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Catskill Mountain Region September 2011 GUIDEwww.catskillregionguide.com 12th ANNUAL WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL TABLE OF www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 26, NUMBER 9 September 2011 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation CONTENTS Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Rita Adami Steve Friedman Rose Santiago CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Carolyn Bennett, Carol White and David White ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Candy McKee Toni Perretti Laureen Priputen PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing DISTRIBUTION Rural News Service On the Cover: Catherine Keener and Jane Fonda star in “Peace, Love and Misunderstanding,” a film shot in the Hudson Valley that will be the opening night film (and will have its U.S. premiere) at the 12th annual Woodstock Film Festival this September. For more information in the festival, see page 14. 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The “Gold Leaf” col- lection “electrifies” this experience, achieved by translating a silver gelatin photograph onto a transparency and gilding twice with 22-karat gold leaf. The result, an inner glowing light, represents our connection to the earth, each other, and the Universe. It becomes a continuum, making the viewer an integral part of each piece, moving the light continually in both directions, inside and out. In both series, a peaceful yet vigorous energy begins and ends at the same point, joining viewer and subject in a shared experience. Lynn Bianchi is a prolific artist based in New York City, whose work has been shown internationally in over 30 solo exhibitions and in museums worldwide. Her photographic art has been featured in over 40 international publications, and belongs to private collectors as well as the permanent collections of museums including The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. Her book Heavy in White was recently published. Galerie BMG is located at 12 Tannery Brook Road in Woodstock. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 11 am to 6 pm or other times by appointment. For further information, please contact the gallery at 845 679 0027. 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com The roxbury Arts Group Presents Diane Ducey & Measured Mile This september as Part of the “At the end of the Day” At Dusk series Measured Mile, featuring Diane Ducey, will perform on Saturday, September 10 at 5:30 pm at the Old School Baptist Church in Denver, NY. Performing music that can best be described as blue-eyed soul—a melting pot where folk, jazz and blues come together for an intoxicating brew of new music— Ms. Ducey’s voice is clear and pure except when she hears a hip-rocking beat, and then the sources of her inspiration burst forth: Aretha, Janis, Sarah, Phoebe. Her goal: “…to do the work and hopefully say something that moves people. What happens after that is anybody’s guess, and the music can take care of itself.” Diane Ducey, born in Chicago and raised in South Carolina, is her own kind of homegrown singer/songwriter. Diane has performed tunes from almost every musical genre. Her first real world experience came when singing jazz in the streets of Paris during a college year abroad. From there, she moved into playing mangy rock clubs and pop and jazz venues in Boston before heading to New York City to try the big time. Guitarist James Ducey makes music and runs his recording studio at Darling Hill Farm in central NY. While growing up outside New York City in the ‘60s he scoured the radio dial nightly and greedily absorbed a wide variety of musics, from jazz to opera, from salsa to Broadway, and from soul to bluegrass. This eclectic vocabulary serves him well in his scoring for a variety of television projects, children’s music and playing in Measured Mile. John Davey, upright bassist, gives the music a solid, grooving bottom. From his early days as a rocker in New Jersey, to his time in Seattle playing swing music on the street at Pike Place Market, Davey feeds on musical diversity. He has produced four cd’s of his origi- nal music, ranging from jazz, improvising chamber-music, world music, and spoken-word. He currently teaches the art of bass playing to students at SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College, and privately. Tickets are $15 adults, $12 seniors & students, $7.50 children 14 and under (must be accompanied by an adult). The Old School Baptist Church is located on State Route 36 in Denver, NY. For more information, call the Roxbury Arts Group at 607 326 7908 or visit www. roxburyartsgroup.org. September 2011 • guide 3 Sō Percussion. Photo by Janette Beckman so Percussion Quartet Kicks-off Fall sunday Matinee Concert series at Bard College The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents Sō Percussion, on Sunday, September 18, at 3:00 pm in the Sosnoff Theater of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts as part of the “Conservatory Sundays” series at Bard College. Billboard magazine calls Sō Percussion “astonishing and entrancing.” The New York Times describes their performances as “mesmerizing,” “brilliant,” and “consis- tently impressive”; and the Village Voice writes, “This extraordinary ensemble of four young percussionists is creating a sensation in the music world … a New York City experimental powerhouse.” The Sō Percussion ensemble is a Brooklyn-based quartet whose original music and innovative work with contemporary compos- ers has brought them international acclaim. Sō is: Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski and Jason Treuting. Starting this fall, its members will be The Bard College Conservatory of Music’s new faculty percussion ensemble in concert. The Sunday matinee program includes selections from Imaginary City (2009), Sō Percussion; selections from amid the noise (2006), Jason Treuting (b. 1977); Child of Tree (1975) and 3rd Construction (1941), John Cage (1912-1992); and Neither Anvil nor Pul- ley (2009-2010), Dan Trueman (b. 1966). Since 1999, Sō Percussion has been creating music that explores all the extremes of emotion and musical possibility. Excitement about composers like John Cage, Steve Reich and Iannis Xenakis—as well as the sheer fun of playing together—inspired the members of Sō to begin performing together while students at the Yale School of Music. A blind call to David Lang, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and co-founder of New York’s Bang on a Can, yielded their first commissioned piece, the so-called laws of nature. Sō’s record- ing of the so-called laws of nature became the cornerstone of their self-titled debut album on Cantaloupe Music (the record label from the founders of Bang on a Can). In subsequent years, this relationship would blossom into a growing catalogue of exciting releases: Steve Reich’s masterpiece Drumming; Sō member Jason Treuting’s amid the noise; Treasure State, a collaboration with the electronic duo Matmos; and Paul Lansky’s Threads.