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June 2015

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Publisher’s Column by Barry Plaxen My thanks to those who wrote remembrances of Chris Farlekas for us, and my apologies for our needing to shorten them. An endowment fund for Friends of Chris Farlekas has been set up by the Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan. Donations made to the fund in Chris’ name will enable the Friends to not only help community activist organizations that Chris was involved with, but also to enable reviving Chris’ yearly presentations of scenes from musicals performed by our talented area high school students, and also to help create other arts events in his name. See page 3. Multiple celebrations honoring Chris’ life will most likely take place throughout the year by various groups including Friends of Chris

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Farlekas in various locales and venues. A website for Friends is in the planning stages. Carrying on the Chris Farlekas legacy of presenting talented youngsters, unbeknownst to him and to those involved, are some wonderful events to which I would like to call your attention. Starting in Liberty, there are three visual things to look for: an Elementary and Middle School art show, a Liberty High School art show and “themed chairs” made by Liberty’s National Art Society teens. See page 9. Bach abounds with kids and teens in Cornwall-on-Hudson (see page 22), and Monticello HS students perform alongside professional and college-age alumni (see page 14). There’s more. A Youth Choir, HS Jazz, and Dance Recital, see “Schools and Conservatories” on calendar pages 15 and 18.

Letters to the Editor Dear Barry, What a great and wonderful surprise! I was just standing looking at the student art exhibit at SUNY Orange in Middletown, having come in the back entrance, when Angelo came through the art entrance with a copy of CANVAS in hand! Yesterday, when I came back to do a demo for Randy Eisman’s art class, I was, of course, showing off CANVAS. Then upstairs, Dorothy Szefc was pasting stickers on copies of CANVAS to give to instructors who had students who had made appearances in your publication. You and the staff are giving such an amazing gift to the community. And having the place on the cover makes me want the month to last as long as possible. Yours faithfully, Cynthia Harris Pagano, artist

Dear Barry, Thank you for all your help with our Tricky Tray Fundraiser. This event was very successful because of community minded individuals like yourself. You are always willing to lend a hand with getting the word

out to your viewers. For that we are truly grateful. Sincerely, Mulberry House Senior Center CANVAS, I just read the very nice article you published about the Barn at Elm Lake and the art show. Thank you very much for this. Best Regards, Bruno Loehrer CANVAS, Thank you so much for the lovely little piece on my show at Amity Arts. Flavia Baccarella, artist Dear Barry Thanks for the lovely obit you ran for my dad in the CANVAS this month. It was very sweet of you to remember him. I have several copies of the paper and will send the article to my sisters and give one to Betty as well. Dawn Ansbro, Orange County Arts Council

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Community Building Through The Arts ��21 May I Have A Word With You ��21 Meet Me in The Green Room ��7 Meet Me in The Library ��19 Spotlight On: Sugar Loaf Guild ��28 Whispering Pines w/ Chef Frey ��31

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Community Arts: News Views And Schedules Managing Editor, Barry Plaxen barry@dhcanvas.com Co-Publisher, Marc E. Gerson ads@dhcanvas.com Editor, Sophia Krcic editor@dhcanvas.com Delaware & Hudson CANVAS 297 Stone Schoolhouse Road Bloomingburg, NY 12721 www.dhcanvas.com 845.926.4646 phone 845.926.4002 fax Please email calendar submissions by the 15th of the prior month to calendar@dhcanvas.com Please email submissions for classifieds, opportunities & auditions to classified@dhcanvas.com Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Downing Park Planning Committee �� 25 Festivals �� 4-6 Forestburgh Playhouse ��7 Free Music Series �� 29 Greater Newburgh Symphony Orch. �� 24 Grey Towers, Milford �� 12 Hudson Valley Arts LIVE, Newburgh �� 25 Jazzmosis �� 26 Jubilate Youth Choir, Warwick �� 27 Karpeles Museum, Newburgh �� 24, 25 Liberty Schools Art Shows ��9 Livingston Manor Trout Parade �� 4, 5 Luft Gardens, Sugar Loaf �� 28 Mainframe Gallery, Middletown �� 30 MISU, Ellenville �� 30 Mount St. Mary Desmond Campus �� 21 NACL Theatre, Highland Falls �� 6, 7, 22 Nesin Cultural Arts, Monticello �� 14 Newburgh Illuminated �� 5, 6 Nick Zungoli, Photographer �� 29 Pacem in Terris, Warwick �� 12 Parksville USA Music Festival ��11 Port Jervis Council for the Arts �� 32 Rolling River Cafe, Parksville �� 13 Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf ��11, 23 Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville �� 10 Silvano’s Zephyr 2 Guitar Group �� 27 Space Create, Newburgh �� 25 Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center � 14, 20 Sullivan County Community Chorus �� 28 Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop �� 26 SUNY Orange �� 8, 25 Upper Delaware GLBT �� 23 Wallkill River School, Montgomery ��9 Weekend of Chamber Music ��8 Wurtsboro Art Alliance �� 10

Chris Spero Farlekas What a loss for humankind.

Nancy Proyect, Orange County Citizens Foundation

Chris Farlekas is survived by the six figure, or possibly even seven figure, number of his extended family members whose lives he touched. From Orange and Sullivan ELHI students, to parents and families of Korean War vets, to the thousands of people he interviewed, to his loyal legion of readers, to his West Point liaisons, his religious and spiritual flocks, to those in hospice, to the seniors at SUNY Orange’s Encore program, to the poor and homeless, to Vets with PTSD, to battered women, to aspiring high school musical theatre performers, to his lifelong Port Jervis friends, to his neighbors, and to us here at CANVAS who were pleased as punch to have him write articles for us to help us get started 11 years ago. Barry, Marc, Sophia

He was a wonderful man and a great supporter of the arts. He will be sorely missed.

Dawn Ansbro, Orange County Arts Council

For Chris, being a Greek-American was a badge of pride that came with the responsibility to represent his heritage by living a life of philótimo, a profound ancient Greek word that defies translation. It is about honor, respect and “doing good” for your family and society through random acts of generosity and sacrifice without expecting anything in return. Philótimo is considered to be the highest of all Greek virtues. According to Wikipedia, philótimo literally means “love of honor”, although it really describes a complex array of virtues that determine how one should behave in their family and community. In its simplest form, it is about honor, pride and respect and doing the right thing. Philótimo is to get satisfaction from giving without expecting anything in return. You epitomized philótimo, dear friend, and have enriched our lives in so many ways. It has been a privilege to be part of your family. Julie Ziavras

Chris was kind enough to let me do a portrait

April 23, 1929 - May 5, 2015

a reporter was expected to write each day, usually two display stories and at least two shorter stories about which they often complained. But Chris wrote 10 and they were usually the most interesting stories 1947 HS yearbook Willard Schadt “Chris” by Willard Schadtpublished in the newspaper the next day. He also was the most interesting Chris’ interests were so varied. I can list many and sought out person in any gathering he different instances when we visited together, attended. starting in early childhood when I visited To him writing and talking to people were Spero’s Ice Cream Shop. Then as a cub reporter, never work. He often worked weekends as Chris wrote about my well as weekdays, but oldest son, Kurt’s first day he enjoyed his weekend of school in Kindergarten assignments the most, and then remarkably he because in those days there remembered to interview was no Sunday paper and him again 13 years later therefore, no deadlines to when he graduated from meet and more time to Port Jervis High School. spend getting to know those Chris visited my about whom he wrote. He students when we was very much a people performed Shakespeare person and his writing plays in elementary school. showed it. He once said he He shook everyone’s hand wrote 22,000 stories in his and told them what a great career. I certainly believe job they did. him because he was such Through the years he “Chris” by Cynthia Harris Pagano, 2015 a prolific writer. presented programs at the Deerpark Museum, Much has been said and written about those as well as writing about our other programs. less fortunate than he who he has helped in When museum members sold their handmade lifetime. He had no bounds in helping and crafts, he bought the whole lot to give away as writing about others and for that he will long gifts. be remembered. Chris was an amazing man who always made John Szefc Former Editor & Publisher, Times Herald-Record you feel as if you were the most important person on the planet. I was inspired to create this painting of Chris Norma Schadt, Town of Deerpark Historian after hearing him speak on Vincent van Gogh. Years ago Chris used to dye his hair red, Chris Farlekas and I went to work at the gather books together along with other van Record at about the same time, he in late 1964 Gogh items. He would sometimes travel alone as a news reporter and I early in 1965 as a sports or with a couple of people and tell the story of reporter. He was easy to get to know in those van Gogh. He traveled around locally and across very early days and we used to get together after country telling the story, many times speaking work late at night or early the next morning just in churches, since van Gogh was an ordained after midnight, at Walt’s Diner, in Middletown. minister. Chris would end his performance with Management had an unofficial quota of stories of him a few years ago. He patiently sat through a long photo shoot in my basement. I spent many weeks looking closely at Chris’ photograph. If only I had been a better painter. What a loss.

Don McLean’s Vincent (Starry, starry night). Chris’ passion was so inspirational. I went home and started planning out my painting. I loved watching him so much that I saw him perform it several times, and once Chris & Jill Constantino I had him come to the Middletown Art Group to perform. Jill Constantino, Middletown Art Group

As a young dancer I had many an occasion to be interviewed and photographed by Chris Farlekas. Other than those we rehearsed and performed with, Chris was one of the few who understood the breadth of our commitment and respected the love of our art. I was always intrigued how he asked such insightful questions about our work, and was able to relay the essence of our story in such an creative and meaningful way. While I first met “Mr. Farlekas” as a very young dancer, we would continue to cross paths each year as I danced through high school. He spoke to me not as a child but as an artist. It meant a lot that he’d been the one person who’d covered me throughout all my years of dance. Chris chronicled some of my most memorable childhood moments...articles I still have today. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one he made feel special, but he always made me feel I was the only one. I’ve remembered him fondly all these years, and always will. Rest well Chris. (Melissa) “Missy” McCoy Alumna - Orange County Ballet Theatre, Abilities First, Inc., Poughkeepsie

Donations made to the Friends of Chris Farlekas Endowment will perpetuate Chris’ legacy, permanently and forever. If you would like to make a gift on behalf of Chris, checks can be made payable to: “CFOS: Friends of Chris Farlekas Endowment Fund” and mailed to: Community Foundation of Orange & Sullivan, 30 Scott’s Corner Drive, Suite 203, Montgomery, NY 12549.

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F E S T I VA L S ! Hoboken Film Festival thru June 4 Now in its tenth year, the 2015 Hoboken International Film Festival (HIFF) showcases numerous film and TV stars, and the world’s most cutting edge films. HIFF is being held May 29-June 4 at the Paramount Theater, 17 South Street in Middletown, with the Gala Awards Ceremony hosted by Gilbert Gottfried. The 2015 HIFF 10th Anniversary Award for Excellence in Film & the Arts will be personally accepted by legendary actor Paul Sorvino on May 29. Past recipients of the HIFF Lifetime Achievement award include Eric Roberts, Robert Loggia, Cloris Leachman, Michael Biehn, Billy Dee Williams, Carroll Baker, and Charles Durning. For a schedule, tickets or all access passes, visit www.vendini.com or call the Paramount Theatre at 845-346-4195. VikingFest Dinner:June 6 (reserve by 6/1) The public is invited to enjoy a delicious homemade meal and all the trimmings at the annual Viking Fest Dinner hosted by Sons of Norway, Bernt Balchen Lodge. The menu consists of stuffed roast pork, mashed potatoes, vegetables, homemade soup, homemade bread and desserts to please everyone! Coffee and tea will also be served. There will be music, too!

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It all happens on June 6 at 6:00pm at the Lackawaxen Fire Hall, 774 Route 590. Reservations must be in by June 1. Call Elsie at 570-685-7086 so you don’t miss out on this treat! Kadampa’s Summer Fun Fair: June 6 The 7th annual Summer Fun Fair at Kadampa Meditation Center in Glen Spey takes place on June 6, from 11:00am-4:00pm. The Fair includes local artists and vendors galore - a flea market, cafè, live music, nature trails, temple tours, and even meditation for beginners! Kids will be delighted when Bubbles the Magical Clown makes an appearance, and other kids’ activities are lined up, too. Kadampa is located at 47 Sweeney Road, Glen Spey. For info: 845-856-9000. C-o-H RiverFest: June 6 The Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson will host its 18th annual Hudson RiverFest, on June 6 from 11:00am to 6:00pm. in Donahue Park on the shores of the Hudson River, and will feature a full day of music and entertainment, children’s activities, and a large craft and food fair, river activities, food stands, and non-profit groups and contributors. The Somerville Brothers Band, a crowd favorite last year, will be back, joined by several other bands including Leo B, Hurley

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Mountain Highway, Out of the Blue and Hard Soul. There is no charge for RiverFest. Visitors are invited to bring a blanket or lawn chair and head to Donahue Park in Cornwall-on-Hudson for a great day. Visit www.river-fest.com C-o-H ArtFest: June 7

At the 2nd annual Hudson River ArtFest artist Paul Gould will be painting a Hudson River scene throughout the show, the Cornwall Central Middle School String Trio will perform at 1:30pm, and an awards ceremony takes place at 3:00pm, judged by awardwinning photographer Tom Doyle. Be sure to cast your ballot for the People’s Choice Award. Voting is for all categories. Ballots should be returned by 2:30pm at the Welcoming Tent. Light refreshments will be available at the Cornwall Yacht Club adjacent to the tent in Donahue Park on the riverfront. The ArtFest will take place rain or shine from Noon to 4:00pm on June 7. The Hudson River ArtFest committee is grateful to event

sponsors: Hudson Street Cafe, Cornwall Wines, Leo’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, Newburgh Art Supply, The River Bank Bistro, Gayle Clark Fedigan, Robert Rosenberger, and Paul Gould. For information, call the Village Mayor, Brendan Coyne, at 845-534-4200, Ext. 7. Livingston Manor Trout Parade: June 13 The 12th Annual Livingston Manor Trout Parade, Sullivan County’s own version of Mardi Gras, is scheduled for June 13 in Livingston Manor, rain or shine. The Catskill Art Society (CAS) invites you to take part in the region’s funkiest community parade and street fair. This event takes us Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Trout) as a gaggle of witches, munchkins, scarecrows, tin men and more bring a Wizard of Oz theme to the event, dressed as lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) on the magical floats. CAS is producing this year’s Trout Parade in partnership with the Livingston Manor Chamber of Commerce, and with support from businesses

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“All Over the Meadows and the Hill.”

Giant Brook Trout puppet by Bud Wertheim

and individuals from around the community. Proceeds from the parade will benefit the Art and Music programs at the Livingston Manor Central School and the non-profit CAS. Look for pre-parade entertainment beginning at 11:00am to include stilt-walkers from the NACL Theatre, performers from Catskill Puppet Theater, face painting, art activities, and much more. Throughout the festivities, Wilkes and Bernard Photography will provide professional instant portraits of you and your family at the CAS Arts Center, 48 Main Street, with proceeds to benefit CAS. This year’s Trout Parade will step-off

promptly at 1:00pm, led by the honorary Grand Marshal and featuring a wide variety of music, entertainment and floats representing local businesses, organizations and performance groups from this area and beyond. At the parade’s conclusion, make a day of it at 2:00pm with Concerts on the Block, a concert series on the Main Street Stage featuring musicians from far and wide. Then head to Renaissance Park at 3:00pm to see a play courtesy of the NACL Theatre, The Weather Project, perfect for kids of all ages, an outdoor theatre performance about climate change that brings together song,

dance, stilt-walking, and acting by members of NACL Theatre and the community. Produced in collaboration with Catskill Art Society and Catskill Mountainkeeper, The Weather Project will tour the region this summer. Finally, the Catskill Brewery will host an after-party at 5:00pm. Ice cream and snacks, lunch and dinner are available at Madison’s Main Street Stand. Join in the fun. There is no cost to participate and hundreds come to see the Trout Parade each year. It’s also in support of a good cause. Pick up a collectible T-shirt or hat on the big day. Don’t let this parade pass you by! For more information and details contact the CAS at 845-436-4227 or info@ catskillartsociety.org. You can also find the Trout Parade online at www.troutparade. com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ troutparade. Newburgh Illuminated: June 20 “This year’s Newburgh Illuminated festival of the arts, honoring Thomas Edison’s choice of the city for his innovative source of public lighting, includes as always a celebration of its rich cultural heritage in music and the visual arts,” announced Dennis Wepman of Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. On June 20, the City of Newburgh will host its third annual Illuminated Festival.

Oscar Hammerstein II This year the Festival will offer visitors a unique opportunity to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary! The all-day and freeto-the-public Festival will shine a spotlight on one of the most diverse communities in the Hudson Valley by showcasing its food, music, art, and history. Bulb by Kate Ferriter Thousands of attendees are expected to fill Broadway and Liberty street in downtown Newburgh, overlooking the majestic Hudson River and George Washington’s Headquarters. “We invite you to come out and celebrate our 150th birthday! Come meet Newburgh’s diverse community of residents, internationally recognized artists, and innovative small businesses and makers!” Mayor Judy Kennedy says Mayor Judy Kennedy, “visitors can sample many of Newburgh’s authentic international flavors including Mexican, Peruvian, Italian, Jamaican, Greek, and Indian specialties - and meet the small business

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F E S T I VA L S ! owners and residents that form the heart of this community.” This year the Festival will feature multiple internationally known headliner performers. Newburgh native Saul Williams will be performing hip Saul Williams hop and poetry, and electronic artist Com Truise will also be headlining along with dozens of local bands and performers on multiple stages all day and night. Highlights of the festival will include a “World of Food” area featuring a sampling of local ethnic restaurants, a trolley tour of notable historical sites and architecturally significant buildings, and a “Hudson Valley Marketplace” with vendors selling handcrafted goods. Visitors will also find pop-up art galleries and studios featuring photography, street chalk art, mixed media, experimental installations, and more. Family friendly events, a late night dance party, and even an Indian Holi Celebration of Color ensure fun for all ages and interests. The Festival celebrates “a rebirth of the spirit and industry of Newburgh,” says Peter Sukeena, president of the Newburgh Business and Professional Association, “the city is

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seeing the beginnings of a revitalization that will see it through to the next 150 years, and we are here to celebrate that in force!” http://newburghilluminatedfestival.com Palaia Vineyards’ Celtic Fair: June 20

The AOH Pipers of Orange County will start the first annual Celtic Festival at Palaia Vineyards Winery with a grand entrance. Irish step dancers follow, and music by Celtic Cross, The Rose of Tralee and more will be heard throughout the day! Enjoy a variety of vendors on the grounds, a bouncy slide for the kids as well as wagon rides, and Palaia’s beer, wine, hard cider, and mead. Food is available from Ramblers Rest, a local Irish/American restaurant. Get to Palaia Vineyards Winery, 10 Sweet Clover Road in Highland Mills on June 20 from Noon-6:00pm for a fun-filled day! Visit palaiawinery.com or: 845-928-5384.

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Sutlers in Port Jervis: June 20 A sutler is a civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army. Sutlers sold wares from the back of a wagon or a temporary tent, traveling with an army or to remote military outposts. The word, like numerous other naval and military terms, came into English from Dutch, where it appears as soetelaar or zoetelaar. It meant originally “one who does dirty work, a drudge, a scullion.” Sutlers played a major role in the recreation of army men between 1865 and 1890. Sutlers’ stores outside of military posts were usually also open to non-military travelers and offered gambling, drinking, and prostitution. In modern use, sutler often describes businesses that provide period uniforms and supplies to reenactors, especially to American Civil War reenactors. These businesses often play the part of historical sutlers while selling modern-day goods at reenactments. See Sutlers and their wares, the film Red Badge of Courage, Civil War clothing and a lecture, re-enactors from the North and South, historical displays, and participate in tours to Civil War burial sites, on June 20 in Orange Square, Port Jervis for the Stephen Crane Memorial Program. Crane became a resident of Port Jervis in his youth. (Editor’s note: This is a Family Event. Sorry, no gambling, drinking or prostitutes.)

Beacon RiverFest: June 28 Beacon RiverFest, a music and food festival, returns after a one year hiatus with more than twelve bands on three stages and an expanded offering of great food, starting at the Pete & Toshi Seeger Toshi & Pete Seeger Riverfront Park on June 28 from Noon-Dusk. Musical acts range from Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Tracy Bonham, Sidewalk Chalk, Schwervon!, Decora, Gato Loco, Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents, What Moon Things, Breakfast in Fur, Shana Falana, and Simi Stone, to the M Shanghai String Band. Visit www.beaconriverfest.org for info. Liberty’s 4th of July Celebration NACL’s The Weather Project tours Liberty in collaboration with Liberty Chamber of Commerce, Sullivan Renaissance, and Liberty School, for Liberty’s 4th of July Celebration on July 4 at 1:00pm. Workshops for children and adults will be held at Liberty School. Editor’s Note: Be sure to check in with CANVAS in July for more festivals!

There’s a forest somewhere. It’s an enchanted place, fittingly found in the wooded timberland of Western Sullivan County. It’s a place of music and dance coupled with an enormous appreciation of America’s most treasured asset: Musical Theatre. It’s simply around the corner and down the street from a flashing light on highway 42. There waiting is a Miracle in the Forest, the Forestburgh Playhouse. Each summer season is anticipated by theatre goers from across the region, with patrons stretching from Sullivan County, across the river into Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Appropriate levels of anticipatory anxiety are the result of past fulfillment and satisfaction. What treats will the summer season at the Playhouse bring to its guests? Well, the Summer Season of 2015 is here and there are no exceptions. The lineup of musicals and drama, not to mention the Children’s Theatre, the phenomenal Cabaret accompanied by the noted culinary cutie, Jill Padua and her irreplaceable buffets, are just cause to launch a pregame standing ovation. In performance-based entertainment, the ability of a producer to recognize and select talent is sine qua non. Theatre is everywhere, from the

ballpark to the Met and in particular, the Tavern and Mainstage at the Forestburgh Playhouse. For here one is quick to notice reality and places, as did an earlier and frequently quoted playwright, “and all the men and women merely players.” To the delight of the Playhouse players and its enthusiastic patrons, producer Franklin Trapp has demonstrated his theatrical and managerial abilities. The Forestburgh Playhouse cleverly combines equity and non-equity players in its productions. The Res-Co (resident company) at Forestburgh is composed of 16 nonequity performers. Last season’s Res-Co was comprised of exceptionally versatile and talented actors. Franklin is one to quickly recognize the importance of this group’s talent and enthusiasm as it affects the viability of the Mainstage, Cabaret, as well as the Children’s Theatre. Wisely and with the foresight and savvy of an experienced coach, 10 members of last season’s Res-co have been recruited by Franklin to appear in the Forestburgh Playhouse’s summer season lineup. Standing on deck for the opening night performance of Damn Yankees is one of those accomplished, returning members of the ResCo, Hunter Brown, a standout performer last

season and here now to play the part of Joe Hardy, “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo.” Note here, the initial play of the season is set in the 1950s when the New York Yankees dominated major league baseball. If a fan of any other major league baseball team, especially the remaining two New York teams, the Yankee team and mere name were to be despised! Hunter as Joe Hardy is the young slugger and perceived savior of the pathetic, inept Washington Senators as the team battles the seemingly unbeatable New York Yankees. As the notorious temptress, Lola, in this well-known musical comedy is Jessica Lee Goldyn, Broadway dancer and actor recently featured in the Broadway production of A Chorus Line. Although the June sun will slip below the horizon and no longer shine on the ill-fated Washington Senators, Forestburgh has just warmed up, with a bullpen of musical theatre bound to attract and please all of the family. July comes to the plate with Mel Brooks’ eccentric and nutty monster in the musical comedy Young Frankenstein. The monster, Frankenstein, is followed by a spirited orphan courageously searching for home. Oliver, moreover, is a show for children of all ages, especially those who

appreciate the mechanizations of a clever villain, great music and lots of laughs. August is a bases-loaded triple! The rally begins with the all-American, patriotic, “SeventySix Trombones” delivered by none other than the The Music Man. And if there’s a lullaby to be savored this summer, it’s the “Lullaby of Broadway,” as presented in the Broadway musical of all musicals, 42nd Street! To insure that Franklin’s RBIs are duly noted, the musical season concludes with the longest running musical of all time, The Fantasticks. And for those incurable romantics, “Try to Remember the Kind of September.” Beginning on the first day of September, the Forestburgh Playhouse will present Driving Miss Daisy. It will not only bring the summer season to a close but will, without doubt, truly be a part of a September to remember. The Saint of Forestburgh, Loretta Swit, will fortunately return to the forest as Miss Daisy, the elderly, cantankerous, Jewish, Southern lady in this Pulitzer Prize winning play. As the reality of time and its consequences impose, Miss Daisy grows along with her engaging and genial black chauffeur. And as to be expected in growth, there is memorable levity accompanied by ever-present gravity. See ad on page 4.

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RVAG Three Painting Demos at Reception

“This year the River Valley Artists Guild 2015 Summer Members Show exhibit runs June 24-July 23 at SUNY Orange in Middletown,” writes Cultural Affairs Coordinator Dorothy Szefc. “Artworks will be in several media including oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, air brush, photographs, collage, jewelry, fabric art, and weaving. “The show is a celebration of the eleventh anniversary of RVAG which was started by Port Jervis residents Matilda Grech, Paul Horsman, Elaine Tedesco, Elizabeth Hayes, and the late Bernie Kilbourn. Led by hardworking, enthusiastic artist Joan Kehlenbeck of Cuddebackville, the group welcomes new members. The group is comprised of visual artists and artisan crafts people from New York and Pennsylvania communities bordering the Delaware River, plus other areas of Orange, Westchester, and Sussex Counties. “Three long-time members will be displaying their talents during the reception on June 27 from 1:00pm-3:00pm. Al Champy, watercolors; Susan Miiller, acrylics; and George Centamore, airbrush with acrylics, will be demonstrating their painting techniques in the center of the gallery.

“Sunflowers” by Susan Miiller

“Along Sarah Wells Trail” by Daniela Cooney

“To further the visual experience, several paintings by the three artists will be on display on the wall of Orange Hall Gallery Fringe. In addition, music will be provided.” Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues, Middletown on the SUNY Orange campus. Questions may be directed to cultural@ sunyorange.edu and 845-341-4891.

Beautiful Music at a Beautiful Home

The 22nd Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM) season begins with a sumptuous Visions of Improv benefit evening on June 20 in Bethel. Hosted by long-time WCM patrons at their idyllic country home, this intimate, engaging soirée begins at 4:00pm with wine and mingling outdoors, adds a concert of shorter Nurit Pacht, Andrew Waggoner, Judith Pearce, Pavel Vinnitsky, 2014 works for string quartet and solo instruments, and finishes with dinner al fresco. Guests will enjoy strolling the grounds to view the lake and gardens, and the deliciously prepared, gourmet supper with dessert and coffee. The benefit supports WCM’s educational and performance work in the region. Sprinkled with classical improv, the concert also offers music by Fauré, Stravinsky, “Noguchi has said: “The essence of Takemitsu and Schubert’s Quartettsatz, often sculpture is for me the perception of space, the referred to as his “unfinished” Quartet # 12. continuum of our existence.” For Takemitsu WCM artists flutist Judith Pearce, violinists the composer, “space” or silence (in Chinese Nurit Pacht and Andrew Waggoner, violist “ma”) is just as important as sound: in an Lois Martin and cellist Caroline Stinson interview he suggested that writing music perform. was a way to make sense of the “stream of Toru Takemitsu’s (1930-1996) Itinerant for sounds “around him. Influences to be heard solo flute, composed to mourn over the death in Itinerant are the sounds of the shakuhachi of his friend, Isamu Noguchi, a sculptor, will flute and the light and shadow in Debussy’s be performed by Judith Pearce. music.” “I would also wish to have played this Reservations are required, and the minimum piece in the Isamu Noguchi Museum and for donation is $80. Directions to the private home every listener also to be in the presence of will be given upon reservation. The event Noguchi’s sculpture and Akari lamp light, for will be held rain or shine; we recommend the deep connection between the two artists appropriate footwear for the grassy fields. and their work would be made so apparent,” Reserve online at www.WCMconcerts.org. writes Pearce. For information, call 845-887-5803. 8

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The Wallkill River School of Art in June

Liberty Students’ Shows

Students of the Liberty Elementary and Middle Schools have been working hard all year long creating amazing works of art. Their artwork will be on display for the public at Liberty Public Library, 189 North Main Street, through June 12. While visiting the library take the time to see the painted storybook chairs designed and painted by members of the Liberty High School National Art Society students.

Artwork by Robert “Bob” Oliver

Robert “Bob” Oliver (1953-2014) was a senior artist from Campbell Hall. He was looking forward to this solo show, and his friends and family have decided to host it in his honor, as a memorial. He was well known for his community service as well as his artistic talent, being an active fire police member, and a former Maybrook business owner. In his memory, friends and family have started a fund to give an opportunity to other seniors to pursue their career in the arts. Seniors (age 60+) are now able to apply for the Robert Oliver Emerging Artist Fund for Seniors which allows artists the opportunity to be emerging artists and have their first solo show and mentorship program with established artists. Lisa O’Gorman-Hofsommer grew up in Yonkers and moved to the Hudson Valley in 1990. She has an intense connection to nature that stems from long hikes in the Hudson Valley

Artwork by Jesus Pech

Artwork by Lisa O’Gorman

countryside, which is why she is particularly drawn to painting landscapes and wildlife. She runs a pet portrait business, donating portraits to foundations such as the Rock Hill SPCA, Rescue for Life: Labrador Retriever Rescue, and Art for Shelter Animals Project. Her love of animals exceeds the edges of the canvas and takes over her home life as well. A member and represented artist of the WRS, the artist has extended her commitments joining the Wurtsboro Arts Alliance (see page 10) and Mearns Bird Club of Orange County. Emerging artist Jesus Pech is originally from Belize. He grew up as an apprentice to a stone

mason who inspired him to be a sculptor. Jesus is a professional mason by trade, a preaching elder at the Brick Reformed Church in Montgomery (even sculpted the Lion and the Lamb that is in front of said Church!) and has another enormous passion aside from sculpting - painting. The Wallkill River School (WRS) celebrates the art and life of Bob Oliver, in a special memorial solo exhibit, and a solo show of works by Lisa O’Gorman-Hofsommer, and June’s “emerging artist” Jesus Pech from June 1-30. The opening reception will be held on June 6, from 5:00pm-7:00pm. The WRS members exhibit in the Hallway Gallery, Portrait, is on view through June 14, and Animals will run from June 15-July 15. The WRS is located at 232 Ward Street, Montgomery. For information, call 845-457-ARTS (2787).

The high school artists who worked on the chair project were: Jade Balser, Jenna Blank, Alison DeFrank, Paula Doty, Phoenix Feldman, Esther Fitzgerald, Naomi Fitzgerald, Imani Kelly, Kat Johnston, Madison McKiernan, Kiri Milling, Maria Symanski, and Sierra Thomas. For information, call 845-292-6070. And don’t miss the Liberty High School Art Show at the Liberty Museum & Arts Center, 46 South Main Street, through June 13! For Museum information: 845-292-2394.

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Wurtsboro Art Alliance: “Things We Like”

“Shipwrecked” Sails into Shadowland

This June at the Wurtsboro is often colorful and large, and Art Alliance Gallery two above all, quiet. Cynthia paints member artists who admire each predominantly in acrylic and other’s works will be featured. uses a variety of materials for Cynthia Hall’s sculptures and her sculptures, including wood, paintings and Janet Campbell’s clay, stone, and various metals. watercolors will be showcased in “Janet’s work has a freshness an exhibit, Things We Like which and beauty to it - it expresses the runs from June 6-28. love she feels for her subject. Hall and Campbell met as She uses an array of colors members of the WAA 8 years which inspire warmth and spirit ago. Since that time, each has and giving,” says Cynthia. developed an appreciation for Janet’s many inspiring Work by Cynthia Hall the other’s art. This resulted in teachers helped her develop a Things We Like, an exhibit of not loose and transparent style. She only their own favorite works but paints nature, people and animals each artist’s favorite works of the aiming towards producing juicy other as well. watercolors. She also enjoys “The first time I saw Cynthia’s “pouring” watercolors - mixing works displayed as a collection, at pigments into cups of water and an exhibit at the Ellenville Public pouring the colors individually Library in honor of Black History onto the paper sometimes with Month,” remembers Janet, “ it little or no brushwork. was clear to me that there was Things We Like can be seen something really special about this weekends, from Noon-4:00pm. artist. She puts her heart and soul An opening reception will be into her work and the emotional held on June 6, from 2:00pmimpact touches the heart and soul Work by Janet Campbell 4:00pm. of the viewer.” Also on display will be Bursting Out, an Cynthia primarily paints nature and people exhibit of WAA members’ works. engaged in different activities with a goal of The WAA Gallery is at 73 Sullivan Street. capturing the feeling of a moment. Her work Visit www.waagallery.org for information.

“Truth is stranger than fiction, in Shipwrecked, a deft literate but De Rougemont is stranger than narrative folded into a vaudevillian both.” The Wide World Magazine, romp with radio theater overtones. June 1899, No. 14 Colorful and compassionate Louis De Rougemont (1847speculations on the real-life 1921) was a would-be explorer who deficiencies and pain that may claimed to have had adventures in have been at the root of Louis’ Australasia. need for self-aggrandizement.” “Recreating the pleasures of LA Times. Louis De Rougemont nineteenth-century platform portrait by Robert J. Howard Now Shipwrecked will sail into entertainment with a tart Ellenville as the second production contemporary twist, Donald in Shadowland Theatre’s 2015 Margulies’ Shipwrecked offers a season, June 19-July 5, and the self-promoting fabulist a forum adventurous Louis de Rougemont to inform and persuade, and it invites you to hear his amazing delights in both respects.” Variety. story of bravery, survival and “The Pulitzer Prize-winning celebrity that left Nineteenthplaywright Donald Margulies Century England spellbound. Dare scampers to the defense of good to be whisked away in a story of old-fashioned yarn spinning with the high seas, populated by exotic Shipwrecked. The breathless islanders, flying wombats, giant story of a Victorian gentleman sea turtles and a monstrous manand seafaring wanderer springs eating octopus! Gregory Itzin as Louis, to life like a theatrical pop-up Directed by Brendan Burke, Geffen Playhouse in LA book. The audience is left to judge photo by Michael Lamont three actors and a “foley artist” whether he is an inspirational figure touched by create multiple fascinating environs to tell their imaginative genius or a mere con man. We can tale, and examine how far we’re willing to blur also consider the possibility that the hero of this the line between fact and fiction in order to true story based on an untrue story is a little of leave our mark on the world. each.” NY Times. Tickets are available at the box office, 157 “Margulies gives a sympathetic nod to the Canal Street, by phone 845-647-5511, and audacious autobiographer’s creative overreach online at www.shadowlandtheatre.org

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If Variety Be The Spice of Life, Play On!

Mormon Choir

Blooming Grove One Saturday each month, a group of award winning Broadway performers travels from Manhattan to Blooming Grove. On each of these special evenings, a discerning and appreciative audience is treated to an excitingly eclectic concert produced by Broadway Concerts Direct. Sarah Rice, who created the role of “Johanna” in the legendary original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, the producer of Broadway Concerts Direct and a MAC Award winner (NYC’s Cabaret & Clubs award), has assembled a formidable cast of Broadway singers spicing up Saturday nights with an eclectic mix of styles from traditional Broadway to opera, to TinPanAlley. June, Moon, Spoon is on June 20 from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the United Church of Christ, 2 Old Dominion Road. Tickets are available at the door. A gourmet dinner prepared by master chef Pastor Rev. Lise Worthington, is available pre-show by donation at 5:00pm. For some added extra spice, Sarah will perform on the Theremin.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will visit Bethel Woods with the 360-voice world-renowned choir and 68 members of the Orchestra at Temple Square. “There is nothing quite like hearing the Choir live in concert,” says Ron Jarrett, president of the Choir. “We love going on the road to connect with our audiences on the Eastern seaboard who will experience the pure joy music can bring to the hearts and minds of its listeners.” The Choir’s repertoire will cover everything from Bach and Broadway to American folk hymns and spirituals. The Utahans arrive at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, 200 Hurd Road, Bethel, on June 27, 7:30pm on the main stage pavilion. This will be an alcohol-free event. No alcohol will be permitted or sold at this performance. For information: Phone:866- 781-2922. Tickets online at www.bethelwoodscenter. org and at Ticketmaster 1-800-745-3000.

Parksville The monthly Parksville USA Music Festival spices up Sunday afternoons with opera, pop, Broadway, International, folk, jazz, doowop, country, and Holiday music. The June 14, 3:00pm C. Wieckhorst concert features the Lyric Quartet and their spicing includes opera excerpts (Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliano), songs in English and Italian, “Sicilian” and “Neapolitan”, lied in German (Schubert’s M. Celentano Serenade and others), and a superb roster of operetta excepts by Lehar (The Merry Widow, Der Zarewitsch) and Strauss (The Gypsybaron). The quartet includes soprano T. Caltabellotta Catharine Wieckhorst, tenor Michael Celentano, bass Tom Caltabellotta and pianist Keira Weyant, and the Festival is at the Dead End Café, 6 Main Street, Parksville. K. Weyant Tickets include a Complementary Full Dinner Buffet after the performance, tastefully arranged and lovingly overseen by Dead End host Tom Caltabellotta.

Tom says, “It will be a knockout!” For reservations: www.parksvilleusa.com or call 845-292-0400.

For information call 410-908-1302. To learn more, look them up on Facebook under Broadway Concerts Direct or log on to www. BwayDirect.com

Sugar Loaf Naked Roots Conducive (NRC) is an experimental and classically driven musical duo whose eclectic style bridges the gap between the traditional and wildly original. The duo combines virtuosic strings, alluring vocals, and freakish dramatics into an enticing and mesmerizing performance. Violinist Natalia Steinbach and cellist Valerie Kuehne combine their unique compositional styles, fusing Performance Art with hungry Post-Romanticism and Acoustic Noise while maintaining an intensely melodic beauty. NRC’s performances pull the audience into a riveting narrative of truth as well as the surreal. Their performance art aspects are dramatically dream-like and bizarre. Joined by two other musical performance ensembles, Spreaders and CO(P)E, (Council of Poetic Experimentation, a performance group dedicated to performing multimedia experimental works), NRC surreally spices up Sugar Loaf on June 14 at 7:00pm in the Seligmann Center, 23 White Oak Drive. For info: 845-469-9459.

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“Flowers for Algernon” for Cornerstone

Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel was published in 1966. It has been adapted many times for television, theatre, radio, and as the Academy Award–winning film Charly. The eponymous (eponymouse?) Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human test subject for the surgery, and it touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled. The 1961 television drama starring Cliff Robertson became: the 1968 film Charly, also starring Cliff Robertson for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, a 1969 stage play by David Rogers, a 1978 stage musical, Charlie and Algernon, a 1991 radio play for BBC Radio starring Tom Courtenay, a 2000 TV movie starring Matthew Modine, and a few foreign language adaptations for theatre, television and movies, and also as an award winning dance. An artistic relationship between Jeff Starr and director Ken Tschan started in early 1994 when Jeff was hired to play Touchstone in Tschan’s production of As You Like It. The two men became friends immediately

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Ken Tschan

and have forged a working relationship that includes such plays as Cobb, Paul Robeson: All-American, and The Tempest, as well as several projects in New York City. “Jeff has the softest, most vulnerable side of any large actor you will find (he stands 6’5”). Sure, he can be most powerful on stage, but it is his ability to harness all of that power that makes him so interesting to watch,” said Tschan. Cornerstone Theatre Arts will present eight performances of the 1969 stage play under the direction of Ken Tschan and Rebecca Robbins, with Jeff Starr as “Charlie”, Lisa DiBlasi, Marianne Cuiffetelli, Kevin McDonnell, and Bruce Gluckman, and lights & sound by Jacqueline Dion, in the Goshen Music Hall, 223 Main Street (2nd floor walk-up) from June 6-21. The play is sponsored by The Goshen Public Library & Historical Society and is appropriate for ages 13 and up. Admission is free, reservations required: call 845-2944188. Donations appreciated. Bring tissues.

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2Bs Back Again at Pacem In Terris Yes, Bach is back, and so is Biber. Recently, in 2012, The Serenade Quartet performed Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s (1644-1704) Battaglia, and in K. Bennion Feeney 2013 at the memorial concert for Pacem In Terris co-creator Claske Franck, one of Biber’s sonatas. Both Biber pieces were crowd pleasers. A Solstice Concert, the first in Pacem’s 2015 summer series, features Krista Bennion Feeney violin, John Feeney bass; Gregory Hayes harpsichord, and David Cerutti viola. “JS Bach and HIF Biber are on the program. I’ll be playing Bach’s d minor Partita for solo violin, which ends with his monumental

Chaconne,” said Krista - (Yehudi Menuhin called the Chaconne “the greatest structure for solo violin that exists,”) - “and Greg will be playing some harpsichord solos.” Pacem in Terris is an oasis of solitude, art, inspiration and natural beauty at 96 Covered Bridge Road, Warwick. The concert is on June 21 at 5:00pm. Go early and visit the museum and Frederick Franck sculpture garden. For reservations and information: phone 845-986-4329.

The Ancien Régime Baroque Trio is showcasing Couperin, Marais, Lully and Hotteterre, all famous composers of the French cultural renaissance during the 17th and 18th century reign of Louis XIV. Contemporaries of Handel and Bach, they wrote grand, courtly music. The trio includes Juilliard graduates Arnie Tanimoto on viola da gamba, David Ross

on the transverse flute and Juilliard faculty member, Daniel Swenberg, on the lute. The concerts will take place at the Great Room of Grey Towers in Milford, on June 13 at 5:30pm. Tickets can be bought in advance at www. kindredspiritsarts.org or in person at Books and Prints at Pear Alley (220 Broad Street in Milford, 570-296 4777). Children under 15 will be admitted free.

John Feeney

Gregory Hayes

Baroque Trio at Grey Towers

David Cerutti

CAS: Two Shows & A Book Reading

Material Being Material Being centers on the human body, taking a number of different viewpoints to elevate our selves to entirely different planes. Taken out of its normal context, insides are made visible both literally and metaphorically. Both artists included in Material Being, with Work by Joni Wehrli their wholly original takes on figure and anatomy, lift the physical into the metaphysical. In her series of paintings Landscapes of the Subtle Body, Joni Wehrli draws on her personal history Work by Ed Smith to depict internal organs, some recognizable and some fantastic, in a flurry of color that is by turns amazing and chaotic. The sculptures of Ed Smith, bring new twists on the classic bronze figure with works that are simultaneously mythic, gritty, and raw. Material Being featuring the work of Joni Wehrli and Ed Smith opens on May 30, with an artist talk at 4:00pm followed by an opening reception from 5:00pm-7:00pm at CAS Arts Center, 48 Main Street, Livingston Manor. “The show runs through June 28,” said CAS Artistic Director Bradley Diuguid.

Exquisite Corpse of the Catskills Ellie Ohiso and Akira Ohiso, the names behind popular social projects such as Green Door Magazine, have partnered with CAS to launch an interactive exhibition for which visual artists participated in a parlor-game-turnedart-exhibition entitled Exquisite Corpse of the Catskills, based on the historic Surrealist parlor game. At the “kick-off lottery” in May, artists were paired into groups of three, and the first seven artists left with two pieces of paper: one paper to be completed in its entirety, and the second paper to be started by Ellie Ohiso, slightly and left to be Robyn Almquist completed by the next set & Akira Ohiso of artists. The second set of artists later picked up the started work. They were required to complete the previous artist’s work and start a third paper, which the last set of artists completed, finishing the triptych. Exquisite Corpse of the Catskills can be seen June 5- August 2 in the CAS Elevator Gallery. Book lovers rejoice: Livingston Manor resident Stacy Wakefield (The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory), Eliza Factor (Love Maps), Kaylie Jones (The Anger Meridian), and Matthew McGevna (Little Beasts) come to CAS for book readings on June 6 at 2:00pm. For more information, see the ad below!

Rolling River Café: “Reflections”

Flora Hogman survived World War II in France as World War II as a child in a child - the photo in a southern France, where perfectly imperfect way she subsequently grew up. is to reproduce her own She came to New York as sense of partial unreality. a young adult, where she The photo, dark at first, studied psychology and is also evolving, adding, practices to this day. mixing with a sense of Flora has always been the present, emerging, interested in photography changing, going back and Photo by Flora Hogman as a way to retrieve and retain memories. Looking forth, including the need to express freedom, for a way to express her early experiences, she going beyond the trap of the war experience into found it in the process of trying to photograph the intensity of nature and life. Rolling River Cafè, Gallery & Inn presents reflections and projections in water, windows, and shadows. She feels a need to present two Reflections, a solo photography exhibition with realities, express them as she experienced them in works by Flora Hogman through September 6. For information, check out the ad below. the indelible nonverbal memory of living through

“Celestial Visions” at Creative Impulse

“One of the best places in town to find that special gift for someone and while you are browsing you are bound to find something unique just for you. Glad we have something like this in the village.” Patricia Grant, resident “Wonderful shop full of great art!” Karen Dragone, resident They are speaking of Creative Impulse where Bonnie and Susan create handcrafted pottery, candles, soaps, scrubs, jewelry and children’s clothing, and

offer incense, crystals, cards, glass, lanterns, ornaments, chocolate! Creative Impulse is exhibiting artwork by the artists of New Hope Community in Celestial Visions, June 4-27. The opening reception is June 4, 6:00pm-8:00pm. Refreshments will be served, with the artists in attendance, 126 N. Main Street, Liberty, 845-292-7027. Join Creative Impulse’s pottery hand building class starting June 5.

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LectureS

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

“Creative Conversations” panel discussion, w/moderator Claudia Luchsinger �� Artists Market, Shohola, Last Sunday 3pm “The Ghost Dance: Tragedy at Wounded Knee and the Milford PA Connection” Frank Salvati � Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, Jun 3, 7:30pm “Letting Go of Anger & Finding Forgiveness” ��MSM-DC Jun 4, 10am 20th Annual Sullivan County Architectural & History Bus Tour ��Liberty Museum, Jun 6, 9am “Dispatches From The Old Timers: Pinchot Letters” Bibi Gaston �� Grey Towers, Milford, June 6, 5:30pm “Backyard Beekeeping” �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Jun 9, 6:30pm “Headaches sufferers Wanted!” ��MSM-DC Jun 10, 1pm FREE Wild Edibles Walk �� PEEC Jun 14, 10am “Esoteric History of Architecture & Monuments” ��Newburgh Library, Jun 15, 7pm “Being in Nature” Series guided walk ��Seligmann Homestead, Sugar Loaf, Jun 21, 11am “The Truth about Supplements” �� MSM-DC Jun 22, 1pm Science Cafe “Good Dogs, Bad Genes” Toby Rossman �� La Casa Vicina, New Windsor, Jun 24, 7:15pm “O & W Railroad’s Effect on Tourism in Sullivan County” �� Time & the Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, Jun 28, 2pm “The Innocence Project” ��MSM-DC Jun 29, 10am FREE Clubs Bridge Club �� Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 6pm Newburgh Library Camera Club �� Newburgh Library, 3rd Wednesday, 6pm St. James Camera Club ��St. James Church, Goshen, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Chess Club �� Ellenville Library, Wednesdays, 4pm Friday Night Chess �� Narrowsburg Library, Fridays, 6pm Knit and Stitch �� Narrowsburg Library, Mondays, 6pm Knitting & Crocheting “Crochety Knitters” �� Liberty Library, Tuesdays, 10:15am Knit & Stitch Club �� Newburgh Library Town Branch, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6;30pm Newburgh Knitting Club �� Newburgh Library, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 6pm Knitting Group ��Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting & Crocheting “Knitwitz” �� Jeffersonville Library, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm Knitting “Chain Gang Knitting Club” ��Mamakating Town Hall, Wurtsboro, Tuesdays 9pm Knitting Club ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Wednesdays, 2:30pm Knitting, Crocheting, Crafts “Stitch and Bitch” �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Sundays, 1pm Knit/Crochet Club �� Wallkill Library, Thursdays, 6:30pm Knimble Knitters �� Ellenville Library, Saturdays, 10am Knitting Circle ��Florida Library, 3rd Thursdays, 6pm Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Int’l Org. �� First Sunday, Ellenville, ray@themtharhills.org The Music Lovers Group classical ��3rd Thursdays, 7:30pm Montgomery, 845-457-9867 Electronic Music Meetup w/Neil Alexander �� Newburgh Library, 3rd Thursdays, 7pm Ladies Night Painting Social �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Thursdays 6:30pm Painting Social �� Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 3:30pm Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop ��St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chester, 2nd Monday, 7:30pm Calico Geese Quilters Guild ��Cornwall Cooperative Extension, Liberty, 2nd Monday, 7pm The Country Scrappers cardmaking, scrapbooking ��Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Tuesdays, all day Scrabble Mania ��Ellenville Library, Tuesdays, 6pm Trivia Night w/Sam Hill ��Two Alices, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Thursdays, 8pm Trivia Night �� Penning’s Pub & Grill, Warwick, Thursdays, 8pm UFO Support Group ��Walker Valley Schoolhouse, 1st Wednesday, 7:30pm Woodcarvers Guild ��Museum Village, Monroe, Apr 1, 7pm

Texican Rock n’ Roll

time. A lot of people write Henry, Jojo and songs about superficial Ringo Garza have things, like how you been making music look and what kind of together for their entire car you drive and how lives. Their father was much money you have, a member of another but we’re not interested sibling band, The in that. We want to create Falcones, which played music that’s about the throughout southern Texas in the ’70s and ’80s. When that love and the energy and the spirit that we group disbanded, Ringo Sr. went solo, and all carry as people. We’re trying to pass on recruited his three young sons to back him. that feeling of brotherhood, of familia, in the The family relocated to Nashville in the 90s, music that we make.” Los Lonely Boys will bring their “Texican” and soon Henry, Jojo and Ringo Jr. began writing and performing their own material music to the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center on June 28 at 7:30pm. as a trio. See ad page 28 for ticket information. Jojo states, “We’re all about having a good 14 Delaware & Hudson CANVAS June 2015

Music - pop, Folk, Country, Blues, rock

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Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion �� The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Annie & Mike Baglione & Friends folk �� Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, May 30, BBQ 5:30pm, music 7:30pm Popa Chubby & Friends ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 3, 7pm Liza Doolittle Trio ��Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown, Jun 4, 6pm FREE Alexis P. Suter Band, Jim Hayes ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 5, 7pm Ed Palermo Big Band Zappa, Rundgren ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 6, 7pm Davey O. folk/Americana �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jun 6, 8:00pm Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 7, 10am-2pm Guillermo Klein’s “Symmetrical Moon Vamps” Residency ��The Falcon, Jun 7, 14, 21, 28, 7pm Emish Celtic ��Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown, Jun 11, 6pm FREE Silver Fox Trio & Rhonda Denet 60s-70s �� Newburgh Library Outdoors, Jun 11, 7pm FREE Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams w/ Bill Payne, Leon Wilks ��The Falcon, Jun 12, 7pm Bill Saines folk, WJFF & DVAA benefit ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Jun 13, 8pm Cuboricua salsa/Latin �� Ritz Theatre, Newburgh, Jun 13, 8pm Buffalo Stack roots, rock �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 14, 10am-2pm David Keyes blues ��Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown, Jun 18, 6pm FREE Tony Jefferson & Groovocity funk, raggae, jazz �� Newburgh Library Outdoors, Jun 18, 7pm FREE Simone Felice & Anna Mitchell ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 19, 7pm Loudon Wainwright III ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Jun 19, 8pm Bryan Adams “Reckless 30th Anniversary Tour” �� Bethel Woods, Jun 19, 8pm Alexis P. Suter & the Ministers of Sound �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 21, 10am-2pm Jonah Smith & Buffalo Stack, Big Thief roots rock ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 24, 7pm Chloe Borthwick & Ava Heatley classics �� Something Sweet Outdoor Park, Jun 25, 6pm FREE Jazzmosis jazz-fusion �� Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Jun 26, 7pm Train, The Fray & Matt Nathanson �� Bethel Woods, Jun 26, 7pm Professor Louie & The Crowmatix, Dylan Doyle Band ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 26, 7pm Albi Beluli �� Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Jun 26, 8pm Soñando Latin Jazz ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 27, 7pm Annie & Mike Baglione & Friends folk �� Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville, Jun 27, BBQ 5:30pm, music 7:30pm Los Lonely Boys rock �� Sugar Loaf PAC, Jun 28, 7:30pm Bernie Williams & his All-Star Band jazz-fusion-tropical ��Bethel Woods, Jun 28, 4pm Julie & Ken folk ��Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown, Jul 2, 6pm FREE Kid Rock & Foreigner ��Bethel Woods, Jul 3, 6:45pm Chasin’ Crazy country ��Sugar Loaf PAC, Jul 5, 7:30pm

Open Mic & in-house music

Some listings are not included in our centerspread calendar.

Open Mic w/Steve Schwartz & Antoine Maglione ��Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Mondays, 7:30pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals ��La Piazzetta, Wurtsboro, Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm Musicians Gathering open mic ��Catskill Distillery, Bethel, Thursdays, 7:30pm The Parting Glass Band Celtic ��Loughran’s Pub, Salisbury Mills, Thursdays, 7pm-10pm Jake Lentz piano & Marilyn Kennedy vocals �� Giovanni’s Inn, Wurtsboro, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm-9pm Marc Von Em Soul, blues, funk �� WaterWheel Cafe, Milford, last Fridays, 8pm-11pm Dose Acoustic Sundays �� Cafe Devine, Callicoon, 1st & 2nd Sundays, Noon-2pm Doug Rogers �� Cafe Devine, Callicoon, 3rd & 4th Sundays, Noon-2pm Songwriter’s Anonymous �� Artists Market, Shohola, First Sundays, 2pm Hurley Mountain Highway �� Palaia Vineyards Outdoor Tent, Highland Mills, May 30, 7pm-10pm Steve Wells outside ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, May 31, 2:30pm-5:30pm Steve Schwartz & Jason Rosen acoustic duo �� Albella Restaurant, Monticello, Jun 10 & 15, 7pm

Alumni & Students Perform at Nesin

Honor students from the Nesin Cultural Arts’ Aspiring Young Musicians (AYM) program will be highlighted in a benefit recital that includes Monticello High School alumni musicians. The featured piece, Creatures of Classroom 642, a jazz style Joanna Goldfarb, Andrew Trombley, and Jessica Nesin piece, will be narrated by Crawford Library scholarships. The alumni from Monticello are librarian, Joanna Goldfarb. In addition, donating their services to support the education Andrew Trombley and Jessica Nesin will programs. perform a classical ensemble piece. Danny For the benefit recital on June 14 at 2:00pm Paik will solo. Additional performing at the Eugene D. Nesin Theatre, 22 St. John Monticello alumni include: Zach Ames and Street in Monticello, the suggested donation Chris Trombley. is $15. As always, all students with an ID are AYM is a education program that provides free. Proceeds benefit the Nesin Cultural Arts private lesson and ensemble coachings to Education Program. students aspiring to improve their musicianship. For information call Ellen Nesin at: 845100% of the AYM students receive some 794-6013 or visit: nesinculturalarts.org

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cabaret & performance art

The Lyric Quartet Parksville USA 2015 Music Festival �� Dead End Cafe, Parksville, Jun 14, 3pm Performance Art ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jun 14, 7pm Broadway Concerts Direct �� United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove NY, Jun 20, 6pm

cinema

Reel Eclectic Film Series �� Thrall Library, Middletown, 1st Thursday, 7pm FREE Hoboken Film Festival ��Paramount Theater, Middletown, May 30-Jun 4 “Birdman” �� Greenwood Lake Library, Jun 9, 7pm FREE “The Ugly Dachshund” �� Cornwall Library, Jun 10, Noon FREE “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” Peggy Ann Garner, dir. Elia Kazan �� MSM-DC Jun 16, 10:30am “Far From the Madding Crowd” Julie Christy ��Thrall Library, Middletown, Jun 17, 3pm FREE “Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog” Japanese w/subtitles ��Cornwall Library, Jun 18, 5:30pm FREE “Bonnie & Clyde” F. Dunaway, W. Beatty, talkback w/Lawrence Budner �� CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor, Jun 20, 7:30pm FREE “Focus” Will Smith ��Newburgh Library, Jun 22, 6:30pm FREE

Comedy

Patty Rosborough, Mark DeMayo, Tommy Gooch �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, May 30, 8pm Joseph Anthony, Rob Ryan �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jun 6, 8pm Kevin Downey, Jr., Kate Wolff �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jun 13, 8pm Chris Monty, Adrienne Iapalucci �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester, Jun 20, 8pm Vic DiBitetto, Fred Rubino, Tim Hayes ��Sugar Loaf PAC, Jun 27, 8pm

dance

“Cinderella” Prokofiev, NJ Ballet Principles, American Youth Ballet ��Middletown HS, Jun 6, 6pm

festivals

Summer Fun Fair �� Kadampa Meditation Center, Glen Spey, Jun 6, 11am-4pm RiverFest ��Donahue Park, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jun 6, 11am-6pm ArtFest ��Donahue Park, Cornwall-on-Hudson, Jun 7, 10am-5pm Artists on Campus �� Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, Jun 7, 11am-4pm Trout Parade �� Livingston Manor, Jun 13, 11am-5pm Newburgh Illuminated ��Jun 20 Stephen Crane’s Red Badge Of Courage Living Memorial ��Orange Square, Port Jervis, Jun 20 Celtic Festival ��Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills, Jun 20, Noon-6pm Beacon Riverfest �� Riverfront Park, Jun 28, Noon-8pm Liberty 4th of July Festival ��Main Street, Liberty, Jul 4, 10:30am-4:30pm

West Point Band “Army Birthday” ��Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Jun 13, 7:30pm FREE Monticello High School Alumni & Honor Students Nesin Cultural Arts �� Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Jun 14, 2pm SIREN Baroque ��MISU Ellenville, Jun 18, 7:30pm Well Strung String Quartet ��Milford Theatre, Jun19, 8pm West Point Band “Saturday in the Park” �� Trophy Point Amphitheatre, Jun 20, 7:30pm FREE “Solstice Concert” Chamber & Harpsichord Music �� Pacem In Terris, Warwick, Jun 21, 5pm West Point Band “Heroes&Villains” Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Jun 27, 7:30pm FREE Mormon Tabernacle Choir Bach, Broadway, folk hymns, spirituals Bethel Woods, Jun 27, 7:30pm West Point Band & Fireworks Display Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point, Jul 4, 7:30pm FREE

music - jazz

Live Jazz Lunch with The Jazz Cats ��Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel, Sundays, Noon The Nanga World Trio w/Latin flare �� Cilantro Tapas & Bar, New Windsor, Wednesdays, 7pm Thunderhead Organ Trio jazz-fusion ��The Wherehouse, Newburgh, 3rd Thursdays, 8pm FREE Pete Levin �� The Falcon, Marlboro, May 31, 10am-2pm The Jazz Pioneers jazz, swing ��Newburgh Library outdoors, Jun 4, 7pm FREE Gene Ess & Fractal Attraction CD Release, Attila Vural �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 4, 7pm Antonio Sanchez & Migration �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 11, 7pm The Levin Brothers, Liz Queler & Seth Farber �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 13, 7pm SILVANO’s Zephyr 2 Guitar Group �� Quinn’s, Beacon, Jun 15, 9pm David Bixler Auction Project jazz, Celtic, AfroCuban �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 18, 7pm Ben Williams, Isabella Englert �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 20, 7pm The Groover Quartet w/ Mike LaDonne & Peter Bernstein �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 25, 7pm Jazzmosis jazz-fusion ��Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, Jun 26, 7pm Erik Lawrence Quartet ��The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 28, 10am-2pm

poetry & prose readings

Mary Makofske “THE DEEP: A Multi-media Celebration of Whales and Dolphins” �� Amity Gallery, Warwick, May 30, 7pm Hudson River Poets ��Newburgh Library, Jun 4, 7pm FREE Barbara Adams, Glenn Werner �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jun 4, 7pm Barbara Adams, George Wallace Calling All Poets ��Center for Creative Ed., Beacon, Jun 5, 8pm Open Mic �� Montgomery Book Exchange, Montgomery, Jun 9, 7pm FREE Jim Eve Poetry at the Church �� Goshen Methodist Church, Jun 29, 7pm FREE Poetry Exhibit Hemlock Farms Poets �� Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 3-Aug 28

recreation, Dancing, Nature Walks

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Yellow Room “Throwback Dance,” �� Beacon, Jun 6, 7pm-11pm The Warming Station “Band Together” w/ Rachel Berkman, Generations, Jeremy Torres �� SUNY Orange Alumni Green, Middletown, Jun 7, 2pm-5pm WJFF Radio Catskill & DVAA Bill Saines, folk �� Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg, Jun 13, 8pm Weekend of Chamber Music “Bullfrogs, Birds & Improv” �� Private Home, Bethel, Jun 20, 4pm

Swing Dancing w/Swing Shift Orchestra ��Newburgh Brewery, 1st Thursdays, 7:30pm Dancing (Ballroom) ��MISU Ellenville, 1st Saturdays, Lesson 7:30pm, Dancing 8pm 20th Annual Sullivan County Architectural & History Bus Tour ��Liberty Museum, Jun 6, 9am Annual Mineral, Jewelry, Gem, and Fossil Show Orange County Mineral Society �� Museum Village, Monroe, Jun 6 & 7, 10am-4pm Nature Walk �� Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Bethel, Jun 14 & 28, 1pm Summer Solstice Celebration ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jun 20, 8pm “Being In Nature” walk ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jun 21, 11am

holistic

storytelling

fundraisers

“Healing With the Angels: For All Areas of Your Life” Barbara Calvano �� The Bodhi Tree, Sugar Loaf, Jun 20, 1pm FREE Psychic Fair �� Crystals & Well-Bring Center, Wurtsboro, Jun 28

museums

Terwilliger House Museum ��Ellenville, ongoing Sullivan County History Exhibits ��Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, ongoing 19th Century Rural Living ��Museum Village, Monroe, ongoing Celebrating Catskill Waters Past & Present ��Time & The Valleys Museum, Grahamsville, ongoing Pinchot Mansion Tours ��Grey Towers, Milford, ongoing “Professional Baseball” ��Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Newburgh, thru Aug “Then and Now around the D&H Canal” �� Neversink Museum, Cuddebackville, thru Nov “Tibetan Costume: Fashion for Life on the Roof of the World” �� Tibetan & Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, thru Apr 30 Garden Walking Tour �� Grey Towers, Milford, May 30, 1:30pm Mineral, Jewelry, Gem, & Fossil Show Orange County Mineral Society �� Museum Village, Monroe, Jun 6 & 7, 10am-4pm Sullivan County Wildlife Exhibit opening reception �� Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, Jun 7, 2pm-4pm “THREADS: Connecting ‘60s & Modern Rockwear” �� Bethel Woods Museum, Jun 11-Dec 31 “Aiming to Please” firings ��Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor, Jun 20, 11am-3pm

Music - Classical - band

Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra ��Aquinas Hall, Newburgh, pre-talk 6:30pm, Jun 6, 7:30pm Hudson Valley BachFest Chamber Concert ��Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Jun 7, 3:30pm Sullivan County Community Chorus “A Forrest of Sound” �� Immaculate Conception Church, Woodbourne, Jun 7, 3pm Arnie Tanimoto viola da gamba, David Ross transverse flute, Daniel Swenborg lute �� Kindred Spirit Arts Grey Towers, Milford, Jun 13, 5:30pm

The Time Travelers storytelling, fiddle & banjo �� Thrall Library, Middletown, Jun 3, 6pm FREE Black Dirt Storytelling Guild “Unmasked” ��Florida Library, Jun 11, 7:30pm FREE Yarnslingers “Secret Posts” ��Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Jun 20, TBD Open mic w/discussion led by MJ Goff “The Heroes Among Us” �� Chester Library, Jun 30, 6pm

theatre - musical & entertainment

Decora’s “Bread & Oats” Theatrical HipHop Release Show, Music, Ballet, Installation Art �� 299 Washington Street, Newburgh, Jun 6, 8pm “Damn Yankees” �� Forestburgh Playhouse, Jun 16-28 “Young Frankenstein” ��Forestburgh Playhouse, Jun 30-Jul 12

theatre - play

“Clybourne Park” �� Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, May 29-Jun 14 (“Talkback” follows June 4 performance) “Flowers for Algernon” Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Goshen Music Hall, Jun 6-21 FREE “Death of A Salesman” Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop �� Rivoli Th., So. Fallsburg, Jun 7-14 “The Weather Project” NACL Theatre �� Renaissance Park, Livingston Manor, Jun 13, 3pm FREE Dostoevksy’s “Idiot” choreography, text, video � NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, Jun 19 & 20, 7:30pm “Shipwrecked! An Entertainment” ��Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, Jun 19-Jul 5 “The Weather Project” NACL Theatre ��Liberty School, Main Street, Jul 4, 1pm FREE

Schools & Conservatories

Hudson Valley BachFest Young Performers ��Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Jun 6, 2pm FREE Jubilate Youth Choir �� Christ Church, Warwick, Jun 7, 4pm FREE Kingston High School Jazz Cabaret �� The Falcon, Marlboro, Jun 10, 7pm Newburgh Performing Arts Academy Dance Recital �� Beacon HS, Jun 13, Noon & 4pm Monticello High School Alumni & Honor Students Nesin Cultural Arts, jazz & classical �� Nesin Theatre, Monticello, Jun 14, 2pm June 2015

Delaware & Hudson CANVAS

JUNE BGRV ��United Church of Christ, Blooming Grove, NY BW ��Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel CALL Calling All Poets �� Center for Creative Education, Beacon CAS Catskill Art Society �� CAS Arts Center, Livingston Manor CAS-LK �� CAS Laundry King, Livingston Manor DCAT ��Dancing Cat Saloon & Catskill Distillery, Bethel

MONDAY

DOWN �� Downing Film Center, Newburgh DVAA �� Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg FAL �� The Falcon, Marlboro FBGH �� Forestburgh Playhouse GOSH Cornerstone Theatre Arts �� Goshen Music Hall, Goshen JEST �� Jester’s Comedy Club, Chester

TUESDAY

The classical ballet “Cinderella” is being presented by the American Youth Ballet at the Middletown High School Theater, 24 Gardner Ave. Ext. This student based performance will feature guest principle dancers from New Jersey Ballet. This one time event will take place on June 6, at 6:00pm.

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

Cinema “Birdman” Greenwood Lake Library, Noon Poetry Open mic Montgomery Book Exchange, 7pm

Music-Acoustic Steve Schwartz & Jason Rosen Albella Restaurant, Monticello 7pm

Theatre-Musical “Damn Yankees” FBGH 8pm

Music-Jazz SILVANO’s Zephyr 2 Guitar Group Quinn’s, Beacon, 9pm

Cinema “Focus” NFL 6:30pm

Theatre-Musical “Damn Yankees” FBGH 8pm

Poetry Jim Eve Goshen Methodist Church, 7pm

Storytelling & Music The Time Travellers THRALL 6pm

Music Popa Chubby & Friends FAL 7pm

Cinema “The Ugly Dachshund” Cornwall Library, Noon

Music-Acoustic Steve Schwartz & Jason Rosen Albella Restaurant, Monticello 7pm

THURSDAY

Music............................ Liza Doolittle Trio........................... SSO 6pm Poetry................ Barbara Adams, Glenn Werner.............. NOBL 7pm Poetry......................... Hudson River Poets.......................... NFL 7pm Music - Jazz-Swing......... Jazz Pioneers............................ NFLO 7pm Music - Jazz.....Gene Ess&Fractal Attraction, Attila Vural...FAL 7pm Open Mic......................Musician’s Gathering................DCAT 7:30pm Theatre -Play................ “Clybourne Park”.............................. ST 8pm

Music.................................Emish Celtic............................... SSO 6pm Music - 60s-70s......Silver Fox Trio & Rhonda Denet........ NFLO 7pm Music - Jazz...... ....Antonio Sanchez & Migration.................FAL 7pm Open Mic......................Musician’s Gathering................DCAT 7:30pm Storytelling......Black Dirt Storytelling Guild...Florida Library, 7:30pm Theatre - Play............... “Clybourne Park”.............................. ST 8pm

Cinema...“Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog”.Cornwall Library, 5:30pm Music........................... David Keyes blues.......................... SSO 6pm Holistic.........Drumming Circle.. The Bodhi Tree, Sugar Loaf, 6:30pm Music - Jazz....... ....David Bixler Auction Project..................FAL 7pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Music - Classical............. SIREN Baroque...................... MISU 7:30pm Cinema “Far From the Madding Crowd” Theatre - Musical...........“Damn Yankees”......................... FBGH 8pm Music - Folk........................ Bill Saines................................TUST 8pm THRALL 3pm Theatre-Musical “Damn Yankees” FBGH 2pm & 8pm

NFLO �� NOBL �� NVM �� PACEM �� PARK Park PT ��

Music...................A Poetry...............Bar Theatre - Play............... Theatre - Play...........

Music. .....Larry Ca Theatre - Play.......... Theatre - Play............... Theatre - Play...........

Theatre - Play.......... Music....................S Music......................... Music.......Bryan Ad Music.................We Theatre - Musical........... Theatre - Play.....“S

Music-Jazz, Fusion..Thunderhead Organ Trio. Wherehouse,Newburgh,8pm

WEDNESDAY

MISU Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster �� St. John’s Episcopal Ch, Ellenville MSM-AQ ��Aquinas Hall, Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh MSM-DC ��Desmond Campus, Mount St. Mary College, Balmville NACL �� NACL Theatre, Highland Lake NESIN Nesin Cultural Arts �� Nesin Theatre, Monticello NFL �� Newburgh Free Library

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Storytelling Open Mic & Discussion Chester Library, 6pm Theatre-Musical “Young Frankenstein” FBGH 8pm

June 2015

Theatre-Musical “Damn Yankees” FBGH 2pm & 8pm

Music - Roots-Rock Jonah Smith & Buffalo Stack, Big Thief FAL7pm

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

Music.................Chloe Borthwick & Ava Heatley............... SSO 6pm Music - Jazz..................The Groover Quartet........................FAL 7pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Theatre - Play......“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...........“Damn Yankees”......................... FBGH 8pm

Music - Folk........................Julie & Ken................................ SSO 6pm Open Mic.......................Musician’s Gathering...............DCAT 7:30pm Theatre - Play.....“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 8pm

Music - Jazz-RockMusic...............Trai Music......Professo Theatre - Circus............. Theatre - Play......“S Theatre - Musical........... Music...................................

Music......................... Theatre - Play......“S Theatre - Musical......

2015

��Newburgh Free Library, Outdoors ��Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall ��Neversink Valley Museum, Cuddebackville �� Pacem In Terris, Warwick ksville USA 2015 Music Festival �� Dead End Cafe, Parksville ��Paramount Theatre, Middletown

FRIDAY

Alexis P. Suter Band, Jim Hayes..............FAL 7pm rbara Adams, George Wallace............. CALL 8pm ............... “Clybourne Park”.............................. ST 8pm ........... “Death of a Salesman”........................ RIV 8pm

ampbell & Teresa Williams, Leon Wilks..FAL 7pm .......... “Flowers for Algernon”................... GOSH 7pm ............... “Clybourne Park”.............................. ST 8pm ........... “Death of a Salesman”........................ RIV 8pm

.......... “Flowers for Algernon”................... GOSH 7pm Simone Felice & Anna Mitchell...............FAL 7pm .........................Loudon Wainwright III......................TUST 8pm dams ”Reckless 30th Anniversary”....... BW 8pm ell String String Quartet.......Milford Theatre, 8pm ...........“Damn Yankees”......................... FBGH 8pm Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm

-Fusion.Jazzmosis.Dutch’s Tavern, Rock Hill, 7pm in, The Fray & Matt Nathanson............... BW 7pm orLouie&Crowmatix, Dylan Doyle Band.FAL 7pm .............Big Apple Circus.................. SLPAC 7:30pm Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm ...........“Damn Yankees”......................... FBGH 8pm ...................................Alio Beluli............................... DCAT 8pm

......................... Kid Rock & Foreigner.................... BW 6:45pm Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm ...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 8pm

PV �� Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills RITZ �� Lobby at the Ritz Theater, Newburgh RIV Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop ��Rivoli Theatre, So. Fallsburg SLGMN ��Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf SLPAC ��Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center SSO ��Something Sweet Outdoor Pocket Park, Middletown

SATURDAY

Bus Tour..Sullivan County Architectural Tour.Liberty Museum, 9am Recreation.Mineral, Gem & Fossil Show.Museum Village10am-4pm Festival..Summer Fun Fair..Kadampa Center, Glen Spey, 11am-4pm Festival...RiverFest..Donahue Park, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 11am-6pm Dance................................“Cinderella”..............Middletown HS, 6pm Music -Zappa-Rundgren......Ed Palermo Big Band................FAL 7pm Theatre - Play........... Flowers for Algernon”.................... GOSH 7pm Fundraiser.Throwback Dance.St.AndrewsEpis.Ch.,Beacon.7pm-11pm Theatre - Play............... “Clybourne Park”.............................. ST 8pm Theatre - Play........... “Death of a Salesman”........................ RIV 8pm Music - Folk-Americana .......Davey O.................................... CAT 8pm Multi-Arts..Decora’s “Bread & Oats”.299 Washington St., Newburgh, 8pm

Comedy................ Joseph Anthony, Rob Ryan................. JEST 8pm

ST ��Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville SUNYO-AG ��SUNY Orange, Alumni Green, Middletown THRALL �� Thrall Library, Middletown TROPHY �� Trophy Point Amphitheatre, West Point TUST ��Tusten Theatre, Narrowsburg UUC �� Unitarian Universalist Coffeehouse, Rock Tavern

Music...................Big Joe Fitz & the Lo-Fis.......... FAL 10am-2pm Recreation.Mineral, Gem & Fossil Show.Museum Village10am-4pm Art Festival..ArtFest..Donahue Park, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 10am-5pm Art Festival.........Artists on Campus.....opposite MSM-AQ 11am-4pm Music - Jazz...........Jazz Cats Live Jazz Lunch................DCAT Noon Music......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Theatre - Play............... “Clybourne Park”.............................. ST 2pm Theatre - Play.......... “Flowers for Algernon”................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Play........... “Death of a Salesman”........................ RIV 2pm Music......Songwriter’s Anonymous.......Artists Market, Shohola 2pm Fundraiser..”The Warming Station” music......SUNYO-AG 2pm-5pm Music - Classical....BachFest..Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 3:30pm Music............ Symmetrical Moon Vamps residency.............FAL 7pm

Festival..........................Trout Parade....Livingston Manor, 11am-5pm Theatre...“The Weather Project”....Renaissance Park, L. Manor 3pm Music - Baroque...Strings & Flute Trio..Grey Towers, Milford, 5:30pm Theatre - Play.......... “Flowers for Algernon”................... GOSH 7pm Music - Jazz......The Levin Brothers,Liz Queler&SethFarber.FAL 7pm Music............................. West Point Band............... TROPHY 7:30pm Theatre - Play............... “Clybourne Park”.............................. ST 8pm Theatre - Play........... “Death of a Salesman”........................ RIV 8pm Music - Latin....................... Cuboricua.................................RITZ 8pm Comedy.............. Kevin Downey, Jr., Kate Wolff................ JEST 8pm

Festival............................ Celtic Festival....................... PV Noon-6pm Theatre - Play...../.“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”........... ST 2pm Fundraiser.Weekend of Chamber Music.Private Home, Bethel, 4pm Cabaret..................Broadway Concerts Direct.................BGRV 6pm Music............................. West Point Band............... TROPHY 7:30pm Storytelling...............Yarnslingers.......... Cafe Devine, Callicoon, TBD Theatre - Play.......... “Flowers for Algernon”................... GOSH 7pm Music - Jazz............Ben Williams, Isabella Englert................. FAL 7pm Cinema......................... “Bonnie & Clyde”.................CAS-LK 7:30pm Music...........................Music for Humanity.................. NOBL 7:30pm Theatre - Play......“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...........“Damn Yankees”......................... FBGH 8pm Comedy............ Chris Monty, Adrienne Iapalucci.............. JEST 8pm Recreation.......... Summer Solstice Celebration............ SLGMN 8pm

Music - Roots-Rock........ ...Buffalo Stack................... .FAL 10am-2pm Music - Jazz...........Jazz Cats Live Jazz Lunch................DCAT Noon Music......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Recreation..Nature Walk..Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Bethel, 1pm Theatre - Play............... “Clybourne Park”.............................. ST 2pm Theatre - Play........... “Death of a Salesman”........................ RIV 2pm Theatre - Play.......... “Flowers for Algernon”................... GOSH 2pm Music -Jazz-Classical.. Nesin Cultural Arts...................... NESIN 2pm Cabaret & Dinner.......... The Lyric Quartet......................... PARK 3pm Cabaret.......................... Performance Art....................... SLGMN 7pm Music............ Symmetrical Moon Vamps residency.............FAL 7pm

Music - .......Alexis P. Suter & Ministers of Sound...... FAL 10am-2pm Recreation................“Being in Nature” walk............... SLGMN 11am Music - Jazz...........Jazz Cats Live Jazz Lunch................DCAT Noon Music..................Doug Rogers......Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Theatre - Play.....“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 2pm Theatre - Play.......... “Flowers for Algernon”................... GOSH 2pm Theatre - Musical...........“Damn Yankees”......................... FBGH 3pm Music - Classical....“Solstice Chamber Music”.............. PACEM 5pm Music............ Symmetrical Moon Vamps residency.............FAL 7pm

Music - Latin....................... .....Sonando.................................. FAL 7pm Music..................... Mormon Tabernacle Choir................. BW 7:30pm Music............................. West Point Band............... TROPHY 7:30pm Theatre - Play......“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm Comedy....... Vic DiBitetto, Fred Rubino, Tim Hayes..... SLPAC 8pm Theatre - Musical...........“Damn Yankees”......................... FBGH 8pm

Festival....4th of July Festival..Main Street, Liberty, 10:30am-4:30pm Theatre....“The Weather Project”....Liberty School, Main Street, 3pm Music.................. West Point Band & Fireworks..... TROPHY 7:30pm Theatre - Play......“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 8pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 8pm

SUNDAY

Music - Jazz....Erik Lawrence Quartet............ FAL 10am-2pm Holistic....Psychic Fair..Crystals & Well-Being Center,Wurtsboro.TBA Music - Jazz...........Jazz Cats Live Jazz Lunch................DCAT Noon Music..................Doug Rogers......Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Festival......................Beacon Riverfest.....Riverfront Park, Noon-8pm Recreation..Nature Walk..Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Bethel, 1pm Theatre - Play.....“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 2pm Theatre - Musical...........“Damn Yankees”......................... FBGH 3pm Music - Rock.................. Los Lonely Boys....................... SLPAC 8pm Music - Jazz-Fusion-Tropical.....Bernie Williams & Band...... BW 4pm Music............ Symmetrical Moon Vamps residency.............FAL 7pm

Music - Jazz...........Jazz Cats Live Jazz Lunch................DCAT Noon Music......Dose Acoustic Sunday..Cafe Devine, Callicoon, Noon-2pm Theatre - Play.....“Shipwrecked! An Entertainment”............ ST 2pm Theatre - Musical...... “Young Frankenstein”..................... FBGH 3pm Music - Country.............. ...Chasin’ Crazy................... SLPAC 7:30pm

June 2015

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Art exhibits

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

Group Show ��Back Room Gallery, Beacon, ongoing Inscribed Tibetan Prayer Stones ��Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Center, Walden, ongoing Carolyn Duke Pottery ��Duke Pottery, Tennanah Lake, Roscoe, ongoing Lisa & John Strazza paintings & photography �� Strazza Gallery, Warwick, ongoing David & Joanne Wells Greenbaum pottery, paintings ��BlueStone Studio, Milford, ongoing T.A. Clearwater paintings, pastels, prints ��Clearwater Gallery at Jones Farm, Cornwall, ongoing Jules Medwin outdoor sculpture ��Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, ongoing Lana Privitera paintings ��Blazing Bagels Cafe, Montgomery, ongoing Furniture, sculpture, ceramics, woodburnings ��Once A Tree, Cornwall-on-Hudson, ongoing Riverfest Art Poster 25th Anniversary Retrospective �� DVAA thru Jun 6 Laura Borneman “Structures” paintings, drawings, and sculpture �� DVAA thru Jun 6 Charlotte Schulz “The Impossibility of Keeping Borders”, Shelita Birchett Benash “The Window Projects”, “Earth” BAU Gallery, Beacon, thru Jun 7 Liliana Washburn “Transformation” �� RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, thru Jun 7 “Blooming” group show �� ARTery Gallery, Milford, thru Jun 8 “Portrait” WRS members group show ��WRS thru Jun 14 Middletown Art Group Spring Exhibition ��SUNYO-OH thru Jun 18 Nancy Pitcher paintings ��Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, thru Jun 26 Naomi Teppich “Earth Fusion” ��Cafe Devine, Callicoon, thru Jun 30 Bruce Young graphite portraiture, pen & ink, architecture ��Caffe ala Mode, Warwick, thru Jul Always Searching” (art rotates throughout the year) Michael Byro, Janet Howard-Fatta, & �� Billie Robson, Craig Wettstein Unitarian Universalist Gallery, Rock Tavern thru Aug 2015 Highland Falls Parklet Art Walk ��Downtown Highland Falls, thru Nov NEW ART EXHIBITS

Ed Smith & Joni Wehrli “Material Being” ��CAS May 30-Jun 28 Janet Howard-Fatta :”Sea & Sky Paintings” ��The Grange, Warwick, May 31-Jul 12 Bob Oliver memorial, Lisa O’Gorman-Hofsommer, Jesus Pech �� WRS Jun 1-30 Kat Strickland clay, mixed media �� Adams Fairacre Farms, Newburgh, Jun 1-30 Sandra Faland Spitzer new paintings ��Wallkill Town Hall, Middletown, Jun 2-29 Group Show �� UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Jun 2-Jul 25 “Celestial Visions” Artists of New Hope Community ��Creative Impluse, Liberty, Jun 4-27 “Illuminated Pastels” group show ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jun 4-Jul 31 Goshen Art Walk ��Downtown Goshen Businesses, Jun 5, 6pm-9pm “Exquisite Corpse of the Catskills” collaborative illustration �� CAS Jun 5-Aug 2 Laura Breitman and Phyllis Lehman “Art as Play” ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, Jun 6-28 “Pastels & Watercolors” group show �� Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, Jun 6-Jul 1 Artists on Campus ��Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, Jun 7, 11am-4pm Barryville Area Arts Assn. June Exhibit �� Artists’ Market Community Center, Shohola, Jun 9-28 Judy Glantzman, Esther Podemski, John Tomlinson, Liza Phillips �� “Drawing BIG: The Immediacy of Touch” DVAA Jun 12-Jul 4 Ioannis Glykokokalos “Esoterica” �� DVAA Jun 12-Jul 4 Kirsten Lyon “Bits and Pieces, Cassandra Saulter “Delphine’s World” BAU Gallery, Beacon Jun 13-Jul 5

“Animals” WRS members group show �� WRS Jun 15-Jul 14 Members Art Show �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jun 19-Aug 16

Riva Weinstein, Lisa Breznak, Mimi Graminksi “By Chance: A Meeting of Minds, Material & Meaning �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jun 20-Jul 26

River Valley Artists Guild Summer Exhibition �� SUNYO-OH Jun 24-Jul 23 Gerardo Castro “Emanations” ��Space Create, Newburgh (by appt.), Jun 8-Jul 7 Joan Kehlenbeck “Art & About: It’s Summertime” �� Deerpark Town Hall, Huguenot, Jun 3-Jul 29 “Painting & Poetry” Hemlock Farms Artists �Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 3-Aug 28

Photography exhibits

Laura Borneman photographs & installation �� DVAA thru Jun 6 Julie Jacobs �� BAU Gallery, Beacon thru Jun 7 Liz Cooke & Andy Milford “Abandoned Hudson Valley” �� MSM-DC thru Jun 12 Rafael Quirindongo “Scenes of the Valley” ��Howland Library, Beacon, thru Jun 14 George Saines “Light & Life - Light & Form” ��SUNYO-OH thru Jun 18 Greg Miller “The Majestic Hudson: River, Highlands, Tributaries” ��SUNYO-KH thru Jul 17 Flora Hogman “Reflections” ��Rolling River Cafe, Parksville, thru Sep 6 NEW photography EXHIBITS

“Newburgh Waterfront in Earlier Days” �� SUNYO-KH Jun 1-Jul 30 Nancy Davis-Kessler “Art & About: It’s Summertime” Bon Secours Cafeteria, Port Jervis, Jun 3-Jul 29 Dawn Benko “Art & About: It’s Summertime” � Port Jervis Mayor’s Office, Wednesdays, Jun 3-Jul 29 Nick Zungoli “CUBA | Forbidden Fruit” Orange Regional Medical Ctr, Middletown, Jun 12-Aug 7 Nick Zungoli “Barrier Islands of the Lowcountry” ��Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jun 20-Dec 18

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ART & Photography receptions

Greg Miller “The Majestic Hudson: River, Highlands, Tributaries” �� SUNYO-KH May 30, 5pm-8pm Janet Howard-Fatta :”Sea & Sky Paintings” �� The Grange, Warwick, May 31, 5:30pm-8:30pm Ed Smith & Joni Wehrli “Material Being” ��CAS May 30, Talk 4pm, Reception, 5pm-7pm Nicholas Bach “Into the Egg” �� Space Create, Newburgh, May 30, 6pm-9pm “Celestial Visions” Artists of New Hope Community ��Creative Impluse, Liberty, Jun 4, 6pm-8pm “Exquisite Corpse of the Catskills” collaborative illustration ��CAS Jun 5, 4pm-6pm Barryville Area Arts Assn. Exhibit �� Artists’ Market Community Center, Shohola, Jun 6, 4pm-6pm Bob Oliver memorial, Lisa O’Gorman-Hofsommer, Jesus Pech �� WRS Jun 6, 5pm-7pm Laura Breitman and Phyllis Lehman “Art as Play” ��Amity Gallery, Warwick, Jun 6, 5pm-8pm Artists on Campus �� Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, Jun 7, 11am-4pm Liberty High School Art Show ��Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jun 7, 4pm Nick Zungoli “CUBA | Forbidden Fruit” �� Orange Regional Med. Ctr, Middletown, Jun 12, 4pm-6pm Judy Glantzman, Esther Podemski, John Tomlinson, Liza Phillips �� “Drawing BIG: The Immediacy of Touch” DVAA Jun 12, 7pm-9pm Ioannis Glykokokalos “Esoterica” paintings ��DVAA Jun 12, 7pm-9pm “Pastels & Watercolors” group show �� Crawford Gallery of Fine Arts, Pine Bush, Jun 13, 5:30pm-7:30pm Beacon Second Saturday Reception ��Back Room Gallery, Beacon, Jun 13, 6pm-9pm Kirsten Lyon “Bits and Pieces, Cassandra Saulter “Delphine’s World” �� BAU Gallery, Beacon Jun 13, 6pm-9pm “Illuminated Pastels” group show ��Karpeles Museum, Newburgh, Jun 20, 1pm-4pm Nick Zungoli “Barrier Islands of the Lowcountry” Exposures Gallery, Sugar Loaf, Jun 20, Noon-7pm Riva Weinstein, Lisa Breznak, Mimi Graminksi “By Chance” �� Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf, Jun 20, 5pm-8pm Group Show ��UpFront Exhibition Space, Port Jervis, Jun 20, 6pm-9pm River Valley Artists Guild Summer Exhibition ��SUNYO-OH Jun 24, 1pm-3pm Gerardo Castro “Emanations” ��Space Create, Newburgh, Jun 27, 6pm-9pm “Painting & Poetry” Hemlock Farms Artists Gallery at Chant Realtors, Lords Valley, Jul 3, 5pm-8pm Members Art Show �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, Jul 5, 4pm-8pm

Schools & Conservatories

Liberty Elementary & Middle School Art Show ��Liberty Library, May 28-Jun 12 Liberty High School Art Show �� Liberty Museum & Arts Center, May 29-Jun 13

books - Discussions/Readings /siGNings

Book Lover’s Club �� Greenwood Lake Library, 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mystery Thriller & Crime Book Group �� Jeffersonville Library, 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm Book Discussion Group ��Narrowsburg Library, 3rd Friday, 4:00pm “Destinations” Barbara Adams, poetry �� Noble Coffee Roasters, Campbell Hall, Jun 4, 7pm “Destinations” Barbara Adams, poetry �� Center for Creative Education, Beacon, Jun 5, 8pm “Akashic All-Stars” Stacy Wakefield, Eliza Factor, Kaylie Jones, Matthew McGevna �CAS Jun 6, 2pm Scholars Book Discussion �� Newburgh Library, Jun 17, 7pm “The Last Man” by P.T. Deutermann �� Cornwall Library, Jun 17, 7pm “Riders of the Orphan Train” Tom Riley ��Josephine-Louise Library, Walden, Jun 18, 6:30pm “Notes From the Other Side” Marc Fried ��Cragsmoor Historical Society, Jun 20, 4pm “We are Called to Rise: by Laura McBride �� Newburgh Library, Jun 23, 2pm Book Talk Cafe �� Newburgh Library, Jun 24, 6:30pm “Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein �� Liberty Library, Jun 25, 1pm “The Bartender’s Tale” by Ivan Doig �� Cornwall Library, Jun 25, 7pm Great Books Discussion �� Newburgh Library, Jun 26, 11:30am

children & Teens Calendar

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

Cinema

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

“Monster Intelligence” musical ��Sugar Loaf PAC, Jun 13, 11am “The Weather Project” NACL Theatre �� Renaissance Park, Livingston Manor, Jun 13, 3pm FREE Animated Family Film �� Grey Towers, Milford, Jun 20, crafts:7pm, film:dusk Big Apple Circus �� Sugar Loaf PAC, Jun 26, 7:30pm “The Weather Project” NACL Theatre ��Liberty School, Main Street, Jul 4, 1pm FREE Museums

Meet the Animal of the Week ��HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm & 2:30pm Little Eco Explorers: “Fish” 3-6 yrs �� PEEC Jun 6, 1pm Eco-Zone �� PEEC Jun 28, 1pm-4pm Caterpillar, Moth & Butterfly Weekend ��HHNM Jun 27 & 28, 10am-3pm recreation & Lectures

Nature Strollers babies, toddlers, kids, families �� HHNM Wednesdays, 9:30am, thru Jun 3 Teen Painting Drop-in ��Wallkill River School, Montgomery, Saturdays, 1pm “Marvelous Moths” ��HHNM-CoH Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm Literacy Fair games, crafts, movies, etc. �� Fallsburg Library, So. Fallsburg, Jun 11, 5:30pm-8pm Children’s Day petting zoo, magic, games, etc. ��New Windsor Cantonment, Jun 21, 1pm-4pm

Meet: Author, Photographer Tom Riley & Riders of the Orphan Train For those brave souls whose memories and minds actually survived the scrambled musical scuffles of the sixties, the laments echoed by a popular folk trio will no doubt conjure a variety of images, and thoughts long dismissed or conveniently forgotten: If you miss the train I am on, you will know that I am gone. For a moment, allow these lyrics to renew and associate with a nebulous episode of American history. It was the time of the Orphan Trains, an obscure era until recently, as it has been brought to the forefront by authors Christina Baker Kline, 2013, Orphan Train, Alison Moore, 2012, Riders on the Orphan Train and notably Tom Riley, 2005, Orphan Train Riders, Volumes 1 & 2. Roughly spanning the years 1854 through 1929, an excess of 200,000 orphans and abandoned children from the streets of New York City were categorized, bundled and shipped via trains to destinations West with

realistic expectations of finding homes. Frequently referenced as “baby trains,” this period of American history represents a largely successful era of faith-based, social welfare in America. In 1853, Charles Loring Brace, a minister educated at Yale, founded the Children’s Aid Society. As a minister to the poor, he became acutely aware of the disease and squalor that surrounded and smothered the children of the city. It is estimated that on or about the year 1854 the number of homeless children on the streets of NYC was in excess of 34,000! The Reverend Brace “believed that the answer to homelessness...was the clean air, industriousness of the American farmer and their Christian values.” The efforts of the Sisters of Charity, a Catholic order devoted to the care of orphaned children, were a welcomed and needed addition to the achievements of Brace and the temperance organizations whose combined efforts produced orphanages through the area. The Sisters of Charity responded to reports of the time that

estimated nearly 25% of the abandoned and orphaned children in the streets of NYC were Irish Catholics. Through a network of parishes, local priests would attempt to secure homes with Catholic families as Westward Expansion continued. The conditions that prompted measures as extreme as those characterized by the Orphan Trains are barely comprehensible. But consider the facts: By the middle of the nineteenth century the City of New York was swarming with immigrants struggling for dignity while searching for work. In the Five Point district, running water and efficient sewer systems were scattered if they existed at all. Prostitution, thievery, unemployment, disease, infant and child mortality were omnipresent. In 2002, a film influenced by Herbert Asbur’s 1927 non-fiction book, The Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese, a director frequently prone to graphic, hyperbolic frenzy, reportedly presented an accurate portrait of the district’s violence, squalor and filth in his film of the same name.

Needless to say these efforts to save the children produced unintended consequences. But the conditions left behind offered few alternatives. It is also encouraging to note the positive effects of the Orphans Trains as represented by those who grew up healthy and strong. “While some were overworked, ran away or resorted to crime, seventy-five percent of Orphan Train Riders became productive American citizens. Two became state governors, 20 were elected to Congress, and tens of thousands served in the U.S. Armed Forces.” The above is only the surface of this intriguing and rich period of American History. Ginny Neidermier, Director of the Josephine Louise Public Library on Scofield Street, Walden has arranged for author, photographer Tom Riley to address this topic and his books, as mentioned above, on June 18 at 6:30pm. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Additional information pertaining to the Orphan Train Riders is available from the library at 845-7787621. If you miss the train I am on, you will know that I am gone. Lord I’m five hundred miles from my home

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Two for the Kids in Sugar Loaf!

and ear-to-ear smiles; aerialists and acrobats serving gasps of astonishment with swirling, soaring style and an awesome hand-balancer, who perches and poses with precision and pizazz! Your unrivaled guide, the peerless Ringmaster, presents acts unimaginable even in your wildest dreams! The Big Apple Circus’ mission is to invigorate the Monster Intelligence! communities they serve with the joy and wonder of classical circus, and they’ve been doing it for over 35 years. They have performed at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and in the motion picture Annie. Their 2013 Veteran’s Day performance was streamed live in 170 countries and in 30 million US homes. The wonderstruck journey Big Apple Circus! to the circus is at Sugar Loaf Big Apple Circus Performing Arts Center, June 26 at 7:30pm. Big Apple Circus is proud to present an All- 1351 Kings Highway, (Chester). New stage show, an amazing spectacular in Tickets on sale now for both events at Sugar which you will witness jugglers flipping fancies Loaf box office, all Ticketmaster locations, with abandon and clowns dishing out laughter charge by phone 1-800-745-3000. Puppet Musical Journey In Monster Intelligence, Melvin the monster is another year older but still not old enough for his license to scream. His birthday wish changes that and the Division for Monster Screams grants his wish on the condition of passing his test. Learning this new information can be difficult for Melvin and he sets off on a quest to learn with his friend Red the Rat by his side. Along the way, Melvin meets a cast of friendly, colorful monsters. Original songs from a Green Day-style rocker, to classical, jazz, pop, and Broadway standards, makes this a journey never to forget! Up In Arms presents their new puppet musical journey for the entire family on June 13 at 11:00am.

Pastels & Watercolors Converge in Crawford

Pastel - the original medium. Illustration was the first profession, all other claims to the contrary. And given that pure pigments from the rocks and earth around them mixed with a little water or spit were the materials used by those first artists “Cedar Stream” in caves, pastel was by Dennis Fanton the first artistic medium. The vibrancy of the pigments, their endurance and easy application, are the medium’s strongest assets, and the reason that this oldest of materials has been in constant use over the millennia. An infinite range of color is achieved by blending the natural ultramarines, viridians, ochres in many light and dark variations from yellow through red to purple, and on into new pigments created in a modern lab. Over the centuries, artists have found dry pastel to be as fine and expressive a medium as oil paints, but somehow that high reputation has eluded it. With pastels, an artist can be fastidious and meticulously precise. Watercolor compares in range and variety with

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any other painting method. Transparent watercolor allows for a freshness and luminosity in its washes and for a deft calligraphic brushwork that makes it a most alluring medium. There is one basic difference between transparent “Accidental Visitor” watercolor and all by Janet Campbell other heavy painting mediums: its transparency. An unpredictable medium, the character of watercolor is uniquely challenging. The accomplished watercolorist learns to take advantage of the unexpected results of the medium. As practiced by most of its greatest masters, spontaneity is everything. The artist learns to improvise, which can be done effectively only with experience. Crawford Gallery of Fine Art, 65 Main Street, Pine Bush, is mounting a spectacular exhibition of Pastels and Watercolor Works by master painters in these highly specialized mediums, June 6-July 1, with an opening reception on June 13, from 5:30pm-7:30pm. For information, call 845-744-8634.

Community Building Through the Arts w i th Su san Han dle r

Downing Film Center is a not-for-profit 501c(3) movie theater that presents quality independent films to the midHudson Valley region. Founded in Newburgh in 2006, the Downing Film Center is located at the Yellow Bird Building on Front Street. Recently this organization entered into a service agreement with the local government of Monroe. The focus of the project is for Downing to select, procure, program, and screen quality films for Theaters 1, 2, and 3 at the Town of Monroe Arts and Civic Center (TMACC). Historically, communities clearly benefit economically and socially from the presence of local non-profit movie theatres. Research has demonstrated that there is increased foot traffic to local businesses and that there is support for the movie theater as a gathering place for individuals within the community. The successful and highly respected Downing Film Center will benefit from this partnership in a number of ways. First, it can expand its reach to a wider geographic area and serve a much larger population of filmgoers. Secondly, servicing the screens at TMACC will afford the Downing Film Center the flexibility of having multiple screens (in contrast to its current single screen in Newburgh) on which to show a greater number and wider selection of quality independent films

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May I Have A Word With You...Quips, Quotes & Quiddities! with Carol Pozefsky YA GOTTA HAVE ART! As in all professions, artists have a language all their own. Sculptors apply plaster, clay and other substances to a skeleton-like frame called an armature on which they form

Sharon & Brian Burke, Downing proprietors

to fulfill the Downing’s not-for-profit mission. That mission is “to present quality films, not always available locally, and to provide cinematic programming from around the world in collaboration with and for the benefit of the Hudson Valley’s diverse communities.” Forinformation,visitwww.downingfilmcenter. com or call the Downing Film Center and leave a message: 845-561-3686.

Downing’s Live Theatre

Throughout the year, Downing Film Center brings Live in HD Theatre from London’s National Theatre to local audiences at the Newburgh location, 19 Front Street. Upcoming presentations include noted playwright Tom Stoppard’s new play The Hard Problem, a revival of Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, and Everyman, with a text by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, fresh from his Oscar-nominated performance in 12 Years a Slave. For information: 845-561-3638.

their sculptures. Bisque, also called biscuit, is ceramic that has been fired once but is unglazed. A camel hair brush is often used with watercolors. Despite its name, camel hair brushes are made from squirrel’s hair. A taboret is an artist’s cabinet table for tools and materials. A smooch is a deliberate smudge made with the fingers on a drawing to produce shading. ON THE ROAD AGAIN You may live on Elm Street or Broadway, but might fancy a more imaginative address: Psycho Path, Vicious Circle, People’s Court, Drinkin Drive or, my personal favorite: Nofriggin Way. SPOONER OR LATER Like Yogi Berra, Oxford don William Archibald Spooner never said all that it was said he said. Spooner was known to unintentionally switch his consonants: Our Lord is a shoving leopard, for instance. Thus was the Spoonerism

born: What a lunch of boozers. Please sew me to another sheet. You have hissed all my mystery lectures. Drinking lots of coffee always weeps me a cake. William Archibald And, a Spoonerism Spooner variation: A snuff salesman is a person who sticks his business in other people’s noses. And, best for last: She’s a rental deceptionist. MASTER OF MISSPEAK Americans had their own blunderbuss; movie producer Sam Goldwyn and, as much as we’ve written of him before, believe it or not, there’s more. “Include me out.” “I can answer your request in two words: Impossible.” “Don’t talk to me when I’m interrupting.” “I never liked you and I always will.” “I don’t pay any attention to him. I don’t even ignore him.” “Our comedies are nothing to be laughed at.” “Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.”

Possible Answers: Bobby Driscoll The Window Tatum O’Neal Paper Moon Jackie Coogan The Kid Brigitte Fossey Forbidden Games Baby Naaz Boot Polish Mickey Rooney The Human Comedy Jackie Cooper Skippy Question: Who gave Classic World Fildom’s finest, most in-depth, subtlest, emotional, pre-teen acting performance? Answer according to Derek Leet: “Well, she was really 13 at the time, but I’ll overlook it. And she will be on view at Mount Saint Mary’s Desmond Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh on June 16 at 10:30am in director Elia Kazan’s first film, based on the great novel by Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. “She” is the remarkable child actor Peggy Ann Garner, and “she” is supported by an outstanding cast. I dare you to not need tissues in her final scene with Joan Blondell. For reservations: 845-565-2076 June 2015

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“Idiot” Begins NACL Season

The Idiot, alongside some of Dostoyevsky’s other works, is often considered one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the Golden Age of Russian literature. HERE is a New York City based off-off Broadway Arts Center presenting house founded in 1993, specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry. HERE has garnered 16 OBIE awards, and 2 OBIE grants for artistic achievement. New Ohio Theatre is a two-time OBIE award-winning venue that serves adventurous audiences, presenting alternative, groundbreaking theatre. Idiot, based on The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, is a multi-disciplinary performance that features the gestural choreography of Kristin Marting (co-founder, HERE) and text by

Robert Lyons (director, New Ohio Theatre). Using original text, and innovative video art, the performance invokes a complex brain scan of Prince Myshkin’s “truly beautiful soul” as he faces a fearful, corrupt society. Performances take place on June 19 &20, 7:30pm at NACL Theatre, 110 Highland Lake Road, Highland Lake. Visit www.nacl.org or call 845-557-0694.

Anyone not familiar with the music of Bill Staines is in for a special treat. For more than forty years, Bill has traveled across North America, delighting audiences at festivals, colleges, concerts and coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill became involved with the BostonCambridge folk scene in the early 1960’s. From the time in 1971 when a reviewer from the Boston Phoenix stated that he was “simply Boston’s best performer”, Bill has continually appeared on folk music radio listener polls as one of the top all time favorite folk artists. Now, well into his fifth decade of touring, he has gained an international reputation as a gifted songwriter and performer. Singing mostly his own songs, Bill has

become one of the most popular singers on the folk music scene today, performing nearly 200 concerts a year and driving over 65,000 miles annually. He weaves a blend of gentle wit and humor into his performances, and one reviewer wrote, “He has a sense of timing to match the best standup comic.” The Friends of Maris Hearn present The 9th Annual Maris Hearn Life Celebration Concert with Bill Staines in a Benefit Concert for WJFF Radio Catskill and the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, live at the Tusten Theatre, 210 Bridge Street in Narrowsburg on June 13 at 8:00pm. For Reservations call 845-252-7272. Visit www.acousticmusic.com/staines/ for more information about Bill.

Kristin Marting & Robert Lyons

WJFF & DVAA Benefit Concert

Bach: “The Immortal God of Harmony” Ludwig von B.

Hudson Valley Society for Music’s BachFest 2015, the annual weekend of glorious immersion in the glorious music of Johann Sebastian Bach, can be heard in New Paltz, Poughkeepsie and Cornwall-on- Hudson, and in area church services. On June 6 at 2:00pm, Young J.S. & J.C. Bach checking out E. Lundergan Performers North will be in New services. Paltz, and Young Performers South is Besides the Young Performers South at in Cornwall-on-Hudson. These budding the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 musicians need an audience to hone their Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson on communication skills. Admission to hear June 6, a BachFest Chamber Concert also these talented youngsters playing Bach is takes place there on June 7 at 3:30pm. It free. They are the future. They can inspire features a variety of works for solo cello, others to try music, so bring the kids. piano, a quintet by Johann Christian Bach The Main Event in Poughkeepsie, a concert with Marcia Gates flute; Joel Evans oboe; of Cantatas, and the Brandenberg Concerto Rachel Evans violin; Susan Seligman # 5 with a chorale, organ and orchestra, is on cello and Ruthanne Schempf harpsichord, June 6 at 7:30pm with conductors Edward chorales with the Cornwall Presbyterian Lundergan, Christine Howlett and organist Choir, and Bach’s Wedding Cantata, James Fitzwilliam. conducted by Lundergan. Visit www.hudsonvalleysocietyformusic. Suggested donation is $15. Students and org for information on the the Dutchess/ youth are admitted free. For information Ulster concerts and the June 7 church call: 845-534-2166 or 845-534-8368. 22

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“Esoterica” in Narrowsburg

“A Meeting of Minds, Material & Meaning”

impossible years.” Born in Greece in 1937, Nearly 30 years ago, Ioannis “Yanni” Glykokokalos’s Glykokokalos moved out of New early life was shaped by the York City to Honesdale where he German occupation of Greece, owns a frame shop and co-founded followed by the Greek Civil the Wayne County Arts Alliance War. “Life was exceptionally with his wife Pauline and several difficult and yet there was never other local artists. a shortage of music, song, and Esoterica, an exhibit of paintings storytelling,” he says. “The beauty by Glykokokalos, runs from June of the exquisitely decorated Greek 12-July 4 at the Delaware Arts Orthodox churches with icons, metalwork, woodcarvings, and Work by I. Glykokokalos Center’s Alliance Gallery, 37 the soothing qualities of the Byzantine Chant Main Street, Narrowsburg. A reception on were a constant source of inspiration and June 12 from 7:00pm-9:00pm features an solace for a suffering people. In more ways artist talk at 7:00pm. For information call 845-252-7576. than one, faith and art saw us through those

Lisa Breznak uses a variety of exhibition includes sculpture, materials and patinas. Her sculpted fiber, two-dimensional and anthropomorphized forms address ephemeral works drawn from universal issues of the human nature. The exhibition will be condition and the natural world. presented in Kurt Seligmann’s Mimi Czajka Graminski Studio, the Robert Fagan Art juxtaposes unusual materials with Library (located on the second traditional hand crafts, bringing level of the Seligmann home) and new meaning to both. throughout the Seligmann Center Riva Weinstein creates site “Rose Parade” by grounds, 23-26 White Oak Drive, Lisa Breznak specific performances and Sugar Loaf, June 20-July 30. installations using every day experiences Phone: 845-469-9459. and materials. The opening reception is on June 20, By Chance: A Meeting of Minds, Material 5:00pm-8:00pm with a performance by and Meaning features new works by these Weinstein at 7:30pm. A Summer Solstice three regional artists. The multimedia Celebration will follow.

The all-male string quartet Well-Strung also sing, putting their own spin on the music of Mozart, Vivaldi, Rihanna, Adele, Lady Gaga, and more! Well-Strung includes first violinist Edmund Bagnell, secondviolinistChristopherMarchant,cellist Daniel Shevlin and violist Trevor Wadleigh. The quartet was formed by producer/manager Mark Cortale and Christopher Marchant.

“My most recent medium has “I have experience with been acrylics on canvas,” states clay, acrylic paint, drawing and Kat Strickland. “I start out with photography. I create children’s a very abstract intuitive method stories and facilitate groups doing of randomly painting different all the above. I have developed colors on canvas, and as I step classes and workshops for all back to see what develops, the ages and capabilities, helping painting takes on it’s own shapes people to discover their authentic and forms. self through image making, “I’ve been an artist working in Kat Strickland beadwork, story telling, poetry and beadwork, photography, mixed media, clay, creative writing.” collage, and sculpture for over 40 years, so it’s Kat’s art can be seen in June at Adams a pleasure to find the joy in creating just for the Fairacre Farms, Route 300 in Newburgh, as sake of making the world a more beautiful and part of its fundraising for breast cancer. aesthetic pleasing place to live. To reach Kat: 845-905-9702.

Well-Strung & Well-Sung

They are returning to the Milford Theatre, 114 East Catherine Street, where their prior performance was sold out, on June 19 at 8:00pm. Part of the proceeds benefit the works of the Upper Delaware GLBT Center. Tickets can be purchased at www.udglbt. org or for cash/check by seeing Kris Jarmann at Wells Fargo Bank, Broad Street, Milford.

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Choe Tenure Comes To Triumphal Close

Since its inception two decades ago, Dr. College (MSMC) after his final Woomyung Choe has been at the helm of the performance with the orchestra Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra he created. “Beethoven’s (GNSO). He was, in fact, its co-founder, and has Ninth - which the orchestra been tirelessly tending the now well-established and chorale performed in April orchestra throughout its early development: - was a fitting penultimate building its repertoire; adding to its signature selection,” said Shacklett. “Our events, such as the annual pops concert in final concert with Dr. Choe is Downing Park; and creating an associated equally appropriate and exciting: choral organization (the Newburgh Symphonic Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello and Chorale). Piano in C major, Opus 56, Triple Concerto, Choe knew that to become a successful, lasting plus Beethoven’s Overture to the Consecration musical institution, the Newburgh Symphony of the House and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D would need to do more than a competent job major, opus 73. performing an annual series of concerts - it had “In the Triple Concerto (violin, cello, piano to become an ever-expanding part of the of the and orchestra) each player of the trio of soloists region’s cultural community. takes a turn with themes “Woomyung Choe and of the three movements, George Handler brought competing with each other together a very dedicated and with the orchestra,” group of people - both said Shacklett, “The awardmusicians and volunteers winning Allant Piano Trio - who worked very hard are sure to bring out the together to build a strong Allant Piano Trio: Alina Lim, cello, Beth excitement in this dynamic framework, that will continue Nam, piano, and Anna Jihyun Park, violin work from Beethoven’s to grow and serve our area,” said Gordon hyper-productive middle period.” Shacklett, cellist and pre-concert commentator “Brahms’ 2nd Symphony is the ideal with the GNSO. “To accomplish this in the composition with which to close the 20th midst of some rough economic conditions is a season of conducting by Dr. Choe,” Shacklett testament to his (Choe’s) vision.” said. “Although full of tuneful motifs and Choe retires from 20 years as the GNSO’s creative thematic development, the selfconductor on June 6 at Mount Saint Mary deprecating Brahms joked with his publisher

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“Thank you, Dr. Choe!,” GSNO Musicians “Thank you, Dr. Choe!,” City of Newburgh “Thank you, Dr. Choe!,” Music-Loving Public

that the symphony was “sad, mourning and melancholy.” On the contrary, the work is lyrical, engaging, and triumphal at the end. Yet the 2nd Symphony is so carefully crafted, even with repeated hearings there is always something new for the listener to discover.” The concert will be presented in MSMC’s Aquinas Hall, 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, on June 6 at 7:30pm. (Arrive at 6:30pm for Shacklett’s concert preview). Students are admitted free. Tickets can be purchased online at www.newburghsymphony.org or at the door.

Baseball in History

Karpeles Museum is presenting an exhibition of some two dozen original manuscript pages and artifacts relating to the development and early history of baseball in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including documents showing the founding of the National League and original contracts highlighting the extraordinary career of George Herman “Babe” Ruth (1895-1948). Included are Ruth’s signed 1933 contracts with the Red Sox and the Yankees, as well as a $25,000 deal he signed with the Boston Braves in his final big league season. Among the most remarkable artifacts on display will be a shriveled and blackened baseball used in professional ball games in the 1830s and a document recognized as the oldest surviving scorebook in baseball. Also included will be a 1939 letter describing the invention of the catcher’s mitt by its reputed inventor Joseph B. Gunson, and an original 1867-68 tobacco card picturing the legendary outfielder Dave Birdsall, considered the first baseball card ever issued. The exhibit runs through August and admission is always free at Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 94 Broadway, Newburgh. For information, call 845-569-4997.

Newburgh Last Saturdays

The summer presents the opportunity of openness and the outdoor experience. So, why not take advantage of that!? Enjoy Last Saturday in Newburgh on June 27. Several galleries and studios mostly within walking distance of one another are open during the early evening.

relaxed art experience. The plaza and gallery are located at Kaplan Hall, corner of Grand and First Streets. Questions may be directed to cultural@sunyorange.edu and 845-341-4891. Also, see www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs

Space Create SUNY Orange Kaplan Hall Gerardo Castro’s Fall 2015 solo art A highlight of the event at SUNY Orange will exhibition Emanations carries a powerful be artists painting river scenes from 6:00pm- magical meaning, a meaning of communication 8:00pm. They will be set up and transformation, where parallels are drawn between the outdoors on the campus plaza material and the incorporeal. green roof and in the Foyer of Comprising large works on the Mindy Ross Gallery. Four paper 2 feet by 6 feet in length Orange County artists will be as well as over 20 drawings on participating: Mitchell Saler of Middletown in oil, Kate paper ranging in sizes from 12” Ferriter of Newburgh in oil, x 16” to 22” x 30”, Emanations, Linda Barboni of Goshen in created through the use of fire pastels, and Diane Kominick- “Intercessor” by Gerardo Castro and branding, provide a body Ouzoonian of Warwick in watercolors. Visitors of work that pushes its limits by using minimal are welcome to ask questions. materials; work that enables a connection to The Mindy Ross Gallery will have on exhibit history, a courageous confrontation of meaning the superb color photographs of Greg Miller, and myth. The Majestic Hudson: River, Highlands, Emanations will be open to the public for Tributaries. In the glass vitrine case stationed Newburgh Last Saturday at Space Create, 115 in the Gallery’s Foyer, an exhibit of photos Broadway, with an artist’s reception, on June provided by City Historian Mary McTamaney, 27, 5:00pm-9:00pm. The show runs June Newburgh Waterfront in Earlier Days, will be 8-July 7, and can be seen by appointment. Contact Lisa Gervais at 520-609-1866. displayed along with photos of nearby streets Visit www.GerardoCastroArt.com to view and parks. Light refreshments will be served for this more of the artist’s work.

Threads: Connecting 60’s & Modern Rockwear Fashion in the 1960s was a colorful explosion of thrift store finds, combined with homemade accessories and offthe shelf staples. To celebrate the freedom and expression of fashions that have captivated the imagination of subsequent generations. The Museum at Bethel Woods presents its second special exhibit of 2015: THREADS: Connecting ‘60s & Modern Rockwear. The exhibit is on display from June 11 through December 31. Drawn from the collection of musician, designer, and stylist Andy Hilfiger, THREADS weaves a story of the continuing influence of the rock fashions of the 1960s. The exhibit features 40 outfits that span the spectrum from street chic to stadium rock statement. The exhibit will include a Rock Star Photo Studio, where museum guests can dress up in their favorite rock fashions and share their photos on social media. Hilfiger's contribution to the rise of his brother's Tommy Hilfiger brand and its dominance of the market through the

1990s cannot be understated. Through a groundbreaking marriage of music and celebrity, Andy cemented the brand's place in pop culture and paved the way for all celebrity and entertainmentbased lifestyle brands that followed. Now, Hilfiger is excited for the opportunity to present his extensive personal collection to the public through his partnership with The Museum at Bethel Woods. “This exhibition is an opportunity to share my collection with the world, in a place that continues to influence fashion in ways that designers can only dream of,” stated Andy. “We were amazed by the extent of Mr. Hilfiger’s collection and we are honored to have the opportunity to channel his creativity and passion into an exhibit that will study the importance of fashion as a form or creative expression - an ideal that came to life during the 1960s,” said Darlene Fedun, Chief Executive Officer at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Visit www.bethelwoodscenter.org for additional information.

Folk+Hip Hop+Theatre=New for Newburgh

Over one dozen Hudson Valley and New York City guest musicians will be under the direction of pianist/ synthesist, Neil Alexander; pre-show cocktails and hors d’oeuvres created by Executive Chef, Brandon Walker; nationally recognized installation artist Ryan Roa unveiling a large-scale piece, and corps de ballet and choreography, courtesy of the Orange County Ballet Theatre. All of the above for your viewing and listening pleasure on June 6 at 8:00pm when rising hip hop artist and community organizer, Decora (see photo) presents a theatrical release for his debut album, Bread and Oats. In addition to live music from the album, audiences will

experience an immersive, multi-room performance. Pushing the envelope of hip hop styles, the event removes the fourth wall between audience and cast, creating an interactive experience in which the audience participates. Decora’s music unites the ethos of folk music with hip hop. Bread and Oats includes Decora’s new single Flowers, a tribute to one of his mentors, the late folk legend Pete Seeger. The event, said to be “the first event of its kind in the city of Newburgh,” takes place at Hudson Valley Arts LIVE, 299 Washington Street in Newburgh. Email hello@iamdecora.com for info.

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, a national chain specializing in the preservation and display of original, historically significant documents and manuscripts (see page 24), is presenting Illuminating Pastels, an exhibit demonstrating the talents of community artists from June 4 -July 31. The pastel drawings on display dramatize the power of the medium to illuminate, as Edison’s invention illuminated the streets of the city, both the strength and the elegance of the region in powerful landscapes as well as masterfully composed florals and still lifes. The public is invited to meet the artists at a reception at the museum during Newburgh

Illuminated, (see pages 5 & 6 ) on June 20, from 1:00pm-4:00pm at 94 Broadway, across from City Hall. For information: 845-569-4997.

Karpeles Museum is “Illuminated”

Adopt a Garden!

“Lonesome Pine” by Gayle Clark Fedigan

If you enjoy working on/in a garden, the Downing Park Planning Committee invites you to “adopt a garden” in Newburgh’s beautiful park which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, and named after their mentor, Andrew Jackson Downing, a Newburgh native who had died in a steamboat accident on the Hudson River. To participate: phone: 845-565-5559. “Events at Downing Park include festivals, food tastings, a farmer’s market, and a series of outdoor concerts. Come soon, and come often, to enjoy the delightful park and the wealth of enjoyable events.” Downing Park Planning Committee.

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To Dream the Impossible American Dream

“Death of a Salesman is a tragedy about the differences between the Loman family’s dreams and the reality of their lives. The play is a critique of the American Dream and of the competitive, materialistic American society of the late 1940s. “Like all classics, Salesman’s themes still ring true today. Its harsh criticism of American capitalism may not be quite as shocking as it was when the play first premiered, but we have a feeling that every modern day audience member knows exactly what Miller is getting at - whether you agree with him or not.” Shmoop.com No matter, no need to think about it and what

it might mean or represent. Tighe, Paul Puerschner, Salesman is so well-written Melissa McTague, Arianna that, while watching Arthur Klein, Serena Gildersleeve & Miller’s masterpiece, the idea Jessica Watson round out the is that “attention must be paid” cast. to the brilliant dramatic writing Sullivan County Dramatic itself, the crafted dialogue and Workshop presents the play, character interplay, while being Death of A Salesman in rehearsal: directed by Sally Gladden, impacted by the raw emotions. Rick Shafstein, Shawn Bailey & at the Rivoli Theatre in Serena Gildersleeve. With Shawn Bailey as Willy South Fallsburg from June Loman, and Evie Carmelia, John Bale & 7-14. (Listen for brand new incidental music Adam Dohrenwend as his wife and sons, Rick composed and performed by Dan Desmond.) Schafstein, Peter Pekny, Ed Berens, Harold For tickets: www.scdw.net or at the door.

It was Steve Schwartz who, during an interview with Philip Ehrensaft in CANVAS, used the adjective ‘egalitarian’ to describe Jazzmosis, which either has no leader or four leaders, depending upon how you look at things. That’s evident in the playing; these are four musicians who listen and interact with one another, the criterion for successful improvisation. Schwartz also described their music as leaning more towards improvised rock music that’s strongly inspired by jazz,

especially the jazz rock fusion that emerged in the late sixties. The ensemble simply prefers the kind of extended, improvised solos and band interaction that made its way from blues and R&B into rock. The four musicians: Steve Schwartz, guitar; Mike Cervone, drums; Tom Volpe, bass; and Gregory Fiske, tenor sax/wind controller, perform at Dutch’s Tavern, 204 Rock Hill Drive, Rock Hill, on June 26 at 7:00pm. And save the dates: Steve brings his guitar

Jam to Jazzmosis & Papa J. in Rock Hill & Monticello

to join New York City vocalist and guitarist Jason Rosen a.k.a. “Papa J” at Albella Family Restaurant, 50 Jefferson Street in Monticello on June 10 and July 15 starting at 7:00pm. This acoustic duo Jason Rosen a.k.a. “Papa J.” will play everything from R&B to rock classics and Motown favorites. For further information, 845-796-3616. To hear some of Jazzmosis’ tunes, visit http://www.reverbnation.com/jazzmosis

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Joyful Jubilate

Local Poet Reads from New Chapbook in Campbell Hall & Beacon

Poet Barbara Adams (see photo) new chapbook, Distances has recently been published. “It’s dedicated to the memory of my daughter, Anne. These twentythree poems were written and rerewritten and re-written within the past five years. They reflect the pull of a human life, like the relentless tide of the Hudson River, a tidal estuary flowing into and out of the sea in New York Harbor. The poems thus reflect the rhythms of life, particularly my life along the Hudson River. “The intuitive and inspiration scene,

however, is the interior landscape we all share: the life span of a human being and its clockwork events from birth to death. These turn into metaphor and images in the poems, like the spinning of the planets, the ruins of a gunpowder mill from the Civil War, the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, a ferry boat sinking in the East River of New York, the joy of self-discovery, seeing flowers as poems, observing mentally-disabled people trapped on an island, or a beautiful Asian woman escort in a famous bar, being alone as a widow in a summer beach house, remembering the loss of

Ken Wessel is a versatile, sensitive and soulful guitarist and composer. A vital and personal voice on the jazz guitar, Wessel has been involved in projects playing jazz, ranging from straight-ahead to free music. Bruce Arnold’s passionate pursuit of new ideas and applications for his beloved six-string instrument has taken him to the hallowed halls of Princeton University, where he has been on the faculty for the past 24 years. Ratzo B. Harris, (nee Harold Branson), bassist, composer, keyboardist, guitarist, and singer, was given his nickname on what was his first road trip, by Don Ontiveros, the leader

of the San Francisco Mission Boys Club Jazz Band. To date, Judi Silvano has 11 recordings to her credit, including 1997’s Vocalise on the Blue Note label. She has Ken Wessel, Bruce Arnold, Ratzo B, Harris, and Judi Silvano Quartet, Quintet and Septet. recorded her own original These jazz stalwarts make up Silvano’s songs in addition to classic standard songs in ensembles from Duo (her newest 2014 release Zephyr 2 Guitar Group, and will be appearing with Michael Abene: My Dance, and another at Quinn’s, 330 Main Street, Beacon, on June with Mal Waldron: Riding a Zephyr) to Trio 15 from 9:00pm-11:30pm. For reservations: 845--202-7447. (voice, piano and trumpet: Indigo Moods) to

my piano, and the grief of losing my daughter Anne, inspiring me to put together these poems in her memory.” For a copy of the book, visit amazon, kindle, or get a discounted rate by ordering directly from Barbara at: bbadams323@verizon.net Discounted copies will also be available at Barbara’s upcoming readings at Noble Coffee Roasters, 3020 NY-207 in Campbell Hall on June 4 at 7:00pm. Glenn Werner is the other featured poet. Open mic follows. And, Calling All Poets Series at the Center for Creative Education, 464 Main Street, Beacon, on June 5 at 8:00pm. For information: info@callingallpoets.com

Zephyr 2 Guitar Group in Beacon

Jubilate Concert Choir, Spring Concert, 2011

Jubilate the Hudson Valley’s premier community youth choir, with members hailing from Blooming Grove, Central Valley, Chester, Florida, Goshen, Hewitt NJ, Highland Mills, Monroe, Minisink, Pine Bush, Pine Island, Sugar Loaf, Tuxedo Park and Warwick, will offer a spring concert, How Can I Keep from Singing. Jubilate is directed by David Crone and assistant director/accompanist Steven Wing, both teachers at Monroe-Woodbury. Their choir will sing pieces from Jubilate’s Men’s Choir’s recent performance at Temple University, Philadelphia as well as Karl Jenkins’ The Peacemakers. This concert on June 7 at 4:00pm at Christ Church, 50 South Street in Warwick marks the end of the choir’s ninth concert season and is also a farewell to graduating high school seniors. There is no admission fee; a goodwill donation is appreciated. Visit www.JubilateWarwick.com for info.

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“Requiem” Masterwork in Woodbourne by Derek Leet

Requiem for the Living (2013) by Dan Forrest is, in my opinion, the next 21st Century choral masterpiece, after Lee Hoiby’s 2006 composition Last Letter Home that was introduced to area music lovers by Weekend of Chamber Music in Jeffersonville about eight years ago. Forrest’s Requiem forms a narrative, just as much for the living and their own struggle with pain and sorrow, as for the dead. After a sumptuous, but pensive introduction by the strings, the chorus enters and sings “gorgeous” music for the first 10 minutes, more like Faure than Verdi or Duruflé or Saint-Saëns. Then organ is added, so it begins to be more like Duruflé than Faure. When the sopranos follow, it’s a little bit like Puccini’s Suor Angelica (yes, Puccini also wrote a requiem, as did all of the above mentioned composers). After some aggressive rhythmic gestures (Orff-like) juxtaposed with long, floating melodic lines (Faure-like), enter the pieces des resistance, sopranos singing more “gorgeous melodies”. And then you (I did) stop paying attention to what other composers the music sounds like and give credit to Forrest alone for his talent and inspiration, and for the emotions he stirs within you with his melodic writing. Quickly becoming Forrest’s best-known

work, Requiem for the Living is a 40-minute, 5-movement piece. The opening movement sets the traditional Introit and Kyrie texts, pleas for rest and mercy. The second movement, instead of the traditional Dies Irae, sets scriptural texts that speak of the turmoil and sorrow which face humanity. The Agnus Dei is performed as a plea for deliverance and peace. The Lux Aeterna closes the work with two more “gorgeous melodies” portraying light, peace, and rest for both the deceased and the living. Sullivan County Community Chorus director Kevin J. Giroux will conduct the Requiem and seven songs by Forrest for A Forrest of Sound, selections with violin solos, four-hand piano accompaniments and a chamber orchestra. The Sullivan chorale, consisting of members ranging in age from 16 to over 80 years, performs June 7 at 3:00pm at the Immaculate Conception Church, 6317 Route 42 in Woodbourne. Tickets are available at the door. A reception follows the concert. For information, call Diane Foster at 845-439-4458.

Spotlight On: The Sugar Loaf Guild Creativity Galore: Luft Gardens We are all looking for oneof-a-kind gifts...items you just can’t find anywhere else. Artist-owners Jennifer Flis & Aaron Houck have just the shop for you. Welcome to Luft Gardens in the beautiful arts and crafts hamlet of Sugar Loaf! Waitressing at The Barnsider, Jennifer, who has a degree in Art Therapy, would have discussions with an antique-loving customer about how nice it would be to open up a shop in Sugar Loaf; selling antiques and crafts. The dream soon became a reality in 2010 when that same customer, Phil Evans, opened Luft Gardens in Sugar Loaf and invited Jennifer to sell her wares at the shop. Aaron, a graduate of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, was working on Jennifer’s family farm in Warwick, planting vegetables, flowers, and setting up Farmers Markets on weekends. After Phil left to open a business in Beacon, Jennifer and Aaron decided to take over the shop in January, 2012. 28

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What you have at Luft Gardens today, is a beautiful display of creative gourds made into ornaments, lanterns, birdhouses, and candle holders. They grow the gourds themselves on the farm! Aside from the “gourdgeous” and seasonally decorated gourds, Luft Gardens also offers antique and recycled knick knacks, too. Records made into bowls, silverware crafts like forks and spoons recreated into hooks and jewelry, old cameras, glass bottles, primitive signs, antique toys, farm tools and much more! Everything created at the shop is all natural and made from recycled material. Most of the pieces are made from reclaimed lumber and old barnwood. They even have a repurposed sewing machine made into bookends! What makes this shop even better? They offer one-of-a-kind, handcrafted, unique gifts at affordable prices! Take a stroll through Sugar Loaf this weekend, and check out Luft Gardens, located at 1366 Kings Highway. For information, call 845-248-3766.

Summer Free Music Series

It’s that time of year again when municipalities and local businesses offer weekly series of free music concerts for our delectation. Bring your chairs or blankets, food and the whole family! Check the calendars on pages 14 and 15 for complete listings. Middletown Something Sweet restaurant began its free 2015 music series at the end of May in the little pocket park at 17 North Street, adjacent to the restaurant. Curator Darryl Wilbur’s eclectic mix began with salsa, and continues through to August 27, Thursdays at 6:00pm, with jazz standards, an Irish folkpop trio, blues, piano and vocals, and then on July 2, classic folk with an international flavor by area favorites Ken & Julie. Singer/songwriter Ken DeAngelis and soprano Julie Ziavras perform acoustic, original, contemporary folk music with story telling, thought provoking lyrics, rich harmonies, and a strong repertoire of contemporary and traditional folk covers. “Together they make wonderfully detailed music that features evocative lyrics, lovely harmonies and melodies that stay with you long after you hear them.” Steve Israel, Times Herald Record.

Parking is available in the municipal lot on James Street. Newburgh The Jazz Pioneers perform the sounds of the ‘40s and ‘50s, from classical swing of Tommy Dorsey and Count Basie to visionaries like Buddy Rich and Maynard Ferguson for the opener of a series of outdoor Thursday concerts for the Newburgh Library on June 4 at 7:00pm. The concerts are held inside in the event of rain. For information, phone 845-563-3601 West Point

On June 13 at 7:30pm, the West Point Band begins its weekly series with a concert celebrating the Army’s Birthday that will include a streamer ceremony set to music arranged specifically for this evening. The Music Under the Stars concert series is held at the beautiful Trophy Point Amphitheater. On July 4, go for the world-class music and stay for the awesome fireworks over the Hudson. For more information: 845-938-2617.

Cuba in Black & White, Georgia in Color

Internationally Cuba, opens June 12 recognized landscape at Orange Regional photographer, Nick Medical Center, 707 Zungoli’s work has East Main Street, been widely collected Middletown, from since founding 4:00pm-6:00pm. Exposures Gallery The show runs in Sugar Loaf in through August 7 1976. He has been And if you’re a contributor to lookingforcolor...“My National Geographic, road trip over the “Last Light, Tybee Island, GA” by Nick Zungoli the New York Times and Popular Photography winter to the Lowcountry barrier islands of and has produced numerous exhibitions and Georgia and South Carolina has come to an books from his extensive travels. end,” said Nick. “For the first time in my thirty year career as The opening reception and book signing a color photographer I have chosen to present for Barrier Islands of the Lowcountry is at a body of work in black and white, said Nick. Exposures Gallery, 1357 Kings Highway in CUBA | Forbidden Fruit, an exhibit of black Sugar Loaf on June 20, Noon-7:00pm. and white photographs from Zungoli’s travels to For information, call 845-469-9382.

“Art as Play” at Amity Gallery

Laura Breitman’s new collages, works from a series she calls Character Development, depict a menagerie of imaginary creatures from other worlds. From afar these creatures appear Art by L. Brietman quirky, but upon closer inspection by the viewer, it becomes apparent that a woman’s hairdo is a recliner and a bird’s neck is a Chanel suit jacket. Phyllis Lehman’s landscapes, bursting

with vitality and confident brushstrokes, display a surprising color wheel. Inspired by Lehman’s travels, the paintings reveal a world transformed by Art by P. Lehman her unique vision. The Art as Play reception take place on June 6, 5:00pm to 8:00pm at Amity Gallery, 110 Newport Bridge Road in Warwick, near Pine Island. For information, call 845-258-4563. June 2015

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Meet Our Advertisers: Mainframe Gallery, Middletown Open since 1986, Mainframe because it harms the art, making Gallery specializes in custom it brittle, faded and discolored. picture framing. CANVAS Using non-archival material is spoke with owner, Jean less expensive, and usually done Warren who runs the shop for a small decorative piece or with husband, Rob. poster. We do not recommend it Frames: Mainframe offers for anything of historical value a vast array of mats and frame / fine art. Archival matting is Jean Warren mouldings. “We have literally almost like insurance, it keeps hundreds of corner samples in your art in pristine condition,” wood or metal to choose from. explained Jean. Aesthetically, the Hard woods, like maples, oaks matting focuses on the art while and burls to metallic finishes, enhancing but never distracting gold and silver leaf, in a variety from the image. of shapes and colors. Metal Glass: Glazing of some frames come in different styles sort is recommended for the and finishes,” said Jean. The majority of most framing jobs. frame serves both functional Paintings on canvas are one of and aesthetic purposes. Add to the few exceptions. Clear glass, that the possibility of stacking UV filtering, non-glare, antimultiple mouldings and the reflective, museum and possibilities are endless! plexi glass are all available Matting: Mainframe at Mainframe. “UV filtered offers archival, 100% rag and glass is the ultimate decorative paper matting for protection. Regular glass long term preservation. If the does block out the sun, but piece is decorative only and UV filtered glass blocks out has little or no sentimental 99.9 % of UV rays, helping or financial value, paper mat Local artist Anne Kelly with her preserve the piece for years to newly framed artwork can be used. “The reason you come,” said Jean. try to stay away from non-archival matting is Cost: There are a 3 factors in determining

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the cost: size, materials used, and complexity of the project. Mainframe offers a “Value Line” which is a selection of custom mats and frames at much lower prices. “One thing that we have consistently found to be true is that our every day prices are less than the “Big Box’s” 50% off coupons,” said Jean. Some of the “extras” available at Mainframe include framing mirrors, repairs such as broken glass, re-wiring, separated frame corners and more. “There are a few exceptions, but let us take a look.” If you already have a frame that you would like used, “we frequently re-use customers antique frames or put new artwork into an existing frame.” Mainframe is also involved with many of the local art organizations in the area, including the Orange County Arts Council and the Mid-Hudson Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. It takes a very skilled hand for framing. “It’s a combination of artist and craftsman,” said Jean. Phenomenal customer service plus almost 30 years experience equals a design that best suits the artwork, personal taste, and budget...not to mention, “things always look better after they’ve been framed!” Mainframe Gallery is located at 513 East Main Street, Middletown. Stop in for an estimate! For information: 845-342-5335.

SIREN for Solstice

“Like Odysseus, you should lash yourself to the mast before listening to SIREN Baroque; it is irresistible.” New York’s Gotham Early Music Scene SIREN Baroque is an early music ensemble from New York City. Presenting passionate and historically informed performances on authentic instruments, the women of SIREN are committed to infusing historical accuracy with a tinge of modern dynamism. The vivacious women of SIREN Baroque will present In These Woods, “deliciously spirited pastoral songs for the solstice” featuring 18th-century French and Italian music for voice, violins, cello, and harpsichord, performed on authentic instruments at Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster (MISU), 40 Market Street, Ellenville, on June 18 at 7:30pm, (same space for First Saturday Ballroom Dances). MISU is next to St. John’s Episcopal Church. Follow driveway next to church around to the back parking lot. Park there and follow the diagonal walkway to MISU, the building just next to the church. $10 suggested donation, students free. For info: 646-512-2076 or 845-647-5087.

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Whispering Pines Cooking with Chef Douglas Frey

The First Day of Summer By the time the third week of June comes around each year, just about everybody is preparing for the 4th of July holiday. But in our world, the annual summer solstice is a time long honored and remembered, and is still celebrated by many cultures in many parts of the world. An adventure into the history and mystery of this special event is well worth the planning if you enjoy excursions into mythology and mysticism and a trek into our ancient past. From the ancient Celtic ritual of fire, to the superstitions of the pirates from the Caribbean who believed a ship could sail off the end of the world and into the sun on that particular day each year, there are literally hundreds or thousands of interpretations for the event’s meaning and relationship to mankind, and to study all of them would take a lifetime as well as a well-planned travel to almost every corner of the globe. Regardless, whether you want to travel far and wide or just stay close to home this midsummer night’s eve, there are plenty of interesting cultures and customs to explore. But for most of us, summer is now upon

us, and those lazy, hazy days of summer call for special summer foods. The children are out of school, the gardens are bursting with fresh vegetables and the backyard grill is working overtime. The smoker has been puffing smoke for weeks and the fish have been biting, and of course there’s always a pool-side party, where you can always sip your favorite drinks. So, when you’re ready to make the most of your garden’s bounty, cool off and reel in your fishing line or to fire up the barbeque, I’ve got you covered... Enjoy! Chef Frey’s Ke Ke Lime Surprise 2 oz Absolute Vodka 1oz Ke Ke Lime cream liqueur 1t sugar 1 can 7up 1 oz cream 1 lime, ½ sliced, ½ left whole 1/4 cup sugar for garnish On small plate, spread out sugar into small circle; set aside. In tall glass, rub rim with ½ lime, dip into sugar; set aside. Combine vodka and Ke Ke liqueur in glass with cream and add ice; stir. Add 1t sugar, top glass off with 7up.

Garnish with lime slice. Farfelle w/ Asparagus & Smoked Salmon 1 lb farfalle pasta ½ lb fresh steamed asparagus tips 1 oz home smoked salmon, chopped 1 lemon, juiced 1 T pistachio nuts 1 T c fresh basil, chiffonod 3 T extra virgin olive oil 1 t pickled cocktail onions Salt and pepper to taste In pasta pot of heavily salted boiling water, cook pasta until al dente. While steaming asparagus in top part of pot, cook until tender but still firm. Drain and cool both pasta and asparagus. In large bowl, combine pasta, asparagus, smoked salmon, lemon juice, pistachios, onions, basil, olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Mix well; refrigerate for 2 hours. Remove from refrigerator and serve at room temperature. As always, for any of your culinary questions or needs, I may be reached via email: doubledfarms@gmail.com or give me a ring at Whispering Pines Caterers, 845647-1428.

It’s no surprise that Buffalo born and bred songwriter Davey O. has been described by Buffalo News critic Jeff Miers as having “a journalist’s eye for detail and poet’s ear for the well-turned observation.” Embarking on a decade-plus journey that has resulted in a collection of highly introspective songs, Davey crafts Americana that is not of the social and political consciousness, but drawn from the deep well of experience and human emotion – no hackneyed story lines, no insincere polish, just an unflinching poet’s look at life. Armed with a steady, rhythmic pulse on his Gibson guitar, a battered straw cowboy hat and a no apologies rust-belt work ethic, Davey puts rubber to asphalt, entertaining attentive, diverse audiences at listening rooms, coffeehouses, nightclubs, festivals, colleges and universities throughout the Northeast, Midwest, Midsouth and Atlantic states. See him perform at the Dancing Cat Distillery & Saloon, 2037 Route 17B in Bethel, on June 6 at 8:00pm. For information, call 845-583-3141.

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Art & About: “It’s Summertime!”

photojournalism career Art and About, in New Jersey. sponsored by the Port Benko’s photographs Jervis Council for the will be featured on Arts, will present It’s Wednesdays at City Summertime! June 3 Hall, 20 Hammond through July 29 at Street, Port Jervis. three venues, celebrating Joan Kehlenbeck is the visual beauty of the president of the River summer’s diversity. Valley Artists Guild Nancy Davis-Kessler is from the town of “Friendly Visitor” by Nancy Davis-Kessler (RVAG). In addition to her responsibilities Deerpark. A social with RVAG, Joan has worker, she has donated shown her oil paintings many of her photographs and pastel drawings to be auctioned off at regionally and is wellsuch organizations as known in the area for the American Cancer her demonstrations and Society, and several workshops. local non- profits. Her Kehlenbeck’s ocean photographs will be pastel paintings and featured in the cafeteria “Whisper” by Dawn Benko triptychs will be featured at Bon Secours, 160 East at Deerpark Town Main Street, Port Jervis. Hall, 420 Route 209, Dawn Benko is an award Huguenot. winning photographer. Check out www.port Her passion for capturing jerviscouncilforthearts. “the moment” has seen org for more information. her through an A.S. See page 8 for RVAG’s degree in photographic summer art exhibit technology at Florida at SUNY Orange, Institute of Technology and a twenty-seven-year “Rocky Coast, Maine” by Joan Kehlenbeck Middletown.

Artists’ Market Community Center

Artists’ Market And, artists of all kinds Community Center take note: Local artists (AMCC) and the meet on the last Sunday Barryville Area Arts of each month at AMCC Association (BAAA) are from 3:00pm-4:00pm, to sponsoring a reception for debate topics of interest the opening of BAAA’s to the art community. art exhibit on June 6, The topic is chosen in 4:00pm-6:00pm at the advance, so there’s some AMCC, 114 Richardson time for participants to Photo by Alexis Brianna Kramer Avenue, Shohola. gather their thoughts or BAAA is an eclectic mix of painters and do some research beforehand. Local artists potters; designers and sculptors; writers and take turns acting as panelists. Free and open musicians; performers and photographers; to the public, you’re welcome to put your filmmakers and quilters; and “impossible-to- two cents in, or just listen. The May 31 topic: describe”. They are natives and transplants; “How does art create social change?” with full-timers and part timers; “city hardened and panelists Brandi Merolla and Isaac Green country reprieved;” long-time professionals Diebboll, and with moderator Claudine and emerging creators. Luchsinger. “Clients” of the AMCC include artists, If you’ve ever written a song, write lyrics, actors, teachers, writers, poets, singers, and or compose music, there’s a monthly meeting a host of other creatives. Sometimes it’s a with kindred souls who take turns sharing play. Sometimes it’s a solo art show. It could their creations, or just sit and enjoy what be anything and everything any type of the others have come up with. Songwriters artist has to offer. Sometimes you’re invited Anonymous meets the first Sunday of every to watch. Sometimes you’re invited to month at 2:00pm. Take a turn playing or participate. You’re always invited to partner singing your original compositions, or just with them to celebrate the arts. sit, listen and enjoy! The AMCC supports the arts in the Light refreshments are served compliments Barryville, NY / Shohola, PA area by of AMCC for both gatherings. offering art exhibits, special events, classes, RSVP to artistsmarket114@gmail.com and concerts. It’s free to join and get notified Visit http://artistsmarketcc.com for more of all the local happenings. info or call 845-557-8713. 32

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