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March 17, 2011

The O-town Scene - Oneonta, NY

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Coming Events Quintet to bring bluegrass to EOH The Earlville Opera House will welcome the rising bluegrass quintet, the Farewell Drifters, at 8 p.m. Friday, March 18, in the Arts Cafe on East Main Street in Earlville. The group brings shimmering harmonies and disarmingly honest songwriting to its performances. Nashville Public Radio said the Farewell Drifters make “folk music hip again.” The Nashville Review wrote: “Their distinct lyrical talents lie in their ability to express progressive, universal ideas in an accessible way, and with their energetic, youthful pres- ence they are part of a movement to expose a new generation of listeners to the honesty of acoustic music.” Paste magazine said the group’s lastest album, “Yellow Tag Monday,” “fully embod- ies their upbeat spirit, tight harmonies and the nostalgic, homey twang of an all-string ensemble.” Tickets are $17 for adults and $12 for students. For more info or tickets, call (315) 691-3550 or go to www.earlvilleoperahouse. com. Japanese textile show planned Hartwick’s Yager Museum will host an opening reception for the exhibit “Wear- ing Propaganda: Kimono Textiles in Japan, 1925-1945” at 5 p.m., Wednesday, March Two exhibits to open at RAG The Roxbury Arts Group opens its gallery 23. At 6 p.m., Dr. Jacqueline Atkins — textile historian, curator and author — will present a discussion of her work and an illustrated lecture at the museum. The lecture will include examples of silk textiles with visual propaganda, including images of warplanes and patriotic symbols. Atkins’s research is innovative, including per- spectives on material culture, fashion, gender, and history. The Yager Museum of Art and Culture at Hartwick College is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4:30 p.m. For details, call 431-4480 or visit www.hartwick.edu/ museum.xml. Italian music night set for Sat. Tenor Jonathan Howell will headline a night of music starting at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 19, at Dewar Arena on the SUNY Oneonta campus during Cabaret Concert, a highlight of the season for many fans of the Catskill Symphony Orchestra. Howell has won the Artist of the Year award for his performances with the Syracuse Opera. He will sing, among other works, a group of popular Italian tenor selections including “O Solo Mio,” “Come Back to Sor- rento,” “Funiculi Funicula,” “Matinatta” and more. Then, well-known Oneontans SUCO Presi- dent Nancy Kleniewski, Stella Luna Ristorante owner Tony Avanzato and Bassett CEO John Remillard will compete for a chance to lead the orchestra in John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.” The winner will be the person whose fans give them the most votes, based upon one vote per dollar donated. Tickets are $30 each. The orchestra will give free tickets to any one or two adults who bring any number of students to this concert. Contributed Farewell Drifters Call 436-2670 for more infor- mation or see www.catskill- symphony.net. season with two exhibits that encompassing mixed media, painting and photography. “On Another Scale, ” paintings by Lisa Ja- cobson and photographs by John Manzi are in The Walt Meade Gallery, and “Recycled,” collage and three-dimensional works created from recycled materials by Herrat Som- merhoff, are in The Old Bank Gallery. Both shows will run from Saturday, March 19 to May 30. An artists’ recep- tion be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Lisa Jacobson and John Manzi combined forces in “On Another Scale,” because, Jacobson said: “We saw our visual connection as a continual dialogue, one in photography and the other in painting. Our high contrast images reveal scales of the smallest of microscopy to the largest of cosmic Conversation set on N. Americans Cliff Eaglefeathers and Karyn Denison Eaglefeathers will host a conversation titled “Native American Peoples: Sustainability of the Land, Culture and Language” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 24 at the Strawbale House at Pine Lake. The Eaglefeathers will explain the special role that water has in the Cheyenne culture, and the way that prophesies of Sweet Medi- cine guide the Cheyenne policies on extractive minerals. Participants will be challenged to recognize and honor native view of what it is that makes us human and enables us to have a sustainable future. Contributed Untitled, by Herrat Sommerhoff light or imagery on another scale besides a terrestrial one.“ Jacobson’s work is based on a world view of living systems that thinks in terms of rela- tionships, interconnections, patterns, context. Manzi uses a double lens to shoot for the most part objects in nature. He creates his images during the actual shoot, and they are not manipulated other than the normal adjust- ing of contrast, saturation and cleaning. Herrat Sommerhoff has worked transmuting recycled materials into art since 1985. The Old Bank Gallery is at 53484 State Route 30 in Roxbury. The Walt Meade Gal- lery is in the Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mt. Road in Roxbury. For more info, call 326-7908 or go to Roxburyartsgroup.org. Rockers to take stage at Lumpy’s Local classic rock group the Roundhouse Rockers will play at 9 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at Lumpy’s, located at 2957 Route 23 in West Laurens. The band plays songs from group’s like the Beatles, Cream, the Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Van Morrison, the Rolling Stones and more. The show is free and open to the public. For more info, call 267-4415. Funk coming to cafe NY Funk Exchange, an eight-piece band from Brooklyn, will play at 10 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at the Autumn Cafe, 244 Main St. in Oneonta. The group combines the roots of funk, soul, rhythm & blues and jazz with its own ar- rangement and dynamic rhythms. The sound is a results of the band’s skillful songwriting abilities and the many influences it incorporates into its music. Musicians offer workshop at SUCO The Little Delaware Youth Ensemble will host a two-day improvisation workshop British jazz violinist Ben Powell and national flat picking champion John McGann on mando- lin, guitar and dobro on Tuesday, March 22. Beginning at 10 a.m. in the Hunt Union Ballroom on the campus of SUNY Oneonta, there’ll be a concert by the dynamic duo and LDYE. At noon, McGann and Powell will teach an improvisation workshop to any interested musicians from the community. If participants can bow a fiddle (of any size) or pick a banjo, guitar, mandolin or dobro, they should join LDYE at the workshop. Be sure to bring instruments. A concert will be at 7 p.m. in IRC 3. All of the events are free and open to the public. 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