Today is your last chance to vote online in the final championship round of the Battle of the Books sponsored by the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls. The voting deadline is 9pm tonight (Wednesday, April 17).
And just which page-turners are facing off against each other in the final round?
It’s Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy versus “The Bible.”
May the best book win…
The fourth annual Peoples Pixel Project: A Festival of Short Videos takes over the Wood Theater in Glens Falls at 3pm on Sunday (April 7), screening 19 short films by local filmmakers who live within 100 miles of Lake George. Sponsored by the Lake George Arts Project, the festival will honor the best films in six different categories: Animated, Experimental, Get Reel/Documentary, Narrative, Tunes/Music, Bermuda Shorts/Under 60 Seconds. Tickets are $10.
The program for the screening includes the following films:
Russell Serrianne: Mumur
The Shirt Factory Gallery in Glens Falls was bursting at the seams during the opening reception of its inaugural Juried Show of Small Works on Friday, March 1.
Selected from more than 250 submissions by 110 artists juror Erin Coe, chief curator of the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, selected an eclectic mix of 55 contemporary art works, all smaller than 12 inches in any dimension.
Selected for the Best in Show winner was “Murmur” by Russell Serrianne.
“During the reception, we actually ran out of wine – not once, but twice!” says Shirt Factory co-manager Kate Austin-Avon. “Half an hour in, I looked around and thought it was a good turnout. The attendance about doubled in the next 15 minutes, and there wasn’t even room in the Gallery for everyone during the awards ceremony. It was an staggerlingly successful reception, and the show itself is truly groundbreaking for us. Erin Coe has assembled a bizarre, witty, intimate show.”
The exhibition is one view for one more weekend, from 11am-6pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 28, 29 & 30.
The popular Live! Folklife Concert Series at the Folklife Center at the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls continue this spring with four concerts in March and three more in April. Admission is free.
All performances take place at 7pm on Thursday evenings; doors open at 6:30pm).
Here’s the schedule of free concerts for the 2013 spring season:
The Blind Owl Band
NAME: Eric Munley
BAND AFFILIATION: The Blind Owl Band
INSTRUMENT: Mandolin
1. THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS … The first album I ever had was Led Zeppelin II. I remember not liking it for the first few weeks because my ears were so fresh I didn’t understand Robert Plant’s voice or what Page was doing with his guitar. Then it all clicked it and… BAM! The first album I bought was probably Rancid’s Life Won’t Wait. I was hearing ends of music from the perspective of my father and another from the kids I went to school with. Both badass.
The Crandall Library in Glens Falls is once again hosting its “Live! Folklife Concerts” series of free performances this fall. The series kicks off on Thursday with Saratoga-based popsters MaryLeigh & the Fauves, direct from their performance at LarkFest last weekend. And this year’s stellar line-up of performers stretch far beyond the local-music borders. Cantrip, for example, will be coming all the way from Edinburgh, Scotland!
All concerts in the “Live! Folklife Concerts” series take place at 7pm on Thursday. Doors open at 6:30pm, and admission is free.
Review by Greg Haymes
Earlier this month (July 14, to be exact), we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the Godfathers of American Folk Music, Woody Guthrie. So the timing of “Woody Sez” – presented at the Wood Theater in Glens Falls by the Adirondack Theatre Festival as the closing show of their 2012 season – couldn’t have been any better. But this is a show that reaches deep into the heart of America – yes, Guthrie did pen the American folksinger’s national anthem, “This Land Is Your Land” – in so many ways that are both historical and decidedly contemporary.
Whether it was talking blues, dust bowl ballads, union anthems or kids’ songs, Woody sang ‘em all straight from his heart without pulling any punches, and “Woody Sez” does an excellent job of not only presenting the music and the life of Woody Guthrie, but also in capturing his indomitable spirit.
Woody’s songs gave voice to the common people – the factory workers, the dirt farmers, the migrant fruit pickers – and “Woody Sez” offers a mighty fine representation of Woody’s own voice, silenced since his death from Huntington’s disease in 1967.
Jennings and Ponder
The Folklife Center at the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls is once again hosting a free concert series this spring.
The concerts take place at 7pm on every other Thursday evening throughout March and April.
Here’s the spring 2012 schedule of concerts:
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