PROGRAMMING


Upcoming FALL 2024:

October 12, Saturday 8pm, Syd Straw & Don Piper, with Chris Kowanko.  $15 advance/$20 at-the-door. This event is expected to be at capacity. To reserve email seward.peter@gmail.com or Venmo #PayPeterSeward.

Clothed-Model Drawing Sessions, Tuesdays 6-9pm, starting Sept. 3rd     $15 Contribution, email seward.peter@gmail.com to reserve. To participate as a model, please email seward.peter@gmail.com. Model fee is $75.

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.

PAST EVENTS:

HINTERLANDS (accordion/violin duo) October 5

Sept 22, Sunday 4pm BILLY SHAMIM “THE ALLENS & FRIENDS” Sept 22

 ELECTRONIC MUSIC SUMMIT with PEARLYKESH, ANTONIN FAJT, BRIAN DEWAN Sept 15

The Dust Bunnies Reunion Concert Sept 8

Ampersand Vocal Chamber Ensemble                                                                           Friday, February 16th

ARKAI (an electro-acoustic duo of violin and cello) Co-presented with Hill & Hollow Music.  January 28

Casey Neill (singer-songwriter, Portland, OR) Tyler Dezago opening.      7:30pm, Saturday, December 2nd.

*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.

*Doug Wieselman, Saturday, October 28th (Brooklyn, NY) clarinet & loops,

*December Wind First Nation Mohawk Akwasasne Band, Saturday, September 30th 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 DoorRefugees 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 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

  • 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 DewanElectronic, 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.