Paint Georgia O'Keeffe's "Austrian Copper Rose" with Patrice
2022-07-26 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Caldwell Lake George Library, 336 Canada St, Lake George, New York, 12845
Join Patrice Jarvis-Weber for a 2 hour painting workshop inspired by one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most beautiful works – Austrian Copper Rose! All Paint with Patrice workshops are designed for beginners, but open to all artistic abilities and ages. All supplies are included – just bring you and your friends and family! Participants will use acrylic paints on an 8 x 8 or 8 x 10 inch stretched canvas and everybody will take home a finished masterpiece. Registration fee is $10 and includes all of the supplies you will need. Pre-registration is required.
About Patrice: Patrice has worked in and for local art and educational facilities for over 20 years. She has organized and led workshops for adults and children in art centers, libraries, museums and other venues including, World Awareness Children’s Museum, Wiawaka, Chapman Museum, Warren County Historical Society, Double H Ranch, SUNY Adirondack, and LARAC.
Thank you to our friends at The Caldwell Lake George Library for hosting this workshop!

The Twangtown Paramours
2022-07-27 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Nashville-based husband-and-wife duo Mike T. Lewis and MaryBeth Zamer, known on stage as The Twangtown Paramours, have made a name for themselves defying boundaries with their award-winning catalogue of Americana, folk, and blues anthems. With a slew of accolades for their first two acoustic full-length albums, they’ve earned a loyal following, balancing serious instrumental and vocal chops with witty stage banter and a lighthearted approach to life. They don’t take themselves, or the world, too seriously. Now poised to release their third full-length album, Double Down on a Bad Thing, The Twangtown Paramours are shifting gears to showcase a full band, electric, groove-oriented, upbeat, soul-infused, and retro blues sound. “We want people to have fun, to cheer up, to dance, and to start sporting a positive attitude, dammit,” says Mike.
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

The Outcrops
2022-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
out·crop /ˈoutˌkräp/ : an outstanding rock formation. From the woods of Northern New Jersey, the Outcrops bring original blues-infused rock’n’roll. The four-piece band was formed in 2016 by lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Cassidy Rain & lead guitarist Bryan Schroeder. As a singer, Cassidy has been compared to Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi but her raw sensibility as front person could as easily bring comparisons to blues legends like Howlin Wolf or Muddy Waters. Bryan’s playing falls somewhere between Duane Allman and Derek Trucks, as many fans have pointed out. Bryan has also noted Jerry Garcia as a major influence. His long flowing lead lines throughout songs intertwine with Cassidy’s vocal phrases to create a very melodic sound that sets the tone for The Outcrops. The rhythm section of the band includes Jason Casanovas on bass and Max Adler on drums. Both Max and Jason bring a funk and soul feel that melds beautifully with Cassidy and Bryan creating the perfect band tag: Rock & Roll, Blues & Soul.
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

Zikina
2022-08-17 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Zikina is a group of people who came from across continents and cultures to show that despite all the forces in the world that emphasize our differences, we can come together to make something beautiful and new. It doesn’t take long for this music to get you dancing, clapping along, connecting with the people around you, and savoring the beauty of the present moment. You might start with curiosity when Uganda native Gideon Ampeire draws you in with a variety of traditional East African instruments that are rare and fascinating to US audiences, including enanga (zither), adungu (harp), and kalimba (thumb piano)- all of which he builds himself.
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

The Red Haired Strangers
2022-08-24 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Original crafted music that is classic Americana, grown locally. 1 part juke joint, 1 part honky tonk, 1 part front porch and 1 part roadhouse – The Red Haired Strangers are“ just plain pleasing, but anything but plain…The content hits all factions of the country songwriting party: original words set to driving melodies complete with evocative images of wandering, trains, sin and love lost.” – Saratoga Today
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

Alex Torres & His Latin Orchestra
2022-08-25 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Formed October 1980 in Amsterdam, NY, this 12 piece orchestra is led by the Bronx-born bassist Alex Torres. They have been presented by hundreds of festivals, performing arts centers and events annually to perform their original blend of Afro-Caribbean rhythms such as Salsa, Merengue, Cha-cha, Bomba, Plena and Latin Jazz. The Orchestra has been the recipient of numerous awards including the New England Cultural Arts Preservation Award, the New York State Music Achievement Award, the Schenectady League of Arts Award, The Governor´s Excellence in Arts Award, The NAACP Albany Chapter Award and 3 awards from NY Capital District Original Music Awards in 2016. Alex Torres & His Latin Orchestra have performed for President Bill and Hillary Clinton at the New York State Democratic Convention and also for New York Governor’s George Pataki and Eliot Spitzer’s Inauguration. They have shared the stage and billings with such major acts as Tito Puente, Tito Puente Jr., Eddie Palmieri, Andy Montañez, Los Hermanos Moreno, Arturo Sandoval, Luis “Perico” Ortiz, Ray Barretto, Jane Burnette & The Spirits Of Havana, Larry Harlow, Jose Alberto “El Canario,” Brenda K. Starr, Tito Nieves, Jerry Gónzalez & The Fort Apache Band, King Changó, Arrested Development, Branford Marsalis, The Count Basie and Woody Herman Orchestras.
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

The McKrells
2022-08-31 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
“It’s positively exhilarating to be swept away by a regional band’s CD. The songwriting talent in this band is mind boggling. Why aren’t The McKrells better known and why aren’t they with a major recording label???” – Bluegrass Now Magazine. “If bands were paid by the number of notes they played, soulfulness, conviction, confidence or black leather the McKrells would have bagged most of the money Thursday. Kevin McKrell owned the stage and crowd as usual and sang “It’s Not Me” as the country-est song of the night. They were a delicious bonus and surprise.” – The Daily Gazette
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Our Summer Concert Series brings the most FUN bands to Shepard Park for concerts on Wednesday nights in July and August. All of our concerts are FREE – so grab your family and friends and bring them to Lake George for an evening of great music!

View our Complete Summer Concert Series Event Calendar HERE
Our Summer Concert Series would not be possible without the support of The Town of Lake George, The Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, and our generous members and supporters!

Chembo Corniel Quintet
2022-09-16 18:00 - 20:00 | NY
September 16 @ 6pm

Chembo Corniel Quintet
Hery Paz – tenor sax / fluteCarlos Cuevas – pianoAlex “Apolo” Ayala – bassJoel E. Mateo – drumsChembo Corniel – congas / percussionPercussionist & GRAMMY nominee Wilson “Chembo” Corniel was raised in the humble streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn. It was during these years as a quick-witted youngster that he had the privilege and honor to study with luminaries of the Afro-Caribbean percussion tradition, such as Tommy Lopez Sr., “Little Ray” Romero, Louie Bauzo and Cachete Maldonado. Chembo honed his skills at The Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts in New York and at the prestigious La Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana, Cuba under the direction of the great Chucho Valdés.His intense studies with such legends channeled his energy onto a path where he has now created a reputation for himself among musicians and the public. Today, he is considered as one of the best hard-hitting, versatile percussionists around. Chembo has toured with many major artists throughout Europe, Asia, North & South America, and the Caribbean. He received a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Latin Jazz Album” for his CD release Things I Wanted To Do.As a part of this evening’s program, a long-time collaborator and friend, poet and spoken word artist David Gonzalez will join the group on stage.

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Jazz at the Lake 2022
2022-09-16 18:00 - 2022-09-18 19:00 | Shepard Park, Canada Street, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
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Friday, September 16, 2022
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Photo by Aaron Davis
September 16 @ 6pm
Chembo Corniel Quintet
Hery Paz – tenor sax / flute
Carlos Cuevas – piano
Alex “Apolo” Ayala – bass
Joel E. Mateo – drums
Chembo Corniel – congas / percussion
Percussionist & GRAMMY nominee Wilson “Chembo” Corniel was raised in the humble streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn. It was during these years as a quick-witted youngster that he had the privilege and honor to study with luminaries of the Afro-Caribbean percussion tradition, such as Tommy Lopez Sr., “Little Ray” Romero, Louie Bauzo and Cachete Maldonado. Chembo honed his skills at The Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts in New York and at the prestigious La Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana, Cuba under the direction of the great Chucho Valdés.
His intense studies with such legends channeled his energy onto a path where he has now created a reputation for himself among musicians and the public. Today, he is considered as one of the best hard-hitting, versatile percussionists around. Chembo has toured with many major artists throughout Europe, Asia, North & South America, and the Caribbean. He received a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Latin Jazz Album” for his CD release Things I Wanted To Do.
As a part of this evening’s program, a long-time collaborator and friend, poet and spoken word artist David Gonzalez will join the group on stage.

@Evening
Regional jazz favorites playing around town – check back soon for locations!
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Saturday, September 17th, 2022
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September 17 @ 1pm
Gilad Hekselman & Far Star Trio
Gilad Hekselman is one of the leading voices in jazz guitar. Only a few years after his arrival to NY in 2004, this native Israeli was already sharing stages with some of the greatest artists in the New York City jazz scene including Chris Potter, Eric Harland, Fred Hersch, Mark Turner, Anat Cohen, Ari Hoenig, Esperanza Spalding, Jeff Ballard, Ben Wendel, Gretchen Parlato, Ben Williams, Avishai Cohen, Tigran Hamasyan, Aaron Parks and Becca Stevens among many others.
In May 2019, Hekselman featured his quartet at the legendary NYC venue The Village Vanguard. He has also been playing all other major jazz clubs in New York City, including the Blue Note, The Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s Club and Smalls. He is constantly touring world-wide and has played most noteworthy jazz festivals and venues including Montreux, North Sea, Montreal & SFJazz to name a few.

September 17 @ 3pm
Samara Joy
With a voice as smooth as velvet, Samara Joy’s star seems to rise with each performance. Following her winning the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, she has just release her debut recording, featuring guitarist Pasquale Grasso, bassist Ari Roland, and drummer Kenny Washington.
Although having only recently celebrated her 21st birthday, Samara has already performed in many of the great jazz venues in NYC, including Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, The Blue Note, and Mezzrow, in addition to working with jazz greats such as Christian McBride, Pasquale Grasso, Kirk Lightsey, Cyrus Chestnut, and NEA Jazz Master Dr. Barry Harris.
Growing up in New York, music was a pervasive presence, due to the inspiration of her paternal grandparents, Elder Goldwire and Ruth McLendon, who led the well-known Philadelphia-based gospel group, The Savettes. Her father toured with the renowned Gospel artist Andrae Crouch, and her home was filled with the sounds of not only her father’s songs and songwriting process, but the inspiration of many Gospel and R&B artists, including Stevie Wonder, Lalah Hathaway, George Duke, Musiq Soulchild, Kim Burrell, Commissioned, and many others.
Samara’s first exposure to jazz was while attending Fordham High School for the Arts, where she performed regularly with the jazz band, eventually winning Best Vocalist at JALC’s Essentially Ellington competition.
Winning the Vaughan award was transformational for Joy. “I was suddenly on the jazz radar. It’s still bizarre to think of how fast things have progressed.” Since then, Joy has dug deep to discover her jazz roots, without losing sight of the innate simplicity that makes her sound shine. Her first album announces the arrival of a young artist destined for greatness.

September 17 @ 5pm
Ike Sturm + HEART
Ike Sturm – bass & compositions
Melissa Stylianou – voice
Godwin Louis – saxophone
Chris Dingman – vibraphone
Jesse Lewis – guitar
Johnathan Blake – drums
Bassist and composer Ike Sturm was raised in a musical home in Wisconsin, learning from his father, renowned composer and arranger, Fred Sturm. Ike has performed with Gene Bertoncini, Theo Bleckmann, Ingrid Jensen, Donny McCaslin, Bobby McFerrin, Ben Monder, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler. He has played on four Downbeat award-winning recordings, as well as several Steve Reich releases on Cantaloupe and Nonesuch Records. He has performed with Alarm Will Sound and the International Contemporary Ensemble, along with numerous creative ensembles in New York.
Ike studied jazz and classical bass and composition while earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Eastman School of Music. In addition, he drew inspiration from studies with legendary bassist Dave Holland.
Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan, where Sturm served as Music Director for the Jazz Ministry from 2004-2021, commissioned him to compose Jazz Mass, a work for voices, strings and soloists that merges diverse musical languages into a powerfully unified aesthetic. The piece was released to critical international acclaim, named one of Downbeat’s “Best Albums of the Year” and has been performed across the U.S., Scandinavia and Europe.
Endless Field, Ike’s ambient acoustic duo with guitarist Jesse Lewis has been featured live on WBGO New York’s “The Checkout” and on NPR. Their eponymous 2017 album was released on Biophilia Records and includes GRAMMY-winning soloist Donny McCaslin. The project aims to engage others in environmental awareness and activism through music and volunteer activities. In 2019 Ike and Jesse trekked to Utah to record a live wilderness album using a solar-powered battery, collaborating with National Geographic videographers and L.A. sound engineers. Alive in the Wilderness was released to critical acclaim in 2020. Endless Field has been featured live on NYC’s “The Checkout” on WBGO and National Public Radio (NPR). Ike is currently touring and finishing several new albums, including a large-scale project for choir, string orchestra and chamber jazz ensemble.

September 17 @ 7pm
Camille Thurman & the Darrell Green Quartet
As a composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and unique interpreter of the jazz tradition, Camille Thurman is quickly becoming one of the standard bearers for the form, making a considerable and dynamic contribution to the legacy of jazz while paying tribute to its heroes.
Fluid and powerful on the tenor saxophone and highly inventive as a vocalist, she also plays bass clarinet, flute, and piccolo. Her rich sax sound has been compared to Joe Henderson and Dexter Gordon, while her vocal approach—including an impressive scatting ability—has been classified alongside those of Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Carter.
In a few short years, Thurman has shared stages with such jazz and R&B luminaries as George Coleman, Roy Haynes, Dianne Reeves, Wynton Marsalis, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO) featuring Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, Charles Tolliver, Jack DeJohnette, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jon Hendricks, Harry Connick Jr., Jon Batiste, Audra MacDonald, Diana Krall, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Louis Hayes, Russell Malone, Nicholas Payton, Jacky Terrasson, Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys, Lalah Hathaway, Jill Scott and Erykah Badu, among others.
The New York City native has already amassed several distinctive honors for her musicianship: runner up in the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, two-time winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award and a winner of the Fulbright Scholars Cultural Ambassador Grant, The Chamber Music of America Performance Plus Grant (Sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) and the Jazz Coalition Composers Grant among others. Thurman also has four full-length recordings as a leader to her credit.
Her compositions were featured and performed by her quartet in the ASCAP/The Kennedy Center “Songwriters: The Next Generation” showcase as well as the Greenwich School of Music “Uncharted” Series. Camille has appeared on BET’s “Black Girls Rock” as the saxophonist and flutist in the All-Star Band. Equally adept as a player and a singer, and recognized for her compositional abilities as well, Thurman has also earned accolades from the media, from Jazz Times to Downbeat, All About Jazz to the New York Times, NPR to Sirius XM Satellite Radio, BET to Jazz Night In America.
Thurman toured internationally toured two seasons with the world-renowned Jazz At Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis as a saxophonist, becoming the first woman in 30 years to tour and perform full time (2018-2020).

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Sunday, September 18th, 2022
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September 18 @ 1pm
Zach Brock Quartet featuring Aaron Goldberg, Yasushi Nakamura, & Clarence Penn
Zach Brock – violin
Aaron Goldberg – piano
Yasushi Nakamura – bass
Clarence Penn – drums
Critically acclaimed as the “pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation,” Zach Brock is an American jazz violinist and multi GRAMMY Award-winning member of Snarky Puppy. He has toured with Stanley Clarke and Phil Markowitz, released seven solo albums, and was named “Rising Star Violinist” of 2013 by Downbeat Magazine. A passionate educator, Zach has coached hundreds of musicians, led masterclasses at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Carnegie Hall in New York, and as a five-year “Artist In Residence” at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Born to a musical family in Lexington, KY, he began studying violin at the age of four and performing publicly by the age of six. Zach’s improvisational skills were honed in the rich Chicago jazz scene while studying classical violin at Northwestern University. He released his debut album, Zach Brock & The Coffee Achievers, in 2003. Two years and two records later he was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall by trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas. Zach joined the band of legendary bassist Stanley Clarke in 2007.
Zach is most widely recognized through his twelve years of touring and recording with the genre- bending super group Snarky Puppy, playing on several albums including the 2017 Grammy Award-winning album Culcha Vulcha, 2019’s Immigrance and the 2021 Grammy Award-winning Live At The Royal Albert Hall.
Zach remains a perennial coffee fanatic and skateboard enthusiast, and currently lives with his wife and daughters in the NYC area.

September 18 @ 3pm
Vanderlei Pereira & Blindfold Test
Vanderlei was born into a musical family in Macaé, Brazil, a coastal city a little over 100 miles north of Rio de Janeiro and began playing professionally as a teenager. He moved to Rio as a young man, where he pursued a multifaceted career in jazz, popular, and classical music, including a six-year performance internship with the renowned Orquesta Sinfónica Brasiliera (OSB).
As Vanderlei’s inherited retinitis pigmentosa progressed and his vision deteriorated, he realized he could no longer continue working in the classical realm, and proceeded to dedicate himself full-time to playing jazz and other non-classical forms of music. He came to be known as one of the top jazz drummers in Rio,as well as being a highly regarded player of samba and MPB, working steadily even after he lost his sight completely.
He moved to New York City in 1988, and quickly became an in-demand drummer on the New York Brazilian music scene. His versatility has enabled him to shine in performances and recordings with numerous outstanding artists, including Toots Thielemans, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim, Sivuca, Johnny Alf, Dom Salvador, Tito Puente, Leny Andrade, Rosa Passos, Paul Winter, Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Claudio Roditi, Bebel Gilberto, and many others.
When asked about the challenges of being a blind musician, Vanderlei says: “I try to keep a positive attitude. I had to deal with losing my vision while continuing to work full-time as a musician. It took over twenty years to truly accept my blindness and develop the ability to see the positive things in everyday life. I try as much as I can to share some of that optimism with everyone I interact with daily. I would hate to think that people feel sorry for me because of my visual impairment. I’m blind, but so what? I’ve still got music and my own way of seeing things, thank God. I try to channel that energy and I think it comes through in my playing.”

September 18 @ 5pm
Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators
Born in the Pinar del Río province of Cuba, pianist and composer Elio Villafranca was classically trained in percussion and composition at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. He is a GRAMMY-Nominated Steinway Artist, and recipient of the 2014 Jazz At Lincoln Center Millennium Swing Award.
Since his arrival in the U.S. in mid-1995, Elio Villafranca is at the forefront of the latest generation of remarkable pianists, composers and bandleaders. In 2015, Mr. Villafranca was among the 5 pianists hand-picked by Chick Corea to perform at the first Chick Corea Jazz Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Over the years Elio Villafranca has recorded and performed nationally and internationally as a leader, featuring jazz master artists such as Pat Martino, Terell Stafford, Billy Hart, Paquito D’Rivera, Eric Alexander, Lewis Nash, David Murray and Wynton Marsalis among others. As a sideman Elio Villafranca has collaborated with leading jazz and Latin jazz artists including: Chick Corea, Jon Faddis, Billy Harper, Sonny Fortune, Giovanni Hidalgo, Miguel Zenón, and Johnny Pacheco among others.
Elio Villafranca’s album Caribbean Tinge (Motema), received a 2014 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Nomination by the German Records Critics Award, as well has been selected by JazzTimes and DownBeat magazines for a feature on their very competitive section Editor’s Pick.
He has received a GRAMMY Nomination in the Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year category and received the first NFA/Heineken Green Ribbon Master Artist Music Grant to compose his Concerto for Mariachi, for Afro-Cuban Percussion and Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, Elio Villafranca received The Sunshine Award to recognize excellence in the performing arts, education, science and sports of the various Caribbean countries, South America, Central America, and Africa.

Jane Ira Bloom – Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson
2022-09-17 13:00 - 15:00 | NY
September 17 @ 1pm

Jane Ira Bloom – Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson
21st-century soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom reimagines the poetry of 19th-century visionary Emily Dickinson.Jane Ira Bloom – soprano sax & compositions
Dawn Clement – pianoMark Helias – bassBobby Previte – drumsDeborah Rush – spoken word
Bloom’s reimagining of Dickinson was ignited when she learned that the poet was a pianist and improviser, reaffirming Bloom’s intuitive connection to the jazz-like quality of Dickinson’s writing.
Jane Ira Bloom has been steadfastly developing her singular voice on the soprano saxophone for over 40 years creating a body of music that marks her as an American original. She is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz and is the winner of the 2018 GRAMMY Award for Best Surround Sound Album for her trio album “Early Americans.”
Bloom is a thirteen time winner of the Jazz Journalists Award for soprano sax of the year, the Downbeat International Critics Poll for soprano saxophone, the Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Award for lifetime service to jazz, the Charlie Parker Fellowship for Jazz Innovation and the International Women in Jazz Jazz Masters Award. She is the first musician ever commissioned by the NASA Art Program and was honored to have an asteroid named in her honor by the International Astronomical Union (asteroid 6083janeirabloom). She’s garnered numerous awards for her creativity including a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition and a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. A new jazz festival in Brooklyn, NY featuring cutting edge woman artists was named in her honor (The Bloom Festival).
Wild Lines was made possible by Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works Program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Foundation.

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Samara Joy
2022-09-17 15:00 - 17:00 | NY
Samara Joy
With a voice as smooth as velvet, Samara Joy’s star seems to rise with each performance. Following her winning the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, she has just release her debut recording, featuring guitarist Pasquale Grasso, bassist Ari Roland, and drummer Kenny Washington.
Although having only recently celebrated her 21st birthday, Samara has already performed in many of the great jazz venues in NYC, including Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, The Blue Note, and Mezzrow, in addition to working with jazz greats such as Christian McBride, Pasquale Grasso, Kirk Lightsey, Cyrus Chestnut, and NEA Jazz Master Dr. Barry Harris.
Growing up in New York, music was a pervasive presence, due to the inspiration of her paternal grandparents, Elder Goldwire and Ruth McLendon, who led the well-known Philadelphia-based gospel group, The Savettes. Her father toured with the renowned Gospel artist Andrae Crouch, and her home was filled with the sounds of not only her father’s songs and songwriting process, but the inspiration of many Gospel and R&B artists, including Stevie Wonder, Lalah Hathaway, George Duke, Musiq Soulchild, Kim Burrell, Commissioned, and many others.
Samara’s first exposure to jazz was while attending Fordham High School for the Arts, where she performed regularly with the jazz band, eventually winning Best Vocalist at JALC’s Essentially Ellington competition.
Winning the Vaughan award was transformational for Joy. “I was suddenly on the jazz radar. It’s still bizarre to think of how fast things have progressed.” Since then, Joy has dug deep to discover her jazz roots, without losing sight of the innate simplicity that makes her sound shine. Her first album announces the arrival of a young artist destined for greatness.

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Ike Sturm + HEART featuring Donny McCaslin
2022-09-17 17:00 - 19:00 | NY
Ike Sturm + HEART featuring Donny McCaslin
Ike Sturm – bass & compositionsMelissa Stylianou – voiceGodwin Louis – saxophoneChris Dingman – vibraphoneJesse Lewis – guitarJohnathan Blake – drumsDonny McCaslin – saxophone
Bassist and composer Ike Sturm was raised in a musical home in Wisconsin, learning from his father, renowned composer and arranger, Fred Sturm. Ike has performed with Gene Bertoncini, Theo Bleckmann, Ingrid Jensen, Donny McCaslin, Bobby McFerrin, Ben Monder, Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler. He has played on four Downbeat award-winning recordings, as well as several Steve Reich releases on Cantaloupe and Nonesuch Records. He has performed with Alarm Will Sound and the International Contemporary Ensemble, along with numerous creative ensembles in New York.
Ike studied jazz and classical bass and composition while earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Eastman School of Music. In addition, he drew inspiration from studies with legendary bassist Dave Holland.
Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan, where Sturm served as Music Director for the Jazz Ministry from 2004-2021, commissioned him to compose Jazz Mass, a work for voices, strings and soloists that merges diverse musical languages into a powerfully unified aesthetic. The piece was released to critical international acclaim, named one of Downbeat’s “Best Albums of the Year” and has been performed across the U.S., Scandinavia and Europe.
Endless Field, Ike’s ambient acoustic duo with guitarist Jesse Lewis has been featured live on WBGO New York’s “The Checkout” and on NPR. Their eponymous 2017 album was released on Biophilia Records and includes GRAMMY-winning soloist Donny McCaslin. The project aims to engage others in environmental awareness and activism through music and volunteer activities. In 2019 Ike and Jesse trekked to Utah to record a live wilderness album using a solar-powered battery, collaborating with National Geographic videographers and L.A. sound engineers. Alive in the Wilderness was released to critical acclaim in 2020. Endless Field has been featured live on NYC’s “The Checkout” on WBGO and National Public Radio (NPR). Ike is currently touring and finishing several new albums, including a large-scale project for choir, string orchestra and chamber jazz ensemble.

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Camille Thurman & the Darrell Green Quartet
2022-09-17 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Camille Thurman & the Darrell Green Quartet
As a composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and unique interpreter of the jazz tradition, Camille Thurman is quickly becoming one of the standard bearers for the form, making a considerable and dynamic contribution to the legacy of jazz while paying tribute to its heroes.
Fluid and powerful on the tenor saxophone and highly inventive as a vocalist, she also plays bass clarinet, flute, and piccolo. Her rich sax sound has been compared to Joe Henderson and Dexter Gordon, while her vocal approach—including an impressive scatting ability—has been classified alongside those of Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Carter.
In a few short years, Thurman has shared stages with such jazz and R&B luminaries as George Coleman, Roy Haynes, Dianne Reeves, Wynton Marsalis, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO) featuring Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, Charles Tolliver, Jack DeJohnette, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jon Hendricks, Harry Connick Jr., Jon Batiste, Audra MacDonald, Diana Krall, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Louis Hayes, Russell Malone, Nicholas Payton, Jacky Terrasson, Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys, Lalah Hathaway, Jill Scott and Erykah Badu, among others.
The New York City native has already amassed several distinctive honors for her musicianship: runner up in the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, two-time winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award and a winner of the Fulbright Scholars Cultural Ambassador Grant, The Chamber Music of America Performance Plus Grant (Sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) and the Jazz Coalition Composers Grant among others. Thurman also has four full-length recordings as a leader to her credit.
Her compositions were featured and performed by her quartet in the ASCAP/The Kennedy Center “Songwriters: The Next Generation” showcase as well as the Greenwich School of Music “Uncharted” Series. Camille has appeared on BET’s “Black Girls Rock” as the saxophonist and flutist in the All-Star Band. Equally adept as a player and a singer, and recognized for her compositional abilities as well, Thurman has also earned accolades from the media, from Jazz Times to Downbeat, All About Jazz to the New York Times, NPR to Sirius XM Satellite Radio, BET to Jazz Night In America.
Thurman toured internationally toured two seasons with the world-renowned Jazz At Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis as a saxophonist, becoming the first woman in 30 years to tour and perform full time (2018-2020).

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Zach Brock Quartet featuring Aaron Goldberg, Yasushi Nakamura, & Clarence Penn
2022-09-18 13:00 - 15:00 | NY
Zach Brock Quartet featuring Aaron Goldberg, Yasushi Nakamura, & Clarence Penn
Zach Brock – violinAaron Goldberg – pianoYasushi Nakamura – bassClarence Penn – drums
Critically acclaimed as the “pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation,” Zach Brock is an American jazz violinist and multi GRAMMY Award-winning member of Snarky Puppy. He has toured with Stanley Clarke and Phil Markowitz, released seven solo albums, and was named “Rising Star Violinist” of 2013 by Downbeat Magazine. A passionate educator, Zach has coached hundreds of musicians, led masterclasses at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Carnegie Hall in New York, and as a five-year “Artist In Residence” at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Born to a musical family in Lexington, KY, he began studying violin at the age of four and performing publicly by the age of six. Zach’s improvisational skills were honed in the rich Chicago jazz scene while studying classical violin at Northwestern University. He released his debut album, Zach Brock & The Coffee Achievers, in 2003. Two years and two records later he was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall by trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas. Zach joined the band of legendary bassist Stanley Clarke in 2007.
Zach is most widely recognized through his twelve years of touring and recording with the genre- bending super group Snarky Puppy, playing on several albums including the 2017 Grammy Award-winning album Culcha Vulcha, 2019’s Immigrance and the 2021 Grammy Award-winning Live At The Royal Albert Hall.
Zach remains a perennial coffee fanatic and skateboard enthusiast, and currently lives with his wife and daughters in the NYC area.

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Vanderlei Pereira & Blindfold Test
2022-09-18 15:00 - 17:00 | NY
Vanderlei Pereira & Blindfold Test
Vanderlei was born into a musical family in Macaé, Brazil, a coastal city a little over 100 miles north of Rio de Janeiro and began playing professionally as a teenager. He moved to Rio as a young man, where he pursued a multifaceted career in jazz, popular, and classical music, including a six-year performance internship with the renowned Orquesta Sinfónica Brasiliera (OSB).
As Vanderlei’s inherited retinitis pigmentosa progressed and his vision deteriorated, he realized he could no longer continue working in the classical realm, and proceeded to dedicate himself full-time to playing jazz and other non-classical forms of music. He came to be known as one of the top jazz drummers in Rio,as well as being a highly regarded player of samba and MPB, working steadily even after he lost his sight completely.
He moved to New York City in 1988, and quickly became an in-demand drummer on the New York Brazilian music scene. His versatility has enabled him to shine in performances and recordings with numerous outstanding artists, including Toots Thielemans, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim, Sivuca, Johnny Alf, Dom Salvador, Tito Puente, Leny Andrade, Rosa Passos, Paul Winter, Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Claudio Roditi, Bebel Gilberto, and many others.
When asked about the challenges of being a blind musician, Vanderlei says: “I try to keep a positive attitude. I had to deal with losing my vision while continuing to work full-time as a musician. It took over twenty years to truly accept my blindness and develop the ability to see the positive things in everyday life. I try as much as I can to share some of that optimism with everyone I interact with daily. I would hate to think that people feel sorry for me because of my visual impairment. I’m blind, but so what? I’ve still got music and my own way of seeing things, thank God. I try to channel that energy and I think it comes through in my playing.”

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Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators
2022-09-18 17:00 - 19:00 | NY
Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators
Born in the Pinar del Río province of Cuba, pianist and composer Elio Villafranca was classically trained in percussion and composition at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. He is a GRAMMY-Nominated Steinway Artist, and recipient of the 2014 Jazz At Lincoln Center Millennium Swing Award. Since his arrival in the U.S. in mid-1995, Elio Villafranca is at the forefront of the latest generation of remarkable pianists, composers and bandleaders. In 2015, Mr. Villafranca was among the 5 pianists hand-picked by Chick Corea to perform at the first Chick Corea Jazz Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center.Over the years Elio Villafranca has recorded and performed nationally and internationally as a leader, featuring jazz master artists such as Pat Martino, Terell Stafford, Billy Hart, Paquito D’Rivera, Eric Alexander, Lewis Nash, David Murray and Wynton Marsalis among others. As a sideman Elio Villafranca has collaborated with leading jazz and Latin jazz artists including: Chick Corea, Jon Faddis, Billy Harper, Sonny Fortune, Giovanni Hidalgo, Miguel Zenón, and Johnny Pacheco among others.
Elio Villafranca’s album Caribbean Tinge (Motema), received a 2014 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Nomination by the German Records Critics Award, as well has been selected by JazzTimes and DownBeat magazines for a feature on their very competitive section Editor’s Pick.He has received a GRAMMY Nomination in the Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year category and received the first NFA/Heineken Green Ribbon Master Artist Music Grant to compose his Concerto for Mariachi, for Afro-Cuban Percussion and Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, Elio Villafranca received The Sunshine Award to recognize excellence in the performing arts, education, science and sports of the various Caribbean countries, South America, Central America, and Africa.

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Quilting in the Age of the Pandemic
2022-09-28 - 2022-10-29 | NY
Work by MICA Quilt Raffle Group, photo credit: Andrea Dixon.

Quilting in the Age of the Pandemic: Susie Brandt and The MICA Quilt Raffle Group

The MICA Quilt Raffle Group originated in 2015 at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), founded by Fiber Art Department faculty member Susie Brandt. Brandt organized a weekly gathering of students, staff, faculty, and alumni to work together on quilts that were eventually raffled to help fund student scholarships at the college. In 2017, their group expanded to include members of the African American Quilters of Baltimore.
When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Brandt found herself teaching remotely from Lake Luzerne, NY. That May she used the tools she’d learned teaching online to reassemble the group. She posted step by step tutorials and other resources on a website, and distributed materials and tools via USPS. Members mailed finished hand-stitched quilt blocks to Brandt in Lake Luzerne, where she assembled the quilts.
For two years the MICA Raffle Quilt Group met weekly on Zoom where stitchers shared their works in progress, helpful hints, other related projects, as well as their joys and their sorrows. Word spread, and people from across the US joined, ranging in age from 10-82.
Since 2015 the number of participants has grown, as well as the project’s creative quilt work, and proceeds from their auctioned quilts have benefitted numerous organizations. Collectively 76 people made a total of 15 quilts – with two more in the works. A selection of those quilts will be shown at Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery from September 28 through October 29, 2022.
Through their determination to continue creative work as a group, the Raffle Quilt Project group continues to meet regularly.
Their work was recently featured in the Art Journal Bmore Art: Finding a Common Thread: MICA’s Quilt Club
Here is a list of the all the participants to date:
Andrea Dixon, Baltimore, MD
Ann Marie Cordner, Baltimore, MD
Anna Brackett, Baltimore, MD
Audrey Naiva, Wauwatosa, WI
Betty Racicot, Idylewylde, MD
Beverly Ahern, Kansas City, MO
Carol Frost, Baltimore, MD
Christine Manganaro, Baltimore, MD
Clare Conteh-Morgan, Wauwatosa, WI
Cole Wade, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Denise Bailey-Jones, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Leslie King Hammond, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Lowery Sims, Baltimore, MD
Drew Morse, Baltimore, MD
Ellen Burchenal, Baltimore, MD
Emma Fowler, Sacramento, CA
Erika Carruth, Columbia, MD
Finn Chlebowski, Austin, TX
Gabriel Roethe, Rockford, IL
Gladys Perkins, Aptos, CA
Glenda Richardson, Ft. Washington, MD
Hannah Moog, Baltimore, MD
Jan Stinchcomb, Abingdon, MD
Jane Khattak, Baltimore, MD
Janine D’Adamo, Baltimore, MD
Joan Freedman, Baltimore, MD
Joann (Linda) Dixon, Halethorpe, MD
Joseph Malson, Savannah, GA
Julia Racicot, Baltimore, MD
Justin Darrow, Baltimore, MD
Karen Carroll, Chester, PA
Kathy Cowan, Baltimore, MD
Katie Commodore, Providence, RI
Kenya Miles, Baltimore, MD
Kibibi Ajunku, Baltimore, MD
Kirra Barnes, York, PA
Leighann Gross, Baltimore, MD
Linah Sedeek, Towson, MD
Lowell Zelenka, Baltimore, MD
Maddie Olsen, Baltimore, MD
Mahala Mrozek, Baltimore, MD
Maia Malakoff, Baltimore, MD
Malvina D’Alterio, Baltimore, MD
Margaret D’Adamo, Baltimore, MD
Marla Parker, Baltimore, MD
Nina Bova, Stony Brook, NY
Oletha DeVane, Baltimore, MD
Omalara Williams McCalister, Dorchester, MA
Patty Gallivan, Baltimore, MD
Piper Shepard, Baltimore, MD
Rae Drotleff, Baltimore, MD
Robin King, Temple Hills, MD
Rodette Jones, Baltimore, MD
Rosa Chang, Baltimore, MD
Rosalind F Robinson, Ellicott City, MD
Ruben Reynolds, Baltimore, MD
Sanzi Kermes, Baltimore, MD
Sarah Barnes, Linthicum, MD
Sarah Black Sadler, Tallahassee, FL
Sarah Magida, Baltimore, MD
Sharone Conteh-Morgan, Wauwatosa, WI
Sophia Gentile, Canton, CT
Susan Tuberville, Baltimore, MD
Susie Brandt, Baltimore, MD
Suzanne Coley, Parkville, MD
Suzanne Hill, Towson, MD
Talia Melcer, Washington, DC
Terri Ach, Duluth, MN
Tiffany Holmes, Towson, MD
Tobyanne Suyemoto, Chestnut Hill, MA
Ursula Populoh, Baltimore, MD
Valeska Populoh, Baltimore, MD
Vanessa Perrigo, Baltimore, MD
Will Grimm, Cleveland, OH
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm.
If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
thank you to our sponsors:

Jeremy Dennis
2022-11-16 - 2022-12-17 | NY
Through digital photography and various cinematic tools, artist Jeremy Dennis — a tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY — examines indigenous identity, cultural assimilation, and the ancestral traditional practices of the Shinnecock People. His unique experience of living on a sovereign Indian reservation, combined with extensive research of archaeological and anthropological records, oral stories, and newspaper archives, allows him to trace issues that plague his, and other indigenous communities, back to their source. Jeremy’s photographs of staged scenes are not without humor, but tackle serious and urgent issues, aimed to recount and honor the Shinnecock’s 10,000-plus years’ presence in Long Island, NY, and to document their resilience, and struggle to maintain autonomy.
He says: “Digital photography lets me create cinematic images. Nowhere have indigenous people been more poorly misrepresented than in American movies. My images question and disrupt the post-colonial narrative that dominates in film and media and results in damaging stereotypes, such as the “noble savage” depictions in Disney’s Pocahontas. As racial divisions and tensions reach a nationwide fever pitch, it’s more important to me than ever to offer a complex and compelling representation of indigenous people.” Despite four hundred years of colonization, we remain anchored to our land by our ancient stories. The indigenous mythology that influences my photography grants me access to the minds of my ancestors, including the value they placed on our sacred lands. By outfitting and arranging models to depict those myths, I strive to continue my ancestors’ tradition of storytelling and showcase the sanctity of our land, elevating its worth beyond a prize for the highest bidder.”
Jeremy Dennis earned his BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and MFA from Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. His recent solo exhibitions include Shinnecock Sites and Portraits: Photographs by Jeremy Dennis, Hope Horn Gallery, Scranton, PA; Indigenous Lands, Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY; Moving Through Land, Gallery North, Setauket, NY; Having Never Left, Keyes Fine Art, Sag Harbor, NY; On This Site: The Shinnecock Sites, Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, Bridgehampton, NY; Jeremy Dennis – On View, Bartow Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, NY; The Photographic Works of Jeremy Dennis, Amagansett Public Library, Amagansett, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Cycles of Nature, Hudson River Museum, Hudson, NY; Future Return, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, PA; Speaking With Light, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX. His awards include many Artist Residency Fellowships: Smoke Sygnals Indigenous Residency, Modern House Trust, Wellfleet, MA; Light Work, Syracuse, NY; Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY; Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY; Saltonstall, Ithaca, NY; and the Vermont Studio Center hosted by the Harpo Foundation, Johnson, VT. His awards also include grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation; Getty Images Creative Bursar Award; and the Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators from the online art journal Hyperallergic. His work is in the collections of the Heckscher Museum of Art; Hudson River Museum; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Parish Art Museum; New York State Museum; and Center for Photography at Woodstock. Dennis is the leader of Ma’s House and BIPOC Art Studio Inc., a communal art space and residency program he founded in 2020 on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, where he was raised and currently lives.
You can learn more about his work at his website: http://www.jeremynative.com,as well as these other online links:WNET – All Arts: Jeremy Dennis on Building Ma’s House & BIPOC Art StudioTupelo Quarterly: ON USING CINEMA’S TOOLS TO REDIRECT CURIOSITYInterview with Heather Sellers: Seven Questions for Jeremy Dennis, PhotographerKeyes Art: JEREMY DENNIS.
Contact:June Waters, Director of Exhibtions, june@lakegeorgearts.orgTanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust; and LGAP members.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm.
If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:June Watrs, Director of Exhibtions, june@lakegeorgearts.orgTanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

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Annual Call for Artists Proposals
2022-12-01 - 2023-01-31 | NY
The Lake George Arts Project invites regional, national, emerging and established artists to submit exhibition proposals to the Courthouse Gallery. Preference is given to experimental or non-traditional work created in the last two years. We welcome proposals for special exhibitions, installations, mixed media presentations, and performance art. Deadline is always January 31.
Exhibition Proposals are submitted through

Starting December 1st through January 31st artists may follow this link to submit work for review:
To begin the process you will need the following:
1. 10 to 12 images (Formats accepted for upload: JPG, TIFF or GIF)
2. Resume/CV
3. Artist Statement/Bio

Please do not email proposals, or send links to web sites.
Selection and notification is usually complete by April.
If you have questions, or need more information please call LGAP at (518) 668-2616.

2022 Holiday Party & Annual Meeting
2022-12-01 17:30 - 20:30 | NY
LGAP members and friends:

Join us for our Lake George Arts Project Annual Meeting and Holiday Party
When: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Where: The Barnsider Restaurant (2112 US 9, LG)
Social & Cocktail Hour starts at 5:30pm, followed by buffet dinner and the Annual Meeting at 6:30pm with entertainment and cash bar.

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Please RSVP by November 28th
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ORT Project - Oona Nelson & Anna Noelle Rockwell
2023-01-25 - 2023-02-25 | NY
Ort Project is the collaborative union of artists Oona Nelson and Anna Noelle Rockwell, whose lush installations and photographs explore and critique aspects of consumption, abundance and decay. Within their work Ort Project blends the influence of art history, the contemporary cult of convenience and abundance, along with current corresponding environmental threats and distorted value systems, into uncommon balances of the grotesque and the beautiful. They explain: “Inspired by 17th century ‘vanitas’ paintings from The Netherlands, ORT Project turns this antique style of painting into a contemporary sculptural tableau vivant that re-contextualizes the macabre nature of the genre. Continuing the focus on themes of temporality and impermanence – and employing symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality – ORT Project pushes the concept of the historical vanitas through a contemporary prism to expose the vanity and vulnerability of our corporeal world.”
Oona Nelson earned her BFA in Film Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute, and MFA in New Genres from the Chicago Art Institute. Anna Noelle Rockwel earned her BA in Cultural Anthropology and Fine Art from Bennington College, Vermont, and also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, CA and Parsons School of Design, NY. Ort Project’s recent exhibitions include “Still Life”, John B. Aird Gallery, Ontario, Canada; “Reclaim Award”, billboards, Cologne, Germany; “Fence Select”, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY in 2020 and 2021; “7 Deadly Sins”, Artless Bastard Gallery, West De Pere, WI; and “Memory and Perception”, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA. Ort Project’s awards include a 2022 residency from IASPIS, Stockholm Sweden; a Purchase Prize Award from Albany Institute of History and Art from the 2022 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region at the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; a Critical Forum Fellowship from the Arts Center for the Capital Region, Troy, NY; and inclusion in the juried exhibition and fine art Photography book “Food ~ The Aftermath” at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Learn more about their work at www.ortproject.com
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse Building, located on the corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm.
Contact:
June Waters Director of Exhibtuions
june@lakegeorgearts.org
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director,
518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org

This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; The Alfred Z Solomon Charitable Trust; and LGAP members.
https://www.ortproject.com
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:
Tanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

“Here and There”, a solo exhibition of paintings by Kathryn Lynch
2023-03-15 - 2023-04-15 | NY
Please join us for a gallery reception on March 18, 4 – 6 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Kathryn Lynch’s paintings draw from a variety of subjects, often daily encounters that range from NY’s Hudson Valley landscape, NYC cityscapes, New England seascapes, and sometimes dogs, people, flowers, and even tug boats. Her paintings are not “plein air”, or observed from direct observation, but capture what is caught in the periphery, or peripheral vision – a sense form, light, and atmosphere. The simplicity of forms, and direct, yet seemingly loose strokes in her paint handling, become distilled records of passing moments. She says: “I am not painting a specific place, I’m painting a specific mood and feeling about a place.” … “because when I leave a place it’s still with me—I keep painting it.”
Kathryn Lynch earned her BA from William Smith College, and her MFA from University of Pennsylvania. She also studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her recent solo shows include City Grit, Sears-Peyton Gallery, NYC; Restless Nights, Private Public Gallery, Hudson NY; Between the Streets, Turn Gallery, Palour Room, NYC; Islands, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Far Away Home, Sears-Peyton, Gallery, NYC; Hot Days and Nights, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY. Her awards include a 2018 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellowship in painting, and residencies at Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Foundation Valparaiso and the Millay Colony. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Art News, the online contemporary art magazine Two Coats of Paint and Guernica Magazine, among other publications. Her work is in public and corporate collections such as the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and others.

Online Articles:Two Coats of PaintGUERNICA a magazine of art & politicsYou can learn more about her work at https://www.kathrynlynch.com.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. During scheduled exhibitions dates our in-person office and gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. If you need to reach us between active exhibition dates we are available through phone and/or email:Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.orgTanya Tobias-Tomis, Executive Director, 518.832.0183, tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, 518 Profiles Magazine, the Glenn & Carol Pearsall Foundation, the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

Bands 'n Beans 2023!
2023-03-26 14:00 - 19:00 | NY
Thanks to all who participated on March 26, at Fort William Henry!

This Year’s Chili winners:

1st Place: BEAN’S COUNTRY STORE
2nd place: Downtown City Tavern
3rd Place: Andy’s Adirondack Grill
Hot Stuff Award: The Holiday Inn
Director’s Choice Award: The Lagoon
THANK YOU to all of the restaurants, to Rock Hill Bakehouse & Cafe for bringing their amazing bread, to all of the hard-working staff at The Fort William Henry Hotel and Conference Center, to the 9 bands who had everybody dancing all day, to our fantastic Sound Engineers Ryan Nilsen (Viking Audio Services) and Jeff Pitcher (Apex Media), our rock-star Board of Directors, Tim Wechgelaer for coordinating the sound and bands in our acoustic room, and to our Bands ‘n Beans VIP – Andrea Jacobs who helped make our 29th Annual Bands ‘n Beans one for the record-books.

The proceeds from Bands ‘n Beans benefit the Lake George Arts Project’s FREE and Open to All music and art programs.

The Line-Up:
The Acoustic Room:
2:30: Mark and Jill
3:30: Juniper
4:30: Tim Wechgelaer
& Chris Carey
5:30: Radio Junkies
The Ballroom:
2pm: Matt Mirable & Alison Jacobs
3pm: The Switch
4pm: The Stony Creek Band
5pm: Dirt Cheap
6pm: Big Sky Country
The Restaurants:
The Barnsider
Bean’s Country Store
Centerplate at Gore Mountain
Fort William Henry
Holiday Inn Resort Lake George
The Lake George Beach Club
O’Toole’s
Andy’s Adirondack Grille (our 2019 Winner!)
Nettle Meadow at the Hitching Post
The Olde Log Inn
Pablo’s Burrito Cantina
Charlie’s Bar and Kitchen
Adirondack Pub & Brewery
Mama Riso’s
10 McGillis
Big Bear Company
The Log Jam Restaurant
The Garrison
Downtown City Tavern
Dizzy Chicken
The Caldwell House
The Full Belly Deli
The Georgian
The Lagoon
Caffe Vero
Blue Thirty-Two
All of the amazing bread for this year’s event was donated by our friends at Rockhill Bakehouse!
The proceeds from Bands ‘n Beans benefit the Lake George Arts Project’s free and open to all music and art programs like our year-round Courthouse Gallery exhibitions, our Summer Concert Series and our popular Jazz at the Lake, three-day, Jazz Festival.
The Lake George Arts Project would like to thank this year’s Bands ‘n Beans sponsors, Fort William Henry Hotel and Conference Center, Barton, Rock Hill Bakehouse, and the Lake George Beach Club. We would also like to thank our participating restaurants, the bands who will be performing, and all of the volunteers and staff that help make Bands ‘n Beans happen.
Check out this video from LGAP’s most recent past B & B events – If you were there, you may find yourself here!

"Seeing Through Times", a solo exhibition of paintings by Martin Weinstein
2023-05-03 - 2023-06-03 | NY
Artist’s Gallery Reception: Saturday, May 6, 4 – 6 pm.
Online Artist Talk: Thursday, May 11 @ 6 pm.
Direct Zoom link HERE.
These events are free and open to the public.
For a time, Martin Weinstein was an abstract painter, until he came to a point of transition while searching for ways of painting that would satisfy his love of the visible world. This search gradually led him to a technique of painting on layered interlocking sheets of clear acrylic panels. Through this process a single work is composed of several distinct painted views of the same location at different times, often a combination of different lighting related to distinct weather or seasonal changes. His unique approach captures the essence and experience of a place, often the landscape near his home in NY’s Hudson Valley, revealing a deep connection with its history, personal memories, as well as the joy of observing the natural world.
He says: “These sheets enable me to juxtapose elements of visual material either in discrete layers, or more intuitively so that passages float upward toward the surface, influencing successive layers of paint. The layers are painted on different days, months or even years so that the paintings become an investigation of time and memory as well as a diary of acts of perception”.
Martin Weinstein’s work was presented in recent solo exhibitions at Pearl Fincher Art Museum, Houston, TX; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL; The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN; Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY; Goddard Center for Visual Arts, Ardmore, OK; and Westfield Athenaeum, Westfield, MA. Recent group exhibitions include Refracture: Visual Realignment. Lichtundfire, New York, NY; Forest Bathing. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY ; LandX Red Fox Contemporary Art, Pound Ridge, NY; In Conversation, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York, NY; Water Works, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY; and Pattern, Power, Chaos and Quiet Housatonic Museum of Art. Bridgeport, CT. Learn more about his work at www.martinweinstein.com.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse Building, located on the corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY.
Gallery hours during scheduled exhibition dates are Wed through Fri 12 – 5 pm, Sat 12 – 4 pm, or by appointment.
Contact:
Laura Von Rosk, Gallery Director, 518.323.5499, laura@lakegeorgearts.org

This exhibition is funded in part by the Town and Village of Lake George, The New York State Council on the Arts, 518 Profiles Magazine, the Glenn & Carol Pearsall Foundation, the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!

Spring for the Arts Golf Tournament
2023-06-01 11:00 - 17:00 | Cronin’s Golf
Thursday, June 1st
Cronin’s Golf Resort
Golf Course Road
Warrensburg NY 12885
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11am: Registration starts
12pm: Lunch
1pm: Shotgun start

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$120 (per person) includes:
Golf + Cart + Lunch + Steak Dinner + Awards Banquet
No handicaps for this tournament!
Lots of Course Contests • Great Raffle Prizes!

All proceeds benefit The Lake George Arts Project and help us provide quality arts programming for residents and visitors to the Lake George Region.
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Register: by May 28th
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Please consider being a hole sponsor at $100
We also need raffle and prize items for this fundraising event!
If you would like to sponsor a hole, or donate a raffle item or prize please email: tanya@lakegeorgearts.org
If you can’t play and would just like to be a hole sponsor, please click here: SPONSOR A HOLE
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Talent Unlimited 2023
2023-06-10 12:00 - 2023-06-20 17:00 | Courthouse Gallery, 1 Amherst St, Lake George, NY, 12845, United States
How would you create imagery or writing that expresses your interpretation of the word “dream?”
That is the theme of the 38th annual Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal. Students in grades 7 – 12 were inspired by this theme to create thoughtful and imaginative paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, and graphic design pieces and to write compelling essays, poems and stories. They bravely submitted their best work to be considered for publication. The art and writing, 50 pieces in each category, were chosen by juries of professional artists and writers.
The Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal is published by the Enrichment Resource Center at the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES. It provides young artists and writers with the opportunity to have their art seen and their writing read while participating in a selection process that mirrors the professional worlds of art and publishing.
The Talent Unlimited 2023 exhibition in the Courthouse Gallery features over 40 pieces of the published students’ original artwork.
Reception: Saturday, June 10, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Sunday Arts: Sunday, June 11, 1:00 – 2:30 PM Sunday gallery time with tour of the exhibition and art making opportunities for all ages.
To access The Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal on the WSWHE BOCES website click here
Image: Jillian Wendling, Cover, Graphic Art, Grade 12, Glens Falls High School

Talent Unlimited 2023 Reception
2023-06-10 16:00 - 18:00 | NY

Sunday Arts with Talent Unlimited
2023-06-11 13:00 - 14:30 | NY
Sunday Arts
Gallery visit and art making opportunity for ALL Ages!
See the Talent Unlimited 2023 Exhibition and make art inspired by the theme DREAM.

Disco Fever Summer Cruise
2023-06-22 18:30 - 21:00 | NY
DISCO FEVER!
$40 TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!
Dress up in your best disco attire and get ready to experience the ultimate throwback party on the water!
Thursday, June 22nd
Aboard Waterfront Cruises’ Adirondac
Boarding starts at 6:30pm
Cruise from 7pm – 9pm
Absolute Sound will be playing all your favorite hits, we’ve got lots of contents and raffles, a dance floor for you to show off your best moves, and plenty of food and drink to keep you boogying all night!

$35 early bird tickets are available (below) through June 20th
or $40 at the door
We expect to sell-out so get your tickets early!
We would like to thank Will and Katie Carson, and Waterfront Hospitality, for generously donating the boat and staff for our 2023 Disco Fever Summer Cruise! Funds raised during our Summer Cruise are invested directly back into our programs and help allow us to keep all of our events free and open to all.

GET YOUR TICKETS!

ONLINE TICKETS SALES HAVE ENDED BUT THAT SHOULDN’T STOP YOU FROM GETTING GROOVY – WE HAVE $40 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!

Sunday Arts: July 2, 2023
2023-07-02 13:00 - 14:30 | NY
Visit the Lake George Arts Project Creative Space on the north side of Shepard Park in the front of the Courthouse on Canada Street from 1:00 – 2:30 on Sunday, July 2nd, to create stars and stripes in red, white and blue for hats and decorations for the 4th of July!
Creative fun for all ages. Free of charge – just bring your curiosity and imagination.
Questions? Email: june@lakegeorgearts.org
