Sunday, June 4, 2023

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.

Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.

Merchant of Venice
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $30 premium, free regular (donations requested)
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, to help his friend, Bassanio, court Portia, Renaissance lady of Venice. Antonio can't repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands a pound of his flesh. The heiress Portia, now Bassanio's wife, dresses as a judge in an attempt to save Antonio's life. Will she succeed or will Antonio lose a pound of flesh?

SSITP is presenting Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice using an all-female identifying cast. This concept allows us to expand the issues of bias and prejudice suffered by the characters in the play to comment upon contemporary struggles with racism, profiling, and gender bias.

Monday, June 5, 2023

Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

Rear Window (1954)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $4 non-members, $3.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

You already know the plot of this Hitchcock classic: A magazine photographer (Stewart) breaks his leg and is confined to his apartment where he begins spying on his neighbors who live across the courtyard. The difference with our screening is that we're presenting the recent Technicolor restoration that renews the movie's visual brilliance (no more faded color!) and brings back the experience of seeing Rear Window when it was first released in theaters ... Don't miss it!

Doyle-Whiting Band
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Blues Rock

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry

Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

Jazz at Timber Banks: Chuck Schiele's Quatro
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Persimmons
3536 Timber Banks Pkwy., Baldwinsville

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry

Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

After Six
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Jazz

*SOLD OUT* Curtis Salgado
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Award-winning vocalist, instrumentalist and songwriter Curtis Salgado, the man NPR calls "an icon" with "a huge voice," is revered worldwide for his ability to wring every ounce of soul out of every song he performs. Salgado is famed not only for his powerhouse live shows and ten previous albums, but also for his passionate and insightful original songs.

Preview: Clue
Syracuse Stage
Ben Hanna , director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Farce meets murder mystery in this hilarious theatrical adaptation of the famed board game and 1985 motion picture. In a remote mansion not far from Washington, DC, a mysterious and familiar cast of characters — Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet — gather for a dinner party and an evening of murder. Does the sudden demise of their host, Mr. Boddy, have any connection to the ongoing hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee? It's all fun and games until someone gets clobbered by a candlestick in the library. After that, it's even more fun.

Original Music by Michael Holland.

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry

Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

50th Annual St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

*POSTPONED* Jazz in the City: Brownskin Band with Joe Driscoll
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Kirk Park
1101 South Ave. to 400 W. Borden Ave., Syraucuse

Postponed to Wednesday, June 14, due to air quality.

Opening act Cora Thomas and her Community Gospel Choir, followed by The Brownskin Band with Joe Driscoll, performing under the pavilion on the Borden Street side of the park, rain or shine.

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

*POSTPONED* Chris Stapleton's All-American Road Show
Lakeview St. Joseph's Amphitheater

Lakeview Amphitheater
490 Restoration Way, Syracuse

Postponed due to air quality. New date TBA.

*SOLD OUT* Preacher on the Patio
The 443 Social Club

Price: $10
The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Preacher brings the BOOM to the Listening Room.

No Time for Death
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Shirley Maxwell has gathered the media together to announce that her company, Wonder Labs, is back on the map with the unveiling of an incredible new invention: a time machine! Insiders say it was invented by lab assistant Nick Van Castle. Or was it really invented by has-been inventor Nathan Brandmark? Or was it stolen by Nathan who used it to go back in time and claim he invented it? Or the other way around? Whatever happened, one thing's for sure: the clock is ticking down on someone.

Preview: Clue
Syracuse Stage
Ben Hanna , director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Farce meets murder mystery in this hilarious theatrical adaptation of the famed board game and 1985 motion picture. In a remote mansion not far from Washington, DC, a mysterious and familiar cast of characters — Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet — gather for a dinner party and an evening of murder. Does the sudden demise of their host, Mr. Boddy, have any connection to the ongoing hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee? It's all fun and games until someone gets clobbered by a candlestick in the library. After that, it's even more fun.

Original Music by Michael Holland.

Friday, June 9, 2023

Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry

Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.

Arko Datto: Shunyo Raja (Kings of a Bereft Land)
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arko Datto's epic three-part series chronicles the lives of those living in the world's largest delta, variously known as the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta. Climate change has rapidly put this immense region and its inhabitants in danger. Even as the artist summarizes the complexity and scale of the challenges confronting both, he knows his time with this landscape is fleeting.

CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

A family-friendly celebration of Polish culture, heritage, and traditions, featuring a variety of entertainment, including the sounds of polka, pop/jazz, dance-funk music along with beautiful folklore and contemporary dance performances by the group Lechowia from Canada. The event offers a taste of Polish and American cuisine and Polish beer along with Polish and American arts and crafts.

For more information, visit polishscholarship.org.

4:00-6:00 pm: Joe Stanky and the Cadets
6:00-7:30 pm: Used Caution Band
8:00 pm: Diana Jacobs Band

50th Annual St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

Syracuse Forever Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15 (reservations required)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Historic Ghostwalks presented by the Onondaga Historical Association are led by guides to locations where actors in costume portray individuals from Onondaga County's past. The "ghosts" reveal their lives in 12- to 15-minute vignettes, giving personal insight to those who have preceded us.

This summer's tour will take place in downtown Syracuse, where we'll introduce you to memorable - and fashionable - individuals from our city's rich past, from a cub reporter to an early leader.

Tours leave every 15 minutes between 5:30 pm and 7:15 pm.

Blue Skies and Rainbows
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Stephen Gamba, conductor

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

*SOLD OUT* Mike Powell and the Echosound
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe #17 Release Party
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stone Canoe is the only journal dedicated entirely to writers and artists from upstate New York, and we are proud to publish it here at the Downtown Writers Center! Come celebrate the new issue with us. We'll have readings by contributors, food and beverages, and of course, copies of the new Stone Canoe for sale.

This event made possible with co-sponsorship by the Syracuse University Humanities Center.

Merchant of Venice
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $30 premium, free regular (donations requested)
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, to help his friend, Bassanio, court Portia, Renaissance lady of Venice. Antonio can't repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands a pound of his flesh. The heiress Portia, now Bassanio's wife, dresses as a judge in an attempt to save Antonio's life. Will she succeed or will Antonio lose a pound of flesh?

SSITP is presenting Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice using an all-female identifying cast. This concept allows us to expand the issues of bias and prejudice suffered by the characters in the play to comment upon contemporary struggles with racism, profiling, and gender bias.

Opening: Clue
Syracuse Stage
Ben Hanna , director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Farce meets murder mystery in this hilarious theatrical adaptation of the famed board game and 1985 motion picture. In a remote mansion not far from Washington, DC, a mysterious and familiar cast of characters — Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet — gather for a dinner party and an evening of murder. Does the sudden demise of their host, Mr. Boddy, have any connection to the ongoing hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee? It's all fun and games until someone gets clobbered by a candlestick in the library. After that, it's even more fun.

Original Music by Michael Holland.

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Cazenovia Area Painters Plein Aire Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An invitational show featuring plein aire paintings in various mediums and styles depicting local scenic and historic settings such as Delphi Falls, Pratt's Falls, Chittenango Falls, and the Lorenzo Estate.

Featured artists include Meg Harris, Diane Davis, Drayton Jones, Doug Davis, Barb Emerson, Eric Schute, Pat Knapp, and Diane Ryan.

Artifact Collection
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Leslie Green Guilbault: mixed-media wall pieces that recall archaeological dig discoveries, using natural elements such as bone, feathers, and porcupine quills; with wheel thrown porcelain vessels

Sam Graceffo: hand-crafted sterling silver jewelry

CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

A family-friendly celebration of Polish culture, heritage, and traditions, featuring a variety of entertainment, including the sounds of polka, pop/jazz, dance-funk music along with beautiful folklore and contemporary dance performances by the group Lechowia from Canada. The event offers a taste of Polish and American cuisine and Polish beer along with Polish and American arts and crafts.

For more information, visit polishscholarship.org.

12:00-1:00 pm: Salt City Brass
1:00-2:30 pm: Tony's Polka Band
2:30 pm: Lechowia Dancers
3:00-4:40 pm: John Stevens Polka Band
4:40 pm: Lechowia Dancers
5:00-6:20 pm Those Idiots Band
6:20-6:45 pm: Scholarship Awards followed by Lechowia Dancers
6:45 pm: Jeremy Bobak followed by Lechowia Dancers
8:00-10:30 pm: Prime Time Horns Band

50th Annual St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

Syracuse Forever Ghostwalk
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15 (reservations required)
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Historic Ghostwalks presented by the Onondaga Historical Association are led by guides to locations where actors in costume portray individuals from Onondaga County's past. The "ghosts" reveal their lives in 12- to 15-minute vignettes, giving personal insight to those who have preceded us.

This summer's tour will take place in downtown Syracuse, where we'll introduce you to memorable - and fashionable - individuals from our city's rich past, from a cub reporter to an early leader.

Tours leave every 15 minutes between 5:30 pm and 7:15 pm.

Blue Skies and Rainbows
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Stephen Gamba, conductor

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

*SOLD OUT* Mike Powell and the Echosound
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Love of Music Changes Everything
Liverpool Community Chorus

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, free for children under 5
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Madrigal
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $10 under age 30, $5 students, children free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Favorite Italian madrigals and their English derivatives, with dances for instruments, for your fa-la-la-ing pleasure.

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 adults, $15 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

From the author of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & Piggie, this musical, with tail-shaking tunes, empowering messages of individuality, and classic Mo Willems humor, proves it's okay to be yourself. Naked Mole Rat is sure to rock audiences of all ages!

Script and lyrics by Mo Willems; music by Deborah Wicks LaPuma

For more information, visit www.lemoyne.edu/gifford-theatre.

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 adults, $15 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

From the author of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & Piggie, this musical, with tail-shaking tunes, empowering messages of individuality, and classic Mo Willems humor, proves it's okay to be yourself. Naked Mole Rat is sure to rock audiences of all ages!

Script and lyrics by Mo Willems; music by Deborah Wicks LaPuma

For more information, visit www.lemoyne.edu/gifford-theatre.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Redhouse

Price: $30
Redhouse at City Center
400 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Proudly celebrating 10 years of partnership with Arc of Onondaga!

Join us for one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies, a set of intertwined stories with mischievous fairies, sparring lovers, magic, and wonder.

Clue
Syracuse Stage
Ben Hanna , director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Farce meets murder mystery in this hilarious theatrical adaptation of the famed board game and 1985 motion picture. In a remote mansion not far from Washington, DC, a mysterious and familiar cast of characters — Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet — gather for a dinner party and an evening of murder. Does the sudden demise of their host, Mr. Boddy, have any connection to the ongoing hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee? It's all fun and games until someone gets clobbered by a candlestick in the library. After that, it's even more fun.

Original Music by Michael Holland.

Merchant of Venice
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $30 premium, free regular (donations requested)
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, to help his friend, Bassanio, court Portia, Renaissance lady of Venice. Antonio can't repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands a pound of his flesh. The heiress Portia, now Bassanio's wife, dresses as a judge in an attempt to save Antonio's life. Will she succeed or will Antonio lose a pound of flesh?

SSITP is presenting Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice using an all-female identifying cast. This concept allows us to expand the issues of bias and prejudice suffered by the characters in the play to comment upon contemporary struggles with racism, profiling, and gender bias.

All For the Best: A 10-Year Anniversary Cabaret
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $15
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Celebrating 10 years of CNY Playhouse with a cabaret of songs from shows of the past, featuring a cast of talented performers, old and new!

Clue
Syracuse Stage
Ben Hanna , director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Farce meets murder mystery in this hilarious theatrical adaptation of the famed board game and 1985 motion picture. In a remote mansion not far from Washington, DC, a mysterious and familiar cast of characters — Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet — gather for a dinner party and an evening of murder. Does the sudden demise of their host, Mr. Boddy, have any connection to the ongoing hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee? It's all fun and games until someone gets clobbered by a candlestick in the library. After that, it's even more fun.

Original Music by Michael Holland.

Sunday, June 11, 2023

CNY Artist Initiative: Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

As the United States fell under the shadow of the Cold War in the early 1950s, politicians like Senator Joseph McCarthy accused untold thousands of people of being communists, but also cast a wider net for "subversives" that included people who did not conform to conventional gender norms. The resulting demonization of LGBTQ+ communities has come to be known as the lavender scare. Over the past decade, conceptual artist Ryan Patrick Krueger has rifled through countless archives, yearbooks, and eBay listings to uncover photographs of men interacting with each other with affection, tenderness, and camaraderie. The assembled images reveal a variety of coded behaviors that bypass the public gaze but speak volumes to queer individuals.

"Documents from the Closet" is Krueger's most ambitious assemblage of images to date. Found photographs are juxtaposed with a variety of ephemera drawn from queer newspapers and magazines. These images, created for specifically queer spaces, acknowledge coded behaviors through camp, satire, or by dispensing with them entirely. Krueger painstakingly arranges and rearranges this printed matter to evoke the march of history through semiotics and visual cues like fashion choices, graphic design, and material culture. From the lavender scare to the AIDS crisis and beyond, Documents from the Closet reminds viewers that despite increased visibility and rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these coded behaviors still exist as coping mechanisms for society that still silences and punishes nonconformity.

Frank Buffalo Hyde: Native Americana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde grew up in the Onondaga Nation, where he absorbed much of the pop culture that is still central to his worldview. Throughout his career, Buffalo Hyde has presented "pop" iconography like UFOs, hamburgers, and corporate logos in parallel with Native symbology like the bison on the Onondaga reservation and Indigenous leaders and dancers.

Read a review!

Doug Muir: Coming Home
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For photographer Doug Muir (1940-2016), Syracuse was always home, even though he moved away in 1967.

Muir grew up on Syracuse's South Side where — as a 12-year-old — he embarked on a lifelong passion for capturing moments of daily life.

His early snapshots of places and people familiar to him evolved into sophisticated and compelling photographs that documented a changing America while speaking to a fundamental humanity shared by all. Spanning more than 30 years, "Doug Muir: Coming Home" surveys Muir's journey as a keen observer of humankind, from his beginnings in Central New York to his adopted home on the West Coast where he made his living as a steamfitter.

Although Muir photographed places all over the country throughout his lifetime, Syracuse remained his touchstone and he returned countless times to visit family and friends and reconnect with the source that gave his works such poignancy. "Doug Muir: Coming Home" marks a final return for the artist to his hometown, a place his heart never left.

Off the Rack
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Off the Rack" is the happy by-product of a major renovation of the Everson's on-site art storage.

As hundreds of paintings and framed works are displaced from their racks while renovations take place, the public has an unprecedented opportunity to view objects that have been in deep storage for years, never-before-seen recent acquisitions, and some perennial favorites — all hung together salon-style in our exhibition galleries.

This smorgasbord of paintings and works on paper showcases the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections and provides a glimpse into the world of collections management and care.

Pick & Mix
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Spring 2023 marks the beginning of a massive project that will convert an area adjacent to the ceramics gallery, which previously held paintings and prints, into dedicated ceramics storage. To accomplish this, we will close a portion of the ceramics gallery to make room for all the sorting and organizing that is to come. More than 200 paintings will come out of storage and hang salon-style in the Everson's upstairs galleries for the exhibition, Off the Rack.

In the face of space limitations like these, most museums would offer you less art — but that is not the Everson way. Instead, we offer you Pick & Mix, a cornucopia of five fabulous exhibitions under one banner. Pick & Mix highlights the vitality of the Museum's mission to gather works that document the ways that artists draw inspiration from their cultures, as well as the ways that artists give back. Ceramics are an an ideal lens to examine the gender roles, politics, and material culture of any given moment.

Works of Kelly Justice
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Polish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

A family-friendly celebration of Polish culture, heritage, and traditions, featuring a variety of entertainment, including the sounds of polka, pop/jazz, dance-funk music along with beautiful folklore and contemporary dance performances by the group Lechowia from Canada. The event offers a taste of Polish and American cuisine and Polish beer along with Polish and American arts and crafts.

For more information, visit polishscholarship.org.

12:00-12:15 pm: Lechowia Dancers
12:15-1:15 pm: Simone Band
1:15-1:25 pm: Lechowia Dancers
1:30-2:00 pm: Simone Band
2:30 pm: Simone Band
3:15–3:40 pm: Lechowia Dancers
3:40-5:00 pm: Simone Band

50th Annual St. Sophia's Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

Greek music, dancing, food, and crafts.

For more information, visit syracusegreekfest.com.

Canadian P-51 Mustangs Over Central New York in the Late 1950s
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Aviation Historian James Coulthart

Price: $5 suggested donation
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Canadian P-51 Mustangs Over Central New York in the Late 1950s" is the story of how 70+ WW2 era high performance fighter planes came to and through nearby Canastota and Central New York whose destinations were supposed to be conflict "hot spots" around the world. The story involves Upstate New York enterprising businessmen, arms merchants, mercenary pilots, a Canadian Prime Minister, and the US State Department. Jim Coulthart, a local amateur military aviation historian has investigated this and uncovered several interesting facts in the process.

Mark Hummel’s Blues Survivors with Anson Funderburgh
The 443 Social Club

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Mark Hummel started playing harmonica in 1970 and is considered one of the premier blues harmonica players of his generation. Thanks to over 30 recordings since 1985, including the Grammy-nominated 2013 release Blind Pig recording Remembering Little Walter (part of the Blues Harmonica Blowout CD series). Mark Hummel's Blues Harmonica Blowout started in 1991 and has featured every major legend (Mayall, Musselwhite, Cotton, etc.) on blues harp as well as almost every player of note on the instrument – a who's who of players.

Hummel is a road warrior – a true Blues Survivor. Along the way, he has crafted his own trademark harmonica sound – a subtle combination of tone, phrasing, and attack combined with a strong sense of swing. Mark has been with Electro-Fi Records since 2000, releasing five CDs. Thanks to Mark's earlier albums, constant touring, and appearances at the major blues festivals, he's firmly established his solid reputation around the US and Europe.

Merchant of Venice
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $30 premium, free regular (donations requested)
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, to help his friend, Bassanio, court Portia, Renaissance lady of Venice. Antonio can't repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands a pound of his flesh. The heiress Portia, now Bassanio's wife, dresses as a judge in an attempt to save Antonio's life. Will she succeed or will Antonio lose a pound of flesh?

SSITP is presenting Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice using an all-female identifying cast. This concept allows us to expand the issues of bias and prejudice suffered by the characters in the play to comment upon contemporary struggles with racism, profiling, and gender bias.

Clue
Syracuse Stage
Ben Hanna , director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Farce meets murder mystery in this hilarious theatrical adaptation of the famed board game and 1985 motion picture. In a remote mansion not far from Washington, DC, a mysterious and familiar cast of characters — Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet — gather for a dinner party and an evening of murder. Does the sudden demise of their host, Mr. Boddy, have any connection to the ongoing hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee? It's all fun and games until someone gets clobbered by a candlestick in the library. After that, it's even more fun.

Original Music by Michael Holland.