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July 2018

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

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Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen I’d like to thank the following people for taking the time to participate with me in the group photo for our In Memoriam to artist Adrienne Butvinik, who I first met when she and Ward Lamb curated their Minisink High School students’ art for an exhibit in The Country House Arts Center in Bloomingburg, and who later painted a t-shirt and a hoody just for me. Two gifts I will always treasure. Thank you - Dawn Ansbro, Dave Bendlin, Laura Bendlin, Kristine Brennan-Goin, Danielle Cornacchio, Mary Bono, Glenn Dorph, Lisa Emanuele, Ileana Felix, Michael Goliber, Janet Hamill, Gavin Hoolan, Kat Hoolan, Lean Hoolan, Donald Lewis, Louann Lewis, Cathy Paris, Jane Paris, Dee

Rosado, Robert Piacentino, Jenna Salvagin, Dorothy Szefc and Kara Welsh. Synchronicities of the month: Two plays dealing with mental illness, in Hurleyville and Highland Lake. A Nardone (Drew) in Goshen and a Nardone (Trevor) in Milford, in classic plays by Shakespeare & Williams. Vocabulary Lesson: Biennale: (Italian). A large art exhibition or music festival held biennially. Biennially: (English). Every other year. There was an error in the June CANVAS. Please note: the free Hudson Valley Swing Band concerts in the Wallkill Community Center in Middletown are held every Tuesday at 1:00pm.

Letters to the Editor Dearest Barry and Sophia, I just want to write and tell you how honored I feel to have my artwork and I donning the front page of the June 2018 issue of CANVAS. Thank you for this awesome opportunity to have my artwork, my life’s dream, seen in such a wonderful publication. I am grateful and moved to have my photo chosen, as it also highlights the Goshen Art League and our upcoming Art Walk and shows! Being a member of the Goshen Art League has been pure joy. My fellow artists and I have the chance to show our work to the community and the surrounding areas, spend time sharing our love of art and being each other’s cheerleaders to keep the flow of creativity going! I thank you so very much and look forward to reading and witnessing all the incredible things the Delaware and Hudson Valleys have to offer! Andi Sustrin Filonow, Studio 222

We noticed the items that included the Mamakating Library in CANVAS. Thank you for your generous and well-layed out coverage! Your paper is an essential link to the arts and other programming in our area. Peggy Johansen, Mamakating Library Thanks, as always, for your support for Newburgh events. Always happy to oblige for CANVAS which covers us so generously. Mary McTamaney, Newburgh Historian

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In this issue: Once again CANVAS is happy to prove that the arts thrive all over the area, including the boonies. Read about events in Lords Valley, Honesdale, Highland Mills, Kauneonga Lake, Greenwood Lake, Florida, Grahamsville, Mountaindale, Phillipsport, Narrowsburg, Forestburgh, Amity, Jeffersonville, Shohola, Pine Bush, Warwick, Cornwall, Liberty and Newburgh.

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Columns May I Have A Word With You ��3 Meet Me in The Greenroom ��4 Wellness Modalities ��30 Stories Amity Gallery, Warwick ��15 Artery, Milford ��24 Artists’ Market, Shohola ��8 Artspace, Kauneonga Lake ��29 Bethel Council of the Arts ��29, 32 Bethel Lakeside Music, Kauneonga Lake ��32 Bethel Woods ��13 Black Dirt Storytelling Guild ��7 Carol Hepper, artist �� 24 Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor ��24 Chester Library ��27 Cornerstone Theatre Arts, Goshen ��21 Cornwall Library ��27 Crawford Arts Association, Pine Bush ��8 CreativesMX Marathon 2018 ��14 Delaware Valley Opera ��13 Florida Library ��7 Forestburgh Playhouse ��4, 35 Gallery 222, Hurleyville ��5 Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley ��26 Goshen Art League ��29 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra �� 11 Greenwood Lake Public Library �� 8, 11

Community Arts: News, Views And Schedules Managing Editor, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com ads@dhcanvas.com Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 www.dhcanvas.com 845.926.4646 / 4647 Facebook: D&H CANVAS Please email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Please email submissions for classifieds to classified@dhcanvas.com Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Grocery Store Gallery, Mountaindale �� 10 Highland Mills Library ��6 Hudson Valley Honor Flight, Goshen �� 21 Hurleyville Arts Centre �� 5, 12 In Memoriam: Adrienne Butvinik �� 22 Josephine-Louise Library, Walden �� 30 Judi Silvano, artist �� 27 Kindred Spirits Arts, Milford �� 14 Lee Parks, muralist ��7 Liberty Museum and Arts Center ��7 Lori Schneider, director & actor �� 21 Milkweed, Sugar Loaf ��6 Mountaindale Biennale ��10 Mt. St. Mary College Desmond Campus �� 31 Music on Market, Ellenville �� 28 NACL Theatre, Highland Lake �� 12, 31 Nesin Cultural Arts, Monticello �� 27 Old Time Fair, Grahamsville �� 30 On The Lawn, Sugar Loaf �� 25 Orange County Arts Council ��3 Pacem in Terris, Warwick �� 26 Phillipsport Community Center �� 33 Playhouse at Museum Village �� 35 Poetry Cafe, Florida ��7 Richard Rudich, artist ��5 Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh �� 28 Riverfest 2018, Narrowsburg �� 15 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville ��6 Shandelee Music Festival ��25 Side of The Road Theatre, Milford ��34 Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville �� 21 SUNY Orange, Middletown ��7 Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville � 15 Wallkill River School, Montgomery �� 12 Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� 3, 5, 32 Weekend of Chamber Music ��9 Women’s Club of Honesdale �� 33 Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� 10 Yaron Rosner, artist ��6

Ten Minute Plays Open Warwick Arts Fest The Orange County Arts by such companies as Ten Grand Council (OCAC), dedicated to Productions, Theatre of NOTE and meeting the growing need for local Dormant Phoenix. arts advocacy, is proud that their Mount Saint Mary College performance event will kick off student Lily Chimenti, a nursing the Warwick Summer Arts Festival major, is no stranger to the Mount (see pages 5 & 32 for more on the stage having performed in several Festival). productions. Although she is aiming The Festival has brought crowds for a profession in healthcare, Brian C. Petti to underused parks, created a Chimenti is able to nurture her performance venue on a farm in passion for theater thanks to the the middle of the black dirt, and Mount’s liberal arts curriculum. established an annual Main Street Paul Ellis is a festival producer, storefront art exhibit. The Council theatre director, and playwright with supports this premiere Arts Festival numerous productions to his credit. as it continues to bring great music to He has developed community arts the region as well as commissioning programs throughout the region, and presenting original work. teaches acting workshops and heads What can happen in ten minutes? the Actors Workshop Ensemble, Lily Chimenti Join the OCAC for their second a professional acting company in annual Ten Minute Play Festival Warwick. featuring the works of ten talented The Ten Minute Play Festival, on playwrights who live, study or July 12 at 7:00pm at the Warwick work in Orange County. This year’s Performing Arts Center, 63 selected playwrights include: Amber Wheeler Avenue, is supported Neilson, Andrew Matthews, by a grant from C&S Wholesale Brian C. Petti, James Meaney, Grocers. Tickets are available John Bavoso, Kai M’Kenna, Ken at the door. All proceeds benefit Paul Ellis Tschan, Lily Chimenti, Margaret OCAC. See ad page 13. Damken, and Paul Ellis. Visit www.ocartscouncil.org or call Brian Petti is an awardwinning playwright Jamie Sanin at 845-469-9168 for additional who has been produced internationally information and tickets.

May I Have A Word With You ... Quips, Quotes & Quiddities with Carol Pozefsky CHOSEN CHILDREN family to several small towns in Illinois, Adopted as an infant, then to Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee Audrey Faith Perry grew before finally settling the family in the steel up in Mississippi, flipped making town of Monessen, Pennsylvania. burgers at MacDonalds, Frances McDormand’s childhood may sang at local churches, have been peripatetic but her ambition was formed a band that single-focused. After college, McDormand played at rodeos, married earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree and divorced a music publishing executive from the Yale School of Drama. Early in named Daniel Hill and eventually became McDormand’s acting career, her New York one of the most successful country City roommate was actress Holly artists of all time having sold more Hunter. than 40 million albums worldwide. McDormand has won two That world knows her by the name, Academy Awards for Best Actress, Faith Hill. a Screen Actors Guild Best Actress A couple of unmarried students Award, the Golden Globe, the from San Francisco had a little BAFTA Best Actress Award, and boy in 1955 and gave him up for three Academy Award nominations adoption when he was a few days for Best Supporting Actress. She old. The child grew up in a working Francis McDormand and film writer/director Joel class family in nearby Cupertino and became Coen have been married since 1995 and one of the founders and eventual CEO of have an adopted son from Paraguay, Pedro Apple Computers. His adoptive parents McDormand Coen. were Paul and Clara Jobs. At the time of his Babe Ruth grew up in an orphanage, death, Steve Jobs’ net worth was estimated Jamie Foxx, John Lennon, Ray Liotta, at $10.2 billion. Nicole Richie, Gary Coleman, Kristin Cynthia Ann Smith was born in Gibson Chenoweth, and Debbie Harry, were all City, Illinois, and adopted at one and a adopted children... half years of age by Noreen and Vernon Were YOU adopted? You’re in very fine McDormand. Vernon, a pastor, moved the company.

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Meet The ResCo What in the world is ResCo? While the term has gained acceptable usage by patrons of The Forestburgh Playhouse, others are quick to learn: ResCo (Resident Company) is an integral and functioning part of the “Miracle of the Forest,” - The Forestburgh Playhouse. As this growing venue for quality entertainment in the form of live theatre begins its 2018 season, there’s a quality company of young performing artists eager and willing to expand, perfect and preserve the precious art of live theatre. These dedicated young men and women of the ResCo have typically come from a wide variety of schools, far-away places, and proficiencies e.g., UCLA School of Theatre on the West Coast to Emerson College in Boston. The appeal is wide and the requirements high for participation in the ResCo. Auditions are required and are held at various conservatories/ college programs throughout the U.S. It is not unusual for there to be close to a thousand applicants, each seeking his/her own dream, and a place on this team. By design and purpose, the Forestburgh program for ResCo is a prestigious and soughtafter training ground for professional theatre.

If there are ever doubts and wonderment regarding the younger generation, its seriousness of purpose, one’s faith and confidence are sure to be restored by a sharp eye on the 16 members of Tia Karaplis Forestburgh ResCo 2018. These eager men and women are the backbone of the now renown Cabaret at the Forestburgh Tavern. There’s a sumptuously prepared dinner by the now legendary Chef Jill Padua, and a thematically inspired variety show preceding the main stage performance every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday night. In many cases, this quality entertainment serves as a stand-alone, attracting a wide variety of appreciative audiences. The Friday & Saturday night cabaret performances are post show, with a variety of Tavern offerings and the customary beverage selections. ResCo members offer a quality performance while waiting tables and hosting patrons. Additionally, these members rehearse and present a new program every second week, while they are also rehearsing for the main stage productions where they will act and interact

with Equity performers. They are also involved in the children’s theatre. In addition to performing and rehearsing in two different productions, they help with maintenance. Arrive early and observe one Jonathan Savage or more sweeping the floor or policing in the parking lot. Needless to say, members of this group are well spoken and gregarious. All deserve special attention, but for this writer the selection for notice was pure happenstance. While waiting for the crowd to form at the Cabaret, there was Tia Karaplis, sweeping the floor of the main stage lobby. When Fall arrives she will be a senior music theatre major at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. She is proud to know her way around the theatre since this is her second summer at Forestburgh. She became interested in theatre through an incident with an older brother who was performing in a Shakespearean play. And, as is so often the case, thanks her Mom who took her to lessons in that sparse but lovable portion of the Great Buckeye State. Waiting tables and accommodating guests

at a recent Cabaret was a young man from the Sunshine State, Jonathan Savage. Also gregarious and well-spoken, he’s adjusting, but still wondering about the sunshine on New York. He was fortunate enough to have attended American Heritage School in Davie, Florida, a noted preparatory school. Now, as a graduate of Penn State University, he is one minute delivering orders to his tables in the Tavern, the next on stage for the Cabaret and, of note, he’s been cast as a principal in this summer’s children’s theatre production of Seussical the Musical. A finer example of the Forestburgh ResCo, its reputation as a training ground for professional theatre, will not be found beyond the apron of the mainstage. Producer Franklin Trapp began at Forestburgh as a rookie ResCo member in 2001. He remained with the company through 2004 earning his Equity card. Finishing law school and then a successful practice in Atlanta, Franklin’s past returned to spur his passion and stimulate his soul. He is now the jefe número uno, the man in charge of the “Miracle of the Forest”, The Forestburgh Playhouse. See Forestburgh Playhouse ad on page 29.

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Art About WW1 at Gallery 222 social order of monarchy but In his Self and Ceremony rather to raise questions of exhibit, Richard Rudich the mechanisms that turn an presents a look back at a time individual into a symbol, and of calamitous change on this what happens when one’s 100th anniversary of the end culture and context are lost. of World War I. Among the “I am completely aware many consequences of the of the oddness of doing an unprecedented upheavals of art work about violent war the Great War was a dramatic by employing images of reordering of social status such resounding domestic and identity, including the tranquility. The work was elimination of whole classes intended to comment on of people and redefining the the war in ways that are not roles of others. about the horrific destruction. Most of this work was It tries to look at some of the first exhibited in the 1980’s. Work by Richard Rudich Working from historic photographs of the norms of a time not that far removed from royal families that dominated almost all of us in time but very far away in terms of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, consciousness, especially as it affects ideas Rudich created three dimensional relief of personal and national identity.” Self and Ceremony runs from July 13portraits in ceramic that are then glazed and painted. The images were made in multiples August 30 at Gallery 222, 222 Main Street, but the painted backgrounds are unique, like Hurleyville. The opening reception on July old, hand colored photos. These portraits 13 begins at 5:30pm with an Artist Talk at are not meant to celebrate the anachronistic 6:00pm. For information, see ad on page 31.

2018 Warwick Summer Arts Festival The 2018 Warwick Summer Arts Festival (WSAF) embraces the transformative qualities of the arts in the community, presenting an array of art in this 18th festival year. A town’s growth and merit are often measured by how it has transformed through time into an economically, culturally and recreationally robust community. The WSAF is a townwide celebration of it’s community’s visual and performing arts. “Wonder, Wander Warwick Art Experience” participating artist Dan Mack. WSAF Director Melissa from 11:00am-4:00pm. Padham-Maass recognizes Collaborative groupings of the efforts and support of artists will be located in six artists within the community off-the-beaten-path studio who contribute to the cultural spaces, public businesses growth of Warwick. and community spaces She declares, “Whether throughout the Village. The induced or spontaneous, sites are conveniently located the transformation that has within walking distance, led the development and encouraging visitors to spend expansion of the arts in the afternoon meandering Warwick cannot be attributed along the village streets to to one singular initiative or appreciate art, witness the any one specific era, but to artistic process of artists the continued efforts made by creating new work, have a local artists and organizations hands-on experience of making art and visit that support the arts.” In recognition of the multitude of artistic local shops and restaurants. Youth, ages 8-teen, are invited to spend endeavors that play a role in the growth of a community, this summer-long festival of early summer days immersed in art making, assorted art exhibits, dance performances, movement, theatre, games and storytelling, concerts and interactive activities is scheduled mixed in with weekly art collaborations with to run from July 12-August 16, culturally local artists at their studios. Front Porch transforming Warwick through art. See pages Summer Arts will culminate in a final show at Conscious Fork on August 2, 7:00pm. 3 and 32 for July 12, 18 & 28 events. For information and the complete schedule New this year is the Wonder, Wander Warwick Art Experience Tour on July 14 visit www.warwicksummerarts.com July 2018

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Photography in Highland Mills Being an avid think of a better way to photographer for celebrate the constantly most of his adult life changing beauty of the with a constant eye Earth and Sky we live for style, form and with.” color, Richard Spisto Richard’s next is eternally aware show takes place of every scene that at Highland Mills passes his eye. Rarely Library, 16 Route planning a shot, he 105, where he is the featured artist for the will take advantage of month of July. Meet what presents itself on “Taylor Road Field” by Richard Spisto the artist and enjoy a daily basis. “My photos are dependent upon the light light refreshments at the opening reception or lack of it that create a moment of beauty on July 7 from Noon-2:00pm. Call 845-928-6162 for information. or drama or design,” he shares. “I cannot

Musical Laundry in Ellenville Great country music fills the air July 13 - August 5 when Honky Tonk Laundry do-si-dos onto Ellenville’s Shadowland Stages! With musical direction by Andrew Wilder, this Kim Rachelle Harris “Lana Mae” regional premier of a brand new juke box musical features some of the best country and western songs of the last sixty years. Lana Mae and Kate, two crooning country gals, feel they have been wronged and join forces to turn their laundromat into a bootscootin’ honky tonk! The talented duo perform twangin’ tunes by artists like Patsy Cline, Trisha Yearwood, Tammy Wynette, Martina McBride, Reba McEntyre, Dolly Parton, The Dixie Chicks,

and many more! Playwright Roger Bean has a proven track record in creating enduring, audience-pleasing musical franchises (The Marvelous Danielle Erin Rhodes Wonderettes, Life Could “Kate” Be A Dream) that keep cash registers ringing in theatres across the country. Directed by Michael LaFleur, take a ride to Nashville heaven in this new musical by Roger Bean at Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal Street, Ellenville. And don’t forget: there’s still time to catch Elemeno Pea by Kingston’s very own Molly Smith Metzler through July 8. Box Office: 845-647-5511. See ad pg 28.

“Soul Carrying Birds” in Sugar Loaf what are they aware of? In his latest show, Folklore and myths multidisciplinary artist are rich with avian Yaron Rosner reveals large legends; indeed, birds scale paintings, objects and serving as psychopomps, texts from his ongoing accompanying the souls work: The Bird Guide. of the dead to the afterlife The series explores are found in ancient times the scientific, calculated throughout the world. processes behind capital The symbolism of these punishment methods. By majestic creatures creates investigating the technical a strong contrast with those aspects of killing, the work exposes the degree “House Sparrow” by Yaron Rosner people set for execution. Rosner presents the details of certain death in which engineering, logic and method lie behind unthinkable cruelty. This prompts the with the unlimited movement of avian life, viewer to consider the psychology behind side by side. His work begs the question what the systems that humans have created in the is evil really made of? Uncomfortable as it may be, it behooves us to find an answer. name of religion, justice and security. Milkweed, 2 & 3 Romer’s Alley, Sugar Yaron is not attempting to understand the executioner nor the victim, but rather Loaf, presents Field Guide to Soul Carrying the people who developed the protocols Birds - a solo exhibition featuring works by surrounding execution. From the engineer Yaron Rosner, July 13-August 19. who determined the voltage of the electrical Meet the artist at the opening reception, current for the electric chair, to the July 13, from 6:00pm-9:00pm. Hear Yaron mathematician who calculated the length of discuss his work during an “Artist Talk” on rope needed to hang a person according to August 3, at 6:00pm. weight and size: who are these people and Visit www.milkweedsugarloaf.com 6

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ARTIST OPPORTUNITY Artists, take notice: Orange reception slated for September Hall Gallery will be the venue 7, from 7:00pm-9:00pm. for an exhibit titled, Abstract: Registration for the show No Boundaries - Visions and must be received by July 31. the Freedom to Explore . Artists are welcome to request This is purely an exhibition: a prospectus by emailing no judge and no awards. cultural@sunyorange.edu Encompassing a variety of Orange Hall is located on media, the show is open to the campus of SUNY Orange works of collages, paintings, at the corner of Wawayanda drawings, photographs, fiber/ and Grandview Avenues, fabric, mixed media, and Middletown. (GPS: 24 sculptures. Grandview Avenue). The exhibit will run from “Light Catcher” by Bill Graziano For additional details, see August 17 through October 8 with an opening the SUNY Orange ad on page 32.

Architectural Mural Show, Liberty Museum Ten years ago, prominent Liberty artist Lee Parks began what would become a ten-years-and-counting project with a mural depicting the O & W train stations in Sullivan County. Now, for the first time, all of Parks’ murals featuring the various architectural treasures of Sullivan County are on display. Parks, having retired after a long career teaching art students at Liberty High School, never expected his mural project to burgeon as it has. Under what Parks calls the “constant instigation” of architect and Liberty Museum & Arts Center (LMAC) President Robert Dadras, his subject matter is thematic, ranging from the county’s iconic bridges and barns to churches and synagogues, from hotels forgotten to a nostalgic Main Street scene. Parks was a founding member of the LMAC and his murals encompass both parts of the Museum’s mission: to provide a venue

“Liberty Theatre” by Lee Parks

for the finest art in the region and to offer exhibits exploring our local history. The mural project is ongoing, and included in the exhibition is a partially completed panel depicting Liberty buildings on the National Historic Register. The panel illustrates Parks’ technique from his initial sketches to the finished image. The show runs until August 25 at LMAC, 46 South Main Street, Liberty. For information call 845-292-2394. www.libertymuseum.com

Campfire and Poetry Cafe in Florida 22nd Annual Campfire Storytime The Florida Public Library will host the 22nd annual Campfire Storytime at Glenmere Lake on July 12 & 19 with Black Dirt Storytelling Guild founders Madelyn Folino and Eileen Stelljes sharing stories from around the world! Robert Milby Donna Reis Sonia Lynch All ages welcome. work over 1,000 times in 6 states! The marshmallow roast begins at 7:30pm Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Donna followed by stories at 8:00pm. Bring a blanket Reis is the author of three poetry chapbooks. or chair and a sweater or jacket for cool lake She has taught poetry at the Northeast Poetry breezes. In case of inclement weather, the Center in Sugar Loaf. program will be moved to the Library. After earning an Economics degree from SUNY Purchase and a lifetime in accounting, 50th Annual Poetry Cafe “I started writing in 1990 and have been The Florida Public Library’s popular Poetry reading around the Hudson Valley poetry Café series continues with Orange County circuit locations - being the Featured Reader Poet Laureate Robert Milby reading his at several of them,” says Sonia Lynch. works, along with featured poets Donna Reis Adults and teens over age 16 are welcome. and Sonia Lynch on July 20 at 7:00pm. Free homemade desserts, coffee and tea. The author of five poetry chapbooks, Milby Doors open at 6:45pm for sign-ups for open has been reading his poetry throughout the reading. The library is located at 4 Cohen Hudson Valley and beyond since 1995. He Circle. Visit www.floridapubliclibrary.org or has hosted 26 poetry series and has read his call 845-651-7659 to register. July 2018

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“Life is Not a Picnic - Make Art” An afternoon of art and artclassic and new works with making, food and beverage, a picnic theme will help set and building community: the mood. There will also be That’s the vision for the Life Is complimentary refreshments Not A Picnic-Make Art event and lots of surprises! being coordinated by Alexis It all takes place on July Siroc of the Barryville Area 7 from 4:00pm-6:00pm Arts Association. at the Artists’ Market “This indoor and outdoor Community Center, 114 event with a picnic theme Richardson Ave., Shohola. will be fun for the whole Email alexis.siroc@gmail. family,” stated Alexis. “We “Country Fair” by Norma Bernstock com for information. are celebrating summer and our country’s This event was made possible with the help of a grant from the Barbara J. Buchanon birthday!” Spin Art and Poetry Graffiti are just two of Fund, administered by the Greater Pike the activities planned. A display of prints of Community Foundation.

Crawford Arts Association: Summer! so she could capture the Artist and Crawford Basha Kill’s beauty. She Arts Association (CAA) fell in love with watercolor member Paula Baldinger and felt she could express was exposed to all forms of nature’s beauty through art and nature by the many this medium. She says she talented family members “wants to share the beauty that surrounded her. of nature through my While pursuing a career, personal art, and by doing she always nurtured her love of art by enjoying “Capturing the Light” by P. Baldinger so, bring the observer dance, gardening, cooking, floral design, closer to nature.” View some of Paula’s pieces at the CAA’s and renovating her 1882 Victorian home. After retiring, she returned to the Basha current members’ exhibit, Swinging into Kill where she spent her summers as a child. Summer, running through July 11 at the She says “one of the best reasons for living Crawford Government Center, 121 Route along the Basha Kill is the landscape and 302, Pine Bush. Be sure to check out the CAA’s next show: wildlife, particularly the many species of Good Old Summer Time, running July 19birds that either live or pass through.” Paula eventually decided to take classes at September 5. Visit the CAA on Facebook. the Wallkill River School in Montgomery

Some Guys & A Broad: Greenwood Lake Voted by the Times Herald-Record as “best cover band” for the last two years, Some Guys and a Broad play classic Woodstock era music as well as other rock, blues and R&B. Their next concert features Tracey Blue, Mike DiGirolamo and Steve Kunzweiler. Singing her entire life, Tracey fronted Mike DiGirolamo Steve Kunzweiler the popular New York City based all girls Tracey Blue band Scarlet Fever in the 1980’s, opening for influenced by classic and blues based rock and such artists as David Johansen, Joe Perry, and roll. He has a great appreciation for the bass many others. Tracy was also lead vocalist styles of John Paul Jones, Paul McCartney, for the band Life on Mars and was part of Geddy Lee, Greg Lake, Phil Lesh, John their 2003 release, Landing Soon. She ended Entwhistle, and Chris Squire. up branching out on her own, writing and Locally, the band has played at the Mason Jar performing her own music for her Tracey in Mahwah, NJ, Pennings Farm, The Dautaj Blue Band. It was then that she met Mike and Silvio’s Italian Village in Warwick. They DiGirolamo. are also one of the more popular bands that Mike has played guitar, bass, keyboards participate in the Greenwood Lake Summer and percussion in many different settings, Concert Series and Greenwood Lake Blues with rock, jazz, Latin, and classic music Festival. ensembles. He is also a board certified The Greenwood Lake Public Library music therapist and composer of original will host the band on July 12 at 7:00pm. The instrumental music. Library is located at 79 Waterstone Road. Steve’s love for music has been heavily Registration: 845-477-8377, ext. 101. 8

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Weekend of Chamber Music: High Energy, Percussive, Intensely Colored Music by Philip Ehrensaft Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM) is celebrating the twenty-fifth edition of its annual festival, Free Variations, with a very big catch for its resident composer: Pulitzer Prizewinner Joan Tower, one of America’s most deservedly eminent composers, and a Hudson Valley treasure. Tower has been teaching at Bard College since 1972. Having people like Tower on staff has been essential to Bard’s rise from a good Hudson Valley college to a force in New York’s classical music scene and one of the nation’s ranking liberal arts colleges and music conservatories. Tower was trained as a member in very good standing of the thorny atonal serial approach to composing music. After a decade as a serial composer, Tower decided that serialism was not her preferred cup of tea. She began defining her own path to composing music. We’ll hear selections of Tower’s music at WCM that were composed during successive phases of her compositional soundscape, ranging from 1976 to a work newly minted in 2018. As part and parcel of the WCM festival’s outlook on how to best present classical music to contemporary audiences, great works from the standard repertoire are purposefully interspersed with New Music. This has been the festival’s approach since it was founded by master flutist Judith Pearce. Mozart and

Tower on the same concert program is a nice synergistic mix. The resident composer is also essential Joan Tower Carol Wincec flute to another key composer strand of the festival: he/she participates in workshops for selected young composers (a.k.a. Fellows). In terms of how Tower composes now, Ellen Grolman’s article for Oxford Music Online is an excellent entry point to Mari Sato violin understanding Tower’s ways of composing. I paraphrased Grolman’s article for the my title because they capture the essentials of what we hear in Tower’s compositions. They “typically exhibit a high energy level, rhythmic variety, and coloristic intensity, and Tower focuses purposefully on long-term pitch relationships, small motifs, contrast and balance, and musical seamlessness. She is guided by an organic, intuitive approach, one in which each idea develops from the one that precedes it.” Tower is an especially apt choice for the resident composer at a chamber music festival. The first phase of her career was triple: a performing pianist, a composer, and the founder of a very important modern music ensemble,

Alex Fiterstein clarinet

Sarah Ho piano

Susan Waterbury Tawnya Popoff violin viola

Nurit Pacht violin

Lois Martin viola

Tower’s focus has been on instrumental music,ranging from solo to orchestral. Roughly two- duoJalal: violist Kathryn Lockwood thirds of her & Yousif Sheronick, percussion. compositions are chamber works. The artistic co-directors of WCM who succeeded Pearce, composer/violinist Andrew Waggoner and cellist Caroline Stinson, are in the vanguard of restoring improvisation to its central role in classical music. From the Renaissance through Bach through Beethoven, improvisation was an expected skill for classical

performers. As large orchestras emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, following the composer’s score as written became central. The exception being classical organ. In recent decades, perhaps linked to modern jazz’s emergence as “America’s classical music,” improvisation is coming to the fore again. Expect and savor classical improv components in the WCM Festival with the music of Bach, Haydn, Marin Marais, Schumann, Steve Reich, Tower and Mozart. This year’s Festival runs July 14-28 in multiple venues in Sullivan County, with an opening fundraising dinner-concert on July 14 in Jeffersonville, and a wrap-up concert in Honesdale on July 29. WCM grows its Immersion Fellowship Program this year to host seven pre-professional Fellows, their works the focus of a July 27 concert. MusicTalks 1 is centered around music, conversation and a Q&A with Tower, who celebrates her 80th birthday this year, at the Catskill Distilling Company in Bethel. MusicTalks 2 on July 26 at the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor will focus on variation itself, through improvisation, and the monumental Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach, in a version for string trio. Students and children under 18 are free. Visit www.wcmconcerts.org or call 646861-0378 for tickets. See also ad page 36 for concert details.

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It’s Elemental, My Dear Raised in the Hudson on Font Design. This Valley, a young Rick is not to be confused Loggia would venture with calligraphy. alone in the woods A professional font that surrounded designer, Jodi will him, observing and walk you through the appreciating the freedom fundamentals of modern of being one with nature. hand lettering: proper Even today his kayak or letter formation, curves bike are often on his car and spacing. No artistic outside the Gallery, ready or neat handwriting “Sailing” by Rick Loggia for another adventure! required. A basic entry level class, it will Rick captures not only the beauty of be held on July 25 at 5:00pm. All supplies nature in his landscapes, but the power of provided. the element of wind in his seascapes. In Next up: Serendipitous Paper a.k.a. “Let Sailing (see photo) he places the observer on Your Inner Kid Out To Play!”. Using plain the deck of a sail boat gliding smoothly over printer paper, acrylic paints, foils, stamps the waves. The observer can almost feel the and found objects, WAA President Kitty mist from the water. “My art is an attempt Mitchell will create unique paper works that to capture that moment of the beauty of can then be used in collage, mixed media, nature’s excitement,” states Rick. journals, scrapbooking, and card creating! The June 30-July 28 exhibit’s theme at This class takes place on July 20 at 6:00pm. the Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) in their All supplies are provided, but it is suggested John Neilson Gallery, 73 Sullivan Street, that you wear an old shirt or smock! are the elements of Earth, Wind and Fire. To register: jmitchell17@hvc.rr.com or Meet Rick and other WAA artist-members call 845-341-3014 and leave your name and during the free opening reception for the number. Note: Both classes are limited to six show on July 7, from 2:00pm-4:00pm. attendees, ages 18 years and up. And more exciting news from the WAA: And...Wurtsboro Founders Day takes They are offering not one, but two free place on July 14. The WAA will open its classes this July at the Gallery! doors for free crafts for children of all ages! Jodi Van der Kruik will offer a class Visit www.waagallery.org

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“Made in Mountaindale II” Mountaindale’s Grocery Store Gallery presents the 2nd Mountaindale Biennale: Made in Mountaindale II, an art exhibition that features the work of two active artists in the small hamlet of Mountaindale. The show includes original collages by Micheline Gingras entitled Mis/Representation, and Hubris by Raymon Elozua, featuring glazed terra cotta and steel sculptures with photographs. Micheline Gingras is a visual artist focusing primarily on painting, drawing and photography. Gingras will present a body of collages driven by the anxiety and fear found within the politics of mainstream media. Sourcing her material from the New York Times, she creates images that compress disparate worlds to heighten emotions, revealing theatrical tableaux of reality. Gingras uses visual imagery to address, head-on, the surreal nightmare and

“Amnesia” by Micheline Gringas

“Hubris” by Raymon Elozua

confusion of contemporary “news.” Raymon Elozua is a visual artist working extensively in sculpture and photography. He will present a new series of sculptures and photographs from his Hubris series that explore the loss of vision. Starting with richly colored “blurry” photographs that hint of sculptural objects, the vivid colors meld into one another creating a foggy sense of atmosphere. These images provide context for the corresponding and contrasting sculptures made of steel and ceramic, inspired by each photograph. Made in Mountaindale II opens July 14 & 15 from Noon-4:00pm at Grocery Store Gallery, 62 Main Street, Mountaindale. The exhibit is on view through August 31 by appointment. Call 212-260-1239 or email raymon@elozua.com for more information.

OLÉ! Newburgh Symphony’s Free Summer Pops: Fiesta!

Got Spoons?

Aquinas Hall at Mount Saint labor bosses called estancieros. In Mary College will throb with energy Mexico, multiple estancias owned when the Greater Newburgh by the same individual could be Symphony Orchestra (GNSO) termed a hacienda. performs its annual free event, a Ginastera’s Estancia is an lively Summer Pops: Fiesta. orchestral suite that, through its “This concert is a celebration references to gaucho literature, of Latin-American composers rural folk dances, and urban concert and their magnificent music. music, evokes images of the diverse Arturo Marquez From Carlos Gardel’s irresistible C. Gardel (1890-1935) A. Ginastera (1916-1983) landscape of Argentina. Por Una Cabeza (made widely famous in A began. His father was a mariachi musician “The dominant element that unites these Scent of a Woman) to Alberto Ginastera’s toe- in Mexico and later in Los Angeles, and his composers is unbounded passion, largely tapping Estancia; from a Brazilian tribute to paternal grandfather was a Mexican folk expressed through intoxicating rhythms,” Bach by Villa-Lobos to the Argentinian king musician in the northern states of Sonora and explained Ger. “This program will offer a new of the tango, Piazzolla; and finally to the roof- Chihuahua. Because of them, he was exposed experience for most of our listeners, many of raising energy of Mexican composer, Arturo to several musical styles in his childhood, whom may not ever have been exposed to this particularly Mexican “salon music” which repertoire before. But I guarantee it will make Márquez,” said Music Director Russell Ger. Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald would be the impetus for his later musical converts of them all!” Gardès; 1890-1935) was a French-Argentine repertoire. The Summer Pops: Fiesta will be on Márquez started composing at the age of July 28 at 4:00pm at Mount Saint Mary singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of 16. In the U.S., he was awarded a Fulbright College’s Aquinas Hall, 330 Powell Avenue, his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his Scholarship and obtained a MFA in Newburgh. This annual free event drew close hundreds of three-minute tango recordings. composition in 1990 from California Institute to a capacity crowd last year, so concertgoers Together with lyricist and long-time of the Arts. are well-advised to arrive early. Estancia is a term describing private collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote The GNSO is at the most prolific point in several classic tangos. He died in an airplane landholdings. In some areas, they were large its history, with the July 28 concert being its crash at the height of his career, becoming an rural complexes with similarities to what in the fourth in less than three months. Plus, it will archetypal tragic hero mourned throughout U.S. is called a ranch. In the early Caribbean also perform a program of patriotic music Latin America. For many, Gardel embodies territories and Mexico, holders of encomiendas in another free concert on the Newburgh (grants from Spain) acquired land in the Waterfront on August 4 in honor of the the soul of the tango style. Arturo Márquez was born in Álamos, area where they had access to Indian labor. traveling Vietnam War Memorial. Sonora, in 1950 where his interest in music They needed on-site Hispanic supervisors or www.newburghsymphony.org

The Greenwood Lake Public Library is starting this year’s Summer Reading Program off with a (spoon) BANG! Musician and comedian Jim Cruise a.k.a. The Spoon Man will blow visitors away playing two ordinary household tablespoons! The Spoon Man, who has been playing spoons for over twenty years, is visiting Greenwood Lake all the way from Michigan to teach teens to play music on spoons. He also does hilarious impressions and will have the audience participate in a Sing-A-Long competition. The Spoon Man has performed for former President Gerald Ford. He even played spoons for Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia! After this July 3, 11:00am-Noon workshop at the Library, 79 Waterstone Road, participants will go home with their very own set of spoons and a new talent that will impress friends and family! To register: 845-477-8377.

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Wallkill River School: “Seniors & Teens”

NACL Streets on Hurleyville’s Main St.

group of senior artists in This July, the Wallkill the gallery. River School (WRS) will Coming from a be hosting a new type of wide range of artistic exhibit. In an attempt to backgrounds, the senior bridge the generational artists have been able to gap between artists of blossom and grow. Many different ages, the WRS have come into their own has put together: Seniors style, moving on to work & Teens, an exhibit as professional artists and consisting of work produced by artists over “Vermont Porch” by Louise McCutcheon holding solo exhibits. Whether as volunteers, 60 years old and under 20. students, or teaching their Two of the most unique own classes, teens have and active demographics in always been in attendance our local arts community are at the WRS. Although many seniors and teenagers. With teenagers at WRS produce this exhibit, the WRS hopes to beautiful, professional quality provide a platform to connect works of art, they very rarely these artists, young and old, have the opportunity to and give them an opportunity display their work. With this to appreciate each other’s work and learn from one another. exhibit, the WRS is hoping to provide teens with a platform The WRS have always to finally show their work in a taken pride in their work with professional setting. seniors. In their 10 years as a school, senior classes were “Floral Radiance” by Ayana Terry The opening reception for always a priority. The School accommodates the Seniors & Teens show is on July 7 from seniors with free programs such as their ‘senior 5:00pm-7:00pm at the WRS, 232 Ward Street, drop in.’ This led to a very large and active Montgomery. Call 845-457-ARTS.

Under the direction of Tannis Kowalchuk, the ensemble of NACL Streets is building a series of short outdoor performances for regional events this summer: three plays under the banner title Small Miracles. Trees is about trees, how they are connected and what we humans can learn from their interconnectivity. El Viento is about immigration and borders, featuring a large cyclops puppet. A Land For All is about the importance of public lands and features speeches by Gifford Pinchot. NACL Streets’ Small Miracles visits Hurleyville Arts Centre (HAC) with an NACL’s “Trees” - photo by Jonathan Fox. outdoor theatre presentation of El Viento You can also catch “Trees” performed June 30 & (no photo available), an all-ages outdoor July 22 in Narrowsburg and July 4 in So. Fallsburg. Visit www.nacl.org for venue locations. show featuring stilt walkers, actors, musicians, and special puppet design by of origin and tradition, and together the Hurleyville Makers Lab artist-in-residence ensemble presents a spectacular visual and Philip Cooper. aural montage of human stories of a group The outdoor location at the old rail station of people who are on the move. and freight house of the New York Ontario & Following the performance, audience Western railroad line in Hurleyville will be members are invited to enjoy interactive the site for the colorful performance about workshops in puppetry and stilt walking humanity’s shifts and movement, migration, taught by the performers and the puppeteer. adaptation and overcoming obstacles and The July 14 performance of El Viento on walls. Each traveller, dressed in a different Main Street in Hurleyville is at 4:00pm. color scheme represents a unique place Admission is free.

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Delaware Valley Opera: Who?! & Sullivan in Narrowsburg!

“Following the success of last season’s Gilbert & Sullivan offering, The Mikado, one of the duo’s most popular operas, come see how it all began!,” invites Delaware Valley Opera (DVO) artistic director Carol Castel. Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), was an English comic writer and prolific playwright. The son of a prosperous family, he was expected to follow a conventional career in the law or in the church, but he concluded that his vocation was the theatre. By the 1870s, Burnand was generating a prodigious output of plays as well as comic pieces and illustrations for the humor magazine Punch. Also admired were his burlesques of other writers’ works. Known generally for his genial wit and good humor, Burnand was nevertheless intensely envious of his contemporary W. S. Gilbert but was unable to emulate his rival’s success as a comic opera librettist. In other forms of theatre Burnand was outstandingly successful, with his works receiving London runs of up to 550 performances and extensive tours in the British provinces and the U.S. He published several humorous books and memoirs and was knighted in 1902 for his work on Punch. Sir Arthur Sullivan’s first attempt at opera, The Sapphire Necklace (1863-64) to a libretto by Henry F. Chorley, was not produced and is now lost. His first surviving and successful opera (a.k.a. operetta) was Cox and Box. Ironically, W. S. Gilbert, writing in Fun magazine,

pronounced the score superior to Burnand’s libretto. (Go know - Sullivan would soon partner with C. Castel N. Wuehrmann Ken Parks Bryan Elsesser Jack Tobey Gilbert and produce an unprecedented legacy of works that has brought forth performing companies dedicated solely to J. Meyerson Mary Burkart R. Creshkoff C. Diefenbach Kathy Geary those works). After Cox and Box, Sullivan and Burnand August - stay tuned to CANVAS) at the Tusten were commissioned for a two-act opera, The Theatre, 210 Bridge Street, Narrowsburg. For the DVO, both Sullivan operas are Contrabandista (1867; revised and expanded as The Chieftain in 1894), but it did not do as directed by Nicholas Wuehrmann and Ken Parks who also perform with Bryan well. Elsesser in Cox and Box. Trial by Jury Enter W.S. Gilbert. The rest is history. Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, is an performers include Wuehrmann & Parks, operatic extravaganza that was the first Brooke Schooley, Jack Tobey, Janice collaboration between G&S. No musical score Meyerson, and Patrick Field. Performing as Gentlemen of the Jury and as Public was published, and most of the music is lost. Trial by Jury is the earliest surviving G&S Spectators & Reporters are James Cruse, collaboration. Gilbert’s witty spoof of the Evan Sacco, Ray Scheindlin, Lou Setren, British judicial system, with a still-current Mary Burkart, Rebekah Creshkoff, Nancy element of celebrity trial madness thrown into Hobbs, Meredith Huveneers, and DVO the mix, combine with Sullivan’s sparkling divas Carol Diefenbach and Kathy Geary. music to add up to a delightful romp, all Music Director: Matthew W. Rupcich. Piano accompaniment is by Jeff Yeung. ending in typical Gilbertian fashion! Visit www.delawarevalleyopera.com or call Cox and Box / Trial by Jury run from July 28-August 4 (followed by The Magic Flute in 845-252-7272 for tickets. See ad pg 11.

Hilarious Hart

Comedian, actor, recording artist, host and model (in 2017 he appeared in an underwear commercial for Macy’s) Kevin Hart was born and raised in Philadelphia. Hart’s first gig was at The Laff House in Philadelphia under the name of Lil Kev, which did not go well. His career suffered a slow start, as he was booed off stage several times, once even having a piece of chicken thrown at him. After those initial unsuccessful shows, Hart began entering comedy competitions throughout Massachusetts, and his fortunes soon turned for the better. He began his career by winning several amateur comedy competitions at clubs throughout New England, culminating in his first real break in 2001 when he was cast by Judd Apatow for a recurring role on the TV series Undeclared. He was the first comedian to sell out an NFL stadium, selling over 50,000 tickets in one shot. Hart’s Irresponsible Tour began in September 2017 and has continued to this day with over 100 gigs! He will stand-up at Bethel Woods on July 15 at 8:00pm. Tickets: www.BethelWoodsCenter.org

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The Balkans Come to Milford One of the most popular ethnic ensembles in New York City will delight a Milford audience with colorful music, song and dance from Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Serbia, and other countries of the region for the Kindred Spirits Arts series concert titled Soul of the Balkans. The Noga Group, led by Avram Pengas has been a staple of New York City’s downtown music scene for nearly twenty years. Greek born musical arranger, lead guitarist, and bouzouki virtuoso Pengas is a versatile performer who plays popular Israeli hits, exotic Arabic melodies, pulsating Persian and Turkish rhythms, Armenian dances and traditional Yiddish songs. He creates music that is rooted in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and draws upon Eastern and Western musical elements. Pengas opened his own nightclub, Noga, in the heart of Greenwich Village in 1979. He has performed in the off-Broadway production of Hot Klezmer, and can still be heard weekly at SoHo’s Cupping Room Café. Their CD, Santorini, is the group’s

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latest effort and takes its name from the beautiful Greek island and the Greenwich Village cabaret that was filled, each week, with the exotic music of The Noga Group. But while Santorini, the cabaret, prided itself on its Greek heritage, Santorini, the CD, offers more diverse pleasures. Pengas’ breathtaking bouzouki and expressive guitar, Nick Mandoukos’ exquisite guitar, Dick Barsamian’s velvety oud, Lefteri Bournias’ sultry clarinet, Zohar Fresco’s dazzling percussion, and the melodic support of Emmanuel Mann’s fretless bass combine to create a rich musical palette of the entire Mediterranean region and beyond: Israeli pop grooves, sinuous Arabic melodies, Latin beats, even traditional Yiddish folk - all synthesized in a dynamic, often improvisational style that recalls American jazz. See The Noga Group perform on July 14 at 7:30pm in the Milford Theatre, 114 East Catherine Street, Milford. For information, call 570-409-1269. Visit www.kindredspiritsarts.org for tickets. For dining options, see ads below.

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On Your Mark: CreativesMX Marathon 2018 Imagine a place where creative energy thrives and grows, where talent can come together as a community to inspire freedom of expression and transform the world. CreativesMX is that place. A creative economy ignitor, CreativesMX is a community of emerging artists, designers and entrepreneurs connecting creativity, culture, and commerce through networking events, meets, and marathons. An opportunity to hone your craft, network with other creatives, and gain Artist Eugene Statz, a winner of the 2017 CreativesMX Meet valuable career exposure can be had by arts discipline: visual, performing, media, registering for the CreativesMX signature design, culinary, literary, makers, or tech & event, CreativesMX Marathon, July gaming. Categories include Adults, Young 29-August 5. Artists, creators, makers, Adults and Teens and there are countless designers, producers, developers and opportunities to connect with creatives at innovators will compete on an open course every level! Participants with a full pass will have a of workshops, rehearsals, exhibitions, and performances to see who can make it to the week’s worth of exposure to some of the Hudson Valley’s most dynamic venues, like Finish Line Festival! The marathon, running for eight days with Club Helsinki, Arts on the Lake, Umbra 50+ activities in twenty venues and $50,000 Studios, and Boscobel House and Gardens. in prizes, zig zags through seven counties. With field trips out to Bethel Woods and Beginning with a Kick-off Expo at Resorts other tourist attractions, every day is an World Catskills in Sullivan County and adventure! Spectators can vote for their then moving through Columbia, Greene, favorite creators and enjoy a full week’s Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester and Orange worth of exciting events. Registration is open now! For information counties, to the Finish Line Festival in Ulster visit marathon.creativesmx.com or call 845County. Each participant will compete in a chosen 565-8900. See ads pages 10 & 29.

Riverfest 2018

Artist Adrienne Butvinik at Riverfest. photo by Jonathan Fox

What started off in 1991 as a modest gathering of artists displaying their work and celebrating the beauty of the Delaware River has flourished over the past 28 years into a flagship event. Today, artisans and craftmakers come from around the region for Riverfest, a street fair celebrating the interplay of art, music and river ecology in Narrowsburg. Everything for sale at Riverfest is artistmade, and the person who is selling it is the artist him/herself. Broom makers, potters, jewelers, textile, wood and glass artists, writers, and painters. The 28th annual Riverfest, presented by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance takes place on July 22 from 10:00am-4:00pm on Main Street in Narrowsburg. Ample free parking can be found at the Fireman’s field/ball field on DeMauro Lane. A complimentary shuttle service from the parking area to the Tusten Theatre will be provided. Admission is free.

“North Light: A Painter’s Study” - Amity Gallery, Warwick Curated by Cynthia Harris-Pagano, North Light: A Painter’s Study features works by Harris-Pagano, Jeannette McGee, Susan Hope Fogel, Mary Mugele Sealfon, Susan Sciarretta, Mitchell Saler, Demetre Bove, Daniel Grant, and renown guest, artist John Phillip Osborne. The artworks demonstrate the unique qualities of north light. “Since north light comes from a north-facing window, it is the coolest, most consistent, natural, but indirect light from the sun. In looking and painting, I am invited to see color value and shadow tone vary subtly as mysteries of light,” says curator Harris-Pagano. Jeannette McGee has painted for 20 years in oil and pastel. Her works convey a rich talent and a love for the visual arts as well as a deep appreciation for the world around us. Susan Hope Fogel currently exhibits her work in galleries, teaches drawing and painting classes at her school, the Warwick Atelier, and leads painting workshops in Europe, Massachusetts and Warwick. Mary Mugele Sealfon enjoys plein air painting, portraiture and still life in pastel and oil. She taught art at SUNY Orange and the Wallkill River School (WRS). Susan Sciarretta believes that light defines the earth. “This has been passed down in traditional representational art. With light only coming in from a north lit skylight, it

“Onions and a Jug” by D. Grant

provides a consistent light for a longer period of time allowing the painter to explore the light influenced from that particular “Peonies” by Mitchell Saler “Peonies” by Demetre Bove day.” Westtown. Check out his ad on page 27. Mitchell Saler is a fine art painter with John Phillip Osborne is a dedicated painter works that emphasize vastness, dramatic and teacher of the principles of light which lighting, and atmospheric effects. A board illuminate all fine paintings. His atmospheric member and represented artist at the WRS, paintings are works of tonality and subtlety he is also a board member of the Goshen Art that evoke an emotional rather than tangible League, a member of the Orange County remembrance. His paintings are exhibited Arts Council, Middletown Art Group, and internationally at the American Embassies Lower Hudson Valley Plein Air Painters. in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. Demetre Bove says of her oil paintings: Nationally, he is represented by galleries “Making art has always been a part of my from the east to west coasts. life...creating art is difficult with many The exhibit can be viewed weekends, fascinating problems to solve. I am still July 7-29 at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport learning and creating.” Bridge Road, Warwick. See ad page 29. Daniel Grant studied in Pietrasanta, Italy, Meet these fine artists at the opening sculpting in stone and bronze. He currently reception on July 7 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. lives, works, and teaches at his home/studio The gallery will also be open from Noonin Westtown. He also teaches children 4:00pm the day of the reception. sculpture at Free Spirit Nature Camp in For information, call 845-258-0818.

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Hudson Valley Swing Band �� Wallkill Community Center, Middletown, Tuesdays, 1pm FREE Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Music for Humanity folk ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, 3rd Saturdays, 8pm FREE Abbie Gardner, Little Sparrow folk, Americana Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Jun 9, 8pm Rock Hill Ramblers & Janturan ��Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Jun 28, 6:30pm FREE Benny Havens Band “West Point Block Party” rock, pop, r&b �� Trophy Point Amphitheater, Jun 30, 7:30pm FREE Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis swing, blues �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 1, & Jul 15, 11am Emish E-3 Irish �� Run For Downtown Park, Middletown, Jul 5, 6pm FREE Rave On! r&r �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 5, 6:30pm FREE Rolling Bones/105 ��Veterans Memorial Park, Wurtsboro, Jul 5, 6:30pm FREE Debbie Fisher, Paul Kean, Tara Somerville, Alan Sorenson �� Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Jul 5, 6:30pm FREE Bill Warfield & the Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 5, 8pm Andy Stack’s American Soup ��The Falcon Underground , Marlboro, Jul 5, 8pm Harrison Street Band rock, blues ��Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 6, 7pm FREE Corey Glover rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 6, 8pm Vito Petroccitto & Little Rock rock, blues ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 6, 8pm Bobby Harden’s Soul Blues Revue ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 7, 8pm Deadgrass Garcia ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 7, 8pm Judith Tulloch Band Brazilian world vibrations �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 8, 11am The Funk-Shins ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 8, 8pm Aubrey Haddard Trio neo-soul ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 8, 8pm Joey G “A Musical History of the 50s” ��Thrall Library, Middletown, Jul 11, 6pm FREE Latin Jazz Express Puente ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 11, 8pm Side by Side classic folk/rock �� Run For Downtown Park, Middletown, Jul 12, 6pm FREE Bryan Gordon �� Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Jul 12, 6:30pm FREE Soul City Motown, disco �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 12, 6:30pm FREE Rich Wilson ��Riverside Park, Port Jervis, Jul 12, 7pm FREE Some Guys and a Broad ��Greenwood Lake Library, Jul 12, 7pm FREE Sarah Perrotta, Globelamp rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 12, 8pm Ghost of Paul Revere folk, roots ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 12, 8pm Curative rock �� Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 13, 7pm FREE Jason Aldean, w/Luke Combs & Lauren Alaina �� Bethel Woods, Jul 13, 7:30pm KJ Denhert & The New York Unit folk, rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 13, 8pm Fred Zepplin ‘s High School Reunion Show rock �The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 13, 8pm Sidi Touré “Toubalbero” Afrobeat ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 14, 8pm Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers �� Bethel Woods, Jul 14, 7:30pm The Noga Group “Soul of the Balkans”, Kindred SpiritsArts Series Milford Theatre, Jul 14, 7:30pm Kevin Hart �� Bethel Woods, Jul 15, 8pm Mike Pacer an orchestra of one ��Riverside Park, Port Jervis, Jul 18, 7pm FREE Common Tongue TV music ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 18, 8pm Manaklin Brothers ��Veterans Memorial Park, Wurtsboro, Jul 19, 6:30pm FREE Joanna M. Gass jazz, pop, disco �� Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Jul 19, 6:30pm FREE E’lissa Jones violinist, singer-songwriter �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 19, 6:30pm FREE Roseann Fino & Band rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 19, 8pm “Hot Flash & The Hormones” ��Alice Court Park, Pine Bush, Jul 20, 7pm FREE Rachel Berkman & Common Ground pop, soul, jazz �� Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 20, 7pm FREE Bruce Katz “Blues on Broadway” series ��Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh, Jul 20, 7pm The THE BAND Band ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 20, 8pm Fred Zepplin rock ......................................................The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 20, 8pm Lynyrd Skynyrd r&r �� Bethel Woods, Jul 21, 6pm Janet Burgan folk, Johnny Jules Band blues ��Phillipsport Community Center, Jul 21, 7pm Tribal Harmonies w/David Amram ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 23, 8pm Slam Allen blues ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 25, 8pm Poet Gold’s POELODIES spoken word, hip hop ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 25, 7pm The Parting Glass Irish folk trio ��Riverside Park, Port Jervis, Jul 26, 7pm FREE Breakneck Annie Bluegrass Folk �� Run For Downtown Park, Middletown, Jul 26, 6pm FREE Keith Newman & Lynn Reno �� Gazebo Park, Kauneonga Lake, Jul 26, 6:30pm FREE OC5 �� Sugar Loaf Crossing, Jul 26, 6:30pm FREE Lady Antebellum & Darius Rucker, w/Russell Dickerson �� Bethel Woods, Jul 26, 7pm Andy Timmons w/The Travis Larson Band rock fusion ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 26, 8pm Jenna Esposito American songbook-50s-60s ��Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 27, 7pm FREE Band Concert & Warwick Dance Collective Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� “Soul Purpose” ��Bullville Town Park, Bullville, Jul 27, 7pm FREE The Funk Junkies ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 27, 8pm The Bennett Brothers blues, Americana ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 27, 8pm DJ Skyhook & Professor Pete Drum Duo Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� Scheuermann Farms, Warwick, Jul 28, 6pm-9pm Cowboy Junkies country/blues/folk rock �� Bethel Woods, Jul 28, 8pm The Dark Horses Tribute to George Harrison ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 28, 8pm Times Square doo wop �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 29, 11am 16

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July 2018

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Magliano ��Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Joanna Gass and the Search & Rescue Orchestra �� Brew, Rock Hill, Tuesdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm Robert Kopec & Solo Bajo jazz + �� Dos Amigos, Fair Oaks, Wednesdays, 7pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic �� Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Albi Beluli �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm Marc Von Em soul, blues, funk ��WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, Last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Barry Scheinfeld’s Jazz Cats �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 1pm Roots & Blues Sessions host: Petey Hop �� The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 18, 7pm Old Friends 50s, 60s, 70s �� Sweet Onion Brewhouse, Florida, Jul 21, 7pm-10pm Old Friends 50s, 60s, 70s ��The Erie Bar, Port Jervis, Jul 22, 2pm-5pm

Lectures - Demos - Talks

sponsored by SUNY Orange and Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus MSM-DC �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh Lectures, Demos, & Talks are FREE unless otherwise noted: (FEE)

lectures Hurleyville Maker’s Lab TOUR �� Hurleyville Makers Lab, Tuesdays, 6pm & Thursdays, 9am “Montgomery Day” F. Kleck ��MSM-DC Jul 6, 1pm FEE Birding WALK ��Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Bethel, Jul 8, 8pm “Georgia’s Flowers” Laura Nicholls ��MSM-DC Jul 10, 1pm FEE “The Alkaline Diet” J. Saffir ��MSM-DC Jul 10, 1pm FEE “The Yoga of Oz” Cary Bayer ��MSM-DC Jul 11, 10am FEE “Heart Health vs. Heart Disease” Dr. Richard Huntoon ��MSM-DC Jul 11, 1pm “Glacial History of the Hudson Valley” J. Rayburn �� MSM-DC Jul 11, 2:30pm FEE “Palatines and Huguenots” Steve Skye �� D&H Canal Park, Cuddebackville, Jul 11, 7pm FEE “Malala Who?” Joan Monk ��MSM-DC Jul 12, 10am FEE “Justice Around the World: An Introduction” H. Hendel ��MSM-DC Jul 16, 10:30am FEE “Thomas Jefferson: ‘We hold these truths’” George Burke ��MSM-DC Jul 17, 9:30am FEE “Elder Law II” T. McAdam ��MSM-DC Jul 18, 9am FEE “Steller Alignments in Ancient Monuments” Nate Rosenblum ��MSM-DC Jul 18, 2pm FEE Albi Beluli ��Neversink Town Hall, Grahamsville, Jul 18, 5pm FREE “The Harriman Incline Railroad” Alex Prizgintas ��MSM-DC Jul 19, 10am FEE “Vital Involvement: Learn How to Create a More Interesting Life-style in Retirement” �� L. Gendelman MSM-DC Jul 20, 10am FEE “Family History Workshop” E. Levy ��MSM-DC Jul 23, 10am FEE “On the Waterfront-Ossining’s River History” Dana White ��MSM-DC Jul 23, 1pm FEE “MSMC History & Dominican Heritage Tour” Sr. Peggy Murphy ��MSM-DC Jul 24, 10am FEE “The Beatles” Barry Weisenfeld ��Chester Library, Jul 24, 6pm “Names and Faces” B. Sverdloff ��MSM-DC Jul 25, 10am FEE “Discover Why You’re Here” Cary Bayer ��MSM-DC Jul 25, 10am FEE “Teaching Science Research in High School” Lisa Reece, Hudson Valley Science Cafe �� Flaming Grill & Buffet Newburgh, Jul 25, 7:15pm FEE “The Science Fiction Movies of the 1950’s-1960’s” L. DiMartino ��MSM-DC Jul 26, 10am FEE “Preserving the Fishkill Supply Depot” L. Ashworth ��MSM-DC Jul 26, 1pm FEE “Sarah, An American Pioneer” J. Cole & S. Brownell ��MSM-DC Jul 27, 10am FEE Photography HIKE Jill Smith �� Bethel Woods, Jul 29, 5pm FEE “Bach! Handel! True Masters of their Art” M. Lawrence ��MSM-DC Jul 30 & Aug 6, 10am FEE “Wild and Edible” Holly Shelowitz ��Chester Library, Jul 30, 6pm “Cold War/Hot War: On Guard!” George Burke ��MSM-DC Jul 31, 9:30 am FEE DEMOS & Artist Talks Carol Hepper “The Skin of Things” ��CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Jun 30, 3pm Richard Rudich “Self and Ceremony: Portraits of a Vanished World” �� Gallery 222, Hurleyville, Jul 13, 6pm Joan Tower Weekend of Chamber Music “Music Talks” ��Catskill Distilling Co., Bethel, Jul 19, 7:30pm “Catskill Talks” Wurtsboro Art Alliance ��John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Jul 21, 5pm Susan Logothetis weaving, old & new techniques ��Chester Library, Jul 23, 6pm

Bootscoot to the Grahamsville Hoedown!

Back in the 1930s, neighbors, family and friends had good times socializing and dancing to live music during warm summer evenings. The Time and the Valleys Museum is inviting everyone to join with them to recreate those good old times for one night, at an old fashioned 1930s Catskill country Hoedown! The hoedown will include live music by the Country Travelers with Paul Lounsbury,

Bob Hunt, Dave Trestyn, Bill Engle and dance caller Patty Legg, dancing and square dancing in the Museum’s 1870s barn, delicious 1930s themed food, an entertaining pie auction, a special sneak peak of the upcoming 1930s Catskill Farm exhibit, old fashioned games, and more, on July 28 from 6:00pm-10:00pm. The museum is located on State Route 55 in Grahamsville. Call 845 985-7700 for tickets and info.

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Art Walks - Garden Tours - Art Marathon

Highland Falls Art Walk �� Main Street, Highland Falls, thru Oct 28 “Plein Air dans le Village” Barryville Area Arts Assn. ��Milford, Jun 30, 10am-4pm Warwick Valley Gardeners Garden Tour ��Railroad Green, Warwick, Jul 7, 9am-2pm 26th annual Town and Country Secret Garden Tour Milford Garden Club ��Jul 14, 10am-4pm “Wonder, Wander Warwick” Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� Warwick, Jul 14, 11am-4pm Newburgh Last Saturdays ��Newburgh, Jul 28, 4pm-8pm CreativesMX Marathon 2018 ��Hudson Valley, Jul 29-Aug 5

Cabaret

The Slipper Room burlesque �� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jun 30, 8:30pm Forestburgh Playhouse ResCo � Forestburgh Playhouse, Tues, Wed, Thurs, 6pm & Fri, Sat, 10:30pm

Cinema

“Only the Brave” Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Jul 2, 1pm FREE “Goodbye Christopher Robin” �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Jul 9, 1pm FREE “Big Lebowski” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, Jul 9, 8:30pm “The Graduate” Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft ��Cornwall Library, Jul 11, Noon FREE “Mary Poppins” outdoor series �� King Street, Middletown, Jul 14, 8:30pm FREE “Lady Bird” Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Jul 16, 1pm FREE “The Greatest Showman” Hugh Jackman �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Jul 23, 1pm FREE “Acrimony” w/Taraji P. Henson, Lyriq Bent �� Newburgh Library, Jul 23, 6:30pm FREE “Wonder Woman” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, Jul 23, 8:30pm “Tangled” outdoor series �� King Street, Middletown, Jul 28, 8:30pm FREE “The Secret Scripture” Rooney Mara, Aidan Turner �� Wisner Library, Warwick, Jul 30, 1pm FREE

Circus

Piccolo Circus family show ��Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jul 1, 2pm

Comedy

Good Host/Bad Host �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Jul 6, 7pm Kevin Hart �� Bethel Woods, Jul 15, 8pm

Dance

Warwick Dance Collective Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� Scheuermann Farms, Jul 28, 6pm

Fairs & Festivals

Stars & Stripes Celebration �� Fancher Davidge Park, Middletown, Jun 30, 4pm-9pm 25th Annual Liberty Festival �� Main Street, Liberty, Jul 4, 10:30am-4:30pm Saturday in the Park �� Morningside Park, Hurleyville, Jul 7, 2pm Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� Jul 12-Aug 16 RiverFest ��Narrowsburg, Jul 22, 10am-4pm Old Time Fair �� Grahamsville Fairgrounds, Jul 28, 10am-5pm

Weekend of Chamber Music Fellows �� Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville, Jul 27, 7pm Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra “Summer Pops: Fiesta” �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, Jul 28, 4pm FREE Weekend of Chamber Music �� Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville, Jul 28, talk:7pm, concert:8pm Weekend of Chamber Music ��The Cooperage, Honesdale, Jul 29, 4pm

Music - jazz

Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Eric Person Band ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Saturdays, 9pm Jean-Michel Pilc & Ari Hoenig Duo piano & drum �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 1, 8pm Jazz Sessions Host: Doug Weiss ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 11, 7pm Tisziji Muñoz & Marilyn Crispell improv �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 15, 8pm Judi Silvano & The Zephyr Band and Joe Lovano ��Quinn’s, Beacon, Jul 16, 8pm Liza Doolite Trio ��Run For Downtown Park, Middletown, Jul 19, 6pm FREE bigBANG band improv ��The Falcon Underground, Marlboro, Jul 19, 7pm Larry Moses & New World Jazz Orchestra “The Story of Jazz” Music on Market Series �� St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jul 19, 7:30pm Saints of Swing swing, klezmer, + �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 22, 11am Randy Ingram piano w/Drew Gress bass �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 22, 8pm Svetlana’s NYC Swing Collective Ella Fitzgerald 101st Birthday Tribute �� The Falcon, Jul 29, 8pm

Opera - Operetta

“Cox and Box” & “Trial by Jury” Burnand, Gilbert & Sullivan, Delaware Valley Opera �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Jul 28-Aug 5

Poetry Readings

Milkweed Poetry ��Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Wednesdays, 7pm Jim Glaser ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jul 5, 7pm Hudson River Poets ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jul 7, 1pm FREE Host: Walter Pahucki �� Montgomery Book Exchange, Jul 10, 7pm FREE Margaret Fox ��Elsie’s Luncheonette, Goshen, Jul 12, 7pm Poetry/Spoken Word Open Mic Calling All Poets �� Empowering Ellenville, Jul 13, 7pm Weekend of Chamber Music music & poetry ��Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 15, 4pm Poetry Slam & Jam Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� Pennings Farm, Warwick, Jul 18, 6pm-9pm Poetry Slam �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Jul 20, 6:30pm Sonia Lynch, Donna Reis, Robert Milby �� Poetry Cafe, Florida Library, Jul 20, 7pm FREE Hudson River Poets ��Newburgh Library, Jul 26, 7pm FREE Margaret Fox �� Jones Farm, Cornwall, Jul 27, 7pm Sonia Lynch �� Goshen Methodist Church, Jul 30, 7pm FREE

recreation

Salsa Dancing �� Hurleyville Arts Centre, Fridays, 7:30pm 1930s Catskill Farm Hoedown ��Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsvlle, Jul 28, 6pm-10pm

Storytelling

Weekend of Chamber Music Barn Raising Benefit, dinner & concert ��WCM Jul 14, 5pm Hudson Valley Honor Flight “America the Beautiful” concert �� Historic Track, Goshen, Jul 28, 5pm Greenwood Lake Elks Club Music Buffet �� Greenwood Lake Elks Club, Jul 29, 2pm-6pm

Jonathan Fox “Speak No Evil” ��ARTSPACE, Kauenonga Lake, Jun 30, 2pm Chris Brune “The Spirit of Chautauqua” storytelling, music, poetry �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, Jun 30, 7:30pm 22nd Annual Campfire Storytime ��Glenmere Lake, Florida, Jul 12 & 19, 7:30pm Dave Kozuha DYLWYD series ��Pennings Farm Cidery, Warwick, Jul 18, 6pm

Holistic - Spiritual

Theatre - Musical

Fundraisers

Journey Into Self-Awareness self-inquiry, meditation �� Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, Sundays, 10:30am “A Day at the Chardavogne Barn” intro to G.I. Gurdjieff spiritual philosophy �� Chardavogne Barn, Amity, Warwick, Jul 7, 9am-5pm

Museums

Independence Day ��Knox’s Headquarters, Vails Gate, Jul 4, 10am-4pm FREE & New Windsor Cantonment, Jul 4, 2pm FREE “A Family Fun Fourth” ��Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Jul 4, 2pm Annual Denning & Claryville History Afternoon �Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Jul 8, 1pm “Aiming to Please” 1780-81 Artillery ��Knox’s Headquarters, Vails Gate, Jul 21, Noon-4pm

Music - BaND

West Point Band Independence Day Celebration ��Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point, Jul 7, 7:30pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ��Wooster Memorial Grove, Walden, Jul 9, 7pm FREE & Catholic War Veterans Building, Pine Bush, Jul 13, 7pm FREE & Mount Hope Town Park Pavilion, Otisville, Jul 31, 7pm FREE West Point Band “Night at the Movies” ��Trophy Point Amphitheater, Jul 21, 7:30pm FREE

Music - Classical

Ellenville Chamber Players Music on Market Series ��St. John’s Episcopal Church, Jul 5, 7:30pm The Serenade Quintet ��Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Jul 8, 5pm Weekend of Chamber Music music & poetry ��Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 15, 4pm Weekend of Chamber Music “Music Talks” w/Joan Tower Catskill Distilling Co., Bethel, Jul 19, 7:30pm Weekend of Chamber Music open rehearsal & Immersion Fellows �� Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville, Jul 20, 7pm FREE Weekend of Chamber Music ��Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville, Jul 21, talk:7pm, concert:8pm Weekend of Chamber Music “Music Talks II” CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Jul 26, 7:30pm

“Million Dollar Quartet” by Patrick Meyers �� Forestburgh Playhouse, thru Jul 1 “Kiss Me Kate” Cole Porter �� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 3-15 “Honky Tonk Laundry” �� Shadowland Stages, Jul 13-Aug 5 “Annie” Strouse & Charnin �� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 17-29 Cheap Date Dinner Theatre (optional) � Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jul 25, 5:30pm dinner & “Pinot & Augustine” Musical Clown Show Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jul 25, 7pm “Fiddler on the Roof” Bock & Harnick ��Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 31-Aug 12

Theatre - Play

“Elemeno Pea” ��Shadowland Stages, thru Jul 8 “It’s Only A Play” by Terence McNally, Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players �� Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, Jul 7-22 “Yerma” by Lorca, Live from National Theatre �� Downing Film Center, Jul 9, 1:30pm & 7:15pm Orange County Arts Council Ten Minute Play Festival Warwick Summer Arts Festival �� Warwick Center for the Performing Arts, Jul 12, 7pm “Animal Farm” Catskill Reader’s Theatre ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Jul 14, 2pm FREE “El Viento” NACL Streets �� Main Street, Hurleyville, Jul 14, 4pm “The Glass Menagerie” Side of the Road Theatre ��Milford Theatre, Jul 20-29 “Comedy of Errors” Shakespeare, Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Salesian Park, Goshen, Jul 21-29 FREE “Out of Mind”Tannis Kowalchuk & Allison Waters NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jul 26, 7:30pm “Madame Lynch” �� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jul 27, 7:30pm “Every Brilliant Thing” w/Lori Schneider �� Sullivan County Museum, Jul 29, 2pm

Schools & Conservatories “Music in Common” music visual art & film, Local HS Students ��Bethel Woods, Jul 20, 11am NYSM Rock Camp Summer Concert Series student rock showcase �The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 21, Noon July 2018

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

AMITY ��Amity Gallery, Warwick BW �� Bethel Woods Center for the Arts CAS ��CAS Arts Center, Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor CLOVE �� Clove Creek Dinner Theatre, Fishkill CTMW Creative Theater-Muddy Water Players ��Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe DCAT �� Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel DOWNING ��Downing Film Center, Newburgh

MONDAY

Please check the schedule for Art & Photography Exhibit Receptions, pg. 20 Cinema “Only the Brave” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Cinema “Goodbye Christopher Robin” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm Music Pine Bush Community Band WOOSTER 7pm Video-Play “Yerma” DOWNING, Newburgh 1:30pm & 7:15pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Cabaret-Dinner “Forever Forestburgh” FP 6pm Theatre-Musical “Kiss Me Kate” FP 8pm

Cinema “Lady Bird” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm Music - Jazz Judi Silvano and The Zephyr Band & Joe Lovano Quinn’s, Beacon 7pm

WEDNESDAY

Theatre-Musical “Kiss Me Kate” FP 2pm & 8pm

Festival 25th Annual Liberty Festival Main St., Liberty, 10:30am-4:30pm Cabaret-Dinner “Forever Forestburgh” FP 6pm

Theatre-Musical “Kiss Me Kate” FP 2pm& 8pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Cinema “The Graduate” Cornwall Library, Noon

Cabaret-Dinner “Forever Forestburgh” FP 6pm

Music - Pop Joey G. THRALL 6pm

Poetry MONTBK, 7pm

Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm

Theatre-Musical “Kiss Me Kate” FP 8pm

Music - Puente Latin Jazz Express FAL 8pm

Cinema “Big Lebowski” BW 8:30pm

TUESDAY

FAL & FAL-U �� The Falcon & The Falcon Underground, Marlboro FEST ��Festival Square, Middletown FP ��Forestburgh Playhouse & Tavern GAZEBO ��Gazebo Park, (aka Bethel Community Park), Kauneonga Lake GOSHPK Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Salesian Park, Goshen GWL ��Greenwood Lake Library HAC �� Hurleyville Arts Centre

Music - Jazz Jazz Sessions FAL-U 8pm

Theatre - Musical “Annie” FP 2pm & 8pm

Music Albi Beluli Neversink Town Hall, Grahamsville, 5pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Storytelling Dave Kozuha Pennings Farm Cidery, Warwick 6pm

Cabaret-Dinner “Songs of the Seventies” FP 6pm

Theatre - Musical “Annie” FP 8pm

Poetry Slam & Jam Pennings Farm, Warwick, 6pm-9pm Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm Music Mike Pacer RIVPJ 7pm

Cinema “ The Greatest Showman” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Music - Tribal Harmonies w/ Guest DAVID AMRAM FAL-U 8pm Cinema “Wonder Woman” BW 8:30pm

Cinema “The Secret Scripture” Wisner Library, Warwick, 1pm

Poetry Sonia Lynch Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Music Common Tongue FAL 8pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Cabaret-Dinner “Songs of the Seventies” FP 6pm Theatre - Musical “Annie” FP 8pm

Music Hudson Valley Swing Band WCC 1pm

Theatre - Musical “Annie” FP 2pm & 8pm

Cabaret-Dinner “Songs of the Seventies” FP 6pm Poetry Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 7pm

Cabaret-Dinner “Songs of Irving Berlin” FP 6pm

Music - Blues Slam Allen FAL 8pm

Music Pine Bush Community Band Mount Hope Pavilion, 7pm

Spoken Word Hip Hop POELODIES FAL-U 8pm

Theatre - Musical “Fiddler on the Roof” FP 8pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

July 2018

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LMAC �� Liberty Museum MILKWEED �� Milkweed Galle MoM Music on Market Series ��St. John’s Episcopal Ch MONTBK �� Montgomery B MSM-AQ �� Mount St. Mary College, Aquinas H MSM-DC ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Cam NACL ��NACL Theatre,

THURSDAY

Cabaret-Dinner.........“Forever Forestburgh” ........................ FP 6pm Music - Irish.........................Emish E-3 ............................ RUN4, 6pm Comedy................... Music............................Rolling Bones/105 .................WVET 6:30pm Music - Rock-Blues. Music...Debbie Fisher, Paul Kean, Tara Somerville, Alan Sorenson..GAZEBO 6:30pm Theatre - Musical.... Music - R&R........................ Rave On!.............................. SLX 6:30pm Theatre - Play.......... Poetry................................. Jim Glaser............................... NOBL 7pm Music - Rock............ Music - Classical......Ellenville Chamber Players .......... MoM 7:30pm Music - Rock-Blues. Theatre - Play................. “Elemeno Pea” .......................... SHAD 8pm Cabaret.................... Theatre - Musical............ “Kiss Me Kate” ............................... FP 8pm Music.......Bill Warfield & the Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra...FAL 8pm Music.................. Andy Stack’s American Soup...............FAL-U 8pm

Cabaret-Dinner.........“Forever Forestburgh” ........................ FP 6pm Music - Folk-Rock............. Side By Side .......................... RUN4, 6pm Music............................... Byron Gordon.................. GAZEBO 6:30pm Music - Motown-Disco..........Soul City.............................. SLX 6:30pm Music.......................Some Guys and a Broad.....................GWL 7pm Music................................. Rich Wilson.............................RIVPJ 7pm Theatre..............OCAC Ten Minute Play Festival.............WCPA 7pm Poetry................Margaret Fox.....Elsie’s Luncheonette, Goshen, 7pm Storytelling.....Campfire Storytime....Glenmere Lake, Florida 7:30pm Theatre - Musical............ “Kiss Me Kate” ............................... FP 8pm Music - Rock..........Sarah Perrotta, Globelamp ...................FAL 8pm Music - Folk-Roots.......Ghost of Paul Revere....................FAL-U 8pm

Cabaret-Dinner.......“Songs of the Seventies” ...................... FP 6pm Music - Jazz................... Liza Doolite Trio ...................... RUN4, 6pm Music............................Manaklin Brothers .................WVET 6:30pm Music..............................Joanna M. Gass................ GAZEBO 6:30pm Music................................ E’lissa Jones.......................... SLX 6:30pm Storytelling.....Campfire Storytime....Glenmere Lake, Florida 7:30pm Music - Jazz....Larry Moses & New World Jazz Orch.... MoM 7:30pm Music - Classical.......Weekend of Chamber Music....... DCAT 7:30pm Storytelling.........Black Dirt Storytelling Guild.....Florida Library, 7:30pm Theatre - Musical...................“Annie” ..................................... FP 8pm Theatre - Musical......“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play................”It’s Only A Play”........................CTMW 8pm Music - Jazz......................... bigBANG................................FAL-U 7pm Music - Rock .............Roseann Fino & Band.........................FAL 8pm

Cabaret-Dinner.......“Songs of the Seventies” ...................... FP 6pm Music - Bluegrass-Folk.......Breakneck Annie ................. RUN4, 6pm Music................... Keith Newman & Lynn Reno...... GAZEBO 6:30pm Music........................................OC5.................................. SLX 6:30pm Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Music - Irish-Folk.......The Parting Glass Trio.....................RIVPJ 7pm Music - Classical.......Weekend of Chamber Music..........CAS 7:30pm Theatre - Play...................“Out of Mind”....................... NACL 7:30pm Theatre - Musical...................“Annie” ..................................... FP 8pm Theatre - Musical......“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 8pm

Poetry - Spoken Wo Music - Rock............ Music....Pine Bush Co Music......Jason Ald Theatre - Musical.... Theatre - Musical.... Theatre - Play.......... Music - Folk-Rock... Music - 60s-70s......F Cabaret....................

Music - Art - Film..... Poetry...................... Poetry Cafe........ Do Music - Classical..... Music - Blues .......... Music - Pop-Blues..R Music...Hot Flash & Poetry Cafe.Sonia Ly Theatre - Musical.... Theatre - Musical.... Theatre - Play.......... Theatre - Play.......... Music ...................... Music - Rock............ Cabaret-Dinner.......“

Poetry...................... Music - Classical..W Music - Pop............. Music...................So Theatre - Play.......... Theatre - Play.......... Theatre - Musical.... Theatre - Musical.... Music....................... Music - Jazz-Fusion.Thunderhead Organ Trio.Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm Music - Blues-Amer Music....Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker, Russell Dickerson.... BW 7pm Cabaret-Dinner.......“ Music - Rock-Fusion.......Andy Timmons w/Travis Larson Band...FAL 8pm

2018

m & Arts Center ery, Sugar Loaf hurch, Ellenville Book Exchange Hall, Newburgh mpus, Balmville , Highland Lake

NFL ��Newburgh Free Library NOBL ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall PACEM �� Pacem In Terris, Warwick PARA �� Paramount Theatre, Middletown PHILL �� Phillipsport Community Center RITZ �� Ritz Theatre Lobby, Newburgh RIVPJ �� Riverside Park, Port Jervis

FRIDAY

.. “Good Host/Bad Host”...........MILKWEED 7pm ......Harrison Street Band ....................FEST 7pm ......... “Kiss Me Kate” ............................... FP 8pm ........ “Elemeno Pea” .......................... SHAD 8pm .......... Corey Glover................................FAL 8pm .......Vito Petroccitto & Little Rock......FAL-U 8pm ..“Forever Forestburgh”.................. FP 10:30pm

ord......Open Mic........Empowering Ellenville, 7pm .............. Curative .................................FEST 7pm omm. Band. ...Catholic War Veterans Bldg, Pine Bush 7pm dean w/LukeCombs & Lauren Alaina .BW 7:30pm ......... “Kiss Me Kate” ............................... FP 8pm ...“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 8pm .......“It’s Only A Play”........................CTMW 8pm .....KJ Denhert & The New York Unit......FAL 8pm .Fred Zepplin ‘s HS Reunion Show ...FAL-U 8pm ..“Forever Forestburgh”.................. FP 10:30pm

.... ”Music in Common”........................ BW 11am ...Poetry Slam....... Milkweed, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm onna Reis, Sonia Lynch........Florida Library, 7pm ..Weekend of Chamber Music.............. WCM 7pm ............ Bruce Katz ............................. RITZ 7pm Rachel Berkman & Common Ground.FEST 7pm & The Hormones..Alice Court Park, Pine Bush, 7pm ynch, Donna Reis, Robert Milby.Florida Library, 7pm ................“Annie” ..................................... FP 8pm ...“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 8pm .......“It’s Only A Play”........................CTMW 8pm ..“The Glass Menagerie”.....Milford Theatre, 8pm ... The THE BAND Band ........................FAL 8pm ...........Fred Zepplin.............................FAL-U 8pm .“Songs of the Seventies” ...................... FP 6pm

........Margaret Fox.....Jones Farm, Cornwall, 7pm Weekend of Chamber Music Fellows.. WCM 7pm ........ Jenna Esposito ..........................FEST 7pm oul Purpose......Bullville Town Park, Bullville, 7pm .......“Madame Lynch”.................... NACL 7:30pm ..“The Glass Menagerie”.....Milford Theatre, 8pm ................“Annie” ..................................... FP 8pm ...“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 8pm ...... The Funk Junkies ...........................FAL 8pm ricana.......The Bennett Brothers .........FAL-U 8pm .“Songs of the Seventies” ...................... FP 6pm

RUN4 �� Run For Downtown Park, Middletown SCM ��Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville SHAD �� Shadowland Stages, Ellenville SLGMN �� The Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf SLX �� Sugar Loaf Crossing THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown TROPHY �� Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point

SATURDAY

Garden Tour...Warwick Valley Gardeners Garden Tour..Railroad Green, 9am-2pm Spiritual..A Day at the Chardavogne Barn..Chardavogne Barn, Warwick, 9am-5pm

Poetry.......Hudson River Poets...Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, 1pm Fair............Saturday in the Park..Morningside Park, Hurleyville, 2pm Music............................. West Point Band............... TROPHY 7:30pm Theatre - Musical............ “Kiss Me Kate” ............................... FP 8pm Theatre - Play................. “Elemeno Pea” ..........................SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play................“It’s Only A Play”........................CTMW 8pm Music..............Bobby Harden’s Soul Blues Revue..............FAL 8pm Music - Garcia +................. Deadgrass...............................FAL-U 8pm Cabaret.....................“Forever Forestburgh”.................. FP 10:30pm

Fundraiser-Dinner & Concert.Weekend of Chamber Music WCM5pm Art Tour.................. Wonder, Wander Warwick ...Warwick, 11am-4pm Theatre...........NACL Streets “El Viento”....Main St., Hurleyville, 4pm Play Reading.....“Animal Farm”.....Crawford Library, Monticello, 2pm Theatre - Musical......“Honky Tonk Laundry” ........SHAD 2pm & 8pm Music.....The Noga Group “Soul of the Balkans”..Milford Theatre, 7:30pm Music.............. Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers ........ BW 7:30pm Theatre - Musical............ “Kiss Me Kate” ............................... FP 8pm Theatre - Play................“It’s Only A Play”........................CTMW 8pm Music - Afrobeat......Sidi Touré “Toubalbero” ......................FAL 8pm Cinema..............“Mary Poppins”.......... King St., Middletown, 8:30pm Cabaret.....................“Forever Forestburgh”.................. FP 10:30pm

Music.......NYSM Rock Camp Summer Concert Series .. FAL Noon Theatre - Play............. “Comedy of Errors”..................GOSHPK 2pm Theatre - Play................“It’s Only A Play”............ CTMW 2pm & 8pm Music - Folk-Blues..Janet Burgan, Johnny Jules Band ...PHILL 7pm Music............................. West Point Band............... TROPHY 7:30pm Music - Folk..................Music for Humanity.................NOBL 7:30pm Music - Classical.......Weekend of Chamber Music............. WCM 8pm Music - R&R...................Lynyrd Skynyrd.............................. BW 6pm Theatre - Musical...................“Annie” ..................................... FP 8pm Theatre - Musical......“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 8pm Theatre - Play...........“The Glass Menagerie”.....Milford Theatre, 8pm Cabaret-Dinner.......“Songs of the Seventies” ...................... FP 6pm

Fair................Old Time Fair.....Grahamsville Fairgrounds, 10am-5pm Theatre - Play............. “Comedy of Errors”..................GOSHPK 2pm

Fundraiser - Concert...Hudson Valley Honor Flight..Historic Track, Goshen, 5pm

Music - Classical.Greater Newburgh Symphony Orch.MSM-AQ 4pm Music & Dance.Warwick Summer Arts Fest.ScheuermannFarms, Warwick, 6pm

Recreation.......... 1930s Catskill Farm Hoedown.......T&V 6pm-10pm Music - Classical.......Weekend of Chamber Music............. WCM 8pm Operetta...........“Cox and Box” & “Trial by Jury”.............TUST 8pm Theatre - Play...........“The Glass Menagerie”.....Milford Theatre, 8pm Theatre - Musical...................“Annie” ..................................... FP 8pm Theatre - Musical......“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 8pm Music - George Harrison........The Dark Horses..................FAL-U 8pm Music - Country-Blues-Rock........Cowboy Junkies................ BW 8pm Cinema........................“Tangled”.......... King St., Middletown, 8:30pm Cabaret-Dinner.......“Songs of the Seventies” ...................... FP 6pm

TUST �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg T&V ��Time and the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville WCC �� Wallkill Community Center, Middletown WCM Weekend of Chamber Music �� Eddie Adams Barn, Jeffersonville WCPA ��Warwick Center for The Performing Arts WOOSTER ��Wooster Grove, Walden WVET �� Veterans Memorial Park, Wurtsboro

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Music - Swing-Blues.....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis...........FAL11am Circus....Piccolo Circus.....Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, 2pm Theatre - Play................. “Elemeno Pea” .......................... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Musical .......“Million Dollar Quartet”....................... FP 3pm Music - Jazz...........Jean-Michel Pilc & Ari Hoenig Duo .......FAL 8pm

Music - World....... ....Judith Tulloch Band........................FAL11am Theatre - Play................. “Elemeno Pea” .......................... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play................“It’s Only A Play”........................CTMW 3pm Theatre - Musical............ “Kiss Me Kate” ............................... FP 3pm Music - Classical...........The Serenade Quintet .............. PACEM 5pm Music..............................The Funk-Shins ............................FAL 8pm Music - Soul................Aubrey Haddard Trio ....................FAL-U 8pm

Music - Swing-Blues.....Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis ..............FAL11am Theatre - Musical......“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 2pm Music - Poetry ...........Weekend of Chamber Music........... LMAC 4pm Theatre - Musical............ “Kiss Me Kate” ............................... FP 8pm Theatre - Play................“It’s Only A Play”........................CTMW 3pm Comedy.............................. Kevin Hart................................... BW 8pm Music - Jazz...........Tisziji Muñoz & Marilyn Crispell ............FAL 8pm

22 Festival................................ RiverFest.......... Narrowsburg, 10am-4pm Music - Swing +............ ....Saints of Swing..........................FAL 11am Theatre - Musical......“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play............. “Comedy of Errors”..................GOSHPK 2pm Theatre - Play...........“The Glass Menagerie”.....Milford Theatre, 2pm Theatre - Play................“It’s Only A Play”........................CTMW 3pm Theatre - Musical...................“Annie” ..................................... FP 3pm Music - Jazz..........Randy Ingram w/Drew Gress...................FAL 8pm

29 Music - DooWop.................Times Square............................ FAL 11am Operetta...........“Cox and Box” & “Trial by Jury”.............TUST 2pm Theatre - Musical......“Honky Tonk Laundry” ................... SHAD 2pm Theatre - Play...........“The Glass Menagerie”.....Milford Theatre, 2pm Theatre - Play............. “Comedy of Errors”..................GOSHPK 2pm Theatre - Play........... “Every Brilliant Thing” ..................... SCM 2pm Fundraiser.Greenwood Lake Elks’ Music Buffet.GWL Elks, 2pm-6pm Theatre - Musical...................“Annie” ..................................... FP 3pm Music - Jazz-Ella...........Svetlana’s NYC Swing Collective .......FAL 8pm

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

Group Show �� Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, ongoing Georgia Chambers etchings, paintings ��Georgia Chambers Art Gallery, Callicoon, ongoing Catharine De Maio paintings ��Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �� Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing June Ponte paintings, stained & painted glass ��Poe & Raven Gallery, Milford, ongoing Karen E. Gersch, Gabrielle Dearborn, Josiah Dearborn drawings, paintings, silverwork �� Gersch Home Gallery, Montgomery, by appt, ongoing Carolyn Duke pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ��Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Wurtsboro Art Alliance group show �� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, ongoing Roberta Rosenthal botanical art �� TeaTown Lake Reservation, Ossining, thru Jun 30 Roberta Rosenthal calligraphy, botanical & landscape paintings ��MSM-DC thru Jun 30 Barbara Masterson plein air paintings ��The Falcon, Marlboro, thru Jun 30 Brenda Scott Harburger oils, landscape & dining ��Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, thru Jun 30 Bill Rabsey sculptures, Liza J Smith-Simpson paintings “American Travels” �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Jul 4 Mitch Lewis paintings, Mark Sauerhoff sculpture �� DVAA Narrowsburg, thru Jul 7 “Swinging Into Summer” Crawford Arts Assn. �� Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, thru Jul 11 Wallkill River School & Patchett House �� WRS thru Jul 14 Jane Jacobs, Ellany Gable, Franco LoPinto, Sue Keebler ceramics �� ARTSPACE, Kauneonga Lake, thru Jul 15 Summer Artists’ Exhibit group show ��UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Jul 24 Goshen Art League Annual Exhibit �� Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville, thru Jul 24 “Webster’s Picturenary: Works Inspired by Literature” Goshen Art League �� Goshen Music Hall, thru Jul 25 “The Art Of Balance” Karen E. Gersch, curator �� Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, thru Jul 29 “It’s Summertime!” River Valley Artists Guild “Art About Town” ��thru Jul 30 Judith Weiss expressionistic paintings Bon Secours Hospital Cafeteria, Port Jervis & Joan Kehlenbeck florals & pastel landscapes Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot & Joseph Petrosi color pencil drawings Port Jervis City Hall & Susan Miiller oils & pastels Port Jervis Library “Rituals & Identity” group show �� Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Aug 4 Lee Parks “Sullivan Architectural Murals” �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, thru Aug 25 Ashlie Blake paintings ��Caffe a la Mode, Warwick, thru Sep 7 “Doorways to Originality” outdoor art installation �� Bethel Woods, thru Dec Peter Max “Early Paintings” �� Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Dec 31

NEW ART EXHIBITS

“Earth, Wind, Fire” Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Jun 30-Jul 28 Carol Hepper “The Skin of Things” �� CAS Jun 30-Aug 25 Seniors and Teens! group exhibit �� WRS Jul 1-30 Summer Reading Program Mural �� Greenwood Lake Library, Jul 1-31 Laura Gurton abstractions ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 1-31 Hemlock Farms Artists group show �� Gallery At Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 1-Aug 27 “North Light: A Painter’s Study” group exhibit ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, Jul 7-29 “Picnic” themed group show �� Artists’ Market, Shohola, Jul 7-29 Judi Silvano “Paintings of Life and Love”, experimental paintings ��Cornwall Library, Jul 7-31 Madeline Tully paintings, Claude Larson textile & collage, “Nature Smiles in Color” �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jul 12-Aug 6 Richard Rudich “Self and Ceremony: Portraits of a vanished world” ��Gallery 222 Hurleyville, Jul 13-Aug 30 Yaron Rosner “Field Guide to Soul Carrying Birds” paintings ��Milkweed Sugar Loaf, Jul 13-Aug 19 Irenaeus Yurchuk mixed media paintings, Sonjie Solomon mixed media ��DVAA Jul 13-Aug 11 56th Annual Art & Antiques Show & Sale �� Wayne Highlands Middle School, Honesdale, Jul 14 & 15 2nd Mountaindale Biennale: Made in Mountaindale II �� Grocery Store Gallery, Mountaindale, Jul 14-Aug 31 “Summer” group exhibit �� WRS Jul 15-Aug 14 “Good Old Summer Time” Crawford Arts Assn. �� Crawford Gov’t Center, Pine Bush, Jul 19-Sep 4

Photography exhibits

Catharine Bale �� Green Light Gallery, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing The Art of Cannon Hersey ��Gallery 222, Hurleyville, thru Jul 1 Dean Goldberg “I Am India! Travels in Agra, Jaipur, and Delhi” & Christopher Neyen �� “Evidential Industrial Mannerisms” CMA Gallery, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, thru Sept.

NEW Photography exhibits

Historic and Contemporary photography �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, thru Aug 26 Richard Weber mystery photo collage abstractions ��Griffith Olivero Realtors, Goshen, thru Aug 29 Richard Spisto �� Woodbury Library, Highland Mills, Jul 1-31 20

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ART & Photography receptions

Historic and Contemporary photography �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jun 30, 2pm Carol Hepper “The Skin of Things” �� CAS Jun 30, talk:3pm, reception 4pm-6pm Hemlock Farms Artists group show �� Gallery At Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 6, 5pm-8pm Richard Spisto photography ��Woodbury Library, Highland Mills, Jul 7, Noon-2pm Judi Silvano “Paintings of Life and Love”, experimental paintings.Cornwall Library, Jul 7, 1pm-3pm “Earth, Wind, Fire” Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� John Neilson Gallery, Wurtsboro, Jul 7, 2pm-4pm “Picnic” Themed group show ��Artists’ Market, Shohola, Jul 7, 4pm-6pm “North Light: A Painter’s Study” group exhibit �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, Jul 7, 5pm-7pm Seniors and Teens! group exhibit ��WRS Jul 7, 5pm-7pm Richard Weber mystery photo collage abstractions �� Griffith Olivero Realtors, Goshen, Jul 12, 6pm-8pm Irenaeus Yurchuk mixed media paintings, Sonjie Solomon mixed media ��DVAA Jul 13, 7pm-9pm Yaron Rosner “Field Guide to Soul Carrying Birds” paintings ��Milkweed Sugar Loaf, Jul 13, 6pm Richard Rudich “Self and Ceremony: Portraits of a Vanished World” �� Gallery 222, Hurleyville, Jul 13, 5:30pm 2nd Mountaindale Biennale: Made in Mountaindale II �� Grocery Store Gallery, Mountaindale, Jul 14 & 15, Noon-4pm Laura Gurton abstractions �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 14, 4pm Madeline Tully Claude Larson “Nature Smiles in Color” �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jul 14, 6pm-9pm Student Art Show ��Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Jul 15, 1pm-3pm Goshen Art League Annual Exhibit ��Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville, Jul 24, 6pm-8pm “The Art Of Balance” Karen E. Gersch, curator ��Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jul 29, 3pm-5pm

Schools & Conservatories Budding Artists art exhibit ��Greenwood Lake Library, ongoing Student Art Show �� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Balmville, Jul 15-Aug 30

Children & Teens Calendar

HHNM �� Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall HHNM-CoH ��Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Wildlife Education Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson

Books

Listings not included in our centerspread calendar.

Book Hipsters Book Club teens ��Wisner Library, Warwick, Fridays, 3:30pm “Stone Soup” by Jon J. Muth, 1st & 2nd grades ��Cornwall Library, Jul 17, 4:15pm “Sidekicks” by Dan Santat, 3rd & 4th grades ��Cornwall Library, Jul 23, 4:30pm “Hellow, Universe” by Erin Entrada Kelly, 5th thru 8th grades ��Cornwall Library, Jul 23, 6:30pm Cinema

Teen Movie Night 11-17yrs ��Greenwood Lake Library, Tuesdays, 6pm FREE Teen Movie Matinee ��Crawford Library, Monticello, 1st Saturday, 1pm FREE Saturday Family Movie ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Saturdays, 1pm FREE “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” teens ��Cornwall Library, Jul 9, 6:30pm FREE EntertainmenT & Lectures see also Fairs & Festivals page 17

Storytime 3-5yrs ��Crawford Library, Monticello, Mondays 10am FREE International Mud Day �� HHNM Jun 30, 11am-3pm “Seussical the Musical” ��Forestburgh Playhouse, thru Aug 18,Thurs. & Sat., 11am Piccolo Circus �� Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jul 1, 2pm KIDS FREE Jim Cruise AKA The Spoon Man comedy & music �� Greenwood Lake Library, Jul 3, 11am “Hands-On:Independece Day” lecture w/Mr.Potts Crawford Library, Monticello, Jul 3, 4pm FREE “Living Things Near & Far” HIKE ��HHNM Jul 7, 10am West Point Band’s Quintette 7 ��Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point, Jul 14, 6:30pm FREE “Wildflowers” ��HHNM Jul 22, 10am “Pinot & Augustine” Musical Clown Show �� Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Jul 25, 7pm, KIDS FREE Full Moon HIKE �� HHNM Jul 27, 7:30pm Museums

Meet the Animals “Birds on the Wing” �� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Hiking Trails �� HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm Eco-Zone Discovery Room �� PEEC Jun 9 & 17, 1pm-4pm, “A Family Fun Fourth” �� Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh, Jul 4, 2pm

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 Books & Tea ��Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, 4th Wednesday, 4pm Urban Book Club �� Mulberry House Senior Center, Middletown, 4th Wednesday, 7pm Fiction & Foodies �� Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro, 2nd Thursday, 6pm Book Discussion Group ��1st Friday, Daniel Pierce Library, Grahamsville, 1pm Book Discussion Group �� Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4pm “The Mother’s Promise” by Sally Hepworth �� Cornwall Library, Jun 28, 7pm “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe �� Cornwall Library, Jul 11, 7pm “The Best Worst Tank and The Ship That Wasn’t” w/by Paul Mitura �Thrall Library, Middletown, Jul 17, 6pm “An Irish Country Village” by Patrick Taylor, w/Patti Sussmann �� Newburgh Library, Jul 24, 2pm “The Light of Paris” by Eleanor Brown �� Cornwall Library, Jul 26, 7pm

Lori Schneider in “Every Brilliant Thing” Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan MacMillan with Jonny Donahoe is a powerful piece of theatre about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love. After being told that her Mum can’t think of anything worth living for, a little girl begins a list of everything brilliant about the world. At 7 years old, her list includes ice cream, and being allowed to stay up past your bed time. As the girl grows up, the entries mature along with her, and as the list grows she learns the deep significance it has on her own life. The show shines hilarious and compassionate light in some of the darker corners of the human condition, and the way in which the creators have constructed the performance is refreshingly theatrical, a testament to the healing power of storytelling. While it is a one character show, audience members are given snippets of the list to help tell the story, sharing in something meaningful as a room full of people become a community. Every Brilliant Thing is directed and performed by Lori Schneider who is the Executive Director of NAMI Sullivan (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and has been involved in local community theatre for over three decades as an award winning director and actress. She combines her passions

for mental health advocacy and for theatre in bringing this important work to local audiences. Carol Montana from the Times Herald-Record describes Schneider’s performance: “She breaks the theatrical fourth wall, telling the audience a story like she is relating it to her best friend... inviting them in to the character’s life, growth, grief and joy. And like number six on the list of brilliant things: roller coasters, the play tinkers with your emotions, up and down, careening around sharp turns, then lazily rising and plunging down into your mind and your heart.” Robert Score of Meet Me in the Green Room. com calls the show “fascinating and engaging” and describes Schneider’s performance as “intense, wonderfully pervasive...her humility and compassion for the subject comically and poignantly captures her audience and invites everyone to be drawn into her story.” Proceeds benefit NAMI Sullivan for handson initiatives for people recovering from serious mental illness and their families. Schneider performs on July 29 at 2:00pm in the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville . For reservations phone 845-794-1029.

Annual Homage to Shakespeare in Goshen Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with humor coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. “Come see this slapstick comedy about two sets of twins in the town of Ephesus where everyone confuses one with the other!,” invites director Ben Hudson. The play will be performed weekends during the annual Shakespeare in Salesian Park July 21-29, rain or shine. The rollicking comedy runs roughly 90 minutes without intermission. All shows are under the big tent at 2:00pm.

Ben Hudson

Mark Von Oesen Drew Nardone

The cast is led by Cornerstone Theatre Arts veterans Mark Von Oesen and Drew Nardone. The production is sponsored by the Goshen Public Library & Historical Society. Admission is free. No reservations required. Bring a lawn chair and some snacks!

Annual Homage to Heroes in Goshen This year’s benefit concert for Hudson Valley Honor Flight is set for July 28 at 5:00pm at the Historic Track, 44 Park Place, Goshen. The concert will once again feature 18-time Grammy winner Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra, with special guests: Jay & The Americans (see photo) singing many of their hits including This Magic Moment, Cara Mia, Come A Little Bit Closer and many more! In addition, the American Bombshells with

a tribute to the Andrew Sisters, Chris Caffery from the TransSiberian Orchestra, Doug Ferony and M.C. Van Ritshie. Also making an appearance will be the Hudson Valley Police Pipe & Drum Corp., the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Color Guard and the Nam Knights of America. Tickets are now on sale. Make your $25 check or money order payable to: America The Beautiful Concert and mail to: P.O. Box 1, Florida, NY 10921.

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In Memoriam: Adrienne Butvinik February 11, 1952 ~ May 18, 2018

“My mother was an artist. I like to think her life was a tapestry. She wove it with love, with friendship, with adventure, with generosity, with passion and with incredible joy. I still stand in awe of her tapestry: vivid and bright, stunning in its intricate detail and skill. I wonder if perhaps the finished piece would be too beautiful to bear. “My mother always encouraged us to look for beauty all around, never realizing that she was the beauty in all of us and in life itself.” Pauline Anastasia Labella Fond Memories of Adrienne “Adrienne and I met back in 1986 when I took her maternity leave at Otisville Elementary School. I was enamored by her free-form hippie style classroom, but I must say I wasn’t quite ready to take on the feisty little kindergartners. “My first interaction with Adrienne while I was at Minisink High School was when I lent her my VHS copy of Carnival of Souls - a haunting cult horror classic through interschool mail. I knew right then and there that we were kindred spirits. She came and joined me at the high school several years later, and that started a wonderful alliance. “Adrienne and I had so many things in common. We had our artistic identities. We shared the passion for art and teaching that really meant something to so many young people. We initiated several clubs together that would underline who we were separately and together. We sponsored the fundraising “NoTalent Talent Show”, and the art club. When it was clear that the local political climate was more Republican and had a Republican club, we started a young Democrats club for the students that wanted to learn more about the alternative party. We also proudly started Minisink‘s first GSA, sponsoring some of the kindest and most dependable students we had ever known. “Adrienne and I were kindred spirits. We were so much alike in what our outlook was that each day was a day to discuss our lives on multiple levels. We shared parenting highs and lows, field trips to wonderful places. We enjoyed both the students and the places we visited together. We were always knocking heads with the administration. We protected each other from the status quo. “The reason we loved teaching was because we were artists first - and that was the passion we brought to our students. Adrienne was the kindest and the fiercest person I ever knew. Her determination and her passion took her to so many places, through her imagination and traveling the real world with her entourage of students. “She truly was family to me. Her colorful 22

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Photo by Dawna Anders

The Legend of CATMAID It happens at night when you can’t see - The cats come out both brawny and wee And to their secret workshop go - To work their craft and dye and sew To wedge their clay and build and throw! I came upon this happy crew - And begged that I might sell to you “Perhaps” said they, and voiced some fear - “No intruder must come here!” “Of course,” said I, “I will agree - your secret will be safe with me!” They call me CATMAID for I serve to you - Cat made fancies rare and true I’m proud to share these treasures grand - CATMAID...from their paws to your hand!

personality reflected in her then we traded the portrait for exotic batiks, her paintings scarves. I remember going and the groovy environments to her home in Otisville and she created. looking through her beautiful “Adrienne and I were like scarves with different a comedy team. We had a themes of colors and shapes chemistry that made people and picking out the ones I laugh until they cried. We wanted. And then sitting on carried on, creating theatrical her sofa and petting her cats. mayhem - which enchanted “A few months later people who witnessed our between her many trips theatrical joint ventures, on abroad with students, she stage and in the classroom. painted with me at my We shared irony and studio. She created some sarcastic humor. But, love “Adrienne” by Cynthia Harris-Pagano fine still-lifes and portraits and concern was really the bottom line for and shared input and ideas.” our students. Cynthia Harris-Pagano “Adrienne touched thousands of people in countless situations. She is irreplaceable in “Her presence and talents will not be my heart. Unforgettable! That’s what she is.” forgotten. I am so grateful she was introduced Ward Lamb to Bliss Co-op...that I had the chance to represent her work but, also my son and I “One of my memories of Adrienne is got to have her as a friend. She was a huge when I asked her to sit for her portrait, after promoter of the shop and participated in she had given one of her demonstrations of many of our events. Every time she walked creating her silk and velour scarves for the in, no matter who was in the shop, she would Middletown Art Group. She had shown one announce, “Honey I’m Home!” with an unusual partial skeleton image (which Dana Anders I never forgot) that could be used as a garment with many beautiful shapes and colors. “A joyful, gregarious visual artist and a “I won a prize for my oil portrait of her and melancholy, introspective poet were set up on

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a blind date. That was the circumstance under which I first met Adrienne Butvinik. “Unknown to each other, we were both friends of singer-songwriter Judith Tulloch. Judith had landed her first headlining gig at the old Towne Crier in Peekskill. To compound the excitement, Judith was getting married on stage to her husband, flutist Steve Franchino. Adrienne and I were both dying to go, but neither of us had someone to go with. So Judith proposed that we go together. On the night in question, Adrienne picked me up. The result - two Jersey girls, one a colorful extrovert, the other a blackclad introvert, one from Bayonne, one from Weehawken, both born in Jersey City - hit it off big time! “Adrienne and I started a conversation that blossomed into close friendship, weaving through dinner dates, movie dates, concert outings, parties, receptions, openings, trips to the city and down the shore, even introductions to each other’s families. “Recently, that friendship ended abruptly with a few final texts. On the night of Thursday, May 17, we back and forthed - “A” from her hospital bed at Orange Regional, pain free, so relieved that the surgery had gone well, me at home, ready to doze off to a BBC crime drama on You Tube. The next morning, after leaving a voicemail that I’d be coming by the hospital around 4pm, Adrienne’s daughter Joey called to tell me the heart-wrenching news that her mother had passed. “This September Judith and Steve will celebrate their 10th anniversary on stage at the new Town Crier in Beacon. I’ll be there, but it will be bitter sweet, as the occasion marks what would have been the 10th anniversary of the best blind date I ever had. Maybe some benevolent force in the universe will watch over me that night. Maybe my friend will be in the candlelight on my table.” Janet Hamill “Adrienne was the person who showed me that I could become a working artist. She took her students to craft markets, artist residency spaces and collectives to instill that these were real opportunities that could be ours. I will always be indebted to her for these lessons.” Jenna Salvagin “In my mother’s memory I ask you all to live your life with joy and fearless, audacious love. Look for the beauty in everything. Strive to create and cultivate beauty in the world and in your relationships. Weave your tapestry with passion and kindness. I know my mother is watching over us and I know she will find beauty in whatever you create.” Pauline Anastasia Labella

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Striking and Bold Colors in Milford

Raw Wood, Tufts of Fur, Metal & Glass

An early member of the nineteen year old cooperative ARTery Gallery, artist Madeline Tully’s work is very popular with the visitors. Her paintings use striking color and a style reminiscent of the Old Masters and Impressionists to depict scenes and florals with a romantic flair. Her years of study in the mediums of oils and watercolor in New York City and Milford have led her to create works of vibrant visual appeal and elegant style. Her portraiture feels romantic as if rooted in another era. Her florals and landscapes are fluid and transparent. She “Lavender Flowers” by Madeline Tully is a painter that succeeds elements and events of in making watercolors nature in stunning works the visual equal of oil of contemporary art. Also painting. You can feel her a teacher, she shares her love of natural settings and techniques to new and elegant flowers emanate experienced artists, both from her richly colored teens and adults, at the paintings. Tully’s work ARTery Gallery. elicits a walk through a The ARTery Gallery garden or a wistful step will present a new group back in time. show featuring both artists Also an enthusiast titled, Nature Smiles in of color, artist Claude “Moonbeams” by Claude Larson Color. Come and see how Larson presents a collection of works that time honored works converge with modern celebrate the colors of nature. From the art and meet the artists at their July 14, smallest blooms to the far reaches of space, 6:00pm-9:00pm reception at the ARTery, Claude interprets the natural world through 210 Broad Street, Milford. The show runs textiles and collage. Claude’s hand-dyed from July 12-August 6. fabrics and hand-painted papers represent www.arterygallerymilford.com

The descendant of its sides simultaneously. Paired homesteaders and daughter of with the bodily experience of cattle ranchers, Jeffersonville moving around the sculpture, and NYC based artist Carol the flattened composites Hepper’s early source material suggest how time can be and studio was the landscape compressed or distended, that of her native MacLaughlin, all sensation depends on a South Dakota. She has degree of artifice. continued to work largely with The Orange Slice series is natural materials - fish skins, comprised of drawings inspired animal hides, cattle bones, and by the cut wood from pruned branches - fracturing, splitting, fruit trees, as well as firewood severing, and stretching from fallen trees, that Hepper materials together again to finds around her Jeffersonville produce complex sculptural home and studio. The knotted, “She” by Carol Hepper works. organic forms of these branches are rendered The Catskill Art Society (CAS) will in black watercolor and gouache, juxtaposed present Carol Hepper: The Skin of Things, with a swath of orange pigment over the place an exhibition of Hepper’s most recent works: where the wood has been severed, calling sculpture, drawing, and photography made attention to the trace of human intervention over the past decade with her sculptural into nature’s forms. constructions. Carol Hepper: The Skin of Things is The show highlights a suite of freestanding accompanied by a 56-page catalogue sculptures constructed from raw and reclaimed comprised of a critical essay on Hepper’s wood, tufts of fur, metal, tree branches, work by MOMA art historian Oliver Shultz, paint, and hand-blown glass. Hepper has and an interview between the artist and photographed these works in the round and Patterson Sims, independent curator. reproduced them as large photo composites Hepper’s exhibit runs June 30-August installed nearby. Assembling dozens of 25 at the CAS Arts Center, 48 Main Street, individual images of different sections of each Livingston Manor. Call 845-436-4227. sculpture into a single image she renders the Opening June 30: Artist Talk 3:00pm, 3-D object in two dimensions, revealing all of Reception: 4:00pm-6:00pm.

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On The Lawn at Sugar Loaf Crossing 2018 Shandelee Sunset Concert Series Opener Born into a musically gifted family, E’lissa Jones began singing and playing piano around the age of five. “At a very early age, my mother trained her girls to sing harmony and play the piano. At the age of five, I remember my mother keeping us up late singing in thirds with one another. We were to be the next ‘Jones Girls.’” E’lissa wrote her first song at the age of seven and began studying violin at the age of ten. By age eleven, she was writing love songs and short classical works for violin and piano. While classically trained as a violinist, E’lissa is largely self-taught as a vocalist and guitarist. A professional singer, prolific songwriter, violinist, pianist, and guitarist, Jones is a talented artist who possesses a dark and melancholy voice with a velvety quality reminiscent of jazz singers. Influential styling ranges from jazz, rock, folk and country music in her catalogue of over 250 original songs. This young artist performed background vocals with blues legend Wilson Pickett from 2001-2006 touring with Ray Charles, Al Green and many more. In her folk music realm, E’lissa has opened up for legends Pete Seeger, Steve Forbert, and has played violin

for old favorites like Bobby Vee. On the Lawn is a free weekly summer concert series running from July 5-August 30. The series, in its 14th year, boasts “a place for everyone,” says coproducer Richard Logothetis. The concerts are held every Thursday at 6:30pm, and the location offers different “sections” with different amplification. “We have the main seating area in front of the bands for clear audio reproduction, and locations for easy listening, an “overflow section” with lower level volume and smaller speakers for a more mellow sound,” explained Logothetis. “Some people want to sit and chat, eat a little food and listen to the music as background for their picnic.” “We have a knitting tent, a tent with lights so the needleworkers (and Sudoku-ers) don’t have to stop stitching (or writing) when the sun goes down,” says coproducer Susan Logothetis. Now THAT’S user-friendly! Bring a chair, blanket, (and picnic!) to On the Lawn, 1405 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, and hear E’lissa perform on July 19. See ad page 30 for the list of July concerts. Visit www.onthelawnconcerts.org or call 845-469-2713 for more information.

The Shandelee Music Festival (SMF) is celebrating its 25th Silver Anniversary Season of presenting internationally renowned artists from around the world in its much acclaimed Sunset Concert Series. The festival John Carden Tony Oakley grounds are nestled on Michael Ferreri prominent opera companies, orchestras, seventy-five acres of tranquil and conductors. His shimmering voice in natural beauty on Shandelee Mountain. Introducing the 2018 season in the Sunset connection with his dead-on musical and Concert Pavilion is an Extraordinary Night dramatic instincts have earned him critical of Broadway featuring pianist/vocalist and acclaim and have kept him in demand on both continents. arranger Michael Ferreri & Friends. ‘Friend’ and classical & jazz singer Tony Ferreri has appeared in concert with such celebrated performers as Michael Feinstein, Oakley has performed duets with Natalie Andrea McArdle and Greg Edelman to name Cole while touring the Greek Isles, performed a few. He has also been given the unique at President Clinton’s last inaugural, in honor of performing for HRH Prince Philip. George Faison’s KING! A Musical Testimony As a musical director he has arranged and (lyrics by Dr. Maya Angelou), and opened accompanied for some of New York’s finest for Nancy Wilson in the USVI. The three artists will perform songs cabaret and Broadway performers including Karen Mason, Alan Cumming, Terry White from South Pacific, Titanic, If/Then, City and MAC winners Rick Skye and Steven Of Angels, Wild Party, Closer Than Ever, Brinberg. He has also performed his own Into The Woods, Evening Primrose, Road critically acclaimed cabaret act both in New Show and The Bridges Of Madison County York and London and was a featured regular on August 4 at 8:00pm at the SMF Sunset at Tavern On The Green and One If By Land, Concert Pavilion, 442 J. Young Road, Livingston Manor. Two If By Sea. Visit www.shandelee.org or phone 845‘Friend’ and countertenor, John Carden has been associated with the world’s most 439-3277 for tickets.

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Pacem in Terris: Duet with Two...WHAT?!? Pacem In Terris’ CoArtistic Director Krista Bennion Feeney says that the July concert in Pacem’s old stone mill (with perfect acoustics!) will include music by Bach (Concerto # 4 for harpsichord and K. Bennion Feeney violin strings BWV 1055), Haydn (Divertimento Hob. ll:C5 for two violins, cello and bass), Johann Matthias Sperger (Sonata for violone and viola), Jean-Henri D’Anglebert (“Tombeau de Mr de Chambonnieres” for solo harpsichord)....and Beethoven’s Duet “with two eyeglasses obligato” for viola & ‘cello. Sperger (1750-1812) was an Austrian contrabassist and composer, an extremely prolific composer who wrote at least 44 symphonies, several instrumental concertos, among them 18 contrabass concertos, sonatas, rondos and dances, cantatas, choral works, and airs. French composer d’Anglebert (1629-1691) was a harpsichordist and organist, one of the foremost keyboard composers of his day. “It’s not very clear why Beethoven gave the ‘Eyeglasses’ duo its funny name. Most certainly he wrote it for his friend and cello player Baron Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz. Beethoven himself played the viola so it’s very likely that he intended the duo for them to play together. In one of his letters

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organ - which as time went by became more and more complex with Myriad stops and effects and deeper, lower and longer pipes. It developed an enormous appetite for air supply - 6 Jessica Troy Loretta O’Sullivan John Feeney Gregory Hayes or more men holding on to viola cello violone, contrabass harpischord a transom bar while they to Zmeskall, Beethoven apparently teases him pumped away with their legs on the bellows. for his short-sightedness. This might explain This was impractical for rehearsals and the the funny title. So, if you were Beethoven and Church charged their corps of engineers to had such a close friend, wouldn’t you play this come up with a practical solution for this duo with him?” wordpress.com tremendous appetite. Their answer was a A differing explanation according to Krista’s human sized powerful bowed instrument - the research: “Beethoven’s duet was written for bass! two friends of his who both wore eyeglasses “All of the early treatises on playing this - and M. de Chambonnieres was almost instrument were written by organists such certainly D’Anglebert’s teacher. However it as Praetorius. It was the only instrument wouldn’t surprise me if the Sperger, Haydn allowed into the church other than organ. All and Bach pieces on this program with their life other instruments at the time were considered affirming warmth and humanity, weren’t also profane - so there it was at the center of music written with friends in mind!” making throughout Europe 150 years before ‘Obligato’ is a musical line that is in some the invention of a cello.” way indispensable in performance. And not Pacem in Terris is a trans-religious space only will you hear one for eyeglasses, but you created along the Wawayanda River by will hear many for the odd, though not-as-odd- Frederick and Claske Franck, at 96 Covered as-eyeglasses, instruments called the Viennese Bridge Road, Warwick. Arrive early and visit violone (literally “large viol”) a double bass the sculpture garden and museum prior to the viol, and for the contrabass. July 8, 5:00pm concert. Bring pillows! John Feeney reports: “The bass was invented Visit www.frederickfranck.org or call 845by the Catholic Church as an extension to the 986-4329 for information.

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“Sunflower Field” by Joan Polishook

Like a garden in bloom, the walls of the Gallery at Chant Realtors are bursting with interpretive landscape, still life and portraiture in a variety of mediums. The annual Summer Group Art Show & Sale features forty-plus works by fifteen Hemlock Farms artists who will welcome visitors at a gala reception on July 6 from 5:00pm-8:00pm. All are invited to view the artworks and meet the artists while enjoying light refreshments and live musical selections on guitar. The show runs from July 1-August 27 at the Gallery at Chant Realtors, 631 Route 739, Lords Valley, PA. For info: 570-775-7337.

Attention Sponsors! Great News from Nesin “Judi Silvano: Paintings of Life and Love” Sullivan County to reflect upon the Chamber Orchestra beauty of Sullivan (SCCO) and Nesin County through a Cultural Arts (NCA) visual representation. have received a national Laurie has received grant from New Music recognition from the USA to commission Puffin Foundation, and record a new Sullivan Renaissance, composition by Nancy Left to right: Nancy Wegrzyn, SCCO Artistic and a New York State Wegrzyn entitled Four Director Andrew Trombley, and Laurie Kilgore Legislative award for Seasons of Sullivan County. her murals around Sullivan County. New Music USA is part of an international Laurie will sketch and paint around community of advocates for the arts. There Sullivan County throughout the upcoming were 1,114 applicants and only 108 projects seasons. The artistic process will be shared were awarded. in presentations around Sullivan County Composer Nancy Wegrzyn has been throughout the year, culminating in a final commissioned by the Delaware Valley Arts presentation in June, 2019. Alliance,DelawareValley Opera,Monticello The concerts will include Vivaldi’s Central School District, Fallsburg Central iconic violin concertos of the same name. School District, American Virtuosi and Performances will be June 8 & 9, 2019. The Weekend of Chamber Music organizations. performance and prints will be available in a These commissions have included several CD and booklet form to be enjoyed on loan “Meet the Composer” Grants from the NYS around Sullivan County in the buildings of Council on the Arts. Wegrzyn is a performer the NCA supporters. as well, serving as principal viola of the SCCO & NCA are seeking sponsors to Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, assist in matching the New Music USA grant Hudson Opera Theatre Orchestra, to help with the costs of commissioning the Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra, and artwork by Laurie Kilgore. Classic Choral Society Orchestra. Contact Marina Lombardi, General SCCO & NCA have commissioned Manager, Nesin Cultural Arts at 845-798award-winning artist and Monticello native, 9006 or marina@nesinculturalarts.org Laurie Kilgore to collaborate with Wegrzyn Visit http://www.nesinculturalarts.org

Artist Judi Silvano She participates in the began painting in her youth. Goshen Art Walk and has “Drawing and painting have also exhibited her works at always been a way for me to the Wallkill River School express myself through the where she is a represented years,” states Judi. artist. Judi eventually stopped Her next exhibit, Judi painting to pursue a dance Silvano: Paintings of Life career. She then trained and Love will feature as a classical singer and experimental watercolors, has now become a highly oils, acrylics, encaustics accomplished jazz vocalist and mixed media works and composer. Voted Best at the Cornwall Public Jazz Singer in the Hudson Library, 395 Hudson Valley, she was also listed Street, Cornwall, through as a Top Ten Jazz Vocalist July 31. Meet the artist at four times in Down Beat the opening reception on “Duet in Woodstock” by J. Silvano International Polls. July 7, 1:00pm-3:00pm. Judi has since exhibited in group shows “I am excited to show some of my in the Tri-State area and solo shows in the recent works in our community!”, states Hudson Valley and Midwest. “Since moving Judi. “I will be exhibiting large watercolor to the Hudson Valley, the magnificent landscapes from my travels and portraits natural surroundings rekindled my passion of jazz musicians in oil, watercolor and for painting. With the encouragement of pastel.” many accomplished painters in the area, my Visit www.judisilvano.com/paintings to evolution as a visual artist blossomed.” see more of Judi’s work. She has exhibited pastel, oil, watercolor After meeting Judi at the reception, get the and encaustic works at Mount St. Mary chance to party with her! Judi Silvano and College’s Artists on Campus show where she The Zephyr Band will celebrate their latest was awarded the prestigious Mary Evelyn CD release, Lessons Learned (Unit Records) Whitehill Award for one of her watercolors at Quinn’s, 330 Main Street, Beacon on July in 2013 and First Prize in Pastel in 2014. 16 at 8:00pm. See Judi’s ad on page 7.

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Weaver and On The Lawn concert series co-producer (see page 30) Susan Logothetis will demonstrate old and new weaving techniques to a traditional art form on July 23, from 6:00pm-7:30pm at the Chester Public Library, 1784 Kings Highway, Chester. To register, call 845-469-4252.

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Music on Market: More Marimba Music & Moses! A joint production of MISU (Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster) led by Anastasia Solberg and St. John’s Memorial Episcopal Church under the direction of Reverend Jeff Golliher, Music on Market (MoM) was created to celebrate the rich ethnic tapestry in the greater Ellenville area. JULY 5 - CONTEMPORARY Ellenville Chamber Players will perform music for strings, woodwinds and percussion featuring three local composers. David Tcimpidis has written in nearly every genre, and his compositions have been performed in the Americas, Europe, and the Orient. He is also a founding member of the New York-based composers’ group, Music Under Construction. His Thousand Eyes, song for Viola and Marimba had its world premiere last October at MISU’s Cecily Fortescue Memorial Concert. “It was so well received that it will be repeated this year, AND I get to play it again,” enthused Solberg. “This particular work is in a more tonal mode than his other works.” “Traveling with two marimbas is tough!,” says composer Ivan Trvino. “So I decided to compose a piece that would allow two players to perform on one instrument. 2+1 Marimba Duo creates a challenging experience for the performers, who have to maneuver around the instrument without getting in each other’s

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way. Also, one of the players has to perform on the opposite side of the instrument!” Also on the program is a quintet for strings and percussion titled Pages from Chris Earley percussion Belle’s Book by Carol Bevan. “It is a story in sound about four periods in my grandmother’s life,” explained Bevan. “The four movements are about the events that changed the Paul Chambers directions of her life, shaping percussion it in unexpected ways.” Bevan is speaking of her grandmother’s “happy, carefree childhood, the death of her father when she was David Fiedler fourteen years old, and her violin later teens when she falls in love. The years between college and the end of her life are not told in music, although they are essential to the last movement.” Anastasia Solberg viola A graduate of Mannes College of Music, Bevan is a composer and classical singer, having performed in opera, oratorio and recitals. She has composed, in collaboration Louis Rizzo with her husband, David cello

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Tcimpidis, several off-off and off-Broadway shows, in which she also acted and sang. Her other compositions include vocal and instrumental works. JULY 19 - JAZZ Larry Moses is a longtime professional trumpet player with extensive Broadway, big band, orchestral and recording experience. He has performed with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Buddy Rich Band, Eddie Palmieri Orchestra, Miles Larry Moses Davis Alumni Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughn, Felice Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Levon Helm, Four Tops, The Spinners, and “a million others.” He is also an instructor for brass and jazz theory and improvisation, with private and college class expertise. When he’s not doing any of the above, he’s doing his own thing with Larry Moses’ Latin Jazz Express. For MoM he’ll be presenting The Story of Jazz with Larry Moses and the New World Jazz Orchestra. All performances are at 7:30pm in the beautiful wooden “upside-down ark-like” St. John’s Episcopal Church, 40 Market Street, Ellenville. Tickets at the door. See ad on page 25 for more information.

Bruce Katz is a four time nominee for the Blues Music Award for Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year. Besides leading the Bruce Katz Band, Bruce performs regularly with the Delbert McClinton Band, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, John Hammond, and many others. He was a member of the Gregg Allman Band from 2007-2013. While blues is a very important part of his music, Bruce’s sound has more angles and influences, occupying a unique space where blues, soul-jazz, jam-band rock, and all aspects of Americana collide into a style of original music all his own. See Bruce perform on July 20 at 7:00pm in the Lobby at the Ritz, 107 Broadway, Newburgh, for Safe Harbors of the Hudson’s Blues on Broadway series. Visit www.safe-harbors.org or call the box office at 845-784-1199 for tickets.

Welcome to Artspace in Kauneonga Lake! Goshen Art League: Pianos, Horses, Wine The Bethel Council of the He creates large works that Arts (BCA) has completed are immediately recognizable the dramatic transformation and admired. He participates of a former lakeside restaurant in numerous group exhibitions space into a formidable gallery, throughout Canada. performance and exhibition Sue Keebler (1927-2015) space: welcome to Artspace! grew up in Springfield, Ohio. The 2018 season kicks off with While her work follows the a ceramic show featuring the influences of Bernard Leach works of local artists through and the Japanese potters, July 15 and includes work by she tested and made her own the following: glazes, mixed the clay in the Work by Sue Keebler Jane Jacobs is a local pug mill, and was prolific in ceramicist whose pieces the production of pots, mugs, express the Asian style of plates, platters, pitchers, and harmony. Jane will feature serving and batter bowls. work created over a 30-year In addition to rotating span that reflect ideas often exhibits, Artspace features coming from the movement of TheShop@Artspace water, the swaying of a branch, showcasing art and handmade an interesting rock, the shape jewelry and crafts created by of a mountain, all the beauty of local artists. the essences that surround us. Artspace is located at Ellany Gable is a studio One Horseshoe Lake Road, Work by Jane Jacobs potter born and raised in NYC. Kauneonga Lake, and is open A ceramic teacher and workshop facilitator during the 2018 season Fridays-Mondays. at Honey Hill Pottery in Callicoon, Ellany Artspace was made possible through the creates beautiful handmade pieces that are generous contributions of time and materials wheel-thrown and hand carved in durable by BCA members, Spriggens Mechanical high-fired stoneware. LLC, Narrowsburg Electric, The Home Franco LoPinto is an award winning Depot, and Cobalt Studios. studio potter, also at Honey Hill Pottery. For information, phone 917-579-7080.

The 2018 Keys of Goshen pianos and Painted Trotters are now out and about in downtown Goshen. The public is invited to tinkle the ivories! During the June Goshen Art Walk, the community was invited to decorate a baby grand piano, which is on view throughout the summer at Webster Park and Main Street.

Jennifer Charton’s work has led her to explore art, homeopathy, aromatherapy, herbal therapy, reiki, yoga and energy healing.

“Trotter’s Harmony” piano (back) by Jennifer Charton. Painted Trotter left - by Elliot Belokostolsky. Painted Trotter right - by Julissie Saltzberg.

Paula Arwen Owen’s work explores the contrast of darkness and light, of dreams and reality, and of beauty and decay. Her subjects include mythology, fantasy, and nature.

Numerous plywood cut-outs of horses for Goshen’s Painted Trotters project were painted by local artists. (Stay tuned to August CANVAS for more details).

Mitchell Saler hangs a Judi Silvano painting.

Goshen Music Hall owner Gerry Hluchan, who hosts the piano artists in his building (affectionately called “Piano Central”) and Paula Arwen Owen reveal her piano.

The closing reception for Goshen Art League’s annual Brotherhood Winery Exhibit with 52 works by 29 artists is on July 24, from 6:00pm-8:00pm. Light refreshments and finger foods will be served at the Brotherhood Winery Tasting Room, 100 Brotherhood Plaza Drive, Washingtonville.

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Toss a Skillet in Grahamsville! Corn shucking, skillet the day and the ever popular tossing, and old fashioned pie auction will be held before fun: the Old Time Fair is back the kick off of Miller’s famous again in Grahamsville on July chicken barbecue dinner 28 from 10:00am-5:00pm (2:00pm-5:00pm). rain or shine! With fair food galore, The fair features old plenty of free parking and fashioned activities and games free admission, this event Pick up some “soap cakes” for both children and adults. from Nina of Happy Herbs will be a day of fun to be long There are demonstrations of Soap at the fair! See ad pg. 27 remembered. old time crafts as well as vendor booths The Old Time Fair takes place on the of local craftspeople and merchants. Live Grahamsville Fairgrounds, 332 Main Street. music will entertain the crowds throughout For information: 845-985-7700.

Wellness Modalities: Violet Alchemy Dowsing Violet Alchemy® Dowsing transmutes 3D consciousness (lead) into the higher awareness and experience of 5D consciousness (gold) of unconditional love, respect, peace, unity, and oneness. It facilitates the cleansing and absolution of negative programs, karmic wounds and themes, past life unresolved fragments, vows, promises, oaths, contracts, genetic curses, negative attachments, cords of dysfunction, fragments of exchange, adverse energy Spirits, limiting beliefs, and human mis-creations. Violet Alchemy® Dowsing is energy healing of the highest order. It is a powerful modality where intensive restructuring of the human energy field through divine intervention and co-creation is facilitated. By aligning your intentions with that of your highest good

and highest healing, moving personality and ego aside, the truest essence of your divine self can reveal that which would be best to clear, retrieve or heal and then, with divine assistance, rebuilding, re-patterning and recalibration of the light body can begin to take place. Violet Alchemy® Dowsing works with the energy psychology of the chakras. It brings awareness and understanding to each individual, which then empowers and enables change through self responsibility and divine assistance bringing illumination. Through the power of forgiveness and transmissions of higher frequencies of divine love and light it can transmute the energetic blocks which are the obstacles to the soul’s expansion, evolution and ascension, to heal and support. (See ad page 13).

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nonfiction or biography). Libraries Rock is the When finished, hand theme of Josephinein your review cards by Louise Public Library’s August 2 at the JLPL (JLPL) 2018 Adult Summer Circulation Desk to receive Reading Program. Discover incentives and be entered in ways that music influences the drawings for six prizes. our lives and brings people together. Patrons are invited Sing in the rain with Gene Kelly, Debbie Be sure to read, watch and to try something new: listen Reynolds, & Donald O’Connor on July 2 listen to all five required materials for more chances to new music, read a new to win prizes! book, try a new craft, meet The Adult Summer new people, and more! Reading Programs include The reading contest Movie Musical Mondays at and programs run from 2:00pm, Summer Stamping July 2-August 2. Each with Debbie LaRocca, participant will receive a Essential Oils Rock with club packet. Five review Hear the sound of music with Julie Andrews on July 16 Christy Lent Miller, Wines cards can be obtained by reading, watching or listening to parts of that Rock with Jo Ann DeGaglia, Rock out with Coloring, Rockin’ Mosaic Flower Pot JLPL’s collection. To participate: with Debbie Lane, and ends with an Ice 1.Read one fiction title. Cream Social. 2.Read one nonfiction title. Registration is required for all programs.All 3.Read one biography. 4.Watch one DVD or video (fiction, programs are free. Visit www.waldenlibrary. org or call 845-778-7621, ext. 1512 for nonfiction or biography). 5.Listen to one audio book (fiction, additional information.

General Montgomery: 200th Anniversary General Richard Montgomery returned to the United States, the New Republic, as the second great general to die for freedom. The first being General Doctor Joseph Warren at Bunker Hill, who was eclipsed by his protege, the notvery-good court marshaled Paul Revere - but that’s another story. General Richard Montgomery died on December 31, 1775 by a fluke canon blast of grape shot above the Plains of Abraham leading an attack on the citadel in Quebec. The event occurred before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and his ghost may have even had something to do with inspiring the founding fathers to sign it. One of the first acts of congress was to

dedicate a General Montgomery monument to be placed at Independence Hall. Ben Franklin was assigned the task of creating the monument. On July 8, 1818, two hundred years ago, the body of General Montgomery returned down the Hudson River via boat, passing his estate where his wife fainted and arriving in New York City to a crowd of 5,000 people to await his burial beneath his monument now located at St. Paul’s Chapel. Learn more about this fascinating event at a talk by Frank Kieck in Mount St. Mary College’s Desmond Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, Balmville, on July 6 at 1:00pm. To register: 845-565-2076.

Lend Your Brain for “Out of Mind” A work in progress, Out of Mind is a science lecture and performance project that explores the neurophysiology of depression. Theatre artist Tannis Kowalchuk (see photo) lends her brain to Dr. Allison C. Waters, a neuroscientist and depression researcher, for an inquiry into how emotions are made in the mind and body. Waters and Kowalchuk unite in their disciplines to make scientific exploration accessible through the art of live performance. Incorporating data collected in laboratory experiments with Kowalchuk as the subject, this lecture invites audiences to witness the chafe and charm of attempting to merge divergent forms. Audiences are encouraged to celebrate their own lived experience - as an embodied brain - in states of sadness and

wonder. Community participation is essential to the final construction of this piece, which is scheduled to premiere in October 2018 at the Hurleyville Arts Centre. Allison C. Waters, PhD is a clinical neuroscientist. Her research involves emerging approaches to the measurement and modulation of brain electrophysiology for treatment of brain circuit pathology. Watch them “perform” the work in progress on July 26 at 7:30pm at NACL Theatre, 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake. Tickets: www.nacl.org and 845-557-0694. Kowalchuk and Waters are collecting recordings of people speaking about depression. If interested in participating, e-mail tanniskowalchuk@yahoo.com

Who Was Madame Lynch? War and are disproven. Nowadays, she Madame Lynch is a new spectacle is considered as a “National Heroine” with music that takes as its jumpingof Paraguay. off point the story of Eliza Lynch, Madame Lynch is concerned an Irish prostitute who, through fate primarily with Lynch’s other and machination, became de facto legacy: her doomed project of Empress of Paraguay in the midbringing European high culture 19th century. to the inhabitants of a country that Lynch was later reviled for her neither understood nor desired what supposed part in fomenting a war in which 90 percent of Paraguay’s male Eliza Lynch she had to offer. Director Normandy Sherwood population was killed. The most (1833-1886) created the play for NACL vilified woman in LatinTheatre’s Deep Space, American history, she was a performance residency dubbed as “an ambitious program for artists and courtesan” who seduced groups who make devised, the heir apparent of the original, or ensemble Government of Paraguay, performance. Francisco Solano López, supposedly turning him Juliana Francis Kelly as Madam Lynch See Madame Lynch on photo by Junenoire Mitchell July 27 at 7:30pm at NACL into a bloodthirsty dictator. However, all those accusations were part of Theatre, 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland a propaganda-warfare during the Paraguayan Lake. For tickets: www.nacl.org/box-office July 2018

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Warwick Festival: Music, Dance, Poetry The Scheuermann family once again opens up their farm welcoming friends and neighbors on July 28, from 6:00pm9:00pm to enjoy an evening of live music, dance performances and great company! SUNSET MUSIC! It’s the return of the Sunset Concert at Scheuermann Farms presented by the Warwick Summer Arts Festival! Kick off your shoes and shake it out in the lush lawn of Scheuermann Farms under the stars, nestled up against the cornfields with views of the black dirt vistas. The Sunset Concert series at Scheuermann Farms is family friendly fun for all ages and an arts festival favorite. Pack your picnic baskets. Bring blankets and chairs. Bask in the fresh country air. (The musical act is not available at press time.) SUNSET DANCING! The Warwick Dance Collective of the Warwick Center for the Performing Arts will perform in the freedom of the open air space of Scheuermann Farms leading the audience on a visual journey through their contemporary performance. Guests are welcome and encouraged to take to their feet and dance in the energy-filled moment.

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Suggested donations of $10 (per adult at the gate) support Warwick’s unique art and culture and maintaining and enjoying its beautiful farmland!

All ages welcome! POETRY SLAM! The annual Poetry Slam & Jam returns to the Beer Garden at Pennings Farm for a fourth year on July 18, 6:00pm-9:00pm. Rival poets will battle it out with words for the Poetry Slam title by performing poetry to the audience, who act as judges for the event. Contestants go head-to-head reciting poems through multiple rounds as they advance with hopes of being the last poet standing. Live musical entertainment will be provided by the ultra-cool mad-mixers of music DJ Skyhook & Professor Pete Drum Duo. The Poetry Slam & Jam is open to all ages, so bring the family! Farm to table appetizers and dinner, ice cream and craft beer, hard cider and wine are available to purchase. Email warwicksummerarts@gmail.com for entry details and contestant fee. Visit www.warwicksummerarts.com for information on Festival events which continue through August. See pages 3 and 5 for theatre & visual art events in July.

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Bethel Lakeside Music, Kauneonga Lake Bryan Gordon: Rock-Folk Guitarist Bryan Gordon has been writing and performing music for over thirty years. His songs portray stories of life’s everyday struggles and draw from various genres to create a blend of hook laden rock-folk that is uniquely his own. He has performed locally and internationally, from Ellenville to Belgium, Hurleyville to Denmark. In November of 2010, he released his first solo album, Heroes, Fools and Saints on Babyland Records. Joanna M. Gass: Jazz - Pop - Disco “I like to refer to myself as the last diva standing in what was formerly known as the Borscht Belt. During my tenure as the resident “girl singer” at the Nevele Hotel and Kutshers, I’d been blessed to share the stage with some of the greatest entertainers in show business history. Names such as Shecky Greene, Rita Moreno, Red Buttons, Tony Martin, Steve and Eydie, Robert Klein, and Alan King just to name (drop) a few. Working with, and worshiping at the feet of the show biz heroes I grew up watching on The Tonight Show, I paid attention and

learned my craft,” says Joanna M. Gass. Joanna performs locally with The Search and Rescue Orchestra. “I met Steve Schwartz [of the Rock Hill Ramblers] and his musicians at a Dutchess open mic. I have a tendency to drift from what we rehearse and there is a point in the evening where someone points to a page and says ‘that’s where she is’. So the name ‘Search and Rescue Orchestra’ is a reference to their ability to find where I am. I’m the one that needs searching and rescuing and these guys do it brilliantly!” Bethel Lakeside Music is a new free concert series with performances that take place Thursdays at 6:30pm through August 30 at Gazebo Park, 3562 Route 55 in Kauneonga Lake. Hear Bryan perform his version of folk rock music on July 12, and then head back to the park on July 19 to hear Joanna - along with two members of the Search and Rescue Orchestra: guitarist Steve Schwartz and bassist Kenny Windheim - perform an eclectic mix of jazz to pop to disco. See ad on page 24 for complete schedule.

Janet & Johnny Perform in Phillipsport Growing up in Cuyahoga keeps surprising his audiences Falls, Ohio (home to Chrissie with yet another unheard-ofHynde, Joe Walsh and Devo!), before gem. singer-songwriter and guitarist David d’Arcy plays bass, Janet Burgan started her guitars and organ. David is musical career as a singer, a stand up player, doesn’t sit trombonist and pianist. down... A northeastern Ohio native, Bobby d’Alessandro plays Janet brings a folk sensibility dobro, lap steel, pedal steel and to her music. Adding electric sings with a true blues voice bass, acoustic guitars and Cajun so gravely you can pave your rubboard to her instrument driveway with it! Janet Burgan arsenal, she has led several of The Phillipsport Community her own bands. Since Center presents going solo, she has their Monthly Music played at a variety Night series every of venues across the 3rd Saturday at United States, and 7:00pm. has shared the stage Next up for the with artists such as series: Janet Burgan Dwight Yoakam, and The Johnny The Johnny Jules Band Dave Alvin, Marcia Ball and Marshall Jules Band on July 21 at 7:00pm. Crenshaw to name a few. Take a friend (or three!) and head to the A Teaching Artist at Bethel Woods Center Phillipsport Community Center, located at for the Performing Arts, she is also Music 657 Red Hill Road, Phillipsport. Director for NACL Theatre Company in Doors open at 6:30pm, and homemade Highland Lake. food and desserts are available for purchase. Johnny Jules plays six- and twelve-string Suggested donation is $2 at the door. guitars and blues harp. Some say Johnny’s For additional information about haunting and soulful vocals will keep you Phillipsport’s Monthly Music Night series, enchanted all evening. How many songs can email chrisnapdragon@frontiernet.net or one man know? Hard to tell - but Johnny call 845-313-1772.

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Art & Antiques Show & Sale, Honesdale The Women’s Club of Honesdale enjoys serving their community. Members are from all walks of life - retirees, housewives, professionals, business owners and life-long volunteers. Many Club members have been part of The Women’s Club of Honesdale the organization for 50+ years. The show is held at the Wayne Highlands For the 56th year on the weekend of July 14 & 15, the Women’s Club of Honesdale is Middle School, 482 Grove Street, Honesdale, sponsoring a wide array of antique dealers PA, on July 14 from 10:00am-5:00pm and selling jewelry, silver, linens, cut glass, on July 15 from 10:00am-4:00pm. There will be slices of homemade pie primitives, fine porcelain, pottery, furniture and all types of unique collectibles. In available to purchase along with sandwiches, addition, regional artisans will be selling and quiche, hot dogs and assorted beverages. The Wayne County Hospital Auxiliary will once demonstrating their work. again be selling items at Attic Treasures On Saturday, Lyle Turner and the Salvation Army Ladore Camp (see photo) will be entertaining and Conference Center will be presenting with his player piano. On information about their facility. Saturday and Sunday Harry Admission is $6 or $5 per person with copy DeVries will be working at his of the June CANVAS ad or this page with a caning and Robert Lehmann copy of the story. All proceeds from this event will be on site to do repair work are used to support the Women’s Club of on any type of glass, old or new. Maggie Winchester from Winchester Honesdale scholarship program and donated Auction in South Sterling, PA will be back back to the community to local organizations. this year providing appraisal services; limit Visit www.womensclubofhonesdale.com or call 570-224-6240 for more information. five items at $5 per item.

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Side of the Road Theatre Company presents An American Classic by J. A. Di Bello The energetic, young Side of the Road Theatre Company is on the move. After opening the season with a neatly assembled, critically acclaimed presentation of Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon at Milford’s noted WaterWheel Café, this forward thinking group of thespians will present Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie on the stage of the historic Milford Theatre. Tennessee Williams is a symbol of the American Stage. And he as such, is afforded the space, intellectually, to explore and expose the affection and despondency of an Americana he imagines and presents through a series of memories. The memories are composed of four distinct characters and two acts. Unified they are his critically acclaimed “memory play,” The Glass Menagerie. The Side of the Road Theatre Company is bold and forward thinking, a characteristic obtained ironically, in this case, by looking back. Fortunately, this production is under the direction of a stage savvy and competent Beth Kelley, one acutely aware of the delicacies necessary to make this drama work. In that combo, add Evelyn Albino, who has been cast in the critical role of Amanda, a slight and tender person, from a time now past. Evelyn possesses the theatrical experience and ability to hold the stage for a presentation of a

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credible Amanda. Rounding out a competent cast are Trevor Nardone as Tom, Brooke Greening as Laura and David Camacho, veteran of the Cornerstone stage in Goshen, as the Gentleman Caller, Jim. Stage designs are the result of a very talented crew led by an oft’ noted Jacqueline Dion for lighting and sound, costumes by Dixie Rich of Designs Unlimited and hair and makeup by Lisa Diblasi of Alloy Salon. The Glass Menagerie was written during the war (WWII), and hit the Broadway stage in 1945. It left a lasting impression on theatre in America. Something had changed, and as Williams attempted to describe it: his The Glass Menagerie was a “memory play,” placing him in the front of a Broadway parade, drawing well-earned attention to his subsequent writings for stage, A Street Car Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, and of course, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. As a memory play there is a narrator in The Glass Menagerie, and in this drama a series of events are extracted from the past and brought to the attention of an

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assembled audience by Tom Wingfield. As the narrator, he is also in the play, as are his mother, Amanda, and his little sister, Laura. It is frequently suggested that the memories brought to the stage by Tom and his family are representative of brief snippets of Williams’ own past. The drama unfolds in the Wingfield’s living room, offering a personal yet binding intimate glimpse into a family’s love and affection, that is sadly dampened by a peculiar despondency, that seems to permeate their recollections. While sitting as an invited guest in the Wingfield’s living room, situated in a St. Louis, tenement, 1939, one’s interests and affections are easily absorbed into the collective plight of the Wingfields. Know this for certain, “Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details, others are exaggerated..., for memory is seated predominately in the heart.” (T.W.) Recognizing Tennessee Williams and his contributions to American Theatre is an understood purpose of the Side of the Road

Theatre Company. Barely five-years young it carries a contagious enthusiasm and sense of purpose not so readily seen in other theatrical organizations. Without being academic, it has this season recognized the genesis of American theatre, as is commonly known. It promotes, through excellence, live theatre with an identifiable belief in quality, purposeful entertainment. Performances are July 20-29 at the Milford Theatre, 114 E. Catharine Street. Tickets are available at the door and reservations can be made by calling 845-697-5337. Also, look for Side of the Road Theatre on Facebook. For dining options see WaterWheel and Apple Valley ads on page 14.

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I worked in theatre in NYC from 19591973, and every single person I ever met, thespian or not, who attended theatre performances in the 1940s, would all remark that the greatest single performance of the decade was Laurette Taylor’s “Amanda”. - Barry Plaxen

Believe It or Not, “It’s Only A Play” Sometimes the biggest Love! Valour! Compassion! laughs happen offstage! and Master Class, as well It’s the opening night as the Tony Award for Best of The Golden Egg on Book of a Musical for Kiss Broadway, and the wealthy of the Spider Woman and producer is throwing a lavish Ragtime. His other accolades party in her lavish Manhattan include an Emmy, two townhouse. Downstairs the Guggenheim Fellowships, celebrities are pouring in, four Drama Desk Awards, but the real action is upstairs Lt to rt: Eric Dohman, Lori Crescenzo, two Lucille Lortel Awards, where a group of insiders two Obies, and a citation Al Snider and Donna Polichetti. have staked themselves out in the producer’s from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. bedroom, waiting for the reviews to come He is also a recipient of the Dramatists Guild in. The camaraderie with which the evening Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the begins grows steadily bitchier - as the reviews Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. (all bad) come in, and those assembled seek In 2016, the Lotos Club honored McNally at desperately to pin the blame on each other! their annual State Dinner, which has previously A sidesplittingly funny play about show honored such luminaries as W.S. Gilbert and business and its often bizarre practitioners, Arthur Sullivan, George M. Cohan, Moss Hart, The Playhouse at Museum Village, Route Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 17M in Monroe, continues its 23rd season with Saul Bellow, and Arthur Miller. In addition to Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play, directed his awardwinning plays and musicals, he has by David Mossey, July 7-22. also written two operas, multiple screenplays, Playwright, librettist, and screenwriter teleplays, and a memoir. McNally has been described as “a probing and Tickets include dessert at intermission enduring dramatist” and “one of the greatest consisting of apple pie, ice cream, cheese, iced contemporary playwrights the theater world tea and coffee. Group rates are available and has yet produced.” reservations are suggested. He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Box Office: 845-294-9465.

Broadway’s Golden Age Females The beginning of the “Golden Age of Broadway Musicals” is not contested. It started with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma in 1943, advanced to greater heights in 1945 with their Carousel, and reached unprecedented success with their blockbuster South Pacific. South Pacific was widely, universally and popularly accepted as the favorite musical of 1948-49. But others will be happy to argue about that fact, and will choose Cole Porter’s Tony winner Kiss Me Kate as 1948-49’s “best” for many reasons. We’ll deal here with just one: the character of Kate vs. Laurie (Oklahoma) Julie (Carousel) and Nellie (South Pacific). Many people will state the Porter/ Sam & Bella Spewack ‘Kate’ is a more three-dimensional human being, going through a catharsis, an important dramatic device the three others do not experience, making the musical “finer” than its three Hammerstein predecessors. (Editor’s note: no one ever seems to credit 1941’s Lady in the Dark as the beginning of the Golden Age, but in that boundary-

breaking Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin/ Moss Hart musical, Moss Hart’s Liza also experiences a catharsis.) Onward to the end of the Golden Age. Was it 1966’s Mame? 1970’s The Rothschilds? 1974’s Mack and Mabel? Though not a given, many people will vote for 1976’s Annie either because of its very popular score and old-fashioned book, or for the fact that in 1975 A Chorus Line introduced a new era of musicals and Annie is simply our “goodbye” to the what-was-tobecome-outdated “book musical” of the Golden Age, and our “hello” to rock-influenced musicals (which began with 1968’s Your Own Thing) and the ever-increasing legacy of Steven Sondheim’s innovative and successful musicals. In any event, you can enjoy the sophisticated lyrics, superb melodies and outstanding book (by the Spewacks AND Shakespeare) of Kiss Me Kate (July 3-15) and the beloved story of Little Orphan Annie (July 17-29) at Forestburgh Playhouse, 39 Forestburgh Road. Visit www.fbplayhouse.org or call 845-794-1194 for tickets. See ad pg 29.

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