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Mano a Mano Mexican Culture Without Borders presents
Dia de Los Muertos/Day of the Dead
Sat. & Sun., Oct. 29-30, 12 p.m.-8 p.m.
Tue. & Wed., Nov. 1-2, 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, 10th St. and Second Ave., NYC
Cost: All events are free and open to the public
Info: 212-587-3070, info@manoamano.us
Program Highlights include: Worshops on paper making, pan de muerto bread, calavera poetry in English, Nahuatl, and Spanish; prehispanic dance and procession from Union Square; Norteño and Mariachi music; and a special presentation on human trafficking by the organization Cause Vision and as always Amnesty International will be collaborating with the main altar to raise the issue of the women of Juarez. Mexican food and altar building materials will be for sale throughout the event!
Day of the Dead has been one of Mexico’s most important festivals since pre-Hispanic times. It is a time for families to gather and welcome the souls of the dead on their annual visit home. Cempasúchil (marigold) flowers, burning copal incense, fresh pan de muerto bread, candles, sugar skulls, photographs and mementos of the departed adorn special altars. In Mexico, Day of the Dead is celebrated over an entire week with the preparation of altars, foods, dance, music and special offerings for people who have died. Mano a Mano recreates the magical space of a village churchyard during the celebration and has organized a series of events including altar building, workshops, dance, poetry and music.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
¡Festival Flamenco Gitano! Diego El Cigala
8:00 p.m.
Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, New York, NY
Tickets: 45, $55, $65; $40, $50, $60 for WMI Friends
Buy tickets online
Superstar Diego El Cigala is contemporary flamenco’s most compelling voice. A passionate singer, he has collaborated with many of the most important names in flamenco, and is known for his pioneering work in fusing flamenco with Latin American music forms such as bolero, Afro Caribbean jazz, and tango. His collaborations with Latin jazz icons Jerry Gonzalez and Bebo Valdés are revered as breakthroughs in flamenco and Latin jazz. For this program, he will present the New York premiere of “Cigala & Tango.”

East Village Klezmer & Yiddish Culture Series at the new Center for Jewish Arts & Literacy Curated by Aaron Alexander Sixth Street Synagogue, 325 East 6th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues) in NYC’s East Village The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD). 6 – 7:30 p.m. Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25 7 – 7:50 p.m. Yiddish Class, led by Dmitri Slepovitch $20 8 – 9:15 p.m. Concert (see schedule below) $15 (includes a drink) 9:30 – 11 p.m. Klezmer Jam Session, led by Margot Leverett, Pete Rushevsky, Aaron Alexander and guests, with Yiddish dance instruction by Lisa Mayer and guests $5 Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session and one drink) Generous discounts available for students, seniors and members of 6th St. Community Shul, Workmen’s Circle, CTMD, Klez Kamp and Klez Kanada attendees, and volunteers! Upcoming Concerts Sept. 13 – Jake Shulman-Ment Band Sept. 20 – Alicia Svigals Sept. 27 – Klezmerfest, with Greg Wall, Jordan Hirsch, Zev Zions, and Aaron Alexander Oct. 4 – Lisa Gutkin, trio with Pete Rushevsky and Remy Yulzari Oct. 11 – Joel Rubin and Pete Rushevsky Oct. 18 – Sukka Bash! Dmitri Slepovitch’s Litvakus Oct. 25 – Jim Guttman’s Bessarabian Breakdown Nov. 1 – Lisa, and Sruli’s Family Band, featuring Zach Mayer Nov. 8 – Eve Sicular & Isle of Klezbos Nov. 15 – Adrienne Cooper Ensemble (tentative) Nov. 22 – Pete Sokolow Nov. 29 – Matt Darriau𔄩s Shabbes Elevator Dec. 6 – Michael Winograd Trio Dec. 13 – Joanne Borts Dec. 20 – Khanike Party with Yale Strom’s Hot Pstromi, Aaron Alexander’s Midrash Mish Mosh

El Taller Boricua presents SALSA WEDNESDAYS Doors open 5:30 p.m. 1680 Lexington Avenue, 105 St. & 106 St., The 6 Train to 103rd St., New York Ladies and Gentleman are $10 until 6:30 p.m.; after 6:30p.m. Gentlemen are $15 Beginning at 6 p.m.: Arts & Crafts at Salsa Please contact Taina Traverso for reservations and general information: 646.331.8956 November 2 La Tipica 73 Arts & Crafts at Salsa Wednesday: Wearable Art by Nanette Sanchez-Velasquez of Old Earth Creates November 9 Papote & Tommy’s Lower East Side Salsa November 16 Orlando Marin The Last Mambo King & Orchestra November 23 Jimmy Delgado’s Orchestra with Renzo Padilla on Vocals November 30 Orchestra Broadway

The Folk Music Society of N.Y., Inc/ N.Y. Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents
Folk Open Sing
7-10 p.m.
Info: Frank, 212-533-2139, or Laura, 718-788-7563
Ethical Culture Society, 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn (near 2nd St.)
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an open sing. Bring your voice, instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. Drop by for a couple of songs or the whole evening.

ACTION ACTUAL: THE (S) Files 2011
6:30-8:30 p.m.
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029
Free admission. RSVP here.
An evening of performance art and actions returns to El Museo, highlighting artists featured in El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 as part of Performa 11. Ongoing performances throughout the night by Juan Betancurth, Alicia Grullón, René Juan de la Cruz-Napoli a.k.a. VJ Demencia, Irvin Morazán, and Rafael Sánchez and Kathleen White. Visit the website for more details. See the notice in Ongoing Exhibitions at bottom of this page about El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011.

The New York Library Association
ANNUAL CONFERENCE and TRADE SHOW 2011
Saratoga Springs, NY
For more information, contact the NYLA office at 800-252-6952 or info@nyla.org.
The New York Library Association was the first state-wide organization of librarians in the United States (founded 1890). NYLA has always been devoted to the promotion of the library interests of the entire State. View the conference schedule here. More information coming soon.

5 Dutch Days
Various locations. See schedule.
5 Dutch Days is a cultural event that takes place in New York City every November. It celebrates the continuous influence of Dutch arts and culture in New York City and brings together arts and cultural organizations from across the city. Programs include walking tours, lectures, concerts and contemporary art offerings. Among this year’s programs:
“Art in Food, Food in Art” sponsored by the Society of Daughters of Holland Dame with food historian Peter Rose (Saturday, November 5, 7-8 p.m., info@hollanddames.org)

“From Garden to Table”, at the Lefferts Historic House, an illustrated lecture focused on a 17th century Dutch gardening and cookbook (Sunday, November 6, 2-4 p.m., enewman@prospectpark.org)

.See November 5 for St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund’s Dutch Days program event, their 3rd Annual Peg-Leg Pete Scavenger Hunt.

Sadaodi:yos (Lend a Good Ear) — Words from our Haudenosaunee Elders Friends of Ganondagan’s 2011 Native American Lecture Series
Healing & Balance in the Haudenosaunee Culture — Theresa Maresca, MD
7-9 p.m.
Nazareth College Arts Center, Room A13, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
Cost: $30 non-members, $20 Friends of Ganondagan; $80 for three-lecture series non-members; $50 member price.
Pre-registration required. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit www.ganondagan.org/programs/LectureSeries.html or call 585-742-1690
Trained in herbal medicine from both a Western and Native traditional perspective, Dr. Theresa Maresca (Mohawk) will discuss the importance of taking care of our physical, mental, and spiritual selves through connections to the natural world. Building upon the framework of the lecture series theme—connections to the natural world—Dr. Maresca expects that attendees will come away with “an awareness of areas of their lives that may benefit from more in-depth attention, especially in the important life domains of spirit, mind, and body balance.” She also is likely to touch on some facets of traditional Native plant medicine with elements of both Western and traditional Native healing. Dr. Theresa Maresca is a board-certified physician in family medicine. Her medical practice with the Snoqualmie Tribe of Washington at the Tolt Clinic combines her Western and herbal medicine approaches. She designed and maintains the clinic’s medicinal herb garden and lectures nationally on the subject of combining Western and Native traditional approaches to health.
See also September 28, October 19, and November 15 for related events.

The Folklife Center of Crandall Public Library presents
Live! Folklife Concert: Hill Hollow Band
7:00-8:30 p.m. (doors open 6:30 p.m.)
Community Room, Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY
For more information, call 518/792-6508 or email degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free
An upbeat band on blues, country, Cajun, pop and reggae backed by guitar, banjo, accordion, pedal steel, mandolin and bass.

The Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association hosts its
Annual Conference
Thursday, November 3 -Saturday, November 5, 2011
Radisson Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Is there a definable culture of the Mid-Atlantic? To address this question, we are seeking panelists whose work transcends local or state boundaries to explore regional characteristics. Is the culture of the Mid-Atlantic made distinctive by migrations or immigrant heritage? By the rise and fall of industry? By regional art, music, media, or literature? By the region’s position in the Atlantic World?
Please note that conference registration and hotel reservations will be available in mid-July 2011.

The Afro-Latin@ Forum presents
Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action
A 3-day International Conference
Opening Plenary: Thursday, November 3, 6-9 p.m., Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Panel Discussions and Plenary: Friday, November 4, 9-6:30 p.m., Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Family Day (workshops, panel, and open mic): Saturday, November 5, Noon-6 p.m., El Museo del Barrio
Visit forum website for a full schedule of events
For more information, contact info@afrolatinoforum.org
Join educators, community scholars, cultural workers, and policy advocates for three days of learning, dialogue, and planning at the first transnational confrence to focus on BLack Latinos in the United States. Participants will lead panels and workshops addressing a range of issues such as representation, media, youth, education and the performing arts to promote awareness and social engagement across Afro-Latin@ communities in the United States and throughout the Americas.

Judith Sloan’s Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide
7:00 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, November 3, 4, and 5
3:00 p.m., Sunday, November 6
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E. 3rd Street, New York, NY
Admission:$20 general, $15 students/seniors/groups
For more information and to purchase tickets: 212-780-9386 or earsay.org or nuyorican.org
What happens when a performing artist survives a near-fatal car accident and collides with the oncoming traffic of Hip Hop culture? In Yo Miss! actress/writer Judith Sloan remixes stories from twenty years of reporting on and teaching immigrant/refugee teenagers and incarcerated youth as they grapple with the cataclysmic global events that shaped them. Through poetry, vivid character portrayals and music, she brings their tales to life along with her own stories revealing the ripple effects of the Holocaust on her family. Sifting through a maze of miscommunications and misunderstandings, Sloan and the musicians battle through a cross-generational dialogue as she finds resilience in the face of tragedy. As the coauthor of Crossing the Boulevard, the now classic volume of oral histories with Queens’ new immigrants, Judith’s work has always reinterpreted and re-imagined the urban milieu in inventive ways. For Yo Miss!, she teams up with musicians Frank London of the Klezmatics, Dave Guy, Adam Hill, David Krakauer, MiWi La Lupa (band member from Red Baraat), Taylor Rivelli, Immortal Technique, Ken White, Touré “Southpaw” Harris, and Guy Klucevsek. Talkback following the SUNDAY Matinee performance: with Julissa Ferreras, City Council Member Queens / Jackie Vimo, New York Immigration Coalition / Mallika Dutt, Breakthrough.

Caffè Lena presents
Angel Band
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance / $20 at door (How to get tickets)
The three women of Angel Band deliver a raw, bluesy, uplifting Americana sound with breathtaking, soul-power impact. Boasting “distinct voices, gorgeous harmonies and extraordinary players” (Elmore Magazine) Angel Band has had a great year: they were Levon Helm’s guests at his “Midnight Ramble,” kicked off David Bromberg’s “Big Noise in the Neighborhood Festival,” and were voted one of the top 10 bands at Bonnaroo. Angel Band’s frontwoman Nancy Josephson leads her band the same way she lives her life: with abundant creativity and spirit. She has sung backup for Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, and Phoebe Snow and toured with Peter Rowan, Arlo Guthrie, and David Bromberg. She is also a successful “outsider” artist, best known for her extravagantly embellished prize-winning art cars. Her work is in the collections of museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian. The core of the band is held by singers Josephson, Aly Paige, and Kathleen Weber. The crackerjack backup band is: Bobby Tangrea (mandolin, guitar, fiddle), Bob Taylor (bass), and Jeff Wisor (fiddle, mandolin).

The Blarney Star Concert Series:
Brian Conway and Tony Demarco
9 p.m.
Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, 1 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Free admission to Members of Glucksman Ireland House and to NYU students with a valid NYU I.D. card. For non-members: $15 donation at the door for the Blarney Star Concert Series.
Brian Conway and Tony DeMarco, both great New York fiddlers, will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their release of The Apple in Winter, a recording that introduced them as the latest in a distinguished line of County Sligo-style fiddle duos in New York. We may expect to hear some of the many rare tunes first recorded on that album, a repertoire sourced from now-departed New York fiddle masters who include Lad O’Beirne, Larry Redican, Andy McGann, Paddy Reynolds and Martin Wynne.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club hosts its
Fall Weekend / Eisteddfod — 2011
A fabulous gathering of singers and musicians
Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson, NY 12446
Visit the webpage for information on performer scheduling, ticket prices, and ordering information. Scholarships available.
For more information, telephone (212) 957-8386
The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. invites you to join leading singers/musicians in this weekend of traditional folk/roots music. Meet outstanding performers in 32 workshops and three concerts, plus an open mike, late night singing, a contra dance, socializing, and informal singing and music making. Some of the workshops are participatory (like songs with choruses, old-time jamming); some cover an area or type of music (blues, Sacred Harp, Scotland, etc.); some are “miniconcerts.” There is also lots of jamming and a campers’ concert; anyone can sign up to perform. Come for the day or stay for the weekend. Nestled amid the Shawangunk Mountains, with beautiful lakes and waterfalls, the Hudson Valley Resort is a great setting for this great weekend; enjoy an indoor pool, tennis, golf, table tennis, and more.
The Eisteddfod traditional Music Festival this year presents its Eisteddfod Award to Andy Cohen, an outstanding blues musician. Having learned the tradition from the best of the old timers, Andy continues researching it and avidly conveys it to others. The Eisteddfod award is given for dedication, inspiration, and service to the practice and dissemination of traditional folk song, music, and dance.
Special Free Event: Traditional and Historical Songs of New York State — the stories behind the songs of real New Yorkers from days gone by. Presented by Dave Ruch on Sunday, November 6, 11 a.m.-Noon (no tickets required). This concert, which is free and open to the public, is made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities’ Speakers in the Humanities program. Dave Ruch is a special musician and performer widely noted for his ability to engage audiences of all ages. Equal parts historian, entertainer, educator, humorist and folklorist, he sings and tells the stories behind the songs of real New Yorkers from days gone by—farmers, lumbermen, children, immigrants, Native Americans, canallers, hops pickers, lake sailors, and more—music from the people who settled and built our state.

El Museo del Barrio presents
Afro-Latin@s Now! Conference
12:00-5:30 p.m.
El Taller, 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street) New York, NY 10029
Join the Afro-Latin@ Forum at El Museo for a special panel discussion and open mic exploring Afro-Latin@ youth, identity, perspectives and expression. Admission to this program is free and open to the public. See November 3-5 listing above for description of full 3-day conference.

St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund presents its
3rd Annual Peg-Leg Pete Scavenger Hunt
Part of 5 Dutch Days (see November 2-7 above)
12 p.m.
Starts at Sustainable NYC (139 Avenue A, between 9th and 10th Streets), New York, NY
Free. RSVP to info@neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org or call 212-228-2781. The Hunt takes place on the footprint of Peter Stuyvesant’s original farm and contains clues from the Dutch colonial age to the 1910s, 20s, and 30s. The Hunt coincides with the launch of the next edition in the Bouwerie Tour series which focuses on the period when The Rev. William Guthrie was Rector of St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, 1911-1937. We call it “Peg-Leg Pete’s Bouwerie Tour: Jazz Age Edition.”

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) presents
Music & Poems from Oaxaca
2-4 p.m.
Port Richmond Library, 75 Bennett Street, Staten Island, NY
Free and open to the public
This event is fully accessible. Translation and interpretive materials will be provided.
Traditional Music, Dance, and Poems at the Port Richmond Public Library. Traditional musicians Victor Soto and David Suarez, will share the rich culture of the region of Oaxaca and beyond, to their adopted home of Port Richmond. They will perform, present, and discuss the origins of traditional Oaxacan music, dance, and poems at the historic Chimes Theater at the Port Richmond Public Library in the program called Poemas & Flores from Oaxaca to Staten Island. Mr. Suarez and Mr.Soto are recipients of the JP Morgan Arts In Our Communities grant from JP Morgan Chase.

Valley Folk presents
Brother Sun: Wictor, Jencks & Greenway
7:30 p.m.
Drake House Studio Theater at 171 Cedar Arts Center, 155 Cedar St., Corning, NY
Cost: $12 at the door. Full time students (high school, college) with valid ID half price. Children under 14 free with adult.
Pat Wictor, Greg Greenway, and Joe Jencks have formed a dynamic new male trio called Brother Sun. Their harmonies, as much as their lyrics, tell what they are about: warm as a campfire, stirring as a gospel church, rousing as a call to arms. Calling upon contemporary songwriting, and informed by the deep roots of gospel, blues, and folk, the trio weaves a tapestry of harmony that is brilliantly fresh and yet familiar.

Caffè Lena presents
Bob Warren Band
6:30 and 9 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $15 advance / $17 at door (How to get tickets)
Capital Region singer-songwriter Bob Warren turned sixty in June, so this year his annual Caffé Lena show will be a retrospective of forty-four years of songwriting. His melodic, uplifting, soft rock and soul music has made him a perennial favorite. Along with recent hits such as “The Silver Fox” and “The Battenkill,” expect to hear some older and obscure Bob Warren songs from years past. Bob’s back up band features bassist Tony Markellis, drummer Danny Whelchel, guitarist Don Warren, keyboardist Matt Donnelly, and cellist Monica Roach. And if we can fit anyone else on stage, you may see a guest or two!

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
¡Festival Flamenco Gitano! José Maya & Company
8:00 p.m.
NYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South, New York, NY
Tickets: $55, $65; $50, $60 for WMI Friends
For tickets, please contact our box office at (212) 545-7536 x1 or visit us in person at 4 West 43rd Street. For online sales, visit skirballcenter.nyu.edu
José Maya, one of the most explosive dancers in Spain today, is a powerful figure in flamenco’s new generation. He has collaborated with many of the most well-known flamenco artists, including Farruquito, Estrella Morente, and Diego El Cigala, and opened for pop stars Marc Anthony, Beyoncé, and Björk. As a member of Grammy-winning guitarist Tomatito’s sextet, he captivated audiences at the New York Flamenco Festival in 2008. Maya now returns to New York with his own company in the NY premiere of “Red,” a fascinating program that explores Spanish Gypsy identity in the 21st century.

The Dewey Hall Folk Series presents
Marilyn Miller
7:30 p.m.
Dewey Memorial Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA
Suggested donation: $15, refreshments
From punk-rock to down home country, from ballads to blues, Hudson, New York’s Marilyn Miller knows her way around a song. Her unique voice and her mastery of a wide variety of musical styles create their own magic. Influenced by Neil Young’s musical diversity, Marilyn lets her own music take her where it will. Her most recent album, Nighthawk, was produced by Todd Mack of off the Beat ‘N’ Track Studio in Sheffield, MA.

Caffè Lena presents
Interfaith Story Circle Fundraiser for Children at the Well
2 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $30 advance / $20 at door (How to get tickets)
Children at the Well Youth Storytellers for Peace & Understanding have been telling stories, building bridges and making friends throughout the Capital Region since 2006. Through learning the art of storytelling and live performance, children of all faiths gain personal confidence and learn to appreciate diversity. This afternoon Caffé Lena is happy to host a delightful fundraiser for this worthy program. The Interfaith Story Circle of the Tri-City Area invites you to be charmed by Peggy Lynn, “The First Lady of Adirondack Music,” Cantor Glenn Groper and Micki Groper, guitarist Joe Hetko, Hindu dancer Amoha Ramanath, and select stories by fine area tellers. Desserts, teas and coffees will be served.

brevitas Festival of the Short Poem 2:00-6:00 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (between E. Houston St and Bleecker St), Manhattan
Admission: $7
For more information and to purchase tickets: 212-529-1955 x 301, 914-330-1367
Everyone with a passion, flair and fascination for short poems is invited to attend the 8th Annual brevitas Festival of the Short Poem. Poets Jim Pignetti and Steve Zeitlin (founder of City Lore) launched brevitas by inviting a variety of committed poets to share original, short poems (14 lines max) with each other via email on the 1st and 15th of each month. This experiment has nurtured the scintillating collection of over 230 short poems in the anthology 2011 brevitas 8 that will be celebrated and released as part of the Festival. Poems will be projected and performed. Books will be signed. Literary antics will entertain. Food and drink will be available. Laughter, pith and meaning will collide. The 40 brevitas readers are a feisty mixture of well-known, emerging, irrepressible and irreverent artists and poets, including program host Bob Holman, international spoken-word poetry guru and founder of The Bowery Poetry Club; Poet Laureate of Queens Hal Sirowitz; New Yorker poet Sparrow; Artist-in-Residence for LIVE from the New York Public Library Flash Rosenberg; and Steve Zeitlin. Poets in the audience will have an opportunity to sign up for the Short Poem Open Mic (14 lines max).

Caffè Lena presents
Sultans of String
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance / $20 at door (How to get tickets)
Canada’s ambassadors of musical diversity, the Sultans of String, thrill audiences with a global tapestry of Spanish Flamenco, Arabic folk, Cuban rhythms, and Gypsy-jazz, celebrating musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity. Fiery violin dances with rumba-flamenco guitar while a funk bass lays down unstoppable grooves. Acoustic strings meet with electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound. The band is riding a wave of success across Canada and is now ready to take on the United States. Come see the band that sold out their entire 2010 CD release tour, hit #1 on Top Ten radio charts across Canada, and received prestigious national awards too numerous to list here!

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
World Premiere: Water is Rising: Music and Dance amid Climate Change
2:00 p.m.
NYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South, New York, NY
Tickets: $25, $40; $25, $34 for WMI Friends, $12 students
For tickets, please contact our box office at (212) 545-7536 x1 or visit us in person at 4 West 43rd Street. For online sales, visit skirballcenter.nyu.edu
For more information 212-352-3101
Performance and purpose collide in this New York stage premiere that illuminates the plight of the Pacific Islands. Scientists report the vulnerable coral atolls of Kiribati, Tokelau, and Tuvalu are already experiencing rising sea levels as a result of global warming and climate change. 36 dancers and musicians express their deep connection to nature and their ancestral past through multi-part harmonies, poetry, and gracious movement cascading over dynamic rhythms, inspiring us all to be better stewards of our shared planet. Water Is Rising harnesses the power of performance art in an impassioned plea for global awareness and social change. Co-presented by the Foundation for World Arts, UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance and the Asia Society in association with the World Music Institute and Create Culture. Learn more about the tour here: www.waterisrising.com

Los Pleneros de la 21 announces The Bomba & Plena Community Workshops October 15, 2011 — June 2, 2012 11:00 a.m. — 1:45 p.m., ongoing Saturdays Julia de Burgos Center, 1680 Lexington Avenue, New York NY 10029 Los Pleneros de la 21, renowned Bomba and Plena Musical ensemble and staple East Harlem Nonprofit, is proud to announce the 23rd anniversary of the Bomba and Plena Community Workshops, New York’s only Community school dedicated to teaching Afro-Puerto Rican music, song, dance and cultural expressions. Classes, offered every Saturday are given in different age appropriate classes, for all skill levels and backgrounds. Classes run year round and welcome students from 2.5 years old to over 65.Prices vary, discounts are available. Spaces are limited, so contact LP21 today! Call 212-427-5221, or email pleneros21@gmail.com

The Folk Music Society of N.Y., Inc/ N.Y. Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents Irish Traditional Music Session every Monday November 7, 14, 21, 28, 2011 8-11 p.m. Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue (on 46th St), Manhattan Free admission; food and drink are available. For more info 212-247-2562 Tenor banjo, harmonica and fiddle player Don Meade and friends get together every Monday night for an Irish traditional music session in the back room of this historic Hell’s Kitchen bar/restaurant. Musiciansand singers welcome.

City Lore presents
Tribute to the Nuyoricans The POEMobile Rides Again
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E. 3rd Street, New York, NY
Cost: Free
For more information, 212-529-1955, x 306 or x308
On November 8th, the POEMobile visits the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Loisaida. Appropriate to Alphabet City (East 3rd between B and C), the letters are writ large and projected life size on the legendary birthplace of Nuyorican poetry. The projections accompany readings by the Nuyorican pioneers, Sandra Maria Esteves, Tato Laviera, Lois Griffith, Jesús “Papoleto” Meléndez; Louis Reyes Rivera; and surprise guests! Poets perform and the POEMobile projects Jorge Brandon’s tribute to baseball star Roberto Clemente, El astro de Carolina. The POEMobile experience has been described in a single word: sublime.

The Gotham Center presents a Fall 2011 History Forum:
Tony Schwartz and the Sounds of His City
6:30 p.m.
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY
Single tickets are $10; Members, $8. All Forums are $50; Members $40. No Surcharges. To purchase tickets, call 212-868-4444 or buy online
Beginning in the 1940s, Tony Schwartz made tens of thousands of recordings of the sounds and people of New York City. Schwartz’s “endangered sounds” were included in numerous WNYC radio broadbcasts and record albums over the years, and in 2007 the Library of Congress acquired the Tony Schwartz collection. Join Matt Barton, Curator of Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress, for an illustrated audio and visual tour of Schwartz’s work in a field that he largely created – audio verite.

El Museo del Barrio cordially invites you to the
Opening Reception of The (S) Files 2011 in Brooklyn
6-8 p.m.
BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Free admission
El Museo del Barrio’s sixth and largest biennial, showcasing 75 artists at seven different venues. You’re invited to our opening reception of The (S) Files 2011 at the BRIC Rotunda Gallery! Featuring (S) Files artists, this exhibition addresses social interaction, economic reaction, and the street as stage or object worthy of aesthetic intervention. On view through January 7, 2012. For more information please call: 718-683-5604. See the notice in Ongoing Exhibitions at bottom of this page.

African Cultural Center, Inc. presents
NGOMA ZA KONGO in an Original Performance
6:00 p.m.
International Center, 50 W. 23rd Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY
Cost: Donation
For more information: 646-500-4447
This high energy Central African drum and dance company will offer an original performance. Ngoma Za Kongo, meaning drums of the Congo, is composed of several artists in continuous research of new sounds and expressions inspired by Congolese traditions. As a result of this research, the group presentation represents a diversity of sounds and colors from different regions of the Congo. The work is an original fusion of traditional rhythms, ritual dances, and the influence of a contemporary environment. The artists of Ngoma Za Kongo dance, sing, and play various sounds of the African drums. Their explosion onto the stage drives you into the essence of their mythical rhythms, leaving you between a traditional and modern world. Enriched by the songs and sounds of the African drums, these rhythms and dances make Ngoma Za Kongo an outstanding group beyond the usual. Coming from different ethnic backgrounds, the members of Ngoma Za Kongo also naturally contribute to the diversity of this group from central Africa.

Susan Blabey, Morgan W. Whalen, Victor Oberting III, Doug Rutnik, and Darryl W. Teal of the Individual Giving Committee invite you to attend
Uncork the Institute with Washington & Wine
6-8 p.m.
Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12210
Cost: $55 members, $65 non-members
Reservations required: Please RSVP by November 4 to 518/463-4478 x 469 or westmorelandj@albanyinstitute.org
Begin the evening with wine and hors d'oeuvres and meet the Albany Institute’s new director, David Carroll. Take a guided tour of First in the Hearts of His Countrymen: George Washington with curator W. Douglas McCombs. Following the tour, savor the past by sampling wines similar to those enjoyed by our Founding Father and his fellow countrymen. The 18th century ambiance will be complete with harp music.

New York Foundation for the Arts presents:
Doctors Hours for Filmmakers
6-9 p.m.
NYFA, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
Registration for Doctor's Hours Starting a new film? In the middle, finishing, or trying to get one seen? Would you like some professional feedback on a work sample, trailer, website, outreach strategy, written material or grant application? Come to NYFA’s first Doctor’s Hours for Filmmakers, a variation on our established and popular Doctor’s Hours for Visual Artists. Doctor’s Hours will provide you with individual, 25-minute one-on-one consultations with theatrical and nontheatrical distributors, exhibitors, broadcasters, outreach strategists, and fundraisers. Bring a short work sample or trailer, or show them your website, written materials or a grant application. Each appointment will be $35, and there is a three appointment limit. For information on the consultants, visit the website.

Nothing Quite Like It: An American Irish Childhood
7 p.m.
Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, 1 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Free admission to Members of Glucksman Ireland House and to all students/faculty with a valid NYU I.D. card. For non-members: $10 donation at the door
In order to ensure a seat at events, please RSVP to 212-998-3950 (option 3) or email ireland.house@nyu.edu
Raised in Chicago and Wicklow, Nicholas Grene, Professor of Literature at Trinity College Dublin, launches his new memoir, Nothing Quite Like It: An American Irish Childhood Having been transplanted from Chicago, Illinois to rural Wicklow in the 1950s, the memoir tells of Grene’s experiences on the family farm, attending the local Protestant National School, and later living at boarding schools in Drogheda and Belfast. Grene is now a Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, the school which he attended for college in addition to Cambridge. A father of four, Grene and his family continue to farm part-time in Ballinaclash.

The Folklife Center of Crandall Public Library presents
Live! Folklife Concert: Dorothy Jane Siver
7:00-8:30 p.m. (doors open 6:30 p.m.)
Community Room, Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY
For more information, call 518/792-6508 or email degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free
As heard on her new release, My Journey Begins, this young, talented fiddler and lead vocalist and her band spans bluegrass and folk spiced with descriptive originals and driving instrumentals.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Ditmas Acoustic present
From Tirana to Ternovka
A Special Concert featuring Meria Halili and the Raif Hyseni Orchestra and The Michael Winograd Trio
7:00 p.m.
Ditmas Acoustic at The Sanctuary, Temple Beth Emeth, 83 Marlborough Road (at Church St.), Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
Cost: $10 General Admission only
Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Ditmas Acoustic present From Tirana to Ternovka — A special concert of Albanian music and Jewish klezmer featuring two of the leading ensembles you’ll find anywhere representing each tradition: Albanian superstars Merita Halili and Raif Hyseni along with Michael Winograd’s vanguard klezmer trio. Merita Halili is one of Albania’s top performers, renowned for her stunning voice, prodigious range and exquisite vocal technique. Raif Hyseni, originally from the Republic of Kosova (which recently proclaimed its independence from Serbia), leads the most sought-after Albanian music ensemble in the United States. Together their performances thrill with masterful interpretations of instrumentals and urban folk songs from both Albania and the Republic of Kosova. The Michael Winograd Trio (Michael Winograd on clarinet, Patrick Farrell on accordion and Benjy Fox-Rosen on bass) features three of the top klezmer musicians in New York today. Blending infectious traditional melodies with new compositions, sumptuous chamber music-like arrangements and breathtaking improvisations, this rising newish ensemble is out to redefine the sound of contemporary klezmer. Ditmas Acoustic is a sensationally eclectic acoustic music series curated by Ditmas Park-based musicians Michael Winograd and Richie Barshay. The series takes place in one of Brooklyn’s loveliest rooms for acoustic music — the historic 1911 Temple Beth Emeth sanctuary.

PINTA: New York’s Latin American Art Show
7 West 34th Street, at 5th Avenue, New York, NY
PINTA is a unique annual event exhibiting the best of Latin American art, coinciding with the Fall season’s art auctions and exhibitions in museums and cultural institutions in New York City. Fifty art galleries will show artworks representative of abstract, concrete, neo-concrete, kinetic and conceptual art, as well as of other contemporary art movements. Dates and times vary. To RSVP to their press preview on Thursday, Nov. 10th, email press@pintaart.com.

Caffè Lena presents
Harmonious Wail
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $16 advance / $18 at door (How to get tickets)
This eye-catching, high-voltage Madison, Wisconsin quartet offers an infectious blend of continental gypsy jazz and swing. If you’re a die-hard folkie uncertain if jazz will please you, know that audiences of all ages and walks of life are delighted by the vibrant, warm personalities and exciting, melodious art of this very accessible ensemble. Specializing in the style of Django Reinhardt, The Wail is made of mandolin, guitar, bass, and sublime female vocals with snare percussion. Harmonious Wail sells out their favorite venues weeks in advance. Once word gets out, we know the same will happen here in Saratoga.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents a
Concert: Michele Choiniere — Franco-American Singer-Songwriter
7:30 p.m.
Buell Hall, East Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY (Enter the campus at Broadway and 116th Street)
Cost: General admission is $15; members of the Folk Music Society are $12; children and non-Columbia students under 23 are $6. Columbia University students and faculty and members of the Societe des Amis de la Maison Francais are admitted free.
Tickets are available at the door or online
Information: 212-957-8386
The Folk Music Society of NY, Inc. and Columbia University’s Maison Française present Michele Choiniere, an award-winning Smithsonian Folkways recording artist, with a radiant, compelling voice. Her music and artistry capture a delicate sensibility, overlaying a raw authenticity. Her concerts transport audiences to another time of wistful cafe-cabaret culture, with riveting rhythmic melodies or a wistful lament, which stay with you long after the concert has ended. She was born into a musical Franco-American family in northern Vermont, and performed traditional Franco-American music with her father. She began writing and composing her own songs and has performed throughout New England, Quebec and France. Writing and singing in both English and French, Michele powerfully expresses her cultural identity as a bilingual Franco-American from the New England borderlands. Ms Choiniere will be accompanied by three highly regarded musicians: David Gusakov has a lifetime career as a violinist that ranges from classical to hard-driving bluegrass. Will Patton, mandolinist and all around string wizard, is also well known for his fine bass playing. Dono Schabner has played guitar professionally since his youth in styles ranging from R&B to Italian, to swing.

COMMEMORATION OF 217TH ANNIVERSARY OF CANANDAIGUA TREATY
Seneca Nation of Indians President Robert Odawi Porter, Keynote Speaker
1:30 p.m. Parade from Canandaigua Primary School, W. Gibson Street to Ontario County Courthouse, 27 N. Main Street, Canandaigua, NY
2:00 p.m. Commemoration Ceremony, Front lawn of the Ontario County Courthouse, Canandaigua, NY
4:30 p.m. Potluck Dinner at Canandaigua Primary School cafeteria
6:00 p.m. Keynote at Canandaigua Primary School auditorium
A Native American Arts and Crafts sale will take place from 10:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. at the School.
Cost: Free and open to the public
For more information, visit the Ganondagan website, or call 585-742-1690.
It’s been 217 years since the signing of the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794, but its commemoration of peace and friendship between the Six Nations Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) and the United States still is recognized today. On Friday, November 11, 2011, as has been the annual tradition, members of the Six Nations and the U.S. government gather on the front lawn of the courthouse in Canandaigua, to commemorate this seminal federal treaty. This year, Ganondagan is honored to have secured Seneca Nation of Indians President Robert Odawi Porter as the keynote speaker. His topic will be “The Modern Significance of the Canandaigua Treaty.” Commemoration activities begin with a parade led by Haudenosaunee Chiefs and U.S. officials including Congressman Tom Reed from the Canandaigua Primary School on West Gibson Street to the Ontario County Courthouse on Main Street. At 2:00 p.m., the traditional commemoration ceremony beings with Peter Jemison as master of ceremonies. Quaker representatives will be in attendance as they were at the original signing in their role as people of peace who could read English and help to ensure fair negotiations. After the ceremony, attendees are encouraged to view one of only two original copies of the treaty and pertinent letters at the Ontario County Historical Society, www.ochs.org. A potluck dinner at 4:30 p.m. for all attendees culminates in the keynote speech by Seneca President Porter at 6:00 p.m. in the School Auditorium. Posters of last year’s painting by artist Robert Griffing memorializing and capturing the 1794 Treaty signing scene will be for sale.

New York Folklore Society Graduate Student Conference Legends and Beliefs November 12, 2011 Binghamton University, Academic A Building, Room G-7 Binghamton, NY Register online. Students are free, but RSVP is required. Theme: Legends and Tales Legends and tales present characters under duress in extraordinary circumstances. They preserve cultural patterns and facilitate social change. Legends such as “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” and “The Killer in the Back Seat” have a kernel of truth; tales such as “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Armless Maiden” are clearly fictional but have complex layers of meaning. When legends and tales inspire literature and films, they bring richly resonant traditions to the minds of readers and viewers. This multidisciplinary conference will include papers about legends and/or tales from graduate students in literature, folklore, anthropology, American studies, cultural studies, film studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, social and cultural history, and other fields. For more information about the conference, visit the NYFS conference page. Questions? Please contact: Ellen McHale, nyfs@nyfolklore.org, 518-346-7008

Milbre Burch: Changing Skins: Folktales about Gender, Identity, and Humanity
6:30 p.m.
Binghamton University, (Academic A Building, Room G7), Binghamton, NY
Open to the public
Suggested donation $5. Free with Binghamton University ID.
For more information, call 518-346-7008
Internationally known storyteller Milbre Burch will be performing her one-woman show Changing Skins: Folktales about Gender, Identity, and Humanity, based on research on the wealth and persistence of gender-bending folktales and cultural expressions around the world. Drawing on a background of dance and movement theater, Milbre Burch shapes and colors her stories with an artful language of gesture and movement. An experienced touring and resident artist, she has performed throughout the United States and Europe, including performances at the Lincoln Center Institute in New York and at Edition Neues Marchen in Austria. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for her spoken word album for children, Making the Heart Whole Again: Stories for a Wounded World and is the recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Network. The Circle of Excellence Award is given to those who have created a body of work which is nationally recognized as a shining example of quality in the art form of storytelling performance. In addition, Burch has appeared more than six times as a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN.
Milbre Burch’s appearance is part of the one-day conference offered jointly by the English Department of Binghamton University and New York Folklore Society. (see notice above).

Caffè Lena presents
Cris Williamson
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $22 advance / $24 at door (How to get tickets)
Cris Williamson’s stellar vocals and compelling persona are regarded as legendary for good reason. In 1975, the twenty-something former schoolteacher recorded The Changer And The Changed, one of the best-selling independent releases of all time, and became the guiding voice for a movement striving to liberate women and create indie careers for musicians. She launched what would become known as “women's music,” music which was created, performed, and marketed specifically to women and unabashedly fused politics with sensuality and wit. Her latest album, Fringe, touches all with universal messages about returning home—in body, spirit and memory. The places we have left, by moving or maturing, abide in us still, and Cris takes us back to her beloved Wyoming with old songs and old-style songs that lovingly pay tribute to harsh prairies and to the virtues required to eke out a living on them.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Bahia to Brooklyn: Dendê & Band
8:00 p.m.
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue (corner of 3rd Avenue), downtown Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $25; $21 for WMI Friends
Buy tickets online
Folklore meets funk in this dynamic concert led by the colorful and charismatic percussionist Dendê! Hailing from Bahia, Brazil, Dendê began his career in Carlinhos Brown’s world-famous band, Timbalada, and has played with such greats as Giovanni Hidalgo, David Byrne and Vinicius Cantuaria. His band, combining hot Afro-Brazilian pop music with rhythms of the African diaspora, can summon the frenetic energy of carnival or the laid-back cool of reggae. The title track of Dendê’s new CD Bahia de Todos Os Santos is quickly becoming an anthem of Brazilophiles everywhere.

The Dewey Hall Folk Series presents
Saturday Night LIV hosted by Liv Cummins
7:30 p.m.
Dewey Memorial Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA
Tickets: $15. Call 413/229-7907
"Family-friendly comedy/variety show Saturday Night LIV (hosted by Liv Cummins) models itself after the great variety shows of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Ed Sullivan Show, the Carol Burnett Show, and the original Saturday Night Live. Not only will you see great, regional performers including Magician Carl Seiger, hilarious sketches featuring the show’s regular sketch comedy troupe, the Really Convincing Players, and exciting musical moments with songstress Christina Dellea and more, but it all happens live in this intimate atmosphere. This up-close-and-personal environment adds to the excitement: you’ll feel like you’re a part of the show...and in fact, you will be!"

Museum at Eldridge Street presents
125th Anniversary Cornerstone Celebration
With Scholar-in- Residence Dr. Regina Stein
Ceremony begins at 1 p.m.
Open house at 2 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street/Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free. RSVP required.
For more information about our 125th Anniversary Time Capsule or to RSVP: asteinmilford@eldridgestreet.org or call 212/219-0888
Celebrate the 125th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the Eldridge Street Synagogue. Join us for an event modeled on cornerstone celebrations of a century ago. Help us create a living time capsule. Enjoy performances by Frank London’s All Star Klezmer Brass Band, actors from the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, cantorial superstars, and remarks by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin and Sheldon Silver and other government officials and leaders. An open house with entertainment and refreshments to follow. Co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

Albany Institute of History & Art presents
Lecture and Book Signing: Hardie Truesdale, Hudson River Towns
2 p.m.
Albany Institute of History & Art, Key Culture Center,
With more than 120 full-color photographs that lavishly display the dramatic faces of the cities, towns, and villages along the river, Hudson River Towns: Highlights from the Capital Region to Sleepy Hollow Country reveals a dimension of the region unseen by most travelers and local residents, who will be inspired to think differently about their surroundings after taking this armchair journey through one of America’s most beautiful and historic regions. Copies of Hudson River Towns are available in the museum shop, with 10% discount for members.

Tellabration 2011 — Shared Laughter
Sixteenth Annual Benefit Performance for Capital District Storytelling
2 p.m.
Proctors Theater, GE Theatre, 432 State Street, Schenectady, New York
$12 adults, $10 newcomers and groups, $6 students, (518) 346-6204
Door prizes and refreshments
Come hear some of the best storytellers in the area share their favorite stories: Aditya Agashe, Betty Cassidy, Kate Dudding, Margaret French, Micki Groper, Christie Keegan, Eileen Egan Mack, Claire Nolan, Nancy Marie Payne, Joe Peck and Sandy Schuman with emcee Karen Pillsworth. Each year in November, in 200 locations around the world, people gather together to share stories at programs called Tellabration. Proceeds from our previous Tellabration programs have funded over 80 storytelling events at libraries, museums, and other locations in the Capital District.

Caffè Lena presents
David Mallett
With Opener Claudia Nygaard
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $22 advance / $24 at door (How to get tickets)
The cool breezes of Maine’s northlands have flowed through the songs of David Mallett for nearly four decades. He has released fourteen albums of his own, and written songs for an eclectic list of artists that includes Pete Seeger, Alison Kraus, Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, John Denver and the Muppets. His tune, “The Garden Song” (“inch by inch, row by row . . . ”), is one of America’s most popular folk songs, having been recorded more than 150 times and sung around the world. Mallett’s songs are filled with passion, evocative imagery, and a sense of the inevitable passage of time. The struggle of the common man and the loss of small towns and landscapes is the subject of many of his songs. Although it is rooted in place, Mallett’s music speaks to the essential things that move us all. Former music row staff songwriter Claudia Nygaard is a born storyteller with a quick wit and a fearless emotional availability. Her affable connection with an audience has led reviewers to describe her as “Will Rogers without the Rope.” Claudia delivers her vivid, heartfelt songs in a warm, mature southern voice.

Caffè Lena presents
Storytelling Open Mic
With Featured Storyteller Kay Olan – Ionataiewas
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $3 at door
Kay Olan (Ionataiewas) is a Mohawk educator and storyteller. Upon retiring from teaching in the public schools, she moved to Kanatsiohareke, a traditional Mohawk Community located in central New York State where she lived and worked for almost three years. She appeared in the Iroquois segment of the Discovery Channel documentary How the West Was Lost. In 2010, Kay recorded a Mohawk Stories CD which contains six traditional stories with music by Dennis Yerry.

Community Read—To Become a Human Being: The Message of Tadodaho Chief Leon Shenandoah by Steve Wall
Speakers: G. Peter Jemison and Dr. Susan Nowak
7-9 p.m.
Nazareth College, Schults Center, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
Cost: Free
Pre-registration required. Call 585-742-1690
In a related event following the Friends of Ganondagan’s 2011 Native American Lecture Series, Ganondagan and Nazareth will host a Community Read featuring the book, To Become a Human Being: The Message of Tadodaho Chief Leon Shenandoah by Steve Wall. This event will be facilitated by Ganondagan Site Manager G. Peter Jemison and Nazareth College Professor and Chair of Religious Studies Dr. Susan Nowak, and is free and open to the public. The book, which retails for $17.95, will be available for purchase at the lectures and at the Ganondagan Gift Shop until October 29.
See September 28, October 19, and November 3 for lecture series events.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Sins and Miracles: Lila Downs
8:00 p.m.
Carnegie HallStern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th Street and 7th Avenue, New York
Tickets: $45, $55, $65; $40, $50, $60 for WMI Friends
For tickets, please contact our box office at (212) 545-7536 x1 or visit us in person at 4 West 43rd Street. For online sales, visit carnegiehall.org
For over a decade, Lila Downs has toured the world, performing her dramatic reinvention of traditional Mexican music and original compositions fused with blues, jazz, soul, and African roots. Some would classify Lila as a Mexican artist, but there is no real way to categorize her music except to say that it is a distinctive and exciting blend of international sounds. With her soaring voice, she takes her audiences on a musical journey that is always fascinating, simultaneously edgy and strong, yet sumptuous and graceful.

City Lore and Baruch College present
WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT: The Story of Latin Boogaloo As part of this year’s Boromix Puerto Rico Fest 2011
7:00 p.m.
Baruch College, 151 E. 25th Street, Room 763, Manhattan. Parking IS NOT reimbursible.
Cost: Free
For more information: City Lore at 212-529-1955, x 306 or Baruch at 212/529-1545
In 1965, on the verge of abandoning Latin music, a generation of young Latinos in NYC discovers Latin Boogaloo, a musical style mixing English and Spanish lyrics, with Afro-Cuban, jazz, rock and R&B rhythms and melodies. Featuring original interviews with legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colón, Ricardo Ray and others, Mathew Ramírez Warren’s documentary, WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT explores the story of the Latin Boogaloo era and seeks to understand its legacy and context in history. A rough cut of the film (45 minutes) will be shown, and it will be followed by a panel dicussion and Q&A featuring musicians from that era who are also featured in the film: Joe Bataan, Johnny Colón, Benny Bonilla, and director, Mathew Ramírez Warren. The panel will be moderated by City Lore’s Elena Martínez, one of the film’s producers.

Long Island Traditions presents
On the Bay Book Release & Signing by Author and Folklorist Nancy Solomon
7:00 p.m.
Northport Public Library, 151 Laurel Avenue, Northport, NY 11768, 631-261-6930
For more information about this event or if your organization would to schedule a presentation of this program, call 516-767-8803 or email info@longislandtraditions.org
Cost: Free
The second edition of On the Bay: Bay Houses and Maritime Culture of Long Island is now available. Author and folklorist Nancy Solomon will give a presentation about the history, architecture and culture of the vernacular structures which have been built by generations of baymen, duck hunters, and recreational fishermen since the 18th century. The illustrated lecture will be followed by a signing of the 2nd edition. You can purchase this book online at the Long Island Traditions Shop.

The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents
BOOKMARKS: Traditions
Curated by Tammy Robinson, Skribbler’s Magazine Special Young People’s Category 7:00 p.m.
The Arts of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180
Cost: Free
Students ages 9 to 12 are invited to submit works of poetry or prose on the theme of traditions for this reading. Entries should not exceed 500 words and are subject to editing by the curator. Submisson deadline: October 15, 2011.
The Memoir Project invites submissions for Bookmarks, a series of group readings featuring writing that is grounded broadly in personal experience. Experienced writers, as well as those whose work has not previously been published or read publicly, are encouraged to submit work.

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) presents
Artist Show and Tell!
8-10 p.m.
Everything Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay Street, Staten Island, NY
Show & Tell is a chance to share your work with other artists and members of the community who are interested in the arts. It’s a chance to get on stage, in a NO PRESSURE, supportive environment. Show us those sketches, read us some poetry, show us your film in progress, let us see your online portfolio of work, or maybe play a song on the flute! If it’s creative, we want to see it. Come to Show & Tell and see new faces, see people you know. At Show and Tell, you can meet new people who love the arts, or you can find an artist to collaborate with (it’s been known to happen!). When you come, COAHSI buys you a tea or coffee.

Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester cordially requests your support by attending the
28th Annual Arts Awards
11:15 a.m. Reception
Noon-1:30 p.m. Luncheon and Award Ceremony
Hyatt Regency Rochester, Grand Ballroom, 125 East Main Street, Rochester, NY
RSVP by Wednesday, November 9, 2011. Reservations are required: Ticket Reservations
For more information, call 585-473-4000, ext. 205
2011 Award Recipients include artist Paul Knoblauch, organization Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, champions of the arts, Dawn Lipson and Jacques Lipson, MD, foundation champion of the arts, Rochester Area Community Foundation, with special recognition to Sankofa African Dance and Drum Ensemble, and a Life Achievement award to Dr. Anthony Bannon, director of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. Guests will enjoy performances by The College at Brockport Saxophone Ensemble, Sankofa African Dance and Drum Ensemble, and jazz guitarist Bob Sneider joined by students from the Eastman School of Music.

The Folklife Center of Crandall Public Library presents
Live! Folklife Concert: Putnam Smith
7:00-8:30 p.m. (doors open 6:30 p.m.)
Community Room, Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY
For more information, call 518/792-6508 or email degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free
Engaging whiskey-slinging, good-time banjo numbers, intimate, heartbreakers back by guitar and lighthearted songs on mandolin by this Maine troubadour.

Bruce Katz Band
8 p.m.
The Parting Glass Irish Pub, 40-42 Lake Avenue ~ Saratoga Springs, NY, (518) 583-1916
Tickets: $10 limited advance/$15
Bruce Katz, a three-time Blues Music Award nominee for Piano Player of the Year, is a legendary keyboardist who has released 6 CDs as a leader and appeared on nearly 70 others CDs with the likes of Ronnie Earl, John Hammond, Duke Robillard, Little Milton, Jimmy Witherspoon and many, many others. He also tours regularly as a member of the Gregg Allman Band and Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters. The Bruce Katz Band blurs the lines between blues, soul-jazz, rock and New Orleans-inspired roots music. They combine exciting instrumental jams and vocal tunes with their original, trademark sound, blending the B3 organ and guitar.

The Gotham Center presents a Fall 2011 History Forum:
9/11, Part II: How We Remember 9/11
6:30 p.m.
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY
Single tickets are $10; Members, $8. All Forums are $50; Members $40. No Surcharges. To purchase tickets, call 212-868-4444 or buy online
Ten years on, we will look at what is being commemorated and what has already been erased from the public memory. Who protected us? How did we respond on the streets and in our communities in the immediate aftermath? How did the reponse of the mainstream and the government reflect or repress our memory of 9/11? What could we have done differently? Please join panelists including Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell; artist Ruth Sergel, creator of Voices of 9/11; and artist Brian Tolle, creator of the Irish Hunger Memorial, for a frank discussion of our experiences of 9/11.

Symphony Space presents
Rebels + Reds with Federico Aubele
7:30 p.m.
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY
Tickets: General $30; World Music Institute members $18. Call 212/864-5400 or visit www.symphonyspace.org
Blending Jamaican dub and reggae, Argentine tango, American ambient and hip-hop, and Mexican bolero, Federico Aubele has a style all his own. Enjoy the world music of this Argentinean singer-songwriter along with a premium glass of red wine selected by “wine ambassador” Keith Beavers at Symphony Space’s brand new indie music series, Rebels + Reds.

The Smith Center for the Arts presents
Live: Warren Haynes Band
8:00 p.m.
The Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca Street, Geneva, NY, 315-781-LIVE
General Admission seating with doors at 7pm. No opening act.
Tickets: $28 + $2 facility fee. Purchase online.
Warren Haynes’ long-anticipated solo album,Man In Motion, is a timeless collection of songs that crackle with modern vitality yet draw on his deepest roots as an artist. The disc pumps fresh blood into the heart of soul and blues, stoked by Haynes’s Herculean prowess as both a powerhouse singer and guitarist — a reputation he’s earned as a member of three of the greatest live groups in rock history: The Allman Brothers Band, The Dead and his own Gov’t Mule.

Los Pleneros de la 21 announces
LP21 invites Schools, Students and Teachers to celebrate Puerto Rican & East Harlem Culture
10 a.m.-Noon
Central Park East Middle School, 1573 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029
RSVP TODAY: 212/427-5221, pleneros21@gmail
Cost: $5
East Harlem’s own, Los Pleneros de la 21 announces the November installment of their popular BOMBA & PLENA IN THE HOUSE series—a program designed to increase access of quality and educational performances and cultural activities to students and schools of NYC. View a complete overview of the In The House series online. November’s event with two Showtimes (10 a.m. and Noon) focuses on November as Puerto Rican heritage month and showcases the rich expressions from this island as expressed in the Caribbean and lived in El Barrio! EAST HARLEM GROUPS, STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS GET SPECIAL DISCOUNTS YEAR-ROUND TO THE IN THE HOUSE SERIES.

Caffè Lena presents
Bearfoot
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $20 advance / $22 at door (How to get tickets)
Call it “new-timey,” call it “post-bluegrass,” call it “string band music for the 21st century”—whatever the name, there’s a revolution under way where string band traditions meet youthful creativity; look to its center, and that's where you'll find Bearfoot. The quintet, originally formed in Alaska, has already made a mark with four strong albums, including their 2009 Compass Records debut, Doors And Windows which instantly hit the top of Billboard Magazine’s Bluegrass Album chart. As they enter their second decade, with a new Nashville home and a new lineup including lead singer Nora Jane Struthers, Bearfoot has taken their place among the best and brightest of a new generation of musicians reshaping American roots music.

The Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre celebrates La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary
GOLEM! Special Benefit Performance and Reception
7:30 p.m.
La MaMa E.T.C., 66 East Fourth Street (Ellen Stewart Theater), New York, NY
Come meet the cast, join in the silent auction and enjoy Czech beer, wine and food! See the description of GOLEM below in Ongoing Exhibitions and Productions. Your tax-deductible donations help make this production possible. RSVP by November 15.

YWCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts presents
Red Horse featuring Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka & Lucy Kaplansky
8:00 p.m.
Boulton Center, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore, NY, 631/969-1101
Cost: $45
Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka and Lucy Kaplansky come together as Red Horse on this brand-new collaborative project from three of the most revered songwriters in folk music. Inspiring and paving the road for countless musicians and songwriters on the road today, having these three talents converge on one record is a folk fan’s dream album. Red Horse’s sparse instrumentation allows these three distinctive voices to carry the magic of the music that is awash in great harmonies and songwriting. Each of these legendary singer/songwriters solos on classics first made famous by the other two members. Lucy gives a haunting performance of Eliza’s “Sanctuary,” John takes the lead on Lucy’s “Don’t Mind Me” while Eliza performs John’s “Forget to Breathe” which has never been released on Red House before. Red Horse showcases new material from all three, covers they have never before recorded as well as revisiting and rearranging a couple of early classics. Red Horse is the result of three veteran songwriters and good friends coming together to make music. With Red Horse Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka, and Lucy Kaplansky give us a collection of songs that solidifies their place as three of folk music’s great songwriters.
Tickets for this performance are available at www.boultoncenter.org or by calling toll free 866-811-4111 or at the YMCA Boulton Center box office: 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore, NY (631) 969-1101. Box office hours: Weds, Fri., Sat., from 12-4, Thurs. 12-6 and extended hours on performance days.

Long Island Traditions announces a
Gospel and Blues Concert: The Elder Statesmen
6:30 p.m.
Bethesda Missionary Baptist Church, 79-09 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens
Tickets: $25
The Elder Statesmen are a traditional gospel group consisting of several African American gentlemen whose families emigrated from the south during the Great Migration.

Saturdays at the Dwyer presents
Speaking in Rhythms 1-3 p.m.
Dwyer Cultural Center, 258 St. Nicholas Ave. at 123rd Street, New York, NY
For cinema screenings, RSVP at rsvp@dwyercc.org or call 212/222-3060
Speaking in Rhythms is an interactive performance of jubilant sounds and rhythms from a group of young master percussionists; an art workshop led by a Master Teaching Artist, in which you can create a Spirit of Community inspired masterpiece; and a screening of Harlem Is...Gospel, a 30-minute documentary directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jamal Joseph that explores the stories and experiences of the music makers and spiritual leaders in the home for the Gospel tradition—Harlem.

El Museo del Barrio presents
SPEAK UP! Voices from the Movement
7:00-9:00 p.m.
El Café, 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street) New York, NY 10029
Free admission. RSVP.
This month’s program unites a mezcla of five Nuyorican wordsmiths representing four of New York City’s five boroughs as they dissect life’s lessons through poetry and prose. Nancy Arroyo-Ruffin, Anthony Morales, Maegan Ortiz, J. Skye Cabrera and Maria Rodriguez-Morales weave tales of culture, social consciousness, identity, struggle and survival in this evening enriched with inspiration and wit.

Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in collaboration with Dimitrios and Georgia Kaloidis Parochial School present
The Greeks through Their Music: Performance by Musical Ensemble “Mismaya”
7-10:00 p.m.
Brooklyn High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology, 350 67th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220
For information, contact 718/836-5310
Cost: $25
A tribute to the music of ancient Greece, Byzantium, and the rich musical traditions of Eastern Thrace, Constantinople, and Asia Minor.

Sand Lake Center for the Arts presents:
Stephanie Fix
8 p.m.
Squire Jacob Coffeehouse, 2880 Route 43, Averill Park, NY 12018, Phone: (518) 674-2007
Tickeets: $16; under 18 $10. Reservations appreciated.
This Austin, Texas based artist is an award winning singer/songwriter who has toured nationally and internationally and is at home on any stage. People walk away from her performances certain they’ve experienced something profound and life affirming. She doesn’t replicate the music she has been inspired by, but shares what she has taken from it with her audiences. Her belief that the only way to connect with an audience is to be herself, coupled with a desire to make people happy, is what Stefanie is all about.
Sit comfortably at small tables and enjoy delectable desserts and beverages from our café. The Squire Jacob Coffeehouse Concert Series brings the pleasure of the multifaceted sounds and rhythms of traditional music to the ears, and hearts of the audience.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Jewels of the Desert: Rhythm of Rajasthan
8:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue, New York
Tickets: $34, $40; $30.50, $36 for WMI Friends
For tickets, please contact our box office at (212) 545-7536 x1 or visit us in person at 4 West 43rd Street. For online sales, visit carnegiehall.org
The Rhythm of Rajasthan ensemble, with its enthralling music and dance, hails from the windswept Great Thar Desert in Rajasthan (“the land of kings”), a region that has one of the liveliest folk traditions in India. The musicians, from the Langa (“song giver”) and Manghaniyar hereditary groups of itinerant entertainers, return to New York with their program encompassing driving percussion, ecstatic Sufi songs, and hypnotic sarangi (bowed lute) and algoza (double flute). They are joined by the famed Suva Devi, a dancer seen in Tony Gatlif’s film Latcho Drom, who performs the sinuous Kalbeliya Sapera snake charming dance and the spectacular Bhavai folk dance.

Commander Cody
9 p.m.
The Parting Glass Irish Pub, 40-42 Lake Avenue ~ Saratoga Springs, NY, (518) 583-1916
Tickets: $16 advance/$20
Formed in 1967, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen’s style mixes foot-moving rollicking country music, rockabilly, and blues, on a foundation of boogie-woogie piano. It was among the first country-rock bands to take its cues less from folk-rock and bluegrass and more from barroom country of the Ernest Tubb school. A pioneer in incorporating Western swing into its style, the band became legendary for its live shows, which were often gigs with contemporaries like the New Riders of the Purple Sage and Grateful Dead.

Caffè Lena presents
Roy Book Binder
With Opener Phil Minissale
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance / $20 at door (How to get tickets)
Roy Book Binder has traveled the world as a “keeper of the flame” and ambassador of the blues since the late ‘60s. One of the finest fingerpickers working today, Roy has an eclectic repertoire that includes blues, country tunes, bluegrass and folk. Roy learned his craft directly from the great Reverend Gary Davis and has performed with bluesmen and women such as Homesick James, Pink Anderson, and Bonnie Raitt. He is also a gifted storyteller and has been a featured performer at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. Opener Phil Minissale represents the future for the acoustic finger-styling of the Piedmont. At just 24 years old, Phil has a cross generational appeal that has seasoned blues fans watching closely as he exposes his generation to the acoustic folk/blues sound.

Dutchess County Arts Council presents a
Sacred Tables
2-4 p.m.
Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, 317 Main Street, Poughkeepsie NY
For information, contact 845-454-3222, info@artsmidhudson.org
Cost: Free
“Sacred Tables,” an interactive cultural program culminating a year-long inter-faith project about food as symbol of religious identities. Under the auspices of the DCAC Folk Arts Program, youth from four different faith communities documented the symbolic role of specific foods at a particular holy day or sacred meal within their religion. The youth will present their respective projects, including discussing the symbolic role and offering samples of specific foods from the holy day table.

Heritage Folk Music, Inc. presents a benefit concert:
Hoot for Hurricane Help
2-5 p.m.
St. James Methodist Church, 35 Pearl St. (corner of Pearl & Fair St.), KIngston, NY 12401
For more information, contact 845-594-4412, heritagefolkmusic@gmail.com Cost: $20 suggested donation
Benefit Concert featuring Tom Chapin, Roy Book Binder, and Priscilla Herdman, to raise funds for Catskills towns flooded by recent storms. All proceeds will be equally distributed to relief agencies in Delaware, Greene, Schoharie, and Ulster Counties.

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

Los Pleneros de la 21 presents
An Afternoon Tea Dance
Just before Thanksgiving with the savory musical stew, Sancocho Musical, featuring live Bomba & Plena in a Community Social Dance and Jam Party
3 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Bruckner Bar & Grill, 1 Bruckner Blvd., Bronx NY 10454
Contact: 212/427-5221, pleneros21@gmail
Cost: $10
Los Pleneros de la 21, the Grammy nominated Bomba & Plena music ensemble, excitedly kick off the Thanksgiving festivities with the return of “El Sancocho Musical,” their swinging series of social dance concerts and community jam sessions, open to all! Featuring live music by Los Pleneros de la 21, a powerhouse drumming presentation by master percussionist Anthony Carrillo and his apprentices, as well as Plena Sin Fronteras and more, this swinging afternoon “tea” dance social brings together talents and appetites from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in a delectable Musical Stew (a Sanchoco Musical), that is guaranteed to feed your souls and rev your appetites in this pre-Thanksgiving weekend.

Caffè Lena presents
Skidmore Small Jazz Ensembles
Proceeds Benefit Caffé Lena
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $15 at door (How to get tickets)
Enjoy an evening of diverse jazz styles and inspiring talent as the jazz music students of Skidmore College take the stage with their guitars, brass, reeds, keyboards, drums and vocals. They never fail to put on truly engaging show of jazz standards and contemporary compositions. This is a great one to bring your aspiring young music student to!

The Institute for Romani Music at New York University and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance present
Opre! Concerts & Symposium on Romani (Gypsy) Musics and Cultures PROGRAM 1: Yuri Yunakov — A Celebration! Sunday, November 20, 8-9:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
Drom, 85 Avenue A, between 5th and 6th Streets, New York, NY
Admission: $10 advance/ $15 door
Tickets may be purchased online at www.dromnyc.com or by calling (212) 777-1157
Opre! Concerts & Symposium on Romani (Gypsy) Musics and Cultures represents a historic first-ever gathering on the East Coast of scholars of Romani culture and Roma who work as academics, activists and/or performers. Join us for the opening of Opre! with a special concert/dance party celebrating Yuri Yunakov’s selection as the first Romani recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Fellowship Award, our nation’s highest honor in the traditional arts. Yunakov’s electrifying band features the Bronx-based Macedonian Romani clarinet virtuoso, Sal Mamudoski. Yunakov, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, is the leading Bulgarian Romani musician in the United States and was responsible for shaping the saxophone’s role in the genre known as “Bulgarian wedding music.” He toured the world for years as a member of Ivo Papasov’s Trakija ensemble, and was even jailed by the Bulgarian communist government for performing “unsanctioned” music. For more information about Yuri Yunakov, see the article on the CTMD site.
Throughout Europe and much of Western Asia, Roma (Gypsies) have made an extraordinary contribution to the musical life of diverse rural and urban communities. They have not only been at the heart of maintaining many musical traditions, but have also played a major role in introducing innovations, often cross-fertilizing musical styles from different regions and diverse ethnic groups, adding Western pop and rock elements, and inventing new traditions.
See information on Program 2 (symposium) below for November 21.

The Institute for Romani Music at New York University and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance present
Opre! Concerts & Symposium on Romani (Gypsy) Musics and Cultures PROGRAM 2: A Symposium on Romani (Gypsy) Musics and Cultures Monday, November 21, 2011, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
New York University, Silver Center for the Arts and Sciences, Room 220, 24 Waverly Place (corner with University Place, Washington Square East, 2 blocks west of Broadway), New York, NY
Admission: Free
Opre! Concerts & Symposium on Romani (Gypsy) Musics and Cultures represents a historic first-ever gathering on the East Coast of scholars of Romani culture and Roma who work as academics, activists and/or performers. An academic symposium bringing together scholars of several Romani cultures and Roma who work as activists, academics and/or performers. The keynote address will be given by Professor Carol Silverman of the University of Oregon in celebration of the publication of her new book, Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora. The program will feature a concert by Raklorom, the NYU ensemble directed by Romani scholar and musician Petra Gelbart, as well as dance, music and spoken word performances by Papusha Nikolai, Yani Nikolai and Helena Safarova.
See information on Program 1 (Concert) above for November 20.

The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents
BOOKMARKS: CREATIVE ENDEAVORS: BEING TERRIFIED AND DOING IT ANYWAY
Curated by Kathryn Allen 7:00 p.m.
The Arts of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180
Cost: Free
The Memoir Project invites submissions for Bookmarks, a series of group readings featuring writing that is grounded broadly in personal experience. Experienced writers, as well as those whose work has not previously been published or read publicly, are encouraged to submit work. Entries should be works of prose not exceed 1,500 words. Submisson deadline: October 10, 2011.

Caffè Lena presents
Woods Tea Company
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance / $20 at door (How to get tickets)
This Vermont stringband performs a winning combination of Celtic tunes, bluegrass, sea shanties and folk songs, interspersed with plenty of down-home wit and camaraderie. Labeled “Vermont’s hardest working folk group” by National Public Radio, the line-up features Howard Wooden on bass, guitar, and bodhran; Tom MacKenzie on hammered dulcimer, banjo, guitar, ukulele, and keyboard; and Patti Casey on guitar, flute, penny-whistle, and clogboard. The trio is renowned for its rich vocal harmonies and delightful, warm humor. This is the perfect show to enjoy with the whole gang on the day after Thanksgiving!

Albany Institute History & Art invites you to a
GIFT FAIR & FAMILY FESTIVAL 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday Noon - 5 p.m. on Sunday
Free Admission all weekend
Bring your holiday shopping list to the Albany Institute Gift Fair. The work of more than 40 vendors will be on display throughout the museum, showcasing beautiful and distinctive gifts by local jewelers, craftspeople, and artists. See website for full list of vendors. Book readings and signings at 2 p.m. each day: Nov. 25, Linda Elovitz Marshall, Talia and the Rude Vegetables; Nov. 26, Jan Marin Tramontano, Standing on the Corner of Lost and Found; and Nov. 27, Robert M. Toole, Landscape Gardens on the Hudson: A History. In additional to “Play for All” in the galleries at the Family Festival, enjoy LEGO-themed family activities.

Caffè Lena presents
Annie & the Hedonists
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $16 advance / $18 at door (How to get tickets)
This breezy, fun-loving band led by Annie and Jonny Rosen offers a wide-ranging repertoire. From the gospel-rock of Sister Rosetta Tharpe to the high-lonesome bluegrass of Claire Lynch and the irresistible swing of Fats Waller, the torchy, honey voice of Annie Rosen takes center stage, with super-tight, expert backing provided by husband Jonny Rosen on guitar, and special guests including fiddler Frank Orsini, multi-instrumentalist Peter Davis, and dobro master Kevin Maul.

Calpulli Danza Mexicana Performs at Queens Theatre in the Park
Saturday, Nov. 26, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 27, 3:00 p.m.
Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Tickets and information: www.queenstheatre.org, Box Office 718-760-0064
Cost: Regular $28; Seniors $25; Students $20
New York City’s Calpulli Danza Mexicana returns to Queens Theatre with a new exciting program dedicated to rich traditions of Mexico. Under the direction of Interim Artistic Director, Noemy Hernandez, the company features dynamic performers, meticulous costuming, and vivacious rhythms for the enjoyment of the whole family. “Audiences will see a different show and company than they have in the past,” says Ms. Hernandez. “They will see a stronger influence of contemporary dance and a retelling of familiar stories in the Calpulli repertroire. However, the roots of Mexican traditions still inform the theatrical performance and a unique cultural expression.”

Benefit Concert: Woods Tea Company
2:00 p.m.
Old Parish Church, 125 Main Street, Sheffield, MA
Free concert
Info: bevrkil9@aol.com
Raffle Prizes: Ukulele built by Magic Fluke Co, Sheffield, 2 Gourmet Food Baskets. Donations to benefit the Good Samaritan Fund. A great way to spend Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends.

Stitching Tradition: An Invitation to a Public Sewing Circle
A Embroiderers’ Exchange
1-7 p.m.
The History Center of Tompkins County, One block east of the Ithaca Commons at 401 E. State/MLK Jr. Street, Ithaca, NY, (607) 273-8284
FREE and open to the public!
The History Center of Tompkins County announces a public program, “Stitching Tradition: An Invitation to a Public Sewing Circle.” This program will be the public component of a traditional embroiderers’ exchange organized by the New York Folklore Society, and funded by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, that will take place in Ithaca the last week of November. The program will feature the handmade and collected work of Hungarian needleworker Eniko Farkas (Ithaca) and Ukrainian needleworker Vera Nakonechny (Pennsylvania) on informal display in the gallery space, and will also include periodic demonstrations by these master artists throughout the day. The public is invited to come and view the display and take part in the demonstrations. At approximately 4 p.m., Farkas and Nakonechny will also head up a public sewing circle, and we invite any embroiderers, quilters, or other needleworkers to come and share their techniques and stories. Come and help us stitch tradition in Tompkins County!

New York Foundation for the Arts announces 2012 Artists’ Fellowships Application is Now Open Artists’ Fellowships are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Grants are awarded in 15 artistic disciplines, with applications accepted in five categories each year. Since the fellowship program’s inception in 1984, NYFA has awarded over $24 million to over 3,800 artists. 2012 Application deadlines: December 15, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. Painting including the Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting Fiction December 16, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. Interdisciplinary Work Folk/Traditional Arts Video/Film Peer review panels select up to 100 Fellows each year based on artistic vision, the goal being to buy recipients creative time to continue making work. The Fellowship award is free for artists to apply!

A once-in-200 years opportunity A War of 1812 Commemorative Bicentennial Quilting Challenge Sponsored by The Seaway Trail Foundation We invite you to make an authenic 1812 reproduction quilt for the 2012 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt show. Quilting is a popular cultural and arts heritage, even nature, travel theme for the Great Lakes Seaway Trail byway that has clusters of both traditional and modern day quilt makers Trailwide. The Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show is held annually at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY. For more information, Call: 315-646-1000 x202 or x203 or email lynette@seawaytrail.com. Respond by January 15, 2012 if you intend to participate and receive a registration packet. Guidelines are available online. Visit the blog at www.1812quiltchallenge.blogspot.com to see new fabric collections and links from the 1812 era and other tidbits of interesting information for the quilt project!

Staten Island Museum History Center presents
Portraits of Leadership: African American Entrepreneurs on Staten Island
Opening Reception Saturday, February 12, 1 p.m., free
Staten Island Museum History Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Snug Harbor Campus, Building H Staten Island, NY 10301, Telephone: 718.727.1135
Hours: Monday - Friday: 12 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m.-5 p.m.
Recommended admission: Adults $3, Students and seniors $2, Children under 12 and members free
A video and audio exhibit featuring the voices and faces of Staten Island’s African American Community. The wit, wisdom, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep roots of this prolific community are highlighted. Curated by Jeannine Otis with photographer Willie Chu, guest historian Cynthia Copeland, and folklorist Chris Mulé. Also, be sure to check out some upcoming related programs offered by the Staten Island Museum surrounding this exhibit:
(1) Staten Island African American Entrepreneurs: A Community Panel Discussion- Tuesday, February 15, 6-9 p.m.; Spiro Hall II, Wagner College Campus; Featuring Distinguished community members and the Wagner College Department of Historym and
(2) Killa Hill’s Gerald Barclay: The Film Business—February 24, 6-8 p.m.; Staten Island Museum History Center Building H, Snug Harbor Campus.”

February 12, 2011 — November 1, 2011

El Museo del Barrio presents
El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 Takes to the Streets
6th Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American Biennial will showcase 75 emerging artists at 6 venues throughout New York City
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street, New York, NY 10029
Curators Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Trinidad Fombella, Elvis Fuentes, and guest curator Juanita Bermúdez have chosen the street as focal point of this year’s biennial deliberately, to call attention to the direct effect of economic and political crises in art production. “Social tensions as well as economic limitations have historically pushed artists to employ their urban environment as creative setting as well as a source for materials,” explains Fuentes. “The (S) Files 2011 foregrounds both Latino artists who have been involved in New York street art movements like graffiti since the 1970s and others who due to current circumstances are taking on the street for the first time to produce their art.”

It is in this context that this year’s biennial aims to expand the definition of contemporary Latino and Latin American art by taking on a broad exploration of the aesthetics, events, and visual energy of the street. The exhibition will feature works in all media, including murals and graffiti as well as non-traditional presentations in fashion and music. “The (S) Files 2011 explores how the boundaries between public/private and personal/universal are blurred by urban culture, and examines the street as catalyst for change in mainstream culture,” says Aranda-Alvarado. “We are interested in how these social borders mix and dissolve in urban environments, and how artists use these social alterations as points of creative departure.”

Among the themes developed in the exhibition are the influence of early New York street art movements, which were led by Latino artists; popular aesthetics and urban styles of the neo-baroque; and the creation of art works from urban debris. “What stands out is the variety of issues that artists address—from daily life situations, to social behaviors, to economic distress,” points out Fombella. “Some focus on poignant narratives to undermine false notions of comfort and security in times of anxiety, while others revisit past events or appropriate materials to recreate them in a way that is conceptual, edgy, and playful.” While El Museo will exhibit a wide variety of works, the satellite venues will feature art objects grouped by specific themes and/or media. BRIC Rotunda Gallery will showcase video and photo documentation of performance art and other politically motivated works, Lehman College Galleries will focus on animation and illustration, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance will show graffiti works and art objects made of recycled materials, Socrates Sculpture Park will present large scale works made of materials found in urban landscapes, and Times Square Alliance will display a selection of outdoor sculptures on the street. El Museo will produce a map/brochure including information about all venues, works, and artists featured at each location, as well as an illustrated catalogue including essays by Aranda-Alvarado, Bermudez, Fombella, and Fuentes. The artists featured in The (S) Files 2011, whose backgrounds span almost every Latin American country, hail from multiple neighborhoods across New York City including Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx.

June 14, 2011 —January 8, 2012

Outsider FolkArt Gallery presents
Interface: Expressions from the Collection
Opening Reception: September 9, 2011, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Outsider FolkArt Gallery, 201 Washington Street, Suite 504, Reading, PA 19601 (5th Floor, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts), 610.939.1737
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Interface: Expressions from the Collection will feature many important works from the George & Sue Viener Collection. The exhibit, which includes paintings, drawings, ceramic works, sculpture, and mixed media works on wood, paper, and other materials is curated by Emily Branch, Gallery Director, who joined the Outsider Folk Art Gallery this June. Not merely a selection of portraits, Interface dives into various methods and reason for expression spanning Folk Art, Self-Taught and Visionary Art. Comparing and contrasting methodology revolving around historical and personal accounts, this exhibit challenges the viewer to analyze perceptions of “seeing” and individual artist intention.

September 9, 2011 —December 9, 2011

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute presents the exhibition:
Graces Received: Painted and Metal Ex-votos from Italy
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, New York, New York 10036, (Between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Free and open to the public. Please call (212) 642-2094 to pre-register with the Calandra Institute. Be prepared to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge.
The works featured in the exhibition date from 1865 to 1959 and are from the collection of Professor Leonard Norman Primiano of Cabrini College. Within Catholicism, ex-votos are votive objects offered in thanks for heavenly intercession with a misfortune such as an accident or illness. Historically, objects in Italy included metal ex-votos that took the shape of persons (e.g., a soldier, a swaddled infant), afflicted body parts, or hearts representing the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In addition, painted narrative tablets (tavolette), usually on wood, often depicted the dramatic moment of crisis for which intercession was requested. Ex-votos were an important part of the Italian-American religious practices in New York City in the first half of the twentieth century.

September 16, 2011 —January 6, 2012

Philadelphia Folklore Project presents the exhibition:
Cultural Change
Opening: September 16, 2011, 6:00-8:00 p.m., free
Philadelphia Folklore Project, 735 South 50th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19143
Exhibition Hours: Tuesdays and Tursday, 10-6 p.m.
Call 215.726.1106 for more details
Four vanguard cultural workers fill PFP’s gallery with folk arts from the African Diaspora, made and gathered over 40+ years. This new PFP exhibition features Rashie Abdul Samad and Sharif Abdur-Rahim (African Cultural Arts Forum), Frito Bastien, and Isaac Maefield. Folk arts have been resources for these men and sources of value. Cultural Exchange recognizes the significance of their labors, takes inspiration from their 40+ years of diligent and dedicated service, and honors their efforts to shape a future for others (especially others who have been written off, or sacrificed as collateral damage). In making, trading, and re-circulating folk arts, and in constant devotion to others, Rashie Abdul Samad and Sharif Abdur-Rahim, Frito Bastien, and Isaac Maefield have forged ways forward. Humbly and with consistent ethical principles, they have regenerated value, community, beauty, integrity, and resistance. Examples of their work trace community-based movements in formative stages. The exhibition can be experienced in many ways: one way is to take it as a reminder that revolutions begin in everyday actions. Rashie Abdul Samad says: “If anything is going to change, it will come from exchange with each other.” Cultural Exchange aims to create temporary ground for conversational exchange, for considering what we know and what we need to know from one another. You are invited to attend the exhibition and to amplify the stories that can be told about the people, works, and issues represented, and about the future we want to shape together.

September 16, 2011 —December 16, 2011

The Folklife Center of Crandall Public Library presents the exhibition:
Glens Falls Hospital Guild: Over a Century of Community Service
Reception with light refreshments on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4 to 6 p.m.
Monday-Wednesday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday-Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 9 to 5 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY
For more information, call 518/792-6508 or email degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free
This original Folklife Gallery exhibition celebrates the establishment of the Guild’s institutional archives at Crandall Public Library, October as NYS Archives Month, and 25 years of Folklife at Crandall, 1986—2011.

October, 2011 —December, 2011

Albany Institute of History & Art presents the exhibition:
Kids Stuff: Great Toys from Our Childhood
Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12210
Museum Hours: Wednesday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and Sunday: Noon–5:00 p.m.
Call 518.463.4478 for more details
Admission: Adults: $10; Seniors: $8; Students w/ID: $8; Children 6-12: $6; Children under 6: Free. Members are always Free
Slinkys, Wooly Willys, Whee-los, Magic Eight Balls, Magic Yo-Yos, Etch-A-Sketch®, Spirographs, Colorforms, Matchbox® Cars, PEZ Dispensers, LEGO®s, Erector sets, Lionel Trains, Tonkas, Hot Wheels, Frisbee®s, G.I. Joes, Barbie dolls, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, and Mr. Potato Head brought hours of fun and entertainment to kids throughout the 1950s and 60s. Many of these toys from the past still appear on store shelves today, holding their own against the onslaught of computerized games and robotic pets. Kid Stuff, an interactive exhibition based on the book by David Hoffman, takes us back to the age of tailfins and vinyl records with more than 40 vintage toys, which reveal a fascinating look at invention and innovation, social history and industrial growth, play and entertainment. Visitors of all ages will be able to see vintage toys with original packaging and promotional material and have the opportunity to play and interact with contemporary versions. Additional materials such as photos of toy factory interiors, images of children at play, video presentations, and interpretive texts explore the toys’ invention and evolution, how they work, and their significance in American culture. The exhibition was designed by Amy Reichert of Architecture+Design with graphic design and art direction by Winstanley Associates. Kid Stuff will occupy nearly 5,000 square feet in the second floor galleries at the Albany Institute.

October 1, 2011 —March 4, 2012

Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe presents
Tribalism and Transition through Federal Indian Boarding Schools
Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 453 Porter Ave., Buffalo, NY 14201
Opening reception October 18, 2011 from 7-9 p.m.
Exhibit hours: Tues.-Sunday, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.
October 29: Horn demonstration
For more information: Allan Jamieson, 716 381-2758
Features Don Harry’s (member of the Delaware Nation, Anadarko, OK/ Buffalo Philharmonic/ Eastman School of Music Tuba Assoc. Professor) collection of rare horns including a Holton Chief Sousaphone used by John Kuhn who played with John Phillips Sousa band, the Isham Jones Jazz Orchestra and was a member of the Assiniboine Tribe of Montana. Don will also talk of his experiences as a teacher at the Riverside Indian School and what it means to him now.

October 18, 2011 —November 30, 2011

The Folklife Center of Crandall Public Library presents the exhibition:
Dreaming Cows
Opening reception on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 5 to 7 p.m.
Monday-Wednesday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday-Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 9 to 5 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY
For more information, call 518/792-6508 or email degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free
This Folklife Gallery exhibition features the paintings, murals and drawings of Betty LaDuke, inspired by the work of Heifer International.

November 8, 2011 —December, 2011

The Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre presents
GOLEM
La MaMa/Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street, NYC
Special Benefit Performance and Reception: Friday November 18 For tickets ($50 min. donation)
Buy tickets online for all other performances or call 212-475-7110; Tickets: $25 adults, $20 seniors/students
Clay and wood come to life in a marionette musical play based on the Jewish legend of GOLEM, a medieval robot that runs amok in an attempt to protect the Prague Ghetto. Life-size four-foot wooden marionettes interact with puppeteers, dancers and musicians. Written and directed by Vit Horejs. Music by Frank London (of the Klezmatics). Choreography by Naomi Goldberg-Haas. Marionettes by Jakub (Kuba) Krejci. Set Design by Roman Hladik. Costumes by Boris Caksiran. Lighting by Federico Restrepo. PERFORMERS: Janelle Barry, Deborah Beshaw, Fang Du, Scott Crawford, Alan Barnes Netherton, Steven Ryan, Alex Megan Schell, Bridget Struthers, Ronny Wasserstrom. The GOLEM Band: Frank London, trumpet; Jonathan Singer, Xylophone/Percussion; Steven Whipple, Bass; Peter Cancura, winds.

November 17, 2011 — December 4, 2011

Albany Institute of History & Art presents the exhibition:
Temple of Fancy: Pease’s Great Variety Store
Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12210
Museum Hours: Wednesday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and Sunday: Noon–5:00 p.m.
Call 518.463.4478 for more details
Admission: Adults: $10; Seniors: $8; Students w/ID: $8; Children 6-12: $6; Children under 6: Free. Members are always Free
Before F. W. Woolworths’, or Whitney’s, or even Macy’s department store in Albany, there was Pease Great Variety Store located in the Temple of Fancy at 518 Broadway. From the 1840s to the 1860s Pease’s store was something of an upscale “Five and Dime,” where Albany families could purchase fancy goods, toys, household items, children’s books, and games. The building still stands at the corner of Broadway and Pine Street. Richard H. Pease, and later Harry E. Pease, were proprietors of the store and also noted printers. They printed the first Christmas card in America in 1851 (only one of which exists at the Manchester Metropolitan Museum in England) and they also produced the hand-colored lithographs of fruit for Ebenezer Emmons’ Agriculture of New York published between 1846 and 1854. The exhibit will draw from the collections of the Albany Institute and include photographs, prints, children’s books, card games, and puzzles.

November 19, 2011 —March 25, 2012

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