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PLATTSBURGH GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO HOLD DOWNTOWN REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET EVENT

2011-12-06T07:12:38Z

PLATTSBURGH GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO HOLD DOWNTOWN REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET EVENT

Community groups work together to provide an alternative to holiday shopping

Plattsburgh, NY - On December 17th starting at 11:00 am, the Plattsburgh General Assembly and the ROTA Gallery will be presenting the second local Really Really Free Market event this year, to be held at the ROTA Gallery, located at 19 Clinton Street. The event aims to be a community minded approach to an alternative take on the holiday shopping season, as well as a way for area people to connect with each other and share some of the resources existing in our community.

The Really Really Free Market (RRFM) is an idea that began to take off around 2004 and has become increasingly frequent around the country and beyond ever since. A Really Really Free Market encourages community members to share their skills and resources, with one catch: everything is free. People are asked to donate items and services that they think may be of use to other people in the community and to freely share them. The last local RRFM event, held in June of this year, saw people of all ages and backgrounds coming through and finding a plethora of useful items and services. Some suggested items are clothing, locally grown foods, kitchenware, books, art supplies, toys, music, movies, or services like hair cutting or massage therapy, but folks are encouraged to bring anything that they are compelled to share. People looking to find some holiday gifts are encouraged to come and support a local gift economy and can save some cash by visiting the RRFM.

People who would like to donate items can bring them to the ROTA Gallery starting on Wednesday, December 14th. The ROTA will be open from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Items that are leftover can be picked up at the end of the day by the people that brought them, and anything left at the close of the event will be distributed to local thrift stores and charitable organizations, as well as stored for future Really Really Free Market events. People can discuss items they have available as well as items they are looking to find by searching for the Plattsburgh Really Really Free Market group on Facebook.

The Plattsburgh General Assembly is a community group that formed in the midst of the Occupy protests, adopting the moderated discussion and direct democracy format used in the General Assembly meetings at the Occupy Wall Street camp. Meetings are held at the ROTA Gallery, located at 19 Clinton Street, every Sunday at 4:00 pm. Community members of all backgrounds are welcome to come and participate in discussion about their hopes and concerns for the community, and how to come together to address them. Those who would like to find out more can visit http://www.plattsburghga.org, or contact plattsburghga@gmail.com.

The ROTA Gallery is a downtown cultural center available for art exhibitions, performances and community events for the enrichment of the city of Plattsburgh and the global arts community. They opened late last year and have regularly been an outlet for a variety of artists and performers from the region and beyond. Anyone interested in getting involved with the space is encouraged to come to a weekly open meeting, which are held every Wednesday night at 8 pm. More information can also be found at http://www.rotagallery.com.

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If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with a representative of the Plattsburgh General Assembly, please call Matt Hall at (518) 563-0494 or e-mail plattsburghga@gmail.com.

Statewide Call for Fair Taxation & Job Creation

2011-12-05T19:30:03Z

Local Clinton County Elected Officials to Join Statewide Call for Fair Taxation & Job Creation

Officials to highlight economic impact of budget cuts and call on Albany to put New Yorkers back to work

Plattsburgh, NY – As state legislators plan to return to Albany for a special session on the budget, local elected officials including Sam Dyer, Peter Keenan, Sara Rowden and Tom Wood will gather at the Government Center at 11:30AM on Tuesday to call on Albany to address the unemployment crisis boldly and ensure millionaires pay their fair share in taxes.

The elected officials from around Clinton County are among two hundred from across the state who have signed a letter urging the Governor and legislative leaders to extend the millionaires’ tax and invest in job creation, not tax cuts for the wealthy.

WHAT: Local elected officials from Clinton County will hold a press conference in support of extending the Millionaires’ Tax

WHO: Elected officials including Sam Dyer, Peter Keenan, Sara Rowden and Tom Wood

WHERE: Government Center
137 Margaret Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901

WHEN: 11:30AM – Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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1st Annual Willie Schmidt Memorial Swim for Hospice

2011-07-16T19:44:49Z

Please Support High Peak Hospice & Palliative Care’s 1st Annual Willie Schmidt Memorial Swim for Hospice on Saturday August 27th at beautiful and historic Camp Dudley!

The Willie Schmidt Memorial Swim for Hospice is a non-competitive, open water swim in Lake Champlain to support the end of life services of High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care throughout its 4,600 sq. mi. service area.

The swim begins at 9:00am at Camp Dudley on Dudley Road, Westport NY

Boaters needed too!

For more information, click the link below or call 518-891-9631.

www.swimlakechamplain.org

Festival International De Percussions

2011-07-08T07:26:12Z

The edition 2011: 10 years of rhythms from
the four corners of the world
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
Longueuil, May, 18th 2011
The International Festival of Percussions of Longueuil, presented by Loto-Quebec, is pleased to
announce its 10th edition, which will be held from July 13th to 17th 2011 on St. Charles street in
the heart of Old Longueuil. Also, for the first time, « l’Hôte zone » on the outer perimeter of the shopping
mall Place Longueuil, near the metro. This stage will offer two shows each night with the sole guiding
“the unusual”. This edition will welcome nearly 700 artists and 150 000 festival-goers.
The Festival is proud to welcome, as spokesman, the famous Normand Brathwaite from Quebec,
who will present, with all the spokespersons of the previous editions, the opening show: a unique
creation, rich in rhythms and color, offering a retrospective of the last nine years of the Festival.
An International Festival, more than ever!
For this 10th edition, the FIP will once again honor the last four invited countries and allocate
to each of them a day of festivities on Saint Charles Street. Thus, the Festival will wake up in
Old Longueuil Thursday, July 14th to the sound of Brazil. Friday will give way to the music and dance
of Cuba. On Saturday, we will go on the side of Guadeloupe. And finally, Spain will close the festival
on Sunday with a note of flamenco and other traditional music of this beautiful country of Southern
Europe.
This year more than ever, Loto-Quebec will be international with 56 guadeloupeans from the band
Maskaklé, those of the band Adi Amis Des Iles, Paulo Ramos and Bia proud representatives of
Brazil, or Rene Lazaro and The Cuban Martinez Show for the Cuban note. Jose Galvez, Jose Maya
accompanied by Rosanne Dion will visit us again at the Festival this year. Also, four foreign painters
will be here and perform every night, live. Quebec artists will also have their place in the program which
including Martin Deschamps, Bob the Spoon who will bid farewell to the public on Saturday.
When creating rhythmes with audacity ...
For this 10th edition of the Festival International de Percussions de Longueuil presented by Loto-
Quebec, will be bold and imaginative in offering unique shows created especially for the event. It
will be for example, the case of the concert of the Symphony orchestra of Longueuil, which will present
«Le Coup d’éclat» a show which synchronized music and fireworks, pulled at the same time as part of
The International fireworks of Loto-Quebec presented by La Ronde.
FIP, a multidisciplinary festival
The Desjardins de la Relève stage will propose ‘le Concours de la Relève’
where young artists will perform under the watchful eye of a jury and offer in the evening, professional
shows by emerging artists. La Scène Journal de Montréal des Découvertes will provide an
opportunity for artists of all ages to showcase their talents to the public. Finally, ‘La Scène des
diversités’ will welcome a variety of disciplines which can be combined with percussions, such as
circus acts, juggling, acrobatics, or street theater.
Saturday and Sunday at 11.30pm, time and space will be devoted to children with “Place à
la famille 105.7 FM”. In the St. Mark Park, many activities and entertainment will be offered. Every
noon a picnic will be offered by the Rôtisseries St-Hubert of Longueuil, to the first 200 children
attending in the family party.
The highlight of the Festival will be, again this year, the Carnival Parade McDonald, where
itinerant drummers, costumed dancers and festival goers will meet for 90 minutes of Brazilians,
Cubans, Guadeloupeans, Spanish rhythms and strolling on Saint Charles street from the Co-
Cathedral of Saint Antoine de Padoue to Place Longueuil. It will take place Sunday, July 17th at
3 pm.
Thank you to our partners : Loto-Québec, la CRÉ de l’agglomération de Longueuil, la Ville de
Longueuil, les Caisses Desjardins, 105.7 Rythme FM, CKOI 96.9 FM, le Journal de Montréal,
Tourisme Québec, Patrimoine Canadien.
www.percussions.ca
Source : France Cadieux, Directrice générale et artistique
Press contact :
Festival International de Percussions de Longueuil,
Audrey Ursenbach - 450 463-2692 - audrey@percussions.ca
875 rue Verchères -J4K 2Y8, Longueuil, Qc.
450 463 2692 /1888 463 2692 (toll free)
Fax : 1 866 675 2457

35th annual Jazz Festival

2011-04-16T09:10:39Z

Annual Jazz Festival to Feature Latin Musicians from Montreal

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (April 8, 2011) –The SUNY Plattsburgh Department of Music will celebrate its 35th annual Jazz Festival with a jazz concert and Latin/Caribbean dance party Friday, May 6, and Saturday, May 7.

Directed by Dr. Rick Davies, the festival features special guest artists, vocalist and saxophonist Jorge “Papo” Ross from the Dominican Republic, percussionist Morris Salazar from Columbia and drummer Jonathan Maldonado from Venezuela. All three now hail from Montreal. Internationally known jazz trumpeter, Ray Vega, will also perform along with Rick Davies and Salsa Norteña and the SUNY Plattsburgh Jazz Ensemble and the Mambo Combo.

On Friday, the Festival Jazz Concert will feature Ross, Salazar and Maldonado with the Jazz Ensemble and the Mambo Combo. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall. Tickets, available in advance at the Angell College Center desk or at the door, are $8 general admission, $5 seniors, area students, SUNY Plattsburgh faculty and staff, and $2 for SUNY Plattsburgh students.

On Saturday, the Jazz Festival concludes with a Latin/Caribbean dance party with Davies and Salsa Norteña, as well as festival guests Ross, Maldonado, Salazar, Vega and the Mambo Combo. The party will run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Naked Turtle Holding Co., 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh. Latin dance instructor, E. Victoria Moore from SalsaLina Dance Studio in Burlington, Vt., will lead the dancing with a workshop beginning at 6 p.m. Free.

May 6 and 7, 2011
35th Annual SUNY Plattsburgh Jazz Festival
Dr. Rick Davies, Director

Special Guests

Latin Musicians from Montreal
     Jorge “Papo” Ross (Dominican Republic), vocals, saxophone
     Morris Salazar (Colombia), congas
     Jonathan Maldonado (Venezuela), drums

Rick Davies and Salsa Norteña

May 6 (7:30 p.m.)

Festival Jazz Concert

Guests: Ross, Salazar, Maldonado
SUNY Plattsburgh Mambo Combo and Jazz Ensemble
Dr. Rick Davies, Director

E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall
Tickets: at the door or Angell College Center desk.
General $8. Seniors and students $5.
SUNY Plattsburgh faculty and staff $5.
SUNY Plattsburgh students $2.

May 7 (6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.)

Latin / Caribbean Dance Party*
Naked Turtle, Plattsburgh
Admission Price: FREE

Festival guest artists with Rick Davies and Salsa Norteña:
Tom Cleary, piano; John Rivers, bass; Alex Stewart, saxophone; Herm Matlock, trumpet
Added special guest: Ray Vega, trumpet
During intermission there will be a set by the Mambo Combo.

*Latin dance instruction by E. Victoria Moore (SalsaLina Dance Studio, Burlington) – starts at 6:00 p.m.

For more information, contact:
Michelle Marasch Ouellette
Director of Public Relations and Publications
SUNY Plattsburgh
Office: 113 Hawkins Hall
Mailing: 101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Phone: 518-565-0145

“ROLLER DERBY & ROCKIN' ROLL”

2011-04-05T06:48:21Z

“ROLLER DERBY & ROCKIN' ROLL”

Plattsburgh, NY – Plattsburgh’s roller derby team, The North Country Lumber Jills, is hosting a live performance by local area bands, highlighting Lucid. “Roller Derby & Rockin' Roll” will take place on Saturday, April 16, 2011. The team has arranged the event in support of the continued efforts to introduce Roller Derby to the North Country.

“Roller Derby & Rockin' Roll” will be held at Therapy Nightclub & Sports Lounge, 14 Margaret Street, Plattsburgh NY, from 9:00pm to 2:00am. The event will headline original music from Lucid, with sounds from George Wurster, then a feature from Doomf*ck. The cost of admission is $4 for 21+ and $8 for 18+. Skaters will hold a raffle and team merchandise will be available. All proceeds benefit The North Country Lumber Jills.

"Lucid's sound is a bluesy, sort of north country explosion" says Catie Harrison-Wurster. Wurster skates as a member of the Lumber Jills and also plays upright bass for Doomf*ck. "Roller derby and rock and roll go hand in hand", continues Wurster. The Jills were approached by George Wurster, who is a board member for The Plattsburgh Roller Derby and former member of The Blind Pig Blues Band, to organize "Roller Derby & Rockin' Roll" to help The Lumber Jills raise money.

The North Country Lumber Jills have recently posted their bouting/scrimmaging schedule on their website along with a link to buy team merchandise. The Lumber Jills travel throughout New York, Vermont and New Hampshire during the 2011roller derby season.

The North Country Lumber Jills is an all-female, flat track roller derby team. The team is an official not-for-profit organization and has recently held their second open recruitment for referees, skaters and non-skating officials, which brought in new members at multiple skill levels.

Watch for more to come from the North Country Lumber Jills. If you would like more information on “Roller Derby & Rockin' Roll” or joining the North Country Lumber Jills, please contact Jenny Scotto at (518) 643-0360 or visit: www.plattsburghrollerderby.com.

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Tyler Rebello to Give Senior Voice Recital

2011-04-02T11:02:48Z

Tyler Rebello to Give Senior Voice Recital at SUNY Plattsburgh

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 11, 2011)–SUNY Plattsburgh music student Tyler Rebello will present his Senior Voice Recital on Saturday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall.

Rebello (tenor) is a voice student of Timothy Morningstar. He will be receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in music in May 2011.

Music student Yana Groves (piano) will accompany Rebello in a program that will open with a collection of English early-Baroque music. A set of two pieces by Henry Purcell are paired with text from 17th-century drama. In the first piece, the opening words, “If Music Be the Food of Love,” are taken from Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” The second piece, “Music for a While,” begins with text from Dryden’s 16th-century tragedy, “Oedipus.” The final Baroque piece, “No, No, No It Must Not Be So,” composed by James Hook, is set to the text of an unknown author.

Rebello will continue with a set of two German pieces from the Romantic era. Franz Schubert’s “Ständchen”— the most renowned art song from “Schwanengesang”— was published in 1829, a few months after his death in 1828. “Schöne Wiege” was composed by Robert Schumann in 1840 during his “Year of Songs.”

“Vainement, ma bien aimée,” an aria from Edouard Lalo’s opera “Le Roi d’Ys (The King of Ys), will end this portion of the program.

The second half of the program will begin with Benjamin Britten’s “Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain” with student Victoria Banas (French horn).

Rebello will conclude his recital with a set of songs from American musicals such as “Ragtime,” by Stephen Flaherty; “Candide,” by Leonard Bernstein; “Into the Woods,” by Stephen Sondheim; and “Do Re Mi,” by Jule Styne.

Admission is free.

Rebello began his studies at SUNY Plattsburgh in 2007. Originally from Cape Cod, he attended Twin Valley High School in southern Vermont. While at SUNY Plattsburgh, Rebello studied voice with Timothy Morningstar and has been featured in such roles as Jimmy Harper (“Reefer Madness”) in 2008, Drunken Sailor (“Dido and Aeneas”) and J. Pierrepont Finch (“How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”) in 2009. Rebello's credits also include multiple performances in the Friday Gallery Concert Series, featured solos in the biennial Lyric Scenes Workshop, and numerous College Theatre Association productions. Rebello will be completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music in May 2011 and was recently accepted into New York University’s Master of Music program in vocal performance with a specialization in music theater.

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Rory Wallace to Give Senior Voice Recital

2011-04-02T11:01:29Z

Rory Wallace to Give Senior Voice Recital at SUNY Plattsburgh

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 22, 2011) – SUNY Plattsburgh music student Rory Wallace will present his Senior Voice Recital on Sunday, April 10, at 3 p.m. in Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, located on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus.

Wallace is a voice student of Jo Ellen Miano, associate professor in music.

Accompanying Wallace will be music faculty member and pianist Dr. Karen Becker.

The first half of the program will begin with select vocal works by Bellini, Donaudy, and Fauré and conclude with the elaborate aria “Be Not Afeard” from Lee Hoiby’s operatic version of “The Tempest.” The second half of the program will include selections from Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” and Vaughan Williams’ “Songs of Travel.”
Admission is free and open to the public.
Wallace attended the College of Science, Technology and the Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago where he was grounded in his technical musical training and began his journey toward professional musicianship. He then transferred to SUNY Plattsburgh in the spring of 2009 where he began vocal studies with Miano. During his time at SUNY Plattsburgh, Wallace has performed with the Cardinal Singers, College Chorale, Choral Union, Gospel Choir and the Mambo Combo.

In 2009, he was the tenor soloist in Schubert’s “Mass in G” at SUNY Plattsburgh’s ChoralFest. In 2010, he played the role of Mr. Twimble in the music and theater departments’ Mainstage co-production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” He sang the role of Aeneas in Purcell’s Baroque opera, “Dido and Aeneas” and was the tenor soloist in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Serenade to Music” in the Champlain Valley Voices/ SUNY Plattsburgh Choral Union program “Sounds of Sweet Harmony” in spring 2010. Wallace’s upcoming performances include scenes from Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow,” Robert Kurka’s “Good Soldier Schweik,” and Harold Rome’s “Fanny” with Lyric Scenes Workshop.

He has also been a recipient of a Louise H. Heisler Music Scholarship. Wallace will complete his Bachelor of Music degree in May 2011 and will continue to study voice at the graduate level.

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“Roller Derby, Darts and Dames”

2011-03-19T09:05:14Z

“Roller Derby, darts and Dames”

Plattsburgh, NY – Plattsburgh’s roller derby team, the North Country Lumber Jills, is hosting a fund raiser featuring a dart tournament. “Roller Derby,Darts & Dames” will take place on Saturday, March 26, 2011. The team has arranged the event in support of the continued efforts to introduce Roller Derby to the North Country.

“Roller Derby, Darts and Dames” will be held at Woodstock’s, 89 Margaret Street, Plattsburgh NY, from 10:00pm to 2:00am. The event will highlight a dart tournament where participants team-up with skaters. The cost of the tournament is $5.00, admission is free. Raffle items and team merchandise will be featured. A free sticker is being offered with pre-paid T-shirt orders, which showcases the new Jill logo.

This event is aimed at raising funds to continue the team’s advancement and host a roller derby bout in Plattsburgh. In recent months, the Lumber Jills have been renting the Plattsburgh City Gym and since have participated in their first scrimmage against a local competitive league, as well as, held several community based charity promotions. "The Jills are putting themselves out there as athletes and traveling in competition these coming months. We will get on the map in New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire." says Big Ben of the Jills. "You may also run into us today while walking for cancer up on the oval."

Watch for more to come from the North Country Lumber Jills. If you would like more information on “Roller Derby,Darts & Dames” or joining the North Country Lumber Jills, please contact Jenny Scotto at (518) 643-0360. For team information, please visit www.plattsburghrollerderby.com.

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Local Band LUCID opens Snoe.Down Winter Music Festival

2011-03-13T11:37:26Z

Snoe.down, the all-ages winter music & sports festival hosted by moe., returns to central Vermont and Vermont’s most popular and dynamic ski and snowboard destination, Killington Resort in Killington and Spartan Arena in neighboring Rutland for a weekend of winter fun and music March 25-27.

http://moe.org/festivals/snoedown/information

If you're planning on taking a snowboarding trip this year would love to see you guys go at the same time. The mountain is amazing for beginners and shredders alike, and there is plenty of stuff going on all weekend for those who don't ride.

There is great music all weekend for those of you who aren't familiar with the bands, both at the mountain, the local bars, as well as concerts Friday and Saturday night.