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Make your reservation now for VKB—a power trio of seasoned music veterans who reinterpret the Tom Waits songbook in new and inventive ways. Bask in the stylings of these 3 fabulous multi-instrumentalists who bring a whole new take to these popular tunes to form a captivating and potent original event in Chapel Hall. VKB is Rachelle Garniez, Amanda Homi and Terry Radigan who create a world of sound via inventive three-part harmonies and a treasure trove of instruments including banjos, bottles, squeezebox, and zills. Hear the Interview with WSKG's Bill Snyder here: Plunge in and thrill… —Music Row VKB…creates music that is at once powerful, playful and poignant. —Glide Magazine 4 Shows Only! Thursday, July 21 @7:30 pm |
Don't Miss Vicki Kristina Barcelona July 21-24 Only!
Written By Editor on 7/20/22 | 7/20/22
NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES 2022 ONEONTA WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S
Written By Editor on 7/19/22 | 7/19/22
Walk to End Alzheimer’s is World’s Largest Event Dedicated
to Alzheimer’s Care, Support and Research
Oneonta, NY (July 19, 2022) – The Alzheimer’s Association, Northeastern New York (NENY) Chapter is inviting local residents to join the fight to end Alzheimer’s by participating in the Oneonta Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® on September 25, 2022, at Neahwa Park. On Walk day, participants come together to honor those affected by Alzheimer’s and raise funds that ensure the programs and services provided by the Alzheimer’s Association are free to all who need them.
Ann Thayer, Associate Director of Programs and Services at the NENY Chapter, says: “Walk to End Alzheimer's is our signature event and we are pleased to announce this year’s Oneonta Walk will once again be held at Neahwa Park. While our Walk raises critical funds, it is far more than a fundraiser. It is an inspiring time where our community comes together to celebrate our commitment to ending this disease. If you've never attended, there is a poignant Promise Garden ceremony with different colors that represent each walker’s personal reason to end the disease. It is my hope that you'll consider adding your flower to the fight.”
In addition to inviting people to sign up for the Oneonta walk, the NENY chapter is encouraging people to become involved in other ways.
“You can start teams, join the planning committee, or sponsor or table at the event,” said Thayer. “I have seen firsthand how debilitating Alzheimer’s can be. I hope everyone walks with us through this beautiful park to support an end to this disease."
More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease – a leading cause of death in the United States. Additionally, more than 11 million family members and friends provide care to people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. In New York alone, there are more than 410,000 people living with the disease and 580,000 caregivers.
To register and receive the latest updates on this year’s Oneonta Walk to End Alzheimer’s, visit act.alz.org/neny. To learn more about the planning committee or sponsorship opportunities, contact Ann Thayer at athayer@alz.org or 607.282.3035.
Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s®
The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Since 1989, the Alzheimer’s Association mobilized millions of Americans in the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk®; now the Alzheimer’s Association is continuing to lead the way with Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Together, we can end Alzheimer’s.
Alzheimer's Association®
The Alzheimer’s Association is a worldwide voluntary health organization dedicated to Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Its mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Visit alz.org or call 800.272.3900.
ROOTS to SHOOTS Plays Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre July 23
Written By Editor on 7/18/22 | 7/18/22
Drumming Back at Landis July 20th
Delhi and Schoharie False Alarm Lockdown Information
Written By Editor on 7/15/22 | 7/15/22
After safely securing the reported target area police were able to fully investigate the threat. Investigating officers were able to interview all parties involved in the making of this report, including the suspect. Investigators were able to conclude that there were no actual threats made by the suspect to shoot or cause harm to anyone. It was further determined that prior to being reported to the 911 Center, and after numerous retellings of a conversation the suspect had in the Village of Walton, the information reported did not accurately represent the statements that the suspect actually made. After the suspect was located by police and it was confirmed that there was no public threat, the evacuation and lockdowns in the downtown Main Street area were lifted.
The Delhi Village Police Department was assisted throughout this incident by members of the New York State Police, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, New York State University Police at SUNY Delhi, the Walton Village Police Department and NYS Court Officers.
NYPA Celebrates Summer with Annual Auto Show at Blenheim-Gilboa Project
Written By Editor on 7/12/22 | 7/12/22
NORTH BLENHEIM--- More than 100 vintage vehicles will be on display Sunday, July 17, at the 2022 annual Antique Auto Show hosted by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) on the grounds of the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project Visitor Center. The free event is organized by the Schoharie Valley Region Antique Automobile Club of America and runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visitors can also learn about electric vehicles from Electric Car Insider and NYPA’s EVolve NY program, which is installing a fast charger network across New York State to encourage the adoption of EVs. View several late model EVs and a mock charger.
The event will also include food trucks, crafts for kids, car-themed bounce houses, a harpist at Lansing Manor and other activities. Attendees can vote for People’s Choice Awards for antique and electric vehicles.
Car registration begins at 8 a.m. The event will occur rain or shine.
The Blenheim-Gilboa Visitor Center will also be open to visitors. It is housed in a restored 19th-century dairy barn and is part of the Lansing Manor complex. The Visitor Center features a wide range of interactive exhibits on such subjects as Basics of Electricity, Uses of Electricity and operation of the Blenheim-Gilboa Project. The Blenheim- Gilboa Visitor Center is open daily, year-round, for guided tours from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
The complex is located on Route 30, 17 miles south of Middleburgh and five miles north of Grand Gorge, about one hour from Albany.
Additional events are held throughout the year. Admission to the Visitor Center, Lansing Manor, and events, is always free. School groups and community organizations are welcome. For further information and a complete calendar of events, please call 1-800-724-0309 or visit on the web at www.nypa.gov.
TUESDAY JULY 12: MICHAEL KUDISH in ANDES!
Written By Editor on 7/11/22 | 7/11/22
Diamond Hollow Books, in association with Purple Mountain Press and the Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve will host the author on Tuesday, July 12th from 4:30-6:30 PM at the bookshop, 72 Main Street, Andes, NY. Dr. Kudish will sign his books and also engage in conversation with Erwin Karl, farmer, mycologist and President of the Kudish Preserve. Admission is Free but seating is limited!
Info: 347-262-4187 or biz@diamondhollowbooks.com. Please note: the shop is up one flight of stairs. Assistance getting up them can be provided by staff.
Michael Kudish says that he “just can’t understand people who want to live in an area that’s flat. I’ve had mountains around me all my life.” And in that life he's helped unveil the mysteries of the Catskill & Adirondack Mountains.
We are celebrating a new edition of the now classic The Catskill Forest: A History (pbk., 217 pages, Purple Mountain Press, $55) as well as Kudish in the Kaatskills, a compendium of articles written by Kudish, reprinted with permission from Kaatskill Life Magazine and The Catskill Forest Association’s CFA News. (pbk., 132 pages, Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve, $30) as well the other Kudish publications from Purple Mountain, namely the 4-volume study The Mountain Railroads of New York State.
Michael Kudish is an author, railroad historian, forest historian and botanist. He received his Ph.D. in botany in 1971 from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse. His dissertation, on the history of Catskill forests, was the beginning of a lifelong study. It was later expanded and published in book form as The Catskill Forest: A History.
Since 1971, Kudish has tirelessly studied the Catskills forests and shared his insights with others in classrooms, in the field, and through books and articles. He is Professor Emeritus from Paul Smith's College, where he taught for 34 years, and where a forest has been named after him. Mike was named one of the 50 Stewards of the Catskills by the Catskill Center.
“Mike Kudish is a treasure to the Catskills region and people anywhere who appreciate forests,” said Erwin Karl, president of the Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve, “Whether you are seeking a comprehensive study in time and space or a snapshot view of forest ecosystems, his writing provides a wealth of information on how the forests came to be and our place within them.”
Mike Herman SoLo, Live at Landis Full Moon Music Series
Jul 15, 2022, 7:00 PM
In the Landis Meeting House
Mike Herman SoLo is a Modern Pioneer in acoustic fingerstyle blues. His performances and his guitar instruction system integrate the styles of Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Son House and Robert Johnson – linking classic blues with the American Folk tradition. Mike now blends his influences of acoustic blues, bluegrass, ragtime, and old-timey music into a style uniquely his own. Click here to hear a selection from Mike on YouTube.
Find the magic of the moon at Landis during our live music series at the Meeting House, with its “million dollar view” and nearly perfect acoustics. We invite you to join us from 7:00 to 10:00 PM inside near the stage or outdoors on our broad deck – or on a blanket on the lawn.
Registration: Members and non-members: $10. Kids under 12 free! NO PREREGISTRATION - Pay at the door.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Schoharie County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.
"Let's Talk Historical Quilts" July 11th
Written By Editor on 7/10/22 | 7/10/22
"Let's Talk Historical Quilts"
Explore the History of Quilt-Making!
About this event
Let’s Explore How Quilting Evolved - Not your mother's average ‘”blanket”!
(This event is a LIVE presentation as well as Zoom. The LIVE presentation will be held at the Community Room of the Sharon Free Public Library in Sharon Springs, NY at 7 PM.)
To register, please click here.
Quilters now days take for granted the vast array of beautiful fabrics available to us, and the quilting tools many of us never even dreamed of when we first began sewing and quilting.
Join quilter Sharon Aernecke Aitchison as she takes a look at the earliest evidence of quilted items to the necessities of quilts and forward to quilts becoming works of art.
How did quilt designs get their names? Is it hand-sewn or machine-pieced? What would a Colonist need a quilt for besides warmth? How did the oldest quilts withstand the wear and tear of use and time? Where are they now?
Explore with me some history of quilt-making and where we are today with the most intricate of designs and fabrics so rich and beautiful the women of the prairie would weep for.
Stick around afterward for a Q&A with Sharon — any and all questions about the quilting are welcomed and encouraged!
This is a free program - However, voluntary donations are greatly appreciated to support our non-profit community programs. Your donation helps to support the Sharon Historical Society so we can continue to provide quality historic programs such as this one. Donations can be made on the "Registration" tab.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF GREENVILLE LAUNCHES FIRST ARTS AROUND GREENVILLE STUDIO TOUR
Written By Editor on 7/6/22 | 7/6/22
Local artists are the draw in a new FREE SUMMER EVENT in Greenville, NY (Greene County)
• Arts Around Greenville Studio Tour is a free two-day event in and around Greenville, NY on July 23 & 24, 11am to 5pm.
• It’s a self-guided tour of private art studio spaces; Visitors can chat with artists and learn about their process, materials, and inspiration. Art will be available for purchase.
• 20 local artists will participate; All studios are within 15-mile radius of Greenville center. • Preview and Opening Reception on July 8, 6 – 9pm at Prevost Hall in Greenville, NY. • Studio Tour Maps can be found at business sponsor locations or downloaded at CPOG.org
Arts Around Greenville Studio Tour is a Community Partners of Greenville art initiative focusing on the blossoming creative scene in Greenville, NY. The geography of northern Greene County offers scenic and panoramic views of the Catskill Mountain range, making it a desired location for artists to reside and work. Accomplished artists have always been part of the town’s essence, even more are choosing to make Greenville their home recently. The Studio Tour is an invitation to Greenville community members to become immersed in the cultural assets of the town while learning more about talented neighbors and friends. It is also an opportunity to welcome visitors from other regions, inviting them to discover and explore all that Greenville, NY has to offer, including dining, lodging, and shopping.
The Studio Tour was proposed in 2021 and organized by Natalie Boburka, artist & educator, "I believe that it's an important time to build community after so much that has caused division. There are so many talented people in this area, I wanted to celebrate that and create a network of artists that could support each other. At the same time, I wanted to open-up the art process to everyone. Artist Studio Tours create opportunities for people who might not visit a gallery to see art and artists in their own neighborhood. We also invite visitors to enjoy the local, unique business sponsors located on our map."
The Studio Tour project led to the creation of Arts Around Greenville (AAG), a subcommittee of Community Partners of Greenville. The mission of AAG is to engage community members of all ages in creative endeavors while offering opportunities for fun social connection. AAG is devoted to bringing local folks together in celebration of the arts in Greenville’s beautiful public spaces like Prevost Hall, Veteran’s Park & Gazebo, George V. Vanderbilt Park and Greenville Public Library. The 2022 Art Studio Tour is made possible by the generosity of local sponsors and AAG members who volunteer their time. To become a member, go to CPOG.org.
Community Partners of Greenville (CPOG) is a non-profit organization celebrating the essence of local community in Greenville, NY with events like Greenville Day, The Summer Concert Series, and Arts Around Greenville Studio Tour. Become a member, donate, or sponsor an event by visiting CPOG.org.
Experience Live Glassmaking at Fenimore Art Museum July 11-17
FREE glassblowing demonstrations every 45 minutes each day, performed by an expert team from the Corning Museum of Glass.
Families can enjoy a special glassmaking program for kids each day at 11:15am.
Special Event:
The Mobile Hotshop from the Corning Museum of Glass
Monday, July 11–Sunday, July 17, 2022
Free glassmaking demonstrations every 45 minutes from 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
FenimoreArt.org/glass
Cooperstown, New York – Experience the art of live glassmaking in Cooperstown as Fenimore Art Museum presents the Mobile Hotshop from the Corning Museum of Glass, July 11–17, 2022. Each day find free outdoor demonstrations of complex hot-glassmaking techniques, every 45 minutes from 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., featuring exciting sessions such as You Design It; We Make It! and Don’t Try This At Home. There’s also a free demonstration for kids at 11:15 a.m.—all on the Museum’s front lawn. The event celebrates Fenimore’s summer exhibition Unmasking Venice: American Artists and the City of Water.
Delve deeper into glassmaking with a special “Beyond the Bench” tour. Corning glass makers will lead daily tours of the Unmasking Venice exhibition to discuss pieces of Venetian glass on display, followed by a demonstration at the Hotshop showing how those particular objects were created. The “Beyond the Bench” tour takes place at 4:00 p.m. each day (July 11-17). Registration required. Cost: $10 for museum members and $12 for non-members. Visit FenimoreArt.org for more information or go directly to Eventbrite.com for tickets.
Visitors to the Mobile Hotshop’s free demonstrations will receive a $5.00 discount off regular adult admission to Fenimore Art Museum. View the permanent collections and six current exhibitions including Unmaskin
This project is made possible with the generous support of Art Bridges, with additional support from C. J. Heilig Foundation, Nellie and Robert Gipson, Fenimore Asset Management, Inc., Fidelity Charitable through the Thomas and Christine Berk Fund, Mr. Tom Morgan and Ms. Erna J. Morgan McReynolds, NYCM Insurance, Joe and Carol Mahon, Keith and Virginia Smith Family Foundation, Dr. Thomas Morris, in memory of Jackie Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Farmakis, and nearly 35 additional donors through a spring fundraising campaign.
Find details and registration information for all programs on the calendar at FenimoreArt.org.
New Exhibition, The Wilderness Diary, Opens at Fenimore Art Museum on July 8
This new exhibition features the work of artist and mental health advocate Jessica Farrell.
Farrell’s work challenges misconceptions and stigmas, shedding light on the one and five people who struggle with a mental health condition today.
New Exhibition:
The Wilderness Diary
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Community Gallery
July 8–31
Cooperstown, New York — Fenimore Art Museum presents The Wilderness Diary, opening Friday, July 8 in the Museum’s Community Gallery. This new exhibition features an arresting series of nine portrait paintings, plus a companion book and audio-recording by artist and mental health advocate Jessica Farrell. The project was inspired by Farrell’s Aunt Barbara who wrote a diary in the 1960s-1970s detailing her journey with bipolar disorder. The subjects of Farrell’s paintings have all experienced a mental health struggle; many of them are peer recovery specialists she has worked with in the community. Each person is depicted in their youth with an allegorical animal companion. The Catskills Mountains with their ever-changing and sometimes foreboding skies serve as a backdrop--mirroring the emotional and physical isolation Farrell’s subjects described.
Farrell is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Delaware & Otsego Counties. She describes the project as “a meditation” on the significant, on-going mental health crisis that plagues this nation. She hopes her work challenges misconceptions and stigmas and sheds light on the one and five people who struggle with a mental health condition today.
Farrell says, “Ultimately, The Wilderness Diary is about triumph over adversity. Despite living with a greatly misunderstood condition, the people I’ve painted advocate for individuals in our community. Their lived experiences challenge misconceptions, offer insight and give all of us hope.”
The exhibit is on view from July 8–31.
Bushel Presents “Lemons,” a new play by Sarah Todes, July 23 & 24
“Lemons explores how social media affects our relationship to grief,” explains the playwright Sarah Todes. “My new play centers on an obsession with fitness guru Amanda Kloots’ instagram account after Kloots lost her husband, Broadway performer Nick Cordero, to COVID in 2020. After recently losing her mother to cancer, the protagonist in Lemons absorbs Amanda’s public grief in the context of her private one.”
Featuring four performers—Marisa Caruso, David Gould, Keren Lugo, and Sarah Todes—Lemons begins as a personal narrative essay that quickly deconstructs, breaking out into scenes, being interrupted by other voices, and spiraling at the mercy of memory, imagination, and doom scrolling. Dance and movement at times accentuate, at times provide counterpoint to the rhythm of the first-person narrative.
Sarah Todes describes Lemons as “an examination of female strength, both physical and emotional, in the face of capitalist patriarchy. My play looks at how societal expectations have come to inform our relationship to grief, our identities, our bodies, and each other.”
Two Gentlemen of Verona—2 Weekends Left!
Our audience pleasing production runs only for 2 more weekends—see this gorgeous, funny, music-filled ensemble production of Shakespeare's early play before it's gone. 2 More Weekends Only! Thur–Sat. @7:30 pm, |
Bassett Medical Center Displays Local Artwork From Springbrook Community
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Landis Hosting Book Sale Saturday
Saturday Book Sale in the Barn Book Room July 9, 10 AM - 2 PM. It may be humble in appearance, but our customers find treasures in our barn book room. Sales are by donation, cash and checks accepted. Stick around and enjoy the day with us!
The Landis Arboretum is a private, not-for-profit organization that supports a public garden incorporating hundreds of acres in Schoharie and Montgomery Counties of New York State. We're close to Albany, Schenectady, and the rest of the Capital Region.
Arboretum founder Fred Lape began developing the Arboretum in the 1950s on Oak Nose Farm, his family homestead. With the support of a bequest from friend and colleague George Landis, Fred strove to grow every species of woody plant from temperate regions around the world that would survive in the hills of Schoharie County.
Heritage Music Gathering Returns to Windham New York After Two Year Hiatus
Written By Editor on 7/5/22 | 7/5/22
On the occasion of U.S. Grant’s 200th birthday, the Heritage Music RE-Gathering returns to the Windham Civic Center from August 5-7, 2022, after more than two years of trials, heartbreak and tribulations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout its 22 years, the Gathering has presented the popular songs and tunes that expressed the hopes, compassion, dreams,deep sense of humanity and patriotism that tells the story of the founding of America. This year’s ‘in tune with history’ music experience will present America’s story in song as we celebrate our deep love of country andemember the victims of COVID-19 while paying tribute and offering thanks to all front-line responders.
On Friday evening, August 5 at 7 p.m. Frank Marquette will present “POE LIVE” with the tales that shocked and terrified audiences and pulp fiction aficionados of the mid-19th century America. The evening’s program will explain Poe’s tales of mystery and madness including The Raven, Annabelle Lee, The Pit and the Pendulum and The Tell Tale Heart.
Enjoy a free community BBQ and Ice Cream Social prior to the show from 5 to 6:30 p.m.!
Saturday evening’s Grand Concert will have a limited total capacity and social distancing between patrons, if appropriate. Masks will be made available inside of the Centre Church. The performance will be two and a half hours long with a live simulcast on WRIP 97.9 FM for the first hour, from 7-8 pm.
Nationally recognized pianist Helen Beedle will perform a prequel of famous selections celebrating America’s rich music landscape at 6:30 p.m. As COVID-19 positivity rates continue to drop, the Heritage Music Gathering will continue to review our concert, music showcases and presentations to insure we are in accordance with governmental guidance and safety recommendations.
Special thanks are extended to the Windham Foundation for its support of the Grand Concert lineup:
Pianist Helen Beedle will present Composers of Color: Music of the 19th Century South. Her performance includes a set of dance pieces by Basile Bares, of New Orleans. As a creole of color his performances were noted in the New Orleans Tribune. Bares was trained in piano, theory and composition. In spite of being a slave, his name appeared prominently in his numerous piano works. Ante-bellum New Orleans had one of the largest free black populations in the country. Thomas Green Wiggins, blind from birth and born into slavery in Georgia was a celebrated concert artist from early childhood. Known as Blind Tom, his very unusual phenomenal piano playing was known worldwide. Wiggins performed for Queen Victoria and President Buchanan, but lived a life of exploitation. Additional performers and highlights will include the 77th NY Regimental Balladeers, Providence Brigade Band, Susquehanna Travellers, Jolly Tars, Steve and Lisa Ball, and the Irish Volunteers.
There will be daily camp programs throughout the weekend including a medical surgical exhibit with demonstrations, artillery display, meet and greet with Mark Twain, children’s “limberjack“ workshop, music showcases, 79th NY Highlanders display, quilt and doll exhibits, jam sessions and a living history music program “Music & Musket” focusing on the importance of brass bands in the Civil War.
Saturday morning from 10:30-11:30 a.m. a children’s combination art/music limberjack workshop will engage children 5 years and older. Participants will paint a wooden limberjack and be instructed how to use the “dancing jack” as a percussion instrument. On-site musicians will accompany the children with the fiddle and bones.
The Hensonville Hose Company will provide free community barbecues on Friday and Saturday. An ice cream social sponsored by the Communityof Windham Foundation and Stewart’s Ice Cream will follow Friday’s BBQ.
The 2022 Heritage Music Gathering’s poster was designed by historical artist Mark Maritato. For decades. this Connecticut artist has brought military historical events alive on his canvasses. Mr. Maritato has been a featured artist at the Heritage Gathering over the years and his original oil paintings are renowned among private collectors and public institutions.
Admission to “POE LIVE” and the Grand Concert live radio broadcast “Hard Times Come Again No More: America’s History in Song” are free and first come, first seated. Both programs begin at 7 pm. For additional information call 518-734-5655.
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