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Photo Regional reveals range of styles and processes
Saturday, May 25, 2013
More than 100 photographers submitted 353 images for the Photo Regional at the Fulton Street Gallery and the Photography Center of the Capital District.
ALBANY
Palace Theatre benefit nets $58,000
Friday, May 24, 2013
A fundraiser held earlier this month to benefit the Palace Theatre in Albany raised $58,000, theater officials announced Friday.
COBLESKILL
Schoharie County Arts Council to fold after 39 years
Friday, May 24, 2013
Members of the Schoharie County Arts Council voted to fold the organization at the group's annual membership meeting Thursday night.
SCOTIA
Summer concert series set for Scotia park
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Board members of the Freedom Park Foundation were all smiles Thursday as the foundation announced its 34-date 2013 summer schedule.
ALBANY
UAlbany professor awarded Man Booker Prize
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Author Lydia Davis wins prestigious international literary prize
Group Sol & Kiel has world at their fingertips
Thursday, May 23, 2013
The world music group Sol & Kiel is touring for the first time outside their Boston base, teaching audiences at coffeehouses and clubs throughout the Northeast about instruments such as the adungu (a nine-string Ugandan harp), the shruti box (an Indian hand pump instrument) and the balafon (a kind of West African marimba).
Annual New Orleans festival creates citywide funk school
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Jazz Fest shows once again that New Orleans is a citywide school for funk and jazz. For music fans it's a great place to find "undiscovered" talent.
Gaither Vocal Band will bring gospel music message to SPAC
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Chances are, if you’ve been in church, you’ve heard Bill Gaither’s music. On Wednesday, this Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductee brings The Gaither Vocal Band to Saratoga Performing Arts Center to offer its message of grace, hope and redemption.
Flatbellys singer eager to see what's next for bluegrass band
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Lindsay Rachel Rilko didn’t know anything about bluegrass music when she began sitting in with The Flatbellys in 2008, at the weekly Tuesday open mic night at Dagwood’s Tavern in Lansing, Mich.
Playwright's past translates to big stage successes
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tom Dudzick’s résumé doesn’t include a big Broadway smash, but as modern American playwrights go, he’s about as hot an item as you can find.
SCHENECTADY
Unique promotion heralds ‘Billy Elliot’ run at Proctors
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
As cars drove past Proctors on Wednesday afternoon, something may have seemed out of the ordinary. Members of the Proctors staff, along with a small number of dancers from Northeast Ballet, were standing in front of the theater wearing tutus to promote the upcoming show, “Billy Elliot the Musical.”
SCHENECTADY
Art Night founder says Schenectady event is finished
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
After years of decline, Art Night is officially dead.
CORINTH
Theater leader Frances Williams killed in car accident
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Corinth resident Frances Williams was an imaginative person who loved music and the theater and was an integral member of the Adirondack theater scene, according to her friend and former piano instructor, Norm Mosher.
ALBANY
Tax incentives eyed for live theater shows
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is proposing legislation that would extend the tax incentives afforded to film producers and music publishers to those who invest in live theater.
ALBANY
Eric Burdon rocks The Egg with ferocious, full sound
Monday, May 20, 2013
For Eric Burdon, act three, or is it four?, seems both promising and open-ended. At The Egg on Sunday, the 72-year old British singer rocked Memphis soul, Chicago blues and New Orleans barrelhouse with timeless authority and a killer band.
