Catskill Mountain Region October 2013 GUIDEwww.catskillregionguide.com Fleischmanns Celebrates 100 Years October 12, 10-2pm Featuring Pick your own pumpkins Pumpkin decorating Face painting Scarecrow building Join us for a fun time! Zoom Gallery 1164 Main/The Place To Be (845) 206-9838 • www.ZoomGallery.org Swinging on a Star Cookie’s Re-imagined Attic Pieces Coming Soon to Main St 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com TABLE OF www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 28, NUMBER 10 October 2013 CONTENTS PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Rita Adami Steve Friedman Albert Verdesca CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Tara Collins, Garan Santicola, Jeff Senterman, Carol and David White ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE Candy McKee, Toni Perretti, Danyelle McDowell & Cara Dantzig PRINTING Catskill Mountain Printing DISTRIBUTION Catskill Mountain Foundation On the cover: Jazz pianist and Artistic Director of the Catskill Jazz Factory Aaron Diehl will perform this October with legendary saxophonist Lew Tabackin. For more information about the concert, please see the article on page 8. EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: October 6 Photo by John Abbott The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 924, Hunter, NY 12442. If you have events or programs that you would like to have covered, please send them by e-mail to tafts@ catskillmtn.org. Please be sure to furnish a contact name and in- clude your address, telephone, fax, and e-mail information on all correspondence. For editorial and photo submission guidelines THE ARTS send a request via e-mail to [email protected]. 4 The liability of the publisher for any error for which it may be held legally responsible will not exceed the cost of space ordered or occupied by the error. The publisher assumes no liability for TABACKIN AND DIEHL: errors in key numbers. The publisher will not, in any event, be 8 liable for loss of income or profits or any consequent damages. Masters on the Mountaintop Jazz Concert The Catskill Mountain Region Guide office is located in Hunter Village Square in the Village of Hunter on Route 23A. By Garan Santicola The magazine can be found on-line at www.catskillmtn.org by clicking on the “Guide Magazine” button, or by going directly to www.catskillregionguide.com 7,000 copies of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide are 10 FRESH FROM THE CATSKILLS: Crunch and Be Counted distributed each month. It is distributed free of charge at the Plattekill, Sloatsburg and New Baltimore rest stops on the By Tara Collins New York State Thruway, and at the tourist information offices, restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout Greene, Delaware and Ulster counties. Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an 14 MILL TO MUSEUM: Hanford Mills Museum Celebrates additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. 40 Years of Vision and Dedication ©2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- 16 THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS graphic rights reside with the photographer. By Jeff Senterman THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION 20 THE 2013 CATSKILL LARK IN THE PARK 7950 MAIN STREET By Carol and David White P.O. BOX 924 HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 FAX: 518 263 2025 24 OCTOBER AT THE WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION October 2013 • guide 3 THE ARTS “The Future of Jazz,” The Grace Kelly Quintet Comes to the West Kortright Center this October On Sunday, October 13 at 7 pm, the West Kortright Center welcomes the Grace Kelly Quintet. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this young jazz sensation about whom Wynton Marsalis raved, “Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling … a first-class musician.” And acclaimed musician, writer, and producer David Was raved on NPR, “What if I told you that the future of jazz…rested in the hands of a Ko- rean American saxophonist named Grace Kelly?…. I’ve heard the future of jazz and it is Grace Kelly.” Saxophonist Grace Kelly has played with the Boston Pops and with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Lincoln Center and at D.C.’s Ken- nedy Center. She fronts her own band and has recorded and/or performed with Harry Connick, Jr., Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis, Phil Woods, Frank Morgan, Esperanza Spalding, Toots Thielemans, Hank Jones, Chris Potter, Rufus Reid, Kenny Barron, Dianne Reeves, Billy Hart, Ann Hampton Callaway, James Cotton, and Terri Lynn Carrington. She’s played the major jazz festivals in the U.S. and Europe, has eight recordings on her own label, and been featured on CNN, ABC, NPR’s “Piano Jazz,” and in the LA Times, Jazz Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, The Observer/London, Downbeat, and Glamour. And she just turned 20. Tickets for the Grace Kelly Quintet are $28 general, $25 WKC Member and $11 under 19. The West Kortright Centre is located 49 West Kortright Church Road in East Meredith, NY, mid-way between the towns of Oneonta, Delhi, and Stamford. To purchase tickets or for more information, log onto www.westkc.org or call 607 278 5454. Mixed Media Works by Patti Gibbons, “Escapes,” at The Storefront Gallery in Kingston The Storefront Gallery in Kingston is pleased to feature the paintings and mixed media works of Patti Gibbons in a show titled “Escapes.” The opening reception is Saturday, October 5 from 5 to 8 pm, and the show runs through October 26. In “Escapes,” Kingston artist Patti Gibbons explores images from the physical and the metaphysical worlds. Her landscapes depict vistas that move her deeply: olive trees on a hill, delicate clouds at sunset, a field of hay rolls. Her abstract drawings portray personal experi- ences that emerge from after starting with automatic, or “Poets Walk,” by Patti Gibbons blind drawings. Whether working in realism or in the abstract, Gibbons states: “The studio is a dream world. Once the door is closed the outside world is shut out, it is an escape to a place of wonder, exploration, and magic; a place where one feels most peaceful and complete. Originally from Long Island, Patti Gibbons considers herself a native of the area as she has spent most of her life residing in and being inspired by the Hudson Valley. It is a place that has captured both her heart and her creative muse. Ms. Gibbons was immersed in the arts from an early age, designing for local businesses, showing her work regionally and internationally. She obtained her AA degree in Visual Arts, followed by a Bachelors and Masters in Art Education from the State University at New Paltz. She has been teaching art to special needs students for 20 years. Recently leaving her teaching career, she is passionately pursuing her dream to design and paint full time. Ms. Gibbons’ work depicts vistas of the Hudson Valley and of her travels. Those works, as well as her abstract “mindscapes,” portray an intimate and personal view of both the physical and subconscious world. The Storefront Gallery is located at 93 Broadway in Kingston. Gallery hours are Saturday from 1-6 pm, by appointment and 24/7 through the storefront windows. For more information, call 845 338 8473 or visit www.TheStorefrontGallery.com. 4 • www.catskillregionguide.com October 2013 • guide 5 Cello and Piano Duo Kalayjian & Kazantsev at Saugerties Pro Musica this October Saugerties Pro Musica is proud to present the piano duo of Kalayjian and Kazantsev on October 20 at 3 pm at Sau- gerties United Methodist Church. Cellist Ani Kalayjian will be performing classical selections with pianist Ilya Kazantsev. These internationally renowned musicians enjoy successful solo careers as well as performing together and with chamber orchestras. Ms. Kalayjian, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “repre- senting the young, up-and-coming generation” and by San Diego Arts as a cellist with “notable conviction and skill,” has performed in Japan, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States as both a soloist and a chamber musi- cian. Mr. Kazantsev, a fresh and exciting presence on the international music scene, has performed extensively throughout Russia and the United States as a recitalist and a soloist with orchestras, and he has also appeared in Canada, Ukraine, Belarus, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Korea, and Japan. To learn more about the concert program and Saugerties Pro Musica, please visit www.saugertiespromusica.org This concert is the second of Saugerties Pro Musica’s terrific 2013/2014 season. These eight concerts are quality musical perfor- mances, often by world-class musicians, in a comfortable, intimate setting, and at very affordable prices. Subscribe for the season ($50 for all eight concerts) and save off the already low regular ticket prices of $12 for adults and $10 for seniors. Students are always free. Call 845 246 5021 or 845 679 5733 for more information, or visit www.saugertiespromusica.org for the most up to date programming schedule. 6 • www.catskillregionguide.com CATSKILL JAZZ FACTORY a program of the Catskill Mountain Foundation presents MASTERS ON THE MOUNTAINTOP Legendary Saxophonist Lew Tabackin and the Aaron Diehl Trio Saturday, October 26, 2013, 8 pm DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS 7971 Main Street (Route 23A) Village of Hunter, NY Tickets purchased ahead: $23; $18 seniors; $7 students Tickets purchased at the door: $27; $21 seniors; $7 students This event is supported, in part, by the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, and is partially funded by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M.