Upcoming in 2024:
Ampersand Vocal Chamber Ensemble Friday, February 16th at 7:30pm
Vermont-based vocal chamber ensemble Ampersand presents a 65-minute a cappella program called Midwinter, celebrating the stark beauty of midwinter with music & poetry. Friday, February 16 at 7:30pm. Doors at 7pm. Admission is by donation. Works include Renaissance polyphony by Tallis, Byrd, Lassus, and Manchicourt, music from the first half of the 20th century by Parry and Poulenc, and contemporary music by Andrew Balfour. Ampersand’s ensemble is made up of six world-class vocalists, including members of the Grammy-nominated choir of Trinity Wall Street, the GRAMMY-winning new music ensemble The Crossing, and Grammy-nominated Clarion Choir. This concert event marks the return of the ensemble after a several-year hiatus.
PAST EVENTS:
ARKAI (an electro-acoustic duo of violin and cello) Co-presented with Hill & Hollow Music. ARKAI will perform two concerts with
a different program at each location:
Casey Neill (singer-songwriter, Portland, OR) Tyler Dezago opening. 7:30pm, Saturday, December 2nd. $15 at-the-door
*Brian Dewan, Saturday, November 4th (Catskill, NY) Songs, original and uncovered. Also appearing November 5th, Sunday afternoon at The Station in Onchiota. Dewanatron analog synthesizers. $15 at-the-door.
*Doug Wieselman, Saturday, October 28th (Brooklyn, NY) clarinet & loops, $15 at-the-door
*December Wind First Nation Mohawk Akwasasne Band, Saturday, September 30th, 7:30 at Pendragon Theatre NCPR Media Sponsor. With support from Saranac Lake ARTWORKS.
*Concert Series Intonations, Saturdays at 7:30pm. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.
John Brown Lives! Film Screening: His Truth Goes Marching On with Film-maker Dan Morrison. Saturday, Sept 16, 7pm, doors 6:30pm, $15 Donation, Pizza & Beer
*Nine Conversations about Justice and Equity 3pm, Thursdays July & August, John Brown Farm State Historic Site, Lake Placid FACILITATORS:
July 6: Shawndel N. Fraser, Dr. Shenell Evans
July 13: Pete Nelson
July 20: Jeri Zempel
July 27: Mike Bishop
August 3: Yunga Webb, Kathy Bonavist
August 10: Dr. J.W. Wiley, Ellen Bettmann
August 17: Russ DeFonce
August 24: Melissa Lambert
August 31: Jen Kretser, Dr. Martin Tyler
Sunday, October 30th at 7pm, Lake Flower Landing celebrates 6-years of presenting with a haunting program for Halloween, Häxan, a 100 year-old silent film with live music featuring Lori Goldston on cello (Nirvana, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Cat Power) and Greg Kelley on trumpet (Heathen Shame, Cold Bleak Heat, Pauline Oliveros). $15 Admission at the door.
INTONATIONS: The MANTIS ENSEMBLE with Niloufar Shiri , Antonin Fajt & Alan Simon New Music via Iran, the Czech Republic & Pakistan Weds, Oct. 19th, 7:30pm, $15 Admission at the door.
The Back Door, Refugees at Roxham Road Janet McFetridge, Plattsburgh Cares board member Paula Allen, internationally-acclaimed photographer Adrian Carr, Grammy -nominated composer/pianist. 4pm, Sunday, October 16th, $10 Donation.
INTONATIONS: The RESONANT ROGUES Weds, September 28th, 7:30pm $15 Admission. https://youtu.be/er8Vuiv7t8c
INTONATIONS: TIMOTHY HILL Saturday, September 10th, 7:30pm $15 Admission. 1pm Vocal Workshop $25 RSVP https://youtu.be/ogK8nFW5S4w
*Sound & Vision: KUF KNOTZ & CHRISTINE ELISE with Gene Baker & Kyle Murray Saturday, June 18th, 7:30, $15 Admission https://youtu.be/Ns46_M3RC4E
JESSIKA KENNEY & EYVIND KANG, opening Alan Simon Tuesday, May 17th, 7:30pm, $20 Admission https://youtu.be/K2bZVz-Epc
*Sound & Vision: ELECTRONIC MUSIC SUMMIT with Jerod Sommerfeldt, Michael Hart, Claude & Ola, and Echo Sunday, May 1st, 2pm-6pm, Free or by Donation
LOUISA STANCIOFF & THE KELLY BROS, Tyler Dezago & Caitlin Kelly Thursday, April 28th, 7:30pm $15 Admission https://youtu.be/BjpSIIX1pdg
BIG LAZY, MAMIE MINCH, and FILMIC MUSIC with RUSSELL SCHOLL November 12th & 13th, 2021 at Pendragon Theatre and the Recovery Lounge https://youtu.be/2Kw4jV6TyZY
*Sound & Vision: Iva, Alan, Antonin & Andrea August 21st, 2021 presented at Keene Arts
*Violin Vigil for Black Lives in the Memorial Field for Black Lives at the Brown Farm State Historic Site, with violinist Charlie Burnham & Fred Cash August 29, 2020 https://youtu.be/tBOVPNtCtKg
*Sound & Vision: Music-video collaboration “August” connecting artists from three corners of New York state, with Famous Letter Writer, Vince Quatroche, and Anthony Scalzo, 2020
Techung & Sisa performance November 15th, 2019
*Sound & Vision Screening: video mashup and live music from Mark Hofschneider , with Gene Baker, Alan Simon, and Pat McAvoy November 8th, 2019
*Sound & Vision: Iva Bittová & Esther Rogers concert November 1st, 2019
*Sound & Vision Screenings An Art that Nature Makes w Rosamund Purcell October 17th, 2019 with Wine Tasting courtesy of Terry Robards Wine
Dawson City, Frozen Time w film-maker Bill Morrison October 18th, 2019 with Wine Tasting courtesy of Terry Robards Wine
*Sound & Vision is made possible with the funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.
Iva Bittová & Concetta Abate concert August 17, 2019
Screening Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask August 18th, 2019 presented with John Brown Lives!
Screening: THE FBI’S WAR ON BLACK AMERICA with film-makers Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller October 11th, 2018 with John Brown Lives!
Lyle de Vitry and Eliza Edens July 11, 2018
*Sound & Vision: Electronic Music Summit: June 15th, 2018 Pamelia Stickney, Brian Dewan, Jerod Sommerfeld, Famous Letter Writer & Figure to Ground
*Sound & Vision: Alan Simon & Friends (Stephanie Sears, Alex Marklund & Clinton Green) June, 2018
Digging into Poetry: A Workshop for New Work April 28, 2018 Hosted by the Adirondack Center for Writing
Pamelia Stickney & Transcendental Dissonance Quartet Animation: Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed Sarah Bernstein, violin; Stuart Popejoy, piano/keys; Danny Tunick, vibes/marimba. Arrangements of Bartok, Ravel, Messiaen, Bach, & Boulanger. September 21st, 2018
Vento Trio Woodwind chamber, August 5th, 2018
Oliver the Crow debut album release, July 31st, 2018
- Double bill: Antonin Fajt & Concetta Abbate, July 26th, 2018
- Triple bill: Dyado, Partridge in the Pines, and Izaak Opatz June 15th, 2018
- “Old in Art School” book signing with Nell Painter, June 17, 2018
- Double bill: Famous Letter Writer & the Curios , Alt-indie-cabaret, June 2nd, 2018
- Alan Simon, Table recital, Indian potluck dinner
- National screening of Human Flow, live webcast Q&A w/ film-maker Ai Weiwei, April 29th, 2018
- Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers New Orleans swing, Harlem swing, Parisian cabaret, and gut bucket blues, May 22nd, 2018
- Hugh Pool solo concert, with Steve Langdon, opening March 24, 2018
- J. Schnitt with John Doan, Kyle Murray, Colin DeHond & Redia Spada January 26th, 2018
- The Olympic Spirit and other winter-themed cartoon shorts 16 mm Film screening presented by Mark Ellis. February 2nd, 2018
- Figure From Ground electro-acoustic musical performance from Malone February 3rd, 2018
- Welcome to the Big Time: Vintage Vaudeville on Film presented by Brooklyn-based video/film archivist Brother Russell Scholl plus Brian Dewan’s I-Can-See filmstrips February 3rd
- The Year of the Dog: A Chinese New Year’s Celebration film screening, potluck, dog meet & greet February 16th, Friday, 5pm
- Briga concert & record release of “Femme” Eastern-European folk via Montreal Thursday, July 13, 2017
- Final Installment of the Bakery Concert Series, June 25 , 2017 curated and hosted by Gene and Esther Rogers Baker, Classical, improvisational, and new music.
- Pamelia Stickney, virtuoso Theremin artist from Vienna! with Brian Dewan. Electronic, improvisational, classical music,and original songs of Brian’s. Friday, May 12, 2017
- The premiere of PINK-PINK, a 30 minute performance-piece by the Curtis Sisters. Post-performance mixer and Christian-rock dance party.Easter Sunday, April 16th, 2017.
- Sunday, February 5, 4pm Taylor Haskins’ GREEN EMPIRE, jazz/Americana
- Sunday, February 12th noon-5pm Sweetheart Jewelry Trunk Sale
- Weds, February 15th 7pm Sandra Weber’s “The Woman Suffrage Statue” book-signing
- Friday, February 24, 7:30pm “The Joint is Jumpin!”Special guest film curator from Brooklyn, Russell Scholl, screens musical rarities both ecstatic and sublime.