Saturday, July 12, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

St. Elias Middle Eastern Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Elias Orthodox Church
4988 Onondage Rd., Syracuse

Arabic food, music, and dancing. For more information, visit the Facebook page.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Cartoon Classics
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: The Thief of Bagdad
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Singin' in the Rain
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Nick Ziobro
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Nick Ziobro, the 17 year-old pop/jazz vocal sensation from Upstate NY, released his debut album "A Lot of Livin' to Do" in May, produced by Michael Feinstein--the two-time Emmy and five-time Grammy Award-nominated vocalist, pianist and musicologist.

Nick, who has been hailed as "a budding young talent" by LA Weekly and praised for his "dreamy phrasing and perfect pitch" by Rex Reed in the New York Observer, performed a special CD release concert at Birdland Jazz Club in NYC.

A Lot of Livin' to Do features an impressive lineup of jazz veterans including Tedd Firth on piano, Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar, Jay Leonhart on bass, Ray Marchica on drums, Brian Pareschi on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Marc Phaneuf on saxophone and clarinet. The album has liner notes by Michael Feinstein and photography by Shervin Lainez (Sara Bareilles, Melody Gardot, Sandra Bernhard).

Nick first launched his burgeoning career as the winner of the 2012 Great American Songbook High School Vocal Academy and Competition at age 16. The native of upstate New York spent a year serving as the Youth Ambassador of the Great American Songbook.

He made his New York debut at Feinstein's at the Regency onstage with Michael Feinstein, Barbara Cook and Marilyn Maye. Nick's national tour with Feinstein included performances at the Pasadena Pops (sharing the stage with Marvin Hamlisch in the conductor/composer's final performances), Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, The Nugget in Reno, the Napa Valley Opera House and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

Nick also performed at the inaugural induction gala for the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame alongside Barry Manilow, Andrea McArdle, Clay Aiken and Lari White. Recent highlights include performing at the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Sammy Cahn Tribute at Jazz at Lincoln Center, ranking as a finalist in New York's Noël Coward Foundation Award and singing the National Anthem at the Indianapolis Colts game. Nick also performed alongside jazz stars Hilary Kole, Eric Comstock and Laurel Massé for a special benefit for The Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative.

Igor Butman & The Moscow State Jazz Orchestra featuring vocalist Fantine
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Igor Butman & the 18-piece Moscow Jazz Orchestra featuring Russian female jazz pop vocalist Fantine is the hottest jazz orchestra in Russia and one of the best jazz big bands in the world.

At ease with performing the traditional big band sound and style of the 40s and 50s, the Moscow Big Band is also known for its contemporary big band arrangements of compositions by contemporary jazz greats like Grover Washington Jr.

Founded in 1999 by world famous Russian reedman and jazz saxophonist Igor Butman, the Igor Butman Orchestra became The Moscow State Jazz Orchestra conducted by Igor Butman in 2012. Since then, the popular Russian Big Band has frequently toured Russia, Europe, and the USA, appearing at the world's most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, in addition to sold out appearances at Manhattan's top jazz clubs, including "Birdland" and "Le Poisson Rouge."

A special collaboration between the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, led by iconic jazz trumpeter and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, and the Igor Butman Big Band, caused a sensation in the jazz world, when new music by both bandleaders, and arrangements of traditional Russian folk songs were premiered by both artists' big bands at the prestigious Jazz At Lincoln Center.

In July 2013, the Moscow State Jazz Orchestra conducted a major European tour, and performed at many of the world's largest and most prestigious jazz festivals, including Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, Jazz a Juan in France, and the Wigan Jazz Festival in Great Britain.

The Butman Music label released Special Opinion, a sensational new album by MSJO pianist and arranger Nick Levinovsky and the Igor Butman Orchestra last November. The critically acclaimed CD was recorded at the historic Avatar Studios in New York with A-List fusion and jazz rock superstar drummer Dave Weckl, guitarists Mike Stern and Mitch Stein, saxophonist player Bill Evans, trumpeter Randy Brecker and bassist Tom Kennedy.

6th Annual ArtRageous Extravaganza
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Suggested donation: $15 (or 2 for $25)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A monster of a party to benefit ArtRage, with a silent auction, live music, great food, cash bar, and fun for all! Back by popular demand is our emcee, Karin Franklin-King. The event features the music of Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble and popular Syracuse band Better Than Bowling!

Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble plays music with its roots in the traditional Shona songs and rhythms of Zimbabwe. The ensemble instruments include seven marimbas: three sopranos, two tenors, one baritone and one bass. The marimbas are accompanied by hosho, or gourd rattles, and sometimes drums.

Better Than Bowling is a rockin' rhythm and blues band with a little bit of country. Sharon Allen, vocals and percussion; Paul Powers, vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harp and mandolin; Tom Navagh, vocals and electric bass; Dave Clement, drums, percussion, and vocals; George Newton, pedal steel and lap steel guitars.

80s Cabaret
Central New York Playhouse

Price: $10
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

A collaborative cabaret from our CNYP family celebrating the awesome '80s.

Candlelight Series: A cappella groups Five to Life and the Theophonics

Price: Free
Corner of Franklin and West Jefferson Streets
Syracuse

Opening act at 7:00 pm: Tallon Larham, tenor

Rain location: Benjamin's on Franklin, 314 S. Franklin St.

Raul Midón
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ever since the 20th century turned into the 21st, singer-songwriter and guitarist Raul Midón has earned international renown as one of music's most distinctive and searching voices.

The New Mexico native, blind since birth, followed a musical path inspired by his father, a professional Argentine folkloric dancer. Midón has released seven albums since 1999, including the hit studio productions State of Mind, A World Within a World and Synthesis. Midón's most recent release is the captivating Invisible Chains – Live from NYC, which documents an intimate concert at Joe's Pub in 2012. Attuned listeners can hear the inspirations of Donny Hathaway and Richie Havens in Midón's work, as well as those of Sting and Paul Simon, but Midón's questing musicality makes him beyond category.

Along with some of the most adventuresome solo music of his career, his on-stage and studio projects have included collaborations with soul icon Bill Withers, R&B singer-songwriter Lizz Wright, Cameroonian jazz bassist Richard Bona and neo-soul great India Arie. In global music circles, Midón has established a solid reputation and made a name for himself touring and performing at major jazz festivals throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan. After 15 years in Miami and 7 in New York City, Midón has called Maryland home for the past 5 years, and after 3 major-label albums, Raul is an artist whose time has come and someone whose shooting star continues to rise in the musical stratosphere.

Summer Concert Series
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Travis Newton, conductor

Price: Free
Beard Park
Fayetteville

National Anthem
Gould American Salute
Rogers South Pacific
Arlen Over the Rainbow
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, March
Sousa Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Lowden Armed Forces Salute
Williams Far and Away
Anderson Typewriter
Bernstein West Side Story
Sousa Stars and Stripes Forever

Bring lawn chairs or blankets.

The Mantras, with Lee Terrace
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

B.B. King and The B.B. King Orchestra
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: Free
Jazz Fest Main Stage
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

His undisputed reign as King of the Blues has lasted as long as that of any monarch on earth, and for more than half a century, Riley B. King – better known as B.B. King – has literally defined the Blues. A living legend, household name, and an iconic entertainer and performer, Mr. King is also a platinum-selling recording artist with over sixty albums to his credit, that include six halls of fame, including countless classic hits like "The Thrill Is Gone."

For his multiple musical and cultural achievements, Mr. King has been inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Grammys Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has also received NARAS' Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award along with the Songwriter's Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award and the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Gibson Guitar Company.

In addition to being the recipient of numerous Honorary Doctorate degrees from the world's most prestigious colleges and universities, Mr. King has also received 17 Grammy Awards and been nominated for 23.

Born in Mississippi, at a young age Mr. King played on street corners for dimes, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night. After decades of performing, he is still singing and playing the blues with relentless passion.

B.B.'s first big break came in 1948 when he performed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM out of West Memphis, and in 1956, when B.B. and his band began touring nationally, they played an astonishing 342 one-night stands. From the 'chitlin circuit' with its small-town cafes, juke joints, and rural dance halls, to rock palaces, symphony concert halls, major universities, and the world's greatest opera houses, to swanky resort hotels and amphitheaters, nationally and internationally, B.B. King has become the most renowned blues musician of the past 50 years.

Over the years, B.B., whose instantly recognizable vocal style has never been equalled, has also developed one of the world's most identifiable and signature guitar styles, characterized by precise and complex vocal-like string bends and left hand vibrato, both techniques that have become indispensable components of every major rock guitarist's vocabulary, from Eric Clapton to the late Stevie Ray Vaughan.

As an artist, B.B. King, who has mixed traditional blues, jazz, swing, mainstream pop and jump to form his own unique sound and signature style continues to tour extensively, averaging over 250 concerts per year around the world.

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

St. Elias Middle Eastern Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Elias Orthodox Church
4988 Onondage Rd., Syracuse

Arabic food, music, and dancing. For more information, visit the Facebook page.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Modern Times
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Deltron 3030, with Kid Koala (DJ Set)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Monday, July 14, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Bear Cat Jass Band
Liverpool is the Place

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

Traditional jazz and swing

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

Tom Gilbo (The Blue Suedes)
Town of Clay

Price: Free
Clay Central Park Amphitheater
Wetzel Road near Henry Clay Blvd., Clay

Elvis Presley entertainer

Pops in the Park: Soft Spoken R&B
City Parks and Recreation Department

Price: Free
Upper Onondaga Park Gazebo
Roberts Avenue, Syracuse

Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Artist to Artist: Light Work's Fine Print Program
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Matt Black, John Chervinsky, Scott Connaroe, Kelli Connell, Peter Finnemore, Lucas Foglia, Tony Gleaton, Elijah Gowin, Priya Kambli, Mark Klett, Shane Lavalette, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Angelika Rinnhofer, Irina Rozovsky, Krista Steinke, Mark Steinmetz, Garie Waltzer, William Wegman, James Welling, and Susan Worsham.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Rear Window
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Flicks on the Crick: Fast and Furious 6

Price: Free
Sound Garden
310 W. Jefferson St., Syracuse

Starting at dusk, the film will be projected on the side of Sound Garden's building along the Creekwalk. Blankets or lawn chairs are recommended.

Black Water Blues Band
Liverpool is the Place

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

Blues and Led Zeppelin

Stan Colella All-Star Band Concert
Syacuse Parks and Recreation Department

Price: Free
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Columbus Circle, Syracuse

Thursday, July 17, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Nives Marzocchi: Various Artwork
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Nives Marzocchi hails from north of Pisa, Italy. She first studied with the late Carolyn Berry of Manlius before studying painting and then sculpting with Rodger Mack and Mary Giehl at Syracuse University. She graduated as a sculptor from SU in 2004 and continues to both paint and sculpt working with various media, including acrylic, oil, pastel, watercolor, pencil, wood, metal, fiber, ceramics and bronze. Her work has been exhibited in various locales in the area including Beehive Gallery, Edgewood Gallery, and the Celebration of the Arts at St. David's, and she simply loves what she is doing.

Opening Colors of Summer Invitational Exhibition
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

There will be an artist reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

Gallery 4040 is proud to present "Colors of Summer," an invitational group exhibition celebrating the season. While taking into account this season's range of colors from lushness to scorched earth, this exhibition combines an accomplished group of established and emerging artists including Scott Bennett (acrylic paintings), Diana Godfrey (acrylic mixed media), Walter Melnikow (acrylic paintings), Jim Ridlon (acrylic and mixed media collage paintings), and Debb VanDelinder (Scanography on aluminum). Curated by Anne Novado of Cappuccilli Fine Art.

Read a review!

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Rear Window
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Stan Colella All-Star Band Concert
Syacuse Parks and Recreation Department

Price: Free
Beard Park
Fayetteville

Maxwell: Summer Soulstice Tour

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Maxwell, the platinum soul star known for his show-stopping performances, is a singer and songwriter lauded for his impeccable vocals, his connection to his audience, and the sheer physicality of his performance. Last summer, at the Essence Festival in New Orleans, AOL's "Black Voices" wrote "[T]his night belonged to Maxwell...a perfect show. From the set's beginning until its end, the audience sang along to every note, every lyric, and every riff as the balladeer performed some of his biggest hits and crowd favorites."

Tickets are available at the OnCenter Box Office (inside the State St. entrance of The Oncenter War Memorial Arena), by phone at 315-435-2121, or through ticketmaster.com.

The Y-Files: Where Are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

Friday, July 18, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Colors of Summer Invitational Exhibition
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Gallery 4040 is proud to present "Colors of Summer," an invitational group exhibition celebrating the season. While taking into account this season's range of colors from lushness to scorched earth, this exhibition combines an accomplished group of established and emerging artists including Scott Bennett (acrylic paintings), Diana Godfrey (acrylic mixed media), Walter Melnikow (acrylic paintings), Jim Ridlon (acrylic and mixed media collage paintings), and Debb VanDelinder (Scanography on aluminum). Curated by Anne Novado of Cappuccilli Fine Art.

Read a review!

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: King Kong
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Landmark Summer Classic Film Series: Creature From the Black Lagoon
Landmark Theatre

Price: $5 regular, $3 seniors, $25 strip of 10 tickets to any summer classic film
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

NYS Blues Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

4:00 pm: Dr. Killdean
5:00 pm: Colin Aberdeen and The Barking Loungers
6:15 pm: Johnny Rawls
7:45 pm: Popa Chubby
9:30 pm: Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers

For more information, visit www.nysbluesfest.com.

Dancing Under the Stars
Stan Colella Orchestra

Price: Free
Sunnycrest Rink
Sunnycrest Park, Syracuse

Kick up your heels and enjoy the big band sounds of the Stan Colella Orchestra. Plenty of music and dancing, trivia contests.

Catch Me If You Can
Central New York Playhouse
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $25
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Based on the hit DreamWorks film and the incredible true story that inspired it, Catch Me If You Can is the high-flying, splashy musical that tells the story of Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., a teenager who runs away from home in search of the glamorous life. With nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of dollars in forged checks, Frank successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer—living the high life and winning the girl of his dreams. But when Frank's lies catch the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty, Carl chases Frank to the end ... and finds something he never expected.

This delightfully entertaining musical has been created by a Tony Award-winning "dream team," with a book by Terrence McNally (The Full Monty and Ragtime), and a swinging score by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (Hairspray).

Music directed by Abel Searor.

Read a Review!

Bonnie and Clyde
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

Price: $26
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Experience the regional premiere of Frank Wildhorn's Tony-nominated musical Bonnie and Clyde. Fascination with America's most notorious outlaw couple has never waned, receiving an engaging musical score by composer Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Civil War) for a Broadway run in 2011. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow meet in Depression-era West Texas, building a media-generated reputation by holding up stores and banks. The law puts the pressure on once murder becomes routine, creating a chaotic wake that takes down those closest to them. Wildhorn's unique score stylizes country, blues, western, and pop, bringing this nostalgic and romantic tale to life.

Music direction by Bridget Moriarty, choreography by Andrea Colabufo.

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Saturday, July 19, 2014

ADA 24: An Exceptional Exhibition
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The Exceptional Artworks Committee presents the Ninth Annual "Exceptional Exhibition" in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Multi-Faceted
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Reginald Adams exhibits his many talents with paintings, sculptures, mobiles, furniture and more;
Caroline Tauxe displays her colorful mixed media jewelry.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

McCoubrey takes on the role of alchemist through her transmutation of the potato into mystical contraptions built to coast above the earth or journey along the desolate landscape. These delicately drawn mixed media works belong to a world of myths and fairytales and bring to mind artists, such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dali. "Sarah McCoubrey: Works on Paper" is part of the 2014 Edge of Art Series.

Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Buckingham's triple arch pavilion, Secret Invitation, is informed by an 8-year bicycle trip the artist took around the world. Immersed in the history of the Silk Road, which facilitated the transmission of goods, ideas, culture, and religion, Buckingham's social sculpture is intended to serve as a space to meet people from our community, share stories and even, as the artist suggests, fall in love. "Daniel Buckingham: Secret Invitation" is part of The Edge of Art Series.

Mary Giehl: Rice is Life
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Biennial returns in 2014 with the Edge of Art Series. The first artist featured is Mary Giehl. Known for her innovation with both materials and concepts, Giehl turns her focus to world hunger in this installation. The sculptural bowls are made from rice and water, the food that so much of the world relies on for nourishment. The bowls are suspended from a world map, which illustrates globally the areas where hunger is greatest and populations rely on rice to live.

The Forest for the Trees
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Featuring fibers by Sharon Bottle Souva and jewelry by Dana Blythe Stenson.

Sharon Bottle Souva works with the designs of nature to create fiber panels that are a combination of collage and machine thread work.

Dana Stenson's jewelry is nature inspired and handcrafted using sterling silver settings for semi-precious stones and found objects.

Son of the Genesee: Paintings by Stefan Zoller
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Stefan Zoller is a graduate painting student in VPA's Department of Art. "Son of the Genesee" pays homage to the Genesee Valley of Western New York, where he was born and raised, and where he first painted.

Introduced to art by an older brother, Zoller took college art courses while still in high school. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Houghton College in 2008, he moved to Corning, NY, to work with renowned portrait painter Thomas S. Buechner. During two years studying representational painting with Buechner, Zoller also maintained a home studio practice, painting in the non-representational vein he had developed during his undergraduate experience.

Zoller recently had a solo exhibition at VPA's Michael Sickler Gallery. His recent group exhibitions include the 64th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; the Southern Tier Biennial at Olean Public Library, Olean; and "Zoller & Ryder" at Atrium Gallery, Corning.

Because 914Works will be closed during several summer holidays, patrons are encouraged to contact the staff at 914works@syr.edu to confirm that the gallery is open.

REnewal
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

REnewal features work by regionally recognized artists that incorporates recycled materials and utilizes appropriated vintage imagery.

Works include assemblages by Dan Bacich, illustrative collage by Marty Blake, one-of-a-kind and limited edition furniture and jewelry by Unite Two Design (Theresa and Keith Traub), pots by Jen Gandee, up-cycled jewelry by Betsy Menson Sio, and hand-painted, digital collage by Lucie Wellner.

Proof Through the Night: The Black & White Work of Paul Pearce
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Proof Through the Night" is a retrospective of traditional silver-based photography and lithographs by Paul Pearce, a certified disabled combat veteran who now declares himself to be a "backward observer." His photography focuses on issues of war and morality and questions the very notion of civilization. In his words about what inspires him to photograph he states, "In spite of growing cynicism, I have a calling to declare a point of view, a mandate to cry out that (in my opinion), the sky is falling, and a gnawing need to expose a system that turns innocent children into monsters."

Pearce was raised as an All-American boy, Sunday school attendee and college-bound Eagle Scout. He was drafted into the Army, commissioned as an artillery Lieutenant and ordered into combat in Vietnam as a forward observer with the 114th infantry. He returned from the war motivated to raise consciousness about the evils of war. Armed with a camera and a printing press he taught himself photography, struggled for peace and justice as an artist and anti-war activist, and participated in and documented antiwar protests including the massive action in Syracuse following the killings at Kent State.

Colors of Summer Invitational Exhibition
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Gallery 4040 is proud to present "Colors of Summer," an invitational group exhibition celebrating the season. While taking into account this season's range of colors from lushness to scorched earth, this exhibition combines an accomplished group of established and emerging artists including Scott Bennett (acrylic paintings), Diana Godfrey (acrylic mixed media), Walter Melnikow (acrylic paintings), Jim Ridlon (acrylic and mixed media collage paintings), and Debb VanDelinder (Scanography on aluminum). Curated by Anne Novado of Cappuccilli Fine Art.

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Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Ever a New Season: Works by 19th-Century Photographer George Barnard
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

During the nation's 150th anniversary observance of the Civil War, a Barnard exhibition makes sense. OHA owns a rare complete first edition of Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), widely recognized as one of two foundational publications of 19th-century American photography. Barnard also lived in Oswego and Syracuse before the war and retired to Marcellus for his last decade. A technical innovator, commercial pioneer, and important taste-maker in one of our most pivotal periods, Barnard was also firmly rooted in the traditions and iconography of 19th-century American landscape painting, which equated national identity with the land and infused much of his work. "Ever a New Season" reintroduces an exciting early figure to a region already attuned to and highly literate in contemporary photography.

Summer Review 2014
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

If you missed one of this year's exhibitions, now's your chance to see it!

This year's UVP Summer Review will feature the following videos from our 2013-2014 programming year:

Dani Leventhal: Platonic
Phil Solomon: Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth and other works
Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Ann Hamilton: table

NYS Blues Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

1:00 pm: Signature Student Band
2:00 pm: The Ripcords
3:15 pm: The Carolyn Kelly Blues Band
4:30 pm: Trampled Under Foot
6:00 pm: Shakura S'Aida
7:45 pm: Dana Fuchs
9:30 pm: Mark Hummel and the Golden State Lone Star Review

For more information, visit www.nysbluesfest.com.

The Hackensaw Boys
1911 Summer Concert Series

Price: $5 at the door
Beak & Skiff
2708 Lords Hill Rd., Lafayette

Candlelight Series: Tony Trischka

Price: Free
Corner of Franklin and West Jefferson Streets
Syracuse

Opening act at 7:00 pm: Canvas Moon Band

Rain location: Benjamin's on Franklin, 314 S. Franklin St.

Members of Blue Oyster Cult and Alice Cooper's Band: Blue Coupe, with Waydown Wailers
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Catch Me If You Can
Central New York Playhouse
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $39.95 dinner theater, $25 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:45 pm.

Based on the hit DreamWorks film and the incredible true story that inspired it, Catch Me If You Can is the high-flying, splashy musical that tells the story of Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., a teenager who runs away from home in search of the glamorous life. With nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of dollars in forged checks, Frank successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer—living the high life and winning the girl of his dreams. But when Frank's lies catch the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty, Carl chases Frank to the end ... and finds something he never expected.

This delightfully entertaining musical has been created by a Tony Award-winning "dream team," with a book by Terrence McNally (The Full Monty and Ragtime), and a swinging score by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (Hairspray).

Music directed by Abel Searor.

Read a Review!

Bonnie and Clyde
Covey Theatre Company
Garrett Heater, director

Price: $26
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Experience the regional premiere of Frank Wildhorn's Tony-nominated musical Bonnie and Clyde. Fascination with America's most notorious outlaw couple has never waned, receiving an engaging musical score by composer Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Civil War) for a Broadway run in 2011. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow meet in Depression-era West Texas, building a media-generated reputation by holding up stores and banks. The law puts the pressure on once murder becomes routine, creating a chaotic wake that takes down those closest to them. Wildhorn's unique score stylizes country, blues, western, and pop, bringing this nostalgic and romantic tale to life.

Music direction by Bridget Moriarty, choreography by Andrea Colabufo.

Read a Review!