Anthology Film Festival, Columbia, CUNY and Alwan Center for the Arts present
Alwan Film Festival
See schedule online.
Locations varying (most at Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St., 4th Fl, New York, NY 10004) Cost: Free
The Alwan for the Arts 13th Film Festival will showcase the best in recent features, documentaries, and shorts from North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and their Diasporas. Filmmakers from these regions are forging new film languages and styles, bringing both nuanced and sensitive depictions of everyday life, and extraordinarily creative visions. From documentaries that honor the perspectives of people whose viewpoints are rarely reflected in mainstream media, to highly inventive comedies, social allegories, and experimental videos, the festival offers NY audiences opportunities to engage with films and filmmakers. Featuring a retrospective for Syrian director Nabil Maleh [in attendance].

Calpulli Mexican Dance – Cinco De Mayo Celebration
10:00 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.
Kupferberg Center at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367
Tickets: $8. Available online.
Cinco De Mayo is an opportunity for Mexican-Americans to celebrate and share Mexican cultural tradition with friends of different heritage. With vivid colors, passions and rhythms of traditional Mexican dance, this dance company presents traditional Mexican music and dance to young audiences worldwide. The company’s performances feature an array of regional dances, some dating back as far as 500 years. Portraying the rich diversity of Mexican cultural heritage, the didactic setting will engage and entertain audiences of all ages.
Bring Calpulli’s Educational Programs to Your Audiences and Community—Teaching Artists with Calpulli are currently serving thousands of students and faculty across New York with residencies, workshops, and in-school performances.

The Folk Music Society of N.Y., Inc/ N.Y. Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents
Folk Open Sing
7-10 p.m.
Info: Frank, 212-533-2139
Ethical Culture Society, 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn (near 2nd St.)
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an open sing. Bring your voice, instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. Drop by for a couple of songs or the whole evening.

DANCING ON THE AIR
Old-Time Music Special—Attend the Live Radio Recording Session
8 p.m. (doors open 7:30 p.m.)
The Grouse House, 21 Adrienne Lane, Saugerties NY
Cost: $15, $5 for children
Advance reservations required: dota@jayandmolly.com
Space limited for this intimate house concert setting
Featuring Jay Ungar & Molly Mason with The Stillhouse Rounders and Emily Schaad & Debra Clifford. The Stillhouse Rounders are 21st Century exponents of the early stringband music of the rural south and mid-west during the 1920s and ‘30s. Emily, with Debra on guitar, won first place out of 97 fiddlers at the Appalachian String Band Festival at Clifftop, WV last summer. Hear the broadcast at 8 p.m,. May 8th on WAMC’s Northeast Network online at WAMC.org.

Staten Island Arts invites you to
IDEAS CITY: A Biennial Festival in New York City
Plan Your Visit with an online schedule
IDEAS CITY explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that arts and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work, and play. Founded by the New Museum in 2011, IDEAS CITY is a major collaborative initiative between hundreds of arts, education, and community organizations. This year’s theme is Untapped Capital, with participants focused on resources that are under-recognized or underutilized in our cities.

Join Staten Island Arts at the biennial Festival in New York City for conferences, workshops, an innovative StreetFest around the Bowery, and more than one hundred independent projects and public events that are forums for exchanging ideas, proposing solutions, and accelerating creativity.

Low Bridge, High Water: A Canal Opening Celebration Village of Brockport—Multiple Locations
Inaugural festival will include a variety of events to celebrate both the annual opening of the canal and the heritage, arts, and recreational assets that the canal provides to residents and tourists within the Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor. For more information, see the website, www.brockportny.org.

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The Folklife Center of the Crandall Public Library presents
Live! Folklife Release Party: Dan Berggren’s new CD, Tongues in Trees and Carol Gregson’s new book, Wet Socks
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Program for music and stories at 7:00 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801, 518-792-6508 x237
Dan Berggren joins author-storyteller Carol Gregson at the Crandall Library Community Room for a dual celebration: the release of his Tongues in Trees CD, and Gregson’s book Wet Socks. “Carol’s memory, imaginative mind, and sense of humor shine in these stories, letting you see the fingerprints and hear the voices. Like magic, she pulls laughter and inspiration out of a hatful of hard times—right before your eyes.”—Dan Berggren, songwriter and folk singer, owner/producer Sleeping Giant Records.

The Museum at Eldridge Street presents
Storywalks Talk and Tour
Part of The New Museum’s IDEAS CITY Festival
6 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free
Explore how art and technology can be used to activate the stories of historic sites in a talk and tour of the Eldridge Street Synagogue. Technologists Carlin Wragg and Anna Pinkas demo their new “Storywalks” Smartphone app, which evokes what it was like to be at the synagogue in the 1920s–40s through archival recordings of early congregants and a musical soundscape. The Museum’s Deputy Director Amy Stein-Milford provides a behind-the-scenes look at the architecture and history of this National Historic Landmark and explores ways in which contemporary art can be used to extend the story of a historic building. This event is part of the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY, which features public events that are forums for exchanging ideas, proposing solutions, and accelerating creativity.

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Flushing Town Hall presents
CULTURAL CROSSROADS #3: JAMAICA MEETS SPAIN
Dance lessons 7 p.m.
Performance: 8 p.m.
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard (at the corner of Linden Place), Flushing, NY 11354
$15/$10 Members and Students with ID
Buy tickets to any of these events now through our online box office or by calling (718) 463-7700 x222
We’re mixing it up! 2 cultures, 1 stage + an open dance floor. Tribal Legacy and Flamenco Latino share the stage tonight with dance lessons, 2 sets and a musical jam. You’ll be seduced by the passion of Spanish Flamenco, while Reggae, with its deep African roots will keep you moving to an upbeat pulse.

Caffè Lena presents
Tony Trischka and Territory
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $24; $20 member, $12 children under 13
Buy tickets online
Tony Trischka is perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 35 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians. He is not only considered among the very best pickers, he’s also one of the instrument’s top teachers and has created numerous instructional books, teaching video tapes and cassettes. With his fearless musical curiosity as the guiding force, Tony Trischka’s touring band, Territory, roams widely through the banjo’s creative terrain. They explore a panorama of tunings, banjo sounds, and traditions; tapping the creative potential of America’s signature musical instrument through pieces that range from bluegrass to jazz to rock.

The World Music Institute (WMI) and French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) present
World Nomads Tunisia: Opening Concert — SONIA M’BAREK
8 p.m.
Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th Street (corner of 3rd Avenue), Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $35/ WMI Friends, $25/FIAF Members Buy tickets online.
A leading voice in the Arab world, Tunisian singer Sonia M’Barek is renowned for her exquisite renderings of maluf (Tunisian court music traditionally performed by men), music from Egypt and Lebanon, and innovative contemporary music rooted in the centuries-old traditions of Al-Andalus. Her soul-piercing voice resonates with the euphoric, transcendental quality singers strive to attain and listeners esteem—musical ecstasy known as tarab. In this program inspired by the Arab-Andalusian repertoire and Mediterranean music, she is joined by the superb Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture ensemble.

TRIBECASTAN
8:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door
Radically multicultural and poly-stylistic to the marrow, TriBeCaStan is one of contemporary music’s most musically diverse bands. The Washington Post hails them as “an international jazz and folk festival unto themselves, fusing Balkan, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American and African musical elements to bold and dazzling effect.” Think of TriBeCaStan as a sonic oasis in which the sounds of the Indian sarod meet surf rock, West African kora merges with Appalachian mountain tunes, and traditional Afghan melodies mingle with East Coast loft jazz. Here Swedish nykelharpas and Pakistani taxi horns coexist in harmony (and mayhem) alongside thoroughbred jazz horns, driving grooves, exotic strings, and buzzing reeds.

The Folkus Project presents
John Gorka
8 p.m.
May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 East Genesee St, Syracuse, NY
Cost: $18
Advance sale tickets are available via PayPal or by mail (personal check); advance ticket holders receive preferential seating. For details, see the Folkus Project website at www.folkus.org
World-renowned as one of the best contemporary songwriters in folk music, John Gorka is returning to Syracuse after a four year absence. Throughout a career spanning almost 30 years and 12 recordings, he has solidified himself as one of folk music greats. Some credit Gorka with starting the modern renaissance of folk music when he won the New Folk award at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 1984. More than two decades later, he still calls himself an aspiring folksinger, and his music just keeps getting deeper and better. His rich baritone voice and unique songcraft create music that is powerful, intelligent, and tender. His honest writing and ability to say it all with an economy of words has earned him accolades from the music industry and his peers. It is that same honesty that keeps his fans coming to his concerts again and again. Gorka is known for applying his unique songcraft to a wide range of forms; intimate confessional songs about love and loss, humorous commentaries about daily life in his neighborhood, poignant political opinions, and exuberant explosions of unmitigated joy. With provocative, soul-stirring sophistication, he turns his keen observations of troubled times and the rough roads we travel into musical gems that shine with hopefulness. Gorka’s words part the clouds to reassure us that, once we can see through the darkness, there is hope on the horizon.

ArtsWestchester Folk Arts Program presents
LIVE@ArtsWestchester: An Evening of Piedmont Blues Featuring Phil Wiggins
8 p.m.
ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601
Tickets: $20 at the door, $15 in advance online
Blues harmonica master Phil Wiggins makes a rare appearance in Westchester, accompanied by local rising stars of the east coast ‘Piedmont’ acoustic blues tradition, Toby Walker, guitar, and the Piedmont Bluz duo featuring Valerie & Ben Turner, guitars, percussion, and vocals.

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The Erie Canal Discovery Center announces
KEY TO THE LOCKS AND ERIE CANAL MUSIC CONTEST
11:00 a.m.-13:30 p.m.
The Erie Canal Discovery Center, 24 Church St., Lockport, NY, 14094, 716-439-0431
Join us to congratulate the winner of the Key to the Locks Award for 2013 and enjoy the performances of the winning entries in the 2013 Erie Canal Song Contest.

The Coalition of Asian/Pacific Americans (CAPA) presents The 34th Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Festival
11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Chinatown, Flushing, NY
Cost: Free
Exhibitors: Call 347-689-9090 to reserve vendor space
You are invited to join thousands of festival goers in Chinatown in Flushing (and in Manhattan, see May 18) to experience Asian cuisine and culture. The Festival celebrates, recognizes, and promotes the contributions, advances, and role of Asian Americans in the US while reconnecting them with their cultural roots. Free giveaways, prizes, music, face painting, balloon making, carnival games, workshops, and presentations. Over 50 musicians, folk artists, dance and martial arts groups. Free networking for Asian American professionals and entrepreneurs. See Asian folk arts, handcrafts, and educational exhibits. Indoors and outdoors, rain or shine. See festival schedules online.

Songs of the Irish Working Class: A Lecture by Dan Milner
2-3:30 p.m.
McCloskey Room Parish House, The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, 263 Mulberry Street, Manhattan
A Coffee/tea Reception will follow the Presentation
Suggested donation: $3.00
A unique program presented by singer and cultural geographer Dan Milner will combine presentations of songs sung by the New York Irish 150 years ago with an analysis of their social contexts and artistic values of these songs. This is a rare opportunity to hear a widely recognized and talented expert sing and discuss the tunes and lyrics popular among Irish New Yorkers in the middle of the 1800s. Dan Milner is a cultural geographer and an instructor in New York Studies at St. John’s University. He is also a well-known singer of traditional Irish and other song who has recorded two compact discs for the Smithsonian Institution, guest lectured at Harvard, Berkeley and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, performed at Lincoln Center’s Roots of American Music Festival, and was featured prominently in the award-winning RTÉ Lyric FM documentary, “The Sea in Song.”

ArtsWestchester presents
Still Here — Author Reading
4 p.m.
ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601
The reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed by an author signing and reception.
Join writers Vicki Addesso, Susan Hodara, Joan Potter, and Lori Toppel at ArtsWestchester, as they read their essays of motherhood collected in the 2013 publication Still Here Thinking of You: A Second Chance with our Mothers.

Flushing Town Hall welcomes
NEW YORK INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL
7 p.m.
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard (at the corner of Linden Place), Flushing, NY 11354
$10/$5 FCCA members and students with ID
Buy tickets to any of these events now through our online box office or by calling (718) 463-7700 x222
We proudly welcome Indo-American Arts Council’s 13th annual New York Indian Film Festival with a screening followed by a discussion. This festival gives filmmaker’s from/of/about the Indian subcontinent platforms to tell their stories. Call mid-April for the names of films to be screened.

The Smith Center for the Arts presents the
Smith Club Series: Peter Mulvey
8 p.m.
Lacey Magruder Winery, 462 Armstrong Road, Geneva, NY
$15 general admission
Peter Mulvey is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed album.

Caffè Lena presents
Christopher Shaw with opener Alex Smith
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $16; $14 member, $8 children under 13
Buy tickets online
Before the interstate opened the Adirondack wilderness to the throngs who enjoy it today, Chris Shaw learned stories on the docks of Lake George, in hunting camps, and in the cabins of friends and relatives. For more than thirty years Chris has shared the best of Adirondack culture with audiences from the Philadelphia Folk Festival to the Kennedy Center, and from Anchorage to Berlin. His nationally significant albums are part of the Library of Congress Folk Archives. Chris’s hard-to-believe traditional tales are riotously funny and filled with edge-of-the-seat tension. His stories of family life and backwoods adventure are right up there with the Lake Woebegon tales of Garrison Keillor. And his hearty singing and nuanced guitar playing lend variety and toe-tapping fun to a night that is always gloriously entertaining for all ages. Opening tonight’s concert is Chris Shaw’s hand-picked choice: Long Lake balladeer Alex Smith. As the son of a banjo picker and historian, this young man was steeped in folk music from birth. As did his musical mentors, Smith’s songs nurture pride in one’s cultural traditions and speak to the issues presented to it in modern times.

Hudson Valley Community Dances present a
Hudson Valley English Dance
7-10:30 p.m.
The Reformed Church of Port Ewen, 160 Salem Street, Port Ewen, NY 12466
Admission: $10
TBA calling with Tiddely Pom. English Country dance lesson 7:00 p.m. Required for new dancers. Even if you are experienced, come for the lesson. We need your help. Info: 845-452-2483

ArtsWestchester presents
SAGE, ANDREA AND JAMES ROHLEHR AND SOUL SYNERGY REVIEW
8 p.m.
ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601
Tickets: $25 at the door, $20 in advance online
Lewis and Kirk Music present SAGE, an all-women’s jazz, blues and contemporary ensemble, Andrea and James Rohlehr, and Soul Synergy Review. The evening’s performance includes Lakecia Benjamin (saxophone), Miki Hayama (piano), Kersten Stevens (violin), Miriam Sullivan (bass), Camille Thurman (flute and vocals) and Shirazette Tinnen (drums).

Earlville Opera House presents
Treasures in the Heart of NY Showcase—Folk-Rock
8:00 p.m.
Earlville Opera House, East Main Street, Earlville, NY, 315/691-3550
Tickets: $5-$13. Order tickets online.
Treasures of the Heart of NY is original and traditional music in support of CNY Food Cupboards—four talented acts in a joint fundraiser to raise awareness about hunger in our community while celebrating our arts and music. Pamme Swan plays an old Taylor 514 CE, a cherry Martin, and a walnut dulcimer borrowing from country, folk, and bluegrass traditions. She sings original, story telling songs about Central New York, the Adirondacks and more. Caitlin Grossjung is the founder of Broad Street Records and was featured in the 2009 EOH Youth Showcase of Singer Songwriters. She has her own radio program on WRCU and is working on her first EP with Orbital Sound. Rabbit in the Rye is a progressive folk rock trio carefully crafting their songs with layers of symbolism, romance, honesty and rapture. Their music is a collection of bittersweet fables and genuine storytelling. Tumbleweed Highway was formed from members of the bands Panhandle, Fetish Lane, and other local favorites that have been part of the Americana scene in Upstate New York for over 10 years.

Alwan for the Arts presents
Musical Performance: Karavika
8:00 p.m.
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor, New York, NY 10004
For more information, contact: (646) 732 3261, events@alwanforthearts.org
Cost: $20 General/$15 Students, Members and Seniors
KARAVIKA is a New York City based quartet comprising violin, cello, double bass and tabla, with members coming from distinctly different musical backgrounds from South Asia to North America. Their performance at Alwan for the Arts will feature material from their debut album, Sunrise, as well as new explorations in “Rabindra Sangeet,” the song and poetry of the great Noble Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.

City Lore invites you to
Celebrate Spring with the POEMobile’s first event of the season!
8:30-10:30 p.m.
Behind St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street, Manhattan
Cost: Free
On Saturday May 4, City Lore, Bowery Arts+Science, and the young poets from Urban Word NYC partner to present WORDS ON WALLS, a collaborative performance of poetry projections, music, and spoken word, all taking place around the POEMobile. The POEMobile is a beautifully hand-painted truck covered in the calligraphy of multilingual poetry with a high powered projector on its roof. Illuminated verses will light up Mulberry Street as Urban Word’s powerful teen poets, along with special guests Lloyd Robson and Michele Marcelin explore the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY festival theme of Untapped Capital.

STEVE KATZ of The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears
also JOE BOUCHARD of Blue Oyster Cult
8:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 at the door
Steve Katz studied guitar with Dave Van Ronk and the Reverend Gary Davis, and was part of the early Greenwich Village American roots music scene. Along with John Sebastian, Maria Muldaur, Stefan Grossman and David Grisman, Katz formed the Even Dozen Jug Band. In 1965, Steve joined Danny Kalb in the Blues Project. Steve then became a founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, which won three Grammies. After BS&T, Steve went on to produce two Lou Reed albums, both of which went into Billboard’s Top Ten.
Joe Bouchard was a founding member of the world-famous band, Blue Oyster Cult, with nine gold records and two platinum records to his credit. He retired from the Blue Oyster Cult in 1986 and since then has dedicated much of his time to composing music and teaching among other things. In 2009, he released his highly acclaimed solo record, Jukebox In My Head. He also performs with several bands including Blue Coupe, which features another founding member of Blue Oyster Cult and Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame member Dennis Dunaway. Other bands include The X Brothers who Joe has performed with for over 20 years. His latest solo album, Tales From The Island, was released in 2012 to rave reviews. The latest album from Blue Coupe, called Million Miles More, included performances by Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult and rock icon Alice Cooper.

Schoharie River Center presents
Braided Rag “Basket” Workshop with Helen Condon
May 4, Saturday 9:00-4:00 p.m.
May 5, Sunday 9:00-2:00 p.m.
Schoharie River Center (SRC), 2025 Burtonsville Road, Esperance, NY
Cost: $75.00 for SRC members
$90.00 for non-members
Workshop limited to 6 participants. Materials provided.
Helen Condon is a master artist of braided rag rugs, an early American craft which uses recycled wool to create sturdy and decorative oval and round rugs, chair mats, and stair treads. Born in Newfoundland, she has her own business, Adirondack Rug Braiding, and is a frequent workshop leader at the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, and the Sagamore Institute at Racquette Lake. She will be in residence at the Schoharie River Center from May 4-5, 2013, teaching a two day workshop on the techniques of braiding and shaping rag rugs. Workshop participants will complete a “Basket.”

The Municipal Art Society of New York (MASNYC) presents
Jane’s Walk NYC
On Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5, thousands of New Yorkers will come together for Jane’s Walk NYC — a weekend series of 100+ FREE guided walks (and bike rides!) throughout New York’s five boroughs. Registration is NOT required. Whether you choose to stroll through neighborhoods you love or discover new neigborhoods you’ve never visited, you’ll enjoy this international program created to commemorate the life and legacy of urbanist Jane Jacobs. See schedule for walks online. Here’s a sampling from the long list of walks:

May 4, 12:00 p.m. El BARRIO: Cultural Production and the Creation of Neighborhood Identity in Harlem. Walk Host: El Museo del Barrio

May 4, 12:00 p.m. Morrisania’s Musical Legacy in the Bronx Walk Host: Folklorist Elena Martínez

May 4 & 5, 9:00 a.m. Brooklyn’s Red Hook: Past and Post-Sandy Walk Host: Deborah Gardner, Roosevelt House at Hunter College

May 5, 12:00 p.m. Manhattan’s Chinatown: A Walk through History Walk Host: Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)

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Flushing Town Hall welcomes
CELEBRATE KOREAN CHILDREN’S DAY AND CINCO DE MAYO!
1 p.m.
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard (at the corner of Linden Place), Flushing, NY 11354
Free

Join us in celebrating Korean Children’s Day and Cinco de Mayo! Free fun and interactive programs for ALL ages including: Korean Traditional Marching Band, Mexican food workshop, piñata making and more!

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club announces a
Community Sing and Maritime Showcase
3 p.m.
John Street Church, 44 John St. (east of Broadway and one block south of and parallel to Fulton), New York, NY
Info: 212-957-8386.
Donation, $5 or more (child, $2), pay at the door.
An open Community Sing with a lot of singalongs. Co-sponsored with and at the John Street Church.

The Museum at Eldridge Street presents
The Jews of Pinsk Book Launch
Co-presented with the Russian American Cultural Center
3 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free
Celebrate the publication of The Jews of Pinsk, 1881–1941, the most comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This important work, the second in a two-book set, is by Israeli scholar Azriel Shohet. With remarks by co-editors Professor Mark Mirsky and Moshe Rosman.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Krishna Bhatt & Anindo Chatterjee
7 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY
Tickets: $30 / WMI Friends $25. Buy tickets online.
A reunion of two stellar musicians of the North Indian classical tradition. Krishna Bhatt is considered one of the top sitarists of this generation, performing in the style passed down by Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and Pandit Ravi Shankar; Anindo Chattejee is acknowledged as among the great tabla maestros of India. Together, they inspire each other into flights of imagination, melodic poetry and rhythmic improvisation.

Caffè Lena presents
Tony Watt
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $15; $12 member, $7.50 children under 13
Buy tickets online
Flatpicking guitarist and mandolinist Tony Watt has performed throughout the United States and Europe, on the Grand Ole Opry, and at clubs and festivals far and wide. He has been featured in Bluegrass Now Magazine and Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, and toured and recorded with Cages Bend, Meridian, Alecia Nugent, and most recently with New York’s own bluegrass hero Leigh Gibson. Tony grew up in the northern bluegrass tradition as the son of Steve Watt, founder of Boston’s renowned Bluegrass Union. Though he got serious about music at a young age, Tony set that aside in his college years to earn advanced degrees in Engineering. He’s now back to music full time, enjoying a central role in the innovative Boston bluegrass scene which has included bands such as Steep Canyon Rangers, Crooked Still, Uncle Earl, and Tony’s own Southeast Expressway. He has a particular talent for teaching and his Wernick Method jam workshops are particularly popular on the bluegrass festival circuit. He is on the faculty of Boston’s Bluegrass Academy. He sets a great example for less experienced players by always seeking ways to improve his art. In return, he enthusiastically shares his know-how.

DAVID WILCOX
7:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 at the door
On stage alone, armed with a single guitar, David Wilcox weaves a rich tapestry in every concert. He’s a tremendously talented singer and inventive guitarist, utilizing numerous alternative tunings and cut capos. In addition to his musical skills, he’s an expert storyteller. Performances feature his beautifully crafted songs offset by wonderful stories and wry observations on the world. His shows are a journey through the full range and richness of life. While there’s plenty of weight to the topics covered in his lyrics, David’s wit is never far away as well. His songs are an invitation to ask for more — more from your music, more from your relationships, more from your life. They are intended to be the soundtrack for a life well lived.

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NYCharities.org announces a
Workshop: Budgeting for Nonprofit Success
presented by The Education and Research Foundation of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York
Breakfast 9:00 a.m.; Program 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Scandinavia House, Volvo Room, 58 Park Avenue at 38th Street, Manhattan
Cost: $15 per person. Advance registration is needed for admission. If registering for persons other than yourself, please provide name, title, and email for all attendees. For more details, contact Heather Layland, 212.358.2829, hlayland@newyork.bbb.org.
In the current demanding environment, nonprofit executives at many levels of an organization need to understand how to construct and use budgets effectively. During this program, we will discuss basics and best practices related to the following:
• Setting clear and realistic financial goals;
• Using budgets for planning, program evaluation and forecasting;
• Budgeting to build operating reserves and organizational stability;
• Understanding key compliance requirements related to budgeting; and
• Knowing which basic principles from accounting industry standards can help guide appropriate functional allocations of program, administration and fundraising expenses in board-approved budgets.

Your budget tells a story about your organization. Find out how to tell your nonprofit’s financial story with transparency and accuracy, and strengthen your understanding of budgeting as a critical management tool. Bring your questions! This program is a must for all nonprofit executives, from executive directors, CFOs and COOs to development and program officers, as well as board members.

City Lore invites you to a
Film Screening: From Mambo to Hip Hop
2:30 p.m.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York, NY
Cost: Free and open to the public
In conjunction with the new exhibit, American Sabor: Latinos in US Popular Music, City Lore will be screening the documentary From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale (2006). The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the film’s director, Henry Chalfant, and co-producers Steve Zeitlin and Elena Martínez.
See Exhibition notice below in “Exhibitions“ section of this page.

CUNY’s (City University of NY’s) Middle East & Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) presents
Treasured Objects: A Lecture with Dr. Susan Pattie 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue bet 34-35th Sts, Room 9207, NYC 10016
212-817-7570; memeac@gc.cuny.edu
Cost: Free
This illustrated lecture by cultural anthropologist Susan Pattie explores the rich oral history narratives inspired by ordinary objects, the treasures of everyday life. Objects evoke memories, create an interest in exploring history and provide symbolic and powerful connections with others in the past and present. Using examples from a recent exhibition in London of Armenian life during Ottoman times, Dr. Pattie will show how even after the Genocide, objects remain within homes that reveal intimate details of past lives as well as the journeys taken to arrive in their present location. Copies of Dr. Pattie’s book, Treasured Objects, will be for sale.

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The World Music Institute (WMI) and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance present
WORLD WIND WIZARDS: HU JIANBING, ANDREI PIDKIVKA, AND JOEL RUBIN
7:30 p.m.
Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Theater at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY
Tickets: $30 (advance), $33 (door) WMI Friends $25 (advance), $28 (door); General admission Buy tickets online.
Join us for a concert featuring an amazing virtuoso of the rarely heard Chinese sheng, which resembles a cross between a harmonica and a pipe organ. A concert and discussion with three of the most renowned virtuosi of wind instruments in the world music scene today. Learn what instrumental techniques are unique to wind instruments in the East and what these three musicians have in common. The Chinese sheng (mouth organ) performed by Hu Jianbing, Klezmer clarinet performed by Joel Rubin, accompanied by tsimbl (cimbalom/hammered dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky, and Romanian pan pipes performed by Andrei Pidkivka. Rubin’s program will feature rare music collected in Ukraine by Soviet-Jewish ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovsky. A must-attend for all musicians and enthusiasts of world music and curious folk music afficionados.

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Philanthrophy New York presents
God Loves Uganda — Special Film Screening
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Opening Reception
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Screening
8:00 - 8:30 p.m. Panel Discussion with Filmmakers
Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY
Register by May 7. No fee.
Please contact register@philanthropynewyork.org with any questions.
Please join us for a wine-and-cheese reception, followed by a screening of the documentary God Loves Uganda, and a brief discussion to follow. God Loves Uganda explores the role of the American evangelical movement in Uganda, where American missionaries have been credited with both creating schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious bigotry. It records the culture clash between enthusiastic Midwestern missionaries and world weary Ugandans. It features a heartbreaking interview with gay activist David Kato shortly before he was murdered. It tells the moving story of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, a minister excommunicated, ostracized, and literally spat on for being tolerant and his remarkable campaign for peace and healing in Uganda.

City Lore invites you to
Annie’s Blue Mail Box Book Crawl: Love, Leather and Garlic
6:00 p.m.
Start at Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 E 7th Street, Manhattan
Cost: Tickets are available on a sliding scale.: $19-$99
Tickets include pasta and a drink at Jimmy’s No.43
Our dear friend Annie Lanzillotto is the only New Yorker we know who tells stories sitting atop a blue city mailbox. We hope you’ll join her as she reads excerpts from her new book, L is for Lion, during a one-of-a-kind walk through the East Village. Annie will sit atop street corner mailboxes and perform stories from her book that happened on those corners, bringing back the street corner mailbox as urban hotspot of storytelling and song. The theme is Love, Leather, and Garlic, and you’ll have a chance to jot down your own stories, slip them in the mailbox, mail them to City Lore, and have some of them appear on our City of Memory story map of New York. The POEMobile will make a special appearance.

Gotham Center for NYC History presents a forum:
New York City Cartmen, 1667–1850
6:30 p.m.
Elebash Recital Hall at the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY
Cost: FREE and open to the public, first come, first served.
The cart men—unskilled workers who hauled goods on one horse carts—were perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. Revised and re-issued in 2012, Colgate Professor Graham Hodges’ New York City Cartmen, 1667–1850 (NYU Press) uncovers the forgotten world of one-horse cart drivers who monopolized the movement of private and commercial goods in New York City from 1667-1850. The cart men dominated the city streets while proving politically adept at preserving and institutionalizing their economic and racial control over this entry-level occupation. The cart men possessed a hard-nosed political awareness, and because they transported essential goods, they achieved a status in New York City far above their skills or financial worth. The cart men’s culture and their relationship with New York's municipal government are the direct ancestors of the city’s fabled taxicab drivers. This is a stirring street-level account of the growth of New York, growth made possible by the efforts of the cart men and other unskilled laborers.

The Museum at Eldridge Street presents
Eldridge Street After Hours: Egg Creams and Mah Jongg
3 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: $10 per person; $5 for our Facebook friends. RSVP here
Our annual June Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival is just around the corner, so....come join us for a warm up! We will be teaching basic mah jongg skills, doing a Chinese craft project, and making delicious egg creams. After Hours provides a fun, friendly, and inspiring venue for people in their 20s and 30s. As always, drinks and snacks are included.

The JCC in Manhattan and and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance present
The Klezmer – Roma Connection
Multi-Media Concert & Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party
Featuring Jake Shulman-Ment
7-9 p.m.
JCC in Manhattan, 76th and Amsterdam on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
Admission: $20 ($15 JCC Members). Tickets are available online.
For more information, call 646-505-5708
Join violinist Jake Shulman-Ment and his band (Bessarabian-Jewish accordionist Aron Gershman, bassist Brano Brinarski, and CTMD’s Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl/cimbalom) on a multi-media musical journey inspired by his year as a Fulbright scholar with elderly Roma (Gypsy) musicians in Moldavia, exploring the roots that connect Romanian music with both traditional klezmer and his own innovative music. Afterwards, join us for a Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party led by Yiddish dance master Steve Weintraub. No experience necessary.

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The Folklife Center of the Crandall Public Library presents
Warren County @ 200: The War of 1812 — Songs & Stories of New York by Dave Ruch
7-8 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801, 518-792-6508 x237
In this concert, Dave Ruch presents a fascinating portrait of the War of 1812 through the songs and stories of the people themselves. Dave has dug deeply into archival recordings, diaries, old newspapers, and other historical manuscripts to unearth a wealth of rarely-heard music which, alongside some of the classics from the war, offers a rounded and fascinating picture of this “second war of independence.” Dave Ruch is a special musician and performer widely noted for his ability to engage audiences of all kinds. Equal parts historian, entertainer, educator, humorist, and folklorist, Dave gives over 300 programs each year at schools, museums, libraries, historical societies, music festivals, professional conferences, cultural organizations and community events. This free program is a part of our Warren @ 200 series, celebrating the 200th birthday of Warren County, co-hosted by the Chapman Museum and the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.

Upstate New York Falun Dafa Association presents
Shen Yun Performing Arts
7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Proctors Theatre, 432 State Street, Schenectady, NY 12305
For more information, call 888-974-3698
Cost: $50 to $120
Shen Yun brings to life 5,000 years of Chinese civilization through classical Chinese dance and music in an exhilarating show you will never forget. Shen Yun captures the spirit of a culture long lost. The show moves quickly through regions, dynasties, and legends. Ethnic and folk dances fill the stage with color and energy. Tremendous athleticism, thunderous battle drums, and masterful vocalists are all set to animated backdrops that transport you to another world.

JIMMY THACKERY
7:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door
Whether Jimmy Thackery headlines a festival in South Dakota or jams for hours in one of numerous blues bars that dot the musical landscape, he’ll always unleash an intense volley of rockin’ blues guitar guaranteed to leave crowds emotionally spent. His double edged guitar dynamics allow him to fire off tracer missiles, bend a note so it will fit under a limbo bar, run off dive bomber riffs, and find space within the trembling of one stinging note. “I put all my senses on hold and find the zone and follow what’s inside. There’s an electricity from your mind to your heart to your fingers. You just try and remember to breathe.”

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Teaching the Hudson Valley announces the
Interpreting Northern Slavery Workshop
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Historic Huguenot Street, 88 Huguenot St., New Paltz, NY
Registration: $25 with discounts for additional people from the same school or site.
A day-long workshop designed to help sites and schools provide a more complex perspective. The workshop will feature James DeWolf Perry, executive director of The Tracing Center and the PBS documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North and is designed to help sites and schools provide a deeper more complex view of slavery in the north.
Topics:

*The breadth of the North’s involvement in slavery.
*Ideas for researching your site’s story.
*What to expect from visitors and students—the dangers of making assumptions.
*One’s own race and identity in interpreting slavery and interacting with others.
*Ideas for preparing staff and volunteers who interpret or teach about slavery.
*Leadership, vision, and decisions about teaching or interpreting slavery.
*Engaging your community, seeking support, addressing reactions, and investing.

Hudson Valley perspectives will be provided by A. J. Williams Myers, professor of Black Studies, SUNY New Paltz; Susan Stessin-Cohn, curriculum author and education director, Historic Huguenot Street; and Donna Dabney-Jeffress, middle school teacher, Red Hook Central Schools. There will be an optional tour of Historic Huguenot Street focusing on slavery. Sponsored by Teaching the Hudson Valley, Historic Huguenot Street, Mid-Hudson Anti-Slavery History Project, Putnam History Museum, and Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College.

Brooklyn Arts Council announces
HARBORLORE FESTIVAL Salutes Irving Burgie
9:00 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
BAMcafé Live, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue (Fort Greene), Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free
Harborlore kicks-off Caribbean Island-style with old time calypso and reggae from Wrickford Dalgetty performing with Tropical Rhythms and Keith Johnston with Widdayah Jamaican Band. This jamming evening pays tribute to Brooklyn’s own Irving Burgie, songwriter of popular tunes such as “Jamaica Farewell,” “Island Crystal Waters,” and the world famous “Day-O,” Harry Belafonte’s signature song. Mr. Burgie joins us to sing some of his well-known songs with the audience. Emceed by E.Wayne McDonald of Brooklyn’s Caribbean Cultural Theatre.
See Announcement for HarborLore below in “Announcements” section of this page.

Hudson Valley Community Dances present a
Zydeco Dance with Preston Frank and Big Daddy Zydeco
7-8 p.m.: Free Zydeco Lesson with Carol Garfinkel
8-11 p.m.: Band
White Eagle Hall, 487 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY
Admission: $15
Questions or more info: 845-255-7061
Well just who is Big Daddy Zydeco? We all know he’s Preston Frank, one of the last of seasoned Creole style of accordion players and father of Keith Frank who is without a doubt one of the top young Zydeco performers in Louisiana today. But beyond Preston, Big Daddy Zydeco is a collaboration between Preston Frank and former members of Donna the Buffalo, a band deeply influenced by Preston — Jim Miller/guitar and Jed Greenberg/bass, who’ve played with Preston countless times over the years at festivals and on tour while with Donna the Buffalo. The late night / all night Zydeco Dance tent at the Grass Roots Festival is legendary for countless reasons. A piece of the legend flows from the lock in groove Preston holds with Jim and Jed. Extraordinary young fiddler Rosie Newton joins them on this tour. Be there for the excitement. Be there for the magic. Be there as Big Daddy Zydeco makes their first Hudson Valley appearance.

Caffè Lena presents
Patty Larkin
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $22; $20 member, $11 children under 13
Buy tickets online
Patty Larkin is part of the urban-folk/pop music phenomenon that spun off of the singer/songwriter explosion of the seventies, reinterpreting traditional folk melodies, rock, pop, bossa nova, drawing on anything from Dylan (Bob) to Dylan (Thomas). A self described “guitar driven songwriter” and musical omnivore, Patty winds her way through soundscapes of evocative vocals, inventive guitar wizardry, and imaginative lyrics. Her songs run from impressionistic poetry to witty wordplay. She has recorded and performed with Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, Bruce Cockburn, Roseann Cash, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and numerous others. Berklee College of Music awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Music—a distinction shared by the likes of Duke Ellington and Natalie Cole. Her adopted city of Boston once celebrated a “Patty Larkin Appreciation Day.”

LIPBONE REDDING & The LipBone Orchestra
also JOE CROOKSTON
8:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door
Lipbone Redding weaves funky rhythms, catchy original songs, brash humor, soulful singing, and inventive guitar playing with exotic and percussive vocal sounds such as throat singing, bass and beat-boxing, and his astonishingly realistic lip-tromboning. The result is an experience that is hypnotic, groovy and, for a solo artist without the aid of electronic efx, amazingly complete.
Joe Crookston is an artist, writer, singer, guitar picker, painter, claw hammer banjo player, eco-village member and believer in all things possible. You’ll be pulled in by the magic and musical world Crookston creates, and you’ll end up in the moment, humming and buzzing with the rest of the crowd. His story songs are universal, masterful and his concerts are a grand celebration of all of us. You’ll travel with him along mystical, historical, and humorous roads, and twist through personal stories along the way ...amber eyes, Oklahoma towns, rattlesnake tails, Grandmother Moons and silver crowns. He is literate, poignant and funny as hell. At the end of the night, you’ll likely leave inspired, taking home a renewed sense of what’s possible.

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Village of Waterford/Riverspark Canal Fest 2013 Waterford Harbor Promenade, Lock 2, Button & Battery Parks
Celebrate the opening of the canal with a day of family fun on the Erie Canal, including vendors, children's activities, music, and more! For more information, see the website, www.waterfordny.org/index.html.

Brooklyn Arts Council announces
Sailing the Symbolic Symposium: Brooklyn’s Diverse Water Traditions
4-5:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), Central Branch, Dweck Auditorium, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Parkway and Flatbush Avenue (Prospect Heights), Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free
Brooklyn water lore experts come together for presentations and performances about the pervasiveness of water symbolism in the borough’s diverse communities, ending with audience Q&A. Featuring Haitian Kesler Pierre blowing the conch shell trumpet and creating a vever (flour-drawing) for the vodun water deity Agwe; folklorist Dr. Joseph Sciorra discussing the ceremonial boat used in Italian Williamsburg’s annual “Giglio” Feast of St. Paulinus; Winston “Jeggae” Hoppie singing Guyanese river songs; dancer Nisha Hettiarachchi interpreting kothala padhaya, a Sri Lankan water purification rite; folklorist Chris Mulé introducing Staten Island singer Bob Wright; Devorah Shubowitz illuminating Jewish tashlich, the symbolic casting away of sins by throwing bread on water; Baba Mpho, keeper of the drum for the annual memorial Tribute to Our Ancestors of the Middle Passage in Coney Island; Roland Lewis of Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and more.
See Announcement for HarborLore below in “Announcements” section of this page.

Putnam History Museum presents
Film Screening &Discussion: Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
5-6:30 p.m.
Putnam History Museum, 63 Chestnut Street, Cold Spring 10516, 845/265-4010
James DeWolf Perry, executive director, The Tracing Center on Histories & Legacies of Slavery, leads the discussion after the screening of the PBS documentary, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club announces a
Big Road in Chelsea: World music mini-festival
7 p.m.
Winston Unity Auditorium, 235 West 23rd Street, 2nd Floor (elevator) (between 7th and 8th Avenues, across from the Chelsea Hotel), New York, NY
Suggested contribution: $15. Refreshments will be available.
Info: www.bigroadinchelsea.org; 802-829-8174
FMSNY is cooperating in this affordable music performance space/coffeehouse where the global diversity of cultures in the New York area are shared and celebrated with “world music mini-festivals.” This program will consist of: Legacy Women—Afro-Dominican and Puerto Rican Women’s vocal, percussion, and dance ensemble; Robin Greenstein—Singer-songwriter with Marshall Rosenberg, Percussionist, with music ranging from Blues and Jazz to Country, Yiddish and Ladino; Buck Meek & Shine—Hot Jazz Quartet In the tradition of Django Reinhardt with Manouche (French Romany) and Klezmer influence; and Big Road Blues—Acoustic blues and ragtime-blues.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts presents
AMY HELM BAND
8:00 p.m.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, NY 10536, (914) 232-1252
Tickets: $35
Amy Helm has deep musical roots. As the daughter of music legend Levon Helm, she grew up surrounded by musical creativity and spent many years singing and playing alongside her father, absorbing the influences of artists like Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Joan Osborne, Dr. John, and Hubert Sumlin. As a member of rootsy band Ollabelle, the Levon Helm and Dirt Farmer bands, she honed her soul-inflected vocal delivery and mandolin playing. As co-producer of Levon Helm’s Dirt Farmer record, she shared in the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album. Helm performs at Roots Music in the Music Room with her new band, the Amy Helm Band, backed by an acoustic powerhouse featuring Byron Isaacs and Justin Guip (of the Levon Helm Band) and extraordinary guitarist Dan Littelton. With strains of folk, gospel, blues and R&B, the music is uplifting and moving.

Earlville Opera House presents
David Jacobs-Strain—Country Blues
8:00 p.m.
Earlville Opera House, East Main Street, Earlville, NY, 315/691-3550
Tickets: $10-$25. Order tickets online.
This performance will feature David Jacobs-Strain, guitar and vocals and Bob Beach, harmonica (as heard on his most recent CD). Jacobs-Strain is a slide guitarist and modern roots singer-songwriter whose musical journey begins in the wellspring of Delta blues but ranges far afield from there. In his mid-twenties, he already channels age-old wisdom and heartache with such dexterity, energy, and passion that you feel good, even about feeling bad. He tours nationally and has numerous festival credits, which include the Strawberry Music Festival, MerleFest, the Lugano Blues to Bop Festival in Switzerland, the Newport Folk Festival, and the Montreal Jazz Festival. He’s also served as faculty at guitar workshops, most notably at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch.

Friends of Fiddle & Dance invite you to a
Woodstock Contradance with Live Music
8 p.m.-11 p.m.
Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Rd, Woodstock, NY 12498
For information, contact 845-246-2121, office@ashokan.org
Cost: $10, $9 members, students 1/2 price
Jay Ungar and Molly Mason and Friends of Fiddle & Dance present the Woodstock 2nd Saturday monthly contradance. This month: FernBradley calling with music by The Russet Trio. DIRECTIONS: www.ashokan.org/ashokan/campnyrs.shtml

The Folkus Project presents
Dubl Handi
Appalachian tunes with a modern twist from an up-and-coming roots band
8:00 p.m.
Westcott Community Center, 826 Euclid Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210
Cost: $12 ($10 WCC members). Call 315/478-8634 for reservations
For reservations, call the Westcott Community Center at (315) 478-8634
There’s beauty in simplicity. And joyous music, too! Dubl Handi is a Brooklyn combo that brings a contemporary kick to the traditional tunes of Appalachia. Named after the washboard company from the 1800s, Dubl Handi is fronted by the powerful vocals and dexterous banjo picking of Hilary Hawke, backed by Ernie Vega on guitar and vocals, with Brian Geltner on drums and all things that shake rattle and roll. While keeping a deep respect for the old traditions, Dubl Handi’s distinctive, upbeat arrangements re-imagine the old-time music, introducing the roots of folk to the eager ears of new generations. This is some of the earthiest, folksiest contemporary music you’ll ever hear. Woven from the tapestry of American folk songs, each tune is done with a clear love for its origins, but with enough of their own creativity to bring something new to the table. Their debut album, Up in the Clouds, was released in January and was the most-played album on folk radio the next month. With one foot on the past and one in the future of acoustic roots, It’s a delightful collection of traditional tunes and their own original material, featuring sharp compositions and witty lyrics. Hawke grew up playing music in Clifton Park, NY, and began learning the banjo after hearing recordings of Earl Scruggs, Pete Seeger, and Bela Fleck. In 2004 she moved to Brooklyn where she followed the teachings and playing of Tony Trischka, eventually became interested in clawhammer-style banjo and music of the Carter Family. She also has an uncanny command of the Appalachian style of flatted but keening vocalizing, Geltner’s loping snare drum rhythms and rollicking washboard beats brings a refreshing, authentic sound to this old music. Complemented by old-timey blues guitarist Vega, the trio makes great music, reveling in the raw rhythms and melodies that make this music so compelling.

Southern Tier Country Dance Society presents
Contra & Square Dancing
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Immanuel Lutheran Church, 417 Laurens St., Olean, NY 14760
Admission: $6, 14 and under $2
For more information call Barbara at 716/557-8978 or email bdyskant@hearthstead.net
Come join us every second Saturday for our 10th year of dancing! Contra and Square dancing is wonderful, fun, healthy and lively! Entire families are invited. There is no need to come with a partner. Live Music. All dances taught and called—easy and fun.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Cuba to Brooklyn: Gerardo Contino
8 p.m.
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $25/ WMI Friends $20. Buy tickets online.
Gritty, witty and streetwise, the Havana-born Gerardo Contino sings timba—a progressive, raucous style of salsa. He’ll perform original work and classics from his new CD, with special guests, vocalist Xiomara Laugart and percussionist Luisito Quintero. Be prepared to participate! This former lead singer of the Cuban mega-group NG La Banda is a party onstage: he loves to improvise, to pull the audience into call and response, and to provoke fans into hip-shaking abandon.

Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse presents
Work o’ The Weavers
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., open seating. Walkabout Chorus “Teachabout” at 6:45 p.m.; Featured performance at 7:30 p.m.
Memorial United Methodist Church, 250 Bryant Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605
Tickets: $18. Available online
; $23 at the door
Since its 2003 inception, Work o’ The Weavers has played to enthusiastically participatory audiences in 28 states, Canada and Israel.“ This faithfully arranged and sung tribute rings with such rousing familiarity that there are moments when you may find yourself thinking that the group’s original members are all within range of the microphones.”—The Washington Post

Caffè Lena presents
David Francey
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $18; $16 member, $9 children under 13
Buy tickets online
Since leaving his trade as a carpenter in 1999, Scottish-born Canadian David Francey has become recognized as one of Canada’s finest singer-songwriters. He has been honored with three JUNO Awards in less than five years and won the Grand Prize International Acoustic Music Award and won the Folk category for the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. “David’s straightforward songs tell honest stories of real people and real places. Poetic perception and a keen eye for the heart of the matter are trademarks of the man and his music. His songs and stories are a direct connection for audiences seeking depth and meaning in the day-to-day.”—Shelter Valley Folk Festival. In concert David is a singer and a storyteller. His wry humour and astute observations combined with his openhearted singing style have earned him a loyal following.

JOE LOUIS WALKER Band
8:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 at the door
Multiple Grammy and WC Handy Award winner Joe Louis Walker is one of the most heralded blues artists of our time. Joe Louis is a true powerhouse guitar virtuoso, a unique singer and a prolific songwriter who has earned himself a legion of dedicated fans around the world. Walker has recorded with the likes of BB King, James Cotton, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Huey Lewis, Branford Marsalis and Ike Turner, with a discography that includes 19 solo albums, 2 live DVDs, and a plethora of compilations and guest appearances. Walker has become an international ambassador for the blues overseas, having played at countless festivals throughout Europe, South America, Australia, the Middle East and Asia.

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A Special Event to Benefit the New York Folklore Society Limited Tickets are Available NOW! Sunday May 12, 2013 PEGGY AND PETE SEEGER In Concert At The 8th Step Coffeehouse At Proctors Theater Schenectady, NY Join us for a special reception, dinner & the show! PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Photo: Martha Cooper

Yiddishe Mamas — Mother’s Day Walking Tour
11 a.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: $25 per person. RSVP online
Start a new family tradition this Mother’s Day and discover your roots on our Lower East Side walking tour. We’ll fete you with rugelach, bagels and coffee and then follow in the footsteps of strong-willed women associated with our gateway neighborhood. Hear about free-thinker Emma Goldman, Henry Street founder Lillian Wald, and mikvah operator Gittel Natelson. Stops include the Lower East Side’s old red light district, NYC’s oldest operating mikvah, and former famed shops and eateries.

Brooklyn Arts Council announces
Water in Brooklyn’s Folk Imagination: Story, Song and Dance
2-4 p.m.
Waterfront Museum and Barge, 290 Conover Street, west of Fairway Supermarket on the water (Red Hook), Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free
Celebrate Mother’s Day by experiencing traditions associated with water, the mother of us all, while sitting on a barge docked in Red Hook’s Buttermilk Channel. You’ll enjoy mother-daughter duo Annie and Taseen Ferdous performing a Bangladeshi water vessel dance; James Lovell telling the Garifuna initiation story about Supnik, a boy who catches fish in a magical way; New York Harbor diver Lenny Speregen recounting legends of our harbor; Andrew Clarke with Braata Jamaican Folk Singers singing Jamaican Revival baptismal hymns; George Davidson telling the Guyanese masacura (river monster) story Gurdeep Kaur singing Punjabi tappe about water well meetings; and Dean Maitland bringing water songs and movement from Grenada.
See Announcement for HarborLore below in “Announcements” section of this page.

Caffè Lena presents
Aztec Two-Step’s Mother’s Day Concert
6 p.m.
Tickets: $27; members $25; Dinner & Show $45
Buy tickets online
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman have entered their fifth decade of intelligent songwriting, dazzling acoustic guitar, and inspiring harmonies. And the adoring young female fans of their early years are now Moms and Grandmothers. What better way to celebrate Mother's Day than by enjoying the sweet songs of your college years. Aztec’s first four albums, full of sweet singing and timely lyrics, were staples of progressive FM and college radio and helped to bring the music of the 1960s into the 1970s. Their latest work reflects their musical growth with touches of blues and country added to their familiar pop sound.

ENCUENTRO NYC presents
MARTA GOMEZ: “The Hands of Women”
With Daniel Fetecua & Pajarillo Pinta’o
7 p.m.
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleeker Street, Manhattan, NY 10012, 212.353.3474
Tickets: $25 ahead or at the door, $12 minors at the door, FREE for children 4 and under (at the door)
New York City’s annual Colombian music festival ENCUENTRO NYC will present more Colombian music to New York this year in celebration of its 10th anniversary, with a special concert in honor of women on Mother’s Day, featuring internationally renowned Encuentro artist, singer Marta Gómez. Marta will travel to New York from Barcelona, Spain, to present her repertoire, new and old, including a preview into her upcoming album set for children Canciones de Sol y Luna, featuring lullabies and other children songs. Opening the evening will be Encuentro artist and world-renowned dancer Daniel Fetecua (of the Limon Dance Company), with whom Marta collaborated to produce a video in the deserts of Spain in 2012. Daniel and his Colombian dance company Pajarillo Pinta’o, will present bullerengue, a dance from the Caribbean coast, that is traditionally sung by women, and danced by exclusively women, with subtle hip movements very closely associated with the cumbia. The bullerengue dance is a ritual dedicated to all stages of a woman’s life.

HARRISON ROACH with special guest Mitch Katz
7:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $15 advance, $20 at the door
A New York native, Harrison Roach grew up frequenting the Greenwich Village music scene. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he discovered an undeniable attraction to songwriting, and immediately began creating songs that appeal to his wide musical background. Roach has received acclaim from Irish radio and Sony talent scouts who applauded the album’s “strong sense of melody,” calling it multi-faceted and mature for such a young artist. Harrison will be joined by Cary Brown on keyboards, David Cutler on bass and Jeff Barton on drums for his debut performance here at the Towne Crier Cafe.
Mitch Katz is a contemporary songwriter with a penetrating vision of life. His crafty lyrics and compelling melodies bring sensitivity and humor to a mix of ballads and blues, with some political observation thrown in for good measure. His strong guitar playing is a perfect compliment for his voice, which has just enough grit to lend a flavor of hard won life experiences. Mitch’s warm and engaging stage presence makes his audience feel right at home as he gives voice to their dreams and desires.

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The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents
BOOKMARKS: Sunday School Lessons to Dancing ‘Round the Ouija Board
Curated by Donna Miller
7:00 p.m.
The Arts of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180
Cost: Free
Discovering spiritual identity through assembling, testing and redefining belief systems can be a life quest. Some people are unshakable in their beliefs, certain they understand an essential life force, and that a place in the universe awaits. Every instance of faith accepted or rejected has a story that enlightens us with the mysteries, terrors and joys that define who we are and what we believe. I must warn you that until I was ten years old, I held the certain conviction that the water towers dotting the cornfields of the Midwest were screws holding the earth together. God lived at the Ohio State Fair near the livestock judging. I walked a different path since then. Share your unexpected journey in this evening of reflection and humor, for surely these are both signposts on the road to divine understanding. Submisson deadline: April 11, 2013.
The Memoir Project, a program of The Arts Center of the Capital Region, invites submissions for Bookmarks, a series of group readings featuring writing that is grounded broadly in personal experience. Experienced writers as well as those whose work has not previously been read publicly, or published are encouraged to submit work. Details about the submission criteria and schedule for each curator are available at the Center’s website.

Caffè Lena presents
Storytelling Open Mic featuring Fran Yardley
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
North Country storyteller Fran Yardley “moves her audience...with an ease of narrative...as compelling as it is refreshing.” She is the Program Manager of Creative Healing Connections, where she helps women veterans, the bereaved, and women with cancer and chronic illness to discover joy and confidence in telling their own stories. She holds a BA in Theatre and can be seen regularly on stage at Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake, NY. Currently, Fran is working on a book of the history of the Bartlett Carry Club, one of the oldest settled places in the Adirondacks. She lives with her family on a beautiful Adirondack lake.
Open Mic participants have a 10-minute limit unless prior arrangements have been made with the hosts, Margaret French, Christie Keegan, and Jeannine Laverty. Tellers are reminded that storytelling is narration without the use of written text—telling, not reading. No advanced ticket sales. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance presents a
Special Multi-Media Lecture by CTMD Executive Director Pete Rushefsky:
Tsimbi un Fidl: Uncovering the Lost Jewish String Music of Eastern Europe
7 p.m.
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Tickets are $15/$10 for CTMD and Center for Jewish History members, available at smarttix.com).
Rushefsky, a leading researcher and performer of klezmer music (the Jewish instrumental music tradition of Eastern Europe), will present rare archival recordings (some of over 100 years old) and images, and perform live on the tsimbl – klezmer’s traditional hammered dulcimer, a string instrument which sounds like a harp and is played with small mallets like a xylophone.

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New York Foundation for the Arts presents a
Grant Workshop: “Elements of a Proposal”
6:30-8:30 p.m.
211 South 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Program Fee: $15. RSVP to Tina Orlaindi at torlandini@elpuente.us
Presented in collaboration with El Puente CADRE (Community Artists’ Development & Resource Exchange), a network of local artists, artisans, and cultural workers organized and supported by El Puente. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will provide a grant workshop “Elements of a Proposal” for artists from all disciplines. The workshop will be translated for Spanish-speaking artists.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club announces
Old-Time Instrumental Jam
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, 513 Henry Street (at Sackett St.), in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
For more information, email alanfriend_music@mindspring.com
Wanna jam? Alan Friend will lead an old-time jam. Bring your fiddle, banjo, guitar, etc. Acoustic instruments only. Buy some delicious desserts and socialize.

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Caffè Lena presents
California Guitar Trio
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $27; $25 member, $13.50 children under 13
Buy tickets online
With astounding performances and unparalleled diversity, these three revered musicians are not actually natives of the Golden State. The California Guitar Trio (CGT) is Bert Lams from Belgium, Hideyo Moriya from Japan, and Paul Richards from Utah. Together, their technical wizardry is breathtaking, as is the wide range of instrumental music the group renders...everything from unique originals to dazzling, cleverly-arranged interpretations of jazz, classical music, and even surf rock. Since their inception in 1991, the Trio has released 14 CDs: nine studio albums (including a Christmas record), three live releases (including An Opening Act from their 1995 worldwide tour with King Crimson), and two compilations. On screen, CGT can be seen in the documentary Following the Music: On The Road with California Guitar Trio (©2004 Stone Chapel Films). Their latest release is Andromeda, an entirely new, all-original album nearly three years in the making. It was named Best Instrumental Album by the Indie Acoustic Project.

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Alwan for the Arts presents
Screening & Discussion: The Mute (El Kharsaa) with Lead Actress Samira Ahmed in Attendance
6:30-9:00 p.m.
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor, New York, NY 10004
For more information, call 646/732-3261
Cost: Free to the public
The Mute is the story of Naiima. who is mute and lives with her father and abusive stepmother, in an upper Egyptian village. A new doctor takes pity and employs her as his assistant, and for whom she develops an infatuation. One night at a village fair, the son of a prominent villager rapes and impregnates her. Message: The Film Has No English Subtitles.

The Bronx Music Heritage Center and City Lore present
Bronx Rising! Music, Film & Spoken Word of the Borough
Thursday, May 16 — Saturday, May 18
Music: Bronx Beat Masters featuring Bobby Sanabria and Rebel Diaz— Thursday, May 16, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
Film: 30th anniversary screening of Wild Style and a Q&A with director Charlie Ahearn and film participants DJ Grand Wizard Theodore and Rodney C! Stone— Friday, May 17, 8:00-10 p.m. p.m.
Palabras/Words: Reading from The Drama of King Shotaway#8212; Saturday, May 18, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
BMHC Lab, 1303 Louis Niñé Blvd., Bronx, NY
Free (Suggested donation: $5 for each event)
A Bronx native, Master Musician Bobby Sanabria is a seven-time Grammy Award-nominated artist and an inductee into the Bronx Walk of Fame. He is also on the faculty of the New School and the Manhattan School of Music, where he conducts Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Bands. Rebel Diaz is a bi-lingual hip hop duo based in the South Bronx. They are internationally renowned and have recently toured Europe. Rebel Diaz is also known for starting the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective, a South Bronx community arts center.
Directed by Charlie Ahern, Wild Style was released in 1982 and quickly became known as the classic hip hop movie, which records the early days of hip hop in the South Bronx. The film follows many of hip hops early influencers, like DJ Grand Wizard Theodore, who is credited with inventing two dominant dj techniques, scratching and the needle-drop. Also highlighted in the film is MC Rodney C! of the Funky Four Plus One More, which was the first hip hop group to perform live on national television as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live.
In honor of the 12th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Garifuna Language, Music and Dance as Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, the BMHC presents a reading of The Drama of King Shotaway.

Flushing Town Hall presents
CULTURAL CROSSROADS #4: AFRICA MEETS PERU
Dance lessons 7 p.m.
Performance: 8 p.m.
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard (at the corner of Linden Place), Flushing, NY 11354
$15/$10 Members and Students with ID
Buy tickets to any of these events now through our online box office or by calling (718) 463-7700 x222
We’re mixing it up! 2 cultures, 1 stage + an open dance floor. African rhythms are prevalent in Salsa, Merengue & Rhumba – Listen to Papa Africa, who offers Afro-Pop, Juju & High-Life music, while Corina Bartra and her ensemble create a different flavor with Landу, Festejo & Marinera from Peru.

Caffè Lena presents
Don & Victoria Armstrong
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $16; $14 member, $8 children under 13
Buy tickets online
Former Saratogians and long-time Caffè Lena favorites Don and Victoria Armstrong celebrate the beauty and mystery of the Southwest with cowboy songs, inspired Mexican songs, and an ever-expanding repertoire of hauntingly beautiful originals overlaid with lovely vocal harmonies. Don and Victoria are part of core roster of artists most associated with our venue. As such, we invited them to return to our stage on the occasion of the Caffè’s 53rd Anniversary. They will be joined by bassist Tony Markellis and fiddler Ed Lowman.

The Folkus Project presents
Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand, Loren Barrigar, and Mark Mazengarb
8 p.m.
May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 East Genesee St, Syracuse, NY
Cost: $15
Advance sale tickets are available via PayPal or by mail (personal check); advance ticket holders receive preferential seating. For details, see the Folkus Project website at www.folkus.org
The Folkus Project wraps up its spring season with an extraordinary musical showcase featuring two of Central New York’s best-loved acoustic duos together for one night only. Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand, Loren Barrigar, and Mark Mazengarb as you’ve never seen them before, combining their talents in an exciting mix of Celtic and Americana roots music. Known for their lively performances, these artists boast outstanding musicality and spontaneous creativity. Their concerts are highlighted by spirited interplay and stunning proficiency, creating an astounding level of energy that springs from the stage. The interaction among these artists is as much a feature of their shows as is their world-class musicianship. The VanNorstrands have been bringing their brand of high-energy alternative folk music to concert halls, festival stages, and dance floors across North America for more than a decade. Barrigar and Mazengarb are two of the most accomplished fingerstyle guitarists in the world. Their live performances feature not only their spectacular technical grasp of the guitar, but also a dynamic musical chemistry. The stunning abilities of these gifted musicians have built strong local followings. This is a unique opportunity to hear them together and this show is sure to sell out.

TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA
8:00 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door
Trout Fishing In America is the longstanding, four-time GRAMMY nominated musical partnership of Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet. A willingness to at once make fun of our most annoying daily habits, then to touch our hearts with tender and passionate images of family life, is what makes the connection between Trout Fishing in America and its audiences so compelling and poignant. “...the Lennon and McCartney of kids’ music.”—National Public Radio

ArtsWestchester presents
ArtsBash: A Party for the Arts!
Friday, 6 p.m.
Saturday, 12-5 p.m.
ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601
Join ArtsWestchester for ARTSBASH, our annual spring party for the arts! The festivities begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 17. View the new exciting exhibition, Placemaking: Re-Envisioning White Plains. Meet the artists, tour artist studios, sample fine wine, and taste signature dishes from some of Westchester’s top restaurants! Check out our growing list of participating eateries here. Come back the following day, Saturday, May 18, for Family ArtsBash! This day of free family fun features more open studios and workshops for families, including Lego building, clay sculpting, portrait drawing, hat decoration, sewing design and more! Kids can play interactive games, tour ArtsWestchester’s resident artist studios, get their faces painted and decorate delicious cookies. There’s something for everyone during this fun-filled FREE day of arts and discovery!

The Ashokan Center presents
Ashokan Harmony: A Choral Singing Weekend with Kim & Reggie Harris and Peter & Mary Alice Amidon
Ashokan Center, 477 Beaverkill Rd., Olivebridge, NY 12461, 845-657-8333
Registration: Adults $295, Ages 5-18, $215, Under Five free. Private or semi-private lodging available for extra charge. $60 discount for those who opt to stay off-site
Kim & Reggie Harris and Peter & Mary Alice Amidon will lead participants in old and new songs, from gospel to traditional and from sacred to secular, including original compositions by the Harrises and Amidons. Some songs will be taught by ear, some from written music, and some a little of both. Ashokan Harmony takes place in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Located on 374 acres of forests, fields, streams and farmland, Ashokan is a special blend of geologic, natural and human history.

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The Coalition of Asian/Pacific Americans (CAPA) presents The 34th Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Festival
11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Chinatown, Manhattan, NY
Cost: Free
Exhibitors: Call 347-689-9090 to reserve vendor space
You are invited to join thousands of festival goers in Chinatown in Flushing (and in Flushing, see May 4) to experience Asian cuisine and culture. The Festival celebrates, recognizes, and promotes the contributions, advances, and role of Asian Americans in the US while reconnecting them with their cultural roots. Free giveaways, prizes, music, face painting, balloon making, carnival games, workshops, and presentations. Over 50 musicians, folk artists, dance and martial arts groups. Free networking for Asian American professionals and entrepreneurs. See Asian folk arts, handcrafts, and educational exhibits. Indoors and outdoors, rain or shine. See festival schedules online.

Super Sábado: MAD ABOUT LIBROS
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029
Admission: Free

Exhibitions On View SUPERREAL and PRESENCIA
11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., El Museo, Las Galerías. Last chance to explore the real, the surreal, and the superreal in our latest photography and video exhibition. Also, make sure to visit Presencia, an exhibition of art from our Permanent Collection that explores presence and its antithesis, absence.

Exhibitions On View CUENTAME! TELL ME A STORY: STUDENT ARTWORK EXHIBITION OPENING
11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., El Museo’s Cuentame Gallery (1st and 3rd Floors). Using a variety of media including poetry, performance, music, painting, and photography, participants in this year’s Making Connections programs tell their stories.

Storytelling and Music FOLKTALES OF THE YORUBA PEOPLE
Noon-2:00 p.m., El Café. Interact with ancient cultures from West Africa through storytelling, music, and dance in the second of three workshops presented in partnership with the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute. This session highlights “Shango the Oba,” one of the stories from center’s publication, Folktales of the Yoruba People, by Angela R. Fontanez.

Art-making Workshop MANOS A LA OBRA!
Noon-3 p.m., El Taller & Las Galerías. Now it’s your turn to be the author! Using objects both in and outside of the galleries, you can draw, sketch, or write on your own story board and share it with family and friends.

Concert QUEENS COUNTY CHILDREN’S CHORAL ENSEMBLE PRESENTS CHILDREN’S VOICES OF THE ANDES
5:00-6:00 p.m., El Teatro. Experience the hauntingly beautiful melodies of the Andean mountains performed by 140-voice chorus from the Queens County Children’s Choral Ensemble. The concert will include musical styles of the Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche indigenous peoples, performed by autochthonous and traditional Latin American instruments. The music will be performed in Spanish, Quechua and Mapuche dialects, and will include melodies and folk songs from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, as well as Chile and parts of Argentina. Enjoy powerful and exciting Andean sounds from across the region, from the Venezuelan Andes to Tierra del Fuego Choruses include: 131Q/Abigail Adams Elementary School, 143Q/Louis Armstrong Elementary School, and the Voice Charter School. Artistic Director: Marisol Ponte-Greenberg.

Brooklyn Arts Council announces
BAY RIDGE HARBOR TRADITIONS: Then and Now
1-2 p.m.
Held at Viking Festival, which runs from noon - 5 p.m.
Owl’s Head Park/Bliss Park, 68th Street between Colonial and Shore Roads (Bay Ridge), Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free
Harborlore brings immigrant traditions of water—both new and old—to the annual Bay Ridge Viking Festival, with performances by Norwegian storyteller Rolf Stang, Egyptian dancer Yasser Darwish and Moroccan storyteller Hafida Torres. The Norwegian accordion band Lista Trekkspillklubb plays from Noon-1 p.m.. A life-size Viking ship will be on display at the festival. At 2 p.m. stroll with folklorist Kay Turner a few blocks to see Greek artist George Kortsolakis’s marvelous “Crete,” a model of his island homeland he created in his front yard on Ridge Boulevard. Presented by Scandinavian East Coast Museum, Bay Ridge, with participation from BAC.
See Announcement for HarborLore below in “Announcements” section of this page.

The Preservation League of Staten Island presents
Clifton Walking Tour
2:00 p.m.
Meet and leave from the Staten Island Railroad Clifton station (@ Norwood Avenue and Bay Street)
For more information contact jpkfhc@verizon.net or 917-886-4389.
Please join the President of the Preservation League of Staten Island, John Kilcullen, for a walking tour of historic Clifton, Staten Island. Clifton, along with nearby New Brighton, was one of the City’s first romantic suburbs. Planned and designed in 1836, to offer New Yorkers an escape from the crowded conditions of New York City. Houses and grounds were laid out on oversized lots to take advantage of Staten Island’s then picturesque rural landscape and panoramic views. Located near Cornelius Vanderbilt’s successful ferry landing, which provided quick transportation to Manhattan and Brooklyn, Clifton become a desirable location for wealthy merchants looking to live and raise a family, while still having convenient access to their businesses and the growing commerce on NY Harbor. A walk through Clifton highlights its architecturally diverse buildings with many styles represented. Many of the leading and influential architects of the day, including Carrere and Hasting, Delano and Aldrich plus Staten Island’s “own” Edward A. Sargent have their architectural designs on display throughout the neighborhood. The nearby Bayley Seton hospital campus, with its historic and landmark buildings, including the prominent Seaman’s Retreat, will also be featured on the tour.

Caffè Lena presents
Berkshire Ramblers — A Caffè Lena Homecoming Celebration
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: Fundraiser — one price for all: $35
Buy tickets online
The Berkshire Ramblers champion folk songs of the old style. Founding Ramblers are Joe Browdy and WAMC’s Alan Chartock. They’ve been playing together, in one form or another, for well over forty years. Alan sings and plays banjo, Roselle Chartock, a Skidmore alum who once worked at the Caffé, sings and plays guitar and percussion. They’re joined by Browdy on guitar, Jonas Chartock, guitar, Sarah Chartock, vocal and hand percussion, Michael Eck, multiple instruments, Don McGrory, steel guitar, Alice Oldfather, fiddle, Dwight O’Neil guitar, and Dona Frank-Federico and Selma Kaplan, vocals and piano. The band donates their time to help causes and places dear to their hearts and are making their north country debut something special for Caffè Lena. Make no mistake, The Berkshire Ramblers capture the essence of folk music: familiar songs that celebrate togetherness rather than celebrity. We’ll have delicious food, mingling, and loads of songs you’ll know, love, and we hope sing along with!
The cost ($35 — 53 spelled backwards) includes hearty snacks, desserts, and beverages of the soft variety. The Ramblers are donating their performance and All Proceeds Benefit Caffé Lena!

Hudson Valley Community Dances present
Contra Dance
8-11 p.m.
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 55 Wilbur Blvd., Poughkeepsie, NY 12603-3424
Admission: $10/$5 full time students
Enjoy live music and exciting contra dance! THE WALKER FAMILY with caller, JEFF WALKER, THE WALKER FAMILY bring an incredible energy and enthusiasm to their delightful music, including all members of their family — adults, teens, and youngsters. Occasionally, one of them will break out of the band and join the dancers, sharing their energy in another way. All dances are taught before we do them with music, though if you are a beginner it is wise to get there on time, because the earlier dances are the easier dances. Come join us! Bring the kids𔃉they can sleep on the floor when they get tired of dancing! Info: 845-473-7050

Alwan for the Arts presents
Musical Performance: Malikka Zarra
8:00 p.m.
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor, New York, NY 10004
For more information, contact: (646) 732 3261, events@alwanforthearts.org
Cost: $20 General/$15 Students, Members and Seniors
Malika Zarra is an inspiring new international voice, both influenced by jazz and bringing her own culture and creativity to the melting pot of the New York jazz scene. Born in Morocco and raised in France, this gifted composer, producer and singer has invented a new Moroccan world-jazz by using traditional North African chaâbi, as well as Berber and Gnaouan polyrhythms to underpin her distinctly contemporary urban compositions, all the while maintaining a sophisticated improvisational modern jazz approach. Already considered a rising star in Africa, Zarra and her multi-national band recently appeared at Dakar’s prestigious International Black Arts Festival, where heads of state mingled with major African musicians like Youssou N’Dour and Angelique Kidjo. The New York-based artist’s latest release Berber Taxi was an NPR World Jazz Pick and has garnered praise from musicians and critics alike.

SOB’s presents
Brazil Show with Nanny Assis & friends featuring Brothers of Brazil
8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (doors open 6:30 p.m.)
SOB’s, 204 Varick Street, New York, NY
Admission: Free with Dinner Reservation before 7 p.m.; $7 with a Dinner Reservation and $15 without one. $10 on reduced guest list. RSVP to RSVP@SOBS.COM
The way Nanny Assis transfuses a myriad of Afro-Brazilian music is infectious, energizing audiences to stand up and dance. The Brothers of Brazil combine elements of bossa nova and samba with rock, punk, and funk. Both acts will come together for one electrifying Brazil Show.

Alwan for the Arts presents
Musical Performance: Ahmad Gamal Presents an Evening with Egyptian Composers
8:00-10:00 p.m.
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor, New York, NY 10004
For more information, call 646/732-3261
Cost: $20/ $15 for students, members, and seniors
Vocalist Ahmad Gamal will present a concert honoring the rich lineage of esteemed Egyptian composers from the time of Sayyid Darwish through Ammar El Shereiry. Among others, the program will feature works by legends such as Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Zakareya Ahmad, Riad Al-Sunbati, Mohamed El Qasabji, Mohamed Fawzi, and Baligh Hamdy.

CARAVAN OF THIEVES
8:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $17.50 advance, $22.50 at the door
For the past three years, this Caravan Of Thieves has roamed the North American continent recruiting a family of avid thrill seekers at their high energy shows. Driving gypsy jazz rhythms, acoustic guitars, upright bass and violin lay the foundation for mesmerizing vocal harmonies and fantastic stories. It’s theatrical and humorous. It’s musical and intense. It entertains, dazzles and defies classification while welcoming the spectator to join the band throughout the performance in momentary fits of claps, snaps and sing-alongs. If Django Reinhardt, the cast of Stomp and the Beatles all had a party at Tim Burton’s house, Caravan of Thieves would be the band they hired.

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The American Banjo Fraternity hosts its Spring Banjo Rally
Players and listeners are invited to a free concert at: 7:30 p.m.
The Pantall Hotel, 135 E. Mahoning St., Punxsutawney, PA 15767. 814-938-6600
We celebrate the 5-string banjo as it was played in university banjo clubs, in major US cities, and even in London. There are solo and group performances on 5-string banjos of different sizes using nylon strings and bare fingers with no picks. This was the primary form of urban banjo playing in the 1900s. Classic banjo is an historical form of banjo music that is not often heard.Members of The American Banjo Fraternity play it at meetings twice a year. It was quite popular during the period 1880–1920.

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St. Therese Catholic Church and Academy announces the
Nicholville’s Festival of Christendom: Hungary
12:30-8:00 p.m.
St. Therese Catholic Church and Academy, 68 County Road 55 NIcholville, NY 12965
For information, contact fiatfestival@gmail.com
Cost: FREE
This is Nichoville’s first Festival of Christendom, where we will show the whole community the beauty and richness of Catholic life, one culture at a time. In this first Festival, where our theme will be the vivacious culture of Hungary, following an 11:00 a.m. Solemn High Traditional Latin Mass, we will provide live Hungarian music, performed by Eletfa, Hungarian dancing, food, arts and games—so that all those present can not only see this culture, but be immersed in it. Admission and authentic Hungarian food will be FREE, games and activities will be provided for the children, and we will have Hungarian Urquel Pilsner on hand to quench your thirst after tasting the spicy Hungarian food. Come join us in showing New York the joy of Catholic Culture!

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents
Shanty Sing
2-5 p.m.
Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY
For further info, contact Bob Conroy at RConroy421@aol.com or 347-267-9394
Refreshments will be available, including beer and wine for sale.
We are co-sponsoring the Shanty Sing on the 3rd Sunday of every month, or the William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection (to give the official title).

Borderline Folk Music Club presents
HONOR FINNEGAN with opener MICHAEL SCOLNICK
2-5 p.m.
Borderline Folk Music Club, at the New City Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 200 Congers Road, New York, NY
Admission: $20; Borderline or Pinewoods members, $15 + a cold pot luck dessert dish to share with 4 other people. Please remember that we are an alcohol free venue.
For reservations and information, contact Sol Zeller, 845-354-4586, solz1@optonline.net
Honor Finnegan is the Susan Boyle of quirky indie folk. Combining elements of musical theatre, comedy, traditional folk, and poetry, she writes and sings about modern life foibles, accompanied by her trusty ukulele. Her songs are humorous, then heartbreaking with melodies that soar. Originally from Chicago, she also spent seven years in Ireland, honing her musical skills, playing, and singing with jazz bands, blues bands, big bands, and traditional Irish bands including DeDannan for about a day. Opening the show is one of our local favorites, MICHAEL SCOLNICK who performs in the Pete Seeger style.

Brooklyn Arts Council announces
FISH TALES: The Big One, the Magical One, and the One That Got Away
2-3:30 p.m.
Pier 2 at Emmons Avenue near E. 26th Street (Sheepshead Bay), Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free
Harborlore brings lore of the fishing world to the annual Bay Fest, with Garifuna storyteller James Lovell from Belize and New York Harbor diver Lenny Speregen telling fish tales; and fishing dances performed by Aeilushi Mistry (Indian koli) and Yasser Darwish (Egyptian saiadeen). You’ll have a chance to relay your own big fish story at our open mic! Held at Bay Fest 2013. Festival Address: Emmons Avenue from E. 27th Street to Ocean Avenue (Sheepshead Bay).
See Announcement for HarborLore below in “Announcements” section of this page.

Litvakus Concert
3 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: $20; Senior and Students $15. RSVP online
The Jewish Daily Forward calls it “irresistible dancing music.” Litvakus will bring back to the Eldridge Street Synagogue the joyous musical heritage of its Eastern European immigrant founders, filling our landmark synagogue with the traditional sounds of weddings, parties, the tunes and songs of Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and the Litvak Jews, as well as new music composed by band leader Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch. Litvakus shapes old-time tunes in a way that is culturally relevant, making the sounds of a vanquished world accessible and attractive for the modern listener.

BAM presents
DanceAfrica 2013 Opening Celebration
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK
3:00 p.m.
Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, NY
Cost: $20. Buy tickets online
Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK—the “gold standard” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) of a capella gospel groups—headlines the opening celebration of DanceAfrica 2013. DanceAfrica founder and artistic director Chuck Davis hosts this showcase of dance and music to kick off the festival, featuring Umkhathi Theatre Works from Zimbabwe and Brooklyn’s own BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica ensemble. Created by Chuck Davis in 1977, DanceAfrica—the nation’s largest festival dedicated to African dance—brings together dance, music, film, and an array of community events for an exhilarating celebration of culture from Africa and its diaspora.
See May 24-27 for festival information.

Heritage Folk Music presents
JAN CHRISTENSEN
Singer, Songwriter, Sailor
Songs of the River & the Sea with the KINGSTON SEA CHANTEY SINGERS
3-5 pm.
Kiersted House, 119 Main Street, Saugerties, NY
Suggested Donation: $10
Jan Christensen performs at the Kiersted House of the Saugerties Historical Society, his first solo concert back in his native Ulster County in many years. Jan’s songs reflect his love for the history of the Hudson River, the port of New York, and the ocean near which he now lives. Following a family tradition of sailing, Jan’s experiences on the Hudson, in the Caribbean, and in and around New York Harbor, give his music a warm and authentic sense that he gladly shares with his audience. Jan performs at South Street Seaport Museum as a member of The New York Packet, the Seaport’s official maritime music group. He’s appeared at the Hudson River Revival, Mystic Seaport, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and Liverpool, England. As one of the organizers of the monthly William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions in the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island, he helps continue the long tradition of nautical song and lore. Jan is a long-time member of the Hudson River Sloop Singers, organized by Pete Seeger to sing in support of the environmental work of the sloop Clearwater. In concert, Jan brings a lively blend of song and story, mixing his own original numbers with traditional songs and tunes written by other contemporary songwriters.

FolkCOLOMBIA Música y Danza and Center for Traditional Music and Dance present
Un Taller Llanero: A workshop/presentation of llanero music from Colombia’s plains region.
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Boys Harbor Conservatory, 1 East 104th Street at 5th Avenue (attached to El Museo del Barrio), New York, NY
Free admission
This event will feature singer/cuatro player Johanna Castaneda, and is part of FolkCOLOMBIA’s Tertulia-Taller Series, monthly events presented throughout New York City that celebrate the rich music and dance traditions of Colombia.

Caffè Lena presents
Homecoming Song Circle with Quick, Warren & Jerling
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
On the occasion of the Caffè’s 53rd Anniversary, we bring you three songwriting pals who have enjoyed many, many sold out shows at the Caffè over the past three decades. Greenwich, NY native Bob Warren is an extraordinarily versatile songwriter who has a delicious repertoire of pop and soul songs, and has also written scores for musicals and dance productions. Saratoga’s own Michael Jerling has a wicked sense of humor and soft heart for the simple man. His songs have pretty melodies, insightful smart lyrics, and plenty of groove. Mike Quick hails from Wisconsin. His songs grow from the folk and blues roots of American music. He chronicles common experience, newsworthy events, and philosophical epiphanies with a weathered voice and a sweet acoustic guitar.

ELLIS PAUL
also special guest SETH GLIER
7:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 at the door
Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in American songwriting. He was a principle leader in the wave of singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urban, literate, folk pop style that helped renew interest in the genre in the 1990s. Ellis’ charismatic, personally authentic performance style has influenced a generation of artists away from the artifice of pop, and closer towards the realness of folk. Though he remains among the most pop-friendly of today’s singer-songwriters—his songs regularly appear in hit movie and TV soundtracks—he has bridged the gulf between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger more successfully than perhaps any of his songwriting peers.
Despite his relatively young age, Massachusetts-based singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist Seth Glier is a seasoned troubadour. Averaging over 250+ live performances annually Seth has gone from opening act to headlining his own shows and playing major folk festivals. He’s shared the stage with artists as diverse as James Taylor, Ani DiFranco, Martin Sexton, Emmylou Harris, and Ryan Adams and has quickly become known for his passionate live sets. His music has also caught the ears of fans, industry, and critics alike with USA Today stating that his “exquisite tenor echoes Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel.” The incredible acclaim on his sophomore record, The Next Right Thing, led to the single “Lauralee” hitting #1 on Clear Channel’s “NEW! Discover & Uncover” program as well as a Grammy nomination, a first for both himself and his New York based label, MPress Records As a national spokesperson for the Autism Awareness Foundation, an advocate or Musicians On Call, and with a ROCK THE VOTE Road Trip 2012 stop under his belt, Seth has become increasingly comfortable expressing his social beliefs, both onstage and off. In 2012 he took home Best Social Action Song for his track “The Next Right Thing” at the 11th Annual Independent Music Awards, his second IMA win.

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Great Lakes Seaway Trail announces
War of 1812 Traveling Quilt Exhibit Coming to Erie
6:30 p.m.
Wayside Presbyterian Church, 1208 Asbury Road, Erie, PA
Open to the public, $3 admission fee to non-Guild members
The Great Lakes Seaway Trail War of 1812 Traveling Quilts Exhibit is coming to Erie, PA, starting with a May 20 evening event and display at two sites in the month of June. Erie resident Mary Ambrose championed the cause of bringing the exhibit to Erie. She is a member of the Hands All Around Erie Quilting Guild that will host the exhibit at its meeting on Monday, May 20. The 1812 exhibit will be a special feature of the Guild’s quilt show at Wayside Presbyterian Church on Saturday, June 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, June 2, from noon to 4 p.m. There is a $4 admission fee for the show. From June 3-29, the Great Lakes Seaway Trail War of 1812 Traveling Quilts Exhibit will be behind glass for viewing at the Erie County Public Library, 160 East Front Street, Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Friday/Saturday 9 a.m. -5 p.m., and Sunday 1-5 p.m. Special thanks goes to VisitErie for providing funding to bring the exhibit to Erie.

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Caffè Lena presents
An Evening with Tift Merritt
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $22, $20 members, $11 children under 13
Buy tickets online
This North Carolina singer-songwriter creates handmade songs inspired by thunderstorms, feathers, old typewriters and handwritten letters. Her “distaff country soul” has found acclaim in the world of independent acoustic music. Her direct and unadorned vocal work is understated enough to feel personable, while her Carolina twang provides just the right touch of charisma to win over fans around the world, and critics from Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and NPR, who have compared her to Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, and Bobby Gentry. Tift has been honored with a Grammy Nomination for Best Country Album, and her first two records landed on The New Yorker’s Top Ten List. The Americana Music Association has nominated her for Album, Artist and Song of the Year.

The New York Klezmer series and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance present
Metropolitan Klezmer featuring Eve Sicular
Concert begins at 7:30 p.m.; $15. jam sessions afterward
Klezmer Instrumental Music 5:30 p.m. $25 per class, Yiddish Dance Classes begin at 6:00 p.m. – $15 per class
Kidz Klezmer Band starts at 4 p.m.
Full night pass – $35 (includes class, concert & jam sesson) Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 West 68th Street in Manhattan (between Columbus and Central Park West)
Klezmer music is the instrumental party music of the Jewish People from Eastern Europe – (Ashkenazim). Its origins are in the 16th century, and it has evolved and assimilated local influences (Russian, Romanian, Ottoman, Hungarian etc.) wherever Ashkenazim have lived since. Founded and curated by Aaron Alexander (at the invitation of Rabbi Greg Wall), series consistently presents world class artists in an intimate setting, in addition to providing education and a place for all to come and participate in this wonderful and often neglected part of Jewish and American Culture.

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The Folk Music Society of N.Y., Inc/ N.Y. Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents
House Concert: Danny Spooner
7:30 p.m.
Forest Hills, Queens, NY
Reservations essential — please email Joy Bennett (hosting the event): joybennett@att.net
Admission $15 general public, $12 FMSNY members.
Danny Spooner, a Brit from the East End of London who relocated to Australia many years ago, has an inexhaustible fund of work songs, ballads, drinking songs, and more from Britain and Australia, some accompanied on concertina. Danny is an incredible performer, with a fund of in-depth knowledge of his songs and their traditions. He will be at our Spring Folk Music Weekend, 24-27 May, and is also doing a concert at the John Street Church in Manhattan on 18 June. But in case you cannot make either of those dates, do not miss this chance to see Danny in an intimate setting.

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The Folklife Center of the Crandall Public Library presents
Warren County @ 200: Glens Falls, the Adirondacks & the Photography of Richard Dean by Mark Bowie
7 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801, 518-792-6508 x237
This free program is a part of our Warren @ 200 series, celebrating the 200th birthday of Warren County, co-hosted by the Chapman Museum and the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library.

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Hudson Valley Community Dances present
Workshops: Expand your Swing with Mambo & Cha Cha with Joe & Julie Donato
6:30-7:15 p.m. Mambo and Cha Cha
7:15-8:00 p.m. Integrate Mambo in your Swing.
Poughkeepsie Tennis Club 135 South Hamilton St. Poughkeepsie NY
Admission: $15 for one workshop; $20 for both.
Workshops followed by SWING TO SOUL PURPOSE with beginner’s lesson from 8 to 8:30 p.m. with Joe and Julie Donato, Soul Purpose from 8:30-11:30 with performance by Julie and Joe at 9:30 p.m. Admission: $15/$10 full time students with ID.

Caffè Lena presents
The Grand Slambovians
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $32, $27 members, $16 children under 13
Buy tickets online
The music of THE GRAND SLAMBOVIANS has been variously described as “hillbilly-Floyd,” “folk-pop,” “alt-country, roots-rock,” and “surreal Americana;” a clear indicator of its singularly indescribable uniqueness. Dancing freely between all existing religious and philosophical mythologies, the music is uplifting, empowering, and a lot of fun.

Alwan for the Arts presents
Play: Abandon the Citizens created and performed by Tina Yotopoulou and Aktina Stathaki
8:00-10:00 p.m.
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor, New York, NY 10004
For more information, call 646/732-3261
Cost: $20/ $15 for students, members, and seniors
With the opportunity of the 90-year anniversary of the Fire of Izmir, the performance highlights a fascinating and little known part of modern history: the tragic end of the Greco-Turkish war, the expulsion of the Greek population from the Asia Minor coast, and the destruction of one of the most cosmopolitan cities of the time. Using rare archival material, the performance brings on stage the powerful, poetic language of the survivors in their own words and asks the question: how can the trauma of history be staged, remembered, and overcome?

BROTHER SUN featuring Pat Wictor, Greg Greenway and Joe Jencks
8:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door
National touring artists Joe Jencks, Greg Greenway and Pat Wictor have made their mark as veteran touring singer-songwriters. But, Brother Sun is no songwriter’s round. The trio’s harmonies, as much as their lyrics, tell what they are about: warm as a campfire, stirring as a gospel church, rousing as a call to arms. Fusing folk, Americana, blues, pop, jazz, rock and a cappella singing, Brother Sun is an explosion of musical diversity and harmony in the finest of male singing traditions. From three major points on the map -- Chicago, Boston, and New York — Joe, Greg and Pat celebrate the amazing power of singing together, their rich voices blending on a well-crafted foundation of guitar, slide guitar, bouzouki and piano.

BAM presents
DanceAfrica 2013
3:00 p.m.
Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, NY
Tickets start at $20
Buy tickets online
For the Memorial Day weekend performance, DanceAfrica 2013 welcomes Umkhathi Theatre Works from Zimbabwe, Giwayen Mata from Atlanta, and Harambee Dance Company from New York, plus Brooklyn’s own BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble, for a program that promises to inspire. Created by Chuck Davis in 1977, DanceAfrica—the nation’s largest festival dedicated to African dance—brings together dance, music, film, and an array of community events for an exhilarating celebration of culture from Africa and its diaspora.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club announces its
Spring Weekend of Music
Friday, May 24, 1:00 p.m. til 3:00 p.m., Monday, May 27, 2013
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa, 400 Granite Road, Kerhonkson, NY 12446
Register online.
Concerts, workshops, and classes with John Kirk & Trish Miller, Danny Spooner, Joy Bennett & Chris Koldewey, and others. Comfortable rooms; plenty of opportunity for informal jamming and singing, socializing, hiking, swimming, and relaxing. Join this community of music.
Workshops on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, including jams, teaching, mini-concerts and folklore. Expect plenty of opportunities to join in the singing and playing, or just listen.
Dancing on Saturday afternoon, leaving plenty of energy to trip the light fantastic. John and Trish will call, music by the Pinewoods Pickup Band. Woohoo; bring your dancing shoes!
Frank and Leslie plan to assemble the Folk Complaints Choir. If you have not seen the Helsinki Complaints Choir on YouTube, check them out. We will be taking complaining lines from ballads and songs. And, back by popular request, a Bawdy Songs workshop, post Saturday concert. Dig out those limericks, rugby songs, etc., and we will see how tasteless we can get.

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Brooklyn Arts Council announces
HANDS ACROSS THE HARBOR
2-4 p.m.
The Noble Maritime Collection at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY
Cost: Free
Hop on the ferry and meet us in Snug Harbor for performances and interactive learning with artists from Brooklyn and Staten Island at the Noble Maritime Collection at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Staten Island artists include Gayle Heyward singing African American spirituals, Bob Wright singing Staten Island harbortown songs, Seetha Wickramasuriya performing Sri Lankan kavi poems, Eva Yawo telling Liberian tale about fish, National Women’s Dance Troupe of Sri Lanka performing a narrative water dance and others. Brooklyn artists include Gurdeep Kaur singing Punjabi songs about water-drinking etiquette, Hafida Torres telling Moroccan tales, Vongku Pak bringing Korean water songs and more. Plus, you’ll hear real-life stories drawn from the working waterfront in a story circle with Lenny Speregen, Brian Deforest, Samir Farag, and other pilots, divers, dry dock workers and salt extractors. Come early at 1:30 p.m. and enjoy a brief tour of the Noble Maritime Collection with Nick Dowen. Presented by BAC in partnership with Staten Island Arts .
See Announcement for HarborLore below in “Announcements” section of this page.

Flushing Town Hall presents
QUEENS JAZZ ORCHESTRA - FIESTA MOJO
8 p.m.
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard (at the corner of Linden Place), Flushing, NY 11354
$40/$32 Members/$20 Students with ID; Package: $120/$100 Members (Reserved Table for 2, Wine & Snacks)
Buy tickets to any of these events now through our online box office or by calling (718) 463-7700 x222
The Queens Jazz Orchestra (QJO, a program of FCCA), celebrates the musical genius of Adderly, Jacquet, Basie and Ellington, all historic jazz legends who lived in Queens and are seen on FCCA’s Queens Jazz Trail Map ©. “Fiesta Mojo” is a rare Gillespie piece arranged by Jimmy Heath for the QJO. FCCA’s QJO was formed with two missions in mind: to honor the jazz greats who lived in Queens, and to support the future of jazz.

Caffè Lena presents
Ariana Gillis
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Tickets: $18, $16 members, $9 children under 13
Buy tickets online
21-year-old Ariana Gillis was named Canada’s Young Performer of the Year in 2009, and is ably fulfilling the promise she showed as a teen. Her whimsical, addictive songs tell stories that just don’t occur to most people: creatures in a lake with healing powers, people in adjacent graves chatting with each other. She takes the stage with an irresistible bright-eyed, playful charm. Between her CDs and her live performances, Ariana is making even the most jaded critics fall in love: Dave Marsh, long-time Rolling Stone columnist, author of more than 25 books on rock and roll, and known as the “dean of American rock writers” admits to being her biggest fan.

Celebrate Commemorate Memorial Day Village of Waterloo—Multiple locations throughout the village and along the Seneca Cayuga Canal
Enjoy family friendly activities, including living history along the Seneca Cayuga Canal, arts and craft show, family entertainment, classic, antique and Woodie car show, 5k race, and more. For more information, see the website, www.waterloony.com.

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New York State Old Tyme Fiddlers’ Association invites you to
Fiddlin’ Future
2-5 p.m.
North American Fiddlers’ Hall of Fame and Museum, Osceola, New York
This concert is being presented by NYSTOFA’s newest chapter. The group consists primarily of musicians from the age of 6 to 21. They will be presenting a concert that honors many of our past inductees into the Hall of Fame. Please come and enjoy these wonderful young performers presenting an art a old as our nation!

Caffè Lena presents
Memorial Day Open Stage
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: Free
This event is an annual tradition at Caffè Lena, each year bringing together poets, songwriters, storytellers, and speech-makers for a respectful and deep-hearted sharing of views about our soldiers, the culture of war, and conflicts past and present. All styles and points of view are welcome. Excessive profanity is strongly discouraged. No advance reservations will be accepted. Performer sign-up goes from 7 to 7:30. Performances will get underway at 7:30. Time limits will be determined by the number of participants. This event is co-sponsored annually by the Saratoga Peace Alliance and Adirondack Veterans for Peace and every year is unique and healing.

Material Culture announces
FOLK OUT LOUD! Auction
From Timbuktu to Overtown and The Great Beyond
Folk, Self-Taught & Ethnographic Art
11 a.m.
4700 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144, 215/438-4700
Exhibition: May 18-25, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Special Auction Exhibition Barbecue: May 25, 12 noon-3 p.m.. Free and open to the public
Featuring over 300 lots, the sale will provide an exciting mix of art and artifacts from around the world. Objects at the auction nearly encompass the history of folk art, with pre-historic to 12th century to 21st century artifacts being presented for sale. This eclectic array of art will be on parade in an exhibition from May 18 to May 25, with the auction beginning promptly at 11 a.m., on Sunday, May 26. Liveauctioneers provides an online catalogue and live internet bidding at the time of the sale. Browse the catalog.

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The New York Klezmer series and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance present
Philadelphia Klezmer featuring Elaine and Susan Watts, special screening of the documentary film “Etele” and a Tantshoyz
Concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 West 68th Street in Manhattan (between Columbus and Central Park West)
Klezmer music is the instrumental party music of the Jewish People from Eastern Europe – (Ashkenazim). Its origins are in the 16th century, and it has evolved and assimilated local influences (Russian, Romanian, Ottoman, Hungarian etc.) wherever Ashkenazim have lived since. Founded and curated by Aaron Alexander (at the invitation of Rabbi Greg Wall), series consistently presents world class artists in an intimate setting, in addition to providing education and a place for all to come and participate in this wonderful and often neglected part of Jewish and American Culture.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club announces
Old-Time Instrumental Jam
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, 513 Henry Street (at Sackett St.), in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
For more information, email alanfriend_music@mindspring.com
Wanna jam? Alan Friend will lead an old-time jam. Bring your fiddle, banjo, guitar, etc. Acoustic instruments only. Buy some delicious desserts and socialize.

Old Crow Medicine Show
8 p.m.
Hunter Center, 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams 01247, 413.662.2111
Cost: $35 advance / $40 day of
For more information, In a flag-planting preview to its bluegrass and roots music festival at MASS MoCA in late September, FreshGrass presents Old Crow Medicine Show in MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center. The members of Old Crow Medicine Show have an unbridled spirit that leaps off their strings whenever they pick up an instrument. The mean banjo pickin’ and boundless energy of Old Crow will give you a taste of the 2013 FreshGrass Festival four months early!

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Caffè Lena presents
The Stone Thoreaus
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: No advanced ticket sales. Tickets may be purchased at the door.
Capital Region folk trio The Stone Thoreaus often describe their music as gentle folk. That much can be heard in the musical interplay between guitarist Robert Stern and banjo/mandola player John Eisler along with the soaring harmonies of vocalist Heather Hewitt. Underneath this calm exterior lies a well of intensity — from Stern’s simmering vocals; to the world music and alt-roots influences that color their sound; to the melodic songs themselves. Both melancholy and sentimental, their music explores a range of human experience in a complex world. The group has spent the last few years growing its musical presence in the area, building a small but loyal following in cafes and smaller venues throughout the Capital District. A six-song studio debut is currently in the works for release this summer.

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FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD UP: A Citywide Forum
Organized by NOCD-NY (Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts New York)
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. - Neighborhood visits with lunch
1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Forum at El Museo del Barrio
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Celebration
We will update you with an agenda and registration information as the forum approaches. In the meantime, you can email inquiries to nocdny@gmail.com. NOCD-NY invites you to join them for a citywide forum to develop a vision for NYC that is grounded in the cultural vitality and social networks that make our communities strong. This vision will become the foundation for a shared policy platform to inform our city’s leadership transition in the upcoming year. The forum will draw on two key ideas. First it will honor that, as Wendell Berry wrote, “What we need is here.” Every neighborhood has powerful assets to contribute to a resilient and thriving New York City. Second, it will recognize our interdependence, bringing us together to develop collaborative strategies to engage our City’s opportunities and inequities.

They will discuss recommendations and action steps for the critical role of arts and culture in four areas:
♦ creating a solutions-based approach to community health and sustainability
♦ incubating creativity and supporting innovative uses of urban space
♦ moving from Sandy relief to sustained strategies for community resilience, engagement and renewal
♦ furthering equitable development

New York Foundation for the Arts announces
Doctor’s Hours For Visual Artists
6-9 p.m.
NYFA, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn NY 11201
Registration: Online registration always takes place two weeks prior to the date of the event. The link to registration will be available on the Doctor’s Hours for Visual Artists webpage on May 16 at 10 a.m.
Have a new body of work no one has seen? Have a new website? Ready for some feedback? Come to NYFA’s Doctor's Hours for individual, 20-minute one-on-one consultations with local curators, critics, and gallerists. Get practical and professional advice in person from one or more arts professionals. Each appointment is $25, with a three appointment limit and the opportunity to share your work will be provided.

Brooklyn Arts Council announces
SONGS OF THE SEA: Banana Boat Songs and Sea Shanties
7-9 p.m.
Jalopy Music Theatre, 315 Columbia Street (Red Hook), Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free
A musical conversation between diverse singers performing traditional maritime songs including English sea shanties, spiritual Baptist hymns, Jamaican banana boat folksongs, Guyanese waterfall crossing songs, Panamanian coastal songs and more. Artists include Winston “Jeggae” Hoppie, Bob Wright, Ken Schatz, Joy Bennett and The Johnson Girls, Wrickford “Rick” Dalgetty, Keith Johnston, Nuria Quinones, Gloria Wilson, Alberto Gonzalez, Mwata Nubian, Frankie Barria and others. Presented by BAC in association with the Folk Music Society of New York.
See Announcement for HarborLore below in “Announcements” section of this page.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club announces its
Songs of the Sea
7-9 p.m.
Jalopy, 315 Columbia St., Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free
Banana Boat Songs and Sea Shanties—part of Harborlore which runs from May 10 through June 15. (See “Announcements” below on this page). Artists include Winston “Jeggae” Hoppie, Bob Wright, Ken Schatz, Joy Bennett and The Johnson Girls, Wrickford “Rick” Dalgetty, Keith Johnston, Nuria Quinones, Gloria Wilson, Alberto Gonzalez, Mwata Nubian, Frankie Barria and others. Presented by Brooklyn Arts Council in association with FMSNY.

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Flushing Town Hall presents
CULTURAL CROSSROADS #5: THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MEETS GARIFUNA FROM SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
Dance lessons 7 p.m.
Performance: 8 p.m.
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard (at the corner of Linden Place), Flushing, NY 11354
$15/$10 Members and Students with ID
Buy tickets to any of these events now through our online box office or by calling (718) 463-7700 x222
We’re mixing it up! Our series continues with 2 cultures, 1 stage + an open dance floor. Merengue band Kompalsa meets The Chief Joseph Chatoyer Dance Co. & The Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble (Garifuna are descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people). Your feet will want to get up and dance!

The McKRELLS, featuring Kevin McKrell, Chris Leske, Doug Moody and Rick Bedrosian
8:30 p.m.
Towne Crier, 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY, 845/855-1300
Tickets: $17.50 advance, $22.50 at the door
Join us for a special appearance of The McKrells’ blend of Celtic, American folk, and bluegrass — a truly unique musical experience. Their tours, radio airplay, television appearances and record sales earned them rave reviews and standing ovations throughout the United States. Kevin McKrell has been a founding member of some very popular bands — first and foremost Celtic group Donnybrook Fair and, of course, The McKrells! Pawling’s own Chris Leske (banjo, mandolin, vocals) won first place honors in New York and New England banjo competitions as a young teen in the early ‘70s. In 1984, Chris won First Place in the National Banjo Championship at the famous Walnut Valley Competition in Winfield, Kansas. Chris’s abilities on lead guitar were featured on two European tours with world-renowned banjoist Bill Keith and Nashville producer Jim Rooney. He was accepted for a banjo seat at Opryland USA the same year, but declined, favoring a special opportunity to tour Europe. Since he was six, Doug Moody has delighted audiences, playing everything from classical to traditional fiddle to western swing and rock music in his teens, bebop jazz in college; and in 1991 he joined the original Buffalo-based band, The Steam Donkeys — a roots rockin’ country band with a psychedelic twist. Onstage, Doug Moody always gives his audience a memorable, genre-bending performance, replete with boundless passion, unmatched versatility and rarely seen musical diversity. Rick Bedrosian’s association with Kevin McKrell goes back to The Fabulous Newports, a doo-wop band that featured Kevin McKrell. Bedrosian also played with The McKrells when they appeared at Carnegie Hall and at Winterhawk, but he is now probably better known for his work with Hair Of The Dog.

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City Lore announces its DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTE Stories for a Better World August 12–August 30, 2013 Application Deadline: May 11, 2013 Co-sponsored with Transom, the Bronx Documentary Center & Manhattan Neighborhood Network An intensive immersion program through which current and aspiring artists, activists, and cultural documentarians advance their skills in multimedia storytelling and create their own documentary piece for the culminating exhibition. WORK with renowned veterans in film, radio or photography. LEARN folklore and oral history approaches to cultural documentation and advocacy. DEVELOP a fundraising strategy for your project. DRAW upon City Lore’s 27 years of experience documenting New York City. After 27 years of documenting New York City’s diverse cultures and presenting them in still photographs, videos, and radio pieces, we thought some sharing might be in order. We will host the City Lore Documentary Institute, an intensive immersion program through which current and aspiring artists, activists, and cultural documenters advance their skills in multimedia storytelling. Working hands-on with veterans in the fields of radio, photography, and video documentary, participants will go through the soup to nuts process of producing a photo essay, radio or film short to tell a story. In addition, the Institute will provide an introduction to folklore- and oral history-based approaches to culture and cultural activism; writing for the media; interviewing and field research; and fundraising from government sources, foundations, and individuals, including crowd-sourcing. The Institute is designed to work intensively with participants on creative initiatives which they would like to fund, bring to fruition, and use to advance their careers. Tuition is $2,500, but we offer scholarships available based on need. Faculty and guest speakers for the Institute include Dave Isay, Michael Kamber, Rob Rosenthal, Nick Spitzer, Pam Sporn, and Benh Zeitlin. Application deadline is Monday, April 30, 2013. There is a non-refundable $20 application fee that is deducted from tuition upon acceptance. For more information, contact Elena Martínez, Institute Coordinator at emartinez@citylore.org or 212/529-1955 x 306. Application and Guidelines available online.

The Folk Music Society of N.Y., Inc/ N.Y. Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents Irish Traditional Music Session every Monday Mondays, 8-11 p.m. No session on May 27, Memorial Day Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue (on 46th St), Manhattan Free admission; food and drink are available. For more info 212-247-2562 Tenor banjo, harmonica and fiddle player Don Meade and friends get together every Monday night for an Irish traditional music session in the back room of this historic Hell’s Kitchen bar/restaurant. Musicians and singers welcome.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance announces SHOW US YOUR TREASURES — CTMD’s First-EverBenefit Auction We need your help! Seeking donations of Goods, Services AND Experiences For the first time, we’re reaching out to our community of friends to invite you to participate in an auction as part of our 45th Anniversary campaign — a fun new way to support CTMD! Let us know what treasures might generate interest and bids. Items will be posted online for bidding (bidding begins on May 25th), and then attendees at our June 4th Benefit will have a chance to bid against the online price through a live silent auction. Here’s some ideas: Fine handcrafts Exotica Objects d’Arte Instruments Time at Vacation Homes & Apartments Hotel & Travel Packages Experiences (an afternoon on your sailboat, night on the town, behind the scenes tour...) Airline Tickets & Miles Services Lessons (Music, dance, cooking...) Delicacies & Spirits Restaurant Gift Certificates Theater & Concert Tickets Memberships Books Collectibles Donate items online.

The Seasons of Cambodia invites you to its Living Arts Festival April and May, 2013 New York City Season of Cambodia is a special initiative of Cambodian Living Arts in partnership with Cambodia’s leading arts organizations and New York’s most vibrant cultural and academic institutions. The Festival features more than 125 Cambodian performing and visual artists at New York City’ss stages, screens, galleries and public spaces, creating a broad and dynamic platform for Cambodia’s cultural treasures to be shared with an international audience. See the List of Events online for dates and venues for Exhbitions, performances, conferences, conversations, films, colloquia, concerts, and master classes. The festival celebrates Cambodia’s artistic revival just one generation removed from the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979), a dark period in Cambodia’s history during which nearly 90% of the artists and intellectuals were tragically eliminated in an effort to devastate a flourishing artistic community. Season of Cambodia, then, will serve as an international platform that not only highlights the extraordinary resilience of the Cambodian nation and its artists, and also sets the stage for other post-conflict nations seeking renewal through artistic expression. Tickets for festival events can be obtained at each venue.

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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance is pleased to present TREASURES OF THE CTMD ARCHIVE A 10-part series of video shorts posted weekly at www.ctmd.org/archive.htm In Celebration of CTMD’s 45th Anniversary Treasures of the CTMD Archive features rare, one-of-a-kind video of leading masters of immigrant music and dance traditions that have been recently digitized from our Archive. Most of the artists presented in this series are (or were) based in the New York metropolitan area. Sadly, a number of these masters are no longer with us, and so the CTMD Archive provides vital, and sometimes singular, documentation of their artistry and traditions. Treasures of the Archives Upcoming Releases: Week 1 (May 1) — Periklis Halkias: Periklis Halkias (1908–2005) was an Epirotik Greek clarinetist originally from the mountainous region of Pogoni in northwestern Greece. He immigrated from Greece to Astoria, Queens in 1963. Halkias received a NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1985. Week 2 (May 8) — Los Pleneros de la 21: Los Pleneros de la 21 is a group that performs the Afro-Puerto Rican traditions of bomba and plena. The group features Juan Gutierrez, a recipient of a NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1996. Week 3 (May 15) — Dave Tarras: Dave Tarras (1897–1989) was a renowned Jewish klezmer clarinetist from the Ukrainian province of Podolia, and is generally considered to be the musician/composer most responsible for the creation of a uniquely American klezmer sound. He received a NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1984. CTMD’s Archive holds the only known concert footage of Tarras. Week 4 (May 22) — The Women of Shashmaqam: The Queens-based Ensemble Shashmaqam features a group of leading Bukharian Jewish performers from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They perform a wide repertoire of the musical traditions of Central Asia. A singer with the ensemble, Fatima Kuinova, received a NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1992. Week 5 (May 29) — Popovich Brothers: The Popovich Brothers were a Serbian-American tamburitza band from South Chicago. The ensemble featured brothers Ted and Adam Popovich. Adam Popovich (1909-2001) was a recipient of a NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1982. Week 6 (June 5) — Liz Carroll: Liz Carroll is a master Irish fiddler from Chicago. She was featured in a 1980's CTMD program that created Cherish The Ladies, an ensemble that has gone on to become international ambassadors for the participation of women in Irish music. Carroll received a NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1994, and was nominated for a Grammy in 2009. Week 7 (June 12) — Banat Romanian Orchestra: A Queens-based, multi-generational ensemble of musicians from the Banat, a historical region that stretches between the borderlands of Serbia and Romania. Week 8 (June 19) — Keba Cissoko: Keba Cissoko (1962-2003) was a master of the kora (gourd harp), and major exponent of the jaliya (hereditary singers/bard) tradition from Guinea Bissau. Week 9 (June 26) — Ilias Kementzides: Ilias Kementzides (1926-2006) was a Pontic Greek lyra player. He received a NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 1989. Week 10 (July 3) — Festival Shqiptar (Albanian Festival): CTMD worked with community leaders to organize the first Festival Shqiptar in 1991. The Festival, which still occurs annually at Lehman College in the Bronx, features performers of rural and urban Albanian music and dance.

New York Foundation for the Arts announces its NYFA Immigrant Artist Project Call for Applications: Deadline: Friday June 21: 11:59 p.m. The 2013 NYFA Mentoring Program pairs immigrant artists from all disciplines with artist mentors who provide one-on-one support for their mentee. From July–September 2013, mentors will provide their mentee with broader access to the New York cultural landscape by sharing ideas, advice, resources and experiences. Mentors will guide their mentee in achieving one or more specific goals, such as composing an artist statement, researching potential venues for showing their work, or completing a grant application. The Mentoring Program provides an opportunity to connect with other immigrant artists through group meetings including professional development workshops, events and informal gatherings. Our mentors include artists from Europe, Asia, Central and South America. Now in its 7th cycle after six years of success and growth, the Mentoring program has paired 101 mentees with 97 mentors. Eligibility Requirements: Live within the New York Tri-State metropolitan area (NY, NJ, and CT). Were born outside of the United States. (Those born in United States territories may apply). Attended at least Kindergarten–8th Grade schooling outside the United States. Have been pursuing a career as an artist within the range of 1–10 years in the United States. Are NOT currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate degree program. Attendance is mandatory for these events: Inaugural Meeting: Wednesday, July 10th 4-8 p.m. Follow Up: Wednesday, July 24th 4-8 p.m. Alumni Meeting - Tuesday, September 10th 6-8 p.m. Final Celebration: Wednesday, September 25th 4-8 p.m. For more information: Contact Program Officer, Felicity Hogan at i.outreach@nyfa.org or call at (212) 366-6900 ext. 242. Application available online The deadline for submitting this application is FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 at 11:59pm. All applicants will receive notification of final decisions by June 28, 2013.

The Brooklyn Arts Council presents the HARBORLORE FESTIVAL Dance, Music, Storytelling Where the river meets the sea in Brooklyn’ folk imagination May 10 — June 15, 2013 Brooklyn Arts Council’s Harborlore Festival is a series of 12 free dance, music and storytelling events throughout Brooklyn exploring the role of water in the artistic traditions of the borough’s diverse immigrant and diaspora communities. Surrounded by over 50 miles of water from Greenpoint to Canarsie, Brooklyn is home to thousands of immigrants hailing from coastal locales across the globe—Jamaica, Bangladesh, Italy, Guyana, Egypt. These immigrants have brought cultural traditions to Brooklyn that capture the beauty, meaning, and vulnerability of living at water’s edge. In post-Sandy New York, Harborlore Festival signals the importance of learning new respect and reverence for the power of water. Check the schedule of events online and see individual events in these calendar pages..

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders announces Literary Submission: 5th Anniversary of the Writers’ Workshop Submission deadline: June 15, 2013. Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders and the NY Writers Coalition are celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Bilingual Writers Workshop with a second book. The first book Voces con Eco: Writing from Mano a Mano can be found at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. We invite all past participants of the workshop to submit work that originated within the workshop. Guidelines: It must have originated within our Los Lunes writing workshop. Up to 3 pieces of work for consideration. 12 point font, Arial, double spaced. The work can be in any language as this book will be a celebration of language and will not be translated unless it is preferred. Only original, unpublished work will be accepted. Please send your work titled, with your name, email and phone number to laguirre@manoamano.us Please join us for writing and sharing work in a supportive and respectful environment. Open to anyone over 18 who wish to write in Spanish, English, or Spanglish. Writers of all genres and levels of experience are welcome. No prior writing experience is necessary. Call 212-587-3070 or email mexicanidad@manoamano.us for more information.

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Italian American Studies Association announces IASA 2013 Conference CALL FOR PAPERS Italian American Identity Politics New Orleans Marriott, October 3–5, 2013 Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2013 This year’s conference examines the politics of the identifying term “Italian American” from multiple perspectives and in different time periods. The evocation of “Italian American” for political purposes and agendas has a varied history, e.g., to combat anti-Italian American discrimination, to rally allegiance to Mussolini’s Fascist regime, or to support feminism. In addition to various ideological positions, the structures for conjuring and maintaining ethnic identity have also been myriad, including newspapers, the Catholic Church, commercial marketing, voluntary associations, and social media sites. What are the social conditions in which the ever-changing narratives of collective identity are formulated and perpetuated? How are ethnic symbols and practices mustered and re-invented at the service of “Italian American?” And ultimately, how do competing politics reveal and engender intragroup tensions but possibly also productive dialogue, both of which might re-configure understandings and enactments of the very term “Italian American?” Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Who gets to speak for Italian Americans, both within and outside of academia, political venues, cultural venues, etc.? The use of identity politics by community leaders, the press, scholars, and others The limitations and/or role of public policy in shaping and/or supporting Italian American identities/communities, e.g., public housing during the 1930s–1940s, suburban development during the 1950s and 1960s, the celebration of Columbus Day The self-conscious development and use of cultural and expressive forms of ethnic identity The co-opting of identity politics by consumerist culture, from reality television to Olive Garden commercials Resistance to elite notions of Italian-American identity The role of voluntary organizations in the formation of a politicized and political Italian-American collective identity Italian Americans as a political entity in electoral politics, in Italy’s voting abroad, in relation to political activism or electoral politics in other countries with an Italian diaspora. The conference is interdisciplinary and inter-genre in its perspective and thus is open to scholars in different disciplines, creative writers (novelists, poets, and memoirists), and visual and media artists. The conference committee is open to papers not addressing this year’s conference theme. Download IASA 2013 Conference Paper Submission Guidelines here. Abstracts for scholarly papers (up to 500 words, plus a note on technical requirements) and a brief, narrative biography should be emailed as attached documents, by June 15, 2013, to iasa2013conf@italianamericanstudies.net, to whom other inquiries may also be addressed. We encourage the submission of organized panels (of no more than three presenters and a chairperson). Submission for a panel must be made by a single individual on behalf of the group, with all the paper titles, abstract narratives, and individual biographies. The conference committee encourages organized panels that are interdisciplinary and inter-genre. All presentations are to last no longer than 20 minutes, including audio and visual illustrations that accompany presentations. An individual can be a paper presenter, a panel chair, a panel discussant, and a roundtable participant but cannot be any one of these more than once, e.g., being a presenter and a discussant but not chairing two different panels. Individual paper and panel proposals should indicate any audiovisual requirements (e.g., computer projector). Prospective presenters may expect to be advised of their acceptance or otherwise by August 1, 2013. All presenters, respondents, and discussants must be members in good standing of the Italian American Studies Association by September 15, 2013. Conference Committee: Bénédicte Deschamps Michael Eula Laura E. Ruberto Joseph Sciorra, chair

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Ashokan Music & Dance Camps 2013 ONLINE REGISTRATION OPEN NOW Each week, Ashokan Music & Dance Camps are packed with great classes in traditional dance, instrumental music and singing at a wide variety of experience levels, taught by our stellar staff. Incredible jam sessions, evening dance parties, song sessions and much more are offered and enjoyed by all! Ashokan Music & Dance Camps have become a meeting ground, where people of all ages learn new skills, make new friends and share good times in a secluded woodland setting. COME EXPERIENCE OUR BEAUTIFUL NEW CAMPUS!: Three GREAT Fiddle and Dance Weeks plus Guitar Camp, Uke Fest, and Ashokan Harmony all at the new Ashokan Center Campus located at 477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge, NY. 2013 PROGRAMS AND CAMP WEEKS: Ashokan Harmony—May 17-19: A choral singing weekend with Kim & Reggie Harris and Peter & Mary Alice Amidon. Western & Swing Week—June 23-29: Lindy and West Coast swing, C&W dances, squares and contras, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, steel guitar, harmony singing, piano, vocal workshops, swing and country band clinics, improvisation, music theory, dance parties, jam sessions, song swaps and more... Ashokan Uke Fest—July 4-7: A family-friendly weekend retreat for ukelele players of all skill levels in the beautiful Catskill mountains Northern Week—July 14-20: MORE THAN 40 CLASSES AND ACTIVITIES EACH DAY INCLUDING: Contras, squares, English Dances, Scandinavian Turning Dances, Fiddle, Hardingfele, Guitar, Piano, Singing, Calling, Band Clinics, Dance Parties, Jam Sessions, Song Swaps and more . . Guitar Camp—July 28-August 1: World class guitar classes and workshops, practical music theory, mini-concerts, jam sessions, song swaps, many levels served. Southern Week—August 11-17: Square dancing, flatfooting and clogging, Cajun and Zydeco dance, Cajun accordion, fiddle, guitar, vocals and bass and percussion, caller’s workshops, traditional clogging team workshop, old-time fiddle, banjo and guitar, old-time songs, harmony singing and band workshops... plus jam sessions, song swaps, dance parties, slow jams and more.

The Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama announces AUDITIONS AUDITIONS FOR: 4 female and 2 male dancers with: * Strong Technique * Individual Presence * Background in Theater a plus * Artists with strong classical, modern and/or contemporary dance training are encouraged to apply. New York performance with the potential for a long-term commitment. Rehearsals begin May 15 on weekdays from from 6-9 p.m., for June 14 and 15 performances (paid). To be considered for the audition, send your resume and headshot to: info@AnabellaLenzu.com by May 8th. Selected dancers will be contacted to attend audition on Sunday, May 12th at 10 a.m. at Peridance Capezio Center.

The American Association for State and Local History announces Scholarships Available for September Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, September, 18–21 “Turning Points: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things” The American Association for State and Local History 2013 Annual Meeting will examine the personal and organizational journeys that lead to vibrancy, sustainability and meaningful social change. Unfortunately, many working in our nation’s small museums feel as if we can only dream of attending this meeting. In a perfect world, boards would grant every request to pay for our professional development. Institutions of modest means, however, may not have the resources to help us become effective stewards of our community’s memory. Websites, listservs, and social media constantly offer new sources of technical and psychological support, but nothing is better than the face-to-face fellowship of sharing survival strategies. Every year, increasing numbers of Annual Meeting sessions address issues specifically affecting small museums. These sessions can be as practical and wide-ranging as training, marketing, and strategic planning. Other sessions focus on creative ways to forge and re-energize relationships with the surrounding community. Now in its eighth year, AASLH’s Small Museums Committee is offering scholarships to any AASLH members who are full-time, part-time, paid, or volunteer employees of small museums. The $500 scholarship will cover the cost of the conference registration and the Small Museums luncheon. Any remaining funds may be used to offset travel and/or lodging expenses. To qualify, the applicant must work for a museum with a budget of $250,000 or less. They also must either be an individual AASLH member or work for an institutional member. Application forms are available at www.aaslh.org/SmallMuseums The deadline for applications is 15 June. The committee will email award winners by 6 July. If you have any questions, please contact Bruce Teeple, Small Museum Scholarship Subcommittee Chair at mongopawn44@hotmail.com

The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) announces INDIA MUSIC WEEK October 7–13, 2013 In collaboration with Columbia Libraries at Columbia University, and with the support of Founding Partners Gracenote, Incredible Labs, and the Internet Archive, ARC will lead an online project to celebrate Indian music and culture during India Music Week (IMW), October 7–13, 2013. IMW will offer videos, histories, seminars, concerts, lectures, sound files, sheet music, broadcasts, narrowcasts, album cover art galleries, essays, blogs, photos and links all highlighting the importance and beauty of Indian music as well as educate a global audience about its many genres and facets. Building on our collection of more than 5,000 relevant recordings, ARC, with the help of Gracenote, has already catalogued 25,000 Asian Indian recordings. This database will be one of the largest online reference tools on the web, freely available to all. The project director for India Music Week is ARC Director B. George. Mr. George lived for a year in India in 1970, and spent October, 2012, there where he gave a talk at the IASA Convention in New Delhi. Project assistants are Dr. Brian Q. Silver and Laura Kilty. Dr. Silver taught at Harvard, 1974–83, and was later Ethnomusicologist and World Music Curator at Voice of America, Washington, DC. He is a scholar of, and performs, North Indian music. Laura Kilty is a PhD student in composition at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. ARC invites organizations and individuals interested in supporting and participating in the project to contact us. Namaste!

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The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers and posters) for the program of the 74th Annual Meeting Albuquerque, NM, March 18–22, 2014 The theme of the Program is “Destinations” The Society is a multi-disciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution. We welcome papers from all disciplines. The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2013. For additional information on the theme, abstract size/format, and the meeting, please visit www.sfaa.net/sfaa2014.html. We are a world on the move. We are increasingly drawn to issues of transience and mobility. The leading question of our time might no longer be who are we but rather where are we going? Where will we live as storms imperil our lives and as sea levels rise, or as fresh water becomes a scarce commodity in many parts of the world? How do we imagine a fair and just world in those places where immigrants face discrimination and hostility and political refugees wait impatiently for someone to respond to their plight? Where do we find safe harbor when some of our most constant fellow travelers are disease and epidemics and where health care professionals struggle to respond to the needs of a diverse and highly transient population? Where do we locate the past and peoples’ heritage in such a great furor of instability and mobility? How and to what effect are peoples’ homes and environments transformed by the ubiquitous demands of a global tourism industry? How far must our food and goods travel to satisfy modern consumer demand? How do our cities and communities respond to the needs of the homeless, the undocumented, and multiple other visitors? How are the diasporas of the past reflected in the contingencies of the present, and how might we anticipate the movements of people in the future?

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The Lark Camp— A Celebration of World Music, Song & Dance July 26 - August 3, 2013 Full Camp 8 Days * 1/2 Camp 4 Days Lark Camp PO Box 1176, Mendocino, California 95460 USA (707) 964-4826 registration@larkcamp.com Music & Song & Dance Workshops * Cabins * Dances * Parties * Sessions * Great Food * Dance Hall * Dining Hall * Camping * Fire Circles * Mendocino Woodlands Redwoods Lark Camp promotes worldwide understanding through music and dance. Lark Camp provides an open forum for the exchange of creative ideas between musicians, singers, dancers and composers. The Lark Camp experience is enhanced by motivational instructors and inspired students, who also share their passions and skills with the rest of the participants. Imagine idyllic days and nights in the magical redwood forest filled with all the music, dance, and good times you could possibly stand, and that is kind of close to what Lark’s Music Celebration is like. You are free to take as many or as few of the workshops offered as you like; jam sessions 24 hours a day, big dances every evening. Plenty of good food, new friends, and musical stimulation. Truly a unique total immersion into the joys of nature, music and dance. Many workshops for the professional as well as the beginner! Registration For Lark Camp 2013 See the 2013 Camp Staff.

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The Folk Arts Program of the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University presents
A Good Ride: Arts and Traditions of the Attica Rodeo
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 24, 2-4 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 1-5 p.m.
Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, 5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, New York 14109, 716-286-8200
Free admission
In 1957, the West was big in the American imagination, abounding in movies, musicals and novels—and in Attica, New York, where a group of teenage boys was about to stage its first rodeo. They formed the Attica and Chaffee Rodeo Club, with just over a dozen members. Today, the renamed Attica Rodeo and Show Association continues as a non-profit, volunteer based organization that relies on members and community volunteers—more than 100 altogether-to host a professional rodeo. In 2006, folklorists Karen Canning and Claire Aubrey began a project to document the Attica Rodeo, its history and performances, as well as the experiences of its founders and participants. The results of their fine efforts, A Good Ride: Arts and Traditions of the Attica Rodeo, explores the rich aesthetic traditions, talents, stories, and material culture of this local community.

February 20, 2013 —May 26, 2013

Katonah Museum of Art presents
BEYOND THE BED: THE AMERICAN QUILT EVOLUTION
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sun: 12–5 p.m.
Katonah Museum of Art, 134 Jay Street, Katonah, NY 10536
Cost: $10.00 General; $5.00 Seniors and Students; FREE for Members and Children under 12
Beyond the Bed: The American Quilt Evolution traces the dynamic evolution of the North American quilt – in form, fashion, and function – from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Guest curator Jean Burks has brought together some of the finest quilts from across the country intended as bed coverings, articles of clothing, furniture accessories, wall decoration, and three-dimensional sculptures. The exhibition examines their significance as cultural artifacts and showcases their visual diversity and artistic excellence.The quilts on display illustrate a variety of techniques (whole cloth, pieced, appliquéd) and traditional designs (album, log cabin, crazy, pictorial) representing diverse cultural styles and geographic areas.

February 24, 2013 —June 16, 2013

The Folklife Program of Crandall Public Library presents
Inspiring Hands, Hearts & Mind: The Arts & Crafts of the Adirondack Folk School
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7, 5-7 p.m. Followed by a Live! Folklife Concert with Roy Hurd and Frank Orsini
Folklife Gallery, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY 12801, 518/792-6508
Hours: Monday — Thursday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and other times the Library is open
The Adirondack Folk School begins its fourth year of classes and programs in neighboring Lake Luzerne. A non-profit school of local artisans, crafts people, and volunteers, AFS offers half-day to multi-week courses in a non-competitive environment focused on the student. They offer subjects as diverse as twig and rustic furniture, caning, canoe and paddle making, birch bark basketry, fly tying, weaving, organic gardening, fiber arts, soap making, potter, blacksmithing, and more.
March, 2013 —June, 2013

Flushing Town Hall presents
ERASING BORDERS: Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Sat. and Sun. 12-5 p.m.
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard (at the corner of Linden Place), Flushing, NY 11354
Suggested Admission: $5/Members Free
Curated by Vijay Kumar, this exhibition explores the contributions of artists living and working in the US whose origins can be traced to the Indian Subcontinent, showcasing myriad genres of visual art (painting, sculpture, video art, installation art, photography). This exhibit travels to several key galleries and museums in the US each year, and we are delighted to host these works in partnership with Indo American Arts Council.

April 5, 2013 —May 12, 2013

Wagner College’s History Department and Staten Island Arts present
HISPANIC STATEN ISLAND: CULTURE AND IDENTITY
Co-curated by Lori R. Weintrob and Christopher Mulé
Opening Reception: April 24, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: The Spotlight Gallery is open during the library’s normal operating hours.
Spotlight Gallery, Hormann Library, Wagner College, I Campus Road, Staten Island, NY (Grymes Hill)
This year, Wagner College and the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island’s folklife program will celebrate Immigrant Heritage Week through an exhibit called Hispanic Staten Island: Culture and Identity. The exhibit will feature the sculpture of Olga Ayala, photography by Irma Bohorquez-Geisler, collages by Arlette Cepeda, oil paintings, and wood sculptures of Homer Homero, and the quilts and needlecrafts of Elaine Mendes-Torres. In addition, photos by Chris Mulé and posters celebrate the founder of Latino Network and author of Yo Soy Latina—Linda Nieves-Powell, the music of Jose Ocasio, and other local Hispanic community members.

Among the items on display are “yo-yo” quilts handed down through three generations and a beaded wedding dress. In the 1940s Elaine Mendez-Torres’ mother, brought the mundillo—a bobbin lace tradition from Puerto Rico—into her new home in Staten Island and turned it into a career in Manhattan’s garment district as a seamstress. She spent her evenings sewing clothing, adorned with lace, for family communions, and wedding dresses. A member of the Staten Island Creative Community, Elaine continues to teach traditional Hispanic needlecrafts. Like so many artists of Hispanic descent, her family’s traditions and heritage have been maintained, negotiated, and expressed throughout her life on Staten Island.

“ The diversity of the Hispanic population on Staten Island, from fourth-generation Puerto Rican to the newest Dominican, Columbian and Peruvian residents is still under-appreciated,” said Lori R. Weintrob, Chair of the History Department, Wagner College. “These are not only new neighbors. Many Staten Islanders know that Joan Baez was born here, but don’t think about her father, who was a Mexican immigrant and tenured math and physics professor at Wagner College in the 1940s.”


April 12, 2013 —May 5, 2013

American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
Monday & Thursday 12:00 p.m.-8 pm.; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 12:00 p.m.-6 p.m.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY
Latino musicians have had a profound influence on traditional genres of music in the United States, including jazz, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, and hip-hop. At the same time, their experiences living in the United States triggered the creation of new musical traditions, such as mambo and salsa. American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, presents the musical contributions of U.S. Latinos from the 1940s to the present, exploring the social history and individual creativity that produced stars like Tito Puente, Ritchie Valens, Celia Cruz, Carlos Santana and Selena. The exhibition was created by Experience Music Project (EMP) and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
Accompanying the exhibition will be a display of materials on Latino music and dance from 1908 to 1940 from The Library for the Performing Arts' collections. It will focus on popular, dance and concert music from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and South American in the early years of recorded sound and radio. A series of public programs will include screenings of documentaries and feature films about Latino music, concerts, concerts by student ensembles, and bi-lingual poetry slams at the Library for the Performing Arts and branches in The Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, will be scheduled in May and June, 2013.

April 20, 2013 —July 13, 2013

Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester presents
MYTHOLOGIES AND CULTURES: Nitin Banwar
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Gallery at the Arts & Cultural Council, 277 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14607
The son of a naval officer and the youngest of four, Nitin Banwar was born in India. When graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, he chose to go to medical school and then made his way to the United States, conducting his residency in Rochester and then becoming an orthopaedic surgeon. Throughout his early life, art was important to him. In addition to creating art from a young age, he explored the art and architecture of the various parts of India his father’s naval commissions brought the family, and later explored Europe and the United States. Banwar’s solo show here represents the first public exhibition of his work, which he views as a counterpoint to his medical profession, creating a balance between the objective and the subjective in his life.

May 2, 2013 —May 30, 2013

Houston Arts Alliance presents
ANOINTED AND ADORNED: Indian Weddings in Houston
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri, 3-5:30 p.m. and by appointment at 713.581.6120
Alliance Gallery, 3201 Allen Parkway, Suite 125, Houston, TX
This exhibition celebrates continuity and change in one of the city’s most important immigrant communities. By exploring the artistry, festivity and ritual associated with Indian weddings in Houston, Anointed and Adorned captures the beauty that resides in the old and accustomed, and the appeal of the new and surprising. Indian weddings offer celebrants the opportunity to recreate the traditions of their mother country and craft artful observances reflecting their new environment. Featuring photography by Sohil Maknojia and community-based research by Rati Ramadas Girish, Anointed and Adorned tells the story of the artistic traditions and practices that inform one of the most important ritual and festive moments in Indian life.

May 23, 2013 —July 12, 2013

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