Weekend of January 22-24
Concert:
Lewis County Historical Society is delighted to announce the second act of the 2010 Black River Valley Concert Series at Lewis County Historical Society on Saturday January 23rd with singer songwriter Kelly Flint.
Postmodern folk with a tinge of Americana. If you want to reduce it to an easily digestible phrase, that’s what you might call the music of Kelly Flint. As the sultry voice for the trenchant songs of David Cantor in New York City-based cult faves Dave’s True Story, Kelly made five albums and was the toast of The New York Times, the Kennedy Center, and more.
But now it’s time for her to spread her solo wings, or more appropriately, to Drive All Night.
That’s the title of Flint’s first solo album, and what that album’s about is the sum total of the
places she has been. In the album’s warm, organic arrangements, acoustic sonorities, and
occasional open-road, real-America flavor, you can discern Flint’s Midwestern youth, spent
soaking up the classic folk-rockers of the ‘70s.
In the more complex shapes that Flint’s lyrics conjure in the mind’s eye, and the subtle harmonic
twists that keep Drive All Night from becoming strictly an “Americana” album, her coming of
age in New York City is apparent. Her involvement in the jazzy sophistication of Dave’s True
Story, her immersion in the complicated, urgent, shades-of-gray sensibility that is the
experiential dividend of New York life – it’s all in this striking new batch of songs. Sometimes
the trenchant bite is just under the surface, and sometimes it snaps up to nab a piece of your
heart.
“Kelly Flint can write, sing and arrange. She knows how to create a song and how to present it. This woman has it all.” Rambles.net
Tickets for this event are $18 in advance or $22 at the door and can be purchased at Cafe Z on South State Street in historic downtown Lowville or by calling Lewis County Historial Society at 376-8957, no credit cards accepted. Doors for the event held at 7552 South State Street in Lowville will open at 7:40 pm with the concert beginning at 8PM. Refreshments will be available for purchase, however no food or beverages may be brought into the facility. Housing is being provided by The Edge Hotel of Lyons Falls with hospitality by Jeb’s Restaurant.
Attendees will have an opportunity prior to the event and during intermission, to view samples of the artwork of the late folk-artist Veronica Terrillion; and samples of porcupine quill work by Donna Vargo which is based on artifacts studied from the Eastern Great Lakes region of North America as well as New England, the Maritime providences and New York State. Additionally a sample of Jack Vargo’s hand forged knives, historically correct replicas of those of the 17th and 18th century will also be on display. The Vargo’s owners of the Beaver River Trading Company of Belfort, are period re-enactors representing the French and Indian War era.
The Black River Valley Concert Series is a fund raising arm of Lewis County Historical Society. Support the humanities and arts by joining or volunteering at your local historical society today! To learn how, call 376-8957 all concerts at Lewis County Historical Society - 7552 South State Street.
Doors open at 7:40pm and concert starts at 8pm.
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DONUT DAY & SOUP/SANDWICH, PIE LUNCHEON
at Harrisville United Methodist Church on Saturday, January 23, starting at 10 AM. To order your donuts early, please call 543-2653 or 543-2432. Gifts,
THEATER
The Rumors are still flying -
Rumors by Neil Simon (the most successful playwright since Shakespeare)
Directed by the awesome Jan Jenkins.
Trinity Auditorium, 227 Sherman St., Watertown
Dinner Theater:
January 21, 22, 23, 29, 30 & 31, 2010
Dinner: 7:00 pm. Show 8:00 p.m. (Except Sunday Jan 31 – Dinner at 1:30 pm)
Choice of Pork, Chicken, or Fish by Chef David Boucher
$30 Includes dinner, tax, tip, and show
Reservations only for Dinner Theater: 782-2347
NEW ~ All dinner shows will be open to General Admission15 minutes before show-time! - $10 adult, $5 students
Stage Shows only
Sunday, Jan 24 at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday Jan 28 at 7:30 p.m. no dinner theater or reservations -general admission only $10 adult, $5 students
Thursday, January 21 all proceeds go to Volunteer Center of Jefferson County
Starring:
Jessica Abel, Dan Allington, Bill Bowman, Peter Hovey, Sarah Jane Hovey, David Murphy, Judy Norris, Barry Pratt, Elizabeth Smith, Debbie Vanderpool
Also, locally an old favorite comes back to town!
"Forever Plaid"
Presented
Friday, Jan. 22nd and Saturday, Jan. 23rd
Dinner at 5:30 – Show at 7 PM
And
Sunday, Jan. 24th
Brunch at Noon - 2 PM Matinee
Best Western Carriage House Inn
300 Washington St. Watertown, NY
Call (315) 782-8000 for Reservations
Dinner & Show $30.00
Brunch & Matinee $25.00
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This show is back by demand and is our 3rd run of this very popular production.
Forever Plaid is an affectionate revue of the close-harmony “guy groups” (e.g. The Four Aces, The Four Freshmen) that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. This quartet of high-school chums’ earnest dreams of recording an album ended in death in a collision with a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles’ American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The play begins with the Plaids returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory. Songs from the show include: “Three Coins in a Fountain,” “Crazy ‘Bout Ya, Baby,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Chain Gang,” “Heart and Soul,” “Lady of Spain,” and “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.”
CAST:
Kevin Kitto – “Jinx”,
Steve Petrillose – “Frankie”,
Dan Davis – “Sparky”
Jim Goodenbery - Smudge”
Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI)
For more information, please contact me as listed below
Kevin R. Kitto
flowerguy@twcny.rr.com
(315) 771-1653
If you are in Syracuse and you might be, because it is supposed to fairly warm, and dare I say, sunny – then check out this unique theatrical experience.
ARMORY SQUARE PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS A PRODUCTION OF "PERFORMING THERAPY" WRITTEN BY CAMILLA SCHADE AND KIRA LALLAS, JANUARY 24 @1:00 AT JAZZ CENTRAL
What: Armory Square Playhouse presents "Performing Therapy", a solo piece featuring actress/playwright Camilla Schade who co-wrote the play with Kira Lallas.
Where: Jazz Central located at 441 E. Washington St.
When: Sunday, January 24, at 1 p.m.
Admission: $7 and $5 for students and seniors
THE DETAILS:
On Sunday, January 24 at 1:00 at Jazz Central, Armory Square Playhouse "Performing Therapy", a featuring actress/playwright Camilla Schade who co-wrote the piece with Kira Lallas. PERFORMING THERAPY is a one-woman, group-therapy comedy about depression. It’s a wacky romp through depression, loss, displacement, dementia, and the surprise healing nature of Schuyler County.
THE PLAY:
A ‘depressively experienced’ actress turned therapist, played by Camilla Schade, leads group therapy in an attempt to provide helpful advice and therapeutic modalities in PERFORMING THERAPY. Art Therapy with Balloon Animals, Affirmations on Post-it Notes and Primal Humming are some of the hopeful remedies. But in her attempt to proffer relief, she gets wildly off-track relating her own poignant story of life after loss in Schuyler County. PERFORMING THERAPY confronts the value of memory through an engaging recognition of the art of letting go.
PLAYWRIGHT BIOS
Camilla Schade, an actor/director/teacher/playwright, has performed for Ithaca’s Hangar Theatre and was last seen on the Kitchen Theatre stage in OLD TIMES. Her acting and improvisation classes and workshops for all ages can be found at 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, through the Family Service Society and Pathways in Corning, Ithaca Youth Bureau, and as a Teaching Artist for the Hangar Theatre.
Kira Lallas, now a Hospice and Community Bereavement Counselor for Hospicare of Ithaca, grew up in Ithaca theatres and co-founded the Orange Tree Theatre Company. While at Boston University she focused on solo autobiographical writing and performance. She toured her award-winning, one-woman show, TRANSLATIONS OF XHOSA, about her time spent in South Africa, until she lived as a resident at Wisdom’s Goldenrod Center for Philosophic Study in Hector.
The creation of PERFORMING THERAPY was made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Decentralization Program administered locally by The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Jazz Central is located at 441 E. Washington St.
http://www.cnyjazz.org/Jazz_Central.aspx
For more information, visit the Armory Square Playhouse website: http://www.cnyplaywrights.org/ or phone 478-3590.
A Program of the CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Armory Square playhouse is a member of the Arts and Culture Leadership Alliance of Central New York
