D & H CANVAS July 2015 by Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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July 2015

Covering Orange, Pike & Sullivan Counties, Beacon, Marlboro, Cragsmoor & Ellenville

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

Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen We’re Celebrating Continuity & Synchronicity This is our 11th Anniversary. Our first issue was July-August 2004. Fun Trivia: Folk Duo Ken & Julie appeared in the picture collage on our first cover, and they are performing July 2 at the pocket park in Middletown next to Something Sweet restaurant (see page 16). Fun Trivia:Also on our first cover is a picture of Dr. Woomyung Choe conducting the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Choe retired in June after 20 years. The orchestra’s July 25 concert in Downing Park featured a new conductor who will be vying with three others to

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succeed Dr. Choe (see page 8). Also in the collage were: Creative TheatreMuddy Water Players’ Noises Off (see page 24), Hello Dolly at Forestburgh Playhouse (see page 9), art by Shawn Dell Joyce of the Wallkill River School (see page 20), and art by Roberta Rosenthal (see page 26). Inside the issue were stories about all of the above, and about pianist Tannis Gibson and Mongaup native and Met Opera mezzo Stephanie Blythe performing for Weekend of Chamber Music (see page ??). Thanks to all our readers, contributors, and advertisers for eleven years of reading, contributing, and advertising! ☺

Letters to the Editor Dear CANVAS, Derek Leet has a keen eye for talent. Based on his rave review of 13-year-old Peggy Ann Garner in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, my husband and I rented the movie. Garner’s performance was everything Leet said it was - and he was right about the supporting cast, too. Thanks, Derek! Once again, you were on target. Cheers, Judith Wink, New York City Dear CANVAS, Thank you for yet another year of your wonderful publication. It does my heart good, just to receive it in the mail, and know that the arts are still alive and prospering. Thank you for your hard work. Christina Kaufman, Middletown Dear CANVAS, Thank you for the nice article! Thanks also for all you do to support and promote local arts and businesses. My customers always look forward to picking up the latest CANVAS at Mainframe! Jean Warren, Mainframe Gallery Dear CANVAS, Your very friendly delivery man dropped

off the CANVAS today and mentioned that our Summer concert series was mentioned in the CANVAS. Thank you so much for your coverage. Such a great little newspaper! Thanks for all you do to promote the arts. By the way, is your lovely June cover image that of Chris Farlekas? What a great man. Pat Lewis, Newburgh Free Library Dear CANVAS, Thanks so much for the article in your June issue on Art & About’s “It’s Summertime.” On behalf of artists Nancy Davis-Kessler, Dawn Benko and Joan Kehlenbeck, we are extremely grateful for your coverage of the shows. Thanks also for the beautiful photos of their works you included. I hope everyone can get the chance to stop by and enjoy these superb artworks! Your support is much appreciated. Susan Miiller, artist Dear CANVAS, I wanted to thank you, for the business that I have received from your publication. At least three quarters of the business I obtain is directly from advertising in the CANVAS. Thanks! Image & All Services, Inc.

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On the Cover Composer, John Corigliano, 2015 Weekend of Chamber Music Composer-in-Residence see page 22

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Community Building Through The Arts ��29 May I Have A Word With You ��30 Meet Me in The Green Room ��9 Meet Me in The Library ��19 Spotlight On: Sugar Loaf Guild �� 11 Whispering Pines w/ Chef Frey ��31

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Community Arts: News Views And Schedules Managing Editor, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Co-Publisher, Marc E. Gerson ads@dhcanvas.com Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 www.dhcanvas.com 845.926.4646 phone 845.926.4002 fax Please email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Please email submissions for classifieds, opportunities & auditions to classified@dhcanvas.com Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Ellenville Library, Gallery Link ��20 Falcon, Marlboro ��25 Forestburgh Playhouse ��9 Free Summer Concert Series �� 6-7 Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley ��10 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra ��8 Grey Towers, Milford ��5, 14 Hudson Valley Science Cafe ��13 ICCC, Woodbourne ��21 In Memoriam: Earl “Bud” Wertheim ��12 Kastan Art Space, Sugar Loaf ��11 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford ��11 Livingston Manor ArtWalk / ChalkWalk ��12 Mt. St. Mary College Desmond Campus ��19 NACL Theatre, Highland Lakes & Liberty �� 4, 24 Naomi Teppich, Sculptor ��11 Nesin Cultural Arts, Monticello �� 13 Neversink Valley Museum �� 24 Newburgh Historical Society ��8 Newburgh Last Saturdays �� 27 Old Stone House, Hasbrouck �� 23 Pacem in Terris, Warwick �� 25 Parksville USA Music Festival ��3 RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon ��11 Roberta Rosenthal Botanical Art �� 26 Rock Hill Circus �� 23 Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville �� 20 Sugar Loaf PAC ��3, 11 Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop �� 15 Summer Festivals �� 4-5 SUNY Orange �� 26, 27 UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis �� 23 Wallkill River School �� 20 Weekend of Chamber Music �� 22 Woodsongs Coffeehouse, Hurleyville ��31 Wurtsboro Art Alliance & Founder’s Day �� 28

Bronx Opera Comes Back to Parksville

Michael Spierman (& Dr. Ruth Westheimer)

Halley Gilbert

Leslie Swanson

The Bronx Opera Company was founded in 1967 by Michael Spierman, the organization’s artistic director and principal conductor. Last at the Dead End Café in 2007, the Bronx Opera is the July presentation of the Parksville USA 2015 Music Festival. “I will serve as narrator, as will, on occasion, some of the artists,” said Spierman. “The first half, in addition to solos, will include great operatic ensembles such as the Susanna/Marcellina duet from The Marriage of Figaro with sopranos Halley Gilbert and Leslie Swanson, the tenor/baritone duet from Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers with tenor Joseph Michael Brent and baritone Andrew Oakden, and the Quartet from Rigoletto. Set in ancient times on the island of Ceylon, The Pearl Fishers tells the story of how two men’s vow of eternal friendship is threatened by their love for the same woman, whose own dilemma is the conflict between secular love and her sacred oath as a priestess. The friendship duet Au fond du temple saint is one

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of the best-known and best-loved numbers in opera. At the time of the premiere, Bizet was only 25 years old and had yet to establish himself in the Parisian musical world. Think that’s “awesome?” Well, Mozart was only 20 years old and already established as a major composer when he wrote Figaro, K. 492! Yes, his 492nd opus! “The second half of the program will be allAmerican in honor of July 4th and will feature the music of Cole Porter, Victor Herbert, Richard Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein,” concluded Spierman. Conductor, composer, and pianist, Eric Kramer, who serves as music director of Collegium Westchester Chorus and Orchestra and assistant conductor with Bronx Opera, is the pianist for the July 5, 3:00pm concert at the Dead End Café, 6 Main Street, Parksville. Since a complimentary dinner buffet is served after the concert, reservations are suggested. Phone: 845-292-0400.

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Featuring a dozen musicians, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire with inspiration drawn from music from all over the world, crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop. “Pink Martini delivers a knowing sophistication backed by skillful arrangements. China Forbes is an unpretentious, pitch-perfect chanteuse who can be breathy and girlish or sultry.” - New York Times “We’re very much an American band,” says founder Thomas Lauderdale, “but we spend a lot of time abroad and therefore have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America...the America which remains the most heterogeneously

populated country in the world.” Pink Martini comes to Sugar Loaf PAC on July 8 at 7:30pm. Tickets are on sale now at the SLPAC box office, all ticketmaster locations, charge by phone 1-800-745-3000 or online at www.sugarloafpac.org

Twelfth Night has influenced much in the way of literature. Kierkegaard opens his book Philosophical Fragments with the quote “Better well hanged than ill wed” which is a paraphrase of an Act I comment “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” Nietzsche also refers to Twelfth Night in Act 1, that his “excessive intake of beef is having an inverse effect on his wit” in his Genealogy of Morality. Even playwright Ken Ludwig (see page 20) wrote a play inspired by the details of Twelfth Night, called Leading Ladies. “Twelfth Night” is a reference to the twelfth night after Christmas Day. It was originally a Catholic holiday but, prior to Shakespeare’s

play, had become a day of revelry. Servants often dressed up as their masters, men as women and so forth. This history is based on the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia (characterized by drunken revelry and inversion of the social order.) Subtitles for plays were fashionable in the Elizabethan era, and the annual Shakespeare in Salesian Park production presented by Cornerstone Arts Alliance of Twelfth Night, or What You Will happens in the historic Goshen park July 18, 19, 25, 26 at 2:00pm. Thanks to the sponsorship of the Goshen Public Library & Historical Society, admission is free. Donations appreciated. Bring a lawn chair.

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FABULOUS & FUN FESTIVALS IN JULY! Liberty’s 4th of July Celebration

NACL’s The Weather Project makes an apperance for Liberty’s annual “4th of July Celebration”

A sure sign of summer in Liberty is their annual celebration and street fair that boasts everything from a parade, classic car show, ATV raffle, music, art, food, and a variety of kid’s activities, on the 4th of July, from 10:30am-4:30pm. Rain date: 7/5. Following the great success of The Weather Project premiere last August in Yulan, Highland Lakes’ NACL Theatre’s “community” has put the finishing touches on a compact, touring version of the performance. “I caught the presentation that happened in Livingston Manor’s Renaissance Park immediately after the June 13 Trout Parade, and have to say - pun intended - that I was blown away by the Weather Project,” says CANVAS co-publisher Barry Plaxen. “Conceptually, it is a masterwork, in that it is rife with imagination and inspiration, and involves - is performed by - adults, teens and kids, using a

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variety of theatrical devices: spoken word, dance, music, and was written by NACL Theatre’s directors Tannis Kowalchuk and Brett Keyser, and a host of community “co-playwrights” of all ages. A true community project. “The most powerful theatrical device for me were the magical and inventive costumes and accompanying makeup. These fantastic (as in fantasy) elements drew me completely into the story as I watched the climate-change-message, cleverly using teens as the protagonists, unfold with clarity, warning, explanation and hope. “Not to be missed is the incredible depiction of tornadoes that was the highlight for me. I won’t describe it because it would lessen the impact when you see it, other than to use the old cliché, ‘you’ve never seen anything like it’.” NACL and the travelling troupe will present the half hour version of The Weather Project during Liberty’s July 4 festival, at 1:00pm on Main Street. Free! For NACL information: 845-557-0694. For Liberty information: 845-292-9797. Callicoon Center’s 3-Day Greek Festival Spanakopita. Tiropita. Dolmades. Mousaka. Souvlaki. Bring a ferocious appetite with you to the Callicoon Center Fireman’s Field, 1669 Gulf Road, and enjoy all of the above mentioned foods (and more!) at the 3-day all Greek Festival! Enjoy traditional Greek music and dancing,

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along with raffles and prizes, rides and games, on July 10, 11 & 12. The festivities begin on July 10 at 4:00pm, and at Noon on July 11 & 12. On July 11, visitors can enjoy fantastic views of sky high spectacular multi-colored fireworks at 9:00pm. Free admission and parking. Visit www.catskillsgreekfest.com Bloomingburg’s SummerFest 2015 Our Lady of the Assumption’s SummerFest 2015 boasts a flea market, kids’ korner, face painting, food concession with baked goods, petting zoo, tricky tray and a chicken BBQ, on July 18, 11:00am-7:00pm. Rain date: 7/19. The flea market begins at 9:00am and the BBQ runs from 4:00pm-7:30pm (tickets must be purchased in advance). Location: 17 High Street, Bloomingburg. 845-733-1477 or 845-798-0052. Warwick Summer Arts Festival 2015 Founded by Elizabeth Reese in 2000, the Warwick Summer Arts Festival (WASF) has brought crowds to underused parks, created a performance venue in the middle of the black dirt farm, and established an annual Main Street storefront art exhibit. This year, as the WASF celebrates its 15th year, directors Melissa Padham-Maass and Marcela Bumpus continue to expand on the tradition. WSAF 2015 Fusion Fest will bring together artists from diverse genres in a multi-discipline

showcase set throughout Warwick. This year’s week long festival: July 19-26, kicks off with a celebratory collaboration between Sustainable Warwick and Warwick Gardeners at Lewis Woodlands Park, complete with an expansive puppet raising, creative movement class and performance. The beginning of the week will feature the opening reception of ArtHaus, a pop up gallery featuring both local and New York City based visual artists. Master classes, community workshops, and site specific events and performances will continue throughout the week at the Seligmann Center, Warwick Drivein, Scheuermann Farms and Memorial Park. On July 22, Sugar Loaf’s Seligmann Center hosts a mask-making workshop, a live performance by Riva Weinstein, a dance choreographed by Linda Mensch, and a poetry reading with Steve Roe, Marina Mati, William Seaton and Janet Hamill. In addition, works by Lisa Breznak, Mimi Czajka Graminski, and Riva Weinstein will be on view in Seligmann’s Studio, the Robert Fagan Art Library and on the Seligmann grounds. A fire will follow. On July 25, enjoy a day long affair at Stanley Deming Park which will be filled with live music, dance, a large-scale community art project, and artisanal vendors. Closing ceremonies will be held in Greenwood Lake on July 26 featuring a Veteran art show with dance, theater, and music. www.warwicksummerarts.com

FABULOUS & FUN FESTIVALS IN JULY! Grahamsville Old Time Fair by Carol Montana It’s happening come rain or come shine on July 25 from 10:00am-5:00pm at the Grahamsville Fairgrounds, Route 55 in Grahamsville. That’s where you can enjoy old-fashioned fun at the Old Time Fair and BBQ sponsored by the Time and the Valleys Museum. Try your hand at corn shucking, skillet throwing and a new firewood cutting contest for husband and wife. The whole family can partake in the ice cream demonstration and then enjoy the fruits of their labor, while watching spinning or quilting demos. Food aplenty will be available for purchase: hot dogs, ice cream, coffee and tea, and the Miller Chicken Barbecue will be available from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. Don’t forget to take home an old-fashioned homemade pie from the everpopular pie auction! Just to keep things fresh, there will be some “new” activities, games for children, teenagers and adults. Remember croquet? Wait until you see the new version played a little like golf with a grand prize for the winner. You can sail a boat, throw a football, dig for dinosaurs or toss a bean bag, plus others! Keeping things affordable in an old-fashioned way, there’s free admission and free parking, with a nominal fee for certain contests. For more information call 845-985-7700.

Happy Herbs Soaps will be a vendor at the Old Time Fair. Be sure to seek out these fragrant, all natural hand-made soaps.

Beacon Jazz Festival Celebrating the music, distilleries, artisan crafts and culture of the Hudson Valley, the inaugural Beacon Jazz Festival takes place on July 25, Noon to 6:00pm at the Pete & Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park on Red Flynn Drive. Presented by Six String Productions, the festival will offer a wealth of musical talent. In addition to presenting great jazz, the festival will also double as a Hudson Valley distillery tasting event. Local craft breweries, cideries and wineries will be providing their offerings, along with local artisan chefs providing food. Musicians will perform throughout the festival, and Beacon DJ Grady Salter will be spinning classic jazz selections all day between acts. Local businesses providing food and drink include More Good, Tito Santana, Beacon Bread, The Hop Express, and many more. For tickets: www.beaconjazz.com

Milford 11th Annual Festival of Wood This family-friendly free event offers a variety of activities and events that demonstrate the many ways we use and enjoy wood in our everyday lives, held on the grounds of Grey Towers National Historic Site, home of conservationist and former PA Governor Gifford Pinchot. This year is Pinchot’s 150th birthday and a special exhibit is planned to commemorate and celebrate his life. The 1886 mansion will be open for self-guided tours throughout the weekend (at a minimum cost). Craftsmen and artists from throughout the region will exhibit, sell and demonstrate their crafts, all made from wood. Children’s activities include games and toys using wood and other craft activities and a crosscut saw activity. Visits from Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl are planned. See demonstrations on tree pruning and a portable sawmill. The Master Chain Saws of America will demonstrate chain saw carving. The PA Woodmobile will be parked on site for visitors to walk through and learn about all the ways we use wood in our everyday lives. A tree identification walk is planned. The festival is on August 1 (10:00am5:00pm) & August 2 (10:00am-4:00pm). Music is planned each day. Free shuttles from the free parking areas are provided. A variety of refreshments will be available. Call 570-296-9630 for more information.

Narrrowsburg Riverfest 2015 Narrowsburg’s annual Riverfest is an environmental festival that celebrates the Upper Delaware River and the ecology that supports it. The day consists of music, art, a kids korner, food, an art auction and much more. The event is sponsored by Catskill Regional Medical Center and presented by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance on July 26, 10:00am-5:00pm, Main Street in Narrowsburg. For more information, call 845-252-7576. Cruisin’ for the Animals, Salisbury Mills The rock/blues/dance fusion band Firebrand, singer/songwriter Renata Daria, lead guitarist Tommy Quaglieri, bassist Keith “Johnny Thunder” and drummer Russ Loomis, will perform at the 2nd annual Cruisin’ for the Animals Car Show benefit for the Humane Society of Blooming Grove. The day-long event features music by DJ Hot Rod, a variety of vendors and a display of the hottest cars from throughout the Hudson Valley, sponsored by Hudson Valley Hot Rods and the Embalmers Car Club. A “Nascar Simulator,” sponsored by Nationwide Insurance, will be included as part of the event. It happens on July 12, 10:00am-2:00pm at Lasser Park, 49 Station Road, Salisbury Mills. For additional details and information, email: hudsonvalleyhotrods@gmail.com

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FREE MUSIC CONCERT SERIES IN JULY!

Pine Bush Community Band In 1982, a small group of local musicians formed the Pine Bush Community Band. The band performed free public concerts in the Pine Bush area. Today, under the direction of Robert G. Groth, the tradition continues, and the small group has grown to a full concert band. The Band has a busy summer season ahead as it concertizes from July 6-26 in Walden, Wallkill, Pine Bush and Montgomery. See the calendar for details and locations. Visit www.PineBushCommunityBand.com

On The Lawn - Sugar Loaf On the Lawn, free weekly concerts in July and August, boasts “a place for everyone”, says co-producer Richard Logothetis of Lycian Stage Lighting in Sugar Loaf. The series, held at the Railroad Crossing and King’s Highway in Sugar Loaf every Thursday at 6:30pm, offers different “sections” with different amplification. “We have the main seating area in front of the bands set for clear audio reproduction of the music, and locations for easy listening, an “overflow section” with lower level volume and with smaller speakers equalizing for a more mellow sound,” explained Logothetis. “Some people want to sit and chat, take

in a little food and listen to the music as background for their picnic. The easy listening section addresses that, while the real bandlovers sit up front. A third area under the tent has somewhat similar sound as in the front with lower volume.” Choose your area to sit when you get there, to hear Some Guys and a Broad who perform on July 6, or maybe you would like to check out The Greyhounds on July 16.

Milford’s Music in the Park Co-sponsored by Milford Borough, Milford area businesses and private sponsors, Music in the Park is the annual free summer concert series presented on selected Sunday afternoons in Ann Street Park, between Ann and Catherine Streets - a beautiful venue offering residents and visitors the opportunity to enjoy listening to local talented musicians. Bring a picnic, and listen to live music at a beautiful park, on July 26, August 9 & 23, from 1:00pm-4:00pm. Free Music Festival, Sundays at Bertoni Bertoni Gallery is hosting its 11th annual Free Music Festival. Held every Sunday in July from 1:00pm-5:00pm, the festival takes place at Bertoni Gallery Sculpture Garden,

1392 Kings Highway in Sugar Loaf. This free event is family-oriented and open to the entire community. Bring a chair, a blanket and a plan for having a good time every Sunday in July outside in the garden. July 26 marks the 8th annual Bill Perry Day Celebration. Perry was an internationally acclaimed blues-rock guitarist who lived in the Chester area most of his life, until his passing in 2007. The day is filled with drumming, blues, and rock music in honor of Bill. In addition, Bertoni Gallery and Barry Adelman from Music For Humanity will present the 8th Music For Humanity Bill Perry Scholarship Award. The scholarship is awarded to a local music student who has shown excellence in music, and to encourage the recipient’s ongoing pursuit of music. The award will be presented during a ceremony in the garden at 1:15pm. For information, call 845-469-0993.

Pine Bush Arts Council Concerts The Pine Bush Area Arts Council is once again presenting their 9-week Summer Concert Series from July 10 through September 4. All free concerts begin at 7:00pm. Bring a chair or blanket to the July 10 concert and enjoy the alternative rock music of Recap Band.

For further details, see CANVAS calendar. Middletown x 2 Music Series

The Business Improvement District, in partnership with the City of Middletown, announced the return of their Summer Concert Series, Fridays in Festival Square. The concerts, which feature many different genres of music, take place at 7:00pm, with plenty of parking in the City lot. If you like 1950’s authentic street corner accapella harmonies, then head to Festival Square on July 17 to enjoy music by The Shallows, a 7 piece band playing oldies, motown, rock & roll, and most covers. In addition to the City’s Friday concerts, the newest kid on the block is Sweet Summer Sounds, a 6:00pm Thursday series in the “pocket park” adjacent to Something Sweet Eatery at 17 North Street. July 16 features Breakneck Annie, a quartet

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FREE MUSIC CONCERT SERIES IN JULY (continued) that plays “back-porch” music, a blend of bluegrass, old time and folk music ranging from Cumberland Gap to Guthrie’s Do-ReMi. The band plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, accordion and washboard. Bring chairs or blankets to both venues! Nancy Pullar Summer Concert Series Much loved Town of New Windsor employee, Nancy A. Pullar, passed away in 2009. She left behind “her second family” at the Town of New Windsor, and they named a series after her. Nancy Pullar The Nancy Pullar Summer Concerts take place at the Town Hall Band Stand. Eight summer concerts will take place on Wednesdays at 7:00pm. Goodies like soda, water, hotdogs, popcorn, snow cones, and Italian ices are available. Newburgh Jazz Series 2015 The Newburgh Jazz Series produced by “Ferry Godmother” Aquanetta Wright, celebrates 9 years of great music this year. All concerts are held at the gorgeous Orange County Arboretum, Thomas Bull Memorial Park in Montgomery. Concerts are free and open to the public. Bring a chair or blanket to the performances

Chiku Awali at the Arboretum, 2014

that begin on July 1, featuring Chiku Awali African Dance, and Shaktipat. Chiku Awali’s African dances harness creative energy, challenge the body, discipline the mind, and teach participants African culture. Shaktipat is Matt Cantello, vocals, guitar, percussion; Chris Bradley on drums, percussion; and Lynn Whitehead, vocals and percussion. They describe their music as “Ancient sounds and spirits of the east mingling with the rhythmic vibrancy of the west.” And check out Ferry Godmother’s PopRock-DooWop free series Tuesday nights beginning July 7 at the Arboretum. See calendar page 14. Hot dogs are available. For take-out picnic food, visit nearby Mike’s Deli. See ad page 6 Don’t miss the free concerts in Monroe, Warwick and other municipalities. And check the August CANVAS for more freebies.

Children’s Fantasies in Art at Amity Gallery

Still Life is Not Just a Bowl of Cherries

Still Life (not your usual bowl of fruit) gaze into it. There are lies in what the eye of the “Still Life: Paintings of items, live or dead.” photographer has captured - stilled. “Still Life: One of the principal genres of “Most important in any still life is the lighting Western art,” explains curator Tom Bolger. source, how it shades each item, and causes a “Essentially, the subject shadow. These elements are matter of a still life painting or what brings the stilled objects sculpture is anything that does to life. Among them are where not move or is dead. So still the light lands on an object, life includes all kinds of mancausing a shadow. Also, a made or natural objects, cut “cast shadow” is created once flowers, fruit, vegetables, fish, the light hits an object and then game, wine and so on. casts the glow on to another “Still life can be a celebration object. Many are painted with of material pleasures such an exactness to be considered as food and wine, or often a photo realism. Impressionists warning of the ephemerality “Workshop Wall” by D.E. Cole painting a still life seem to of these pleasures and of let your mind observe the the brevity of human life subject and then allow you to (google Memento mori). complete it. Note the plural of still life is “In modern art simple still still lifes, and the term is not life arrangements have often hyphenated. been used as a relatively neutral “This style of painting has basis for formal experiment, the possibility of visual magic. for example by Paul Cézanne Looking at one may cause you “Sedona Afternoon” by G. Lopez and the Cubist painters. to wonder if those items are pasted or tacked “Lastly they can be magical, but generally on to a surface. It is the master artist’s illusion painted with precision. However, the painterly, of a painting in 3-D. We are used to seeing still impressionistic ones are of great interest. Still.” life paintings of flowers and fruit realistically Get a still life! painted so that they look like a photograph or Where? at the Crawford Gallery of Fine an impression of them. Go off the standard Arts, 65 Main Street, Pine Bush, July 3-31. path and find a photographer who captured an Reception: July 11, from 5:30pm-7:30pm. image of interest to hold you for a moment and See ad pg 4 for art classes and more details!

Art by Diane Kominick-Ouzoonian

Art by Barbara Bressi

Barbara Bressi, an artist and designer, uses the mediums of oil pastel, gouache and acrylic. Her art career includes textile design, children’s paintings and murals, costumes, dolls, and puppets. A fairy tale theme sparkles onto the paper as she transforms stories into myths through color and movement. “Like its verbal counterpart, visual storytelling can have a healing effect on the spirit. It touches the universal qualities of love, courage, humor and celebration,” said Barbara. Diane Kominick-Ouzoonian studied at the University of California at Santa Cruz before moving back east to study with Philip Guston

and Gretna Campbell at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village. At Montclair State University she received a teaching credential and taught art in the school system. Currently she teaches pastel, drawing and watercolor workshops throughout the library systems. “My work reflects what I see around me: landscapes with the change of season, people at work, children playing. I create art in order to share memory and soul with others. My work hopefully tells a story capturing something beautiful before it fades away,” says Diane. The playful representations of toys and children’s fantasies in watercolor and acrylic by Barbara Bressi and Diane KominickOuzoonian opens with a reception on July 11, from 4:00pm-7:00pm. The works can be viewed through July 26, weekends from Noon to 4:00pm at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road in Warwick. For information, call 845-258-4396. July 2015

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GNSO: Look Ma! No Lyrics!

Opera Goes Pop! is the theme, as the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) presents its annual Summer Pops concert in beautiful Downing Park. The first of four final candidates for the future GNSO Music Director, David Bernard, will lead the orchestra in an array of enjoyable well GNSO pictured here during a previous concert at known tunes from the Downing Park, presents “Summer Pops” on July 25 Park amphitheater, and enjoy orchestral world of opera. selections from Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Park Avenue Bizet’s Carmen, and Saint-Saens’ Samson Chamber Symphony David Bernard Music Director David Bernard has gained and Delilah. Also featured, the famous (for recognition for his dramatic and incisive multiple reasons!) Dance Of The Hours from conducting in over 20 countries on four Ponchielli’s La Gioconda. (Sorry, no tutu-ed ballet dancing hippos continents, including a this time around.) nine-city tour of the Downing Park is People’s Republic located on Route 9W of China and a (Robinson Ave.) at guest conducting the corner of South assignment with the Street. Parking is China Conservatory available in the park Orchestra. or on adjacent streets. The Mini-Maestros The Mini-Maestros will be back! In case of weather “kiddie conductors” will again receive their chopstick batons, or extreme heat, the concert will be held striding to the podium to take a turn leading indoors at Aquinas Hall, Mount Saint Mary College. a Sousa march. The concert is on July 25 at 4:00pm. Admission is free. Families can bring blankets and chairs, find a comfortable spot Call 845-913-7157 or visit www. on the spacious lawn in front of the Downing newburghsymphony.org for information.

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New “old photos” for Newburgh

late 19th century through Growing Up In Newburgh the 20th century. One is memories in the form of unique item provided is a images, which have been 1960s film of a family ice brought together with the skating on the “Polly Pond” goal of helping people see in Downing Park. All the Newburgh as many first donated images have never saw it, through children’s before been featured in eyes and those of their NFA basketball players Charlie a Newburgh Historical proud parent photographers, Johnson, Alan Axelrod, Bill Neely, Society exhibit. a community exhibit and Bobby Scott, 1963. The new exhibit can be seen Sunday featuring a variety of photographs showing families at Downing Park, during parades, afternoons (and by appointment) thru December at the historic Captain David socializing downtown and many others. Sixteen members of the community have Crawford House,189 Montgomery Street. For information call 845-561-2585. contributed over 120 images captured from the

QE II Live in HD at Downing

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks this contract of silence and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. In turn, the Queen can’t help but reveal her own self as she advises, consoles and, on occasion, teases. The play, starring Oscar-winner Helen

Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Audience”

Mirren, just had a limited Broadway engagement from March 8-June 28, and now can be seen directly from London’s National Theatre, “Live in HD”, at the Downing Film Center, 19 Front Street, Newburgh in July. For schedule & reservations: www. downingfilmcenter.com

CAS Art & Poetry

Meet the New & Expanded Forestburgh If Tuesday’s opening night performance of Damn Yankees at the Forestburgh Playhouse is even an inkling of the season that Franklin Trapp has prepared, an extraordinary treat is in the wings. The performance was without hesitation the most polished opening night in this writer’s tattered but mostly intact memory. The lead role of Joe Hardy, “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo” Franklin Trapp was impressively and boldly brought to an excited audience by Hunter Brown, a welcomed and returning member of the Playhouse’s inspired resident company (Res-Co). To broaden the horizons and enrich the artistic appreciation of patrons, the Playhouse has wisely collaborated with the famed Taglialatella Galleries of New York, Palm Beach and Paris to provide a series of art exhibitions at the theatre for the

duration of the summer season. With a total of six presentations, shows will highlight celebrated and prominent artists. Included in this famed group are graffiti-inspired Keith Haring, pop artist Andy Warhol and award winning photographer, Nancy Ellison, an artist Hunter Brown celebrated for her celebrity portraits. Works included are for display and sale, with the Playhouse benefiting through a prearranged commission. In an expanded role, the celebrated Tavern is offering additional events to the Forestburgh experience. In addition to its celebrated buffets featuring Jill Padua, and the cabarets of the oft celebrated Res-Co, the tavern will offer lunch and a Wednesday matinee performance of 42nd Street on August 19. Further, Franklin is planning to host a Fiesta in the Garden on July 11, from 4:30pm-7:30pm. It will feature food, music, margaritas, cash bar and more! It will happen in the award winning gardens and new patio

adjacent to the Tavern. The Garden event is designed to function as a benefit for the Forestburgh Playhouse and Forestburgh Tavern. Also, new and interesting at the Tavern will be a Sunday Brunch, on July 5, July 19 and August 2. Serving will begin at 11:30am and continue through 2:30pm. At $19.95 per person, the brunch will include coffee, sodas, and a cash bar with mimosas and featuring a Sunday-morning staple, a Bloody Mary Bar! The summer lineup of unforgettable Broadway musicals each with catchy, leavethe-theatre melodies sparkles through the summer with Young Frankenstein, June 30 -July 12; Oliver, July 28-August 9; The Music Man, August 11-23; 42nd Street, August 2530; and Driving Miss Daisy, staring Loretta Swit on September 1-6. To accommodate one’s theatrical needs, wants and desires, call the very agreeable and delightful Box Office Manager, Hanna Powers, at 845-794-1194. She will help schedule reservations for main stage productions and reservations for Cabaret performances. For further details, see ad on page 11.

Summer is a storied time in the Catskills as it is famously wrapped up in our history, economy, and lifestyle. It’s also the time of the muchanticipated Summer Members Show, featuring local artists from across the area with a diverse body of work in all styles and mediums. The Catskill Art Society (CAS) will present its 6th annual Summer Members Show throughout the CAS Arts Center, 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor from July 4 to August 10, with an opening reception on July 4 from 4:00pm-6:00pm. And save the date: CAS will present local poet Laura E. J. Moran (see photo) in the presentation of her performance poetry from Desire Line at the Laundry King. Moran’s Desire Line is a book of fragmentary texts: poetic lyric, prosepoem, one-act play, prose essay - that nevertheless assemble a whole way of experiencing the world. As she says, “The shard is the whole - no?” “Laura Moran is among the rarest practitioners of the poetic craft, a “poet’s poet” who is also a magical stage presence.” Daniel Solis, national award winning poet. For more information, call 845-436-4227.

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“Painting & Poetry” in Lords Valley

A gala reception for Hemlock along with two runners-up. Farms artists and poets will be Featured poets include Lorraine held on July 3, 5:00pm-8:00pm Davis, Kathleen Grimaldi, Sally at The Gallery at Chant Realtors, Hendee and Joan Polishook, 631 Route 739, in Lords Valley. all members of writing group, Painting & Poetry is the theme Hemlock Writers. of this year’s juried group show Artists featured include Lisa and sale. Along with paintings, Hannick, Lisa Sakoutis, Lucille framed displays of written works Novak, Ronnie Seiden-Moss, with illustrations make up the Barbara Sirotkin, Joan Polishook, Poetry portion of the show. Prizes “Through a Window Seen” and others. will be awarded for Best of Show For info: 570-775-7337. by Joan Polishook

Art’s Part in The American Revolution

Few people know how art helped win the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere created breathtaking art that inspired colonists to take up arms. And it’s on display this July 4 in an exhibit sponsored by the Barryville Area Arts Association at the Artists’ Market Community Center in Shohola. You’ve probably heard that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite and discovered electricity. Did you also know he was an accomplished artist who used his talents to further the patriot cause? You’ve probably heard of Paul Revere warning “the Redcoats are coming, the Redcoats are coming!” But did you know that his artwork inspired colonists to take up arms? The exhibit, How Art Helped Win the

American Revolution, includes prints of artwork by Franklin, Revere, and other patriots. The display includes a print of Franklin’s famous 1754 Join or Die drawing, depicting a disjointed snake representing the colonies, as well as a reproduction of a parchment that was used 240 years ago as a call to arms against the British. The British tried to counter with art of their own, and it’s also included in the exhibit. A local historian will give a brief presentation about art’s role in the American Revolution at a free reception,with music and refreshments, on July 4, from 4:00pm-6:00pm at the Artists’ Market Community Center, 114 Richardson Avenue in Shohola. Visit www.artistsmarketcc.com

Paintings & Drawings at The ARTery

Alvin Rosser, one of the in creating her paintings. Images original members of the ARTery are everywhere and she uses Gallery, continues to be one them in various ways and of it’s most popular artists. His juxtapositions. Her art is about paintings have a unique quality experimenting in free association of looseness, freedom and wit, and seeing with the mind’s eye. while capturing the essence of Ideas help to form a basis for his subject with remarkable most of her paintings and they simplicity. His evolution as an come from common frames of artist, from realistic landscapes, reference such as the cycle of abstracts, character driven seasons and other phenomena of portraits to his current abstracted nature. She uses unusual scale, “Venus” by Alvin Rosser landscapes and figure studies invented perspective, shadows, continue to be highly sought and reflections as well as symbols and collected. metaphors to construct a narrative Al is beginning work with picture of images seen from a new encaustics - he just finished a few vantage point. pieces using beeswax he saved The ARTery Gallery, 210 Broad from his own hives. He’s been Street in Milford will feature wanting to do this for years. This an exhibit of the paintings and show will include his current “Imagine Nature” by R. Hodgkins drawings of Rosser and Hodgkins works from Colorado along with a sampling of from July 9-August 3. works created throughout his long and creative An opening reception will be held on July life. 11 from 6:00pm-9:00pm. Rosalind Hodgkins works from imagination For information, phone 570-409-1234.

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A Cactus “Grows” in Beacon

Spotlight On: The Sugar Loaf Guild New Sugar Loaf Art Gallery: Exciting Art & The Sounds of Jazz by Naomi Kennedy Brian & Maria Kastan opened up Kastan Art Space in May. They moved to Warwick seven months ago from the city with their two children. “We love the area and we knew that it has a nice pocket for artists and musicians. This is where we want to live our life.” They met almost 17 years ago when Brian was in grad school at Brooklyn College and Maria was in the undergrad fine arts program, working in the library. One day, Brian was studying Beethoven scores in the library and Maria was checking out books. Six years later they married and the rest is history. “It was a very romantic time for us,” said Brian. As visual and audio artists, they were motivated to open an art space so they could create as many artistic projects as possible. “Nothing is uncompromised in our art and music; we solely put out art, for the sake of art,” said Brian. Brian is a self-taught nature photographer who documents natural landscapes. He focuses on series of grey photos capturing the Hudson Valley, Harriman State Park, and Mt. Washington, NH. As a composer, guitarist and electric bass player, he has released 7 albums ranging from hard-hitting jazz fusion, acoustic guitar jazz/folk duets, solo improvisational

“Mt. Washington, NH” by Brian Kastan

guitar, and singer/songwriter rock/folk music. Maria is a visual-mixed media-sound artist. An oil painter, sketcher, and sculptor she also works on computer generated art. After she creates a sculpture, she paints this same sculpture so it becomes part of her painting. Since 2000, her artwork Skylight, a 5’ x 8’, oil on canvas, has been in the Brooklyn College Library’s collection. She has exhibited in many solo shows and group shows in the tristate area and abroad. Also a jazz vocalist, she can be heard on two of Brian’s albums. On July 25, 6:00pm-10:00pm, Brian’s jazz band Brian Kastan’s Quartet, will perform modern jazz fusion. Starting in August, on the last Saturday of each month, other bands will perform jazz. “I came from the city and saw there weren’t that many places a musician could perform jazz other than restaurants. I

Cut Loose with “Footloose The Musical!”

rural community rocked and rolled In 1979, the small town the rest of America, too, when the of Elmore City, OK faced a 1984 movie Footloose, based on community crisis. The seniors of their story, set the nation dancing. Elmore City High School wanted In 1998 a musical theatre to plan a senior prom, but dances version opened on Broadway. And were against the law, thanks to a now it comes to Sugar Loaf from not-forgotten ordinance from the July 24-26 at the Sugar Loaf late 1800s that forbade dancing Performing Arts Center, 1351 within the city limits. A storm of Kings Highway. controversy pitted the high school Tickets are on sale at the SLPAC students against city council Kevin Bacon in members led by the local minister box office, all Ticketmaster Footloose, 1984 who declared dancing a tool of the devil. locations, by phone at 1-800-745-3000 or This tempest in a teapot that rocked the online at www.sugarloafpac.org.

“The Bubblemakers” in Beacon

“Night Protector” by Maria Kastan

wanted to create underground jazz; a place where creative composers improvise in an intimate setting,” explained Brian. An art exhibit will be held through July 31 at Kastan Art Space. Brian’s nature photography will focus on grey landscapes and will document different light penetrating through the fog. Maria’s oil paintings will show the female figure within nature landscapes. The female figure has missing body parts which demonstrates the full understanding of a woman who is not exposed all the time; only parts of her personality are. Refreshments will be served. Head over to Kastan Art Space at 1388 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, and enjoy viewing art and listening to smooth Jazz tunes! For more information, call: 347-840-2588 or visit their website: www.kastanartspace.com

“Zebra Cactus”, by Naomi Teppich Cliff and Dewindt Streets, Beacon, thru Oct. 15

“Extreme weather conditions cause excessive changes in nature,” states artist Naomi Teppich. “It is my opinion that these changes are caused by human consumption of fossil fuels. In the future the climate may change so much that desert plants would be commonplace in the Northeast. Therefore it wouldn’t be unusual to find desert plants growing in Beacon. “From a distance my sculpture of such a cactus type plant would appear life-like. In fact when walking up to it the viewer would be surprised to see a ferro-cement sculpture.”

Shirim Klezmer Orchestra in Milford

Nationally recognized since 1982 for their traditional playing, Boston-based Shirim Klezmer Orchestra is also known for their pioneering crossover projects, i.e. Klezmer Nutcracker. They have performed at major festivals and venues, and can be heard on the soundtrack of Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry. Led by clarinetist Glenn Dickson, they will

explore universal pathos and wit of Yiddish songs and dances, as well as the “secret” klezmer music of Shostakovitch and Mahler when they perform for Kindred Spirits Arts on July 18 at 7:00pm. The concert takes place at the Milford Theatre, 114 East Catharine Street in Milford. Children under 15 admitted free. For information: 570-409-1269.

With her paint brushes, produce her solo exhibition Dana Wigdor creates a Fugue. Two museums in magical world of fun in the Vermont featured her artist’s sky. talk The Anthropomorphic Wigdor states, “Paint Machine where Wigdor is a perfect medium for introduced the mystifying capturing the invisible forces creatures that populate her that surround us - where work. color and light build a bridge RiverWinds Gallery at between what is tangible and 172 Main Street in Beacon, the elusive place ‘beyond’. is celebrating its 12th This can be understood as “Us Three” by Dana Wigdor anniversary and presenting The outer space, as heaven, as after life, or more Bubble Makers, new paintings by Wigdor. The show opens on Beacon Second abstractly, as simply somewhere out there. What do you see when you look up?” Saturday, July 11 with an artist reception from In 2004 Wigdor received a National 5:00pm-8:00pm, and runs through August 2. For more information: 845-838-2880. Endowment for the Arts Creation Grant to July 2015

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In Memoriam: Earl “Bud” Wertheim ~ 9/29/1926 - 6/15/2015

“Bud was a treasured artist in the Bud’s work evolved into casting community and a huge component in various metals and at the end of the Trout Parade from its earliest of his career his designs and days.” - Bradley Diuguid, Executive commissions were focused on art Director, Catskill Art Society. medals. He received numerous Earl “Bud” Wertheim was national (AMSA) and international a world renown sculptor and (FIDEM) awards. He taught puppeteer who attended the Art sculpture at Brooklyn College and Student’s League and also studied retired as Professor Emeritus from in Paris. He created the large SUNY Sullivan. trout puppet, that is THE central “We met in the early 70s’ when component of the Livingston we moved to Livingston Manor Manor Trout Parade, and “Johnny with our family. As a Cub Scout Darling” (see photo). Den Mother, I was invited to Bud and Jim Hensen were cobring my boys, including our son, chairs for the National Puppet to see Bud on his farm. When I Festival in the 1960s. He did told our son that Bud had died, he unusual things with bronze and responded, “I remember visiting steel puppet figures. There is an with him, seeing his workshop and oral history for his innovative work his HAM radio setup.” documented with the Puppetry “My cherished “Bud” momento Guild of Greater New York. is one of his business “cards” - a 2 Bud’s “Johnny Darling” Initially known for large abstract puppet at the Trout Parade inch x 1-1/2 inch bronze casting. sheet metal works, Bud’s diverse commissions On the front is a self-portrait in bas relief with included residential and commercial spaces. his name on one side, at the top “sculptor” and His work was included in the Empire State at the bottom “medallist.” Plaza Art Collection and various museums, “He was a true one-of-a-kind Renaissance including an appointment as sculptor-in- Man. We were blessed to have known him.” residence at the Greenville, SC Museum Art Barbara Konvalin, Shandelee. School. He had recently completed a portrait of CANVAS offers condolences to Bud’s wife Judge Lawrence Cooke which is on permanent Marlene, and to their immediate and extended exhibit at the Sullivan County Courthouse. families.

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Livingston Manor: Food, Fun, Chalk & Art

ArtWalk 2014

Story by Kate Hyden Set your GPS to Main Street in Livingston Manor, on July 11, from 10:00am to 4:00pm (rain date July 12), to find artists and craftsmen via our special maps in shops and windows! An Easter Egg Hunt of over 40 artists and craftsman, indoors and out displaying and demonstrating their skills on the street and inside Livingston Manor’s shops will certainly have you bringing home a special piece of unique art or a handmade craft item. Take a peek by searching: Livingston Manor Artwalk 2014 on YouTube. As always, the Livingston Manor Artwalk/ Chalkwalk offers a great time for the kids! There will be a special children’s book area, with authors ready to sign your copy. The Livingston Manor Library will have a special Origami class for kids and the Catskill Art Society (CAS) is the place to register

ChalkWalk 2014

your youngster to become a Livingston Manor Artist for the Day, complete with a certificate and a picture taken for the annual YouTube video! This year, CAS will have a special pop-up gallery within their annual Summer Member Show! Add special artist displays at the Plunk Shop and the Laundry King to keep you moving from WaterWheel Junction to Brandenburg Bakery and the Library. And you’ll need a break! Grab a snack from one of Livingston Manor’s fine eateries and find a bench on the pretty, flower-filled streets. Or you can take in the display at Catskill Brewery (Route 17) and have a cold one! Soft ice cream, lunch and dinner (from sandwiches & pizza to fine dining) are available at Madison’s Restaurant. Be sure to look for updates on participants and the map at www.livingstonmanor.org by July 4th!

Get Chai at the Nesin Theatre

Chai on Music is a whirlwind tour of Jewish Music - from its roots in prayer to lullabies and folk songs, from the Yiddish Theatre to the Broadway stage. Songs in English, Yiddish and Hebrew. Songs of love and humor, Richie Chiger songs of loss and resiliency. The trio of performers, Richie Chiger and Lori Schneider on vocals and Leon Hilfstein on piano, performed at the Nesin Center to a very enthusiastic crowd last year. This year, they welcome special guest, Larry Ravdin on clarinet and flute. Chai on Music performs on July 12 at

Lori Schneider

Leon Hilfstein

“Country Voices”

Larry Ravdin

3:00pm in the Eugene D. Nesin Theatre 22 St. John Street in Monticello. Tickets are discounted if purchased in advance online. So, nu? You’ll come out to the Nesin Theatre. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll dance, you’ll sing. For information: www.nesinculturalarts.org or phone 845-794-6013.

Science Café: All About Stained Glass

Colored glass has been produced since ancient times. Both the Egyptians and the Romans excelled at the manufacture of small colored glass objects. Phoenicia was important in glass manufacture with its chief centres Sidon, Tyre and Antioch. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term Stained Glass has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches, mosques and other significant buildings. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-

dimensional structures and sculpture. The Hudson Valley Science Café’s next meeting takes place on July 22, 7:15pm at La Casa Vicina, 1015 Little Britain Road, New Windsor where a discussion about the Chemistry of Stained Glass will be held by Christopher Smart, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Vassar College. Arrive around 6:00pm if you want to order dinner. Orders are taken until 6:45pm. No orders will be taken during the presentation. A $4 fee includes coffee or tea. For information: tobyrossman@yahoo.com

Some members of Country Voices, left-right: Will Conway, facilitator of Country Voices, Helena Moore and Tina Hazarian.

On July 18 at 2:00pm, members of the Country Voices Poetry Group will read their original works in the upstairs reading room of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, 37 Main Street in Narrowsburg. The poets will read from a variety of themes from their recently published chapbook, Country Voices Poetry. Established in 2014, the Country Voices Poetry Group is delighted to launch its first publication of creative offerings to the local community. Enjoy discussion with the poets. Copies of their work will be presented for sale. Refreshments will be served. Come and celebrate this opening, and be moved by great poetry! For additional information, visit the website: www.artsalliancesite.org or call 845-252-7576.

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Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock

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Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Music for Humanity ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm Chiku Awali African Dance, Shaktipat Newburgh Jazz Series OC Arboretum, Mntgmry Jul 1, 6:30pm Sam Reider’s Uptown Trio Dylan �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 1, 7pm Lucky House roots, rock ��New Windsor Band Stand, Jul 1, 7pm FREE Ken & Julie folk �� Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown, Jul 2, 6pm FREE Jane Ira Bloom, The Out of Towners jazz funk �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 2, 7pm Kid Rock & Foreigner �� Bethel Woods, Jul 3, 6:45pm Joey Armino &TheFamily AllAmericanVariety ��Festival Sq. Middletown, Jul 3, 7pm-9pm FREE Slam Allen’s Tribute to BB King �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 3, 7pm Roosevelt Dime New Orleans,Americana, r&r ��Towne Crier, Beacon, Jul 3, 8:30pm Chris Bergson Band “BBQ Americana”!, Hoochie Coochie Men The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 4, 7pm Free Music Festival �� Bertoni Sculpture Garden, Sugar Loaf, Jul 5, 12, 19, 1pm-5pm FREE Saints of Swing ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 5, 10am-2pm CocoMama �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 5, 7pm Chasin’ Crazy country �� Sugar Loaf PAC, Jul 5, 7:30pm Walker Valley Marching Band, The Five Creations Orange County Pop, Rock & DooWop Series OC Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 7, 6:30pm FREE The Weekend Riot ��New Windsor Band Stand, Jul 8, 7pm FREE Pink Martini classic pop, jazz, �� Sugar Loaf PAC, Jul 8, 7:30pm Side By Side rock, folk �� Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown, Jul 9, 6pm FREE Some Guys and a Broad �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 9, 6:30pm FREE Ice Jammers appalachia �� MSM College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh, July 10, 6pm Recap Band alternative rock ��Pine Bush Gazebo, Jul 10, 7pm FREE Bluebirds of Paradise jazz-indie-folk-Brazil �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 10, 7pm Harrison Street Band r&b ��Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 10, 7pm-9pm FREE Albi Beluli �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 10, 8:30pm Def Leppard, Styx & Tesla ��Bethel Woods, Jul 11, 7pm Banda Magda jazz manouche-Greece-Brazil �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 11, 7pm Vince Martell, Peg Pearl, Joe Brennan, Sean Harkness ��Wurtsboro Community Church, Jul 11, 8pm Lee Falco & Friends ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 12, 10am-2pm David Mason’s Traffic Jam ��Bethel Woods, Jul 12, 8pm Pony Tails Orange County Pop, Rock & DooWop Series �� OC Arboretum, Jul 14, 6:30pm FREE “Bluegrass Legends” Joe Walsh & Grant Gordy Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Jul 15, 7pm Upstate Rubdown CD Release �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 15, 7pm Manaklin Brothers rock, country ��New Windsor Band Stand, Jul 15, 7pm FREE Breakneck Annie bluegrass Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown, Jul 16, 6pm FREE The Greyhounds �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 16, 6:30pm FREE Christine Spero Group Nyro �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 16, 7pm Jeffery Gaines solo acoustic �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 17, 7pm The Shallows Oldies, Motown, r&r ��Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 17, 7pm-9pm FREE Neil Young & Promise of the Real ��Bethel Woods, Jul 17, 8pm Kidz Bop Kids ��Bethel Woods, Jul 18, 4pm Lindsey Webster Band CD Release, John DeRosalia �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 18, 7pm Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound gospel, blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 19, 10am-2pm Dr. John and the Nite Trippers r&r ��Sugar Loaf PAC, Jul 20, 8pm Sound Trax Orange County Pop, Rock & DooWop Series �� OC Arboretum, Jul 21, 6:30pm FREE Hollywood Ending ��New Windsor Band Stand, Jul 22, 7pm FREE Tim Quinn Irish-American � Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown, Jul 23, 6pm FREE 52st. Band �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 23, 6:30pm FREE Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover, Shelley King �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 24, 7pm One Swift Kick 50s-70s rock ��Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 24, 7pm-9pm FREE Brad Paisley, Justin Moore, Mickey Guyton �� Bethel Woods, Jul 24, 7:30pm Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Band �� Paramount Theater, Middletown, Jul 24, 8pm Bill Perry Day ��Bertoni Sculpture Garden, Sugar Loaf, Jul 26, 12:15pm-6pm FREE Music in the Park �� Ann Street Park, Milford, Jul 26, 1pm-4pm FREE Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Jul 26, 5pm Memories of You Orange County Pop,Rock&DooWop Series OC Arboretum, Jul 28, 6:30pm FREE Hurley Mountain Hghway 60s-70s ��New Windsor Band Stand, Jul 29, 7pm FREE Mike Hopper Acoustic Trio folk �� Something Sweet Outdoor Park, Middletown, Jul 30, 6pm FREE Marc Burger �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 30, 6:30pm FREE The Simons Family Fun Time Band �� MSM College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh, Jul 31, 4pm KJ Denhert & The New York Unit, Margaret McDuffie �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 31, 7pm House of 80’s classic rock ��Pine Bush Gazebo, Jul 31, 7pm FREE Lot 14 rock, jazz, country ��Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 31, 7pm-9pm FREE Mountain Ride bluegrass �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Aug 1, 8:30pm 3 Doors Down & Seether with We Are Harlot �� Bethel Woods, Aug 1, 8pm Peter Cetera & Hudson Valley Philharmonic �� Bethel Woods, Aug 2, 7pm

Open Mic & in-house music

Some listings are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Maglione �� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals ��La Piazzetta, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm Musicians Gathering open mic �� Catskill Distillery, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ��Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Curious Cat Gathering ��Catskill Distillery, Bethel, Fridays, 6pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals ��Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays&Saturdays, 6pm-9pm 14

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Marc Von Em Soul, blues, funk �� WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Dose Acoustic Sundays �� Cafe Devine, Callicoon, 1st & 2nd Sundays, Noon-2pm Doug Rogers ��Cafe Devine, Callicoon, 3rd & 4th Sundays, Noon-2pm Songwriter’s Anonymous �� Artists Market, Shohola, First Sundays, 2pm LectureS sponsored by SUNY Orange & Mount St. Mary College

GWL �� Greenwood Lake Library MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh PEEC �� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry All Lectures are free - except those for MSM-DC unless otherwise noted

“How to Overcome Procrastination NOW” �� MSM-DC Jul 2, 10am “Esoteric History of Geography”.................................................................... MSM-DC Jul 7, 6:30pm “The Voyagers: Grand Tour of the Giant Planets and Beyond” �� MSM-DC Jul 9, 1pm “The Concord: Sullivan County’s Acropolis “ John Conway �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Jul 12, 2pm “Heart Health and the Reason for Heart Disease” �� MSM-DC Jul 15, 1pm FREE “Notes from the Other Side” Mark Fried ��Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, Jul 15, 7:30pm Weekend of Chamber Music improv, film, discussion �� North Branch Inn, Jul 16, 7:30pm “New York, The Capital of Baseball” �� MSM-DC Jul 17, 10am “Learn the Basics about Solar Energy” Janet Irizarry ��Temple Sinai,Middletown, Jul 19, 10am Science Cafe “Chemistry of Stained Glass” Christopher Smart �� La Casa Vicina, New Windsor, Jul 22, 7:15pm “Finding Fulfillment After 50” �� MSM-DC Jul 23, 10:30am Weekend of Chamber Music “Music Talks” ��Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Jul 23, 7:30pm Ellen McHale & Benjamin Halpern “The Rural Folk Arts of the Caskill Region” �� Livingston Manor Library, Jul 24, 6:30pm “Bridge the Gap: Wild Edibles Walk” ��PEEC Jul 25, 10am “Earthen Healing” ��PEEC Jul 25, 1pm “Butterfly Walk” David Trently ��PEEC Jul 26, 1pm “Ventriloquism As You’ve Never Seen it Before” �� MSM-DC Jul 31, 10am Clubs Bridge Club ��Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 6pm Newburgh Library Camera Club ��Newburgh Library, 3rd Wednesday, 6pm St. James Camera Club ��St. James Church, Goshen, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Chess Club ��Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess �� Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch �� Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” ��Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10:15am Knit & Stitch Club �� Newburgh Library Town Branch, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6;30pm Newburgh Knitting Club �� Newburgh Library, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 6pm Knitting Group ��Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting & Crocheting “Knitwitz” �� Jeffersonville Library, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” ��Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting Club �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting, Crocheting, Crafts “Stitch and Bitch” �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Sundays, 1pm Knit/Crochet Club ��Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters �� Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Circle ��Florida Library, 3rd Thursdays, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. �� First Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Group classical ��3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Electronic Music Meetup w/Neil Alexander ��Newburgh Library, 3rd Thursdays, 7pm Ladies Night Painting Social ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Thursdays 6:30pm Painting Social ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 3:30pm Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ��St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild ��Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm The Country Scrappers cardmaking, scrapbooking �Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Tuesdays, all day Scrabble Mania ��Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night w/Sam Hill �� Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Trivia Night �� Penning’s Pub & Grill, Warwick, Thursdays, 8pm UFO Support Group �� Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1st Wednesday, 7:30pm Woodcarvers Guild ��Museum Village, Monroe, 1st Wednesday, 7pm

Free Outdoor Family Films in Milford Furry Vengeance will be shown on the lawn on the lawn of Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, PA, on July 25 at dusk (rain date, July 26). This family film, set in the Oregon wilderness, shares the message of balancing habitat for wildlife and for people. A craft activity for kids begins at 7:00pm. Families are encouraged to bring picnics,

blankets and/or lawn chairs. This event is co-sponsored by the Grey Towers Heritage Association and the Gifford Pinchot Audubon Society. Call 570-296-9625 after 3:00pm for weather information on the day of the screenings. Call ahead if bringing a group larger than 10 children, so there will be ample craft items.

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music - jazz

Reel Eclectic Film Series �� Thrall Library, Middletown, 1st Thursday, 7pm FREE Hoboken Film Festival ��Paramount Theater, Middletown, May 30-Jun 4 “The Goonies” ��Bethel Woods, Jul 13, 8:30pm “Chariots of Fire” ��Cornwall Library, Jul 14, 5:30pm FREE “The Bucket List” �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Jul 15, 3pm FREE “The Apartment” Lemmon&MacLaine MSM College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh, Jul 16, 9:30am “Chocolat” ��Florida Library, Jul 22, 6pm FREE Warwick Summer Film Festival short films �� Warwick Drive-in, Jul 23, 8pm “A Patch of Blue” Poitier & Winters �� MSM College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh, Jul 28, 9:30am “Last Vegas” �� Cornwall Library, Jul 8, Noon FREE

Live Jazz Brunch with The Jazz Cats ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 11am The Nanga World Trio w/Latin flare �� Cilantro Tapas & Bar, New Windsor, Wednesdays, 7pm Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Joe Zawinul Birthday Celebration Neil Alexander, Judi Silvano, et al �� The Falcon, Jul 7, 7pm ESP w/ Kristen Newburgh Jazz Series �� OC Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 8, 6:30pm Peter & Will Anderson Trio featuring Gabe Schnider �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 9, 7pm Nelson Esposito Quinlan Newburgh Jazz Series �� OC Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 15, 6:30pm Tisziji Munoz Quartet w/John Medeski �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 19, 7pm Kristina Koller Trio Newburgh Jazz Series �� OC Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 22, 6:30pm Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Duo �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 23, 7pm The D’ Major Project �� Pine Bush Gazebo, Jul 24, 7pm FREE Beacon Jazz Festival �� Riverfront Park, Jul 25, Noon-6pm Brian Kastan Quartet ��Kastan Art Space, Sugar Loaf, Jul 25, 6pm-10pm Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga ��Bethel Woods, Jul 25, 8pm Joe Carozza Trio CD Release �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 27, 7pm Bob Myer Band Newburgh Jazz Series �� OC Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 29, 6:30pm Amina Figarova Group �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 30, 7pm

Comedy

Opera & Dinner

dance

poetry & prose readings

cabaret

Forestburgh Theatre Resident Company Pre-show & Dinner ��Tues, Weds, Thurs, 6pm Forestburgh Theatre Resident Company Post-show �� Fridays, Saturdays, 10:30pm Charles Baran “Recipes for Disaster” �� Catskill Distillery, Bethel, Jul 10, 8:30pm Broadway Concerts Direct ��United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove NY, Jul 18, 6pm

cinema

Latin Comedy Show & Dance Party �� Empty Bottle Saloon, Middletown, Jul 25, 10pm Chiku Awali African Dance, Shaktipat Newburgh Jazz Series �� OC Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 1, 6:30pm Creative Dance Performance Warwick Summer Arts Festival ��Lewis Woodland Park, Jul 19, 3pm “FAST. BACK.” dance/guitar performance �� Space Create, Newburgh, Jul 25, 7pm, 8pm & 9pm

festivals & ArtWalks

Liberty 4th of July Festival ��Main Street, Liberty, Jul 4, 10:30am-4:30pm Greek Festival ��Fireman’s Field, Callicoon Center, Jul 10-12 ArtWalk/ChalkWalk ��Main Street, Livingston Manor, Jul 11, 10am-4pm SummerFest 2015 �� Our Lady of Assumption Church, Bloomingburg, Jul 18, 11am-7pm Old Time Fair & Chicken BBQ �� Grahamsville Fairgrounds, Jul 25, 10am-5pm Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� Jul 19-26 Warwick Summer Arts Festival music, dance, crafts,etc. �� Stanley Deming Park, Jul 25, Noon-8pm Rock Hill Circus ��Frontier Drive, Rock Hill, Jul 17-19 Festival of Wood �� Grey Towers, Milford, Aug 1, 10am-5pm & 2, 10am-4pm 2nd Annual Cruisin’ for the Animals Car Show �� Lasser Park, Salisbury Mills, Jul 12, 10am-2pm

holistic

Moonlit Drumming Kofi Donkor �� Pocono Env. Education Ctr., Dingmans Ferry. Jul 11, 6:30pm Sleeping with Crystals Timothy �� Crystals & Well-Bring Center, Wurtsboro, Jul 12, 1pm Psychic Fair �� Crystals & Well-Bring Center, Wurtsboro, Jul 26

museums

Terwilliger House Museum ��Ellenville, ongoing “Wildlife”, “Woodstock”, “Footwear”, “Hats” ��Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville ongoing 19th Century Rural Living ��Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing Celebrating Catskill Waters Past & Present ��Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, ongoing Pinchot Mansion Tours ��Grey Towers, Milford, ongoing “Professional Baseball” ��Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Aug “Then and Now around the D&H Canal” �� Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, thru Nov “THREADS: Connecting ‘60s & Modern Rockwear” ��Bethel Woods Museum, thru Dec 31 “The Concord Hotel Remembered” �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Jul 4-Oct 12 “Small but Grand Hotels” photos & artifacts �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 10-Oct 10

Music - Classical - band - Klezmer

West Point Band & Fireworks Display Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Jul 4, 7:30pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ��Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 6, 7pm FREE Weekend of Chamber Music “Market Music” �� Callicoon Farmer’s Market, Jul 12, 11am FREE Weekend of Chamber Music “Concert on the Lawn” �� Presbyterian Ch., Jeffersonville, Jul 12, 3pm “Chai on Music” Klezmer ��Nesin Theatre, Jul 12, 3pm Pine Bush Community Band ��Wallkill Library, Jul 13, 3pm FREE Weekend of Chamber Music “Music Talks” �� North Branch Inn, Jul 16, 7:30pm Pine Bush Community Band �� Pine Bush Gazebo, Jul 17, 7pm FREE Weekend of Chamber Music �� Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville, Jul 18, talk: 7pm, concert: 8pm West Point Band “Dancing Under The Stars” �� Trophy Point Amphitheatre, Jul 18, 7:30pm FREE Shirim Klezmer Orchestra Kindred Spirits Arts ��Milford Theatre, Jul 18, 7:30pm Weekend of Chamber Music �� SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, Jul 19, 3pm “Music of 17th Century Italy & England” �� Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Jul 19, 5pm Weekend of Chamber Music “Music Talks” ��Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Jul 23, 7:30pm Weekend of Chamber Music open rehearsal �� Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville, Jul 24, 3pm FREE Weekend of Chamber Music “Gala Evening” �� Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville, Jul 25, talk:7pm, concert: 8pm West Point Band “Long Grey Line” ��Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Jul 25, 7:30pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ��Montgomery Senior Center, Jul 26, 3pm FREE

The Bronx Opera Parksville USA Music Festival �� Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Jul 5, 3pm Karen Herceg, George Lightcap �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jul 2, 7pm Poetry Exhibit Hemlock Farms Poets �� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 3-Aug 28 Walter Worden �� Montgomery Book Exchange, Montgomery, Jul 14, 7pm FREE Jim Eve, Mike Jurkovic, Robert Milby Poetry Cafe ��Florida Library, Jul 17, 7pm FREE Country Voices ��Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, Jul 18, 2pm Laura E.J. Moran “Desire Line” ��CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Jul 18, 7pm Poetry Slam Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� TBA, Jul 20, 6:30pm Warwick Arts Festival, dance, poetry ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 22 Jennifer Circosta, Walter Worden Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Ch., Jul 27, 7pm FREE

recreation, Dancing, Nature Walks, Tours

Swing Dancing w/Swing Shift Orchestra ��Newburgh Brewery, 1st Thursdays, 7:30pm Dancing (Ballroom) ��MISU Ellenville, 1st Saturdays, Lesson 7:30pm, Dancing 8pm Artifact Tour guided �� Grey Towers, Milford, Jul 11, 10am Nature Walk �� Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Bethel, Jul 12 & 26, 1pm Music & Dance Warwick Summer Arts Festival.................... Scheuermann Farms, Jul 24, 6pm-10pm

theatre - musical & variety

“Young Frankenstein” ��Forestburgh Playhouse, Jun 30-Jul 12 “Godspell” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ��Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, Jul 10-19 “Mr. Choade’s Brilliant Surprise” burlesque & variety �� NACL, Highland Lake, Jul 11, 8:30pm “Oliver!” �� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 15-26 “The Music Man” �� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 28-Aug 9

theatre - play

“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment” �� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, thru Jul 5 “The Weather Project” NACL Theatre ��Main Street, Jul 4, 1pm FREE “Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike” Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �� Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, Jul 10-26 “Moon Over Buffalo” by Ken Ludwig ��Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Jul 10-Aug 2 “Twelfth Night” Shakespeare, Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Salesian Park, Goshen, Jul 18-26 FREE “The Audience” w/Helen Mirren, Live in HD ��Downing Film Center, Newburgh, ??

“Godspell” in South Fallsburg

Godspell, (an archaic spelling of “gospel”), remains one of the most popular rock musicals of all time. Messages of love, generosity, joy, and faith are presented in song, dance, and all forms of theatrical play in this exuberant, rocking, rolling, and riveting production. Starting its off-Broadway run in 1971 and then to Broadway in 1976, Godspell became one of the longest-running off-Broadway musicals. When it ended its run in 1977, it had played for a total of more than 2,600 performances. The playful and poignant score by Stephen Schwartz includes such songs as God Save the People, All Good Gifts and the international hit, Day By Day. Schwartz is more recently

famous for winning a Grammy for his work as composer and lyricist of Wicked. Heading up the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop cast is Shawn Collin Bailey, Sr. as Jesus, Mick Wheaton as John the Baptist/Judas. The rest of the ensemble includes: Walter Dyer, Sally Gladden, Arianna Klein, Taylor Lamerand, Noam Naiman, Christopher Renninger, Amber Schmidt, Kali Seastrand, Grace Strauss, Jess Watson, and Montrell Williams. Godspell, runs July 10-19 at the Rivoli Theatre, 5243 Main Street (Route 42) South Fallsburg. For tickets visit www.scdw.net or call 845-436-5336.

July 2015

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

JUly BGRV ��United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, NY BW ��Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CALL Calling All Poets �� Center for Creative Education, Beacon CAS Catskill Art Society �� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor CAS-LK �� CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor CTMW ��Playhouse at Museum Villege, Monroe

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Please check the schedule for Gallery Art & Photography Opening Receptions, page 18

Music Pine Bush Community Band Wooster Grove, Walden 7pm

Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm

Theatre -Musical “Young Frankenstein” FBGH 8pm

DCAT �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel DOWN �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh DVAA �� Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg FAL �� The Falcon, Marlboro FEST �� Festival Square, Middletown FBGH �� Forestburgh Playhouse

Cinema “The Goonies” BW 8:30pm

Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm

Music Walker Valley Marching Band, The Five Creations OCARB 6:30pm Music - Jazz-Fusion Joe Zawinul Birthday Celebration FAL 7pm

Cinema “Chariots of Fire” Cornwall Library, 5:30pm Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm Music Pony Tails OCARB 6:30pm

Poetry Walter Worden Montgomery Book Exchange, 7pm

“Sea & Sky Paintings” by Janet Howard Fatta at The Grange, 1 Ryerson Road, Warwick thru July 12

Theatre - Musical “Young Frankenstein” FBGH 2pm & 8pm

Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm Music - Dylan Sam Reider’s Uptown Trio FAL 7pm Music-Dance Chiku Awali, Shaktipat OCARB 6:30pm Music - Rock Lucky House NWIND 7pm

Theatre-Musical “Young Frankenstein” FBGH 8pm

WEDNESDAY

Theatre -Musical “Oliver!” FBGH 8pm

Poetry Slam Warwick Summer Arts Festival TBA 6:30pm

Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm Music Sound Trax OCARB 6:30pm

Music Dr. John & the Nite Trippers SLPAC 8pm

Theatre -Musical “Oliver!” FBGH 8pm

Cinema “Last Vegas” Cornwall Library, Noon

Theatre - Musical “Young Frankenstein” FBGH 2pm & 8pm Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm Music - Jazz E.S.P. OCARB 6:30pm Music The Weekend Riot NWIND 7pm

Poetry Jennifer Circosta, Walter Worden Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Music - Jazz Joe Carozza Trio FAL 7pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

Cinema “A Patch of Blue” MSM-DC 9:30am

Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm

Cinema “The Bucket List” THRALL 3pm Theatre - Musical “Oliver!” FBGH 2pm & 8pm Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm

Music - Jazz Nelson Esposito Quintana OCARB 6:30pm Music Upstate Rubdown FAL7pm Music-Bluegrass Joe Walsh & Grant Gordy SCM 7pm Music Manaklin Bros. NWIND 7pm

Theatre - Musical “Oliver!” FBGH 2pm & 8pm

Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm Cinema “Chocolat” Florida Library, 6pm Music - Jazz Kristina Koller Trio OCARB 6:30pm

Theatre - Musical “The Music Man” FBGH 2pm & 8pm

Dinner-Cabaret Pre-Show FBGH 6pm

Music Memories of You OCARB 6:30pm

Music - Jazz Bob Meyer Group OCARB 6:30pm

Theatre -Musical “The Music Man” FBGH 8pm

Music Hurley Mountain Highway NWIND 7pm

July 2015

THURSDAY

Music - Folk........................Ken & Julie................................ SSO 6pm Dinner-Cabaret................... Pre-Show............................... FBGH 6pm Poetry............... Karen Herceg, George Lightcap............. NOBL 7pm Music - Jazz-Funk.....Jane Ira Bloom, Out of Towners.........FAL 7pm Cinema................... Reel Eclectic Film Series.......... THRALL 7:30pm Open Mic......................Musician’s Gathering................DCAT 7:30pm Theatre - Play.....“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 8pm

9 Dinner-Cabaret................... Pre-Show............................... FBGH 6pm Music - Rock-Folk..............Side by Side............................... SSO 6pm Music.......................Some Guys and a Broad................. SLX 6:30pm Music - Jazz...........Peter & Will Anderson Trio.....................FAL 7pm Open Mic......................Musician’s Gathering................DCAT 7:30pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 8pm

Music Pink Martini SLPAC 7:30pm

Music Hollywood Ending NWIND 7pm

JEST ��Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester MISU Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster �� St. John’s Episcopal Ch, Ellenville MSM-DC ��Desmond Campus, Mount St. Mary College, Balmville NACL �� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake NFL �� Newburgh Free Library NOBL �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

NVM �� NWIND �� OCARB �� PACEM �� PARK Park PT ��

Music.................. Music................. Music - Variety....... Music................. Sla Theatre - Play......“S Theatre - Musical...... Poetry....................................... Music.................Ro Cabaret...............................

Festival....Greek Fes Music - Appa Music.............. Music - Roc Music - Brazil-Indie-F Music - R&B.................. Theatre - Musical................... Theatre - Play................ Theatre - Play.....“Va Theatre - Musical......... Cabaret............ Char Music...................................... Cabaret..................................

Circus..................... Music........................ PoetryCafe..Jim Ev Music.........Pine Bu Music............................... Music - Oldies-Moto Music............... Neil Theatre - Musical................ Theatre - Play............ Music-Jazz, Fusion..Thunderhead Organ Trio. Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm Theatre - Play.....“V Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 8pm Theatre - Musical.................. Theatre - Musical..................“Oliver!”................................ FBGH 8pm Cabaret...............................

Cinema..........................“The Apartment”............... MSM-DC 9:30am Dinner-Cabaret................... Pre-Show............................... FBGH 6pm Music - Bluegrass..........Breakneck Annie........................... SSO 6pm Music............................. The Greyhounds....................... SLX 6:30pm Holistic.........Drumming Circle.. The Bodhi Tree, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm Music - Nyro............. Christine Spero Group........................FAL 7pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Music-Talk..Weekend of Chamber Music..North Branch Inn, 7:30pm

Dinner-Cabaret................... Pre-Show............................... FBGH 6pm

Music - Irish-American Folk...............Tim Quinn................... SSO 6pm Music...................................52st Band............................. SLX 6:30pm Music - Jazz...... Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Duo.................FAL 7pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Music-Talk.............Weekend of Chamber Music......... DCAT 7:30pm Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 8pm Theatre - Play.....“Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”...CTMW 8pm Theatre - Musical..................“Oliver!”................................ FBGH 8pm Cinema......Warwick Summer Film Festival....Warwick Drive-in, 8pm

Dinner-Cabaret....... Pre-Show............................... FBGH 6pm

Music - Folk...........Mike Hopper Acoustic Trio................... SSO 6pm Music.................................Marc Burger........................... SLX 6:30pm Music - Jazz.............. Amina Figarova Group .......................FAL 7pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...........“The Music Man”......................... FBGH 8pm

Music............ Music - Jazz............. Music.....Peter Prin Music - 50s-70s Ro Music.......Brad Pai Theatre - Play............ Theatre - Play.....“V Theatre - Musical.................. Music............ Gary Cabaret............................... Recreation...Music &

Music...... Sim Music............. Music - Rock..................... Music.....KJ Denhe Music - Rock-JazzTheatre - Play............ Theatre - Musical........... Cabaret...............................

2015

��Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville �� New Windsor Band Stand �� Orange Coutny Arboretum, Mongtomery �� Pacem In Terris, Warwick ksville USA 2015 Music Festival �� Dead End Cafe, Parksville ��Paramount Theatre, Middletown

FRIDAY

.................. Kid Rock & Foreigner.................... BW 6:45pm ................. Curious Cat Gathering..................... DCAT 6pm Joey Arminio & the Family.........FEST 7pm -9pm am Allen’s tribute to BB King.................FAL 7pm Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm ...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 8pm .......................................TBA..................................... CALL 8pm oosevelt Dime..........Towne Crier, Beacon, 8:30pm ............................... Post-Show....................... FBGH 10:30pm

stival....Fireman’s Field, Callicoon Center, 4pm-TBA alachia...........Ice Jammers...................MSM-DC 6pm .............. Curious Cat Gathering........................ DCAT 6pm ck................Recap Band........Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm Folk..... B . luebirds of Paradise..................... FAL 7pm .................. Harrison Street Band................. FEST 7pm -9pm ................... “Godspell”..................................... RIV 8pm ................“Moon Over Buffalo”...............................ST 8pm anya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”......... CTMW 8pm ......... “Young Frankenstein”........................ FBGH 8pm rles Baran “RecipesForDisaster”....... DCAT 8:30pm ......................................Albi Beluli.............................. DCAT 8:30pm .................................. Post-Show.......................... FBGH 10:30pm

.....................Rock Hill Circus.........Frontier Drive,10am & 7pm ........................ Curious Cat Gathering..................... DCAT 6pm ve, Mike Jurkovic, Robert Milby.Florida Lib., 7pm ush Community Band.....Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm ........................... Jeffrey Gaines...............................FAL 7pm own.....The Shallows....................FEST 7pm -9pm l Young & Promise of the Real............... BW 8pm ................“Godspell”..................................RIV 8pm ............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 8pm Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”...CTMW 8pm ..................“Oliver!”................................FBGH 8pm ............................... Post-Show....................... FBGH 10:30pm

............ Curious Cat Gathering..................... DCAT 6pm .............The D’ Major Project....Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm nce & Moon Boot Lover, Shelley King....FAL 7pm ock......One Swift Kick...................FEST 7pm -9pm isley, Justin Moore, Mickey Guyton.. BW 7:30pm ............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 8pm Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”...CTMW 8pm ..................“Oliver!”................................FBGH 8pm Puckett & The Union Gap Band.............. PT 8pm ............................... Post-Show....................... FBGH 10:30pm & Dance..Scheuermann Farms, Warwick, 6pm-10pm

mons Family Fun Time Band......... MSM-DC 4pm ............. Curious Cat Gathering..................... DCAT 6pm .....................House of 80s........Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm ert & The NY Unit, Margaret McDuffie.....FAL 7pm -Country.... Lot 14..........................FEST 7pm -9pm ............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 8pm ...........“The Music Man”......................... FBGH 8pm ............................... Post-Show....................... FBGH 10:30pm

PV �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills RIV Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ��Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg SCM �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville SLGMN ��Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf SLPAC ��Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center SLX �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Sugar Loaf

SATURDAY

SSO �� Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown ST ��Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown TROPHY �� Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point TUST ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg WCM ��Weekend of Chamber Music, Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville

SUNDAY

Music....................... ...Saints of Swing.................. FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Festival....4th of July Festival..Main Street, Liberty, 10:30am-4:30pm Music......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Theatre..................“The Weather Project”...............Main Street, 1pm Music.Free Summer Festival...Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, 1pm-5pm Music.......Chris Bergson Band, Hoochie Coochie Men ......FAL 7pm Music......Songwriter’s Anonymous.......Artists Market, Shohola 2pm Music.................. West Point Band & Fireworks..... TROPHY 7:30pm Theatre - Play.....“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 2pm Theatre - Play......“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 3pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 8pm Opera............................The Bronx Opera......................... PARK 3pm Cabaret............................... Post-Show.......................FBGH 10:30pm Music -Latin...................... ...Cocomama.................................FAL 7pm Music - Country.............. ...Chasin’ Crazy................... SLPAC 7:30pm

Festival.ArtWalk/Chalkwalk.Main Street, Livingston Manor, 10am-4pm Festival....Greek Festival...Fireman’s Field, Callicoon Center, Noon-TBA Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”................ ST 2pm & 8pm Music..................... Def Leppard, Styx & Tesla...................... BW 7pm Music - World-Jazz........... Banda Magda................................FAL 7pm Music............................. West Point Band............... TROPHY 7:30pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 8pm Theatre - Musical................“Godspell”..................................RIV 8pm Theatre - Play.....“Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”...CTMW 8pm Music -Rock..Vince Martell et al.Wurtsboro Community Church, 8pm Burlesque & Variety..”Mr. Choade’s Brilliant Surprise.NACL 8:30pm Cabaret............................... Post-Show.......................FBGH 10:30pm

Festival.SummerFest 2015..Our Lady of Assumption, Bloomingburg, 11am-7pm

Music.............. Lee Falco & Friends................ FAL 10am-2pm

Festival.Cruisin’ for Animals Car Show.Lasser Park, Salisbury Mills,10am-2pm Music - Classical..Wknd of Chamber Music.. Callicoon Farmer’s Market 11am

Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Festival....Greek Festival...Fireman’s Field, Callicoon Center, Noon-TBA Recreation..Nature Walk..Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Bethel, 1pm

Music.Free Summer Festival...Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, 1pm-5pm Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 2pm Theatre - Musical................“Godspell”..................................RIV 2pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 3pm Music - Klezmer.....”Chai on Music”...Nesin Theatre, Monticello, 3pm Music..............Pine Bush Community Band.......Wallkill Library, 3pm Music - Classical..Wknd of Chamber Music..... Jeffersonville Presby. Ch. 3pm

Music.....................David Mason’s Traffic Jam..................... BW 8pm

Music - Gospel-Blues.....Alexis P. Suter & Ministers.. FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music..................Doug Rogers......Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Circus......................Rock Hill Circus.........Frontier Drive, 5pm & 7pm Music.Free Summer Festival...Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, 1pm-5pm Cabaret..................... Broadway Concerts Direct.................... BGRV 6pm Theatre - Play.........“Twelfth Night” ...... Salesian Park, Goshen, 2pm Music.............Lindsey Webster Band, John DeRosalia . .......... FAL 7pm Theatre - Musical................“Godspell”..................................RIV 2pm Poetry............................... Laura E.J. Moran......................... CAS-LK 7pm Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 2pm Music................................ West Point Band.................. TROPHY 7:30pm Music..............................Music for Humanity......................NOBL 7:30pm Circus......................Rock Hill Circus.........Frontier Drive, 2pm & 5pm Music...............Shirim Klezmer Orchestra.......... Milford Theatre, 7:30pm Theatre - Play.....“Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”...CTMW 3pm Theatre - Musical................... “Godspell”..................................... RIV 8pm Music - Classical.......Weekend of Chamber Music............SCCC 3pm Music - Classical.. ......Weekend of Chamber Music................. WCM 8pm Theatre - Musical..................“Oliver!”................................ FBGH 3pm Theatre - Play.....“Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”......... CTMW 8pm Dance...........Creative Dance....Lewis Woodland Park, Warwick, 3pm Theatre - Play................“Moon Over Buffalo”...............................ST 8pm Music - Classical...... ...17th Century Baroque ............... PACEM 5pm Theatre - Musical..................... “Oliver!”................................... FBGH 8pm Music - Jazz.................Tisziji Munoz Quartet .......................FAL 7pm

Theatre - Play..........“Twelfth Night”.............Salesian Park, Goshen, 2pm Poetry................................ Country Voices............................... DVAA 2pm Music.................................. Kidz Bop Kids...................................BW 4pm

Cabaret.................................. Post-Show.......................... FBGH 10:30pm

Holistic....Psychic Fair..Crystals & Well-Being Center,Wurtsboro.TBA Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT Noon Music - Jazz................Beacon Jazz Festival....Riverfront Park, Noon-6pm Music..................Doug Rogers......Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Festival.Warwick Summer Arts Festival.Stanley Deming Park, Noon-8pm Music......Bill Perry Day.....Bertoni Garden, Sugar Loaf, 12:15pm-6pm Music - Jazz.Brian Kastan Quartet.KastanArtSpace,SugarLoaf, 6pm-10pm Music............Music in the Park......Ann Street Park,Milford, 1pm-4pm Music............................. West Point Band............... TROPHY 7:30pm Music - Jazz.......... Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga..................... BW 8pm Recreation..Nature Walk..Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Bethel, 1pm Music - Classical.......Weekend of Chamber Music............. WCM 8pm Theatre - Play..............“Twelfth Night”...Salesian Park, Goshen, 2pm Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 8pm Music.Pine Bush Community Band.Montgomery Senior Center, 3pm Theatre - Play.....“Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”...CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play.....“Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”...CTMW 3pm Theatre - Musical..................“Oliver!”................................FBGH 8pm Theatre - Musical..................“Oliver!”................................ FBGH 3pm Comedy.Latin Comedy Show & Dance.EmptyBottleSaloon,Middletown,10pm Music................Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers............ DCAT 5pm Cabaret............................... Post-Show.......................FBGH 10:30pm Festival.Old Time Fair & Chicken BBQ.Grahamsville Fairgrounds, 10am-5pm

Theatre - Play........“Twelfth Night”........ Salesian Park, Goshen, 2pm

Festival..............Festival of Wood....Grey Towers, Milford, 10am-5pm Music..........3 Doors Down & Seether, We are Harlot.......... BW 8pm Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...........“The Music Man”......................... FBGH 8pm Music - Bluegrass............ Mountain Ride...................... DCAT 8:30pm Cabaret............................... Post-Show.......................FBGH 10:30pm

Festival.............Festival of Wood....Grey Towers, Milford, 10am-4pm Music - Jazz.......... Jazz Cats Live Jazz Brunch...............DCAT 11am Music......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Theatre - Play............ “Moon Over Buffalo”........................... ST 2pm Theatre - Musical...........“The Music Man”......................... FBGH 3pm Music...... Peter Cetera & Hudson Valley Philharmonic....... BW 7pm

July 2015

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Art exhibits

CAS ��Catskill Art Society, CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor DVAA ��Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh SUNYO-KH �� SUNY Orange Newburgh, Kaplan Hall SUNYO-OH �� SUNY Orange Middletown, Orange Hall WAA �� Wurtsboro Art Alliance WRS �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery

Group Show ��Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ��Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography �� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joanne Wells Greenbaum pottery, paintings ��BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ��Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Lana Privitera paintings ��Blazing Bagels Cafe, Montgomery, ongoing Furniture, sculpture, ceramics, woodburnings ��Once A Tree, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing THE BUDDING ARTIST GALLERY “Celebrating 10 Years (2005-2015)”, Adult works of Art ��Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing Naomi Teppich “Earth Fusion” ��Cafe Devine, Callicoon, thru Jun 30 “Pastels & Watercolors” group show �� Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, thru Jul 1 Judy Glantzman, Esther Podemski, John Tomlinson, Liza Phillips �� “Drawing BIG: The Immediacy of Touch” DVAA thru Jul 4 Ioannis Glykokokalos “Esoterica” ��DVAA thru Jul 4 Kirsten Lyon “Bits and Pieces, Cassandra Saulter “Delphine’s World” ��BAU Gallery, Beacon thru Jul 5

“What the Eye Wants” art, photography, ceramics, etc. ��ARTery Gallery, Milford thru Jul 6 Gerardo Castro “Emanations” �� Space Create, Newburgh (by appt.), thru Jul 7 Janet Howard-Fatta “Sea & Sky Paintings” ��The Grange, Warwick, thru Jul 12 “Animals” WRS members group show ��WRS thru Jul 14 Goshen Art League group show ��Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville, thru Jul 14 River Valley Artists Guild Summer Exhibition ��SUNYO-OH thru Jul 23 “You Are Here” Cartography Artists group show �� Ann Street Gallery. Newburgh, thru Jul 25 Group Show ��UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Jul 26

Riva Weinstein, Lisa Breznak, Mimi Graminksi “By Chance: A Meeting of Minds, Material & Meaning �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, thru Jul 26

Joan Kehlenbeck “Art & About: It’s Summertime” ��Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, thru Jul 29 “Illuminated Pastels” group show �� Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, thru Jul 31 Bruce Young graphite portraiture, pen & ink, architecture ��Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, thru Jul “Exquisite Corpse of the Catskills” collaborative illustration ��CAS thru Aug 2 Local Artists’ Art Exhibition ��Liberty Museum & Arts Center, thru Aug 16 Louis Pantone “Catskill Dreaming” �� River Gallery, Narrowsburg, thru Aug 18 Roberta Rosenthal “Botanical Art” ��Palate Cafe, Pine Bush, thru Aug 29 Always Searching” (art rotates throughout the year) Michael Byro, Janet Howard-Fatta, & �� Billie Robson, Craig Wettstein Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Rock Tavern thru Aug 2015 Highland Falls Parklet Art Walk ��Downtown Highland Falls, thru Nov NEW ART EXHIBITS

Goshen Art Walk ��Downtown Goshen Businesses, Jul 3, 6pm-9pm “Still Life” group show ��Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush,, Jul 3-31 “Art in Bloom” art & floral arrangements �� DVAA Jul 10-12 Joan Giordano mixed media, “Synthesis” textile group show �� DVAA Jul 10-Aug 1 Lorraine Furey & Sal Russo, Laianna Ferruggia ��WRS Jul 1-31 Helena Clare Pittmen “Visual Quotations” Int’l Ctr for Culture of Compassion, Woodbourne, Jul 3-26 Alvin Rosser, Rosalind Hodgkins paintings & drawings �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jul 3-Aug 9 “Painting & Poetry” Hemlock Farms Artists � Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 3-Aug 28 “How Art Won the American Revolution “ ��Artists Market, Shohola, Jul 4 Summer Exhibit Summer Members Show ��UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Jul 26 “Heritage” group show �� WAA Jul 4-26 Barbara Bressi, Diane Kominick-Ouzoonian “Toys/Enchanting Play” Amity Gallery, Warwick, Jul 4-26

Summer Members Show ��CAS Jul 4-Aug 10 Rachel Weidkam painting, printmaking �� Adams Fairacre Farms, Newburgh, Jul 5-31 Rachel Weidkam painting, printmaking ��Bank Square Coffee House, Beacon, Jul 5-31 Anderson Center for Autism Artists Group Show �� Howland Library, Beacon Jul 11-Aug 2 Dana Wigdor “The Bubble Makers” �� RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, Jul 11-Aug 2

Robert Pollak “Ellen’s Adventures at the Shadowland” comic strip art ��Ellenville Library, Jul 11-Aug 30

Nancy Wells “Visage-State of Being” ��Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Jul 11-Sep 7 “Iconic Orange County Scenes” WRS members group show �� WRS Jul 15-Aug 14 Melinda & Mary Wallach “Incubation. Creation. Community” Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Jul 18-26

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale �� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Rafael Quirindongo “Gotham Geometry” �� RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Jul 5 Debi Cornwall �� Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon, thru Jul 5 Greg Miller “The Majestic Hudson: River, Highlands, Tributaries” ��SUNYO-KH thru Jul 17 Nancy Davis-Kessler “Art & About: It’s Summertime” ��Bon Secours Cafeteria, Port Jervis, thru Jul 29

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Dawn Benko “Art & About: It’s Summertime” ��Port Jervis Mayor’s Office, Wednesdays, thru Jul 29 “Newburgh Waterfront in Earlier Days” �� SUNYO-KH thru Jul 30 Benjamin Halpern “Farm and Field: The Rural Folk Arts of the Caskill Region” �� Livingston Manor Library, thru Jul 31 Nick Zungoli “CUBA | Forbidden Fruit” ��Orange Regional Medical Ctr, Middletown, thru Aug 7 Flora Hogman “Reflections” ��Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, thru Sep 6 “Growing Up in Newburgh” ��Capt. David Crawford House, Newburgh, Sundays, thru Dec Nick Zungoli “Barrier Islands of the Lowcountry” �� Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, thru Dec NEW photography EXHIBITS

Alexandros Megas, Juan Garcia-Nunez “FAST. BACK.” Space Create, Newburgh, Jul 25, 6pm-10pm

ART & Photography receptions

“Painting & Poetry” Hemlock Farms Artists Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 3, 5pm-8pm HelenaClarePittmen“Visual Quotations” Int’lCtrforCultureOfCompassion,Woodbourne, Jul 3, 5pm-7pm ASummer Members Show ��CAS Jul 4, 4pm-6pm “How Art Won the American Revolution” �� Artists Market, Shohola, Jul 4, 4pm-6pm Local Artists’ Art Exhibition �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 5, 4pm-8pm “Art in Bloom”, Joan Giordano mixed media, “Synthesis” textiles �� DVAA Jul 10, 7pm-9pm Robert Pollak “Ellen’s Adventures at the Shadowland �� Ellenville Library, Jul 11, Noon-2:30pm “Heritage” group show �� WAA Jul 11, 11am-4pm Barbara Bressi, Diane Kominick-Ouzoonian ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, Jul 11, 4pm-7pm Lorraine Furey & Sal Russo, Laianna Ferruggia ��WRS Jul 11, 5pm-7pm Group Show ��Back Room Gallery, Beacon, Jul 11, 5pm-8pm Dana Wigdor “The Bubble Makers” �� RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, Jul 11, 5pm-8pm “Still Life” group show �� Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, Jul 11, 5:30pm-7:30pm Nancy Wells “Visage-State of Being” ��Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Jul 11, 6pm-8pm Alvin Rosser, Rosalind Hodgkins paintings & drawings ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jul 11, 6pm-9pm Melinda & Mary Wallach “Incubation. Creation. Community” �� Old Stone House, Hasbrouck, Jul 18, 6pm-9:30pm Roberta Rosenthal “Botanical Art” ��Palate Cafe, Pine Bush, Jul 19, 1pm-3pm “Jam on the Vine” Lashonda Katrice Barnett �� Newburgh Library, Jul 23, 7pm Alexandros Megas, Juan Garcia-Nunez “FAST. BACK.” � Space Create, Nwbgh, Jul 25, 6pm-10pm

Schools & Conservatories

Budding Artists �� Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing WRS Plein Air class “Kowawese Unique Area-Plum Point” �� WRS Jul 1-31 Summer Student Art Show �� MSM-DC Jul 19, 1pm-3pm

books - Discussions/Readings /siGNings

Book Lover’s Club �� Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group �� Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm Book Discussion Group ��Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4:00pm “Notes from the Other Side” Mark Fried �� Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, Jul 15, 7:30pm Great Books Discussion �� Newburgh Library, Jul 24, 11:30am “One Plus One” by Jojo Moyes �� Cornwall Library, Jul 23, 7pm “Remarkable Creatures” �� Liberty Library, Jul 30, 1pm

children & Teens Calendar

HHNM ��Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH �� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson PEEC ��Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry

Cinema

Teen Movie Night grades 5-12 �� Greenwood Lake Library, Tuesdays, 6pm FREE entertainment See also festivals page 15

“Shrek The Musical” ��Forestburgh Playhosue, Thursdays & Saturdays, 11am “The Weather Project” NACL Theatre ��Liberty School, Main Street, Jul 4, 1pm FREE Rock Hill Circus �� Frontier Drive, Rock Hill, July 17-19 Campfire Storytime Family Program ��Glenmere Lake, Florida, Jul 9 & 23, 7:30pm “The Sponge Bob Movie”famly film ��Florida Library, Jul 11, 2pm FREE “Furry Vengeance” family film �� Grey Towers, Milford, Jul 25, crafts:7pm, film:dusk Museums

Meet the Animal of the Week ��HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Eco-Zone ��PEEC Jul 18 & 26, 1pm-4pm Caterpillar, Moth & Butterfly Weekend ��HHNM Jun 27 & 28, 10am-3pm recreation & Lectures

“Marvelous Moths” ��HHNM-CoH Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Teen Painting Drop-in ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 1pm “Discovery Quests” family hiking trails ��HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm, “All About Insects” �� HHNM Jul 5,10am “Frog Frolic” �� PEEC Jul 11, 1pm “Beavers” 3-6yrs ��PEEC Jul 12, 10am Project Knomad Mural Painting Warwick Summer Arts Festival �Memorial Park, Jul 21, 2pm-8pm “Snapping Turtles” ��HHNM Aug 1, 10am

“Ice Jammers” Meet: The Summer Reading List “Eat, Drink and Be Literary” is the catchy, petit logo phrase touted about by BAM’s (Brooklyn Academy of Music) rather unique series of literary occasions. Each event consists of dinner, wine, a featured author reading from his or her work, followed by a discussion of the creative process. “Eat, Drink and Be Literary” offers an encouraging cheer to the annual and worthy challenge of composing and completing a summer reading list. The generating concept was to conduct an unscientific survey of local librarians, but by happenstance and circumstance, the BAM event promotes a cozy association with the National Book Foundation, an organization with a noble mission: “to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America.” But where does the list begin? At a recent social gathering, a discussion topic centered on the American Military in general and in particular on a condition commonly known as PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder). By chance, a member of the discussion, a combat veteran (corpsman) and one-time literature teacher stated emphatically the best novel “ever written” to describe the life

of a soldier is James Jones’ 1952 National Book Award Winner, From Here to Eternity (FHTE). With the purpose of determining a summer reading agenda, the determined declaration prompted a look-see into the coveted list of 1952 National Book Award Finalists. The reaction of this writer: With FHTE the winner of this prestigious award, consider selecting it and one or two of the 1952 finalists! To begin, Jones’ novel, his first, is not the story of the iconic “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B,” but stands bold in its stark and frequently grim portrayal of the peacetime military. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt, a company bugler and pugilist and First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden are two soldiers who know passion, love and violence in a life frequently governed by an unwritten code of conduct. FHTE is currently available in its “restored,” i.e., uncensored edition. If considering a worthy plan to “Eat, Drink and Be Literary,” one might continue with a short gem from the list by Truman Capote. His The Grass Harp, remains after these years a beautifully written allegory by a young and most gifted Capote. He was 26 at the time as he exquisitely explored the concept of freedom through the life

a young, orphaned Southern boy who is adopted by two mischievous old ladies. And then there’s J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Who could dismiss the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, as a 17-year old teenager lost in a world he confronts, but doesn’t understand? Salinger is clever as he convincingly tells this story of a frustrated, lonely adolescent in the first person. As a novel it falls abruptly into the coming-of-age genre. In 1951 the novel was written for adults, but during the early 60s a questionable curriculum committee encouraged the bright idea that the novel should be required reading for high school students, replacing more traditional literary selections. It quickly became the subject of controversy, as Holden Caulfield was elevated to the dubious posterchild for teenage rebellion and indifference. The National Book Award list of finalists is a literary treasure chest. The riches and opportunities to broaden one’s horizons also include: James Agee’s The Morning Watch; William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun; William Styron’s Lie Down in Darkness and Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny; et al. “Eat Drink and be Literary.”

The Ice Jammers are a group of seasoned musicians performing a mix of folk, blues, bluegrass and old-time string band music. They sing harmony and play an assortment of instruments including guitars, fiddle, mandolins, banjo, mountain dulcimers, a washboard and a Cajun accordion. Members of the group come from up and down the Hudson Valley and include Diane Newlander on banjo, Diana Krautter and John Gebhards on mountain dulcimers, Anne Gayler on bass guitar, Roger Flaum and Peter Voletsky on guitar, Peter Segal on mandolin, Tim Denman on Cajun accordion and Frank Tetler on fiddle and mandolin. Ice Jammers will perform for Desmond’s Back Porch Concert Series at Mount. St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, in Newburgh on July 10 at 6:00pm. (Rain date: July 12 at 4:00pm). Diane Newlander will also entertain with Appalachian-style dancing! Bring a picnic and a chair/blanket, sit back and enjoy! For tickets: 845-565-2076.

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Apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II

Lots of things in life are hilarious, but brother, there is one particular thing that is nothin’ whatsoever in any way, shape or form like any other. There is nothing like a farce. Nothing in the world. There is nothing you can name that is anything like a Ken Ludwig Joel Leffert Denny Dillon farce. Black Comedy (2008), Georges Feydeau’s The There are no plays like a farce. Ladies Man adapted by Charles Morey (2011), And nothin’ looks like a farce. and Boeing Boeing (2013) by Marc Camoletti, There are no doors like in a farce. translated by Beverley Cross. And nothin’ happens like in a farce. Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo runs July 10There ain’t a thing that’s wrong with any one August 2, at 157 Canal Street in Ellenville. here, that can’t be cured by putting him near, a Director Brendan Burke’s passionate crazy, nutsy, wacky, kooky, screwbally farce. penchant for producing farcical plays probably Master farceur Ken Ludwig was born in comes from his partiality to and predilection York, Pennsylvania. He received a degree from for humor, and his fantastic propensity for Harvard University, where he studied music his predisposed proclivity for directing same. with Leonard Bernstein. Forewarned! His priceless farces are fully prone His first Broadway play, Lend Me a Tenor, to split your sides. which Frank Rich of the New York Times “Broadway’s Joel Leffert plays the male lead called “one of the two great farces by a living in opposite Tony-nominee Denny Dillon,” said writer,” won three Tony Awards. His second Burke. (She was the shortest ever cast member Broadway production, Crazy for You, ran for of Saturday Night Live.) over five years and won the Tony Award. Other Also in the cast are Paul Caiola, Ray Faiola, Broadway credits include Moon Over Buffalo Justin Pietropaolo (no, not Pietropaiola!), Susan which starred Carol Burnett. Slotoroff, Carolyn Seiff and Emily Stokes. Shadowland Theatre has a great track record www.shadowland.org or 845-647-5511. for producing superb productions of farces, If you don’t like to laugh, stay home. including Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor (2006),

“Ellen’s Adventures at The Shadowland”

The Ellenville Public and honored to have Library & Museum known great cartoonists (EPL&M) welcomes like Milton Caniff and local artist Robert Dale Messick”, says Pollak to the Gallery Pollak, who was born Link with exhibit, in the Bronx and was Ellen’s Adventures at the raised in Ellenville. He Shadowland, original is inspired, as well, by comic strip art. The classic newspaper comic exhibit also celebrates strips that include Brenda the publication of a book An exhibit of comic book art & a book signing Starr, Dick Tracy and by Pollak’s based on a takes place at the Ellenville Library, July 11 Buck Rogers. As a boy comic strip that debuted in the Shawangunk he eagerly sought out the comics in local shops Journal. like Sinicks and Richies. After graduating All of the stories and settings for Ellen’s from Ellenville High School in 1970, he went Adventures at the Shadowland are based on on to study art at The Pratt Institute in New the rich history and picturesque locations in York City. the Hudson Valley area. The main character of His illustration work has appeared in an the comic strip, Ellen Allen, is an actress at the assortment of publications including: The Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville. Soho Weekly News, Saks Fifth Avenue, and The Ellen’s charm is that she always finds herself Shawangunk Journal. Additionally, his work in precarious situations with a group of “over- has been featured in various New York City the-top” characters, from aliens, gnomes and galleries from the East Village to Harlem. ghosts, to old movie stars. Along with Ellen’s Ellen’s Adventures at the Shadowland will story, original drawings for Coloring Local be on display at The Gallery Link through the History, a coloring book designed by Pollak end of August, 2015. Everyone is invited to a for EPL&M based on their historic collections reception and book signing on July 11, from in Terwilliger House, will be shown. Noon-2:30pm, at the EPL&M, 40 Center “I am inspired by the wealth of pen and ink Street, Ellenville. art that American cartoonists have created, For further information: 845-647-5530.

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Wallkill River School: Two Solo Shows, One Emerging Artist

This month at the Wallkill River School (WRS), two solo exhibitions take place from July 1-30: Lorraine Furey will showcase her works of Blooming Hill Farm, and Sal Russo showcases his art in a solo show. July’s emerging artist is Laianna Ferruggia. Lorraine Furey: Blooming Hill Farm

“Unbunched Roots” by Lorraine Furey

Color. Texture. Shape. Movement: These are the art elements that are constant in Lorraine Furey’s work. Subject matter has evolved over the decades, but images of the land, both realistic and abstract, never cease to intrigue Lorraine. Lorraine enjoys plein air painting for its immediacy, freshness and sense of place. She also enjoys abstracting landscapes for its freedom, unpredictability, and stimulation. Lorraine’s work includes paintings, sculptures, and mixed media collages. She has work

published in a printmaking book, and has her work several private collections.

painting. As a result of her hard work, Laianna won Sal Russo: Figure, Portrait, Still-Life several scholarships “Being passionate about something you that supported her love requires determination, dedication and through her college discipline. I strive to achieve my artistic goals career. with this philosophy in mind, laced with fun and Laianna went on laughter. The discipline part is a tough one, but to study under the I’m mastering it. I’ve loved art from the time I classically trained could hold a pencil, but never got the guidance painter Andrew by Laianna Ferruggia or education to further my knowledge, so I was, Lattimore at his atelier in Cornwall for two years. for the most part, self-taught. I did sketch and She then moved to Florence, Italy to attend the on certain occasions paint, but it was always Florence Academy of Art where she studied a struggle, albeit a happy diligently and travelled for struggle,” says Sal. a year. Only recently, in the past She now works for pop four years, did Sal begin surrealist artist Ron English to realize his goals. He and is living in Beacon. She fully immersed himself in shows locally throughout figure, portrait, still-life and the Hudson valley, and botanical art. For this show, has participated in several he will be showing primarily group shows. figurative charcoals and Head to the WRS for “Matthew” by Sal Russo pastel still lifes. the wine and cheese opening reception on July 11 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. While you’re there, Laianna Ferruggia: Emerging Artist check out the hallway exhibit. The theme for While growing up in New Paltz, Laianna July is: Iconic Orange County Scenes. Ferruggia expressed a strong interest in the visual The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street, arts. During her studies, she travelled to France Montgomery. For information, visit www. where she studied art history and landscape wallkillriverschool.com or call 845-457-ARTS.

New in Woodbourne

The International Center for A Culture of Compassion (ICCC), will hold its inaugural exhibit, Visual Quotations by Helena Clare Pittman, weekends in July. The show will include watercolors “Rose on Modigliani” and also works in by Helena Clare Pittman which she has “quoted” from paintings by Da Vinci, Vermeer, Monet and other masters. “I like to include the masters who have been my lights in my own paintings. It’s a way of getting as close to them as I can. Their company, like warm encouragement, diffuses the austerity of the painter’s life.” Reproductions of her painted images on notecards will be offered for sale, along with several of her illustrated children’s books. Her 12-panel mural The Dance of the Books is on permanent display in the children’s room of the Daniel Pierce Library in Grahamsville. The artist will be available during all four weekends for questions and discussion including the reception on July 3 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. The ICCC is located at 2299 Ulster Heights Road, Woodbourne. For info: 845-434-5076.

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Another Side of John Corigliano: Weekend of Chamber Music, 2015 by Philip Ehrensaft In contrast to the work of most contemporary composers, it is John Corigliano’s prizewinning orchestral music, performed in major concert halls or opera houses, that is the most audible face of his wide-ranging musical creations. Corigliano is the resident composer, and very big catch, for this year’s edition of the Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM) festival: a “weekend” that now runs from July 11 through July 26. (See page 32). Concert hall economics channels most live performances of contemporary music into chamber and solo music for smaller venues. Even if the manager of a major concert hall has a penchant for the music of living composers, he or she will think thrice about making a new work the centerpiece on concert night. Audiences might stay away in droves. Expensive conductors, expensive big orchestras, and the expenses of running a big hall with the risk of a lot of empty seats could bring a big dollop of the dreaded D word: Deficit. In Corigliano’s case, listeners have come in droves. Corigliano’s first symphony won a big international plum of a prize in 1991, the Grawemeyer Award. Corigliano’s second symphony garnished a Pulitzer Prize in 2000. In between, his film score for The Red

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Violin won an Oscar in 1999. Then there are Corigliano’s two Grammy Awards for best contemporary composition in 1991 and 1996 respectively. And that’s just a partial list. Ironically, Corigliano has produced a wide range of equally fine chamber music which is not as well known as his orchestral creations. While Corigliano’s appeal to wide audiences is often attributed to a tonal style that contrasts with the thornier tendencies of much contemporary music, his creations since the mid-1970’s have run a gamut from tonality to atonality, with the use of electronic synthesizers and the like. In an elucidating interview with New Music America’s Frank Oteri, Corigliano sees atonality etc. as techniques, not style. Style is in the underlying, often unconscious choices of how one puts music together, such as Corigliano’s own musical handwriting of using ostinato (a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm) punctuated with big bursts of sound, or musical lines gravitating towards the key of A. Corigliano’s career path is also atypical for a hugely successful composer. The typical reward for getting so famous is not having to teach to make a living. Corigliano does teach, and at two places: Juilliard, to elite music students; but also at the CCNY’s Lehman College, where most students are not even headed towards art music. This is a man with

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a drive to communicate with people, and that comes through loud and clear in his music. The presence of such an eminent resident composer at WCM 2015 is a measure of the rising presence of the festival in the Greater New York classical music scene. Festival founder Judith Pearce sought out a dynamic duo to be her successors as artistic co-directors: the cellist Caroline Stinson and the composer/ violinist Andrew Waggoner. Stinson and Waggoner are at home with both the standard classical repertoire and leading edges of the New Music scene. Their penchant is to mix established fare and New Music on the concert stage, rather than confining contemporary composers to “New Music Ghetto” concerts. They are also proponents and practitioners of restoring improvisation to its rightful place in classical music: the place that it had in the hands of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt. So WCM 2015 offers us programming that runs from a Bach Air through the pièce de la resistance in the Gala Concert on July 26: Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man (Seven Poems of Bob Dylan). There’s a thriving debate in literary circles as to whether the brilliant lyrics Dylan has penned qualify him, or not, as one of the great modern poets. In one corner of the ring, there’s the eminent Oxford professor of poetry Christopher Ricks. Ricks makes a cogent case that Dylan

ranks right up there with Milton, Keats and Tennyson. In the other corner, there’s Sam Leith, contending that “Bob Dylan is a genius, but no poet” - a creator of great song lyrics that achieve their greatness only in combination with music that intensifies the words, and vice versa. In Leith’s view, a poem is spoken art. A composer like Schubert can create great art by setting poems to music, but the poems stand on their own two feet. Seven Poems of Bob Dylan, the subtitle of Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man, composed in 2000, indicates the composer’s take on this debate. But it does not resolve the debate. The music that Corigliano penned has no relation to the music that Dylan penned for his own lyrics. But I would argue that Dylan’s lyrics still need music, in this instance Corigliano’s music, to make full sense of the words. July 12 is opening day in Sullivan County (July 11 in Wayne County) with a free concert at the Callicoon Farmers Market at 11:00am, and a suggested-donation concert at the Jeffersonville Presbyterian Church, 4907 Route 52 at 3:00pm. See pages 15 and 32. July 23 is the Music Talks! date with Corigliano, at the Catskill Distillery 2037 State Route 17B, in Bethel. For tickets to the subsequent concerts, www. WCMconcerts.org and 845-887-5803. See below for WCM’s superb, world-class Summer Festival Artists, 2015.

Mother-Daughter Team at Old Stone House UpFront Exhibition Space: Over 40 Artists

Exactly how do family members get along, welcoming, even all-warm-and-fuzzy. despite their differences? Mary and Melinda The two artists gave birth to their biomorphs Wallach have found a near-perfect method - using everyday objects and supplies, including they create art together. items discarded as trash, or on the way to “When I was young,” says Melinda, “my the dump. One relative enjoys dismantling mother told me she didn’t really machines, and passes along have an artistic bone in her interesting pieces. Bubble wrap, body. But then, in her fifties, thrift-shop clothing, scraps of she started creating awesome fabric, and odds and ends from collages that I thought were yard sales, all find places in this fantastic.” unusual new family’s DNA. Together, mother and “Our show celebrates daughter eventually took creation itself,” says Melinda. creative painting workshops in “It stems from the Big Bang of Florida. “We decided to work biomorphs and, once their little on one painting at the same universe expanded, shows them time,” says Melinda, “to see experiencing daily existence how it would be with both of us just like us, with all its assorted creating the same work. Almost Mother-Daughter Morph Team: joys and sorrows, conflicts and Mary & Melinda Wallach immediately, we began crossresolutions.” pollinating each other’s The exhibition, ideas.” Incubation. Creation. Despite artistic Community.opensJuly differences,saysmother 18 at The Old Stone Mary, “neither of us is House in Hasbrouck very controlling.” with a reception from Morphs: Real and Unreal! Most recently, their 6:00pm-9:30pm, combined work has given birth to a whole new and will be open from 12:00pm-4:00pm on “family” made up of what they call biomorphs. Saturdays and Sundays, or by appointment Some of these truly strange sculptural creatures through the end of July. resemble oversized organisms that might have For more information about the show, call hatched beneath the deepest ocean - or inside Melinda at 954-815-9398. the darkest dream - while others look friendly, Visit TheOldStoneHouseOfHasbrouck.org

Debbie Gioello has as well as international shown her art work invitational shows. She professionally since was the recipient of 1970. She was honored many awards for her fine to participate in many etching renditions, abstract solo and group shows polymer paintings, realistic throughout the years. butterfly paintings and She has had continuous impressionistic watercolor changing exhibits of her Debbie surrounded by her butterfly series paintings. work shown at two local galleries: UpFront Debbie will be one of over 40 artists Exhibition Space in Port Jervis, and The exhibiting for UpFront Exhibition Space’s ARTery Gallery in Milford. Summer Members Show 2015. The show will Debbie, a contemporary artist who works in run through July 26. many mediums including watercolors, acrylics, UpFront Exhibition Space is located at 31 etchings and photography, has been featured in Jersey Avenue in Port Jervis. many juried group shows in New York, the triFor more information, call Gordon Graff or state area, Westchester, and across the country Debbie Raia at 845-754-5000.

The Circus Comes to Rock Hill This July

Clowns, acrobats, high Nana’s House intends flying trapeze, high wire to honor organizations acts, dog shows, and that have impacted the much more, are coming children in Sullivan to Rock Hill July 17 County in a positive (10:00am & 7:00pm) way with financial July 18 (5:00pm & contributions. 7:00pm) and July 19 Honorees include (2:00pm & 5:00pm). the Sullivan County Rock Hill Circus, Frontier Drive, Rock Hill Host, Nana’s House Child Care Center, Child Care Council, Rock Hill Volunteer Fire plans to celebrate their 20 years of serving the Department, Rock Hill Volunteer Ambulance children in the community by hosting a circus Corp., the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department, and carnival (see August CANVAS for August and lastly, YEL! - Youth Emerging Leaders. carnival dates) in Rock Hill. Children 3 years old and under are FREE. As part of the 20th anniversary celebration, For more information: 845-794-3826.

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“Vanya & Sonia and Masha + Spike”

“Recipes for Disaster” at Dancing Cat

Award-winning comic their sister Masha has been playwright Christopher gallivanting around the Durang is in top form with world as a movie star, leaving his riotous 2013 Tony best Vanya and Sonia trapped and play Vanya & Sonia and regretful. Their soothsayer/ Masha + Spike for which cleaning woman, Cassandra, he has borrowed characters keeps warning them about CTMW cast members l to r: Karyn Meier, and plotlines from Chekhov terrible things in the future, Sarah Fields & Joseph Jervais and remixed them in a wacky comedy about which include a sudden visit from Masha and a quiet household thrown into utter upheaval her twenty-something boy-toy Spike. as its residents and visitors get swept up in a Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players mixture of lust, rivalry, regret, and the sudden production of Durang’s comedy, directed by possibility of escape. Les Ferguson, is at the Playhouse at Museum Vanya and Sonia have never left the confines Village from July 10-26. of their childhood home in Bucks County, For tickets: ctmwp.org or 845-294-9465. PA. While they cared for their ailing parents, Dessert is included at intermission!

Charles Baran is an actor, singer, comedian and cabaret performer who just a few short moons ago left a career in Design Management chasing architects down for timesheets to follow his dream and become a full time entertainer. His career thus far has been marked with many roles in productions such as The Cradle Will Rock, Pins and Needles, LaMama, The Kingdom at Mabou Mines, Walkabout Yeolha, The File on J. Edgar Hoover, Juan and Emmett and as Burke Kendall in 2013’s revival of Stand Up Tragedy. In August 2014 Charles was seen singing

and dancing his little heart out as Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly at The Interlakes Summer Theater in New Hampshire. His cabaret work includes his solo shows Charles Baran’s Saint Valentine’s Day Massacred, Songs for a New State of Mind and Recipes For Disaster. Charles will bring his Recipes For Disaster to the Dancing Cat Saloon, 2037 Route 17B in Bethel, on July 10 at 8:00pm. An evening of song, zany comedy and all around madness under the musical direction of Ben Krauss with The Dill Pickle Club Orchestra is planned! For more information, call 845-583-3141.

The vibrant performers from New York City’s premiere variety cabaret, The Slipper Room, return to NACL after a sold out show last season. The Slipper Room is the brain child of performer and producer James Habacker. When it opened in 1999, neo-burlesque was in its infancy. Before that time there had been some random shows in bars around the city, but the Slipper Room was the first venue built specifically to showcase the work of this burgeoning new collective. The early shows were mostly comprised of performance artists, drag queens, experimental

dancers, sideshow acts, and anyone who showed up with an idea, no matter how outrageous, lewd, or illegal. Twirling umbrellas, trapeze art, dancing raincoats, magical galoshes...and bad jokes! This year it’s a variety show with a weather theme. Mr. Choade’s Perfect Storm, is blowing through Highland Lake for one night only. Come prepared to be amazed, amused, titillated, and highly entertained on July 11 at 8:30pm. Adults only. NACL, 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake. Call 845-557-0694 for information.

Many people know Marc B. Fried for his five books of Shawangunk region history and nature writing. But Fried is also a columnist: his Notes From The Other Side has appeared for the past 8½ years in the Shawangunk Journal. Now Fried has selected and edited the best of these periodical writings and compiled them into a 339-page book that bears his column’s title. The book features a wealth of anecdotes, descriptions and musings that relate to the Shawangunks and the Wallkill and Rondout Valleys, including history, wilderness, farm life

and gardening. But Notes from the Other Side is also filled with exotic adventure, social commentary and engaging humor: there are stories of cross-country hitchhiking, winter mountaineering, overseas travel and fascinating personalities and interactions, as well as stories from Fried’s earlier years as a musician. Fried will give a brief introductory talk beginning at 7:30pm, followed by readings from his new work and a book signing, on July 15 at the Neversink Valley Museum, 58 Hoag Road, Cuddebackville. For more information: 845-754-8870.

The Carl Richards Band, fronted by Carl Richards, has been entertaining folks in the tri-state area for over eighteen years. This country /rock band has opened for such greats as Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Leon Russell, Little Sammie Davis, Eddie Miles, Sawyer Brown, Lone Star, and Jett Williams. Richards began his musical journey at a very young age. One of 11 siblings, his entire family played and sang music. His grandfather played the fiddle, while his uncle was a musician and performed in movies. Family gatherings

always turned into jam sessions. Music for Richards has been a way of life, more than a love - a passion that runs deep in his veins. The band loves audience participation; they bring people up to sing along and play tambourine. This makes for lots of fun for all. The Carl Richards Band will be performing for The Bloomingburg Restoration Foundation’s Summer Concert Series on July 18, from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Bloomingburg Cultural Center, 112 Main Street, in Bloomingburg. For tickets: 845-283-9909 or 845-978-2317.

“Mr. Choade’s Perfect Storm” at NACL

Carl Richards & Friends in Bloomingburg

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“Notes from the Other Side”

Birthday Celebration Honors Joe Zawinul

Josef Erich “Joe” Zawinul (1932-2007) was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer. Classically trained, Zawinul emigrated to the U.S. in 1959. He went on to play with Maynard Ferguson and was apparently dismissed from the Ferguson band for wanting too much control over personnel decisions. Neil Alexander, Judi Silvano, and Decora In 1961, Zawinul joined the Quintet led we have a long history, having done many by Cannonball Adderley. During that nine-year concerts together. She has a wonderful voice stint, he wrote the hit song Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. and a great sense of harmony and melody. She In the late 1960s, Zawinul recorded is also a fierce improvisor. (Zawinul with Miles Davis’s studio band and wrote a lot of fusion vocal tunes, and helped create the genre that has Alexander did not want to overlook become jazz fusion. Google him to those vocal compositions.) read about his remarkable place in “I like to work with Neil the history of Jazz and Jazz Fusion. Alexander because he is a deep Newburgh Jazz Fusion composer musician,” states Silvano. “Steeped and keyboardist Neil Alexander in classical training as well as is presenting Heavy Weather: A knowledge of more contemporary Happy Birthday, Joe! Tribute to the Music of Joe Zawinul - A traditions such as rock and jazz, he Birthday Celebration on his Birthday! with Neil makes no judgements about which style is better. Alexander/Keys; Peter Furlan/Saxes; Ratzo He brings a deep respect for the communication Harris/Basses; Terry Silverlight/Drums and that the elements of music within each style can special guests: Vinnie Cutro/Trumpet, Steven convey about human nature every time he plays. Frieder/Sax/Clarinet, Todd Isler/Percussion, And he’s a great listener too. He hears what the Judi Silvano and Gino Sitson/Vocals and a other musicians contribute to the music and special appearance by Decora/Spoken Word. that’s one aspect of what makes him a joy to “Sitson will sing Joe’s later songs - one in the play with!” The special Tuesday performance on July 7 Duala language from Cameroon,” explained Alexander. “Hip-Hop artist Decora is writing a at 7:00pm is at The Falcon, 1348 Route 9w, Marlboro. Doors open at 6:00pm for dinner, special piece to perform at this celebration. For reservations: 845-236-7970. “I picked Judi Silvano for this project because

17th Century Italy & England in Warwick

The middle Baroque period in Baroque music is a style of Italy is defined by the emergence Western art music composed from of the cantata, oratorio, and opera approximately 1600 to 1750. This during the 1630s, and a new era followed the Renaissance, and concept of melody and harmony was followed by the Classical era. that elevated the status of the music The word “baroque” comes to one of equality with the words, from the Portuguese word barroco, which formerly had been regarded meaning misshapen pearl, a as pre-eminent. negative description of the ornate An important technique used and heavily ornamented music of Gregory Hayes in baroque music was the use this period. Later, the name came to of ground bass, a repeated bass apply also to the architecture of the line. England’s Henry Purcell is a same period. famous for using this technique. The Baroque period saw the For the July Pacem In Terris creation of tonality. During the concert, co-musical director period, composers and performers Gregory Hayes is bringing an used more elaborate musical organ, Alice Robbins is bringing ornamentation, made changes in two sisters: a baroque cello and a musical notation, and developed new viola da gamba, Justina Golden is instrumental playing techniques. bringing her baroque vocal chords, Baroque music expanded the mute cornett, size, range, and complexity of curved cornett & and Nathaniel Cox is bringing a tenor cornett theorbo (baroque lute) and “wind” instrumental performance, and cornett (not to be confused with also established new musical the brass, trumpet-like cornet). genres. Many musical terms and concepts from this era are still in They will perform Italian and use today. English music on July 19 at 5:00pm. Come early and visit the Early baroque music (1580– Frederick Franck Museum and 1630): Gabrieli, Monteverdi. Sculpture Garden at 96 Covered Middle baroque music (1630– Bridge Road in Warwick. Phone: 1680): Cavalli, Blow, Purcell. 845-986-4329. Late baroque music (1680– Theorbo Tickets go on sale at 4:00pm. 1730): the German masters and Vivaldi.

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DVAA: Mixed Media, Textiles & Floral Art

The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) has a very busy July schedule offering exhibits of many different mediums for any kind of art lover to enjoy. Joan Giordano - Mixed Media

The final step, stitching through layers of fabric, brings a dimensional depth to the artwork that mere paint cannot. Their exhibit, titled Synthesis, and Giordano’s runs from July 10-August 1. Art in Bloom - Floral / Art

Artist Joan Giordano’s work merges painting, sculpture and the conceptual with a variety of media and processes including slashing, folding, gluing, welding, soldering, burning, fusing, waxing, troweling and various installation strategies. “I am committed to a pluralistic approach in my work. The physical process of turning one object into another by subverting the uses of materials becomes a framework for a range of political and aesthetic concerns. Much of my work incorporates paper of some kind. Paper’s metaphysical qualities serve both as the matrix of my imagination and the embodiment of the forms I make,” says Giordano. Fiber Revolution - Textiles Fiber Revolution is a network of professional textile artists. Their goal is to provide greater visibility for their art while educating the public about fiber art as an exciting art form. Although the art is constructed from fabric, it is not meant to lie at the foot of the bed, but rather to hang on the wall like an oil or watercolor painting. The artists use fiber - dying, painting, cutting, tearing, stamping, fusing, and embellishing it.

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A weekend exhibit of art and floral arrangements, titled Art in Bloom, runs from July 10-12. The fragrance of freshly cut flowers lures you in to this exhibit, which couples the talents of fine artists and floral designers. For its fourth year at the DVAA, Art in Bloom is curated by Jane Luchsinger of Narrowsburg. This unique exhibit, held in Krause Recital Hall, features live floral arrangements composed by local garden clubs, master gardeners, and florists, paired along side an assortment of paintings and sculptures from local artists associated with the DVAA. Each floral arrangement is a visual interpretation of the participating artist’s artwork, and both will be on display. This year’s featured floral designers include: Carole Linkiewicz, Country Gardeners of Hawley, PA; Anne Hart, The Cutting Garden of Youngsville; Alison Peck, Kelley Edkins, Honey Bee Herbs of Neversink; Mia and Joe Koerner, Claudine Luchsinger; Sharon Chopping; Donna Marchesin; and Juilette Dunn. This year’s featured artists include: Phillip Jostrom, Ludmila Goodridge, Lisa Locurto, Bernard Mangiaracina, Barbara Listek, Beau Gostomsky, Richard Kreznar, Todd Lanz, and Mitchell Lewis. All three exhibits will have an opening reception on July 10, from 7:00pm-9:00pm at the DVAA, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg. For more information: 845-252-7576.

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RVAG: Oils, Collage, Jewelry, Weaving...

and the late Bernie “This year the River Kilbourn. Led by hardValley Artists Guild 2015 working, enthusiastic Summer Members Show artist Joan Kehlenbeck exhibit runs through of Cuddebackville, the July 23 at SUNY group welcomes new Orange in Middletown,” members. The group is writes Cultural Affairs comprised of visual artists Coordinator Dorothy “Maui Luau” ~ urethane and artisan crafts people Szefc. “Artworks will by George Centamore be in several media including oils, acrylics, from New York and Pennsylvania communities watercolors, pastels, air brush, photographs, bordering the Delaware River, plus other areas of Orange, Westchester, and Sussex Counties.” collage, jewelry, fabric art, and weaving. Orange Hall is located at the corner of “The show is a celebration of the eleventh anniversary of RVAG which was started by Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Port Jervis residents Matilda Grech, Paul Middletown on the SUNY Orange campus. For information, call 845-341-4891. Horsman, Elaine Tedesco, Elizabeth Hayes,

Pine Bush Palate Café Provides Paintings

Roberta Rosenthal café has seating for 20 and is an award winning serves homemade breakfast, illustrator, textile and lunch, soups, salads, quiche, postage stamp designer and crepes, sandwiches and fine artist since 1969. She desserts plus a selection of instructs botanical art at the teas and coffee. Owner Geri Wurtsboro Art Alliance Kniskern invites artists to Gallery (see page 28) and exhibit artwork throughout at the New York Botanical the year. Gardens. Meet Roberta, Palate’s Peony by Roberta Rosenthal Roberta’s botanical watercolors have the look summer featured artist on July 19 or August 16 of French botanical illustration with a modern from 1:00pm-3:00pm. A portion of sales from sense of design. Roberta’s paintings will benefit the Pine Bush The Palate Café, 34 Main Street, Pine Bush, Area Art Council. serves up European country cuisine. The small For information: 845-744-4817.

Newburgh Last Saturdays

Photography, Music, Dance: Space Create Photography Exhibit: SUNY Orange Curator Lisa Gervais of Trinity Healing During his 1609 exploration of the area that Arts has “created” a would become Newburgh, photography exhibit featuring Henry Hudson described work by Scott Prater, it as a “pleasant place to Alexandros Megas, and build a town,” according to Juan Garcia-Nunez; and a City of Newburgh Historian dance/guitar performance with Mary McTamaney. Indeed, Ophra Wolf and Craig Chin. General George Washington Lover of nature photography, made the Hasbrouck House poetry and fine and abstract his headquarters in 1783, the art, Scott Prater spends a good final year of the American majority of his time exploring Revolution. by Alexandros Megas abandoned places. He is also a The city was a common musician, and an artisan who port for steamboats traveling has recently gotten involved between Albany and New in making repurposed lighting York City. The waterfront area and candle holders. and Broadway were bustling Multi-media and fine artist, places of commerce for many photographer, hypnotist, years from the mid-1800s to and musician Alexandros the early 1970s. Megas was born in Greece, SUNY Orange’s Kaplan Ophra Wolf & Craig Chin and is now a resident of Hall, located at the Balmville. Alexandros’ corner of Grand and First work has earned him Streets, has two photo acclaim through exhibits exhibits of scenes of in Athens and NYC Newburgh during that and publication in arts time period. magazines. In the glass vitrine case Trained as an architect, in the Foyer of the Mindy Juan Garcia-Nunez’s Ross Gallery, an exhibit main interest has been of photos, Newburgh & Water Street flags, Newburgh the theoretical and poetic Its Waterfront in Earlier exploration of space and Days, depicts nearby form. Painting, video, streets and parks as well film, philosophy and as waterfront scenes and science have entered his will be on display through work through the act of the end of July. Images of architectural conception, the Old City Courthouse, design and construction. now the Heritage Center, The River Flows Two and its bell, are on exhibit Ferry Dutchess, Kaplan Hall exhibit Ways is an improvised in the glass vitrine duet between ambient guitar and dance. Dancer case which is next to the beautifully restored Ophra Wolf and guitarist Craig Chin explore courthouse bell at the Grand Street entrance. the currents and tidal ebbs and flows between All of the images have been provided by sound and movement, space and time. Historian McTamaney. The space: Space Create, 115 Broadway. For information, visit www.sunyorange.edu/ The time: July 25 from 6:00pm-10:00pm. culturalaffairs, email cultural@sunyorange. For information, phone 845-234-1961. edu or call Cultural Affairs at 845-341-4891.

Art At Adams

“You Are Here”

“Loosestrife” by Rachel Weidkam

Rachel Weidkam studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned her BFA and NYS Teaching Certificate from Alfred University’s School of Art and Design. Located in Newburgh and currently working as a professional artist creating commissioned portraits and murals, she is one of the artists who helped work on the Trestle Mural on Newburgh’s waterfront. Rachel is dedicated to sharing her knowledge and love of art with others. She offers both private and group lessons for children and adults. (www.rachelweidkam.com) Rachel’s art can be seen from July 5-31 at Adams Fairacre Farms, Route 300, Newburgh. 50% of sales benefit Breast Cancer research. For information aboutAdams Fairacre Farms’ monthly exhibits, visit http://adamsfarms.com/ blog/page/2/ or call Tim at 845-569-0303. Note: Rachel is also exhibiting at Bank Square Coffeehouse, 129 Main Street, Beacon, from July 5-31.

“L’Europe” by Joyce Kozloff

Mapping as a practice provides artists with creative potential and the perfect platform where the artist can navigate the uncharted depths of their imagination while pursuing personal interests. You are Here is an innovative exhibition of works by established and emerging artists from across the country. The exhibition highlights 40 works and a group of 22 artists who explore the theme of cartography through self-created spaces as a vehicle for their artistic expression. Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, invites you to view the prints, collages, drawings, paintings, photography, video, fiber art, ecological sculptural models, and wall-sized installations in You Are Here, on view through July 25. For information: 845-784-1146.

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WEL C O ME T O W UR TSB ORO: FOU NDE RS DAY 2015! Start the Day with Art End the Day with Music! Every year in July, the Village of Wurtsboro celebrates its history with their Founders Day street fair. The day consists of vendors selling crafts, food and a variety of goodies, along with art, and live music all day. This year’s event takes place on July 11, from Noon to 6:00pm. View Art by The Wurtsboro Art Alliance “It is also during this month that we celebrate our country’s heritage and its own founding fathers (and mothers). This remembrance of our roots, as a community and nation, is the inspiration for Wurtsboro Art Alliance’s (WAA) Heritage exhibit, which runs from July 4-26,” states WAA’s David Munford. “The gallery will be open during July 4th weekend but the real celebration happens on July 11 during Wurtsboro’s Founders Day. “There will be plenty of art to choose from: paintings, watercolors, photography, ceramics, and jewelry, a tag sale of frames and other art supplies, raffle prizes, children’s activities and more. The gallery will be open from 11:00am-4:00pm during Founders Day.” The WAA Gallery is located at 73 Sullivan Street in Wurtsboro. For information, see www.waagallery.org

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“Along the Canal” by Dave Munford

or email: info@waagallery.org End the Day with a Musical Bang! Rock guitarist Vince Martell, lead guitarist of Vanilla Fudge, and U.S. Navy Veteran, has received wide acclaim and worldwide recognition for the musicianship and originality that have etched out his place in the annals of rock history. His riff in the Vanilla Fudge chart topper, You Keep Me Hangin’ On, is ranked the number four heaviest guitar riff of all time by Guitar Magazine. Martell’s original, Thoughts, a B-side to Take Me for a Little While, went to number six on Italy’s Rock Charts. Led Zeppelin opened for them; Jimi Hendrix and Vanilla Fudge toured together. The great Jimi himself once told Vinny to contact him if Vanilla Fudge ever broke up. Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Janis

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Joplin, The Doors, B.B. King and more; all graced the stage with Vanilla Fudge. In the twenty-first century, Vinny has reunited with Vanilla Fudge and has toured the U.S., playing to packed houses. His discography includes three solo CDs, the latest, A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, as well as Vanilla Fudge’s Spirit of ‘67 just released on Cleopatra Records. Peg Pearl is a Denver recording artist of the PBS special Love-In: A Musical Celebration with Ben Vereen. Joey Brennan grew up on the streets of Kearny, NJ and gained an appreciation for the distinctly American sounds of Motown and Jazz. He honed these influences while drumming for his first band, Rick Martin and the Showmen. Showmen continued playing together in The Pigeons, which also reined in guitarist Martell to complete a powerful foursome that worked clubs in New York. Sean Harkness is a musical artist, a guitarist-for-hire, and a New Yorker. He composes music for solo guitar and small ensembles, and supports an exhaustive list of singers, musicians, and theatrical productions. Awards include: Outstanding Instrumentalist 2011 Bistro Award; 2011 MAC Award solo show; 2012 MAC Award Best Recording; and 2013 MAC Award for Ensemble Instrumentalist.

Vince Martell

Sean Harkness

Peg Pearl

Joey Brennan

Vince will perform music of the 60’s and originals in a rare unplugged appearance with Peg Pearl, Joe Brennan and Sean Harkness at the Wurtsboro Community Church, 134 Sullivan Street, after all Founders Day festivities, July 11 at 8:00pm. For tickets: 845-888-5567. Reservations are highly recommended.

Goshen’s Future Plans

Community Building Through the Arts with Susan Handler

Art Walks Fuel Economy Photos by Julissa Saltzberg

In 2012, American for the Arts published its 4th Arts and Economic Prosperity Report, the most comprehensive study of its kind ever conducted. It uses the findings from 182 regions representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The study documents how the Arts strengthen the nation’s economy. The information provides support to local governments, businesses, and non-profits that are incorporating the Arts in their master plans to improve their communities. Cities and towns all over America are looking to arts-oriented events as a way to promote civic pride, celebrate local culture, and boost economic development. The concept is most successful when multiple community partners work together. For example, the Village of Goshen has organized its first Art Walk Series. The event is held every First Friday from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. It takes place throughout the Village of Goshen but is mainly centered around Main Street from Erie Street to High Street, which is Goshen’s central business corridor. The Art Walk is hosted jointly by the Village of Goshen, the Goshen Art League, the

Joan Mester at Sunflower Cafe

Guitarist Frank Carpenito

Naomi Genen at Howell’s Cafe

Linda Stein shows Chloe how to make a clay flower

Orange County Arts Council (OCAC), Arts report. In the introduction President and and the Goshen Chamber of Commerce. CEO Robert L. Lynch wrote, “The Arts and Participating in the weekly summer event are Economic Prosperity Report sends a clear and non-profits, businesses, the welcome message: leaders school district, and visual who care about community and performance artists. and economic vitality can Art Walks are an excellent feel good about choosing to venue for artists to be able invest in the arts.” to show their work, while Come out and support your strengthening community local art events, and be sure ties, improving quality of to visit Goshen. With its tree Carol Mindnich who life, as well as attracting Congratulations lined streets and beautifully exhibited at Goshen Gourmet. She sold three pieces! traffic and tourist dollars to maintained historic homes, downtowns. Goshen has earned a reputation as one of the As a twenty-first century government leader, Hudson Valley’s most attractive welcoming Goshen Mayor Kyle Roddey’s decision communities. to include the arts in his plans to fuel the For information contact the OCAC at info@ economy is supported by this American for the ocartscouncil.org

“Goshen’s Art Walk has already brought attention to various amazing artists and helped local businesses expand their customer base,” said Mayor Kyle Roddy. Kristen Roberts at Businesses, schools, Delancey’s and non-profits open their doors to the public. Each location is partnered with at least one artist who displays their work in the location. Residents and Rose Monroe at Goshen guests travel from venue Music Hall to venue enjoying the works of art and refreshments. Viewers are encouraged to patronize local businesses and stay local for dinner. Vicki & Joe Botta “We increased the programming to feature local musicians who played around the Village to enhance the evening with beautiful music. Future plans are to expand the number of venues and partner with the Goshen Farmer’s Market. “It is hoped that this will grow into a yearround monthly event that will attract participants from throughout the Hudson Valley.”

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Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Come to Bethel May I Have A Word With You...Quips, Quotes & Quiddities

In celebration of their new collaborative jazz album Cheek To Cheek, Bethel Woods, in conjunction with Live Nation, is pleased to announce a once in a lifetime concert with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. At 88, Bennett remains the oldest artist in music industry history to have an album on the #1 spot on the Billboard charts: Cheek To Cheek, which also marks Lady Gaga’s third consecutive #1 album release in just over three years. Cheek To Cheek features classic jazz standards in a combination of vocal duets and solo performances. From the title track to But Beautiful to I Won’t Dance, the record showcases the chemistry between the two artists, who span 60 years in age. As Bennett says, “What I really love about being a jazz singer is that jazz artists are very creative, very honest, from phrase to phrase,” and Lady Gaga adds, “We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.” Recorded in New York City, Cheek To Cheek took over a year to complete and features jazz musicians associated with both artists including members of Bennett’s quartet: Mike Renzi, Gray Sargent, Harold Jones and

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Marshall Wood as well pianist Tom Ranier. Jazz trumpeter Brian Newman, a long-time friend and colleague of Lady Gaga appears on the album as well with his NYC-based jazz quintet. Jazz soloists on selected tracks include New Windsor’s great tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, trumpeter George Rabbai and flutist Paul Horn, who passed away in July, 2014. “We are delighted to present this very special show. It was a treat to host Tony Bennett at Bethel Woods in 2008 and the opportunity to welcome him back in 2015, joined by the incredibly talented Lady Gaga for this unique performance, is truly exciting.” said Darlene Fedun, Chief Executive Officer at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Both artists will be accompanied by a full orchestra along with each artist’s jazz ensembles who will also serve as special guests for the evening. The pair of icons will join forces for an evening of music on July 25 at 8:00pm at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, 200 Hurd Road, Bethel. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster locations or call the Bethel Woods Box office at: 866-781-2922.

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with Carol Pozefsky WORLD WAR ONE-DERFUL SONGS OF 1915 The Girl on the Magazine Cover (Irving Berlin) Araby (Irving Berlin) When I Leave the World Behind (Irving Berlin) Babes in the Woods (Jerome Kern) How’d You Like to Spoon with Me? (Jerome Kern) Neopolitan Love Song (Blossom & Herbert) Hello, Hawaii, How Are You? (Kalmar & Leslie) Two Laughing Eyes (Blossom & Herbert) ASCAP ASCAP is a non-profit group of about half a million composers, writers and music publishers. “We exist to ensure that ASCAP members are paid promptly and fairly when their compositions are performed publicly.” Among the better known recordings under ASCAP’s wing: My Girl (The Temptations), White Christmas (Bing Crosby), Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler), We Found Love (Rihanna & Calvin Harris) and Single Ladies Put A Ring On It (Beyonce)

BMI BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) is another nonprofit advocate for the music industry founded by radio executives in 1939. Among its more than half a million members are Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey, eminem, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton. BMI pays royalties four times a year. SESAC SESAC is a performing rights organization also but, unlike ASCAP and BMI, membership is by invitation. From its website: SESAC “uses a selective process, resulting in a level of service and attention unparalleled in the industry.” SESAC has long represented some of TV’s best known shows including, How I Met Your Mother, Dateline NBC, Dr. Phil, Seinfeld and Grey’s Anatomy. A songwriter can be affiliated with only one performing rights organization at a time. Music publishers, however, can be affiliated with all three societies at the same time as they often represent songwriters at all three organizations.

Music in Hurleyville

Whispering Pines Bastille Day, July 14 As the morning of July 14, 1789 dawned, the mob gathered, heading for the thick, foreboding walls of the hated Bastille. Guarded by eighty two aging veterans and reinforced by only thirty two Swiss mercenaries, the besiegers, numbering near a thousand, felt that they could easily overwhelm the political prison. The besiegers quickly broke through the gates, and, despite the threat of 20,000 pounds of gun power igniting, destroying everything in the violent explosion, won the fortified prison. The storming, and subsequent take over of the Bastille, ushered in the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille did not always ring with such discord as it did in the late 1700’s. Taken from the French word ‘bastide’, meaning fortress, the Bastille was constructed to defend the eastern wall of Paris from hostile forces in 1382. With walls over eighty feet high and well stocked and supplied arsenal, the Bastille quickly gathered the reputation of one of France’s most secure military strong points. However, after being besieged 7 times and surrendering 6 of those times, the importance of the fortress diminished. By the early seventeen hundreds it had become a prison. By 1789 when the angry mob broke through the walls and stormed the Bastille they found

Cooking with Chef Douglas Frey

only seven prisoners inside: four forgers, two lunatics, and a young noble. However, it was not to free the prisoners inside that the battle was fought. Instead, it was to bring down the single most important symbol of the King’s power. Since July 14, 1880, Bastille Day has been celebrated to commemorate the storming of the Bastille and the end of the French monarchy. As with the American Independence Day, the holiday is celebrated with firecrackers, parades, and festivals. In 1889, the Exposition, covering over 237 acres of land and consisted of over sixty thousand official exhibits, celebrated the official holiday. Featuring a reconstructed Bastille large enough for visitors to go inside for banquets and dramatic plays and a roller coaster, the festival was the largest of any in the world. Although Bastille Day is not celebrated to this extent anymore, it is still an important national holiday in France where the fallen are remembered, the courageous honored, and the heroic deified. Here a few French recipes of mine, brought to you by Whispering Pines Caterers, that are simply fabulous, and for any of you that may have any culinary questions, personal chef services or catering needs: 845-647-1428 or by email: doubledgoatfarms@mail.com French Onion Soup With Gruyère Toast 6 onions, thinly sliced ½ lb fresh mushrooms, coarsely chopped 2 T olive oil

1 c white wine 1 qt beef stock 1 qt chicken stock 3 sprigs fresh parsley 1 bay leaf salt & pepper to taste 6 slices French bread Butter 1 c Gruyère cheese, thinly sliced Cook onions, mushrooms in hot oil in large skillet over medium-high heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring often. Reduce heat, and cook 15 minutes or until golden brown. Stir in wine and next 5 ingredients; bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer 30 minutes. Remove bay leaf. Toast bread. Butter each slice, top with cheese slice; place on baking sheet and broil 5 inches from heat for 3 minutes or until cheese melts. Ladle soup into 6 bowls; top with Gruyère cheese toast, and sprinkle with pepper. Serve immediately. Ragoût d’aubergines (Eggplant & Red Peppers cooked in Wine) 2 lbs. eggplants 2 red peppers 6 cloves of garlic, minced 3/4 c olive oil 1 bouquet garni 1 c red wine 1 T chopped parsley Salt and pepper to taste Clean peppers, cut into fine strips; cut eggplants into 4 pieces lengthwise. Heat olive oil in dutch oven or casserole. Add red peppers to bottom. Add eggplant, garlic, parsley, bouquet garni. Pour wine over vegetables. Cover and cook approximately 50 minutes on low heat. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Joe Walsh, (photo left) one of the best mandolinists of his generation, has been featured on several IBMA-award winning albums with bluegrass stars, the Gibson Brothers. He tours the country and world, and is a mandolin instructor at the Berklee College of Music, and is also the associate director of the Berklee American Roots Weekend: Bluegrass, Blues, and Beyond. Grant Gordy (photo right) performed for many years with the fabled David Grisman Quintet, a spot previously held by such guitar notables as Tony Rice, Mark O’Connor, Frank Vignola and Mike Marshall. Gordy is one of the preeminent young voices on guitar. The Woodsongs Coffeehouse presents Bluegrass legends Joe Walsh and Grant Gordy live at the Sullivan County Museum, on July 15 at 7:00pm for a night of acoustic bluegrass music. The local Americana band Little Sparrow will open the show. The museum is located at 265 Main Street, Hurleyville. Coffee and baked goods will be available. For ticket info, call 845-434-8044.

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