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Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour is coming to the North Syracuse Junior High School on Feb 3.
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anff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour is coming to the North Syracuse Junior High School on Feb 3. Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the
world. Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in over 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe, the
Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide. From the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in the-
atres around the world. Traveling to remote vistas, analyzing topical environmental issues, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2024-25 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
Join the Friends of the CanTeen when Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure to North Syracuse Junior High School Auditorium on Feb 3. Doors open at 6 p.m., Films begin at 6:30 p.m. For online tickets and
information contact canteencny.com/Banff. Tickets may also be purchased at the door for $25 cash or credit. There will be raffle prizes available at the event. Don’t miss an amazing evening of entertainment and the opportunity to support the CanTeen teen center.
‘Acoustic Truths & Electric Lies’ Regional recording artists Mark Zane and Donna Dennihy at L’pool Library Sunday, Jan. 12. By Russ Tarby Contributing Writer Liverpool Public Library’s winter-spring concert series celebrates “Syracuse songwriters.” Local tunesmiths Mark Zane and Donna Dennihy will kick off the series performing their original material at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, at the library’s Carman Community Room, 310
Tulip St. Admission is free. Zane’s most recent album is titled “Acoustic Truths & Electric Lies,” with tunes such as “One More Day” and “Too Old to Care. When Dennihy released her first solo album, “Early Girl,” in 2013, it featured originals such as “Word of Dog,” “Cellophane” and “Haiku Breakup.”
Born and raised in Utica, Zane now lives in Syracuse and teaches sociology at Onondaga Community College. The struggle of life in old industrial cities can be heard in many of the songs on Zane’s debut disc, “American Hunger,” which features 12 of his originals. His second CD, “Walk it Off,” is a collection of 12 more.
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Tunesmiths Mark Zane and Donna Dennihy will kick off Liverpool Public Library’s concert series, “Syracuse songwriters” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12. Admission is free; lpl.org. His third CD, “Upstate Uprising” came out in January 2019 with 10 more. Dennihy is based in Auburn. She credits her cowriting partner and Edgy Folk bandmate Jon Peterson with nurturing her music over the past 18 years. Peterson is likely to join her for a few tunes on Sunday at the library. Since releasing “Getting Warmer” their Edgy Folk debut in 2008, Dennihy’s songwriting has
evolved to deliver sweet, poignant songs with simplistic beauty, some humorous, some insightful. Dennihy released her first solo album, “Early Girl,” in 2013. Syracuse New Times Music Editor Jessica Novak praised its “popping banjo, mandolin, violin, accordion, udu and haunting harmonies breathing life into songs built on words that are more striking with every interpretive listen.” Sunday’s concert – a collaboration of Liver-
pool Public Library and the Liverpool Is The Place Concert Committee – is made possible thanks to support from the NY State Council on the Arts administered by CNY Arts. Next month the Syracuse songwriters series will continue with guitarists Isreal Hagan and Colleen Kattau, on Feb 9. Veteran tunesmiths Bob Halligan Jr. and Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers will appear on March 9; lpl. org; 315-457-0310.
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