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Anabella Lenzu DanceDrama premieres
The Grass Is Always Greener...
7:30 p.m.
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space, 450 W. 37th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY
General Admission: $20. Tickets at the door
Preview performance for invited guests and media professionals: Studio 6A, Friday, September 9, 2011 at 8 p.m. - 20 minute performance followed by Q&A and refreshments. RSVP required.
RSVP recommended: info@anabellalenzu.com
Conceived and directed by Argentinean choreographer Anabella Lenzu with photographic projections created by Todd Carroll, The Grass is Always Greener... is a gripping, polemical piece of dance theater that hashes the personal, practical, and political struggles of immigrants to the United States. The piece moves in between the turn of the twentieth century, during the great waves of immigration at Ellis Island, and modern day. In a non-linear approach, the work weaves in scenes from our current conflict on U.S. immigration policy, bringing the contemporary debate into sharp relief against historical, forgotten experiences. Five women travel through time, across borders, and along the roads of memory and anticipation. Each carrying her own suitcase filled with memorabilia, images of home, and hopes for a new life, these voyagers are archetypal immigrants caught between cultures. The women arrive in a new land, carrying old traditions to which they no longer relate, finding fault with the home to which they do not yet belong. Past and present are superimposed, the lines of individual narratives blur. As the women unpack their suitcases to share their stories with the audience, Lenzu unpacks the question of what it means to be an immigrant, whether in 1900 or 2011. Dancers: Lauren Ohmer, Trina Mannino, Julia Lindpaintner, Debra Zalkind & Anabella Lenzu.

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) presents
A Culture of Joy & Resilience
WEST AFRICAN DANCE AND MUSIC, AND KENTE CLOTH WEAVING Performance & Workshop
2-4 p.m.
Richmondtown Library, 200 Clarke Avenue (at Amber Street), Staten Island, NY, 718/668-0413
Free and open to the public
Since July of 2011, COAHSI’s “The Culture of Joy & Resilience: Reframing Cultural Conversations on Staten Island” program brought a series of large exhibition panels profiling four community-based folk arts practices to select New York Public Libraries on Staten Island. This fall, COAHSI will bring those artists to three libraries throughout Staten Island to give live presentations and demonstrations about their traditional art forms and heritage. Patrons of these programs will meet the artists and watch live demonstrations and performances and engage in conversations about these important art forms and communities that practice them. Staten Island culture has benefited greatly with the influx of new sounds and rhythms from West Africa over the past two decades. The diversity within this region of Africa is even more complex than the art forms which they carry to our island. This program, at the Richmondtown Public Library, on Saturday, October 1st, will introduce traditional music and dance from Liberia and traditional Kente cloth weaving from Ghana.
See also September 10 and September 18.

Earlville Opera House presents
The Campbell Brothers — Gospel & Blues
8 p.m.
Earlville Opera House, 18 East Main Street, Earlville, NY 13332, 315/691-3550
Order tickets online: $25, $20, $16
The Campbell Brothers present Sacred Steel: African-American gospel music with electric steel guitar and vocal. This tradition is just now emerging from the House of God Keith Dominion Church, where for over sixty years it has been an integral part of worship and a vital, if little known, American tradition. As the music moves from sanctuary to concert hall, secular audiences are now able to appreciate a performance both devoted and rocking. Pedal steel guitarist Chuck Campbell and his lap steel-playing brother Darick are two of the finest in this tradition. Rounding out the band, which has been playing together for nearly two decades, is a high-energy rhythm section featuring brother Phil Campbell on electric guitar and his son Carlton on drums. Katie Jackson’s classic, gutsy gospel vocals bring the ensemble to a level of energy and expression that defies description.

Caffè Lena presents
See the Future! Saturday Night Sampler
Featuring Hungrytown and Dana & Susan Robinson
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $10 at door
Tonight’s See the Future concert pairs two husband-and-wife duos that draw deeply from the roots of American folk music. Conjuring the ancient, haunting songs of Appalachia and the British Isles, Rebecca Hall of Hungrytown has been hailed as “a true rarity: a new folk classicist” by the Boston Herald. Combined with husband Ken Anderson’s rootsy musical arrangements and ‘60s-era pop harmonies, the result is an altogether new, yet curiously familiar style they call “retro folk.” Standing face to face, so close that their guitars almost touch, they sing into the same mic, evoking scenes from the glory days of the Grand Ole Opry. Dana and Susan Robinson are guitar-playing, banjo-frailing, fiddle-sawing, and harmony-singing interpreters of the American experience. Their blend of contemporary songwriting and traditional Appalachian music brings to their performances the authentic flavor America’s musical heritage. They can make the audience howl with laughter or hush with poignant reflection as they take us on a journey that conveys the mystery and wonder of America.

Valley Folk Music presents
North Sea Gas — Folk Music from Scotland
6:00-7:25 p.m. Pre-concert jam session
Concert starts 7:30 p.m.
Drake House Studio Theater at 171 Cedar Arts Center, 155 Cedar St., Corning, NY 14830 (corner Cedar and First Streets)
For more information, (607) 962-4461, info@valleyfolk.org
Cost: $12 at the door. Full time students (high school, college) with valid ID and wheel chair occupants, half price. Children under 14 free with adult.
One of Scotland’s most popular folk bands, North Sea Gas—featuring Dave Gilfillan, Grant Simpson, and Ronnie MacDonald—have been performing for over thirty years. With their songs, new and old, great instrumentals, history, and more, they provide a rousing show. Their strong vocals featuring three part harmonies, and their sense of fun make it a great time for everyone. They have recorded 14 albums and are constantly adding new material to their show. Over the years they have played to audiences all over Great Britain, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Canada and the United States. They have headlined the Hunter Mountain Celtic Festival in New York State, and have attracted large audiences to concerts held during the Edinburgh Festival over the past 16 years.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Songs of the Sufis: UstadeMaa Zila Khan
8:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY
Tickets: $$35. $30 for WMI Friends. Buy tickets online.
Acclaimed for her mesmerizing vocals, UstadeMaa Zila Khan has been called “the Sufi legend of the new millennium.” She is a daughter and disciple of the late maestro sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan, and was the first woman in the Khan family – whose musical lineage goes back seven generations – to sing in public. A leading Sufi singer in India, she performs in the Imadkhana gharana (tradition) of her esteemed family. In addition to Sufi songs, she has a commanding style in classical ragas and has revived the old-world style of ghazals (semi-classical songs). This program marks a rare New York appearance.

The Dewey Hall Folk Series presents
The Beeline Ramblers
7:30 p.m.
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA
Suggested Donation: $15; Refreshments
Mark your calendars for the first Saturday of each month — beautiful, intimate setting, checkered tablecloths, superior acoustics, and exceptional local, national, and international musicians. Lisa and Fran Mandeville, the Beeline Ramblers, perform original songs and those from the American traditions. They play guitar, mandolin, banjo, dulcimer and more. All audiences welcome.

Caffè Lena presents
Doc Marshalls
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $15 advance / $17 at door (How to get tickets)
After years of preaching roots music in NYC’s indie rock venues, where these city troubadours have long sought to make converts of even the most country-shy souls, The Doc Marshalls’ front man, Nick Beaudoing, has recently moved the band’s headquarters from NYC to Nashville, arriving in Twangtown with an album that melds the best of both worlds. Whereas their previous records evoked the Texas-Louisiana borderlands with honky-tonk shuffles and breakneck Cajun two-steps, the bands new material favors crooked, shimmering folk and lush melodies.

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

Music at the Dorsky: BELLA WINDS
Museum open 5-6 p.m. Reception begins at 5:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
Samuel Dorskey Museum of Art, SUNY-New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, NY 12561, 845-257-3844
Cost: $8 general admission/ $6 seniors, faculty, staff/ $3 students
Bella Winds, a woodwind trio composed of flute, clarinet, and bassoon, will perform world music that includes traditional Irish, Jewish, Ragtime, and Broadway.

The Gotham Center presents a Fall 2011 History Forum:
Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
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
This Forum features the new book, Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land, edited by Paul Buhle and Harvey Pekar (Abrams). Join us for a night with contributors and friends of the new comic exploration of the history, literature, music and current revival of Yiddishkeit. Yiddish is everywhere. We hear words like nosh, chutzpah, and schlep all the time, but how did these words come to pepper American English? Through illustrations, comics arts, and a full-length play, four major themes are explored: culture, performance, assimilation, and the revival of the language. The last fully realized work by Harvey Pekar, this book is a thoughtful compilation that reveals the far-reaching influences of Yiddish. Panelists include playright/actor Allen Lewis Rickman, National Yiddish Book Center founder Aaron Lansky, artists Ben Katchor, Danny Fingeroth and Sabrina Jones, Jewish Currents editors Larry Bush and historian Paul Buhle.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club invite you to a
Folk Open Sing
7-10 p.m.
Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West (basement), 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. Hosted by Ethical Culture/Good Coffeehouse, FMSNY, Alison Kelley, and Frank Woerner. Info: 212-636-6341, or Laura, 718-788-7563.

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 October 5 Luisito Rosario & Orchestra October 12 Manny Oquendo’s Libre October 19 Ralphy Sabater y Su Charanga October 26 Cita Rodriguez & Orchestra HALLOWEEN PARTY! DRESS TO WIN! Arts & Crafts at Salsa Wednesday: Art by Tanya Torres, Wearable Art by Nanette Sanchez-Velasquez of Old Earth Creates, Graphic Art by Arieana Rodriguez and Handmade Dolls by Mercedes Molina

Join Taller Boricua, Cemí Underground and Comité Noviembre for a Henry Medina Archives Presentation:
Film Screening: SOÑANDO CON PUERTO RICO / DREAMING WITH PUERTO RICO
Live Music: A NIGHT OF PLENA WITH EL RINCÓN CRIOLLO / CASITA DE CHEMA
7 p.m.
Taller Boricua’s MultiArts Space at 1680 Lexington Avenue, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, (between 105th and 106th Streets), New York, NY
Cost: $7; Casita de Chema members $5
For more information please email Henry Medina
A rare vintage film presentation from The Henry Medina Archives, a private researcher and collector. This film highlights the Puerto Rican composers, bandleaders, musicians and vocalist who migrated from Puerto Rico to New York City and lived in El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) during the early 20th century. Hosts and Hostesses for the evening will be Ivan Torres, Doris Ascencio, Carmen Torres, and Henry Medina. With award ceremonies and surprises and music performance by LOS INSTANTANEOS DE LA PLENA.

Caffè Lena presents
Seamus Kennedy
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $15 advance / $17 at door (How to get tickets)
Tonight we’ll answer a burning question: is the world ready for an Irish cowboy in a kilt and chaps?! As a kid growing up in Belfast, Ireland, young Seamus Kennedy loved old Western movies with singing cowboys—Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Eddie Dean; and the non-singing ones such as Hopalong Cassidy, the Durango Kid and Lash LaRue; and their wonderful sidekicks. Throughout his 30+ years as the premiere pub-style Irish entertainer in America, Seamus has always mixed a few cowboy songs in with his Celtic material. At long last, Seamus has put together a whole album of western songs called Sagebrush and Sidekicks. It features classics of the genre ranging from comical to inspiring to poignant, all delivered by a seasoned entertainer with an endless store of quick wit and riotous stories.

Strivers Art Circuit (SAC) — Harlem
Friday, October 7, 6 p.m. Free opening reception, Strivers Gardens Gallery, 300 W. 135th Street at Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY
Tour dates: Saturday, October 8 and Sunday October 9, 12-6 p.m.
RSVP to the Harlem Arts Alliance.
Strivers Art Circuit (SAC) is a free, self-guided walking tour of Harlem art venues and artist studios, allowing participants to view some of Harlem’s visual and craft artists at work. Featuring art studios and venues in the Strivers Row corridor, SAC is a collaboration created to develop a hub of arts activity and thereby gain increased visibility and exposure for SAC participants. All venues and studios are open for public viewing and selling of work. You can view a list of participating venues and artists here.

Chesapeake Wildfowl Expo
Admission to event and museum is free
Pig Roast Dinner, Friday evening, 4:30-6:30 p.m.; Dinner tickets: $13. Call 410-742-4988 x 120 to purchase tickets
The Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, 9090 South Schumaker Drive, Salisbury, MD 21804, 410/742-4988
Join decoy collectors, carvers, and enthusiasts for two days of fun, food, and competitions. The Buy, Sell and Trade is an important part of this event. It is a great place to begin or add to your own collection of decoys, waterfowling collectibles, or folk art. There are still a limited number of spaces available for vendors. Bring your decoys in for free identification and appraisals. This year, the “Old Bird” Antique Competition is a canvasback. See decoys from up to 10 regional areas, around the United States, which offer great examples of the different carving styles and techniques used to create this graceful duck. It is always interesting to see what new decoys the competitors of the Chesapeake Challenge are bringing to the event.

Caffè Lena presents
We’re About 9
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $14 advance / $12 at door (How to get tickets)
Maryland duo We’re About 9 is renowned for their soaring harmonies and whimsical, outside-the-box songwriting. They call it “short format fiction, large format harmony.” Their edgy, charming, dissonant and robust approach to modern folk appeals to those just discovering this corner of the music world, as well as to those who have inhabited it happily for years. They work hard and take the craft seriously, but their presentation is all about fun.

Fundraiser Concert: HOOPS FOR HAITI
3 p.m.
Taino Towers, 240 East 123rd Street (Near 2nd Ave), New York, NY
Cost: $15 general admission; $20 seating at table
For more information: Call Nancy B. True, 212/807-0555 (office), 646-484-1211 (cell); email hoopsforhaiti@local237.org, Website: www.local237.org/hoops-for-haiti
Participating Artists: Tato Laviera, La Bruja, Tiga Jean Baptiste and Tchaka, Hoops for Haiti Quartet, Sergio Rivera Dance Band, DJ David Gonzalez, and the Beraca Baptist Church Youth Choir. City Employees Union Local 237 of the Teamsters, along with community partners, organized this fundraiser to help Haitians who remain injured and sick in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake. The goal of Hoops for Haiti is to raise funds for the Registered Nurses Response Network (RNRN), a nonprofit 501(c)3 roganization, which has sent multiple deployments of volunteer nurses to the island. HELP THE PEOPLE OF HAITI.

MoHu Festival
Begins Sundown October 8, 2011
Multiple venues
Check calendar online for list of events. Tickets and pricing for individual events available online.
MoHu is a celebration of the vitality of the arts and culture in the Capital Region of New York State, the area that borders the Mohawk and Hudson. 2011 marks the inaugural outing of this annual 9 day-long arts festival in Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties. MoHu features theatre, dance, music, visual and random acts of art throughout the region. Nearly 150 regional arts and cultural organizations are coordinating several hundred events. From performances to exhibitions, gallery openings and lectures, MoHu will offer attendees a wide array of experiences.

City Lore presents
¡Azúcar!: Celebrating Celia Cruz
A Panel Discussion
1:00 p.m.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx
Admission: Free
For more information: bsahd@thewoodlawncemetery.org
Join us for panel discussion devoted to Celia Cruz’s early life in Cuba and Mexico, followed by a performance by The Celia Cruz High School of Music Latin Jazz Ensemble, and a tour of the Celia Cruz mausoleum. The panel will be moderated by Grammy-nominated musician Bobby Sanabria and will include Jazz Master Cándido Camero, vocalist Lupe O’Farrill and music agent Richie Bonilla.
See also October 20 event below.

Caffè Lena presents
Alash Ensemble
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance / $20 at door (How to get tickets)
Alash Ensemble is a quartet of master throat singers from Tuva, a tiny republic in the heart of Central Asia. The ancient art of throat singing, with its profoundly deep bass notes and complex double tones, developed among the nomadic herdsmen of this region. Inspired by the music of their ancestors, Alash is, at the same time, influenced by such bold western artists as Sun Ra and Jimi Hendrix. Yet Alash never sacrifices the integrity of their heritage to make their music more hip for an American audience. Rather, they look for contemporary ideas that mesh well with the sound and feel of traditional Tuvan music, introducing some western instruments and new harmonies and song structures to create an intriguing mixture of old and new. Alash has collaborated with the innovative jazz ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra, the bluegrass/fusion/jazz band Béla Fleck and Flecktones, and the classical Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Student Producers Program. They are guest artists on the Flecktones Grammy-winning holiday CD Jingle All the Way.

The Dewey Hall (The Sheffield Friendly Union) announces its first ever
Anything Goes—People’s Choice Pie Contest
3-5 p.m.
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA
To participate, bake a sweet or savory pie of your choice and let the public be the judge! Judging cards will be sold for $5 each, one card per person. Proceeds will benefit Dewey Hall. Judging begins at 3 p.m. King Arthur Flour gift cards will be awarded for the first ($75), second ($50), and third place ($25). The contest is open to any age. Please deliver your pies to Dewey Hall from noon to 3 p.m. on October 9, 2011. Include your name and the recipe, preferably typed. Come-bake-eat-meet folks at the Sheffield Friendly Union. Call Barbara Delmolino for more details at: 413-229-8696

The An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance presents the
Multi-Media Lecture and Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party:
The Hidden Musical Treasures of Romania: A Fulbright Scholar’s Quest
featuring Jake Shulman-Ment with Michael Alpert
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, Manhattan
Admission: $15/$10 for CJH, CTMD & Workmen’s Circle Members
Join klezmer violinist Jake Shulman-Ment on a multi-media musical travelogue of his year as a Fulbright Scholar exploring the deep roots that connect Romanian music and klezmer music. Based in the city of Botosani, in Romanian Moldavia, Shulman-Ment conducted field research with elderly Roma (Gypsy) musicians, organized and performed in a ten-city musical tour of old Romanian synagogues, and even played a concert for the U.S. Ambassador as a soloist with the regional folk orchestra. Klezmer revival pioneer Michael Alpert will serve as a respondent to Shulman-Ment’s talk. After the lecture, please join us in the Great Hall for a Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party led by Michael Alpert, featuring rare Romanian-Jewish repertoire and a free reception. Presented in partnership with the Center for Jewish History and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club invite you to an
Irish Session
8-11 p.m.
Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan
Free, musicians welcome. Co-sponsored by FMSNY. For more info, (212) 247-2562 or visit The Landmark Tavern. See also October 17 and October 24.

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 Strong National Museum of Play
2011-2012 Making American Music Series
Sizzling Latin Jazz, featuring the Mambo Kings
7:30 p.m.
Strong National Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square, Rochester, NY 14607
Cost: For tickets, call 585-263-2700: nonmember $19; museum member $16; senior (age 62 and older),or student $17.
Feel the rhythms as Afro-Cuban dance music meets jazz improvisation. From rumba to cha-cha to salsa and beyond, the Mambo Kings put their blistering Latin twists on songs such as “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” “Nostalgia,” and the Beatles hit “Daytripper.”

Caffè Lena presents
Catie Curtis
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $24 advance / $26 at door (How to get tickets)
When the singer/songwriter movement boomed in the mid-90s, Catie Curtis was at its forefront. Now a veteran artist with a 15-year career, Curtis has recorded ten critically acclaimed solo albums and has had songs featured in numerous TV shows including Dawson’s Creek, Felicity, Grey’s Anatomy and Alias, as well as in films such as 500 Miles to Graceland and A Slipping Down Life. She is here tonight to celebrate the release of her eleventh record, Stretch Limousine on Fire (Compass Records). On the new album, Curtis, a Lilith Fair alum whose been dubbed a “folk-rock goddess” by The New Yorker, delivers spirited, unique songs that explore harsh moments in life that are tempered with moments of fleeting beauty.

City Lore is pleased to partner with the Irish Arts Center to present
A Tribute to Harrigan & Hart, The Original Men Who Owned Broadway
8:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY
Admission: Orchestra $45 general/ $35 City Lore members; Tier 2 $38 general/ $25 students
For more information: 212/864-5400
The concert features our good friend, master musician, and fellow folklorist Mick Moloney and an All-Star Line Up with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, The Green Fields of America: Athena Tergis, Billy McComiskey, Brendan Dolan, and Niall O’Leary, Susan McKeown, Dana Lyn, John Roberts, Dave Ruch, Murray Callahan, Chris Simmons, Poor Baby Bree, Maureen Murphy, The Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra and more...In the 1870s, decades before George M. Cohan burst onto the Broadway stage, the songs of his hero Edward “Ned” Harrigan were the toast of New York. Harrigan’s ballads of working class immigrants—filled with lovable characters like Dan Mulligan, John McSorley, the owner of McSorley’s Irish Ale House, Tammany Alderman Old Boss Barry, and Mary Ann, the schoolteacher—set the stage for an entirely novel genre of musical comedy.

Caffè Lena presents
See the Future! Saturday Night Sampler
Featuring Bread & Bones and Sally Spring
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $10 at door
Tonight’s See the Future concert pairs two mature ensembles whose original folk songs and interpretations of familiar classics have an emotional depth that goes beyond the ordinary. South Carolina singer-songwriter Sally Spring is one of those artists instantly recognizable as the real deal. Called “a treasure” (Gene Parsons, The Byrds) and “a gem” (Bob Harris, BBC), Sally’s “transfixing, gorgeous alto” (Sing Out!), “first-rate compositions” (No-Depression) and “fantastic phrasing” (Net Rhythms, UK) give her folk ballads a yank-at-your-heartstrings emotional power that is mesmerizing. Accompanied by her husband, the eclectic, rhythmic Ted Lyons on vintage resonator guitar and stripped down drumkit, Sally’s voice and lyrics paint an Americana musical portrait that “reaches deep inside, is beautifully layered, has something to say, and generates emotional heat that is white hot.” (Americana UK). Bread & Bones is a Vermont-based, harmony-driven acoustic trio performing new music steeped in folk tradition. Their style has been compared to Richard Shindell, Richard Thompson, and John Gorka—soulful, rootsy, haunting songs that paint a landscape in your imagination. Mixing originals, traditional songs from America and the British Isles, songs by other songwriters and a few jazz standards, Bread & Bones has achieved national recognition on the folk festival circuit and back home their 2008 album was named Vermont’s Best Traditional Album.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents
Every Tongue Under the Sun
8 p.m.
OSA Hall, 220 E 23rd St., Suite 707, Manhattan
Admission $5.00, FREE to all full-time students under age 23, and to all under 18 years of age. Tickets at the door.
Info: 212-957-8386.
Since 2007, each October we have presented a concert as part of the worldwide celebration of Daniel Pearl World Music Days, an international network of concerts that use the power of music to reaffirm our commitment to tolerance and humanity. Since 2002, Daniel Pearl World Music Days has grown to include the participation of more than 6,700 performances in 111 countries. We present traditional songs in as many languages as we can muster (our record to date is 26), sung by our members and others. Anyone is invited to come and sing. We’ve had songs gathered from parents and grandparents, songs learned in school or at camp, songs picked up on vacations abroad. As well as most European languages, we’ve had songs in several Asian and African languages. And we start with “Humpty Dumpty” in Latin.

Historic House Trust invites you to the
Historic House Festival
Partnering with Open House New York
A Culinary Exploration of New York City’s Unique Heritage
Join the Historic House Trust of New York City as it celebrates New York City History Never Tasted So Good. On this special weekend, 23 historic houses located in parks across the five boroughs will open their doors for history and food-related events, exclusive tours, lectures, and more, offering a fun and memorable way to explore the city’s rich heritage. Teas, tours, tastings, and family fun. Visit the website for information on specific locations, events, and admission charges.

CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites Abstracts (sessions, papers and posters) for the Program of the 72nd Annual Meeting: “Bays, Boundaries, and Borders.” In Baltimore, MD, March 27-31, 2012. The Society is a multi-disciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution. We welcome papers from all disciplines. This meeting invites advocates, activists, policy makers, scholars and researchers to respond creatively to the 2012 program theme, “Bays, Boundaries and Borders,” with papers, posters, roundtable discussions, sessions or videos on a broad range of issues, problems or topics including those that arise from the interaction of people with their natural or community environments; those that help us better understand or “push beyond” the current boundaries of our knowledge, methods, practices or theories in helping resolve human problems; and those focused on border control and the crossing or transport of goods, people or ideas across borders. More... The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2011. For additional information on the theme, abstract size/format, and the meeting, please visit www.sfaa.net/sfaa2012.html.

Long Island Traditions announces PARAGUAYAN DANCE CLASSES East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front Street, East Meadow, NY 11554-1700, 516.794.2570 October 15–November 5, 2011 LI Traditions and the East Meadow Public Library will present a wonderful interactive series of dance workshops for the whole family this fall. It is so much fun and these teachers make you feel as if you can really dance. The dance class series on Paraguayan Dance will be led by Berta Gauto and master teachers from the Panamabi Vera Dance Company. The 4-class series will take place on Saturdays, October 15–November 5, with a performance on November 5th. Beginners and experts of all ages 5 and up are welcome! Registration begins on Thursday, September 15 by calling 794-2570 ext. 560 or register online at eastmeadow.info. Saturdays, October 15, 22, 29 and November 5: 1-1/2 hour dance lesson from 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. each Saturday. The November 5 performance will take place at 2 p.m. (Note: There will be a regularly scheduled class before the performance.) PORTUGUESE DANCE CLASSES Mineola Library, 195 Marcellus Road, Mineola, NY 11501 October 29–December 10, 2011 The Mineola Library and Long Island Traditions are pleased to announce a special Portuguese dance class series that will take place at the Mineola library this Fall featuring Antonio (Tony) DaSilva, a first generation Portuguese American and Mineola native who joined Rancho Juventude in 1989. He will be assisted by Michelle Carlos and Jose Macedo of Rancho Juventude. There will be four classes, each 1-1/2 hours beginning at 11:30 a.m. Two styles of dance steps, the Vira and Chula/Malho will be taught. Advanced sign up required. On December 10 there will also be performance by Ranchos Juventude following the morning class. The classes will take place in the library’s Community Room. For reservations call (516) 746-8488 ext. 2 or email mineola@nassaulibrary.org

El Museo del Barrio presents
SUPER SABADO! Día de los Muertos Celebration
11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street, New York, NY 10029
Admission: Free
Lift your spirits at this ever-popular Super Sábado as we celebrate Mexico’s beloved 3,000 year-old tradition that commemorates friends and relatives who have passed away with a procession through Central Park, art-making, music, face painting, and more. Kick off the festivities with a colorful procession through Central Park, accompanied by musical guests Atl Tlachinolli and La Santa Cecilia. We begin inside Central Park at 110th Street, and ends at El Museo. Our featured band, La Santa Cecilia, fuses up-tempo rhythms like Cumbia and Bossa Nova with the nostalgic Bolero and passionate Tango, blending in Afro-Cuban percussion, Rock and Jazz in a concert at 4:00 p.m. LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs hosts a night of multilingual verse, narrative, indigenous song and innovation in celebration of Day of the Dead from 7-9 p.m. Throughought the evening, these poets will showcase the many roots that thrive in our blood memory. Special guests include Odi Gonzales, Mónica de la Torre, Soni Moreno, and Jennifer Celestin with short films from the project “Son Siglos” by poet and filmmaker Marco Villalobos. View website for all the Day’s activities.

Caffè Lena presents
Professor Louie & the Crowmatix
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $20 advance / $22 at door (How to get tickets)
This Woodstock quintet originally was formed to serve as the studio backing band for CDs by Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm and The Band. They offer the most impressive credentials, the deepest hearts, and a genuine love of performing live. Their latest CD, Whispering Pines, received no fewer than five Grammy nominations in 2010! Enjoy a night of their rompin’, stompin’ roots rock, sweet ballads, and roadhouse blues led by Professor Louie on keyboards and accordion, joined by Miss Marie on vocals and percussion, Gary Burke (Bob Dylan, Joe Jackson, Graham Parker) on drums, Frank Campbell (Levon Helm, Asleep At The Wheel) on bass, and Josh Colow (Jesse Winchester, Livingston Taylor) on guitar.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Garifuna Soul: Aurelio Martinez
10:00 p.m.
Zankel Hall @ Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue, New York, NY
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
Aurelio Martinez, from a small fishing village in Honduras, is a passionate figure in the music of the Afro Caribbean Garifuna, whose traditions have only recently garnered international attention. Aurelio, a soulful and evocative singer/guitarist/composer, is noted both for his preservation and modernization of Garifuna music, a tradition rooted in sacred spirit possession practices. With his ensemble, Garifuna Soul, he brings a bittersweet vocal style to the guitar accompanied paranda ballad and other forms.

Museum at Eldridge Street presents
Open House New York
This event is part of openhousenewyork, America’s largest architecture and design event
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street/Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free. RSVP required.
RSVP: hgriff@eldridgestreet.org
Explore the Eldridge Street Synagogue, one of New York City’s most dazzling architectural landmarks. Learn more about the history of this landmark house of worship, its award-winning restoration, and the new stained-glass rose window by artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans. Offerings include tours (every half hour), a panel discussion with the artisans who worked on the window (noon), and ongoing art activities for children.

Caffè Lena presents
Jack Williams
With Opener Eric-Scott Guthrie
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance / $20 at door (How to get tickets)
South Carolina’s Jack Williams has spent more than fifty years on the road developing “a musical style that’s equal parts folk storytelling and Tin Pan Alley songcraft, delivered with the impassioned soul of an old blues singer.” (No Depression) Avoiding the compromises of the commercial music industry, Jack prefers touring under the radar, playing concerts with a more personal connection to his listeners. In addition to his solo career, as a guitarist he has accompanied such luminaries as Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, Mickey Newbury and Harry Nilsson. From acclaimed appearances at the Newport, Boston, Philadelphia, Kerrville, New Bedford SummerFest Folk Festivals, his musicianship, songs, stories and commanding presence have established him as an uncommonly inspiring and influential performer. Opener Eric-Scott Guthrie is a North Carolina songwriter with a distinctive voice and a unique guitar style that is at times extraordinarily cerebral, at other times raw and purely emotional. He toes a line that few performers manage to walk as he spins his yarns of love, life, loss, and discovery into a beautiful tapestry.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club invites you to a
Shanty Sing
2-5 p.m.
Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY.
Voluntary donation is requested.
For further info, contact Bob Conroy at 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 3rd Sunday of every month. Refreshments will be available, including beer and wine for sale. Snug Harbor is accessible by the S40 bus from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and by car.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club invite you to an
Irish Session
8-11 p.m.
Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan
Free, musicians welcome. Co-sponsored by FMSNY. For more info, (212) 247-2562 or visit The Landmark Tavern. See also October 10 and October 24.

Sadaodi:yos (Lend a Good Ear) — Words from our Haudenosaunee Elders Friends of Ganondagan’s 2011 Native American Lecture Series
The Natural World: Our Responsibility As Human Beings — Oren Lyons
7-9 p.m.
Nazareth College Shults Center, 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
Chief Oren Lyons, Jr., faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, is recognized throughout the world as a human rights advocate, environmentalist, author, speaker, and artist. He will speak about the problems that arise when we neglect our responsibilities in connection to the natural world.
See also September 28, November 3, and November 15 for related events.

National Trust for Historic Preservation presents
ALTERNATING CURRENTS
National Preservation Conference
Buffalo, New York
The National Preservation Conference is the premier educational and networking event for historic preservation professionals, volunteer leaders, and advocates. Expert practitioners lead approximately 100 educational and field sessions, all designed to provide tools that participants can use to improve their own communities. Check back for more information for this year’s conference to be held in Buffalo. To learn more about travel grant opportunities, visit Museumwise. Sign up to receive more information and be notified when registration opens.

City Lore presents
¡Azúcar!: Celebrating Celia Cruz
A Panel Discussion
6:00 p.m.
Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, 928 Simpson Street, Bronx, NY
Admission: Free
For more information: Joseph McCarthy, jmccarthy@casitamaria.org
City Lore presents a celebration of Celia Cruz’s birthday, with a panel devoted to Ms. Cruz as a icon and her image in different media. The panel will be moderated by Elena Martínez of City Lore and will feature: filmmaker Leon Gast, who will show an assortment of clips from his films which feature Celia, Celia’s hairdresser, Ruth Sánchez, and scholar Licia Fiol-Matta. The opening reception of Alexis Rodríguez-Duarte’s photography exhibition, “Presenting Celia Cruz” will follow. Refreshments will be served.
See also October 9 event above.

American Studies Association presents its
2011 Annual Meeting: “Imagination, Reparation, Transformation”
Hilton Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, MD
Register for the meeting and join the ASA
The American Studies Association is the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history. The conference features a wide assortment of panels featuring queer politics, diasporas, and aesthetics; labor and class studies; humor, popular culture and material culture; music and sound; religion, religious embodiment, and the politics of religion; race/ethnicities and gender/sexuality in their multiple permutations. Presenters this year include visual, performing and literary artists, medical and legal professionals, and activists in a variety of areas as well as academics from a wide range of fields. See the full schedule online.

Folk Arts in Education Professional Development Workshop for Artists and Teachers Friday, October 21, 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Celtic Hall, 430 New Karner Road, Albany, NY MEET traditional artists from a variety of backgrounds DISCOVER resources available for arts in education MAKE curriculum connections to traditional arts ENHANCE local learning possibilities Led by Arts in Education Specialist Dr. Amanda Dargan of City Lore, Inc. Featured Artist: Andes Manta FREE, but registration is required. For further information, contact Lisa at the New York Folklore Society at 518-346-7008, or lisa@nyfolklore.org. Amanda Dargan holds a Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Arts in Education Director for City Lore, Inc., a folk arts organization in Manhattan. In a joint effort with the Bank Street College of Education, Amanda Dargan pioneered a program of staff development sessions and seminars for teachers, administrators, and artists on how to integrate cultural studies and the arts into the core curriculum. Through a national initiative, Amanda Dargan and Paddy Bowman of the National Task Force on Folk Arts in Education have offered these trainings on how to effectively and creatively use students’ and communities’ resources in classrooms throughout the United States. Funding for this initiative is made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Caffè Lena presents
Christine Lavin & Don White
7 and 9:30 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $25 advance / $27 at door (How to get tickets)
Christine Lavin’s smart and funny sense of irony and wit covers a lot of territory: RELATIONSHIPS (“What Was I Thinking?”) and LIFE’S INJUSTICES (“Attractive Stupid People”) to name two. Her zany antics and comforting, warm personality have made her the folk world’s favorite comedienne. Don White comes from the world of stand-up. He’s a family man whose funny and often touching songs go straight to the heart. He makes us see the humor in the dark and dreary moments of our everyday lives, and suddenly they don't seem so dark and dreary anymore. In a world where comedy often has a biting edge, this duo stands out for the “empathy, kindness and universality that fuels their songwriting. Always, they look for the lyric, the poetic image, the gag, that reminds us what we share, not what sets us apart.” (Scott Alarik, Boston Globe)

Debbie Davies Band
9 p.m.
The Parting Glass Irish Pub, 40-42 Lake Avenue ~ Saratoga Springs, NY, (518) 583-1916
Tickets: $16 limited advance/$20/$25 VIP
After a stint as sidewoman for Albert Collins, Debbie Davies then embarked on a solo career that has resulted in her playing blues festivals worldwide and releasing nine critically acclaimed albums. Peer recognition has also flowed: she followed up her 2009 WC Hardy Award as Best Female Artist with a similar piece of hardware from the Blues Music Association in 2010.

Smith Center for the Arts and the Finger Lakes Latino Film Festival presents the
FILM: “Danzon”
Lobby opens at 6 p.m. with an exhibition of images from Geneva immigrant cultures through the years sponsored by the Geneva Historical Society
6:30-7:00 p.m. Sample of Latin Dance on stage
7:00 p.m. Film
Cost: $3 Danzon Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon—a Cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every Wednesday, Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old “Salon Colonia.” They’ve danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia’s life forever. Rated PG 120 minutes in Spanish with English Subtitles. After the film, the evening concludes with the band Los Arpegios in the downstairs cabaret.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Folk Colombia Músíca y Danza present
Encuentro Family Day
1-5 p.m.
Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Queens, NY
Tickets: $10/$8 members; $5 children/$4 member children
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, FolkColombia Músíca y Danza and the VIII Encuentro de Músícos Colombianos en Nueva York present Encuentro Family Day on Saturday. This family-friendly spin-off of the renowned annual Encuentro festival celebrates Colombian music in NYC and features concerts by master Colombian musicians and workshops for families. Come meet the artists and learn about musical instruments from Colombia up-close, dance to Colombian rhythms, purchase delicious Colombian food from Mama’s Empanadas, and celebrate! Produced by Pablo and Anna Mayor.
Program Highlights:

• Grupo Rebolú from Colombia’s Caribbean coast with vocalist/percussionist Ronald Polo and master drummer Morris Cañate plus a Caribbean coast dance workshop with Lucy Cruz
• Grupo Chonta from Colombia’s Pacific coast—African-influenced music with master marimbist Diego “Yiyo” Obregón plus a Pacific Coast Dance workshop with Daniel Fetecua Soto
• Native gaita flute workshop with Martín Vejarano of La Cumbiamba eNeYe
• Llanero storytelling through music from Colombia’s Plains with Johanna Castañeda y su Grupo Llanero
• A Maypole-type ribbon dance to the torbellino rhythms of a traditional Andean guitar trio led by Alejandro Florez
• Carnival parade with masks

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club invite you to a celebration of the
North American Urban Folk Music of the 1960s
Opening Panel: The Great Folk Scare 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Hoot in the Afternoon 2:45-6:00 p.m.
Evening Concert 7:30-10:00 p.m.
LREI — Elisabeth Irwin High School, 40 Charlton Street, New York, NY (between Varick Street and Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village)
Admission for the full day is $40; the afternoon program or evening concert alone is $25. Tickets for children or full-time students will be $20 for the full day or $15 for either afternoon or evening.
Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at www.naufm.eventbrite.com. For information please see www.folkmusicny.org/60s or call 718-672-6399.
The term Urban Folk Music refers to the city-based folk music revival that began in the 1940s and 1950s and became a significant part of the popular culture in the 1960s. This daylong event will present well over a dozen musicians who were actually there in the 1960s. Some were part of the Greenwich Village scene here in New York, others were part of the folk music revival in other cities, and yet others were part of the college campus or summer camp folk music circuits. North American Urban Folk Music of the 1960s will begin at 1:00 p.m. with The Great Folk Scare, a 90-minute panel overview of the 1960s featuring Alix Dobkin, Nick O’Han, Jerry Rasmussen, and Heather Wood. Steve Suffet will moderate. This will be followed from 2:45 to 6:00 p.m. by Hoot in the Afternoon, a two-part round robin concert. After a break for dinner, the event will conclude with a formal concert from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. featuring Jeff Davis, Bev Grant and the Dissident Daughters, Happy Traum, Heather Wood, and a short performance by members of the LREI Music Department. Other participants will include Jerry Epstein, Toby Fagenson, Luke Faust, Charlie Ipcar, Pat Lamanna, Lisa Null, Anne Price, and Peter Stampfel. The host, the Little Red School House — Elizabeth Irwin High School, has long made folk music an essential part of their curriculum, so this is a very special place to celebrate the folk music of the 1960s.

The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents
New Orleans Masquerade Ball
Featuring Doc Scanlon’s Voodoo Boys
7 p.m
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180, 518-273-0552
Tickets can be purchased online or at the door
Cost: Members $12, Non-Members, $15
Please join us this Saturday for a New Orleans Masquerade Ball! The evening will start off with a 7 p.m. dance lesson with our talented instructor Jason Fenton. From 8-11:30 p.m., there will be live music and dancing. No costume is necessary, but feel free to wear a mask, paint your face, or make your own at the mask-making table. New Orleans-style food, beer and wine will be available for purchase. Prizes will be awarded for a dance contest and best mask.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, The Ukrainian Museum, and New York Bandura Ensemble/Bandura Downtown invite you to
After the Wedding: Ballads of Marital Mayhem
7 p.m.
The Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. 6th Street, (bet. 2nd and 3rd Aves.) New York, NY 10003
A Tickets $15; discounts available for seniors and CTMD/Museum members. For tickets in advance visit the museum’s website. For further information call 212-228-0110.
After the Wedding: Ballads of Marital Mayhem is a concert offered in conjunction with the closing of the current Ukrainian weddings exhibition at the Ukrainian Museum in Manhattan’s East Village. A free reception will follow the concert.

Caffè Lena presents
Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $16 advance / $18 at door (How to get tickets)
Born in New Jersey, daughter to a big-band singer, Karen Savoca found her heart’s home in the rural environs of upstate New York. “Karen Savoca lives her life down in the dirt. . . . Her songs and her music are her seeds, and her rich, supple, creative vocal style is her hoe.” Karen and her husband Pete Heitzman deliver what Dirty Linen calls, “An addictive blend of hybrid pop with lots of jazz whimsy and slippery funk,” with Pete contributing transcendent guitar licks and Karen on drums and daring, electrifying singing. “Sparkling arrangements... joyous abandon”—Dirty Linen

37th Annual Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Washington Avenue Armory Sports and Convention Arena, 195 Washington Ave., Albany, NY
For more information, visit: www.albanybookfair.com
Admission: $6
Have all your books, posters, ephemera, and collectibles appraised at the 37th Annual Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair. In addition to professional appraisals, the book fair will feature 60 dealers of rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, manuscripts, autographs, postcards, maps, posters, photographs, ephemera, and more. There will also be a silent auction of donated collectible items, many of local interest. All proceeds of the auction will benefit the research library of the Albany Institute of History & Art. For vendor/appraisal information, contact Gary Austin, Austin’s Antiquarian Books, (800) 556-3727.

Caffè Lena presents
Over Head: Innovative Humorist Dirck Toll Presents A Show of Two-Word Titles (Except This One)
2 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $10 advance / $12 at door (How to get tickets)
Caffè Lena invites you to join in the excitement of performance humorist Dirck Toll’s return to our Black Box Theater, and the world premiere of his all-new stage show! Deftly using words and movement, Dirck single-handedly takes the audience to strange places with unusual people in bizarre situations, adding up to four hilariously out-of-the-ordinary adventures: Disputing Borders, Brazen Likelihood, Quaggy Motive, and Mutable Neighborhood. Featuring an absentee upholsterer, a quantum judge, a dubious eggshell, and a nebulous factory, Over Head will stretch your mind in directions you don’t yet know there are!

Finger Lakes Blue Grass Association Jam
3-6 p.m.
The Smith Opera House, 2nd Floor Dance Studio, 82 Seneca Street, Geneva, NY
Cost: $3 at the door. Light refreshments provided.
If you like toe tapping and finger snapping good acoustic music, consider coming out the 4th Sunday of each month (excluding December and May thru September, which is the bluegrass outdoor festival season) to experience the Finger Lakes Bluegrass Jam. We are a group of folks who love to play, share, listen to and teach folks how to play bluegrass music. So bring your banjos, guitars, mandolins, fiddles, basses, voices and favorite bluegrass songs, and join in the fun. Come pick, or just sit and enjoy the music. Enter from the door to the right of the main Smith Opera House entrance, and go up one flight of stairs.

Story Sundays at the Glen Sanders Mansion
What Was Her Name? Stories about Heroic Women
Elizabeth Ellis
5-8 p.m.
Glen Sanders Mansion, 1 Glen Avenue, Scotia, NY
Make Reservations NOW: (518) 384-1700 or sc@katedudding.com
Cost: $31 (includes entertainment, 3 course dinner, tax and tip) per person
Bring someone new and you save $3 (only one discount/person).
Once again, Elizabeth Ellis shares her special brand of literary magic with us, this time telling the stories of:
*Peace Pilgrim, a silver haired woman who walked more than 25,000 miles, from 1953 to 1981, on a personal pilgrimage for peace
*Mary Breckenridge, who founded the Frontier Nursing Service
*Antoinette Brown, who was American’s first ordained female minister
*and other heroic women
Elizabeth is a versatile and riveting teller of Appalachian and Texas tales and stories of heroic American women, though her personal stories are arguably her best. She was the first recipient of the John Henry Faulk Award from the Tejas Storytelling Association, and the Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Network.

The Folklife Center of Crandall Public Library presents
Tasty Talks: Baking Bread! The Construction of a Communal Bread Oven in Cambridge, NY
A Film Premiere (with baking session and potluck dinner)
3 p.m. – Film showing and Q&A with the director Winnie Lambrecht
5 p.m. – Bread Baking session and Potluck Dinner
6 p.m. – Hubbard Hall Contra Dance
Hubbard Hall’s Freight Depot, 25 East Main Street, Cambridge, NY 12816
Cost: Free
For more information, call 518/792-6508 or email degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Tasty Talks are food pairings with interesting people who document food traditions. Baking Bread! (28 minutes; directed by Winnie Lambrecht and Peter O’Neill; produced by Todd DeGarmo and Winnie Lambrecht) is a film born during a 2008 project to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Québec City by the French. In a cultural exchange of traditional artists between the Province of Québec and New England, musicians and crafts-people traveled to a number of locations, sharing their skills with local communities in NY, RI, VT and Québec. Among the many talented artists who came to Cambridge was bread oven maker Jean Laberge. Originally conceived as a “how to build a bread oven” documentary, the film ended up paying homage not only to Jean Laberge and the construction process, but also to the many people who cheerfully came to volunteer their time to help in the making of this now communal asset: the Cambridge Bread Oven! Presented by the Curiosity Forum, Hubbard Hall and the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library. Documentary filmmaker, Winnie Lambrecht has produced a number of films in the U.S., Armenia, Tanzania and Mexico. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California/Berkeley, and is the founding director of Folk, Traditional & Community Arts at the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She is a contributing editor to Parabola Magazine, teaches at the RI School of Design, and plays music. She also served as the director for the 2008 cultural exchange with Quebec.

Caffè Lena presents
Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $15 advance / $17 at door (How to get tickets)
Of the many roots musicians traveling the world, spreading the early American music tradition, St. Louis musician and singer Pokey LaFarge is making a significant impact on music enthusiasts everywhere with his creative mix of early jazz, string ragtime, country blues and western swing. He’s one of the most innovative of all the purists with his wonderfully infectious roots music, all laid down in front of a big, big swingin’ beat. Above his parlor guitar one moment he shouts a line and the next he croons. With his crew of painstakingly hand-picked supporting musicians, Lafarge’s extraordinary blend of raw talent and refined, idiosyncratic charm turns reviewers into poets as they attempt to label his one-of-a-kind sound.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Heartbeat of Bulgaria: Theodosii Spassov & Balkan Tales
7:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street New York, NY
Tickets: $30, $25 for WMI Friends
Buy tickets online
The joyous folk traditions of Bulgaria come alive in this exciting program featuring Bulgarian kaval (shepherd’s flute) virtuoso Theodosii Spassov, one of Eastern Europe’s top musicians and a national icon and musical hero in Bulgaria; Vlada Tomova, founder of the New York Bulgarian women’s choir Yasna Voices, who blends Balkan and world sounds with her ensemble Balkan Tales, often in thrilling odd-metered time; and sitarist Chris Rael, whose elegant sounds recall the Bulgarian culture shaped by ancient Eastern migrations.

Augusta Heritage Center of Davis & Elkins College presents its
2011 October Old-Time Week
Augusta Heritage Center, Elkins, WV
Tuition: $440, plus lodging and meals (Includes Festival)
To register, specify To register, specify “Old-Time Week” and your instrument, and your instructor.
Coordinator Gerry Milnes brings together a staff of extraordinary musicians and teachers for October Old-Time Week 2011. Various levels of instruction are offered on fiddle, banjo, and guitar. Instructors include Chris Haddox, Dave Bing, James Bryan, Joe Herman, Mac Traynham, and John Rossbach. Our guest master artists are Lester McCumbers and Jimmy Costa. Evening activities include jams, instructor concert in the Icehouse, as well as a Halloween Square Dance. Rounding out the week, our annual Fiddlers’ Reunion presents a weekend of unforgettable performances by some of West Virginia’s finest old-time fiddlers.

Brooklyn Folk Arts Day
Doors open 5:30 p.m.
Meeting 6 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Reception 7:45 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
The Schermerhorn/The Actors Fund, 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY
RSVP to Kay Turner, Folk Arts Director, Brooklyn Arts Council: kturner@brooklynartscouncil.org or 718/625-0080 x229
Brooklyn Arts Council, in partnership with The Cultural Strategies Institute invites your participation in a town hall meeting celebrating and strengthening folk and traditional arts in Brooklyn to inaugurate Brooklyn Folk Arts Day! This first of a kind meeting will inaugurate Brooklyn Folk Arts Day, an annual gathering of Brooklyn’s traditional artists, traditional arts organizations and communities they serve, teaching artists and educators, funders, elected officials, and other friends of folk and traditional arts. Moderated by BAC Folk Arts Director Kay Turner, this gathering will address ways to preserve, sustain, encourage, and expand traditional arts practices in Brooklyn. In town hall fashion, we hope to hear ideas and concerns from a wide range of people attending. The reception provides further opportunity to meet and greet across Brooklyn folk arts communities and genres of practice.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club invite you to an
Irish Session
8-11 p.m.
Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan
Free, musicians welcome. Co-sponsored by FMSNY. For more info, (212) 247-2562 or visit The Landmark Tavern. See also October 10 and October 17.

City Lore presents
The Place Matters Awards and Dance Party
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), 215 Centre St., Manhattan
Admission: Free. Resersvations required: Call Molly at 212/529-1955 x 303, or email molly@citylore.org
Place Matters is thrilled to announce the recipients of the Third Place Matters Awards. Join us for a celebration on October 26th at the Museum of Chinese in America for an evening of klezmer music to celebrate these six extraordinary places in Lower Manhattan: Streit’s Matzos, 148-154 Rivington Street, Lower East Side; Bowery Mission, 227 Bowery; Tenement at 109 Washington Street, Financial District; Economy Candy, 108 Rivington Street, Lower East Side; Chinatown Senior Citizens’ Center, 70 Mulberry Street, Chinatown; and The Ear Inn (The James Brown House), 326 Spring Street, Tribeca.

Museum at Eldridge Street presents
The Hebrew Actors Union and Second Avenue
A lecture by David Freeland
6:30-8:00 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street/Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free. RSVP required.
RSVP: hgriff@eldridgestreet.org
During the 1920s and 30s, Second Avenue south of 14th Street was the spine of Manhattan’s Jewish cultural life and the living artery of Yiddish theater in the United States. Take a visual tour of the neighborhood’s surviving cultural landmarks from the site of the Cafe Royal, known as the “Sardi’s of Second Avenue,” to the Hebrew Actor’s Union (HAU) on East 7th Street. Admired and feared, the HAU controlled every aspect of the Yiddish Theater in the U.S. and made pioneering negotiations still valued be performers today. The lecture will include with a discussion of the forces that destroyed commercial Yiddish Theater and a visual tour of the HAU’s interior, decayed by filled with artifacts. Co-sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.

The Folklife Center of Crandall Public Library presents
Live! Folklife Concert: Cinder Conk
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
Matthew Schreiber’s frenzied accordion riffs with Xar Adelberg’s warm double bass counterpoint for energetic, gripping, winsome and haunting traditional Balkan and original music drawn from the Black Sea.

Celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead A Collaboration of The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art are collaborating on a series of events celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead (El Dia de los Muertos). El Dia de los Muertos is a celebration honoring deceased loved ones coinciding with All Saints and All Souls Days. It blends aspects of Aztec and Roman Catholic symbols in beautiful sculptural structures. “The altars built to celebrate El Dia de los Muertos are examples of rich Mexican folk traditions that have existed for many hundreds of years,” explains Connie Sullivan-Blum, the Folk Arts Coordinator at The ARTS. “The tradition holds that God allows the dead to visit their loved ones during this festival. The altars are offerings of food and drink to the dead after their long journey home.” The ARTS and the Rockwell will host a series of events to celebrate the festival Examples of altars from the Mexican state of Oaxaca are currently on display at both The ARTS and the Rockwell Museum The Rockwell Museum’s altar features a video of local Mexican-Americans and their feelings about the Day of the Dead. You can view it while visiting the altar at the Museum or on their website: www.rockwellmuseum.org. Thursday, October 27, a second altar in the style of Yaqui Indians will be on display at The ARTS. The Yaqui are indigenous to Mexico and live in the northwestern state of Sonora. El Dia de los Muertos is celebrated throughout Mexico, but the style of altars and the customs practiced vary by region. The Rockwell will host an altar building demonstration on Sunday, October 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. during which Oaxacan folk artists will build an authentic altar. The altar building will be followed by a folk dance demonstration and workshop. The event is open to the public and free of charge, but reservations are recommended. Middle school Spanish students created decorative objects for an El Dia de los Muertos student altar that will be installed in the Rockwell Museum’s Education Gallery. The Museum’s Education Department is in its ninth year of partnering with area schools and Spanish teachers in this special program. Monday, October 31 from 2 to 6 p.m., Mexican folk artists will be at The ARTS for a sugar skull workshop. Sugar skulls are frequently placed on altars to represent living people in a satirical fashion. Come make your own sugar skull! For more information about this series, call Connie Sullivan-Blum at The ARTS 607-962-5871 x222, email folkARTS@eARTS.org, or go to www.eARTS.org.

Native American Music and Storytelling
8-10 p.m.
Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY 12561, 845-255-1559
Cost: $16 members, $21 non-members at the door. Save $2 when you pre-purchase your tickets.
Contact: Jacqueline Andrews, andrewsj@newpaltz.edu
Join Kay Olan (Mohawk), Matoaka Little Eagle and Powhatan Swift Eagle (Tewa, Apache, and Chickahominy), and Dennis Yerry (Iroquois) for an engaging evening of music, songs, and stories which will entertain you and invite you into the Native American traditions and sounds of the Southwest, Northeast, and of intertribal music today.

Caffè Lena presents
Danielle Miraglia
With Opener M.R. Poulopoulos
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $14 advance / $16 at door (How to get tickets)
Danielle Miraglia returns to the Caffè Lena stage with a string of fresh awards from Telluride and Falcon Ridge Festivals, a regional win in the Mountain Stage NewSong contest, and a new CD, Box of Troubles. This new recording is a bare-bones, folk-blues recording that highlights Danielle’s strong finger-picking, sweet whiskey vocals, and stomping left boot. With a strong, steady thumb on her old Gibson and a raw, powerful voice, she’ll make you feel the heat of the Delta. But while her style pays homage to blues tradition, her classic rock verve, catchy melodies and eclectic lyrics give her original songs a fresh, singer-songwriter twist.

The Arts Center of the Capital Region welcomes you for
TROY NIGHT OUT
5-9 p.m
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180, 518-273-0552
Please join us for Troy Night Out! In the galleries we will have the opening of Richard Deon’s Paradox and Conformity, Ben Schwab’s You Are Here, and Deborah Bayly, featured Artist-Educator. In the Black Box Theater we will be hosting At First Glance, a showcase of new choreography by the dancers of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company. These free performances will be at 6 and 7:30 p.m. The Shop at The Arts Center, featuring hand-crafted gifts, will be open for its first night in the lobby.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Dancing the Gods: Bharata Natyam—Rama Vaidyanathan
8:00 p.m.
NYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South, New York, NY
Tickets: $33, $38; $28, $33 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
Rama Vaidyanathan is one of the leading interpreters of Bharata Natyam, the great classical dance form of South India characterized by complex footwork, abstract movements, and elaborate mime. A disciple of the legendary dancer Yamini Krishnamurty and Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan, Rama has evolved her own distinctive style that is deeply rooted in tradition. She is one of the most sought after dancers of her generation, lauded for her exquisite performances over the past 20 years.In this program, which marks her New York debut, she will be accompanied by a live ensemble. Pre-concert lec-dem for ticket holders: “Illuminating Indian Dance” with dancer/storyteller Rajika Puri, and guest dancers Malini Srinivasan, Kadhambari Sridhar, and Donia Salem. Learn about the hand gestures, foot rhythms, melodies, and facial expressions of classical Indian dance – and see the stylistic differences in three Indian temple forms: Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, and Odissi. Meet the deities, beloved by Indians, who are described and even directly addressed in the dances. Lec-dem begins 1 hour prior to each show and will last approx 30 minutes.

Folk Music Society of New York/New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents a
House Concert with Dave Trenow, and cameo appearance by Bad Alpha
Upper West Side location
Members $12, general admission $15. Reservations needed — call Heather at (212) 957-8386.
Dave Trenow has been studying folklore for the past forty years, recording many different traditional events on video and sound tape. He has been a singer of traditional English folk songs (as part of a duo called Dave and Dave) for all of these years, appearing on television, radio and at folk clubs and festivals all over England. Bad Alpha is Dave’s daughter Polly and her man Ben, an innovative duo with their own songs.

Sand Lake Center for the Arts presents:
Ramblin’ Jug Stompers
8 p.m.
Squire Jacob Coffeehouse, 2880 Route 43, Averill Park, NY 12018, Phone: (518) 674-2007
Tickeets: $16; under 18 $10. Reservations appreciated.
Playing 78 rpm music for the 21st century. Their “ramblin’” style nods to the great tradition of American string band music while winking directly at the classic jug bands of the 60s folk scene. Their ever increasing set list includes Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Jimmy Cliff, The Carter Family, Jesse Fuller, Grandpa Jones, Uncle Dave Macon, Flatt & Scruggs, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Jimmy Reed, Hank Williams, and more...
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.

Susan Werner
8 p.m.
Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY 12561, 845-255-1559
Cost: $19 members, $24 non-members at the door. Save $2 when you pre-purchase your tickets.
Singer-songwriter Susan Werner has cultivated a reputation as a daring and innovative songwriter with a killer live show (as those of you who have seen her here before can attest). Her provocative, poignant and frequently humorous originals are infused with the rustic roots of American folk, blues and country music. Her newest album, Kicking the Beehive, was recorded in Nashville and features such all-star guests as Vince Gill, Keb Mo’ and Paul Franklin.

Caffè Lena presents
A Night of Murder Ballads
A Halloween Benefit Concert for Caffè Lena
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $20 at door
Folksingers have long enthralled audiences with woeful, spine-tingling ballads recounting murders both real and imaginary. In honor of everyone’s favorite creepy holiday, we offer you a whole night of music to die for! From Pretty Polly and Tom Dooley, to The Banks of the Ohio and Down By the Willow Garden, you’ll hear tales of dastardly deeds done in the style of bluegrass, Celtic, Appalachian, and more. Plucking at your heartstrings will be Alien Folklife, the Broken String Band, Lost Radio Rounders, Phil Drum & Sonny Speed of The Resonators, Special Creek Bluegrass Band and more! Special desserts and other treats await you, and, all tricks aside, the proceeds will benefit Caffè Lena so we can keep bringing you the finest folk year round.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Songs for the People: Simon Shaheen
8:00 p.m.
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue (Corner of 3rd Avenue), Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Tickets: $30; $25 for WMI Friends
Buy tickets online
’Ud (lute) and violin master Simon Shaheen, one of the Arab world’s most renowned musicians, performs a program celebrating the second renaissance of Arab music, a creative period from the 1950s and 1960s that witnessed unprecedented repertoires reflecting national pride and identity. Shaheen is joined by special guest vocalist Nidal Ibourk and the Near Eastern Music Ensemble, which includes many of the finest Arab artists living in the U.S. The concert includes works of such famed composers as Egypt’s Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Syria’s Farid al Atrash, and Lebanon’s Rahbani Brothers.

An Amazing Night of Latin Music, Dance and Passion with a Gipsy Kings Tribute
9:00 p.m.
Drom, 85 Avenue A (between 5th and 6th), New York, NY
For information, call 212/777-1157
Tickets: $20 online or $25 at the door
Los Cintron is a musical group that is very popular and widely known around the world. They specialize in a mix of World, Latin, and Flamenco music and have performed with many well-known artists such as Gazpacho Andalu, Duende Camaron, and Barbara Martinez. They have played in front of just about every type of audience around the world as well as taken part in the Opera “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Their guitar playing, vocals, and melodies will move you to the core and make you feel like you are in the old city in Spain. This time around, Los Citron is collaborating with Krestina Staykova and Valerie Levine, two world renowned Flamenco and Salsa dancers that will light up the stage with their sexy Latin dance moves and passionate performances. Prepare to be blown away!

City Lore presents
Halloween: The Mysterious, the Menacing and the Mesmerizing Walking tour of Woodlawn Cemetery
6:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Woodlawn Cemetery, meet at Jerome Ave Entrance, Bronx
Admission: $20
For more information: Dr. Brian Sahd, bsahd@thewoodlawncemetery.org
The walking tour of Woodlawn Cemetery this coming Halloween will focus on individuals and themes relevant to the grave markers and mausoleums found at the Cemetery. We’ll learn about the Cuban sugar magnate Manuel Rionda and the legend of Devil’s Tower; Alva Belmont Vanderbilt and her family’s Spiritualist beliefs; and the industrialist Woolworth’s family mausoleum based on images from the Egyptian Necropolis (City of the Dead). Led by folklorist Elena Martínez from City Lore, the tour will come alive with performances by local actors.

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.

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) presents
El Dia de Los Muertos (Mexican Day of the Dead)
10-5 p.m.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Building C, Visitors Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY, 718-448-2500
Free and open to the public
For more information, contact irma621@yahoo.com or 718-448-8348
El Dia de Los Muertos is a joyful Mexican tradition, where families honor and remember the souls of deceased love ones. The event will feature the decoration of an ofrenda, an altar that Mexican families decorate with items associated with their departed loved ones. Visitors may also help decorate one of the two altars built at the start of the day, or learn skeleton puppet-making and traditional crafts, taught by Tamara Geisler and Silvia Gutierrez. A Mariachi band as well as Radio Jarocho, a group of Mexican musicians, will perform traditional music influenced by the Gulf Coast region. Local dance groups will also perform.

New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD) invites you to: Future Stars Recital Concert 2:00 p.m.
Carnegie Hall-Stern Auditorium, 881 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan NY 10019
Ticket: $38-$98 can be ordered online, 1-646-736-2988
Magnificent singers from the East will embrace the West’s most demanding and time-honored vocal tradition opera. For the first time, the world’s finest Bel Canto singers of Chinese descent selected from nearly 500 contestants who have, in the past four years, competed in NTD Television International Chinese Vocal Competition, will grace the stage at Carnegie Hall. The Future Stars Recital concert will feature award-winning vocalists from Europe, Asia, North and South America along with this year’s top winning male and female vocalists to perform the best of classical music of the East and the West, from Chinese folk songs to Italian opera arias.

Museum at Eldridge Street presents
American Jews in Search of a Home
With Scholar-in- Residence Dr. Regina Stein
3:00 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street/Eldridge Street Synagogue, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free. RSVP required.
RSVP: hgriff@eldridgestreet.org
Everyone wants a safe space to feel at home and when Jews were repeatedly transplanted over the course of two millennia, we brought our sacred objects and institutions with us. Yet in America,institutions such as home, synagogue and school no longer seem adequate. What might sacred space mean for us today? How can both old and new institutions help us feel Jewishly at home?

Caffè Lena presents
Left on Red
The Chocolate Revolution Tour
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $12 advance / $14 at door (How to get tickets)
The Chocolate Revolution Tour features the spunky, do-right duo Left on Red. This event is a sweet experience featuring music and fair-trade chocolate, just in time for the candy-rich holiday of Halloween. Left on Red of NYC is two young women with a mission to communicate through fun and socially relevant music and lyrics. Everything about them radiates joie de vivre and authenticity, and their sophisticated pop arrangements have a captivating chemistry and tightness. They were a huge hit last spring in Caffè Lena’s See the Future series. Their music will be a sweet treat for everyone, but the cause may be an eye-opener for some. Fair Trade chocolate companies are seeking to eradicate the widespread use of slaves and child laborers used in harvesting cocoa beans. By making the simple decision to purchase certified Fair Trade chocolate this Halloween, you can help eradicate child slavery and send a message to corporate giants that you care about the quality of life of workers around the world.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Dancing the Gods: Kuchipudi: Shantala Shivalingappa
7:00 p.m.
NYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South, New York, NY
Tickets: $33, $38; $28, $33 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
The Madras-born, Paris-raised Shantala Shivalingappa is treasured in both East and West, celebrated in traditional and contemporary dance circles, praised by the New York Times and Vogue alike. While admired for her work with Pina Bausch and Béjart, she is best known for her luminous performances of Kuchipudi, an ancient South Indian classical dance rarely seen in the West. She studied this vibrant and graceful form under Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam and was a hit at Fall for Dance and Jacob’s Pillow. This marks her first full-length solo show in New York. Pre-concert lec-dem for ticket holders: “Illuminating Indian Dance” with dancer/storyteller Rajika Puri, and guest dancers Malini Srinivasan, Kadhambari Sridhar, and Donia Salem, Learn about the hand gestures, foot rhythms, melodies, and facial expressions of classical Indian dance – and see the stylistic differences in three Indian temple forms: Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, and Odissi. Meet the deities, beloved by Indians, who are described and even directly addressed in the dances. Lec-dem begins 1 hour prior to each show and will last approx 30 minutes.

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
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

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