The O-town Scene - Oneonta, NY
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Coming Events All-girl jam band to play in Roxbury Brooklyn-based, all-female world jam band Paprika will bring its energy and style to the Roxbury Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The group specializes in Brazilian and Caribbean music. In addition to the concert, the group will offer Latin/Salsa dance lessons at 7 Saturday night. The concert/dance will be in Hilt Kelly Hall at the center on Vega Mt. Road in Roxbury. Tickets are $15. For more info, call 326- 7908 or go to roxburyartsgroup.org. Vinyl sale Sunday The Days Inn at 65 Front St. in Binghamton will hold the “Million Dollars of Music” CD and record fair from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. It will feature more than 30 music dealers from the across the Northeast. It will focus mainly of vinyl records, with more than 100,000 recording for sale. CDs and DVDs also will be for sale. Dealers will be buying, selling and trad- ing at the free event. For more details, go to nyrecordfairs.com or call 427-9698. Young chamber artists to perform America’s Dream Chamber Artists, a group Contributed SUNY Oneonta to host jazz concert SUNY Oneonta will host the Jazz Composers Performers at the Jazz Composition & Improvisors show. Sunday nights. & Improvisors Project, an evening of original jazz compositions, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Sanford Auditorium (IRC #3) on campus. The free event will feature guitarists Ken Mc- Gloin and Bill Farrish, drummer Dean Sharp and bassist John Davey. McGloin has written music for “The Real World” and “Road Rules,” as well as for ESPN and “The Oprah Winfrey Show. Farrish has performed in off-Broadway productions of “The Man of La Mancha,” “Lil’ Shop of Hor- ror” “Hair” and “Tapestry.” Sharp has recorded with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Moby and Ani Defranco. And Davey teaches bass at SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick. For more info, call the SUCO Music Depart- ment at 436-3415. Three nights of music at theater Action returns to the Oneonta Theatre this weekend, with concerts Friday, Saturday and At 9 p.m. Friday, the Felice Brothers will take the stage with Diamond Doves. The Catskill-born Felice Brothers have a home- grown, Americana, folk sound they’ve brought to music festivals such as Bonnaroo. Tickets are $16 to $18. Saturday brings Hair of the Dog to the stage at 9 p.m. The band is one of the world’s fore- most Celtic rock bands and has been called a “regional music treasure.” Tickets are $8. And Sunday will feature “Ricky Nelson Re- membered” at 7:30 p.m., with Nelson’s twin sons Matthew and Gunnar performing their father’s music, as well as telling stories and showing never-before-seen footage of the Nelson family with interviews from celebrities influenced by Nelson. Nelson’s hit songs in- clude “Hello Mary Lou” and “Travelin’ Man.” The twins hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts as Nelson with songs such as “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection” and “After the Rain.” Tickets are $27.50 in advance and $31 on Sunday. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more information on the shows and the rest of the theater’s offerings at 47 Chestnut St., call 643-4022 or go to www.oneontathe- atre.com. of young classical chamber musicians, will play at 8 p.m. Friday at First United Method- ist Church in Oneonta as part of the Oneonta Concert Association’s season. The players are changing the face of cham- ber music while still playing the great classical repertoire with energy and passion. The artists make up one of America’s new- est chamber music groups. Featured in the concert will be Franz Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet (Quintet in A Major for Strings and Piano), the Serenade in D Major for String Trio by Beethoven, and “Assobio a Jato” (The Jet Whistle) for flute and cello by Heitor Villa-Lobos. America’s Dream Chamber Artists is a group of the country’s finest young musi- cians, representing an enormous diversity of classical music back- grounds. It performed its 2004-05 inaugural season at Symphony Space in New York. Since then, the group has performed in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Barns at Wolf Trap, Symphony Space (again), and many other communities. The artists have also performed at the world’s most prominent music festivals, in- cluding the Marlboro, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Aspen, Caramoor, La Jolla, Santa Fe, Pacific, and Lucerne festivals. America’s Dream has appeared twice on WQXR Young Artists Showcase and on Voice of America television and Internet broadcasts worldwide. Individual tickets are $20, $6 for students, and will be available at the door at corner of Church and Chestnut streets. For details, call 433-7252. Slam poetry, music at Autumn “Dr. Gibson and the All Star Revue” will perform at 10 p.m. today at The Autumn Cafe on Main Street in Oneonta. The show will feature the Oneonta Poetry Slam Association performing original poetry and the Bob Dylan’s music. The show is a benefit for the slam team to help get it to na- tionals in Ann Arbor, Mich. The cover charge is $4 ($5 for under 21). LIFE house to host skate event The LIFE House program in Oneonta — a non-profit group that works with homeless, runaway and at-risk youth in Otsego County — will hold an outreach event at 3 p.m. Saturday at Interskate 88. The rink is at 5185 State Highway 23. The group will have a booth offering infor- mation about services. Contributed America’s Dream Chamber Artists March 24, 2011 O-Town Scene 23