D & H CANVAS July 2014

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

July 2014

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Publisher’s Column

by Barry Plaxen “This exhibit is all about artist Caroline Prieur Schulz saying goodbye.”

Those are the words of sculptor Najim H. Chechen. He is speaking of an exhibit to be held at the Yellow Bird Gallery in Newburgh. The exhibit features artworks by his wife Caroline who passed on June 22.

Caroline is well-known from the U.S. to Italy to Iraq, and is highly respected locally and throughout in the greater NYC area where she taught for many years.

They co-founded The Hudson Valley Sculptors’ Society, and cast their own bronzes at their Mount Hope atelier, FineArts Studio, where, in Caroline’s words, “Images of vulnerability aim to awaken compassion in the viewer and to remind one of our humanity.

“Images of beings that have courage and strength remind us of the latent strength when we feel lost and stumble towards the light.”

Caroline was being cared for at the Kaplan Family Hospice Residence in Newburgh. Her last wish was to have a final exhibit, her way of saying goodbye. “I started working on it since

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last Friday (June 13),” said Hospice of Orange & Sullivan Counties Liaison, Janice Valentino.

It is being done in conjunction with the Orange County Arts Council, whose Executive Director, Dawn Ansbro, made the last minute arrangements with the Gallery.

Caroline: “Some of my compositions celebrate the dance and pulse of the human heart when it feels joy and bliss.

Sometimes my work expresses a lament of sorrow when there is need.”

The exhibit with Caroline’s drawings, paintings, pastels, sculptures and prints will be open on July 5 and 6 from 4:30pm to 7:30pm both days. Yellow Bird Gallery is at 19 Front Street.

(See page 18 for additional pictures.)

Caroline: “We are all unique little fires of light that can burn to shed light and warmth for others.”

Caroline’s flame will continue to burn as long as someone puts their hands together and immerses them in clay. As long as someone picks up a brush or pen and transforms a blank canvas into a work of art.

Our hearts reach out to Caroline’s and Najim’s family and friends all over the world.

(Many thanks to Najim, Janice Valentino and

Dawn Ansbro for creating the exhibit, and for their and sculptor Barbara Bonham’s assistance in getting information to us as we prepared to go to press.)

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“Take the Fifth” in Livingston Manor!

CAS Show & Spree

by Kate Hyden

“The Mail” by Seema Goldstein

This year on July 5 from 10:00am to 4:00pm in Livingston Manor, the third annual Artwalk/ Chalkwalk has more in-store artist displays on Main Street than ever before!

Of course we still have artists and artisans in niches and “cool-de-sacs” but if you want to beat the heat take a turn into the Catskill Art Society (CAS) to see Artists Untamed, a jury-selected group show, and watch Ann Higgins, CAS and North East Watercolor Society member craft a fine watercolor.

Right next door take a lunch break at Madison’s Restaurant and explore the mixed media art of Nina Zherg and be sure to stop at Morgan Outdoors to view Wendy Hollander’s famous floral artwork. Brandenburg Bakery will give you that extra spring in your step up Main to the Livingston Manor Library; grab a book, take the kids and learn some origami from 11-1pm. Also on display until July 31 is my exhibit, Seasons. And on

Check out photography by Gloria Wagenknecht!

Happy pint-sized picassos!

your way back, be sure to stop at Ed Lundquist’s Studio to see his latest multimedia artwork. Don’t just pass by Susan Pascale at Mountain Bear and Yolanda’s Interiors or you’ll miss some beautiful acrylics! Be sure to give a round of applause to our strolling troubador Karen Hudson!

The Catskill Mountain Keeper is hosting photographer Lance Verderame’s work and with a yard full of artists and artisans, Claire Coleman at the Plunk Shop has managed to produce two full rooms of a unique memorabilia installation called Chuck that you are sure to never forget!

Willow and Brown has the beautiful

watercolors of Valerie Taggart, Main Street Farm has Sus.Te.Nance, a group show curated

by Elizabeth Ennis of the Outsider’s Studio and RM Farm hosts Serial, works in various media by artists Joanna Hartell, Andrea Brown, and Elizabeth Ennis. Look for the masterful and local works of Donna Greenthal and Caroline Harrow, jewelry by Beti Horvath and specialties

by Deb Feld, lampshades by Kathie Fitzgerald.

The entire list and other info will be posted by July 1 at www.livingstonmanor.org. Of course we are handing out the maps again!

Would we forget the kids? NO WAY! Look for Chalkwalk and sign your pint-size Picasso’s work up for an Artist Certificate and our YouTube annual video.

Art in the windows, art in the shops and along Main Street...fingers-crossed for another beautiful day in the Manor!

Local artists from across the area explore all aspects of the year’s most exhilarating season - summer - through a diverse body of work for the 5th annual Summer Members Show by the Catskill Art Society (CAS).

The show runs from July 12 - August 10.

The opening reception is on July 12 from 4:00pm-6:00pm. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served.

CAS Benefit Shopping Spree CAS is clearing out their stock of fine designer clothes with a rack sale! Pick out any shelf items for $5 a bag with proceeds benefiting the nonprofit CAS Arts Center.

Clothes, purses, accessories, and more are yours for the taking as they make room for a whole new set of art and gifts!

CAS, 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor.

For information, call 845-436-4227.

SHOP & DINE LIVINGSTON MANOR & PARKSVILLE!

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GNSO: Summer Pops Concert 2014

The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (GNSO) free annual outdoor Summer Pops Concert continues with a program of American music in Newburgh’s Downing Park, An American Salute with guest conductor Richard Regan and everybody’s favorite “Mini Maestros!”

After opening with American Salute by Morton Gould, Reagan will lead GNSO in a performance of Symphonic Sketches by early 20th century composer George Chadwick.

George Whitefield Chadwick, along with Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, was a representative composer of what can be called the New England School of American composers of the late 19th century, the generation before Charles Ives.

Then come the stars of the day, the Mini Maestros.

After a lesson, all the children who want a turn at conducting are invited to the podium to lead a John Philip Sousa march called Washington Post.

In 1889, the owners of The Washington Post

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requested that Sousa, the leader of the U.S. Marine Band, compose a march for the newspaper’s essay contest awards ceremony. Sousa obliged; The Washington Post March was introduced at the ceremony on June 15, 1889, and it became quite popular. It led to a British journalist dubbing Sousa “The March King”. Sousa is honored in The Washington Post building for his contribution to the newspaper and his country.

The second half of the program begins with Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland, and concluding the afternoon is the GNSO’s traditional rendition of America’s “official” march, Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever.

Bring blankets or chairs to the beautiful park on July 26 at 4:00pm, take a chance on one of the baskets brimming with goodies, and enjoy an afternoon of light-hearted music.

In case of rain or extreme heat, the concert will be at Aquinas Hall, Mount Saint Mary College.

Call 845-913-7157.

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Opera: The Bad, The Ugly, The Good

Opera is an incredible art form requiring the simultaneous efforts and talents of dozens, and sometimes hundred, of people. The opportunity for misadventures is, in fact, unavoidable. Maestro Ron De Fesi (see photo) of Hudson Opera Theatre is set to detail a string of operatic nightmares (mostly of the side-splittingly laughable kind) that he has personally witnessed in his career or has gotten on good authority.

Disasters (the bad) and Near Disasters (the ugly) in Opera will be presented on July 10 at 1:00pm at the Desmond Campus of Mount St. Mary College.

Call for tickets: 845-565-2076.

De Fesi and some of his singing-actors will follow up with “the good” for The Mount’s On the Back Porch Music Series, an evening of well-known operatic Arias and Duets by local professional artists, interspersed with pithy commentary from De Fesi, on July 18 for which the Desmond grounds will open for picnicking at 6:00pm, one hour before the 7:00pm concert. Bring lawn chairs.

The beautiful outdoor setting overlooking the Hudson is at 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh.

Rain date is July 25.

Singer-Songwriter Pam Murphy is the coowner and music director of Walden’s Hudson Valley Conservatory of Fine Arts. Her catchy, up-beat tunes have been heard at many concerts and festivals in the Hudson Valley.

See Pam perform with The Hudson Valley Fine Arts Singers (see photo) for the 21st annual Liberty Festival and Parade on July 4 from 10:30am-4:00pm on Main Street.

Live music on the pavilion stage will also

include the Carl Richards Band with Mr. Phil plus Jeremy Langdale and Zerena Young, and specialguestappearances

by Mark-The-PolkaGuy throughout the day.

Sponsored by the Greater Liberty Chamber of Commerce, the Classic Car and Truck Show is back again, an art-picnic for all ages, and for the kids: games, bouncy houses and face painting!

Parade? check. Food? check. Fun? check!

For information and times: 845-292-9797.

Liberty Festival & Parade 2014

Downing Park Events

The first official calender day of summer - June Siena College, Dr. Eberle-McCarthy has many 21, saw the return of the Newburgh experiences in education, including Illuminated Festival with entertainment teaching in prisons and in the New and activities throughout the day Paltz language immersion program, culminating with a Beatles Tribute. supervising secondary education A Farmer’s Market begins on July students and teaching Spanish to 11 and runs Fridays through October, children as part of the MSMC program from 10:00am-3:00pm. for gifted children. All her life she has On July 19 the Downing Park been an advocate of civil rights, women Planning Committee will host its issues and fair housing. annual Fundraising Gala. This year Dr. Karen Eberle-McCarthy In recognition of Karen’s strong the group is honoring Karen McCarthy, retired involvement with the Hispanic community, the professor of Spanish at Mount St. Mary College, evening will feature a Latin theme which will be (MSMC) community activist and volunteer reflected in the food, music and decor. extraordinaire.

Tickets are $60 and can be obtained by calling Besides teaching at the university level at various 845-591-4977.

See page 4 for GNSO’s concert in the park. other colleges, including SUNY New Paltz and

Free Shakespeare in Goshen’s Park

Love is the central theme of As You Like It. It is a tale of love at first sight as seen in the lovestories of Rosalind and Orlando, Celia and Oliver, as well as Phebe and Ganymede. The love-story of Audrey and Touchstone is a parody of romantic love. Another form of love is between women, as in Rosalind and Celia’s deep bond.

Usurpation and Injustice is also a significant theme. The new Duke usurps his older brother, while Oliver parallels this behavior by treating his younger brother Orlando ungenerously.

Court life and country life: Most of the play is

a celebration of life in the country, compared with the perfumed, mannered life at court.

Forgiveness: The play ends happily with reconciliation and forgiveness, with rejoicing and merry-making.

Salesian Park in Goshen is the perfect outdoor place to witness the fun that takes place in Arden Forest. Cornerstone Theatre Arts will perform As You like It weekends, July 12-20 at 2:00pm, rain or shine under the big tent, sponsored by Goshen Public Library & Historical Society.

Admission is free. Bring lawn chairs.

Downing Helps SPCA

Every animal rescuer’s worst nightmare: a call that their shelter is on fire. This is what the Hudson Valley SPCA in New Windsor awoke to on March 23. A fire, sparked by a drier hose, took down a kennel building. Two dogs, Harley and Johnny, were lost. Five others suffered burns and smoke inhalation, and were taken to a local animal ER where they continue to undergo treatment.

More than 20 displaced dogs have been placed in emergency foster care. The SPCA needs help to pay the veterinary bills as well as rebuild their kennel.

The Downing Film Center is having a fundraiser for the Hudson Valley’s SPCA on July 5 & 6 at Noon and July 7 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm with the screening of Hachi: A Dog’s Tale.

The film, a true story, is based on the 1987 Japanese film Hachiko Monogatari. It stars Richard Gere as a college professor who finds an abandoned dog and takes the poor animal in. The film follows as man and animal form a strong and unexplainable bond. Joan Allen co-stars.

Sponsored by Brian & Sharon Burke and John & Barbara McDonald.

DowningFilmCenter,19FrontStreet,Newburgh.

For tickets, call 845-561-3686

Annie in Newburgh

Annie Warbucks is a musical sequel to the 1977 Tony Award-winning hit Annie, beginning immediately after Annie ends. It’s Christmas morning, 1933; Warbucks’ adoption of Annie seems complete, and a holiday celebration is underAlexandria Thurtle way. But the festivities are interrupted by New York City child welfare commissioner Harriet Doyle, who directs Daddy to get married within 60 days or it’s back to the orphanage for Annie.

Just Off Broadway, Inc., (JOB) is presenting Annie Warbucks from July 8-20.

Directed by Joyce A. Presutti, the iconic Annie Warbucks is played by Alexandria Thurtle with co-stars Jenna Rowen-Delson, Nick Karnavezos and Barbara Vultaggio. Music is directed by Billy Blair with M’Lanie Hunter in charge of choreography.

Alexandria Thurtle is an Orange County resident who is going into the 6th grade and has appeared locally in JOB’s productions of The Sound of Music and Seussical the Musical. She has also appeared in Oliver at the Westchester Broadway Theatre and has been seen on TV in Family Secrets and Celebrity Ghost Stories.

The Theatre is located at West Shore Station, 27 S. Water Street, Newburgh. All seats are reserved; no general seating. Tickets are available at the door, by visiting www.justoffbway.com, or by calling the box office at 845-565-3791.

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Newburgh Revives Its Last Saturdays Celebration

by Anna Lillian Moser

This summer will mark the return of Last Saturdays in the City of Newburgh, an arts festival showcasing the vibrant waterfront community.

Last Saturdays started in the early 2000s, with Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Beacon and Newburgh all participating, each hosting a Saturday. Michael Gabor, Newburgh resident and co-owner of Newburgh Arts Supply on Grand Street, was one of the main organizers of Newburgh’s first incarnation of the event.

Gabor recalled that he first got the idea for the day-long arts festival after reading an article stating that Poughkeepsie was going to promote third Saturdays as a day to bring together many of their arts-related events. Gabor already knew that Kingston had established first Saturdays and Beacon claimed second Saturdays. He immediately got on the phone with some of Newburgh’s local artists.

“I insisted that we claim Last Saturdays before any other Hudson Valley community got the same idea,” Gabor explained in a recent email. “Because we now had a name, we came up with the idea of showing and selling art on the riverfront on Last Saturdays and coordinating other arts-related events for that day. We called it River Art Walk” (which at first was curated by promoter Kippy Boyle, and then by photographer Tom Knieser.) “When the other communities got wind that we had

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claimed a Saturday there was beautiful waterfront, connecting an implied cooperation and we visitors and residents alike to started to cross-promote each nature. Having established her other’s events on non-competing business in the heart of the city, Saturdays. Linda Hubbard of Gervais said she felt a great pull RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon to give back; to get involved and recognized that cooperation and connect with the community. formed Art Along the Hudson to “There is so much creative more officially cross-promote energy here to really dig into, our arts events in these four and there’s so much potential,” Hudson Valley cities beyond Gervais said. “For creative our borders.” people like me and many others Unfortunately, though, Last that have come to this city, I Saturdays, eventually petered think they’re drawn here for out. Gabor said he and other the same reasons. They sense Lisa Gervais business owners were recently inspired to bring all of this creative life force that’s just waiting.”

Last Saturdays back after newer businesses Gervais calls herself “just the latest organizer” moved into the city. of Last Saturdays.

Taking over the helm as a one of the central “I decided to email everybody and say, hey, organizers is Lisa Gervais, owner of Healing we have enough people, we have the impetus Arts Studio at 75 Broadway. Gervais grew now. We can do it. We can gather and try Last up in nearby Marlboro, but eventually left the Saturdays again in a much bigger way because area. When she returned back to New York, she we have a lot more businesses here, does began renting 75 Broadway in late 2011. everybody want to do it? And we had a huge “I love it. I’ve always liked it, and I’ve had response.” a love affair with the building that I’m in for Last Saturdays officially launched on May 31 many, many years,” Gervais recalled. “I had in correlation with the opening of Newburgh been staring at the building since I was in high Urban Market. Events include art exhibits school, and every time I would come home I at the Ritz Theater and the neighboring Ann would ride by the building and find some excuse Street Gallery, as well as musical performances to look over here.” at The Wherehouse, and poetry readings Gervais said what she loves about Newburgh at Lisa’s Healing Arts Studio. Other venues is its architecture, and its diversity, as well as its include Factory Utopia, 188 Liberte, Teran

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Studio and Space Create.

One of the greatest challenges so far, Gervais said, has been marketing; making people, many of them new to the area, aware of the multitude of events and happenings. Because Last Saturdays is entirely run by volunteers, its success hinges on the businesses and artists themselves, and how much time and energy they can invest in promoting it. In the future, Gervais said, she’d like to pursue grant money.

She’s also lobbying area representatives to push for weekend (at least last saturday) ferry service between Newburgh and Beacon.

While the majority of Newburgh’s Last Saturdays’ events take place at the lower end of the city, close to the waterfront, Gervais would like to see Last Saturdays growing to point where there will be events all along the city’s main drag of Broadway. “Ultimately, for the community, we really need to marry the upper and lower parts of Broadway, and move the two places together, right?” she said. “Something has to happen to change the energy.” One idea, Gervais said, is using empty storefronts along Broadway as pop-up galleries for the weekend.

“I want to go that way with this project,” Gervais said. “That’s for the future because we want to do this every month. We don’t want to stop it.

This is not just for the summer months, so I’m going to keep pushing for that.”

For information visit www.facebook.com/ events/286436108201684/, or contact Gervais directly at 520-609-1866.

VCDC: “The Giving Tree”

Valley Contemporary Dance Company (VCDC) is a group of professional artists that collaborate to tell stories using various artistic mediums. VCDC combines athletic, contemporary dance with other mediums such as film, music and spoken word, incorporating local artists from Orange County communities.

Under the artistic direction of Paige Cummings, VCDC is comprised of a core principal company, apprentices, students, and several guest artists. VCDC shares a home with The Hudson Valley Conservatory of Fine Arts at The New Rose Theatre in Walden. “Together our working relationship helps build strong artistic careers for young adults and provides the community with professional productions in a variety of artistic genres.”

This season’s VCDC production of The Giving Tree will bring to life the well known children’s book by Shel Silverstein. All of the magical elements of this timeless children’s classic will come to life...leaves, branches, and apples will tell a tale of unconditional love through the eyes of the narrator played by Dee Tabitha Wright, VCDC’s Associate Director/Rehearsal Director.

The audience will see the boy grow from young boy (played by Gianfranco Pozzolini), to a boy who grows into manhood (played by Zak Kiernan) and sets out into the world to chase what he thinks he needs. He finds YL (played by Annika Bokor) and distances himself from Tree (played by Keely Wright).

With each return from the Boy, Tree gives all

of herself. Leaves (Sydney Amen), Branches (Veronica Hebbard), Apples (Claire Beebe), and Trunk (Brooke Byrnes) are given to build a life for Boy. The boy comes back, realizing that Unconditional Love is all one needs to truly be happy.

Additional cast: Sara Butler, Brianna Blair, Reagan Gordon.

This experience will have an original set with many surprises, an eclectic soundtrack spanning musical genres, and original artwork and projections to entertain all age groups.

See The Giving Tree on July 19 at 3:00pm & 7:00pm and July 20 at 5:00pm.

The New Rose Theatre, 35 East Main Street, Walden. For tickets: 845-778-2478.

Indian Raid Tour

On July 19, the Deerpark Museum Committee will hold its 4th annual Brant Raid Bus Tour. Members, dressed in period costume, will guide a tour along the route Mohawk Indian and British Loyalist, Joseph Brant, and his Tories took when they attacked settlements in our valley on July 20, 1779. Frank Salvati (see photo) will provide extensive background information about Joseph Brant.

The two-hour-or-so tour travels to Decker’s Stockade Fort, Solomon Davis Grist Mill, Black Rock School, Van Auken Fort, and Solomon Kuykendall Fort, locations that were attacked, and continues to Port Jervis where Brant burned the Maghagamach Church, Peter Kuykendall's Tavern and Fort Decker. Then a visit to the old Maghagamach Cemetery where Revolutionary War soldiers Martinus Decker and Simon Westfall are buried. The tour ends with a colonial period cooking demonstration at Fort Decker prepared by the Minisink Valley Historical Society.

Meet at the Sparrowbush Fire House, Main Street, Sparrowbush at 7:45am. There will be free coffee and snacks available before the bus leaves promptly at 8:00am.

Reservation forms are available at Deerpark Town Hall, the Town Museum, or at www. schoolhouse.org. Space is limited.

For info call 845-754-8070.

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Meet Loretta Swit: The Saint of The Forestburgh Playhouse Dismiss for a moment or two the current craze of speculating on the machinations associated with the economic impact of resorts and casinos. Just lean back and examine the appeal and attractiveness of New York’s Western Sullivan County, where there are eagles, rivers and forests. No lions or tigers, but there are the bears that call this place home.

The native Lenape called it home too, and it was irresistible for those who traveled “To the Mountains by Rail.” To this day, the beckoning call of a special place in the mountains remains fertile. The place: The Forestburgh Playhouse. The traveler: Ms. Loretta Swit, author, activist and actor, and if one’s to give credence to the proclamations of playwright Rupert Holmes, “The Saint of the Forestburgh Playhouse.”

Each summer, there appears to be an inner impulse, a call that summons Loretta Swit to the Miracle in the Forest, the Forestburgh Playhouse. For Ms. Swit this is not a “return” but merely a part of a larger picture that dominates her thinking and behaviors. She states emphatically, “It’s not so much of a return

as it is a recycling,” she said.

Loretta states further while discussing her two upcoming engagements at the Playhouse, “I don’t think of it as a return.

It’s like people coming here for the summer from the city. We just come back! That sounds like a return, but it’s not. The other part of your life continues and then we do the other part.

It’s coming full circle.”

Loretta, comfortably explains further, “The Forestburgh Playhouse, the people, are such a family to me. It’s like coming to be with family. That family began with Ron Nash; (then Artistic Supervisor of the Forestburgh Playhouse) he directed me and he is a most incredible, talented man; he even arranges for the travel. It was through Ron that I met Norman Duttweiler, (Producing Director), who until recently ran the playhouse.

I just love them both. They’re like brothers my guys.”

Without exploring the origins of Ms. Swit’s popularity via her assignment to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, better known as M*A*S*H, the extraordinary, multifaceted Loretta Swit is

best experienced up close and personal, that is live, in theatre.

And so it is with good fortune that Loretta Swit will appear this summer in two major musical productions at the Playhouse.

She has been cast as the lead, Mame Dennis, in Mame, (July 1-July 13) and will play the part Madam Mona in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (July 15-July 27). Mame and The Best Little Whorehouse... are two rollicking musicals, as each provides excellent opportunities to delight in and enjoy the many talents of Loretta. (See ad page 10.)

As mentioned, Rupert Holmes of The Mystery of Edwin Drood fame, was apparently comfortable teasing Loretta about certain parcels he found in her professional career. He once joyfully confronted her: “They’ll call you the Saint of the Forestburgh Playhouse. You keep coming back and doing fundraisers.”

Loretta’s reaction to Mr. Holmes’ comments and observations were swift and complementary. “At one point, Norman Duttweiler, asked if I would like to do a fundraiser. So, I did Shirley Valentine which

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Ron Nash had directed. It was successful and I like to think to some extent, it resulted in the revitalized restrooms, sometimes called Loretta’s Loos and air conditioning. I love the whole idea of that!”

Loretta spoke further, addressing the issue of her “Sainthood.” “Over the years you get to know your audience. I love to perform on stage but one of the joys of performing here is taking off the makeup, the wig and the whatever and going to the Cabaret. These are young people.

They are so talented. They are so delicious and the cabaret is dessert for me. After I have done my thing on stage to go and watch them do their thing in the Cabaret - it couldn’t be a more wonderful thing for me.”

With reference to those talents and that Valentine performance, Ms. Swit’s forte as an actress of note was abundantly clear. Valentine is a one-woman play about an oppressed, chatty, unattractive, middle-aged British housewife who (ready for this?) talks non-stop to the walls of her kitchen. For anyone who has ever been under the lights, the difficulty of mastering and delivering this play borders on the unthinkable. However, to hold the stage, i.e., the attention of an audience for more than continued on page 9

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two hours of masterfully created digressions is a theatrical wonder to behold.

It should be pointed out that Swit’s portrayal of Shirley earned her the theatrical honor of Chicago’s prestigious Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement. It is perhaps here that one can discover the Forestburgh connection. Interestingly, Loretta Swit credits her director at that time, Ron Nash, for bringing a “fresh approach” to this depiction.

Recalling the circumstances she commented, “Of course, part of your challenge doing theatre is keeping it fresh...that’s the joy of it. For someone in the audience seeing it for the first time, you are having that experience with them and that’s exciting for an actor in the theatre. When you have a good script and a great character like this, you can keep finding nuances and moments so it is easier to keep it fresh and alive.”

The most significant portion of this conversation with Loretta Swit is her sincerity and dedication to theatre as an essential art form and of course her association with Forestburgh Playhouse. She’s an individual who has given a vast portion of her emotion, heart and talent to the Playhouse.

And as has been the experience of others who have traveled this road in the forest, she’s discovered that Forestburgh is family and you can go home again!

Ghost Tours in Monroe

Many stories have been shared over the years about ghosts at Museum Village. They have been witnessed by many of the staff. Laughter has been heard in the School House, lights have been seen going on and off in buildings; a little girl has been running across the green; and founder Roscoe Smith has been heard and seen in the Visitors’ Center.

To share these experiences with both the believers and the doubters, Museum Village will be hosting monthly Ghost Tours through September.

Tours begin in the Visitors’ Center with a video shown from Visual Paranormal’s visit to Museum Village in October, 2012 when several curious instances were documented.

Ellen will be your tour guide. The tour is limited to 13 adventurous souls and the next one takes place on July 19 at 8:00pm at 1010 Route 17M in Monroe. Hot and cold tea and cookies will be served. Tickets must be purchased in advance: 845-782-8247 ext. 1.

Ghost Hunting at The Old Stone House

Since 1977, The Old Stone House in Hasbrouck has been the site of classes in art, ballet and pottery, and monthly exhibitions of paintings and sculpture.

The historic building was the site of the 1840 murder of local politician Anthony Hasbrouck. Some say his lingering specter, even today, is responsible for the strange sounds, odd drafts of wind, and eerie glows of light on dark nights in and around the house.

A team of trained ghost-hunters will search for wayward spirits and unhappy spooks (and Mr. Hasbrouck, too). “It’s a really historic building,” says Alana Sherman, who heads the group running the venue, “and sometimes weird things do happen in old places even without the presence of ghosts. But, in just a little while, we may know more.”

The Old Stone House was originally constructed in the 1700s, back when the largely forgotten French and Indian War raged throughout the Catskills, and since then has undergone numerous renovations and additions. Over the decades, it served as a boarding house, restaurant, creamery, post office and school. That wide range of activities, says Ms. Sherman, “opens a thousand opportunities for ghosts to linger behind, and sometimes make themselves known in modern times.”

The Old Stone House 100 years ago in an antique postcard. Do 19th Century ghosts still visit today?

At a recent public meeting, supporters agreed that the question of other-worldly activity should be explored. A team of experts from NYS Tri-County Paranormal, one of nearly 2,700 similar groups nationwide, offered to look into the various tales.

Special monitoring equipment was set up on the evening of June 21, designed to “catch” signs of the spirit realm even if they appear for just a fleeting moment. Both visible and audible traces were sought with full-spectrum recordings maintained for detailed study.

The analysis is complete, and the results are in. Find out at the July 31, 7:00pm gathering at the building, with or without any ghosts in attendance!

The Old Stone House is located at 282 Hasbrouck Road, Hasbrouck.

For information, call 845-436-7720.

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Free Outdoor Summer Concert Series 2014

Chiku Awali African Dance

Montgomery One of the most impressive rosters of free concerts is produced by Aquanetta Wright, a/k/a the Ferry Godmother. In July and August she holds the Newburgh Jazz Series on Wednesdays at 6:00pm in the Arboretum, (which is, arguably, the most beautiful local outdoor concert venue), off of Route 416 and Grove Street in Montgomery.

The 2014 concerts begin on July 2 with Rockland County’s Chiku Awali African Dance, a popular group that has opened for Ferry Godmother since 2008, and the Obi Kayes Tribal Caravan (world beat, global & jazz percussion).

On July 9 the series features the Rebecca Coupe Franks Quartet. Rebecca is a talented trumpet player and composer. After receiving her BFA in Jazz studies at the New School in New York City, she pursued her graduate work in Composition at NYU. Coupe continues to live in New York City playing at jazz festivals,

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The Rebecca Coupe Franks Quartet

recording and touring with different bands around the world.

Hot dogs and bottled water are available. Be sure to bring a chair or blanket! See ad page 11 for full roster.

The Tuesdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm Orange County Pop, Rock & Doowop series, also at the Arboretum, begins July 1 with musical acts, The Walker Valley Marching Band, This Year’s Apologies, and Collage & Company.

See August CANVAS for information about the Ferry Godmother’s Newburgh Jazz Go Round series.

Sugar Loaf Bertoni Gallery is hosting its 10th Annual Sundays in July Free Music & Poetry Festival with over a dozen performers in the Bertoni Gallery Sculpture Garden at 1392 Kings Highway, beginning July 6 from 1:00pm5:00pm. Bring your dancing feet, a chair, a blanket. On July 13 at 4:00pm there will be a

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The Walker Valley Marching Band

Drum Circle hosted by Renee Connelly of Subtle Energies. July 27 is the 7th Annual Bill Perry Day and the presentation of the Music For Humanity Bill Perry Scholarship award to a local music student.

To see the full schedule of performances and times, visit www.bertonigallery.com For information, call 845-469-0993.

Walden Bring your family, a picnic dinner, and some lawn chairs for a nice night out at The Music in the Grove Summer Concerts series in Walden.

All concerts are free and feature a variety of musical performances thanks to the hard work and dedication of the Music in the Grove committee members of the Walden Community Council.

The Pine Bush Community Band (PBCB) opens the festive series on July 7.

All Music in the Grove performances start at 6:30pm. Concerts are held at the Walden

Fred Scribner & LaurieAnne © John Rocklin

Rotary Rail Trail Theater at Wooster Memorial Grove, Route 52 (East Main Street). In case of rain, concerts will be held indoors in the John Howland Teen Center at the same location.

Check out CANVAS’ Music-Band calendar on page 14 for the PBCB’s free concerts in Montgomery and Pine Bush.

Middletown Middletown’s midweek outdoor series takes place in the pocket park adjacent to Something Sweet, an area restaurant specializing in desserts, a few steps north of the corner of North and Main Streets. Curator Darryl Wilbur has scheduled an impressive variety of genres for the Thursdays, 6:00pm-8:00pm series.

New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Fred Scribner, former member of the Levon Helm Band and house band for Imus in the Morning on MSNBC, will be performing with LaurieAnne covering classic rock tunes, blues and country.

Free Outdoor Summer Concert Series 2014

The Jeremy Langdale Band

Donna Singer & The Doug Richards Trio

LaurieAnne’s pure vocals infused with contemporary pop and originals over Scribner’s blues, rock and americana, make up Midnight Slim Revival. They perform in the pocket park on July 10.

The series runs thru August 28. Bring chairs!

And don’t forget the City of Middletown’s Friday night series in Festival Square at 7:00pm.

Plenty of parking in the City lot. Bring chairs.

prisoners taken” kind of groove!

The concerts, on Thursdays from 6:30pm8:30pm, are free to the public. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, picnic baskets, family and friends.

Refreshments will be available on site.

Sugar Loaf Crossing is located on the crossing of the railroad tracks over Kings Highway.

For information call 845-469-2713 or visit facebook.com/onthelawnatsugarloafcrossing

Sugar Loaf Warm nights, hot bands, and cool concerts!

The 10th annual On the Lawn Free Summer Concerts series at Sugar Loaf Crossing begins July 10 with a performance by The Jeremy Langdale Band.

The Jeremy Langdale Band has been making music around the Hudson Valley for a few years, playing venues with a fine-tuned, tried and true selection of blues, funk, soul and R&B. They hope you’ll come out and get a taste of their “earth quakin’, bootie shakin’, baby makin’, no

Pine Bush The Pine Bush Area Arts Council (PBAAC) weekly Friday night summer concert series begins July 11.

Jazz vocalist Donna Singer is a graduate of the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, and has had formal training at the Juilliard School. She is on hundreds of radio stations world wide, as well as internet stations Pandora, Live365Radio, M3Radio.com, Soundcloud, ReverbNation and CDBaby.

As the The Doug Richards Trio, bassist Doug

Funky Town Playground

Richards, pianist Billy Alfred, and drummer Mike Cervone combine their extraordinary years of experience and create some of the most exciting virtuosic jazz to be heard today.

Donna and the trio will be performing on July 25. All concerts take place at The Gazebo behind 65 Main Street beginning at 7:00pm, and the series runs until September 5. Bring lawn chairs.

For the complete schedule: 845-744-5418.

Greenwood Lake “Nicest venue any of us have ever played. A beautiful sunset beside a beautiful lake with a mountain backdrop,” says New York Hitmen’s Vince Warren when he performed for the Greenwood Lake Summer Concert Series last year at the Thomas Moran Waterfront Park.

This year, the series, which runs on various days through August 30, has something special for the kids. Funky Town Playground (FTP) performs on July 17 at 7:00pm.

Emish

Visit www.villageofgreenwoodlake.com for calendar and full schedule.

Warwick Everyone is invited to enjoy free summer concerts at Railroad Green in downtown Warwick on Saturdays, beginning July 19.

Emish have forged their own Americana folk rock sound by colliding a background of Irish, rock, and folk influences. This independent band initially found success in a grassroots manner.

Supported by their local and dedicated fan base, Emish has repeatedly been voted “Best Band of the Hudson Valley”. Since it’s inception in 2005, the group has grown to include support from the national stage as well.

See them perform on July 26 at 6:00pm along with the Warwick Valley High School Guitar Club! Bring chairs or blankets.

See www.warwickinfo.net for full line-up.

Many municipalities offer free summer concerts. Check with your local town office.

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Spotlight On Sugar Loaf Guild Imagine This make everything An art gallery, antique store, and gift & furniture from scarves and shop, all rolled into one. Where is this, you ask? purses to stuffed At Debbe Cushman Femiak’s Imagine This. animals. I am Imagine This opened its doors in April, 2014 trying to create a in Sugar Loaf. When asked what the shop offers, new series of baby Debbe said, “It’s an assortment of different, mostly items, like blankets, handmade crafts by a family.” sweaters, li’l hats “My business partner (and future daughter- and sets. in-law) Carrie Wood’s father, James Wood “I also make a.k.a. James Wood Works, creates furniture and things out of plastic sculpture from old, discarded (or old, bought) grocery bags. I cut items. He restructures the old piece into a new, the plastic into strips different piece. He once found an old hospital and crochet with it, stretcher and actually made a coffee table out of it! weave the plastic in.

Old doors into cabinets, tree trunks into sculpture, I make purses, rugs, Carrie & Debbe stand next to one of James’ sculptures and he manages to keep that rustic, vintage look placemats, and little in front of their Sugar Loaf shop, “Imagine This” to the pieces, too. baskets.”

“An aunt of Carrie’s used to own an antique When asked what she thought made the shop shop, so we have antiques for sale. Everything special or unique, “Recycling. We call the shop, from plates to cups and saucers...Carrie herself ‘Imagine This’ for a good reason. We use our creates jewelry, tye dyed t-shirts, collective imagination when and all things crafty. She’s our taking old, used items to create publicist, too. I call her our ‘social cool, new items. We’re constantly media guru.’ She takes photos of creating and always trying to our items, and builds all of our branch out! We’d also like to social network pages. offer painting and craft classes “And me? well, I have closer to winter,” concluded paintings for sale, of course, (see Some of Debbe’s yarn work Debbe. page 29 for Debbe’s July exhibit at the Wallkill Imagine This is open Fri-Sun, Noon-5:00pm, River School) and I love yarn work. I’ve been at 1392A Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf. knitting and crocheting since I was a teenager. I For more information, call 845-469-2747.

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Goshen’s Great American Weekend 2014

The Great American is not only the Orange Weekend (GAW) in County seat, it’s also the Goshen has an interesting site of the Great American history as to how it all began.

Weekend, arguably the It all started as an idea for Hudson Valley’s liveliest the business community Fourth of July celebration. to come together and help Twenty thousand people save the Historic Racing a day will stroll through Track. When betting was the nine-acre village green forbidden at the races in that surrounds the First the late 70s and early 80s, Presbyterian Church, the entire community went inspecting the offerings at into a panic about what 150 craft booths, grazing would happen to Grand Goshen’s “Great American Weekend” draws their way through a Circuit Racing - what would 20,000 visitors to Goshen every year! culinary snackopedia, and happen to the crowds that used to come to Goshen clapping approval for local entertainers.” and support the entire business community.

GAW may only occur on one weekend out The horsemen rallied to keep Grand Circuit of the year, but it takes months of planning. racing in Goshen, the community rallied to keep The success of the event would not be possible the track as a viable venue for other activities without the partnership of the Village and Town throughout the year besides the July races and of Goshen, First Presbyterian Church, downtown the Chamber of Commerce rallied to create a merchants, the vendors, volunteers, performers family-friendly event that would attract new and all of the people who decide on Goshen as crowds, besides the traditional horse racing fans their destination for the weekend. who followed Grand Circuit racing around the The event will be on July 5 (9:00am-5:00pm) country. & July 6 (10:00am-5:00pm) rain or shine, and What began as a hot dog push cart that followed boasts antiques, crafters, food, children’s rides, a any gathering of people around town has evolved 5k/10k race, live entertainment, walking tours of into a showcase for 150+ vendors, non-profit historic monuments, a car show, and much more. organizations and entertainers that draws close to Celebrate 33 years of great American weekends!

20,000 visitors to Goshen.

For further information call 845-294-7741.

The Great American Weekend event is sponsored by the Ted Spiegel described the event in a June 2005 article in Hudson Valley Magazine. “Goshen Goshen Chamber of Commerce and the Village of Goshen.

Margoshes’ “American Parade”

Orchestra, was transcribed for Fame-ous composer Steve Concert Band by West Point’s Margoshes’ American Parade, Sgt. Maj. Douglas Richard. consists of four short pieces The Band, led by Col. Jim depicting St. Patrick’s Day, Keene, has recently recorded the Thanksgiving Day, Memorial suite. The recording was filmed Day, & Independence Day. It (as will be the live performance) took inspiration from the flag for an upcoming television paintings of Frederick Childe presentation, July 4th Forever, Hassam (1859-1935), a prolific sponsored by David De Silva’s American Impressionist painter, Father Fame Foundation. noted for his urban and coastal The Greater Newburgh scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt Symphony Orchestra and and John Henry Twachtman, violinist Nicholas Szucs have Hassam was instrumental in performed Margoshes’ A New promulgating Impressionism to Hungarian Rhapsody, the Orange American collectors, dealers, and County Classical Choral Society museums.

The most distinctive and “The Avenue in the Rain”, 1917 has performed his Musicians of famous works of Hassam’s later oil on canvas, The White House the Sun, and Elex Vann has sung his I Have A Dream cantata twice in life compose the set of about thirty Newburgh. paintings known as the “Flag series”.

Now, as part of the West Point He began these in 1916 when he was Band’s 2014 July 4th outdoor concert, inspired by a “Preparedness Parade”, they will perform American Parade’s for the American involvement in first movement Independence Day on World War I, which was held in New July 4 at 8:00pm (Rain date July 6) York (renamed the “Avenue of the at Trophy Point Amphitheater with Allies” during the Liberty Loan Drives its spectacular view of the Hudson of 1918). Thousands participated in these parades, which often lasted for Steve Margoshes River.

Free and open to the public, Steve says, over twelve hours. Several of his flag pictures were contributed to the war relief in exchange “bring a picnic - Fireworks, too! This is a very popular event. People make a day of it, so plan for Liberty Bonds.

Margoshes’ piece, originally composed for to come early and stake out a spot!”

Mandolin Orange Perform at Seligmann

several other kind people have called it ‘angelic,’ and numerous unkind people have chosen other terms.”

The concert will be held on July 9 at 7:30pm, outdoors on the pond-side of The Seligmann Center, weather permitting. In case of rain, the concert will be held in Seligmann’s Studio.

The Seligmann Center, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf.

For tickets call 845-469-9459.

Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz a.k.a.

Mandolin Orange began playing together in 2009 after meeting at a local jam in Chapel Hill, NC. Since that time, they’ve released four albums. Twain of Brooklyn will open the show for their Seligmann Center performance.

Twain is the music of Mt Davidson, who has been writing and singing songs for a decade. He told CANVAS, “One kind person described my voice as ‘mercurial,’

Hemlock Farms Artists: Gala 2014

Fine art, live music, and light fare are what Exhibition 2014 at the Gallery at Chant Realtors offers from July 1-August 29.

The Gala Summer Annual Art Show celebrates the original and diverse paintings and drawings by Hemlock Farms artists. Meet the artists on July 4 from 5:00pm8:00pm at the opening reception.

Joan Polishook, exhibiting artist and curator for the show, told CANVAS, “The JulyAugust show is a gala affair;

The Artist & The Model

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it’s our annual beginning-ofthe-season event. There will be a variety of styles and different subject matter, as this is an open exhibition. We are celebrating the unique, creative talents of Hemlock Farms artists. Hemlock Farms resident, Ben Gendelman, will be entertaining guests at the opening reception with his beautiful guitar playing.

All are welcome!”

The Gallery at Chant is located at 631 Pennsylvania 739, Lords Valley.

Call 570-775-7337.

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Music - blues / country/ folk / pop / rock/ Latin sponsored by Steve’s Music Center, Rock Hill

Open Mic & in-house music

Some listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Maglione ���� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Open Mic w/Bryan & Erin Keegan ������������Brian’s Backyard Barbecue, Middletown, Tues & Weds Senior Express Band ������������� Mulberry House Senior Center, Middletown, Wednesdays, 1pm-3pm Open Mic w/Joe Frazita or Steve Wells �������������������������Blarney Stone, Warwick, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic w/Bob Keegan ����������������������������Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor, Wednesdays, 8:30pm Open Mic w/Eric Callari ������������������������������������������������� Eddie’s Restaurant, Warwick, Wednesdays Open Mic ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Mountaindale Inn, Wednesdays, 8pm Open Mic �������������������������������������������������������������������������������Tuscan Cafe, Warwick, Thursdays, 7pm Open Mic w/Jack Higgins ����������������� Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 3, 7pm-10pm Open Mic “Out Loud Performance Party” poetry & music � Port Jervis Community Ctr, Jun 27, 7pm Karaoke w/live band ��������������������������������������Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor, Thursdays, 8:30pm Karaoke w/Bill Braine �����������������������������������������2Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 3rd Saturday, 8pm Marilyn Kennedy vocal & Jake Lentz piano �������La Piazzetta, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm Marilyn Kennedy vocal & Jake Lentz piano ���������� Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays, 6pm-9pm Musician’s Gathering w/Stacy Cohen ������������������ Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ����������������� Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Beki Brindle-Scala blues, acoustic ��������������������������Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, Jul 3, 7pm-9pm Big Time Tomato ������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 5, 7pm-10pm Longchamp & Manzo ��������������� Palaia Vineyards Outdoors. Highland Mills, Jul 6, 2:30pm-5:30pm “Pre-Beatles” Evan Teatum & Eddie ������������ Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jul 11, 7pm-10pm Jeff Lackey acoustic �����������������������������������������������Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, Jul 27, 7pm-9pm Beatles Festival Woodbury PBA Benefit ������������������Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Jul 12, Noon-10pm Evan & Lesley ������������������������� Palaia Vineyards Outdoors. Highland Mills, Jul 13, 2:30pm-5:30pm Josh Casano �������������������������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jul 18, 7:30pm-10:30pm Leo B ���������������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards Outdoors. Highland Mills, Jul 20, 2:30pm-5:30pm Al Westphal & “No Soap Radio” ���������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jul 25, 7:30pm-10:30pm Rob Schiff �������������������������������� Palaia Vineyards Outdoors. Highland Mills, Jul 27, 2:30pm-5:30pm

Lectures / demos / master classes sponsored by SUNY Orange & Mount St. Mary College

MSM-DC ����������������������������������������������������� Mount St. Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh NVM ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville PEEC ���������������������������������������������������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry STORM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Storm King Art Center, Mountainville Listings below are not included in our centerspread calendar.

lectures & Nature Walks

“Disasters and Near Disasters in Opera” Ron DeFesi ������������������������������������� MSM-DC Jul 10, 1pm Scott Frieman: Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper ����������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Jul 11, 5pm Artifact Tour ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Grey Towers, Milford, Jul 12, 11:30am “Frog Frolic” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Jul 12, 1pm “Tramping Along the Neversink River” LaVerne Black ��������DP Library, Grahamsville, Jul 12, 2pm Moonlit WalkingTour ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� STORM Jul 12, 8pm “Frog Frenzy” ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Jul 13, 10am ”Solar Energy” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Jul 14, 7pm “Asteroids & Near-Earth Objects and Why We Should be Concerned” ��MSM-DC Jul 14, 1:30pm “Heart Health & How to Keep Yours Healthy” ����������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Jul 16, 1pm “Methods for Breaking through Brick Walls” ������������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Jul 17, 1pm Music Talks “An Evening with Shulamit Ran” ��������� Catskill Distilling Co., Bethel, Jul 17, 7:30pm “Wanderings & Wonderings” Katarina Jerinic ������������������������������������������������� STORM Jul 19, 3pm “Nature at Night” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ PEEC Jul 19, 8pm “Barns of the Hudson Valley” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Jul 21, 1pm “In favor of the Old, the Revival of Elderhood in the 21st Century” ������������ MSM-DC Jul 22, 1pm Music Talks “Finding Common Groud” ����������������� North Branch Inn, North Branch, Jul 24, 7:30pm “Walk Edibles Walk” �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������PEEC Jul 26, 10am “Butterfly Walk” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PEEC Jul 27, 1pm “Hearing Health Seminar” �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� MSM-DC Jul 29,10am

demos - Open rehearsals

Woodcarving ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������MSM-DC, Jul 9, 6:30pm Weekend of Chamber Music Open Rehearsal ���Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville, Jul 25, 7pm FREE “Capturing the Motion of Water through Pastels & Oils” J.Kehlenbeck ���SUNYO-OH Jul 27, 1pm-4pm

Master Classes

Susan Seligman & Marka Young cello & violin ��������������������������������� MISU, Ellenville, Jul 2, 2pm

books - Discussions/Readings /siGNings

Book Lover’s Club ��������������������������������������������������������Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Book Discussion Group ����������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4:00pm “The Good House” by Ann Leary ���������������������������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Jul 2, 7pm Rev. Betty A. Beach “Embracing the Call” ������������������Bloomingburg Cultural Center, Jul 6, 10am Book Talk Cafe ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Jul 10, 7pm Nick Zungoli “Cuba - Forbidden Fruit” ���������������������� Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jul 12, 7pm “Sweet Salt Air” by Barbara Delinsky �����������������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Jul 24, 7pm Great Books Discussion ������������������������������������������������������������� Newburgh Library, Jul 25, 11:30am

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Concerts

Fridays at the Dead End jazz, country, blues, folk, etc. Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Fridays 7:30pm Walker Valley Marching Band, This Year’s Apologies, Collage & Company �������������������������������� Orange County Pop, Rock & Doowop Series Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 1, 6:30pm FREE Chiku Awali African Dance & Obi Kaye Tribal Caravan global/world beat & jazz ����������������������� Newburgh Jazz Series Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 2, 6:30pm FREE Burnell Pines ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 2, 7pm Strings Attached acoustic folk ��������������Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jul 3, 6pm FREE The Free Shrimp Band �������������������������������������������� Railroad Green, Warwick, Jul 3, 7:30pm FREE Palaia Palooza multiple bands ��Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 4, 2pm-6pm FREE West Point Band “Salute to the States” Marches, R&R ��� Trophy Point Amph., Jul 4, 7:30pm FREE Split Bill! Ben Fields & Adrien Reju ������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 5, 7pm Crosby, Stills & Nash �����������������������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Jul 5, 7:30pm Alexis P. Suter’s Minister of Sound gospel, blues ��������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 6, 10am-2pm Paul Cataldo Americana ������������������������������������������������������ Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jul 6, 8pm Roosevelt Dime roots ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Towne Crier, Beacon, Jul 6, 8pm The Outer Limitz Band ������������������������������������������� Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 8, 6:30pm FREE Harrison Whitford, Alyssa Bonagura & Rebecca Correia ���������������North Branch Inn, Jul 8, 8pm & Catskill Distilling Company, Bethel, Jul 9, 8pm Vaneese Thomas soul, blues �����������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 9, 7pm Mandolin Orange with Twain folk ���������������������������� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 9, 7:30pm Midnight Slim blues-rock-country �����Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jul 10, 6pm FREE The Oxford Station Band ���������������������������������� Pine Bush Gazebo, Main Street, Jul 11, 7pm FREE Sonanado! Latin ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 11,.7pm Jenna Esposito American songbook ���������������������� Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 11, 7pm FREE Steve Agostini acoustic ��������������Seven Freedoms Music Center, Salisbury Mills, Jul 12, 2pm FREE The Big Takeover roots, reggae ���������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 12, 7pm Peter Frampton & The Doobie Brothers & Michael Curry ������������Bethel Woods, Jul 12, 7:30pm Samite of Uganda “The Healing Power of Music” �������������������������Milford Theater, Jul 12, 7:30pm The Judith Tulloch Band ���������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 13, 10am-2pm Jack Tannehill, Midnight Slim ������������������������������������ Ann Street Park, Milford, Jul 13, 1pm FREE Memories of You ������������������������������������������������������ Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 15, 6:30pm FREE Judith Tulloch Band jazz, rock NewburghJazzSeries Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 16, 6:30pm FREE David Bromberg & Larry Campbell roots ���������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 16 & Jul 17, 7pm Emish Celtic-American �����������������������Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jul 17, 6pm FREE Funkytown Playground �������������������������������� Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, Jul 17, 7pm FREE Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band �����������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Jul 17, 8pm The Jeremy Langdale Band rock, fund, r&b ������� Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 18, 7pm FREE The Feds ���������������������������������������������������������������������Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 19, 6:30pm FREE Chris Bergson Band, Defunct Radio Circus blues, rock ������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 19,7pm Jermaine Paul �����������������������������������Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 19, 7pm-10pm New York Hitmen ������������������������������������������ Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, Jul 19, 7pm FREE Big Funk ������������������������������������������������������������������ Railroad Green, Warwick, Jul 19, 7:30pm FREE Big Joe Fitz & the Lo Fis jazz, funk, soul �������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 20, 10am-2pm The Baseball Project & Happiness ������������������� Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, Jul 20, 2pm Johnny Rawls �������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 20, 7pm “An Evening with James Taylor” ������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Jul 20, 8pm Dayna Jurtz Monday Night Residency �������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 21 & Jul 28,7pm Jeff Philips & Tru Blu ��������������������������������������������� Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 22, 6:30pm FREE Scott Test folk ��������������������������������������Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jul 24, 6pm FREE The Greyhounds 50s r&r ��������������������������������������� Festival Square, Middletown, Jul 25, 7pm FREE Tom Freund + Friends ������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 25,7pm Warwick HS Guitar Club & Emish �������������������������� Railroad Green, Warwick, Jul 26, 6pm FREE “Anything Mose” the Mose Allison Project w/Richard Julian The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 26, 7pm “Rick Larromore IS Rod Stewart” Palaia Vineyards Outdoors, Highland Mills, Jul 26, 7pm-10pm Patrick Parone Salutes Elvis ������������������� Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, Jul 26, 7:30pm FREE Kenny Rogers w/Hudson Valley Philharmonic ��������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Jul 26, 8pm Dan Engvalsen, Paradyme Void ��������������������������������� Ann Street Park, Milford, Jul 27, 1pm FREE Toby Keith w/Colt Ford & Krystal Keith �����������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Jul 27, 7pm John Cleary “Direct from New Orleans” ����������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 27. 7pm Fat City �������������������������������������������������������������������� Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 29, 6:30pm FREE Living with Elephants, Liana Gabel ������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 30, 7pm Ray Longchamp, Vinnie Mazzo ���������Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, Jul 31, 6pm FREE Gina Siciliam, Jim Hayes ������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 31, 7pm Rawson rock & funk ����������������������������������������������� Festival Square, Middletown, Aug 1, 7pm FREE The Mustangs ����������������������������������������������������� Pine Bush Gazebo, Main Street, Aug 1, 7pm FREE The Temptations & The Four Tops doo-wop �������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 1, 7:30pm Some Guys and A Broad �������������������������� Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, Aug 1, 7:30pm FREE Lionel Richie w/Ceelo Green ���������������������������������������������������������������Bethel Woods, Aug 2, 7:30pm Latin Nite ���������������������������������������������������������������� Railroad Green, Warwick, Aug 2, 7:30pm FREE

museums

Terwilliger House Museum ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Ellenville, ongoing Sculpture Exhibit ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Dia: Beacon, ongoing Sullivan County History Exhibits ����������������������������Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing 19th Century Rural Living ����������������������������������������������������������� Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing Hill-Hold Museum, Brick House Museum, Firefighter’s Museum ���������������Montgomery, ongoing “America Meets the Beatles!” ������������������������������������������������Museum at Bethel Woods, thru Aug 17 “The Adams Family” ������������������������������������Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Aug 31 Tibetan Prayer Stones ���������������������������Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, thru Aug 31 “D&H Canal” ��������������������������������������������������������Neversink Area Museum, Cuddebackville, thru Oct “Unpacked & Rediscovered” over 1300 artifacts ��Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh thru Fall Ice Cream Social & Fee-Free Day bring item for food pantry ����������Grey Towers, Jul 4, 10am-4pm Free Admission Day ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������STORM Jul 31

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cinema

music - jazz

Marion Grodin The Laugh Tour ���������������������������������������������Henning’s Local, Eldred, Jul 12, 9pm

Brunch with the Jazz Cats ���������������������������������� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, 10am-1pm The Nanga World Trio w/Latin flare ���������Cilantro Tapas & Bar, New Windsor, Wednesdays, 7pm Doug Smith’s Dixieland All-Stars �������������������������������������������������Grey Towers, Milford, Jul 4, 2pm Tisziji Munoz Quartet w/Marilyn Crispell ����������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 4, 7pm Joe Vincent Tranchina & Electric Skye ����������������������������������������The Dautaj, Warwick, Jul 4, 8pm Cameron Brown & “Dannie’s Calypso” ��������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 6, 7pm Rebecca Coupe Franks Quartet Newburgh Jazz Series Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 9, 6:30pm FREE Bucky Pizzarelli guitar �����������������������������Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, Jul 12, 7:30pm FREE Skye Jazz Trio ���������������������������������������Iron Forge Inn, Bellvale (GPS Warwick), Jul 13, Noon-3pm Sam Morrison & Steve Carlin ������������������������������ Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, Jul 17, 7pm-9pm Les Paul’s Trio ������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 18, 7pm The Top Cats w/Shell Zimet � Newburgh Jazz Series Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 23, 6:30pm FREE Ray Spiegel Ensemble CD Release Party ��������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 23, 7pm Donna Singer & the Doug Richards Trio ���������Pine Bush Gazebo, Main Street, Jul 25, 7pm FREE The Erik Lawrence Quartet ����������������������������������������������The Falcon, Marlboro, Jul 27, 10am-2pm Jazz Pioneers �������������������������������������������������������������Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 28, 6:30pm FREE The Deane Machine ���������� Newburgh Jazz Series Arboretum, Montgomery, Jul 30, 6:30pm FREE

dance

opera

Midday Movie �����������������������������������������������Fallsburg Library, Tuesdays & Thursdays, Noon FREE Adult Independent Film Night ������������������������������������ Greenwood Lake Library, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Reel Eclectic Movie ���������������������������������������������������� Thrall Library, Middletown, Jul 3, 7pm FREE “Chuck’s Day at the Moves” video art ���������The Plunk Shop, Livingston Manor, Jul 5, 4pm FREE “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale” SPCA Benefit ������������������������������� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jul 5-7 “A Hard Day’s Night” �������������������������������������������������������������������� Bethel Woods, Jul 6, 2pm & 5pm “Sabrina” Audrey Hepburn Mount St.Mary College, Desmond Campus, Newburgh, Jul 8, 9:30am.

“The Glass Bottom Boat” Doris Day ���������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Jul 9, Noon FREE Monday Night at the Movies ����������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Jun 9, 6:30pm FREE “The American Nurse” ���������������� Downing Film Center, Newburgh, Jul 13, 1pm & Jul 14, 7:30pm Afternoon Movie ������������������������������������������������������ Thrall Library, Middletown, Jul 16, 2pm FREE “Babes in Arms” Garland, Rooney ������Mount St.Mary College, Desmond Campus, Jul 17, 9:30am “Jellyfish” �����������������������������������������������������������������������������Cornwall Library, Jul 17, 5:30pm FREE

comedy

Valley Contemporary Dance Co. “The Giving Tree” ������ New Rose Theatre, Walden, Jul 19 & 20

fairs - Festivals - Artwalks

21st Annual Liberty Festival & Parade �������������������������� Main Street, Liberty, Jul 4, 10:30am-4pm July 4 Celebration art, music, vendors, fireworks, ������������������UNICO Park, Newburgh, Noon-9pm Artwalk/Chalkwalk 2014 ������������������������������������� Main Street, Livingston Manor, Jul 5, 10am-4pm Great American Weekend �����������������������Main Street, Goshen, Jul 5, 9am-4pm & Jul 6, 10am-4pm Grand Openng, Fagan Art Library dedication ceremony, music, poetry ����������������������������������������� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 12, 3pm-8pm 16th Annual Arts Walk ��������������������������������������������������� Front Street, Port Jervis, Jul 19, 11am-5pm Annual Jazz & Art in the Park ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine Island Park, Jul 19 Founders Day ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Wurtsboro, Jul 19, Noon-6pm Old Time Fair �������������������������������������������������������������� Grahamsville Fairgrounds, Jul 26, 11am-5pm Bluegrass Festival �����������������������������������������������Pennings Farm Market, Warwick, Jul 26, 2pm-7pm RiverFest �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Narrowsburg, Jul 27, 10am-4pm Festival of Wood ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Grey Towers, Milford, Aug 2 & 3 Summerfest, Plein Air Paint-out & Angler’s Market ����� Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, Aug 2 & 3 NY Renaissance Faire ������������������Tuxedo Ridge, Saturdays & Sundays & Labor Day, Aug 2-Sep 1

holistic events

Drumming Circle �������������������������������������������� Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Jul 11 & 25, 6:30pm Moonlit Drumming Kofi Donkor ������������ Pocono Environmental Education Center, Jul 12, 6:30pm Street Fair ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Jul 19, 8pm Crystalline Ascension ����������������������������������������������� Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Jul 26, 6:30pm Love, Soul & Psychic Fair Weekend ����������������������������� Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Aug 2 & 3

Music - Band

West Point Band Independence Day & Fireworks ������� Trophy Point Amphitheater, Jul 4, 8pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ������������������������������������������� Wooster Grove, Walden, Jul 7, 7pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band �����������������������������������Senior Center, Montgomery, Jul 13, 3pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ����������������������������� Pine Bush Gazebo, Main Street, Jul 18, 7pm FREE West Point Band “Dress Right, Dress” ������������������ Trophy Point Amphitheater, Jul 20, 7:30pm FREE Pine Bush Community Band ���������������� Keystone Park, Wash. Hts.,Middletown, Jul 27, 6pm FREE West Point Band “Sunday Night Soul” ����������������� Trophy Point Amphitheater, Jul 27, 7:30pm FREE West Pt. Jazz Knights “Dancing Under the Stars” Trophy Point Amphitheater, Aug 3, 7:30pm FREE

music - cabaret - Broadway

Pre-show Dinner & Cabaret ��������������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Tue, Wed, Thur, 6:00pm Post Show Cabaret ������������������������������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Fri & Sat, approx. 10pm Broadway Concerts Direct cabaret, etc. �� United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, July 12, 6pm

Music - Classical

Susan Seligman cello & Marka Young violin ������������������������������������� MISU, Ellenville, Jul 2, 7:30pm Bonnie Law guitar, classical & jazz ���������������Something Sweet Outdoors, Middletown, July 3, 6pm Pandit Jasraj Indian Classical Music, vocal �����������������������������������Shanti Mandir, Walden, Jul 5, 7pm Hudson Valley String Quartet ����������������������������������������Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Jul 12, 7:30pm Weekend of Chamber Music ��������������Jeffersonville Presbyterian Church Lawn, Jul 13, 3pm FREE Weekend of Chamber Music ������������� Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville, Jul 19, 7pm talk, 8pm concert Weekend of Chamber Music “Market Music” ��������������Callicoon Farmers’ Market, Jul 20, 11am FREE Iouri Grichetchkine piano ����������������������������������������������Lumberland Town Hall, Glen Spey, Jul 20, 3pm Bach Solo Works from High to Low violin, viola, cello ������������������ICCC, Woodbourne, Jul 20, 3:30pm Gregory Hayes harpsichord & Albert Brouwer flute ������������� Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Jul 20, 5pm Cornwall String Ensemble ����������������������������������������� Senior Center, Montgomery, Jul 24, 7pm FREE Summer Pops Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra �Downing Park, Newburgh, Jul 26, 4pm FREE Weekend of Chamber Music ������������� Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville, Jul 26, 7pm talk, 8pm concert Hudson Valley String Quartet ���������������������������������������������������Iron Forge Inn, Bellvale, Jul 31, 6:30pm

“Otello” Verdi �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Sullivan, Jul 9, 6pm “The Enchanted Island” Vivaldi, Handel, et al ������������������������������������SUNY Sullivan, Jul 16, 6pm Arias & Duets Hudson Opera Theater ���� Desmond Campus, Mount St. Mary College, Jul 18, 7pm “Romeo & Juliet” Gounod ��������������������������������������������������������������������SUNY Sullivan, Jul 23, 6pm “La Fanciulla del West” Puccini �����������������������������������������������������������SUNY Sullivan, Jul 30, 6pm “La Traviata” Delaware Valley Opera ���������������������������� Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg, Aug 1. 8pm & SUNY Sullivan, Aug 3, 2pm

poetry & prose readings

Robert Milby Poetry Night ��������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jul 3, 7pm Hudson River Poets �������������������������������������������������������������������Newburgh Library, Jul 3, 7pm FREE Gina R. Evers Poetry on the Loose �������������������Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jul 5, 3:30pm FREE Tony Pena Poetry in the Gallery ���������������������������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jul 6, 7pm FREE Poetry Night at Liberty Green ��������������������������������� Liberty Court, Warwick, Bldg # 3, Jul 11, 7pm Lynn Hoins, John Fitzpatrick, Robert Milby ��������Florida Library Poetry Cafe, Jul 18, 7pm FREE “OUT LOUD Performance Party” poetry, music � Port Jervis Community Center, Jul 25, 7pm FREE Poetry at the Church host: Ted Gill �������������������������� Goshen Methodist Church, Jul 28, 7pm FREE First Fridays Contemporary Writers �������������������������� Narrowsburg Library, Aug 1, 7:30pm FREE Calling All Poets ��������������������������������������������������������Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, Aug 1, 8pm Michael Graves, Robert Viscusi Poetry on the Loose Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Aug 2, 3:30pm FREE

Poetry in the Gallery �������������������������������������������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Aug 3, 7pm FREE

recreation - Dancing - tours

Line Dancing ������������������������������������������������������������Jester’s Restaurant, Chester, Thursdays 7:30pm Line Dancing �������Mon. & Wed, TBA & 1st Saturday, TBA, Catholic War Veterans Hall, Pine Bush Swing Dancing w/Swing Shift Orchestra ���������������������� Newburgh Brewery, 1st Thursdays, 7:30pm Dancing ���������������������������������������������MISU Ellenville, 1st Saturdays, Lesson 8:30pm, Dancing 9pm Discovery Quests Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-1pm “Independence Day” ������������ New Windsor Cantonment & Knox’s Headquarters,. Jul 4, 10am-5pm “Brant Indian Raid” Bus Tour Deerpark Museum ��Lv: Sparrowbush Fire House, Jul 19, 7:45am Ghost Tour ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Museum Village, Monroe, Jul 19, 8pm Ghost Tour ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Old Stone House Hasbrouck, Jul 31, 7pm House & Garden Tour Port Jervis Council for the Arts ����������������������������� Port Jervis, Aug 2, TBA

storytelling

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Campfire Stories” ����������Glenmere Lake, Jul 10 & 24, 7:30pm FREE Yarnslingers “Memoirs” ��������������������������������������� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Jul 19, 7pm

theatre - Musical

“Mame” w/Loretta Swit �������������������������������������������������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 1-13 “Annie Warbucks” Just Off-Broadway, Inc ����� Theatre at West Shore Station, Newburgh, Jul 8-20 “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” w/Loretta Swit �������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 15-27 “Mary Poppins” ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jul 29-Aug 10

theatre - Play

“Three Viewings” ������������������������������������������������������������� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, thru Jul 6 “A Reluctant Tragic Hero” Chekhov & “The Hipster’s Ballad of the Nazarene” by Paul Austin Liberty Free Theatre, readings, Beekman Pavilion, Kauneonga Lake, Jul 3, 7:30pm FREE “By the Sea-Anna’s Story” Liberty Free Th. �� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor, Jul 11, 7:30pm “Moonlight and Magnolias” Creative Theatre-Muddy Water Players ���������������������������������������������� Playhouse at Museum Village, Monroe, Jul 11-27 “Unnecessary Farce” ��������������������������������������������������Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Jul 11-Aug 3 “Mr. Chocade’s Perfect Storm” The Slipper Room ������������ NACL, Highland Lake, Jul 12, 7:30pm “As You Like It” Shakespeare, Cornerstone Theatre Arts ��Silesian Park, Goshen, Jul 12-20 FREE “The American Dream” Albee, Liberty Free Theatre, reading ��������������������������������������������������������� Beekman Pavilion, Kauneonga Lake, Jul 17, 7:30pm FREE “Stop Thief” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ������������ Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, Jul 18-20 “Reunion” by David Mamet, Liberty Free Theatre, reading �������������������������������������������������������������� Beekman Pavilion, Kauneonga Lake, Jul 24, 7:30pm FREE

July 2014

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

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JUly BEEK ������������������������������������������������Beekman Pavilion, Kauneonga Lake BW ���������������������������������������������Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CAS ����������������CAS Arts Center, Catskill Arts Society, Livingston Manor CTMW.Creative Theatre Muddy Water Players, Museum Village, Monroe DCAT ������������������������������Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel DEC ��������������������������������������������������������������������Dead End Cafe, Parksville

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

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Cinema “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale” DOWN 2pm & 7pm Cinema Monday Night Movie NFL 6:30pm

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DOWN �������������������������������������������������������� Downing Film Center, Newburgh DVAA ��������������������������������������� Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg FAL �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� The Falcon, Marlboro FEST ����������������������������������������������������������������� Festival Square, Middletown FP ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Forestburgh Playhouse GMCM ��Grand Montgomery Chamber Music, Senior Center, Montgomery

TUESDAY Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

Music Burnell Pines FAL 7pm

Theatre-Musical “Mame” FP 8pm

Music Chamber Music MISU 7:30pm

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Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

Cabaret & Dinner “Piano Man - Music of Billy Joel” FP 6pm Music - The Outer Limits Band Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Theatre-Musical “Annie Warbucks” TWSS 7pm

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Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

Music - Memories of You Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Theatre-Musical “Annie Warbucks” TWSS 7pm Theatre-Musical “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” FP 8pm

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Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

Cabaret & Dinner “Tribute to Gershwin!” FP 6pm “Boy in the Blue Shirt”

by Joan Standora See page 30

Music - Jeff Philips & Tru Blu Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm

Music Dayna Kurtz FAL 7pm

Theatre-Musical “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” FP 8pm

Cinema “Stagecoach” MSM-DC 9:30am

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Cinema Afternoon Movie Fallsburg Library, Noon

Cabaret & Dinner “Broadway Like it’s 1999” FP 6pm

Music Jazz Pioneers Wooster Grove, Walden 7pm

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Cabaret & Dinner Piano Man Music of Billy Joel” FP 6pm

Music - OC Pop Rock & Doowop Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Tribute to Gershwin!” FP 6pm

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Theatre “Mame” FP 2pm & 8pm

Music - Global-Jazz Chiku Awali Dance & Obie Kaye Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm

Theatre-Musical “Mame” FP 8pm

Cinema “The American Nurse” DOWN 7:30pm

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Cabaret & Dinner “Piano Man Music of Billy Joel” FP 6pm

Music Pine Bush Community Band Wooster Grove, Walden 7pm

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WEDNESDAY

Music Dayna Kurtz FAL 7pm

Music - Fat City Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm

Poetry Poetry at the Church Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Theatre-Musical “Mary Poppins” FP 8pm

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

July 2014

Lecture & Film NVM 7:30pm

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Cinema “Sabrina” MSM-DC 9:30am Theatre-Musical “Mame” FP 2pm & 8pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Piano Man - Music of Billy Joel” FP 6pm Opera “Otello” SCCC 6pm Music - Jazz Rebecca Coupe Frank Quartet Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Theatre-Musical “Annie Warbucks” TWSS 7pm Music - Folk Mandarin Orange with Twain SLGMN 7:30pm

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Cinema Afternoon Movie THRALL 2pm

Theatre-Musical “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” FP 2pm & 8pm Cabaret & Dinner “Tribute to Gershwin!” FP 6pm Opera “Enchanted Island” SCCC 6pm Music - Jazz-Rock Judith Tulloch Band Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Theatre-Musical “Annie Warbucks” TWSS 7pm

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Theatre-Musical “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” FP 2pm & 8pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Tribute to Gershwin!” FP 6pm Opera “Romeo & Juliet” SCCC 6pm Music - Jazz Top Cats w/Shell Zimet Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Music-Jazz Ray Spiegel Ensemble FAL 7pm

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Theatre-Musical “Mary Poppins” FP 2pm, & 8pm

Cabaret & Dinner “Broadway Like it’s 1999” FP 6pm

Opera “La Fanciulla del West” SCCC 6pm Music - Jazz The Deane Machine Arboretum, Montgomery, 6:30pm Music Living with Elephants, Liana Gabel FAL 7pm

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HCC ������������������������������������������������������������������������� Howland Cultural Center, Beacon ICCC �������������������������International Center for Culture of Compassion, Woodbourne MISU ���������������������������������������������������� Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster, Ellenville MSM-DC ������������������������������ Desmond Campus, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh NACL ������������������������������������������������������������������������������NACL Theatre, Highland Lake NCR ������������������������������������������������������������������Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall

THURSDAY

Cinema.............Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Music-Folk-Classical.Strings Attached, Bonnie Law.SSO 6pm Cabaret & Dinner.“Piano Man - Music of Billy Joel”....FP 6pm Recreation...........Swing Dancing...Newburgh Brewery. 6:30pm Poetry............................ Robert Milby.........................NCR 7pm Cinema....................Reel Eclectic Film........Thrall Library, 7pm Theatre-Reading..Liberty Free Theatre one-acts.BEEK 7:30pm Music...Free Shrimp Band.....Railroad Green Warwick, 7:30pm Open Mic....................Musician’s Gathering.......DCAT 7:30pm Theatre - Play............ “Three Viewings”........................ST 8pm Theatre-Musical................. “Mame”................................FP 8pm

NFL ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� NVM ��������������������������������������������������������������� OSH �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� PACEM PVT ��������������������������������������������������������� RITZ �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������

FRI

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Music.Doug Smith’s Dixieland A Music............................. “Palaia P Music - Jazz............. Thomas Mun Music.......................Fridays at the Music - Holiday.............. West Poin Music - Jazz..Joe Vincent Tranchina

Theatre -Play................ “Three Vie Theatre - Musical.................. “Mam Cabaret..................... “Piano Man-

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Music.............................. Jenna Es Cinema.Midday Movie.Fallsburg Library, Noon Music..................The Oxford Stat Music.......................Midnight Slim...................SSO 6pm Theatre - Musical......... “Annie Wa Cabaret & Dinner.“Piano Man - Music of Billy Joel”....FP 6pm Music - Latin........................ Sonan Theatre-Musical...“Annie Warbucks”............TWSS 7pm Theatre - Play.............”By the Sea Storytelling..............Black Dirt Guild.....Glenmere Lake 7:30pm Music.......................Fridays at the Open Mic................Musician’s Gathering..................DCAT 7:30pm Theatre -Play............. “Unnecessa Theatre-Musical............“Mame”...........................FP 8pm Theatre - Play....... “Moonlight and Theatre - Musical.................. “Mam Cabaret..................... “Piano Man-

Cinema.......”Babes in Arms”....MSM-DC 9:30am Cinema....Midday Movie...Fallsburg Library, Noon Movie.....................”Jellyfish”..Cornwall Library 5:30pm Cabaret & Dinner.“Tribute to Gershwin”............FP 6pm Music............................. Emish.........................SSO 6pm Open Mic............... Open Mic Night........ NCR 6pm-9pm Theatre-Musical...“Annie Warbucks”............TWSS 7pm Music..... David Bromberg & Larry Campbell..FAL 7pm

Music.................... The Jeremy La Music............Pine Bush Commun Poetry.................................Poetry Theatre - Musical......... “Annie Wa Opera...........Arias & Duets Huds Music - Jazz.....................Les Pau Music..Funkytown Playground.Waterfront Pk. Grnwood Lake, 7pm Music.......................Fridays at the Open Mic...................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Theatre -Play............. “Unnecessa Theatre-Reading.........”The American Dream”..........BEEK 7:30pm Music -Classical......WCM Music Talks......DCAT 7:30pm Theatre - Play....... “Moonlight and Theatre - Play... “Unnecessary Farce”...............ST 8pm Theatre - Play....................“Stop T Theatre -Musical..”Best Little Whorehouse...”..FP 8pm Theatre - Musical.“Best Little Who Music... Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band..BW 8pm Cabaret......................“Tribute to G

Cinema............Midday Movie.....Fallsburg Library, Noon Cabaret & Dinner...Tribute to Gershwin.............FP 6pm Music.......................... Scott Test......................SSO 6pm Music - Classical..Cornwall String Ensemble.GMCM 7pm

Storytelling.......Yarnslinge

Poetry & Music.”OUT LOUD Perform Music-Jazz.Donna Singer & Doug R

Music............................. The Grey Music.........................Tom Freund Theatre-Reading........”Reunion” by David Mamet....BEEK 7:30pm Music.......................Fridays at the Storytelling.............Black Dirt Guild......Glenmere Lake 7:30pm Open Mic...................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Theatre -Play............. “Unnecessa Theatre - Play..........“Unnecessary Farce”........ST 8pm Theatre - Play....... “Moonlight and Theatre - Play.“Moonlight and Magnolias”.CTMW 8pm Theatre - Musical.“Best Little Who Theatre -Musical..”Best Little Whorehouse...”..FP 8pm Cabaret......................“Tribute to G

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Cinema............Midday Movie........Fallsburg Library, Noon Music...............Ray Longchamp, Vinnie Mazzo........SSO 6pm Cabaret & Dinner...”Broadway like it’s 1999”................FP 6pm

Music-Classical.. HV String Quartet.IronForgeInn, Bellvale, 6:30pm

Recreation...................... Ghost Tour..........................OSH 7pm Cinema....................Reel Eclectic Film........Thrall Library, 7pm Music....................Gina Sicilia, Jim Hayes..................FAL 7pm Open Mic.................Musician’s Gathering... ......DCAT, 7:30pm Theatre - Play..........“Unnecessary Farce”...................ST 8pm Theatre-Musical.......... “Mary Poppins”.........................FP 8pm

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IDAY

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SATURDAY

.......Festival................Great American Weekend....Main Street, Goshen, 9am-4pm ....UNICO Park, Newburgh, Noon-9pm Festival...Artwalk/Chalkwalk 2014...Main Street, Livingston Manor, 10am-4pm All-Stars...Grey Towers, Milford, 2pm Cinema..........................“Hachi: A Dog’s Tale” SPCA Benefit............. DOWN Noon Palooza”....................PVT 2pm-6pm Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm noz Quartet........................FAL 7pm Poetry.............................................. Gina R. Evers...........................SLGMN 3:30pm e Dead End..................DEC 7:30pm Music - Indian Classical.......Pandit Jasraj vocals........Shanti Mandir, Walden, 7pm nt Band.........................WEST 8pm Music............................. Split Bill! Ben Fields & Adrien Reju ................... FAL 7pm & Electric Skye..Dautaj, Warwick, 8pm Music.........................................Crosby, Stills & Nash ...........................BW 7:30pm ewings”.............................. ST 8pm Theatre - Play............................... “Three Viewings”.....................................ST 8pm me”...................................... FP 8pm Theatre - Musical.................................. “Mame”.............................................FP 8pm -Billy Joel”....................... FP 10pm Cabaret.....................................“Piano Man-Billy Joel”...............................FP 10pm

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Music..........................................Beatles Festival................................ PVT Noon-10pm Music.........Steve Agostini..Seven Freedoms Music Center.......... Salisbury Mills,.2pm Theatre - Play...................”As You Like It” Shakespeare.............Silesian Park, Goshen, 2pm Theatre - Musical................................”Annie Warbucks”............................TWSS 2pm & 7pm Open Mic............................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle........................ DCAT 3pm Festival............Grand Opening Robert Fagan Art Library poetry, music..SLGMN 3pm-8pm Cabaret...............Broadway Concerts Direct..United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, 6pm Music - Classical..........................Hudson Valley String Quartet........................... DEC 7:30pm Music...................Samite of Uganda “The Healing Power of Music..Milford Theater, 7:30pm Theatre - Play..............................“Mr Choade’s Perfect Storm”......................... NACL 7:30pm Music.....................Peter Frampton & The Doobie Brothers & Michael Curry.....BW 7:30pm Music - Jazz.............Bucky Pizzarelli guitar.........Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, 7:30pm Theatre - Play.................................... “Unnecessary Farce”......................................... ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...........................................“Mame”..................................................... FP 8pm Cabaret............................................. “Piano Man-Billy Joel”...................................... FP 10pm Comedy..........................................Marion Grodin.......................Henning’s Local, Eldred, 9pm

ustangs.............Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm ck & Funk..............................FEST 7pm & The Four Tops................. BW 7:30pm aterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, 7:30pm the Dead End.....................DEC 7:30pm Writers.... Narrowsburg Library, 7:30pm All Poets..................................HCC 8pm ata” Verdi............................... TUST 8pm ary Farce”.................................. ST 8pm oppins”....................................... FP 8pm ke it’s 1999”............................ FP 10pm

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Music - Jazz........... Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm Music........................Judith Tulloch Band................... FAL10am-2pm Music - Jazz....................Skye Jazz Trio....Iron Forge Inn, Bellvale, Noon-3pm

Music..Jack Tannehill, Midnight Slim..Ann Street Park, Milford, 1pm Cinema...............................”The American Nurse”..........DOWN 1pm Theatre - Play.................“Unnecessary Farce”.......................ST 2pm Theatre - Play.........”As You Like It”.........Silesian Park, Goshen 2pm Theatre - Musical................”Annie Warbucks”......TWSS 2pm & 7pm Theatre - Musical....................... “Mame”..................................FP 3pm

Music - Band..Pine Bush Community Band..Montgomery Senior Center, 3pm

Music-Classical.WCM “Atlantic Crossing”.Jeffersonville Presby. Ch. 3pm

Music...................... West Point Band & Quintette 7.... WEST 7:30pm

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Recreation............Brant Indian Raid Tour..............Sparrowbush Fire House, 7:45am Festival.......................16th Annual Arts Walk.......Front Street, Port Jervis,11am-5pm Festival............................. .........Founder’s Day & Street Fair..............Wurtsboro, Noon-6pm Theatre - Play............................”As You Like It” Shakespeare....Silesian Park, Goshen, 2pm Theatre - Musical................................”Annie Warbucks”............................TWSS 2pm & 7pm Open Mic............................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle........................ DCAT 3pm Dance................................Valley Contemporary Dance Company.............ROSE 3pm & 7pm Music......................................................The Feds..................Wooster Grove, Walden, 6:30pm Storytelling.........................................Yarnslingers Memoirs.......................................CAS 7pm Music....................................................... Jermaine Paul...................................PVT 7pm-10pm Music.........................................................Big Funk..............Railroad Green, Warwick, 7:30pm Music.......................................New York Hitmen...Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, 7:30pm Music - Classical.......Weekend of Chamber Music......................WCM talk:7pm, concert: 8pm Theatre - Musical.................... “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”.............................. FP 8pm Theatre - Play.................................... “Unnecessary Farce”......................................... ST 8pm Theatre - Play............................... “Moonlight and Magnolias”..............................CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play............................................“Stop Thief”...........................................SCDW 8pm Cabaret..............................................“Tribute to Gershwin”....................................... FP 10pm

Recreation...........................House & Garden Tour....................Port Jervis, TBA Holistic..........Psychic Fair Weekend......Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro, Noon-8pm Festival.......................Festival of Wood.................Grey Towers, Milford, 10am-5pm Festival..Summerfest, Paintout & Angler’s Market..Fly Fishing Museum, L Manor Open Mic...................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.................DCAT 3pm Poetry............................... Michael Graves, Robert Viscusi............SLGMN 3:30pm Music...................................Lionel Richie w/Ceelo Green......................BW 7:30pm Music......................................Latin Nite ..............Railroad Green, Warwick, 7:30pm Theatre - Play............................“Unnecessary Farce”..................................ST 8pm Theatre - Musical........................... “Mary Poppins”.......................................FP 8pm Cabaret..................................“Broadway Like it’s 1999”............................FP 10pm

SUNDAY

Music - Jazz......................Jazz Cat Brunch............... DCAT 10am-1pm Music - Gospel..Alexis P. Suter’s Ministers of Sound..FAL10am-2pm Festival........Great American Weekend..Main Street, Goshen, 10am-4pm Cinema.................. “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale” SPAC Benefit.....DOWN Noon Theatre - Play........................“Three Viewings”............................. ST 2pm Cinema...............................“A Hard Day’s Night”..............BW 2pm & 5pm Theatre - Musical...........................“Mame”..................................... FP 3pm Poetry..........................................Tony Pena................................ WAA 7pm Music - Jazz........Cameron Brown & “Dannie’s Calypso”.........FAL 7pm Music - Americana.....................Paul Cataldo............................ DCAT 8pm Music..............................Roosevelt Dime.........Towne Crier, Beacon, 8pm

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Festival......................Old Time Fair..........Grahamsville Fairgrounds, 11am-5pm Festival............Bluegrass Festival...Pennings Farm Market, Warwick, 2pm-7pm Open Mic.......................... Sullivan County Songwriter’s Circle.....................DCAT 3pm mance Party”.UpFront, Port Jervis, 7pm Music - Classical.......................GNSO Summer Pops.....Downing Park, Newburgh, 4pm Richards Trio.Pine Bush Gazebo, 7pm Music.....................Warwick HS Guitar Club & Emish.....Railroad Green, Warwick, 6pm yhounds..........................FEST 7pm Music - Classical.......Weekend of Chamber Music.............WCM talk:7pm, concert: 8pm d + Friends.........................FAL 7pm Music..........................The Mose Allison Project w/Richard Julian...................FAL 7pm Music..................................... Rick Larrimore IS Rod Stewart................. PVT 7pm-10pm e Dead End..................DEC 7:30pm Music................................Mike Baglione, Anne Loeb & Friends ............. NVAM 7:30pm ary Farce”.......................... ST 8pm Music...........Patrick Parone Salutes Elvis...Waterfront Park, Greenwood Lake, 7:30pm d Magnolias”...............CTMW 8pm Theatre - Play................................“Unnecessary Farce”......................................ST 8pm orehouse in Texas”........... FP 8pm Theatre - Play...........................“Moonlight and Magnolias”.......................... CTMW 8pm Theatre - Musical............... “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”...........................FP 8pm Gershwin”........................ FP 10pm Music........................ Kenny Rogers & Hudson Valley Philharmonic............... BW 8pm Cabaret......................................... “Tribute to Gershwin”...................................FP 10pm

ers...... Cafe Devine, Callicoon, 7pm

STORM ��������������������������������������������������������Storm King Art Center, Mountainville TUST ������������������������������������������������������������������������Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg TWSS �������� Just Off Broadway, Inc., Theatre at West Shore Station, Newburgh WAA ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Wurtsboro Art Alliance WCM ��������������� Weekend of Chamber Music, Eddie Adams Farm, Jeffersonville WEST ������������������������������������������������������ Trophy Point Amphitheater, West Point

Music - Jazz.................. Jazz Cat Brunch...................DCAT 10am-1pm Music..........................Big Joe Fitz & the Lo Fis...........FAL 10am-2pm Music..............Weekend of Chamber Music.Callicoon Farmers Market, 11am Music.......................... The Baseball Project & Happiness.......... STORM 2pm Theatre - Play........................ “Unnecessary Farce”.............................ST 2pm Theatre - Play.......................”As You Like It”.........Silesian Park, Goshen 2pm Theatre - Musical................”Annie Warbucks”....................TWSS 2pm & 7pm Theatre - Play................................“Stop Thief”.............................. SCDW 3pm Theatre - Play................... “Moonlight and Magnolias”................ .CTMW 3pm Theatre - Musical........“Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”..................FP 3pm Music -Classical......Iouri Grichetchkine piano.....Lumberland Town Hall, 3pm Music -Classical.........Bach Solo Works from High to Low........ICCC 3:30pm Music - Classical.....................CPE Bach 300th Anniversary.......PACEM 5pm Dance.......................Valley Contemporary Dance Company.........ROSE 5pm Music - Blues-Soul.....................Johnny Rawls...................................FAL 7pm Music......................................... West Point Band......................WEST 7:30pm Music...............................“An Evening with James Taylor”...............BW 8pm

Music - Jazz............ Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm Music - Jazz................Erik Lawrence Quartet............. FAL10am-2pm Festival..................................... RiverFest......Narrowsburg, 10am-4pm Music...Dan Engvaldsen, Paradyme Void..Ann St. Park, Milford, 1pm Theatre - Play.................“Unnecessary Farce”.......................ST 2pm Theatre - Play............“Moonlight and Magnolias”........... CTMW 3pm Theatre - Musical.“Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”...........FP 3pm Music.Pine Bush Community Band.Keystone Park, Middletown, 6pm Music................Toby Keith w/Colt Ford & Krystal Keith......BW 7pm Music......................................John Cleary............................. FAL 7pm Music..................................West Point Band................ WEST 7:30pm

Holistic.Psychic Fair Weekend.Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro. Noon-6pm

Music - Jazz........................ Jazz Cat Brunch............DCAT 10am-1pm Festival...............Festival of Wood....Grey Towers, Milford, 10am-4pm Festival.......Summerfest, etc.....Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, L Manor Opera............................... “La Traviata” Verdi.................... TUST 2pm Theatre - Play.................“Unnecessary Farce”.......................ST 2pm Theatre - Musical.................“Mary Poppins”...........................FP 3pm Poetry..............................Poetry in the Gallery................... WAA 7pm Music-Dancing............. West Point Jazz Knights......... WEST 7:30pm

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NEW photography EXHIBITS

Art exhibits

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

Group Show �����������������������������������������������������������������������������Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery ���������������������������������������������� Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography ��������������������������Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joanne Wells Greenbaum pottery, paintings �������������BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints �����Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture �����������������������Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Lana Privitera paintings ����������������������������������������������� Blazing Bagels Cafe, Montgomery, ongoing Roslyn Fassett “African Code: A Secret Language”, paintings ��������������������SUNYO-KH thru Jul 3 Barbara Bonham, Stuart Sachs “Artists of Excellence”, sculptures �����������SUNYO-KH thru Jul 3 “Chuck” multi-media group show ������������������������������������ Plunk Shop, Livingston Manor, thru Jul 5 “Artists Untamed” group show �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������CAS thru Jul 6 15th Anniversary Exhibit art, photography, ceramics, etc. ������ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Jul 7 Sri Chinmoy “Paintings for World Harmony” acrylics & ink ��������������������SUNYO-OH thru Jul 10 Kit Sailer paintings “You are Here” ���������������������������������������������������������������������� DVAA thru Jul 12 “Animals” members group show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������WRS thru Jul 14 Mike Jaroszko luminist paintings ����������������������������������������������������������Elant at Goshen, thru Jul 15 Summer 2014 Group Show �������������������������������� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, thru Jul 27 Kate Hyden “Seasons” ������������������������������������������������������������Livingston Manor Library, thru Jul 30 Chris Stevens paintings ���������������������������������������Leo’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, Cornwall, thru Jul 31 “Peter Cody: A Retrospective” ���������������������������������������Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, thru Aug 2 Laura Breitman, Jonathan Talbot, Lisa Zukowski “Layers”, collages ������������������������������������������� Orange Regional Medical Center Gallery, Middletown, thru Aug 15 “The Man, His Music, A River: Tribute to Pete Seeger” Artists in the Park ����������������������������������� Artists in the Park Gallery, Bear Mountain Inn, thru Aug 31 Anya Roz & Susan Pascale “Summer Colors” ������������� Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, thru Aug 31 “Art in the Wild: Naturally Inspired Trailside Creations” Dan Mack, curator ����������������������������� HHNM Cornwall, Saturdays & Sundays 10am-4pm, thru Aug “Wonder & Mystery” group show ���������������Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Rock Tavern, thru Aug Zhang Huan “Evoking Tradition” ���������������������� Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, thru Nov 9

NEW ART EXHIBITS

Jane Lawrence &, Debbe Femiak “Lawrence Farms”, Sal Russo ����������������������������WRS Jul 1-31 Becky Cornell “Whimsical” ���������������������������������������������������������������������Pine Bush Library, Jul 1-31 Hemlock Farms Artists Group Show �����������Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 1-Aug 29 Caroline Prieur Schulz sculpture, paintings, drawings Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, Jul 5 & 6

Nick Zungoli “Cuba Exhibit” ������������������������������������ Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jul 12-Dec 31 Member’s Group Show ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� HPG Jul 8-Aug 4

ART & Photography receptions

Hemlock Farms Artists Group Show �������Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 4, 5pm-8pm “Celebrate” members group show �������������������������������������� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jul 5, 2pm-4pm Caroline Prieur Schulz ������������������������ Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, Jul 5 & 6, 4:30pm-7:30pm Debbie Gioello new works �������������������������������������������������ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jul 8, 6pm-9pm Member’s Group Show �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������HPG Jul 8, 6pm-9pm CAS Summer Members’ Show �����������������������������������������������������������������������CAS Jul 12, 4pm-6pm Jane Lawrence &, Debbe Femiak “Lawrence Farms”, Sal Russo �������������� WRS Jul 12, 5pm-7pm Tom Holmes “Men Built the World”,Jessica Poser ”Ruins” bau Gallery, Beacon, Jul 12, 6pm-9pm Nick Zungoli “Cuba Exhibit” ����������������������������������������Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jul 12, 7pm “Art Among the Vines” group show ���������������Basha Kill Vineyards, Wurtsboro, Jul 13, Noon-6pm Shelly Ottens ����������������������������������������������������������������������Artology, New Windsor, Jul 13, 1pm-4pm “Studio Monday Art Group” Exhibit �������������������������������� Grahamsville Library, Jul 13, 2pm-4pm Gary Abramson paintings, Linda Bastian paintings & drawings ������������������DVAA Jul 18, 7pm-9pm River Valley Artists Guild & Joan Kehlenbeck ����������������������������������� SUNYO-OH Jul 27, 1pm-4pm

schools & Conservatories

George Hayes Perspective/Palette Knife Class adults ��������������������� WRS Student Gallery, Jul 1-31 Artology Student Art Show ages 3-17 �����������������������������������Artology, New Windsor, Jul 28-Aug 8

clubs

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Newburgh Library Camera Club �������������������������������������Newburgh Library, 3rd Wednesday, 6pm St. James Camera Club ����������������������������������������������St. James Church, Goshen, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Chess Club ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch ������������������������������������������������������������������������� Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” �������������������������������Liberty Library, Tuesdays 10:15am Knitting Group ����������������������������������������������� Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting & Crocheting “Knitwitz” �������������������� Jeffersonville Library, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” �������������� Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting Club ������������������������������������� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting “Stitch and Bitch” �����������������������������Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Wednesdays, 7pm Knit/Crochet Club ���������������������������������������������������������������������Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. ������ First Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills,org The Music Lovers Group classical ����������������� 3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Electronic Music Meetup w/Neil Alexander ����������������������� Newburgh Library, 3rd Thursdays, 7pm Ladies Night Painting Social ����������������������Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Thursdays 6:30pm Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ���St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild ���������������Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm The Country Scrappers cardmaking, scrapbooking Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Tuesdays, all day Scrabble Mania ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night w/Sam Hill ������������������������������������� Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Trivia Night ����������������������������������������������������������� Penning’s Pub & Grill, Warwick, Thursdays, 8pm UFO Support Group ���������������������������������������� Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1st Wednesday, 7:30pm Woodcarvers Guild ������������������������������������������������������Museum Village, Monroe, Wednesdays, 7pm

children & Teens Calendar

“Hunger” sculpture

“Broke” drawing

“Protest-Crackdown” print

“Gypsy” painting

“Celebrate” members group show �������������������������������������������������� Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Jul 5-27 Shelly Ottens ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Artology, New Windsor, Jul 13-25 “The Chuck Show” ������������������������������������������������� The Plunk Shop, Livingston Manor, Jul 5-Sep 1 Debbie Gioello new works �������������������������������������������������������ARTery Gallery, Milford, Jul 8-Aug 4 Lana Privitera ������������������������������������������������������������������������ PBAAC Gallery, Pine Bush, Jul 11-27 Tom Holmes “Men Built the World, Jessica Poser “Ruins” ������ bau Gallery, Beacon, Jul 12-Aug 3 CAS Summer Members’ Show ���������������������������������������������������������������������������CAS Jul 12-Aug 10 Shelly Ottens ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Artology, New Windsor, Jul 13-25 Iconic Orange County Scenes WRS members group show ������������������������������� WRS Jul 15-Aug 14 “Art Among the Vines” group show ���������������Basha Kill Vineyards, Wurtsboro, Jul 13, Noon-6pm “Studio Monday Art Group” Exhibit ������������������������������������ Grahamsville Library, Jul 13-Aug 31 John F. Gould Summer ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Elant at Goshen, Jul 15-Aug 4 River Valley Artists Guild and Joan Kehlenbeck “Capturing the Motion of Water through Pastels and Oils” SUNYO-OH Jul 17-Aug 12 Gary Abramson paintings, Linda Bastian paintings & drawings ������������������������DVAA Jul 18-Aug 9

Photography exhibits

“War & Memory” 11 photojournalists ���������������������������������� Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon, thru Jul 6 Edna Gonzalez-Rothenberg “Natures’ Inspirations” �������Highlands Photographic Guild, Milford, thru Jul 6

Linda Hubbard, Mary Ann Glass “The Sky’s the Limit” �RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Jul 7 Glenn Lieberman “Broadway” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������DVAA thru Jul 12 Tom Doyle, Mel Kleiman ������������������������������������������������� Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, thru Jul 31

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

Cinema

Family Fun Silent Classics ���������������������������� Neversink Museum, Cuddebackvillem, Jul 2, 7:30pm “The LEGO Movie” ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Florida Library, Jul 5, 2pm FREE

Museums

“Mastodons: Ice Age to Discovery” & Brook Trout Exhibit & Meet the Animal of the Week ����� HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, Noon-4pm Grasshopper Grove Gateway to Nature Play �������������������HHNM Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm Eco-Zone ����������� Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, Jul 19 & 27, 1pm-4pm

Music & Theatre & Magic

“Beauty & The Beast, Jr.” �������Forestburgh Playhouse, Thursdays & Saturdays, 11am, thru Aug 23 “Snow White” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ������������Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg, Jul 9-13 West Point Band & Quintette 7 w/petting zoo @ 6pm � Trophy Point Amphitheater, Jul 13, 6:30pm Matt Stevens Magic �����������������������������������������������������������������Liberty Library, Jul 17, 6:30pm FREE

recreation & Lectures - see also lectures on page 14

Painting Social for Children, Teens & Adults �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 3:30pm Free Teen Drop-in ��������������������� Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Wednesdays thru Sep 3, 2pm-5pm Nature Strollers families w/babies, toddlers, youngsters ��������������������������� HHNM Thursdays, 10am Family Film & Crafts bring Picnic Dinner ����������� Grey Towers Lawn, Milford, Jul 19, 7pm FREE Forest Ramble ���������������������������������������������������� Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, Jul 27, 1pm

HVSQ in Parksville & Bellvale

Cuba...Through the Eyes of Nick Zungoli

Donna Kushner, violin; Tara Goozee, violin; Lauren Buono, viola; and Jeanne Fox, cello.

The Hudson Valley String Quartet (HVSQ) is Tara Goozee (violin), Donna Kushner (violin), Piotr Kargul (viola) and Jeanne Fox (cello), residents of the Hudson Valley who have fused their love of the region with their love of music, and dedicated themselves to performing and teaching locally to enhance the cultural climate of their community.

Jeanne Fox told CANVAS, “due to Piotr Kargul’s prior commitments, we have violist Lauren Buono with us for our concerts in July.”

For the Parksville USA Music Festival, they will perform Mozart’s Divertimento No. 1 in D Major, K. 136 followed by Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, No. 5, probably the most popular of his 83 quartets. It’s nickname, ‘The Lark’, comes from the lovely song-like violin melody in the first movement.

After intermission comes Beethoven’s String Quartet in c Minor, Op. 18, No. 4, which shows a confident young man at work. However, in his

zeal to demonstrate his individuality, and not ‘copy’ Haydn and Mozart, he forgot to include a slow movement.

The July 12 concert is at 3:00pm in the Dead End Cafe, 6 Main Street, Parksville. For tickets, (or for Fridays at the Dead End’s jazz & blues), visit www.parksvilleusa.com or 845-292-0400.

Can’t make it? Then come to Beethoven Under The Stars and enjoy concert-side seating, conversation about the music, and a special menu prepared by Chef Erik Johansen as the HVSQ performs the same repertoire at Bellvale’s Iron Forge Inn, 38 Iron Forge Road, Warwick, on July 31 at 6:30pm.

Call 845-986-3411 for reservations.

“We’ve also been asked back to perform at the Black Dirt Feast in Pine Island August 5 at 7:00pm during dinner, and we look forward to having Piotr back with us for the Feast and our Fall concerts, which include a performance in Warwick at the Wisner Library, November 16,” Jeanne concluded.

Cuba presents many interesting and unique opportunities for a photographer. The embargo and subsequent Russian period of influence that ruined the country economically has created a culture lost in time.

Not only are the cars from a by-gone era, surprisingly a majority of the population still relies on horse and ox. Nature has not been ravaged by industrialization, the sort that wreaked havoc on America’s rivers during the 1950’s and 60’s.

There are no multinationals or big-box stores to homogenize the city or landscape.

Photographer Nick Zungoli has been traveling the globe since 1972. In March 2013, Nick added Cuba to a long list of photo projects. He shares his visual impressions in his latest special exhibit and in conjunction has published CUBA | Forbidden

Fruit, a limited edition coffee table book.

“For the first time in my thirty year career as a “color” photographer, I have chosen to present a body of work in black and white,” said Nick. “The gritty textures of Havana, the people, retro cars and culture seem to predate color film. Black and white photography strips away distractions and bites deep into the unadorned subject matter.”

Internationally recognized as the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, an exhibit of Nick’s photographs of Cuba will be on display from July 12-December 31 at Exposures Gallery, 1357 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf.

The opening reception and book signing is on July 12 at 7:00pm.

For information visit www.exposures.com or call 845-469-9382.

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Founder’s Day Street Fair 2014

Art, Wine & Views

Summer Student Show

“Basha Kill Vineyard” by Laurie Kilgore

Wurtsboro will close Sullivan Street to welcome thousands of visitors on July 19 for their annual Founder’s Day Street Fair.

From 12:00pm-6:00pm, vendors will be set up and down the street selling their arts and crafts, goods and foods.

Founder’s Day Street Fair began over 20 years ago. It is an entire day of family fun with two live music stages this year! For the kids, enjoy a full block of fun rides and face painting, glider discovery and flight simulator, and, of course, the Bike Show sponsored by O’Toole’s!

Let’s not forget yummy fair foods we all love along with all the delicious goods Wurtsboro restaurants have to offer. All the fine shops along Sullivan Street will be open.

Rifka’s Curiosity Shop and the Crystal Connection will offer psychic/intuitive and

palm readings throughout the day.

Music on the Lawn ~ Noon-6:00pm Music begins with blues, classic rock and country with Frederick Scribner, classic rock by Robert Simone, drumming with Djembe Drumming, classic ballads by Brad Scribner, and last but not least, alternative and dance music with First Round Cover Band. Bring lawn chairs!

Music by Danny’s Restaurant ~ Noon-7pm Musical acts include blues & rock by Galea & Galvanizers, country with Carl Richards, classic rock by Red Riding Hood & Big Bad Wolves, and ends with Frederick Scribner.

Visit www.wurtsboro.org for updates!

Founder’s Day Street Fair is sponsored by Jeff Bank and the Wurtsboro Board of Trade.

“Painting is my passion, and being able to create, teach and share my knowledge of the arts is something that I always strive for. I have been a resident of Sullivan County for most of my life.

I grew up in Monticello, and attended SUNY New Paltz where I received my Bachelors in Art Education, and a Masters in Painting. After spending a few years in New York City, I came back to my home town.

“Upon my return, I have become very active in the arts in the community, and have worked as an Art Educator for the Monticello Central School District. It is my intention to help the arts expand, grow and flourish amongst our youth and in my community,” says artist Laurie Kilgore, who will display her work along with others at the Basha Kill Vineyards (1131 South Road, Wurtsboro) in a viewing titled, Art Among the Vines.

Come out for an afternoon of art, wine and views of the Basha Kill wetlands on July 13 from Noon6:00pm. For information, call 845-888-5858.

“Hudson River Landscape”

by Alexandra, age 7

The Summer Program at Artology Studio enables students to use a variety of art materials to create art. The program is led by NYS certified art educators to provide quality instruction.

Students’ 2D and 3D artworks are inspired by, but not limited to, historically important artists and art movements, the students’ own environments, and the use of technology. Students work with at least two different art educators and create at least two artworks each day to keep them engaged.

A student art show, by Artology Summer Program students, ages 3-17, will run from July 28-August 8.

And, also for July at Artology, an opening reception for artist Shelly Ottens on July 13 from 1:00pm-4:00pm. Shelly’s solo show runs thru July 25.

Artology, 318 Blooming Grove Turnpike, New Windsor. For information: 845-391-8686.

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Wurtsboro Art Alliance: “Celebrate!”

Plate with Oranges by David Munford

Oil. Acrylic. Watercolor. Photography.

Sculpture. Jewelry. These are the many mediums that the Wurtsboro Art Alliance (WAA) member-artists use to create their original art.

Having grown up in Colorado and Wyoming, WAA member/artist David Munford followed a path which led him to the east coast of the United States, settling in Boston in the early 1980’s. While there, he attended the Art Institute of Boston, majoring in painting and printmaking.

In the early 90’s David relocated to the Catskill Mountains. He has since worked as a graphic designer, freelance cartoonist, CAD technician and web designer, all the while continuing to paint regularly. His oil paintings include plein air landscapes and traditional still-lifes, as well as abstract pieces. He currently resides and works in Grahamsville, and is a member of the Catskill Art Society,

Watercolor Batik by Sandy Spitzer

the WAA and the Wallkill River School.

Meet David and the artists of the WAA at the opening reception on July 5 from 2:00pm4:00pm for their new exhibit, Celebrate, in honor of Wurtsboro’s Founder’s Day. The show runs from July 5-July 27.

On July 5, the WAA will be joining in the Founder’s Day festivities by offering raffles.

Lucky winners can take home an original work of art, and various artists will be demonstrating their craft throughout the day.

The WAA continues to offer art classes on Saturday mornings. New classes are added monthly. Some of the classes offered are: photography, painting in oil, watercolor or acrylic, and drawing and clay classes. Sign up for a class and discover the artist in you!

For further information on the classes: waaclasses2014@gmail.com The WAA Gallery, 73 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro. E-mail info@waagallery.org

Love, Soul & Psychic Fair Weekend

The first thing most people say when they walk into Rifka’s Curiosity Shop is, “I was just curious.” What they come away with, however, is a better understanding of themselves.

The Wurtsboro shop is owned

by Rifka, a medium and psychic blessed with the ability to see her clients’ pasts and futures, and to commune with those who have passed on to the other side.

According to Rifka, her abilities started at infancy. “When I was a baby my first memories were dreams of a past life,” she said.

“Also, I would have premonitions of what was to come the next day.

I’d know where we were going, who was going to be there, what was around the next bend. It would drive my mother crazy.”

While it may have driven her up a wall, Rifka’s mother understood her daughter, the family having a long history of psychic abilities.

Her mother always worried about Rifka’s safety, however, and after she passed away, Rifka says she was led to the little storefront in Wurtsboro, which she feels was a gift from her mother; a permanent

A smiling Rifka

Healing crystals

Tarot reader Jennifer Wood

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place for her to do her readings.

The store is not just a place for her to see clients, but also carries a variety of unique items for sale, including a number of handpicked vintage items, glassware, miniature gargoyles, as well as new and gently loved books.

“It is a smattering of things from the 1930s to the present,” Rifka said. “Everything just kind of came about in a curious way.”

Meet Rifka at Crystal Connection’s annual Love, Soul, & Psychic Fair weekend, August 2, Noon-8:00pm and August 3, Noon-6:00pm where healings, readings and teachings abound!

The weekend boasts everything from a myriad of different crystals and teachings about them, mediums and intuitives, angel and ascended master readings, crystal skulls, palm and tarot readings, pulsed electro magnetic polarization, and sacred geometry to aura photography.

Crystal Connection is located at 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro.

For further information about the weekend, call 845-888-2547.

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Community Building Through the Arts with Susan Handler

Por t Jer vis 2014 Ar ts Walk

The arts are a powerful force in building a sense of identity and in harmonizing and celebrating our social, religious, and communal values. They are capable of mobilizing communities, and turning neighborhoods into places of interest to their residents and to visitors to the city. It has been demonstrated over and over that investment in the arts can benefit local and state economies by stimulating commerce. The tourists that are attracted to vibrant arts communities contribute to local economies by dining in restaurants, lodging in hotels, and purchasing gifts and services in the community, so well organized art events can benefit a community in multiple ways.

One such Orange County event is the Port Jervis Arts Walk. Local Port Jervis artist Dorothea Solomon conceived of this celebration sixteen years ago. Arts Walk has become a catalyst that has brought people, neighborhoods, local businesses, and government together. Up to 5,000 tourists attend traveling from as far away as Philadelphia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York City, and Boston.

This year’s Arts Walk is supported by the Tri-State Chamber of Commerce, The City of Port Jervis, the River Valley Artists Guild,

Tom Lovelace & his two daughters, Danielle & Elizabeth, are The Armoni’a Band!

the Port Jervis High School Honor Society, Bank of America, Sussex Bank, Frontier Communications, Port Jervis Council for the Arts, and Majestic-Star Entertainment.

Arts Walk 2014 will offer fine arts, handmade crafts, music and dance, ending the day’s events with a 9:00pm outdoor movie screening.

Throughout the day the River Valley Artists Guild will provide children’s art activities. On exhibit will be several fiberglass deers from Susan Miller’s 2009 public art project, Deerest Deerpark.

Performing at the event will be Obsidian, a local alternative rock band; Rick Skinner’s Lot 14 Band, a local rock and retro progressive band from Pine Bush; The Ponytails, Mark Lysogorski & the Black Dirt Sound’s accordion

Cassie Rodriguez & Kyle Kehlenbeck will be at Arts Walk showing off their work!

and synthesizer; and The Armoni’a Band, a rock band straight out of Port Jervis.

Arts Walk will be held on July 19 at 11:00am.

For information, contact Charlene Trotter, Executive Director of the TriState Chamber of Commerce: info@ tristatechamber.org Smiles from Port Jervis Arts Walk 2012! or call 845-856-6694.

Kids & UpFront Too!

For the first time, Port Jervis Arts Walk 2014 will span the gamut from fine art and fine craft professionals to adult students to college and high school students to kids.

At press time, included are works by students from Deerpark’s Bicentennial School, the Port Jervis Library Young Artists, Port Jervis High School Art Department, SUNY Orange and SUNY New Paltz, in addition to Port Jervis, Milford and Sugar Loaf area artists also.

And while in Port Jervis, be sure to stop by UpFront Exhibition Space.

UpFront currently has over 40 artists of all mediums in an exhibit including the fabulous miniature oil paintings of “Little Antwan” 2.5” x 3.5”

by Guillermo Caraveo artist Guillermo Caraveo, whose motto is, “Arte es mi pasión!” (“Art is my passion!”)

Get up-close with them at UpFront as some are as small as 1.3” x 1.8”!

UpFront is located at 31 Jersey Avenue, Port Jervis. The show runs thru July 27.

For more information, contact Gordon Graff or Debbie Raia at 845-856-2727, or visit their Facebook page by searching for “UpFront Exhibition Space.”

FARCE : Necessar y and Unnecessar y , Ellenville & Monroe

by Derek Leet

Necessary Farce It is a proven fact that laughter is good for your health. When we laugh, natural killer cells which destroy tumors and viruses increase, along with Gamma-interferon (a disease-fighting protein), T-cells (important for our immune system) and B-cells (which make disease-fighting antibodies). As well as lowering blood pressure, laughter increases oxygen in the blood, which also encourages healing.

Laughter is great for your diaphragm, abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg, and back muscles. It massages abdominal organs, tones intestinal functioning, and strengthens the muscles that hold the organs in place.

Not only does laughter give your midsection a workout, it can benefit digestion and absorption functioning as well. It is estimated that hearty laughter can burn calories equivalent to several minutes on the rowing machine.

Humor improves brain function and relieves stress. Laughter stimulates both sides of the brain to enhance learning. It eases muscle tension and psychological stress, which keeps the brain alert and allows people to retain more information.

Not only that, but laughing is fun! So why not go out and enjoy a plethora of good laughs!

Shadowland Theatre and Creative TheatreMuddy Water Players (CTMWP) are inviting you to laugh and lose weight.

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to unravel, and explodes into a farce of very necessary laughs.

If the Ellenville police do not arrest Artistic Director Brendan Burke for his previous repetitive infractions of making his audiences Shadowland cast: laugh-so-hard-and-get-painsBrian Smith, Molly Densmore, John-Patrick Driscoll & Susan Slotoroff.

Not pictured: Torsten Hillhouse, Ray Faiola and Sandy York. in-their-tumtums with his “Unnecessary Farce” door-slamming direction of farces such as Boeing “Two Cops. Three Crooks. Eight Doors! GO!” Boeing, Fully Committed, Black Comedy, Ladies Shadowland continues its string of successful Man and Lend Me a Tenor, then you can call farces with the regional premiere of Unecessary 845-647-5511 for tickets to the July 11-August Farce. Two hotel rooms, eight doors and a 3 presentation, at 157 Canal Street. crazy cast of characters propel this crime-based comedy to felonious levels of laughter.

“Moonlight and Magnolias” All the hallmarks of classic farce - mistaken According to CTMWP President/Producer identities; misinterpreted signals; language Bruce Roman, who has also given us a slew of confusion; unintentional innuendo; frustrated riotous evening-filled laughs in the past, “Farce lovers; and characters urgently, earnestly pursuing is a comic dramatic work using buffoonery a goal at which they will continually, comically and horseplay and typically including crude fail - are visited upon a familiar contemporary characterization and ludicrously improbable American plot: the police procedural in Paul situations. This definition truly does apply here Slade Smith’s Unnecessary Farce, co-produced to Moonlight and Magnolias, Ron Hutchinson’s

by Collier & Berger, PLLC; and Sprague & slapstick comedy.”

Killeen Insurance 1939 Hollywood is abuzz. Legendary Two rookie cops and the town’s pretty producer David O. Selznick has shut down accountant are trying to catch their embezzling production of his new epic, Gone with the Wind, mayor red-handed. But things aren’t quite as a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel. they seem, and somebody’s hired an unusual The screenplay, you see, just doesn’t work. hitman. The undercover sting operation begins So what’s an all-powerful movie mogul to

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CTMWP, Left to right: Drew Nardone, Michael Frohnhoefer, David Mossey, Kate Loftus

do? While fending off the film’s stars, gossip columnists and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends a car for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of The Wizard of Oz. Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor for five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time.

“Frankly, my dears, this is one funny play, and it is directed by Donna Polichetti,” Bruce said.

Tickets include dessert at intermission: apple pie, ice cream, cheese, iced tea and coffee.

July 11-27 at The Playhouse at Museum Village, Route 17M, in Monroe. For tickets visit www.CTMWP.org or call 845-294-9465.

CFFCM Summerfest & Paint-out 2014 Photography & Landscapes at DVAA

Summerfest at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum (CFFCM) will include the 2nd Annual Plein Air Paint Out and an Art & Craft Sale to complement the Museum’s 31st annual Jubilee and Anglers Market.

Artists will create a fishing themed art piece. The 1,000+ visitors throughout the weekend will vote on a “Best of Show” award, and the artwork created at the event will then be put on display in the Museum’s beautiful new “Stream in the Catskills” by Mitchell Saler, voted “Best Wulff Gallery for the CFFCM’s Plein Air Painting” at the CFFCM’s Jubilee & Paint-out 2013 Fall exhibit.

For a summer day out, bring the whole family! Those not interested in fly fishing can roam the field at their leisure and visit with the artists and crafters.

The Summerfest runs August 2 and 3, at 1031 Old Route 17, Livingston Manor.

For more information, call 845The Catskill Flyfising Center & Museum’s Jubilee 2013 439-4810. welcome to paint on the grounds). You’ll be able to use your area for additional pieces to Artist & Crafters Opportunity “Artists and artisans from all over the region go alongside the Plein Air artwork for sale, are invited to participate,” said CFFCM’s and then exhibit your art in CFFCM’s Wulff Gallery for our fall exhibit.”

Executive Assistant Erin Phelan.

To reserve your space, contact Erin Phelan “As an exhibiting artist, you’ll have approximately a 12x12 area (or you’re by calling 845-439-4810.

“Deer Stand” by Kit Sailer

Glenn Lieberman Born and raised in Brooklyn, photographer Glenn Lieberman began his artistic career as a classical composer, receiving a number of honors and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship.

But his love of photography produced a shift, and he began focusing on photography as a means of fulfilling his desire for artistic expression.

Broadway, an exhibit of photographs by Glenn at the Delaware Valley Arts Center’s (DVAC) Alliance Gallery, depicts life traversing the 13mile length of Broadway within the borough of Manhattan, from Bowling Green to Inwood.

“I photograph for intellectual stimulation and for the fun of trying to make images that can, perhaps, evoke/provoke thought or feelings, and that possess a kind of beauty,” says Lieberman.

Kit Sailer After a decade painting and making prints of sea animals, artist Kit Sailer began painting landscapes. “I was ready for a new body of work and wanted a subject outside of my comfort zone,” she explains. Painting on location required her to spend long periods outdoors. In the process, she gained a deeper understanding of the environment around her.

She teaches drawing and painting at the Visual Art Center of NJ and the Artist Teacher Institute and works with children through programs including the NJ State Council on the Arts Artist-in-Education, and outreach programs.

See Kit’s new work, You Are Here, in the Loft Gallery. Both shows run through July 12.

Paintings and drawings by Gary Abramson and Linda Bastian will be on exhibit July 18August 9 at 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg.

For information, phone 845-252-7576.

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The Laugh Tour in Eldred

When it comes to comedy, Marion Grodin can pretty much do it all...when it comes to life...well, she’s still working on paying her parking tickets and trying not to eat cake.

For the last decade, Marion has been one of the hottest comics in the country. She is always willing to be as self-revealing as she is probing of the audience. The result is a hilariously personal show that makes the audience feel like it was custom made just for them.

Marion knows firsthand that laughter is truly the best medicine, having survived breast cancer, divorce, and various addictions, including an

inappropriate relationship with Haagen Dazs.

Her dream is to be able to integrate her diverse life experiences, genuine concern for people, and unstoppable ability to make EVERYTHING funny.

Marion performs for The Laugh Tour at Hennings Local, 1040 Route 55, Eldred, on July 12 at 8:00pm.

If you want to eat before or during the show, call Henning’s ahead to make a reservation: 845557-8122. Dinner reservations are only available between 5:00pm-6:00pm and after 8:30pm.

For tickets, call 1-800-838-3006.

Tickets may also be purchased at the door.

“The first song I learned to play on guitar was Teenager in Love by Dion & The Belmonts,” said musician Steve Agostini a.k.a Sojourn.

Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, Steve had “the beach, the amusement park, and great music...a cappella groups singing in the park right near my house... times long gone, but what wonderful times they were,” recalls Steve.

Stevehas beenperforming once a month at Noble Coffee Roasters in Campbell Hall for 8 years. He covers old tunes, along with jazz standards from the 30’s and 40’s, and some of his own original songs. He enjoys giving the audience little tidbits

about some of the old tunes he covers, like how Dion & The Belmonts got the name for their group. “From Belmont in The Bronx,” says Steve. “I find that folks really enjoy some of the little bits of history I give them.”

Take a stroll down memory lane with Steve when he pulls a double header on July 12: 2:00pm at Seven Freedoms Music Center, 2136 Route 94, Salisbury Mills, 845-497-7005; and 7:30pm: Noble Coffee Roasters, 3020 New York 207, Campbell Hall, 845-294-1056.

“My gig in Salisbury Mills will be outside, weather-permitting, and I’ll do some covers and some originals, a pretty good mix.”

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May I Have A Word With You...Language and its Oddities with Carol Pozefsky Eek!!! A Mouse!!

An internet survey lists the greatest horror films of all time: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, (not the more recent remake), is listed as number one. Others on the list include: Howard Hawks’ The Thing from Another World, I Walked with a Zombie, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining about which one reviewer wrote: “It’s a smart, eerie, riveting psychological thriller that creates an unsettling but utterly believable world like few others in the genre. It’s a terrifying film for its openness, vivid color and the relentless way Kubrick draws you into the twisted and surreal world of the Overlook Hotel...just damn scary.”

In the Words of Actors & Playwrights Actress Bette Davis: “Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”

Actor Lawrence Olivier: “We have all at one time or another been performers and many of us still are: politicians, playboys,

cardinals and kings.”

Playwright Lillian Hellman on Tallulah Bankhead: “Tallulah was sitting in a group of people giving the monologue she always thought was conversation.”

Playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote to Prime Minister Winston Churchill: “Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend, if you have one.”

Churchill wired back: “Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second, if there is one.”

A Language all Their Own Whatever your life’s work, there are special words attached to it. Journalism is my trade and I occasionally tell people they’re ‘burying their lead’.

In show biz lingo, a gaffer is an electrician who operates and rigs stage lights; a best boy is a gaffer’s assistant.

The majors are the large Hollywood studios. A pitch meeting is a meeting at which screenwriter and/or producer proposes a film idea to potential financier or studio.

Until we meet again, readers!

Cornwall Strings in Montgomery

Music comes to Montgomery (Besame Mucho) and Latin when the Cornwall String classical (Bachianas Brasilieras Ensemble is joined by flutist # 5 by Villa-Lobos), and music colleague Laura Giorgio and

by Handel, Purcell, Saintthey perform a special concert Saens and Michel Legrand, under the aegis of the Grand with Laura Giorgio featured in Montgomery Chamber Music several solos and also duetting Series (GMCM). with husband Peter Giorgio on Ensemble manager Greg cello.

Phillips will be selecting Montgomery violist Sarah Tusch concertmaster/ music from a vast and eclectic Piotr Kargul has had a few ensemble leader repertoire, a potpourri of of his compositions classical, Broadway, film, performed in Middletown, folk and jazz. You will hear Montgomery and Port a bit of Bach, and Mozart, Jervis recently, including some pop and show his Valse Lointaine. “For tunes by Erroll Garner Montgomery, we will (Misty), Leroy Anderson be playing the original (Jazz Pizzicato), Leonard version of the Valse, for Bernstein (West Side viola solo and strings,” he Story), Bock & Harnick explained.

(Fiddler on the Roof) and The event is an “added Greg Phillips and Peter Giorgio Andrew Lloyd Webber extra attraction” to the (Cats & Phantom of the Opera), in GMCM season, produced by addition to classical and folk tunes Howard Garret and sponsored

by Brahms and Ulster fiddler Jay by the Village of Montgomery, the Ungar.

Town of Montgomery and many The ensemble’s vast repertoire local businesses. It is held at the also includes items like Fiddle beautiful Senior Center, 36 Bridge Dance, lovely string music ranging Street, on July 24 at 7:00pm. from Pachelbel’s famous baroque Plenty of parking. Admission is Canon to music by 21st Century’s free.

Piotr Kargul popular Karl Jenkins, Latin pop For info, call 845-457-9867.

CPE Bach’s 300th Birthday at Pacem

by Derek Leet

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) was the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach. His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann. He was one of four Bach children to become professional musicians. All four were trained in music almost entirely by their father.

CPE Bach’s Concerto in d minor for Flute was originally written for harpsichord. It’s inventive and free-moving style is very indicative of the changes happening in music between the baroque and classical periods.

“Come and celebrate CPE Bach’s 300th birthday! On July 20, Gregory Hayes will return to Pacem in Terris with our dear friend the brilliant flutist Albert Brouwer from Montreal. They will form the heart of an ensemble playing the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (and “friends”) in honor of his 300th anniversary,” said Pacem’s President Lukas Franck.

Originally from the Netherlands, Brouwer graduated with great distinction in flute from the Utrecht Conservatory of Music.

He has played under the baton of, among many others, Georg Solti, Lorin Maazel and Mstislav Rostropovitch. Passionate about chamber music, he performs regularly with different formations in Québec and the US. Along with violinist Krista Bennion

Albert Brouwer & Gregory Hayes

Feeney, harpsichordist Hayes is Pacem’s musical codirector. Hayes has taught piano and harpsichord at Dartmouth College since 1991. He is a busy chamber musician and orchestral keyboard player, and has appeared as soloist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. He plays harpsichord, piano, and celesta regularly for the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

The July 20 concert is at 5:00pm at 96 Covered Bridge Road, Warwick.

Come early and visit the Frederick Franck museum and sculpture garden alongside the meditative Wawayanda River!

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Narrowsburg Gears Up For RiverFest 2014 Milford’s 10th Annual Festival of Wood

Music, art, and the environment take center stage at Riverfest July 27 from 10:00am4:00pm on Main Street in Narrowsburg overlooking the Delaware River.

This year, Riverfest will go wireless with the assistance of Frontier Communications. Frontier will provide Wi-Fi hot spots throughout Main Street.

Visitors and vendors alike can join “FrontierCommunicationsFreeWiFi” network and enjoy free Wi-Fi throughout the day.

River Dogs on Parade opens the festivities.

Pooches and pups dressed up in creative attire strut their stuff, all hoping to win the “best of” awards, while emcee Kevin McDonough offers running commentary and the Dog Parade judges deliberate.

The Riverfest poster auction offers up over five dozen original works of art created especially for the occasion. Artists working in every conceivable medium from watercolor to fabric to wood, donate their work to be sold to the highest bidder by inaugural auctioneer Tony Staffieri. These posters are on display in the gallery windows of the Delaware Arts Center.

Everything for sale at Riverfest is artist-made.

Broom makers; potters; jewelers; textile, wood, and glass artists; writers, and painters all offer their wares. Get a book signed by the author or watch a chainsaw artist create a new sculpture, a potter throwing clay, or a fly tier making the perfect fly for the perfect catch.

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Music at the bandstand fills the air throughout the day. In the morning Donna Singer and The Doug Richards Trio play jazz, swing and blues with special guest Bill Fleck on trombone, and in the afternoon, you’ll hear the pop country sounds of Doug Rogers and the Backseat Drivers, featuring Chip Forelli, Marc Switko, and Doug Rogers.

Kids Korner is a place where children can create works of art or play games under the direction of Maureen Cookingham from 11:00am-2:30pm. Art projects range from masks to mini posters and kids get to take home their own interpretation of Riverfest.

The food court offers goodies from sesame noodles and hot dogs to cookies to kettle corn.

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 with assistance from First Student.

For information call 845-252-7576.

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Goods From The Woods is the focus of the tenth annual Festival of Wood at Grey Towers.

This family-friendly and free event offers a variety of activities and events that demonstrate the many ways we use and enjoy wood in our everyday lives. All are offered for free by the US Forest Service, the Grey Towers Heritage Association, the Pocono Arts Council and numerous partners, participants and collaborators.

The 1886 mansion will be open for selfguided tours throughout the weekend.

Craftsmen and artists from throughout the region will exhibit, sell and demonstrate their crafts, all made from wood.

Children’s activities include games and toys using wood and other craft activities. The New Jersey Forestry Department will have a cross-cut saw activity. Visits from Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl also are planned.

Educational exhibits and informational

handouts on such topics as beekeeping, chestnut trees, regional conservation initiatives, will be ongoing throughout the weekend. Free music with wood instruments will be provided each day.

See: Demonstrations on tree pruning and a portable sawmill. A free wildlife show.

The Master Chain Saws of America will demonstrate chain saw carving. The PA Woodmobile will be parked on site for visitors to walk through and learn about all the ways we use wood in our everyday lives. A forest hike at the nearby Milford Experimental Forest is planned.

The Festival runs from 10:00am-5:00pm on August 2 and 10:00am-4:00pm on August 3. Free shuttles from the parking areas are provided; free parking. A variety of refreshments will be available.

For a schedule of events and more information, visit www.greytowers.org or call 570-296-9630.

Stars Sing & Shine at SUNY Sullivan

There is nothing lie a super-star to thrill you with mind-boggling technique, hair-raising vocal artistry, gut-wrenching acting and spine-tingling charisma.

Included in the summer reruns of the Live from the Met in HD series on Wednesdays at 6:30pm at SUNY Sullivan in Loch Sheldrake are operas from the standard repertory, and a “new” opera inspired by two old stories with “old” music called The Enchanted Island.

Following Renee Fleming in Otello on July 9, an all-star cast headed by Joyce DiDonato and Plácido Domingo perform a contemporary take on the 18thcentury genre of the pastiche on July 16. This Baroque fantasy brings together more than 30 of the greatest arias and ensembles

by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Purcell, and other composers, with a new English libretto inspired by Shakespeare plays, in which the four lovers from A Midsummer Night’s Dream find themselves shipwrecked on Prospero’s island from The Tempest, leading to a tortuous web of comic and dramatic

romantic entanglements.

The world’s most famous love story, Romeo et Juliette, comes to operatic life on July 23 with two superstars, Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna, and - this time around, Plácido Domingo is on the podium.

On July 30 you can see familiar Met Emcee and noted Wagnerian soprano Deborah Voigt as the owner of a bar in a Californian mining camp, complete with whiskey-drinking cowboys, gunplay, a poker game, and a snowstorm. La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is Puccini’s musical vision of the American West. The opera has fewer of the showstopping highlights that are characteristic of other Puccini works, but is admired for its impressive orchestration and for a score that is more melodically integrated than is typical of his previous work. Conductor Arturo Toscanini called the opera a “great symphonic poem”.

Tickets to all showings may be purchased at the door or by calling the Box Office at 845-434-5750, extension 4472.

“Mr. Choade’s Perfect Storm” at NACL

The vibrant performers from New York City’s premiere variety cabaret, The Slipper Room, return to NACL after a sold out show last season.

The Slipper Room is the brain child of performer and producer James Habacker. When it opened in 1999, neo-burlesque was in its infancy. Before that time there had been some random shows in lofts and bars around the city, but the Slipper Room was the first venue built specifically to showcase the work of this burgeoning new collective.

The early shows were mostly comprised of performance artists, drag queens, experimental

dancers, sideshow acts, and anyone who showed up with an idea, no matter how outrageous, lewd, or illegal.

Twirling umbrellas, trapeze art, dancing raincoats, magical galoshes...and bad jokes! This year it’s a variety show with a weather theme. Mr. Choade’s Perfect Storm, is blowing through Highland Lake for one night only. Come prepared to be amazed, amused, titillated, and highly entertained on July 12 at 8:30pm. Adults only.

NACL, 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake. Call 845-557-0694 for information.

Composer and guitarist Steve Carlin writes passionate compositions and rhythmic pulses that showcase his music influences playing both electric and acoustic guitars.

Steve has played with groups ranging from 17piece orchestras to duos, and has performed and recorded as a soloist. He was host of Rhythm Changes on WJFF. Sam Morrison is a jazz saxophone and flute player/composer whose credits include being a member of the Miles Davis Band. Sam has played

with many legendary jazz greats like Gil Evans, Buster Williams, Woody Shaw, and Billy Hart, and is currently playing with Michael Henderson’s Electric Miles Band with performances at Ronnie Scott’s in London and Milan, Italy; and in New York City at CCNY and The

Jam to Live Jazz at Rolling River

Cutting Room.

See them perform on July 17 at 7:00pm at The Rolling River Cafe, Bar, Gallery & Inn, 25 Cooley Road, Parksville. No cover fee.

For further information, call 845-747-4123.

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Bach’s Solo Works in Woodbourne

For the second year, Aaron Cush had not been meant to serve as rigid is presenting a series of concerts in guides to performance but as a conjunction with the International departure point for music making, at Center for a Culture of Compassion the heart of which lay the performer’s (ICCC) in Woodbourne, a venue for own sense of personal expression. conferences, arts seminars, retreats In the process, Bach and his and concerts. pre-Classical colleagues were Building on a collaboration with transformed from quaint historical Aaron Cush ICCC and MISU (Music Institute figures into seminal composers whose of Sullivan and Ulster Counties) in music fully comes alive only when it is Ellenville, the second concert of the performed with the kind of spontaneous, year features violinist Nicholas Szucs; quasi-improvisational freedom that has violist Anastasia Solberg and Cush its best modern equivalent in jazz. on cello, in a concert titled, Bach Solo Bach composed many Works from High to Low. “unaccompanied” works for violin Sixty years ago, virtuosos played and for cello. But not for viola. The the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo cello suites have been transcribed for violin with little or no knowledge of numerous instruments, including the the way the music would have been Anastasia Solberg violin, viola, double bass, viola da performed in Bach’s time. The music gamba, mandolin, piano, marimba, was regarded by audiences as not only classical guitar, recorder, flute, deadly serious stuff, but deadly boring. electric bass, horn, saxophone, bass Even the greatest violinists played the clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, works as if they were exercises. And euphonium, tuba, ukulele, and in truth, that is what they had become, charango! as much for the superstars as for the “I will play Bach’s Cello Suite students. in E flat,” said violist Solberg. Join Midway through the ’60s, however, the three soloists for the July 20 at a revolution began in the way some 3:30pm concert at the ICCC, 2299 Nicholas Szucs musicians thought about Baroque-era Ulster Heights Road, Woodbourne. music. The new viewpoint was that written scores For tickets phone: 845-706-7364.

Whispering Pines Recipes with Chef Douglas Frey

Blueberries!

July was proclaimed National Blueberry Month by the USDA on May 8, 1999. Blueberries are grown in 35 states in the U.S., and the U.S. produces over 90% of all of the blueberries in the world. They have been used in soups, stews and more for centuries. According to Ark LA Tex, the Native Americans taught the pilgrims to use blueberries in many ways. Blueberries were dried in the sun and ground into a powder.

The powder was used to make a pudding called Sautauthig, and it was used to season meat as a spice rub.

Today, a relative of the blueberry plant is the oldest living thing on earth, estimated by botanists to be more than 13,000 years old. Skipping ahead from Adam and Eve, it is recorded that Virgil and Pliny recognized blueberries. However, they didn’t call them blueberries - they used the term which still identifies the blueberry plant, “Vaccinium”, a word rooted in the Latin “vaccinus” meaning cow.

On my mountain in Ulster Heights, I have acres of wild blueberries that I have been pruning for years and it’s proven to be quite fascinating because the berries have become much larger

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than the original ones. The problem? birds, bears and trespassers. But I still manage to get enough to make some of my favorite recipes.

Enjoy!

Wild Blueberry Smoothie 6 oz wild blueberries (fresh or frozen) 6 oz vanilla yogurt 1 T honey 2 cups ice Blend well at high speed. Serve.

Chilled Blueberry Soup 1 T cornstarch 2 cups cold water, divided 2.5 cups fresh blueberries, cleaned 3 T sugar 1.5 cup Marsala wine 1/2 c sour cream or yogurt 1. Mix cornstarch with 1/4 cup of cold water.

2. In saucepan combine blueberries, cornstarch, remaining water, sugar, wine.

3. Cook over low heat until blueberries soften, about 15 minutes.

4. Mix in blender or food processor until berries are smooth. Chill well in refrigerator.

5. Before serving, stir in sour cream or yogurt; ladle into chilled bowls. A unique summer appetizer or a low fat dessert!

For culinary questions, personal chef services or catering needs, I may be reached at Whispering Pines Caterers, 845-647-1428 or via e-mail: whisperingpinescaterers@gmail.com.

Lawrence Farms for The Wallkill River School’s “Farm-Art Trail”

Artists from the Wallkill River School (WRS) have teamed up with farmers once again to bring cultural tourism to Orange County.

Fifteen artists have been painting at fifteen farms for the past year. The artists are being featured in month-long solo shows at the WRS. Fresh produce from these farms is served at the receptions, and the artist’s work is also displayed at the respective farm’s stand.

This unique partnership of artist and farmer is part of a larger effort by the WRS, in conjunction with Orange County Tourism and the Orange County Arts Council, to develop agricultural tourism and create local economic impact through the arts.

Artists Jane Lawrence and Debbe Cushman Femiak will feature their paintings of Lawrence Farms from July 1-31 with an opening reception on July 12 from 5:00pm7:00pm.

Sal Russo is July’s emerging WRS artist.

Jane Lawrence Jane Lawrence is both a farmer and an artist making her uniquely qualified to paint the beautiful land where she works on a daily basis.

Lawrence is part of the family that has worked Lawrence Farms since 1892 and is one of three generations now working the farm. In addition to being an accomplished farmer, Lawrence is also an accomplished artist. Her main medium

“Apples” by Jane Lawrence

is pastel, and she sensitively paints the ripe apples and strawberries she grows, as well as the occasional plein air painting in the fields between chores. This is Lawrence’s first solo show in many years and a beautiful view of Lawrence Farms through the eyes of the resident artist!

Debbe Cushman Femiak Debbe Cushman Femiak was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont, and moved to the Hudson Valley area in 1996. She currently lives in Newburgh.

Debbe teaches fiber art classes at the WRS on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and attends other artists’ classes whenever time permits. She is a multi-media artist, comfortable with many mediums. She enjoys working with pastels, watercolor, acrylics, and drawing, and, for a long time, has loved knitting and crocheting.

“Visit to Lawrence Farms Orchards” by D. Cushman Femiak

Growing up, she focused mostly on portraits, but lately, she has been more inspired by the scenery of the Hudson Valley. Professionally, she still continues doing family and pet portraits, which have been given to many a loved one on special occasions. Her favorite subject, however, is flowers.

See page 12 for our Spotlight On Sugar Loaf Guild column for more on Debbe and her new shop that she has named Imagine This.

Sal Russo “Being passionate about something you love requires determination, dedication and discipline. I strive to achieve my artistic goals with this philosophy in mind, laced with fun and laughter. The discipline part is a tough one, but I’m mastering it. I’ve loved art from the time I could hold a pencil, but never got the guidance

Still life by Sal Russo

or education to further my knowledge, so I was, for the most part, self-taught. I did sketch and on certain occasions paint, but it was always a struggle, albeit a happy struggle,” says Sal. Only recently, in the past three and a half years, did Sal begin to realize his goals. He fully immersed himself in figure, portrait, still-life and botanical art and now is having his first solo show of the fruit of this labor.

And there you have it, readers! July at the WRS promises to be yet another amazing exhibit; and be sure to also check out: The Student Gallery, features George Hayes’ Perspective/Palette Knife class, and the WRS Members’ Hallway theme: Animals thru July 14 and Iconic Orange County Scenes from July 15-August 14.

The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street, Montgomery. Admission is always free.

For information: 845-457-ARTS.

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River Valley Artists Guild Summer Show & “New Demo” Idea

“Stephen Crane Pond, Forestburgh

by Joan Kehlenbeck

“Lavender Eminence” by Susan Miiller

It’s been ten years since a small group of artists got together and decided to form the River Valley Artists Guild (RVAG). The late Bernie Kilbourn, along with his artist-friends Matilda Grech, Paul Horsman, Elaine Tedesco, and Elizabeth Hayes, all then residents of Port Jervis, put their combined years of experience together to start the group. They wanted it to be a broad spectrum arts organization, so the word ‘guild’ was used in order to include artisan craftsmen.

Through this first decade, various types of works have been displayed at the members’ shows.

Orange Hall Gallery at SUNY Orange is the venue July 15-August 12 for their 2014 Summer Members Show. The exhibit includes works in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, pencil, graphics, mixed media, and airbrush. Works are representational as well as abstract.

Another show on the wall of Orange Hall Gallery Fringe, entitled Capturing the Motion of Water through Pastels and Oils features paintings

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“Spring Awakening” by Daniela Cooney

by RVAG president Joan Kehlenbeck.

Kehlenbeck, a pastelist who resides in Cuddebackville, is also chairwoman of the RVAG show. She is an enthusiastic participant in the Port Jervis Arts Walk. She also presents successful art workshops for children. In addition, she is a topnotch seamstress, whose stitchery nearly equals in quality her paintings.

Although, most RVAG members come from communities bordering the Delaware River, some come from Middletown, Poughkeepsie, and Monroe as well as Milford and Branchville, NJ. An opening reception will be held on July 27 from 1:00pm-4:00pm during which classical guitarist, Joy Zelada of Newburgh will entertain and Kehlenbeck will give a demo entitled Triptych Seascapes on Canvas.

“I wanted to do something different, that no one has done before. I had this idea. I am going to hinge three thicker canvases than usual, sort of like a triangle...more like a sculpture...when

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“Wipeout” by Elva Zingaro

I am finished it will be “a Triptych Seascapes” with oil...probably going to do some use of palette knife and brushes. I developed a little technique I do with my hands, with surgical gloves, to create the waves.

“Instead of the usual 30-60 minute demo, I will be working for three hours during the reception and people can see the creation of a continuous ocean going around the three sides...water flowing in a circular motion, a three-sided canvas, not like a “single” demo. People can view as I paint on one side to the other...as they walk around the sides and get the idea of water flowing.

“Hopefully they will be intrigued. Anyone can come at any period of time and watch it evolve within the three hours.”

The exhibits and reception are free and open to the public. Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown.

For more information, call 845-341-4891.

N. Branch & Bethel

Alyssa Bonagura, Harrison Whitford, Rebecca Correia

Still in her twenties, Rebecca Correia is a young veteran whose artistry stretches back 15 years. Growing up on a rural horse farm in a little town in Massachusetts, Rebecca savored her natural surroundings and began writing songs at age nine. Within a few years, she completed her studies and earned her degree at the Hartt School of Music and expanded the reach of her live performances in cities all across America, from Boston and New York to Miami and Los Angeles.

This month, coming straight from Nashville and heading to a New York City gig, the Nashville trio of Rebecca Correia, Alyssa Bonagura and Harrison Whitford will make stops in Sullivan County.

They perform at North Branch Inn, 869 North Branch-Hortonville Road, North Branch, on July 8 at 7:00pm, and then at Dancing Cat Saloon, State Route 17B, Bethel, on July 9 at 8:00pm.

For more information: 845-583-3141.

An Introduction to : Art Works Showcase & Galler y and Amity Galler y

Art Works Showcase & Gallery

Valerie Lacey of Art Works Gallery

Story and photos by Leslie Fandrich Art Works Showcase & Gallery Valerie Lacey opened her shop on Main Street, across from Caffé a la Mode, in the town of Warwick last November with work from 10 local artists. She now has 72 artists selling a wide range of media including ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, painting, photography, wood and textiles. You can find everything from small gift items to large statement art pieces for your home.

Each piece is hand crafted, often has a touch of nature and a story to tell. Valerie takes pride in the items that she has curated into the shop and she feels a deep sense of

purpose in not only sharing the work of local artists but also in representing and encouraging artists both young and old. The youngest artist is in her early 20s and just sold her first sculpture and the oldest is in her 80s.

Valerie had a creative childhood but as an adult she pursued an administrative career at a non-profit. During that time she kept her creativity flowing with scrapbooking and floral design. Facing the milestone of her 50th birthday, she decided it was time to combine her creative eye with her administrative skills and open a store consigning artwork from local artists. From idea to opening took only six weeks and she didn’t imagine how much it would grow in just six months.

Art Works is located at 2 Oakland Avenue in Warwick and is open Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11:00am6:00pm. Saturdays from 10:00am-6:00pm

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“Lakeside” by Debbie Gioello

In last month’s CANVAS, we talked about artist Debbie Gioello, who owns Debbie’s Art & Gift Room in Port Jervis. Debbie will have an exhibit at The ARTery Gallery alongside artist Barbara C. Thompson from July 10-August 4.

Debbie is a contemporary artist who works in many mediums including watercolors, acrylics, etchings and photography in both impressionist and representational styles. She is introducing a special series of new work.

The new works are impressionistic and abstract pieces that feature large canvases embracing blends of color and texture executed using acrylic and alkaline paints. The series includes an ethereal rendition of her Visions of a Flower Garden. The watercolor paintings utilize a weton-wet technique of watercolor paint infused in rag content paper finished with multiple layers of acrylic glaze.

Amity Gallery entrance

and Sundays from 11:00am-5:00pm.

Visit www.warwickvalleyartworks.com for more information.

Amity Gallery Amity Gallery is the newest gallery space to open in the Warwick Valley. It opened in June with an exhibit titled, Three Points of View featuring the work of Lynn Youland, Bernard Carneol and Linda Winton.

Located next to the Amity Thrift Shoppe, the gallery is run by the Chardavogne Group. The group has owned the property that the thrift shop and gallery occupy for more than 40 years. Volunteers started fixing up the building a few months ago, re-doing the floors and painting the inside and outside of the building. It’s now a beautiful space to showcase local art.

The property has a rich history. It was once a roadhouse where travelers could stay,

Inside Amity Gallery

a school classroom, a bakery and a workshop and gallery for artist David Walters.

Amity is a hamlet in the town of Warwick and the Chardavogne group has been in the area since the late 60s. They follow the teachings of Willem Nyland. Mr. Nyland was a student of G.I. Gurdjieff. The Group, The Institute for Religious Development, Inc., periodically holds open meetings when the public is invited to learn more about the teachings and practices.

In August a Retrospective of the works of Eugene Arcieri is planned. “Gene” moved to Woodstock in 1950. He was an active member of the Woodstock Artists Association and served on the Board of Directors as Chairman of Exhibition Committee in the 80’s. In September, a group show featuring local artists will be opening.

Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road, Warwick. For information: 845-258-4563.

“Pond IV” by Barbara C. Thompson

Barbara is primarily a self-taught oil landscape painter known for vivid colors and strong palette knife work.

As an artist member of the Salmagundi Art Club in Manhattan, she has exhibited in NYC and Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2009, she moved from NYC to upstate so that she could paint in the Hudson and Delaware Valleys.

Among her collection of paintings, viewers will also find Thompson’s works from Grey Towers’ lily pond. Beginning with sketches on site, Thompson later developed her impressions of the pond with palette knife and bold colors, allowing each painting to move in its own unique direction.

Meet Debbie & Barbara at the opening reception: July 12, 6:00pm-9:00pm.

ARTery Gallery is located at 210 Broad Street, Milford. Call 570-409-1234.

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Weekend of Chamber Music: World Class Chamber Music in The Catskills

by Philip Ehrensaft

The coup for the twentieth edition of the Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM) Festival in 2013 was landing 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner John Harbison as its resident composer. That’s a hard act to follow, but WCM’s artistic co-directors, composer/improvisor/ violinist Andrew Waggoner and cellist/Juilliard prof Caroline Stinson, have done it again in 2014.

The resident composer this year is Shulamit Ran, winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in composition.

The initial editions of WCM were just what the name of the festival stated: a weekend of chamber music to be savored in the Catskills. The 2014 edition turns twenty-one with seven evening or afternoon concerts, some ticketed and some free, spanning from July 13 to July 26, in five venues in five different towns. So perhaps it’s time to rebaptize WCM as the Really Long Weekend of Delightful Chamber Music.

Quality, even more than quantity, is where the new WCM shines. WCM’s innovative musical signature shows every potential of transforming a fine regional event into a nationally prominent festival in the crowded, highly competitive summer season.

That musical signature reflects the artistic goals of WCM’s founder, Judith Pearce. For starters, Pearce’s successful performance career as a flutist on both sides of the Atlantic, and a teaching position at Princeton, meant that she could pick up the phone and, right off the bat, assemble a class-act team of musicians who were ready and willing to make

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beautiful music in the beautiful Catskills.

Second, Pearce refused the ghetto wall that all too frequently divides artists into camps specializing in standard classical repertoire or contemporary composers respectively. She is both a master of the core repertoire and actively involved in the Big Apple’s New Music Scene. Mozart and Beethoven created the New Music of their time and place, creating plenty of grumbles from traditionalists.

Pearce aimed at a festival where what once was New Music and the New Music of our times would cohabit and reinforce one another.

Third, Pearce has a distinct lack of founder’s syndrome. She decided that it was time to hand over the baton to a kindred-spirit successor who also refuses walls between traditional repertoire and New Music, and who would bring additional aesthetic dimensions as well.

In 2009, Pearce invited the University of Syracuse’sAndrewWaggoner to beWCM’s resident composer - and improvisor. Waggoner also plays a mean violin, and is at the forefront of a movement to return improvisation to the core of classical music, as it was from Bach through Liszt. As is his wife, Caroline Stinson. Their collaborations include Open End, a string and piano quintet that performs both composed and improvised New Music. They can be heard in both formats on a critically acclaimed Albany Records CD of Waggoner’s compositions and improvisation, Terror and Memory.

Waggoner and Stinson also have a penchant for New Music that is simultaneously engaging and approachable for listeners without musical training

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OPENING DAY “ON THE LAWN” FREE July 13, 3pm at First Presbyterian Church, Jeffersonville. Judith Pearce, flute; Matt Sullivan, oboe; Adam Schommer, French horn; Gina Cuffari, bassoon; Pavel Vinnitsky, flute

or much experience listening to contemporary composers, while also technically rigorous and challenging for trained musicians or experienced listeners. They are also very interested in composers from the eighteenth century through the present day who bring elements of folk music into their creations. Inviting Shulamit Ran as this year’s resident composer makes eminent sense in terms of these musical preferences.

Ran, born in TelAviv in 1949, was a child prodigy pianist who began composing at the age of seven, setting Hebrew poems to music. In Israel, noted for the rigor of its classical music training, she studied with Alexander Uriah Boskovich and Paul BenHaim, two creators of the Mediterranean School of Israeli composition. This approach wedded Middle Eastern and European sonorities and rhythms, aiming for a new, original whole.

At the age of 14, Ran won a scholarship to attend the Mannes School of Music in New York,

and ultimately went on to become both a faculty member and post-doctoral student of Ralph Shapey at the University of Chicago in 1973. Shapey (19212002) was an insufficiently sung hero of American composition, with a determinedly personal and unclassifiable style that simultaneously evidenced both modernist angularity and romantic lyricism.

The Pulitzer Prize music jury named Shapey as the 1992 winner, but was over-ruled by the Pulitzer Board, and publicly protested against the unqualified board’s decision.

Ran’s choice of Shapey as her mentor is indicative.

“Pantonal” is a term used by the musicologist Neil Levinson to depict Ran’s music, a highly personal meshing of advanced post-1945 compositional strategies and intense emotional expression.

Communicating with her listeners is at the heart of things.

In Ran’s own words: “I want my music to challenge both the mind and the heart and to do so in equal fashion.” There will be a “MusicTalks!” evening with Ran on July 17 at 7:30pm in the Catskill Distilling Company in Bethel. It features both performances of her music and an audience Q&A moderated by Andrew Waggoner.

I know exactly where I’ll be on the evening of July 17!

Editor’s note re July 17: To avoid other Bethel concert traffic, WCM will have alternate directions on its website. And we suggest leaving early and dining at the Dancing Cat Saloon (full dinner menu) or the Distillery (sandwiches).

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