery in Milford in November.

There is a $10 entry fee to be eligible; youth entries are free. Visit www.delawarehighlands.org/photocontest/ to download the official rules and submit an entry; contact bethany@ delawarehighlands.org or call 570-2263164 and 845-583-1010.

“Becoming Visible” at The Mount Mount Saint Mary College’s CMA Gallery is presenting Becoming Visible, a photography exhibit by members of The Fix group.

The Fix was founded by photographers and photo educators Stephen Mallon and Lesly Deschler Canossi. It was born from a discussion started on the Hudson River train line and has developed into a collective of lens-based artists from various disciplines in the Hudson Valley area.

The collective meets monthly to provide each other critical feedback, support, and a discussion space for topics related to their work plus other photographic subjects navigating the space between photography and life. In the months to come, The Fix will expand to bring photography discussions, workshops, film screenings, and exhibitions to the area.

The exhibit, which focuses on longing and emergence in the time of a pandemic, runs through September 25.

The CMA Gallery is located on the first floor of Aquinas Hall on Mount Saint Mary College’s campus, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh.

Email cma-gallery@msmc.edu for more information.

Work by Dean Goldberg

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September 11: Olive Day, West Shokan September 25 & 26: Tractor Fest, Grahamsville October 2: Giant Pumpkin Party, Grahamsville October 10: “Wine with your K9” Fundraiser, Christopher Jacobs Winery, Pine Bush Fridays, 4-7pm, until September 3: Mamakating Farmers Market October-December:“First Fridays”, Pine Bush

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