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OPENING ACTS: YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE 2014A young area artist or group precedes many performances.

HERITAGE BLUES TRIO Ç Sunday, 8 PM African-American blues

Chaney Sims (vocals, handclaps), Bill Sims, Jr. (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, handclaps), and Junior Mack (vocals, electric and electric slide guitars, dobro) create a joyous, rousing blend of traditional and contemporary blues with elements of soul, gospel, and jazz. They are the lead members of a brand new ensemble of rotating musicians called Heritage Blues Orchestra and have already teamed up with Lincoln Center Institute, won 2013 Living Blues Critics Poll Award for Best New Recording/Debut Album, been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Blues Album 2013 and for Two Blues Music Awards (Best Album and Best Traditional Album), and will tour Europe this year. Taj Mahal calls them “one of the new and exciting faces of the Blues! Elegant, fabulous and refreshing!” $23 ($27 day of ); $20 WKC Member ($24); $11 Under 19

CABINET Ç Saturday, 8 PM Pennsylvania bluegrass

Sponsored by Courtney Funeral Home

Cabinet weaves old time bluegrass, country, rock, and folk influences. Tight dynamics punctuate soaring harmonies; down-to-earth rhythm and lyrics give way to dreamy jams. The Scranton-based band has outgrown its “regional favorite” tag. Picked up by Ropeadope Recordings, the band has played venues nationwide and festivals including SXSW, Musikfest, Floyd Fest, Peach Music Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Dark Star Jubilee. Cabinet has shared the stage with the likes of Yonder Mountain String Band, Allman Brothers, Pokey LaFarge, Infamous String Dusters, Railroad Earth, Rusted Root, Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, 7 Walkers, and New Riders of the Purple Sage. $15 ($18 day of ); $12 WKC Member ($15); $11 Under 19

BIRDS OF CHICAGO Ç Saturday, 8 PM Roots band

You’ll hear echoes of mountain gospel, street corner doo-wop, and classic soul. JT Nero and Allison Russell, two of the most compelling new voices in North American roots music, front the four-piece, multi-instrumental collective. Nero’s “soulful, idiosyncratic, and rich vocal style” and Russell’s “beau-tiful, supple range” (Toledo Blade) deliver clever and quirky songs of human emotions, of the familiar and strange (as in the tune “Moonglow Tapeworm,” which No Depression magazine called “part savvy street poetry, part surrealism”). Following a ten-day spring tour with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, they toured the U.K. and Ireland before making this, their WKC debut.

“Hailed as one of the year’s best roots debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and L.A. Times, and exuding the kind of radiant harmonies and easy acoustic familiarity…that are difficult to fake” —Houston Press.

$23 ($27 day of ); $20 WKC Member ($24); $11 Under 19

LANDSCAPE & GARDEN TOUR Ç Sunday, 11 AM–4 PM

Sponsored by The Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley

Travel beautiful northern Catskills roads and get a rare insider look at how others have enhanced the natural beauty of their outdoor environments. On view will be a myriad of design sensibilities incor-porating flowers, shrubs and trees, stonework, water elements, artwork, vegetable beds, and homes for livestock and wildlife. There will be light refreshments available for purchase at a mid-tour garden. Must pre-register to get directions to the first garden. Rain or shine. $16, to benefit The West Kortright Centre

GALA DANCE UNDER THE STARS WITH NATION BEAT Ç Saturday

7–8 PM Picnic Dinner • 8 PM DanceSponsored by FrieslandCampina Domo

It will be an all-out Brazilian/American carnival dance party! Nation Beat’s sound lies in a deliciously original 21st-century fusion between thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming and New Orleans second-line rhythms, Appalachian music, funk, and country blues. It is also the vibrant force of their explosive live show, which is frequently known to burst into crowd-wide Carnival-style drumming and singing. Nation Beat belongs to both sides of the equator, and for one Catskills summer night, so will we. Arrive early for a savory Brazilian picnic. (Dinners must be pre-ordered.) Dinner and dance rain or shine. Bring your own lawn seating.“A revelation...the most original and alluring fusion band I have heard in years!”—Banning Eyre, NPR. “Dangerously funky!”—Village Voice.

$26 ($29 day of ); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19 • Pre-paid Picnic Dinner, $18 to benefit The WKC

CATHERINE RUSSELL Ç Saturday, 8 PM Jazz

Sponsored by WSKG Public Media

Since that night in 2007 when she brought the WKC house down, Catherine Russell’s renown as one of the foremost interpreters and explorers of mid-20th century American music has skyrocketed. A Grammy Award winner, she regularly plays Lincoln Center and hundreds of other major venues and festivals worldwide, has made two appearances on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, appeared on “Piano Jazz” with Marian McPartland, and has garnered rave reviews and awards both in France and at home. Russell is celebrating the release of her fifth CD, Bring It Back (Jazz Village), a tribute to her mother, Carline Ray, a guitarist in the all-female ‘40s ensemble the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. “Cat” will be backed by Matt Munisteri on guitar, Mark Shane, piano, and Tal Ronen, bass.

“The best blues and jazz singer going today…Her singing is drenched in emotion, drama, experience and pure swing”—Wall Street Journal.“A one-woman reclamation project for classic jazz, blues and r&b from the ’20s to the ’50s” —Downbeat.

$26 ($29 day of ); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

27TH ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE IN THE VALLEY AND PICNIC DINNER

Friday & Saturday, 6 PM

Co-sponsored by Clark Companies, Frank Lumia Real Estate Plus, Geo. Powers Construction, and New York Central Mutual Insurance

Join us for two fabulous summer evenings celebrating the talents of youth and William Shakespeare! Each begins at 6 PM with an indoor performance of “The Faces of Wonderland,” a celebration of the characters from Alice in Wonderland by the Introduction to Acting group, followed by an outdoor picnic (BYO or have hot dogs, beef or veggie burgers with us). At 8 PM, the lights go up on Twelfth Night, fully staged by the Shakespeare, Technical Theater, and Costume Design sections of the Young People’s Theater Arts Workshops. Bring your own lawn seating. Raindate for both nights is Sunday, August 3, 8 PM. $12; $5 Under 12

DAKHABRAKHA Ç Thursday, 7 PM Modern ethnic Ukrainian quartet

Drones and beats, crimson beads and towering black lambs-wool hats make a striking backdrop for an unexpected, refreshingly novel vision of Eastern European roots music. A shadowy procession to the pounding of drums, to the murmur of a cello, morphs into an anthem, an invocation, a wild and whacky mashup of ancient and modern, regional and global. Theatrics, edgy music played on Indian, Arabic, African, Russian, and Australian instruments, and an astonishingly powerful and uncompro-mising vocal range create what the band calls “natural order amid the world’s chaos and absurdity.” This mix of contemporary, cosmopolitan savvy and intimacy with local traditions and meanings cuts to the heart of DakhaBrakha’s bigger mission: To make the world aware of the new country but ancient nation that is Ukraine.

“Wildly exciting”—The Daily Telegraph. “So mesmerising that you cease worrying about meaning and just go with the flow”—The Guardian. “Utter brilliance”—NPR.

$24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

WEST KORTRIGHT FAIR 2014 Ç Sunday, Noon–6 PM Music and food fair

Our annual fair just keeps getting better and better! Join us for another Labor Day party extraordi-naire. The Centre’s 9th annual family-friendly summer’s-end celebration of the region’s “agri-cultural” bounty includes a full afternoon of foot-stompin’ music from folk musicians Mike + Ruthy, Blues Maneuver band, and others. You can graze all day on scrumptious foods made from fresh local prod-ucts; pick up fabulous baked goods; bid on artwork; shop a huge silent auction and rummage sale of antiques, goods, and services to benefit The WKC; enjoy the beer-tasting booth; keep the kids entertained with lots of kid-friendly games and activities; and shop for one-of-a-kind items from local vendors. The fair will be held rain or shine. $5 per person, children under 10 free (food sold separately)

SUZY BOGGUSS Ç Sunday, 3 PM Country and Americana

Sponsored by Boynton Pro Audio

She’s one of music’s most pristine and evocative vocalists. Since moving to Nashville in 1985, Suzy Bogguss has brought out sixteen albums of country, swing, jazz, and American roots music (three gold and one platinum), eight singles in country music’s top five, a Grammy, Academy of Country Music and multiple Country Music Association awards. She has appeared on scores of TV broad-casts (including “In Performance at the White House” and “Austin City Limits”) and performed live shows across the globe. She’ll be on tour with her new album, Lucky, a collection of Merle Haggard songs. She says, “Not every artist has music that is as universal as Merle’s. He really is the poet of the common man.” $27 ($30 day of ); $24 Member ($27); $11 Under 19

CHIARA STRING QUARTET Ç Sunday, 2 PM Bartók by Heart

Renowned for bringing fresh excitement to traditional string quartet repertoire as well as for creat-ing insightful interpretations of new music, Chiara String Quartet has established itself as among America’s most respected ensembles, lauded for its highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing” (Boston Globe). The quartet’s recent international travels have included extensive tours of China, Korea, and Sweden as well as appearances at the American Academy in Rome and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, and a performance of Steve Reich’s Different Trains in Munich. Harkening back to a tradition that is centuries old and still common among soloists, the ensemble has adapted to performing sans printed sheet music. They will perform three Bartók string quartets from memory. $24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

LAS CAFETERAS Ç Saturday, 7 PM Urban folk music from the streets of East LA

Las Cafeteras creates a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and a community-focused political message. Their Afro-Mexican rhythms, zapateado dancing, and inspiring lyrics tell stories of a community that is looking for love and fights for justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles. In a remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, Las Cafeteras adds Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry in English and Spanglish, and instruments like jarana, requinto, a donkey jawbone, and a wooden platform called the tarima. “Uniquely Angeleno mishmash… hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock … Live, they’re magnetic”—LA Times. $26 ($29 day of); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

BATTLEFIELD BAND Ç Sunday, 2 PM Traditional Scottish music

Recently awarded ‘Scottish Folk Band of the Year’ and previously ‘Best Live Act’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Battlefield Band has been an ever-evolving bedrock of traditional music and talent for over forty years and is rightly regarded as the great flagship of the Scottish traditional music scene. Under the banner ‘Forward With Scotland’s Past,’ the group continues to lead the way for Scotland with its inspired and authentic fusion of ancient and modern traditional music and song. Serious about the music, this band’s enjoyment in playing is obvious and infectious as they harness the great living traditions of Scotland and the Celtic nations to involve and entertain their audiences.

“A wondrous perfectly paced display by musicians firmly in command of their art… the band’s chemistry at this point is uncanny … the best Battlefield Band in years”—The Washington Post.

$24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

Experience more than just a performance! Come early, bring a picnic, and enjoy our bucolic valley. There will be a tent (June through August) to gather under for drinks and snacks and to stay dry!

Season sponsor Season print sponsor

2014 West Kortright Centre arts and community programs are funded in part by our members, by contributors to the 2014 Program Fund Drive and to the Nancy Fales Garrett Workshop Scholarship Fund, by the Bert Santora Trust, and by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and from the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor, Robinson-Broadhurst, and Dewar foundations.

HOW TO GET TICKETS? IT’S AS EASY AS 1… 2 OR 3…

1. VISIT WWW.WESTKC.ORG AND CLICK ON THE “EVENTS” TAB. (AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD AND VISA GLADLY ACCEPTED)

2. CALL (607) 278-5454 (AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD AND VISA GLADLY ACCEPTED)

3. SEND A CHECK BY MAIL TO: THE WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE, 49 WEST KORTRIGHT CHURCH ROAD, EAST MEREDITH, NY 13757

(BE SURE TO INCLUDE: NUMBER OF TICKETS/GENERAL, MEMBER, YOUTH; NAME AND DATE OF EVENT.

Note: Ticket reservations require pre-payment by mail, in person, over the phone, or online. To help cover rising costs, a non-refundable $2 per ticket handling fee will be applied to all advance adult ticket purchases for events other than the Landscape & Garden Tour, Gala Dinner, Shakespeare in the Valley, and West Kortright Fair. Unless otherwise requested, advance sale tickets will be held at the gate. Advance sales close 24 hours before each program. (Complete policies can be viewed at www.westkc.org.)

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Sept. 14

OPENING ACTS: YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE 2014A young area artist or group precedes many performances.

HERITAGE BLUES TRIO Ç Sunday, 8 PM African-American blues

Chaney Sims (vocals, handclaps), Bill Sims, Jr. (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, handclaps), and Junior Mack (vocals, electric and electric slide guitars, dobro) create a joyous, rousing blend of traditional and contemporary blues with elements of soul, gospel, and jazz. They are the lead members of a brand new ensemble of rotating musicians called Heritage Blues Orchestra and have already teamed up with Lincoln Center Institute, won 2013 Living Blues Critics Poll Award for Best New Recording/Debut Album, been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Blues Album 2013 and for Two Blues Music Awards (Best Album and Best Traditional Album), and will tour Europe this year. Taj Mahal calls them “one of the new and exciting faces of the Blues! Elegant, fabulous and refreshing!” $23 ($27 day of ); $20 WKC Member ($24); $11 Under 19

CABINET Ç Saturday, 8 PM Pennsylvania bluegrass

Sponsored by Courtney Funeral Home

Cabinet weaves old time bluegrass, country, rock, and folk influences. Tight dynamics punctuate soaring harmonies; down-to-earth rhythm and lyrics give way to dreamy jams. The Scranton-based band has outgrown its “regional favorite” tag. Picked up by Ropeadope Recordings, the band has played venues nationwide and festivals including SXSW, Musikfest, Floyd Fest, Peach Music Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Dark Star Jubilee. Cabinet has shared the stage with the likes of Yonder Mountain String Band, Allman Brothers, Pokey LaFarge, Infamous String Dusters, Railroad Earth, Rusted Root, Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, 7 Walkers, and New Riders of the Purple Sage. $15 ($18 day of ); $12 WKC Member ($15); $11 Under 19

BIRDS OF CHICAGO Ç Saturday, 8 PM Roots band

You’ll hear echoes of mountain gospel, street corner doo-wop, and classic soul. JT Nero and Allison Russell, two of the most compelling new voices in North American roots music, front the four-piece, multi-instrumental collective. Nero’s “soulful, idiosyncratic, and rich vocal style” and Russell’s “beau-tiful, supple range” (Toledo Blade) deliver clever and quirky songs of human emotions, of the familiar and strange (as in the tune “Moonglow Tapeworm,” which No Depression magazine called “part savvy street poetry, part surrealism”). Following a ten-day spring tour with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, they toured the U.K. and Ireland before making this, their WKC debut.

“Hailed as one of the year’s best roots debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and L.A. Times, and exuding the kind of radiant harmonies and easy acoustic familiarity…that are difficult to fake” —Houston Press.

$23 ($27 day of ); $20 WKC Member ($24); $11 Under 19

LANDSCAPE & GARDEN TOUR Ç Sunday, 11 AM–4 PM

Sponsored by The Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley

Travel beautiful northern Catskills roads and get a rare insider look at how others have enhanced the natural beauty of their outdoor environments. On view will be a myriad of design sensibilities incor-porating flowers, shrubs and trees, stonework, water elements, artwork, vegetable beds, and homes for livestock and wildlife. There will be light refreshments available for purchase at a mid-tour garden. Must pre-register to get directions to the first garden. Rain or shine. $16, to benefit The West Kortright Centre

GALA DANCE UNDER THE STARS WITH NATION BEAT Ç Saturday

7–8 PM Picnic Dinner • 8 PM DanceSponsored by FrieslandCampina Domo

It will be an all-out Brazilian/American carnival dance party! Nation Beat’s sound lies in a deliciously original 21st-century fusion between thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming and New Orleans second-line rhythms, Appalachian music, funk, and country blues. It is also the vibrant force of their explosive live show, which is frequently known to burst into crowd-wide Carnival-style drumming and singing. Nation Beat belongs to both sides of the equator, and for one Catskills summer night, so will we. Arrive early for a savory Brazilian picnic. (Dinners must be pre-ordered.) Dinner and dance rain or shine. Bring your own lawn seating.“A revelation...the most original and alluring fusion band I have heard in years!”—Banning Eyre, NPR. “Dangerously funky!”—Village Voice.

$26 ($29 day of ); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19 • Pre-paid Picnic Dinner, $18 to benefit The WKC

CATHERINE RUSSELL Ç Saturday, 8 PM Jazz

Sponsored by WSKG Public Media

Since that night in 2007 when she brought the WKC house down, Catherine Russell’s renown as one of the foremost interpreters and explorers of mid-20th century American music has skyrocketed. A Grammy Award winner, she regularly plays Lincoln Center and hundreds of other major venues and festivals worldwide, has made two appearances on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, appeared on “Piano Jazz” with Marian McPartland, and has garnered rave reviews and awards both in France and at home. Russell is celebrating the release of her fifth CD, Bring It Back (Jazz Village), a tribute to her mother, Carline Ray, a guitarist in the all-female ‘40s ensemble the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. “Cat” will be backed by Matt Munisteri on guitar, Mark Shane, piano, and Tal Ronen, bass.

“The best blues and jazz singer going today…Her singing is drenched in emotion, drama, experience and pure swing”—Wall Street Journal.“A one-woman reclamation project for classic jazz, blues and r&b from the ’20s to the ’50s” —Downbeat.

$26 ($29 day of ); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

27TH ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE IN THE VALLEY AND PICNIC DINNER

Friday & Saturday, 6 PM

Co-sponsored by Clark Companies, Frank Lumia Real Estate Plus, Geo. Powers Construction, and New York Central Mutual Insurance

Join us for two fabulous summer evenings celebrating the talents of youth and William Shakespeare! Each begins at 6 PM with an indoor performance of “The Faces of Wonderland,” a celebration of the characters from Alice in Wonderland by the Introduction to Acting group, followed by an outdoor picnic (BYO or have hot dogs, beef or veggie burgers with us). At 8 PM, the lights go up on Twelfth Night, fully staged by the Shakespeare, Technical Theater, and Costume Design sections of the Young People’s Theater Arts Workshops. Bring your own lawn seating. Raindate for both nights is Sunday, August 3, 8 PM. $12; $5 Under 12

DAKHABRAKHA Ç Thursday, 7 PM Modern ethnic Ukrainian quartet

Drones and beats, crimson beads and towering black lambs-wool hats make a striking backdrop for an unexpected, refreshingly novel vision of Eastern European roots music. A shadowy procession to the pounding of drums, to the murmur of a cello, morphs into an anthem, an invocation, a wild and whacky mashup of ancient and modern, regional and global. Theatrics, edgy music played on Indian, Arabic, African, Russian, and Australian instruments, and an astonishingly powerful and uncompro-mising vocal range create what the band calls “natural order amid the world’s chaos and absurdity.” This mix of contemporary, cosmopolitan savvy and intimacy with local traditions and meanings cuts to the heart of DakhaBrakha’s bigger mission: To make the world aware of the new country but ancient nation that is Ukraine.

“Wildly exciting”—The Daily Telegraph. “So mesmerising that you cease worrying about meaning and just go with the flow”—The Guardian. “Utter brilliance”—NPR.

$24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

WEST KORTRIGHT FAIR 2014 Ç Sunday, Noon–6 PM Music and food fair

Our annual fair just keeps getting better and better! Join us for another Labor Day party extraordi-naire. The Centre’s 9th annual family-friendly summer’s-end celebration of the region’s “agri-cultural” bounty includes a full afternoon of foot-stompin’ music from folk musicians Mike + Ruthy, Blues Maneuver band, and others. You can graze all day on scrumptious foods made from fresh local prod-ucts; pick up fabulous baked goods; bid on artwork; shop a huge silent auction and rummage sale of antiques, goods, and services to benefit The WKC; enjoy the beer-tasting booth; keep the kids entertained with lots of kid-friendly games and activities; and shop for one-of-a-kind items from local vendors. The fair will be held rain or shine. $5 per person, children under 10 free (food sold separately)

SUZY BOGGUSS Ç Sunday, 3 PM Country and Americana

Sponsored by Boynton Pro Audio

She’s one of music’s most pristine and evocative vocalists. Since moving to Nashville in 1985, Suzy Bogguss has brought out sixteen albums of country, swing, jazz, and American roots music (three gold and one platinum), eight singles in country music’s top five, a Grammy, Academy of Country Music and multiple Country Music Association awards. She has appeared on scores of TV broad-casts (including “In Performance at the White House” and “Austin City Limits”) and performed live shows across the globe. She’ll be on tour with her new album, Lucky, a collection of Merle Haggard songs. She says, “Not every artist has music that is as universal as Merle’s. He really is the poet of the common man.” $27 ($30 day of ); $24 Member ($27); $11 Under 19

CHIARA STRING QUARTET Ç Sunday, 2 PM Bartók by Heart

Renowned for bringing fresh excitement to traditional string quartet repertoire as well as for creat-ing insightful interpretations of new music, Chiara String Quartet has established itself as among America’s most respected ensembles, lauded for its highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing” (Boston Globe). The quartet’s recent international travels have included extensive tours of China, Korea, and Sweden as well as appearances at the American Academy in Rome and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, and a performance of Steve Reich’s Different Trains in Munich. Harkening back to a tradition that is centuries old and still common among soloists, the ensemble has adapted to performing sans printed sheet music. They will perform three Bartók string quartets from memory. $24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

LAS CAFETERAS Ç Saturday, 7 PM Urban folk music from the streets of East LA

Las Cafeteras creates a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and a community-focused political message. Their Afro-Mexican rhythms, zapateado dancing, and inspiring lyrics tell stories of a community that is looking for love and fights for justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles. In a remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, Las Cafeteras adds Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry in English and Spanglish, and instruments like jarana, requinto, a donkey jawbone, and a wooden platform called the tarima. “Uniquely Angeleno mishmash… hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock … Live, they’re magnetic”—LA Times. $26 ($29 day of); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

BATTLEFIELD BAND Ç Sunday, 2 PM Traditional Scottish music

Recently awarded ‘Scottish Folk Band of the Year’ and previously ‘Best Live Act’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Battlefield Band has been an ever-evolving bedrock of traditional music and talent for over forty years and is rightly regarded as the great flagship of the Scottish traditional music scene. Under the banner ‘Forward With Scotland’s Past,’ the group continues to lead the way for Scotland with its inspired and authentic fusion of ancient and modern traditional music and song. Serious about the music, this band’s enjoyment in playing is obvious and infectious as they harness the great living traditions of Scotland and the Celtic nations to involve and entertain their audiences.

“A wondrous perfectly paced display by musicians firmly in command of their art… the band’s chemistry at this point is uncanny … the best Battlefield Band in years”—The Washington Post.

$24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

Experience more than just a performance! Come early, bring a picnic, and enjoy our bucolic valley. There will be a tent (June through August) to gather under for drinks and snacks and to stay dry!

Season sponsor Season print sponsor

2014 West Kortright Centre arts and community programs are funded in part by our members, by contributors to the 2014 Program Fund Drive and to the Nancy Fales Garrett Workshop Scholarship Fund, by the Bert Santora Trust, and by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and from the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor, Robinson-Broadhurst, and Dewar foundations.

HOW TO GET TICKETS? IT’S AS EASY AS 1… 2 OR 3…

1. VISIT WWW.WESTKC.ORG AND CLICK ON THE “EVENTS” TAB. (AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD AND VISA GLADLY ACCEPTED)

2. CALL (607) 278-5454 (AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD AND VISA GLADLY ACCEPTED)

3. SEND A CHECK BY MAIL TO: THE WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE, 49 WEST KORTRIGHT CHURCH ROAD, EAST MEREDITH, NY 13757

(BE SURE TO INCLUDE: NUMBER OF TICKETS/GENERAL, MEMBER, YOUTH; NAME AND DATE OF EVENT.

Note: Ticket reservations require pre-payment by mail, in person, over the phone, or online. To help cover rising costs, a non-refundable $2 per ticket handling fee will be applied to all advance adult ticket purchases for events other than the Landscape & Garden Tour, Gala Dinner, Shakespeare in the Valley, and West Kortright Fair. Unless otherwise requested, advance sale tickets will be held at the gate. Advance sales close 24 hours before each program. (Complete policies can be viewed at www.westkc.org.)

May 25

June 14

June 28

June 29

July 19

July 26

August 1 & 2

Aug. 21

Oct. 4

Nov 2

Sept. 28

Aug. 31

Sept. 14

OPENING ACTS: YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE 2014A young area artist or group precedes many performances.

HERITAGE BLUES TRIO Ç Sunday, 8 PM African-American blues

Chaney Sims (vocals, handclaps), Bill Sims, Jr. (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, handclaps), and Junior Mack (vocals, electric and electric slide guitars, dobro) create a joyous, rousing blend of traditional and contemporary blues with elements of soul, gospel, and jazz. They are the lead members of a brand new ensemble of rotating musicians called Heritage Blues Orchestra and have already teamed up with Lincoln Center Institute, won 2013 Living Blues Critics Poll Award for Best New Recording/Debut Album, been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Blues Album 2013 and for Two Blues Music Awards (Best Album and Best Traditional Album), and will tour Europe this year. Taj Mahal calls them “one of the new and exciting faces of the Blues! Elegant, fabulous and refreshing!” $23 ($27 day of ); $20 WKC Member ($24); $11 Under 19

CABINET Ç Saturday, 8 PM Pennsylvania bluegrass

Sponsored by Courtney Funeral Home

Cabinet weaves old time bluegrass, country, rock, and folk influences. Tight dynamics punctuate soaring harmonies; down-to-earth rhythm and lyrics give way to dreamy jams. The Scranton-based band has outgrown its “regional favorite” tag. Picked up by Ropeadope Recordings, the band has played venues nationwide and festivals including SXSW, Musikfest, Floyd Fest, Peach Music Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Dark Star Jubilee. Cabinet has shared the stage with the likes of Yonder Mountain String Band, Allman Brothers, Pokey LaFarge, Infamous String Dusters, Railroad Earth, Rusted Root, Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, 7 Walkers, and New Riders of the Purple Sage. $15 ($18 day of ); $12 WKC Member ($15); $11 Under 19

BIRDS OF CHICAGO Ç Saturday, 8 PM Roots band

You’ll hear echoes of mountain gospel, street corner doo-wop, and classic soul. JT Nero and Allison Russell, two of the most compelling new voices in North American roots music, front the four-piece, multi-instrumental collective. Nero’s “soulful, idiosyncratic, and rich vocal style” and Russell’s “beau-tiful, supple range” (Toledo Blade) deliver clever and quirky songs of human emotions, of the familiar and strange (as in the tune “Moonglow Tapeworm,” which No Depression magazine called “part savvy street poetry, part surrealism”). Following a ten-day spring tour with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, they toured the U.K. and Ireland before making this, their WKC debut.

“Hailed as one of the year’s best roots debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and L.A. Times, and exuding the kind of radiant harmonies and easy acoustic familiarity…that are difficult to fake” —Houston Press.

$23 ($27 day of ); $20 WKC Member ($24); $11 Under 19

LANDSCAPE & GARDEN TOUR Ç Sunday, 11 AM–4 PM

Sponsored by The Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley

Travel beautiful northern Catskills roads and get a rare insider look at how others have enhanced the natural beauty of their outdoor environments. On view will be a myriad of design sensibilities incor-porating flowers, shrubs and trees, stonework, water elements, artwork, vegetable beds, and homes for livestock and wildlife. There will be light refreshments available for purchase at a mid-tour garden. Must pre-register to get directions to the first garden. Rain or shine. $16, to benefit The West Kortright Centre

GALA DANCE UNDER THE STARS WITH NATION BEAT Ç Saturday

7–8 PM Picnic Dinner • 8 PM DanceSponsored by FrieslandCampina Domo

It will be an all-out Brazilian/American carnival dance party! Nation Beat’s sound lies in a deliciously original 21st-century fusion between thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming and New Orleans second-line rhythms, Appalachian music, funk, and country blues. It is also the vibrant force of their explosive live show, which is frequently known to burst into crowd-wide Carnival-style drumming and singing. Nation Beat belongs to both sides of the equator, and for one Catskills summer night, so will we. Arrive early for a savory Brazilian picnic. (Dinners must be pre-ordered.) Dinner and dance rain or shine. Bring your own lawn seating.“A revelation...the most original and alluring fusion band I have heard in years!”—Banning Eyre, NPR. “Dangerously funky!”—Village Voice.

$26 ($29 day of ); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19 • Pre-paid Picnic Dinner, $18 to benefit The WKC

CATHERINE RUSSELL Ç Saturday, 8 PM Jazz

Sponsored by WSKG Public Media

Since that night in 2007 when she brought the WKC house down, Catherine Russell’s renown as one of the foremost interpreters and explorers of mid-20th century American music has skyrocketed. A Grammy Award winner, she regularly plays Lincoln Center and hundreds of other major venues and festivals worldwide, has made two appearances on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, appeared on “Piano Jazz” with Marian McPartland, and has garnered rave reviews and awards both in France and at home. Russell is celebrating the release of her fifth CD, Bring It Back (Jazz Village), a tribute to her mother, Carline Ray, a guitarist in the all-female ‘40s ensemble the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. “Cat” will be backed by Matt Munisteri on guitar, Mark Shane, piano, and Tal Ronen, bass.

“The best blues and jazz singer going today…Her singing is drenched in emotion, drama, experience and pure swing”—Wall Street Journal.“A one-woman reclamation project for classic jazz, blues and r&b from the ’20s to the ’50s” —Downbeat.

$26 ($29 day of ); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

27TH ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE IN THE VALLEY AND PICNIC DINNER

Friday & Saturday, 6 PM

Co-sponsored by Clark Companies, Frank Lumia Real Estate Plus, Geo. Powers Construction, and New York Central Mutual Insurance

Join us for two fabulous summer evenings celebrating the talents of youth and William Shakespeare! Each begins at 6 PM with an indoor performance of “The Faces of Wonderland,” a celebration of the characters from Alice in Wonderland by the Introduction to Acting group, followed by an outdoor picnic (BYO or have hot dogs, beef or veggie burgers with us). At 8 PM, the lights go up on Twelfth Night, fully staged by the Shakespeare, Technical Theater, and Costume Design sections of the Young People’s Theater Arts Workshops. Bring your own lawn seating. Raindate for both nights is Sunday, August 3, 8 PM. $12; $5 Under 12

DAKHABRAKHA Ç Thursday, 7 PM Modern ethnic Ukrainian quartet

Drones and beats, crimson beads and towering black lambs-wool hats make a striking backdrop for an unexpected, refreshingly novel vision of Eastern European roots music. A shadowy procession to the pounding of drums, to the murmur of a cello, morphs into an anthem, an invocation, a wild and whacky mashup of ancient and modern, regional and global. Theatrics, edgy music played on Indian, Arabic, African, Russian, and Australian instruments, and an astonishingly powerful and uncompro-mising vocal range create what the band calls “natural order amid the world’s chaos and absurdity.” This mix of contemporary, cosmopolitan savvy and intimacy with local traditions and meanings cuts to the heart of DakhaBrakha’s bigger mission: To make the world aware of the new country but ancient nation that is Ukraine.

“Wildly exciting”—The Daily Telegraph. “So mesmerising that you cease worrying about meaning and just go with the flow”—The Guardian. “Utter brilliance”—NPR.

$24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

WEST KORTRIGHT FAIR 2014 Ç Sunday, Noon–6 PM Music and food fair

Our annual fair just keeps getting better and better! Join us for another Labor Day party extraordi-naire. The Centre’s 9th annual family-friendly summer’s-end celebration of the region’s “agri-cultural” bounty includes a full afternoon of foot-stompin’ music from folk musicians Mike + Ruthy, Blues Maneuver band, and others. You can graze all day on scrumptious foods made from fresh local prod-ucts; pick up fabulous baked goods; bid on artwork; shop a huge silent auction and rummage sale of antiques, goods, and services to benefit The WKC; enjoy the beer-tasting booth; keep the kids entertained with lots of kid-friendly games and activities; and shop for one-of-a-kind items from local vendors. The fair will be held rain or shine. $5 per person, children under 10 free (food sold separately)

SUZY BOGGUSS Ç Sunday, 3 PM Country and Americana

Sponsored by Boynton Pro Audio

She’s one of music’s most pristine and evocative vocalists. Since moving to Nashville in 1985, Suzy Bogguss has brought out sixteen albums of country, swing, jazz, and American roots music (three gold and one platinum), eight singles in country music’s top five, a Grammy, Academy of Country Music and multiple Country Music Association awards. She has appeared on scores of TV broad-casts (including “In Performance at the White House” and “Austin City Limits”) and performed live shows across the globe. She’ll be on tour with her new album, Lucky, a collection of Merle Haggard songs. She says, “Not every artist has music that is as universal as Merle’s. He really is the poet of the common man.” $27 ($30 day of ); $24 Member ($27); $11 Under 19

CHIARA STRING QUARTET Ç Sunday, 2 PM Bartók by Heart

Renowned for bringing fresh excitement to traditional string quartet repertoire as well as for creat-ing insightful interpretations of new music, Chiara String Quartet has established itself as among America’s most respected ensembles, lauded for its highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing” (Boston Globe). The quartet’s recent international travels have included extensive tours of China, Korea, and Sweden as well as appearances at the American Academy in Rome and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, and a performance of Steve Reich’s Different Trains in Munich. Harkening back to a tradition that is centuries old and still common among soloists, the ensemble has adapted to performing sans printed sheet music. They will perform three Bartók string quartets from memory. $24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

LAS CAFETERAS Ç Saturday, 7 PM Urban folk music from the streets of East LA

Las Cafeteras creates a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and a community-focused political message. Their Afro-Mexican rhythms, zapateado dancing, and inspiring lyrics tell stories of a community that is looking for love and fights for justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles. In a remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, Las Cafeteras adds Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry in English and Spanglish, and instruments like jarana, requinto, a donkey jawbone, and a wooden platform called the tarima. “Uniquely Angeleno mishmash… hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock … Live, they’re magnetic”—LA Times. $26 ($29 day of); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

BATTLEFIELD BAND Ç Sunday, 2 PM Traditional Scottish music

Recently awarded ‘Scottish Folk Band of the Year’ and previously ‘Best Live Act’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Battlefield Band has been an ever-evolving bedrock of traditional music and talent for over forty years and is rightly regarded as the great flagship of the Scottish traditional music scene. Under the banner ‘Forward With Scotland’s Past,’ the group continues to lead the way for Scotland with its inspired and authentic fusion of ancient and modern traditional music and song. Serious about the music, this band’s enjoyment in playing is obvious and infectious as they harness the great living traditions of Scotland and the Celtic nations to involve and entertain their audiences.

“A wondrous perfectly paced display by musicians firmly in command of their art… the band’s chemistry at this point is uncanny … the best Battlefield Band in years”—The Washington Post.

$24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

Experience more than just a performance! Come early, bring a picnic, and enjoy our bucolic valley. There will be a tent (June through August) to gather under for drinks and snacks and to stay dry!

Season sponsor Season print sponsor

2014 West Kortright Centre arts and community programs are funded in part by our members, by contributors to the 2014 Program Fund Drive and to the Nancy Fales Garrett Workshop Scholarship Fund, by the Bert Santora Trust, and by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and from the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor, Robinson-Broadhurst, and Dewar foundations.

HOW TO GET TICKETS? IT’S AS EASY AS 1… 2 OR 3…

1. VISIT WWW.WESTKC.ORG AND CLICK ON THE “EVENTS” TAB. (AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD AND VISA GLADLY ACCEPTED)

2. CALL (607) 278-5454 (AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD AND VISA GLADLY ACCEPTED)

3. SEND A CHECK BY MAIL TO: THE WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE, 49 WEST KORTRIGHT CHURCH ROAD, EAST MEREDITH, NY 13757

(BE SURE TO INCLUDE: NUMBER OF TICKETS/GENERAL, MEMBER, YOUTH; NAME AND DATE OF EVENT.

Note: Ticket reservations require pre-payment by mail, in person, over the phone, or online. To help cover rising costs, a non-refundable $2 per ticket handling fee will be applied to all advance adult ticket purchases for events other than the Landscape & Garden Tour, Gala Dinner, Shakespeare in the Valley, and West Kortright Fair. Unless otherwise requested, advance sale tickets will be held at the gate. Advance sales close 24 hours before each program. (Complete policies can be viewed at www.westkc.org.)

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OPENING ACTS: YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE 2014A young area artist or group precedes many performances.

HERITAGE BLUES TRIO Ç Sunday, 8 PM African-American blues

Chaney Sims (vocals, handclaps), Bill Sims, Jr. (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, handclaps), and Junior Mack (vocals, electric and electric slide guitars, dobro) create a joyous, rousing blend of traditional and contemporary blues with elements of soul, gospel, and jazz. They are the lead members of a brand new ensemble of rotating musicians called Heritage Blues Orchestra and have already teamed up with Lincoln Center Institute, won 2013 Living Blues Critics Poll Award for Best New Recording/Debut Album, been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Blues Album 2013 and for Two Blues Music Awards (Best Album and Best Traditional Album), and will tour Europe this year. Taj Mahal calls them “one of the new and exciting faces of the Blues! Elegant, fabulous and refreshing!” $23 ($27 day of ); $20 WKC Member ($24); $11 Under 19

CABINET Ç Saturday, 8 PM Pennsylvania bluegrass

Sponsored by Courtney Funeral Home

Cabinet weaves old time bluegrass, country, rock, and folk influences. Tight dynamics punctuate soaring harmonies; down-to-earth rhythm and lyrics give way to dreamy jams. The Scranton-based band has outgrown its “regional favorite” tag. Picked up by Ropeadope Recordings, the band has played venues nationwide and festivals including SXSW, Musikfest, Floyd Fest, Peach Music Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, and Dark Star Jubilee. Cabinet has shared the stage with the likes of Yonder Mountain String Band, Allman Brothers, Pokey LaFarge, Infamous String Dusters, Railroad Earth, Rusted Root, Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, 7 Walkers, and New Riders of the Purple Sage. $15 ($18 day of ); $12 WKC Member ($15); $11 Under 19

BIRDS OF CHICAGO Ç Saturday, 8 PM Roots band

You’ll hear echoes of mountain gospel, street corner doo-wop, and classic soul. JT Nero and Allison Russell, two of the most compelling new voices in North American roots music, front the four-piece, multi-instrumental collective. Nero’s “soulful, idiosyncratic, and rich vocal style” and Russell’s “beau-tiful, supple range” (Toledo Blade) deliver clever and quirky songs of human emotions, of the familiar and strange (as in the tune “Moonglow Tapeworm,” which No Depression magazine called “part savvy street poetry, part surrealism”). Following a ten-day spring tour with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, they toured the U.K. and Ireland before making this, their WKC debut.

“Hailed as one of the year’s best roots debuts by the Chicago Sun-Times and L.A. Times, and exuding the kind of radiant harmonies and easy acoustic familiarity…that are difficult to fake” —Houston Press.

$23 ($27 day of ); $20 WKC Member ($24); $11 Under 19

LANDSCAPE & GARDEN TOUR Ç Sunday, 11 AM–4 PM

Sponsored by The Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley

Travel beautiful northern Catskills roads and get a rare insider look at how others have enhanced the natural beauty of their outdoor environments. On view will be a myriad of design sensibilities incor-porating flowers, shrubs and trees, stonework, water elements, artwork, vegetable beds, and homes for livestock and wildlife. There will be light refreshments available for purchase at a mid-tour garden. Must pre-register to get directions to the first garden. Rain or shine. $16, to benefit The West Kortright Centre

GALA DANCE UNDER THE STARS WITH NATION BEAT Ç Saturday

7–8 PM Picnic Dinner • 8 PM DanceSponsored by FrieslandCampina Domo

It will be an all-out Brazilian/American carnival dance party! Nation Beat’s sound lies in a deliciously original 21st-century fusion between thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming and New Orleans second-line rhythms, Appalachian music, funk, and country blues. It is also the vibrant force of their explosive live show, which is frequently known to burst into crowd-wide Carnival-style drumming and singing. Nation Beat belongs to both sides of the equator, and for one Catskills summer night, so will we. Arrive early for a savory Brazilian picnic. (Dinners must be pre-ordered.) Dinner and dance rain or shine. Bring your own lawn seating.“A revelation...the most original and alluring fusion band I have heard in years!”—Banning Eyre, NPR. “Dangerously funky!”—Village Voice.

$26 ($29 day of ); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19 • Pre-paid Picnic Dinner, $18 to benefit The WKC

CATHERINE RUSSELL Ç Saturday, 8 PM Jazz

Sponsored by WSKG Public Media

Since that night in 2007 when she brought the WKC house down, Catherine Russell’s renown as one of the foremost interpreters and explorers of mid-20th century American music has skyrocketed. A Grammy Award winner, she regularly plays Lincoln Center and hundreds of other major venues and festivals worldwide, has made two appearances on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, appeared on “Piano Jazz” with Marian McPartland, and has garnered rave reviews and awards both in France and at home. Russell is celebrating the release of her fifth CD, Bring It Back (Jazz Village), a tribute to her mother, Carline Ray, a guitarist in the all-female ‘40s ensemble the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. “Cat” will be backed by Matt Munisteri on guitar, Mark Shane, piano, and Tal Ronen, bass.

“The best blues and jazz singer going today…Her singing is drenched in emotion, drama, experience and pure swing”—Wall Street Journal.“A one-woman reclamation project for classic jazz, blues and r&b from the ’20s to the ’50s” —Downbeat.

$26 ($29 day of ); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

27TH ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE IN THE VALLEY AND PICNIC DINNER

Friday & Saturday, 6 PM

Co-sponsored by Clark Companies, Frank Lumia Real Estate Plus, Geo. Powers Construction, and New York Central Mutual Insurance

Join us for two fabulous summer evenings celebrating the talents of youth and William Shakespeare! Each begins at 6 PM with an indoor performance of “The Faces of Wonderland,” a celebration of the characters from Alice in Wonderland by the Introduction to Acting group, followed by an outdoor picnic (BYO or have hot dogs, beef or veggie burgers with us). At 8 PM, the lights go up on Twelfth Night, fully staged by the Shakespeare, Technical Theater, and Costume Design sections of the Young People’s Theater Arts Workshops. Bring your own lawn seating. Raindate for both nights is Sunday, August 3, 8 PM. $12; $5 Under 12

DAKHABRAKHA Ç Thursday, 7 PM Modern ethnic Ukrainian quartet

Drones and beats, crimson beads and towering black lambs-wool hats make a striking backdrop for an unexpected, refreshingly novel vision of Eastern European roots music. A shadowy procession to the pounding of drums, to the murmur of a cello, morphs into an anthem, an invocation, a wild and whacky mashup of ancient and modern, regional and global. Theatrics, edgy music played on Indian, Arabic, African, Russian, and Australian instruments, and an astonishingly powerful and uncompro-mising vocal range create what the band calls “natural order amid the world’s chaos and absurdity.” This mix of contemporary, cosmopolitan savvy and intimacy with local traditions and meanings cuts to the heart of DakhaBrakha’s bigger mission: To make the world aware of the new country but ancient nation that is Ukraine.

“Wildly exciting”—The Daily Telegraph. “So mesmerising that you cease worrying about meaning and just go with the flow”—The Guardian. “Utter brilliance”—NPR.

$24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

WEST KORTRIGHT FAIR 2014 Ç Sunday, Noon–6 PM Music and food fair

Our annual fair just keeps getting better and better! Join us for another Labor Day party extraordi-naire. The Centre’s 9th annual family-friendly summer’s-end celebration of the region’s “agri-cultural” bounty includes a full afternoon of foot-stompin’ music from folk musicians Mike + Ruthy, Blues Maneuver band, and others. You can graze all day on scrumptious foods made from fresh local prod-ucts; pick up fabulous baked goods; bid on artwork; shop a huge silent auction and rummage sale of antiques, goods, and services to benefit The WKC; enjoy the beer-tasting booth; keep the kids entertained with lots of kid-friendly games and activities; and shop for one-of-a-kind items from local vendors. The fair will be held rain or shine. $5 per person, children under 10 free (food sold separately)

SUZY BOGGUSS Ç Sunday, 3 PM Country and Americana

Sponsored by Boynton Pro Audio

She’s one of music’s most pristine and evocative vocalists. Since moving to Nashville in 1985, Suzy Bogguss has brought out sixteen albums of country, swing, jazz, and American roots music (three gold and one platinum), eight singles in country music’s top five, a Grammy, Academy of Country Music and multiple Country Music Association awards. She has appeared on scores of TV broad-casts (including “In Performance at the White House” and “Austin City Limits”) and performed live shows across the globe. She’ll be on tour with her new album, Lucky, a collection of Merle Haggard songs. She says, “Not every artist has music that is as universal as Merle’s. He really is the poet of the common man.” $27 ($30 day of ); $24 Member ($27); $11 Under 19

CHIARA STRING QUARTET Ç Sunday, 2 PM Bartók by Heart

Renowned for bringing fresh excitement to traditional string quartet repertoire as well as for creat-ing insightful interpretations of new music, Chiara String Quartet has established itself as among America’s most respected ensembles, lauded for its highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing” (Boston Globe). The quartet’s recent international travels have included extensive tours of China, Korea, and Sweden as well as appearances at the American Academy in Rome and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, and a performance of Steve Reich’s Different Trains in Munich. Harkening back to a tradition that is centuries old and still common among soloists, the ensemble has adapted to performing sans printed sheet music. They will perform three Bartók string quartets from memory. $24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

LAS CAFETERAS Ç Saturday, 7 PM Urban folk music from the streets of East LA

Las Cafeteras creates a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and a community-focused political message. Their Afro-Mexican rhythms, zapateado dancing, and inspiring lyrics tell stories of a community that is looking for love and fights for justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles. In a remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, Las Cafeteras adds Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry in English and Spanglish, and instruments like jarana, requinto, a donkey jawbone, and a wooden platform called the tarima. “Uniquely Angeleno mishmash… hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock … Live, they’re magnetic”—LA Times. $26 ($29 day of); $22 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

BATTLEFIELD BAND Ç Sunday, 2 PM Traditional Scottish music

Recently awarded ‘Scottish Folk Band of the Year’ and previously ‘Best Live Act’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Battlefield Band has been an ever-evolving bedrock of traditional music and talent for over forty years and is rightly regarded as the great flagship of the Scottish traditional music scene. Under the banner ‘Forward With Scotland’s Past,’ the group continues to lead the way for Scotland with its inspired and authentic fusion of ancient and modern traditional music and song. Serious about the music, this band’s enjoyment in playing is obvious and infectious as they harness the great living traditions of Scotland and the Celtic nations to involve and entertain their audiences.

“A wondrous perfectly paced display by musicians firmly in command of their art… the band’s chemistry at this point is uncanny … the best Battlefield Band in years”—The Washington Post.

$24 ($28 day of ); $21 Member ($25); $11 Under 19

Experience more than just a performance! Come early, bring a picnic, and enjoy our bucolic valley. There will be a tent (June through August) to gather under for drinks and snacks and to stay dry!

Season sponsor Season print sponsor

2014 West Kortright Centre arts and community programs are funded in part by our members, by contributors to the 2014 Program Fund Drive and to the Nancy Fales Garrett Workshop Scholarship Fund, by the Bert Santora Trust, and by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and from the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor, Robinson-Broadhurst, and Dewar foundations.

HOW TO GET TICKETS? IT’S AS EASY AS 1… 2 OR 3…

1. VISIT WWW.WESTKC.ORG AND CLICK ON THE “EVENTS” TAB. (AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD AND VISA GLADLY ACCEPTED)

2. CALL (607) 278-5454 (AMERICAN EXPRESS, MASTERCARD AND VISA GLADLY ACCEPTED)

3. SEND A CHECK BY MAIL TO: THE WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE, 49 WEST KORTRIGHT CHURCH ROAD, EAST MEREDITH, NY 13757

(BE SURE TO INCLUDE: NUMBER OF TICKETS/GENERAL, MEMBER, YOUTH; NAME AND DATE OF EVENT.

Note: Ticket reservations require pre-payment by mail, in person, over the phone, or online. To help cover rising costs, a non-refundable $2 per ticket handling fee will be applied to all advance adult ticket purchases for events other than the Landscape & Garden Tour, Gala Dinner, Shakespeare in the Valley, and West Kortright Fair. Unless otherwise requested, advance sale tickets will be held at the gate. Advance sales close 24 hours before each program. (Complete policies can be viewed at www.westkc.org.)

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More informat ion @ www.westkc .org/workshops

FICTION WRITING 34 With Mermer BlakesleeEight Wednesdays, August 6–September 24, 6:30–9 PM

The immensely popular Fiction Writing Workshop celebrates its 34th time around! (See Fiction Writing 33 description.) Adults; $210/180 WKC Member

WILD FOOD FORAGING/SUMMER With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSaturday, August 9, 12:30–5 PM

Take a summer adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. (See Wild Food Foraging/Spring description.) All ages; $15

EAST MEETS WEST: THEATER WORKSHOP With Lanny HarrisonFour Thursdays, August 7, 14, 28, & September 4, 7–9 PM

In the instructor’s East Meredith studio

Back by popular demand for a fourth year! Through exercises that emphasize imagination, improvisation, and transformation, actor Lanny Harrison will lead the group on a voyage of theatrical exploration and contemplative practice, with live music. No prior experience in the-ater or dance necessary. Pre-registration not required. All ages; $60/$45 WKC Member or $15 per session

PLEIN AIR PAINTING With Richard KathmannSaturday & Sunday, August 16 & 17, 10 AM–3 PM

In Cooperstown

Sponsored by Golden Paints

Under painter Richard Kathmann’s instruction, students will use both a limited and full color range palette to depict intricate, deep spaces inspired by the lake and surrounding nature. Rain or shine. Note: Pre-register early to receive materials list and travel directions to the site. All skill levels, ages 16 & up; $150/$125 WKC Member

WILD FOOD FORAGING/FALL With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSunday, October 5, 12:30–5 PM

Take a fall adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. (See Wild Food Foraging/Spring description.) All ages; $15

2014 WORKSHOPS F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N : W E S T K C . O R G

Unless otherwise noted, pre-registration is required for all workshops. Scholarships are available for children’s programs. Workshops fill up quickly. Register online at www.westkc.org, call 607-278-5454, or e-mail us at info@westkc.org to request a registration and/or scholarship form.

WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE 2014 EXHIBITIONSReceptions Sponsored by Brewery Ommegang & Hand in Hand Farm

KAMILLA TALBOT LandscapesOpening reception, Friday, May 23, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from May 23 through July 14

Many of Talbot’s landscapes are painted en plein air, starting with motifs of the trees and ponds of the Catskills, urban landscapes from Governors Island in New York City, and the rocky coast of Norway. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the New York Studio School, has taught at the Art Students League and the New York Studio School, and currently teaches at NYC’s National Academy. Talbot’s watercolors and oil paintings have been shown in numerous galleries in New York City, including a solo show at Bruno Marina Gallery and at Johannes Larsen Museum in Denmark. Past honors include a 2013 art symposium in Norway and residencies at the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation (Maine), the Vermont Studio Center, the World Trade Center, and organizations in Newfoundland and Iceland. She recently returned from painting residencies in Norway and Italy and is currently the artist in residence for the National Park Service on Governors Island.

JOSEPH KURHAJEC Paintings and sculptureOpening reception, Friday, July 18, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from July 18 through August 25

Painter and sculptor Joseph Kurhajec has studios in Paris and Merida, Mexico and has maintained a summer base at the Treadwell Museum of Fine Art in Treadwell, N.Y. since 1971. Kurhajec’s extensive career includes exhibitions at Allan Stone

Gallery and the Whitney and Guggenheim museums in New York City; the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, N.Y.; Galleria Etrusculudens in Rome; Art 6’75 Basel, Switzerland; Gallery Alexander Monet, Brussels; Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris; and Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague. Art critic Edward Bryant called Joseph Kurhajec “a wild and generous artist, the creator of formidable, declarative sculptures which bite sharply into our fin de siècle complacency.”

2014 FUNDRAISING EXHIBIT “Fowl Play”—Artists Render the Yellow Rubber Ducky

Group Multi-Media Exhibit

Opening reception, Friday, August 29, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from August 29 through end of season

Our annual fundraising exhibition will be a collection of toy-themed artworks born from the inventive minds of area artists. Beginning from the classic yellow rubber ducky, artists are challenged to create an art piece from the beloved bathtub toy. (For guidelines, contact The Centre.) The results will be available for purchase by silent bidding throughout the exhibit, to benefit The West Kortright Centre. Final bids will be accepted at the last performance of the season.

WILD FOOD FORAGING/SPRING With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSaturday, May 10, 12:30–5 PM

Take a spring adventure with a wild plants expert in the fields surrounding the WKC. Those weeds you thought useless will prove quite the opposite! Discover how many common wild plants can feed your body and nourish the soul. Pre-registration is required. All ages; $15

FICTION WRITING 33 With Mermer BlakesleeEight Wednesdays, May 28–July 16, 6:30–9 PM

Novelist Mermer Blakeslee’s long-standing, immensely popular Fiction Writing Workshop begins its 33rd cycle! The workshop welcomes both new and experienced writers. New students are asked to bring a sample of either a story or a small piece. Adults; $210/$180 WKC Member

RUG HOOKING With Annie Hayes

Five Tuesdays, June 3–July 1, 6:30–8:30 PM

Handmade hooked rugs are rooted in the early American tradition of making coverings for the floor using wool strips from old garments hooked into burlap. This workshop will cover creat-ing your own design, transferring it, learning to hook a rug and to finish it off, as well as how to dye the wool. Ages 12 & up; $130/$110 WKC Member (includes $65 materials fee)

COLLABORATIVE SELF-PORTRAITS FROM NATURE With Joe LaMantia

Wednesday, June 4, 9 AM–1 PM & Thursday, June 5, 1–5 PMOn the grounds of Zelený Les Artist Residency, Bloomville

Under the guidance of collaborative artist Joe LaMantia, students will create self-images from materials found on the land. The portraits will stay on the land and disappear with time, but a digital photo document will go home with each participant. Pre-registration not required. Travel directions can be found at westkc.org or by calling the office. All ages; Free

VINYASA FLOW YOGA With Nancy Forstbauer

Eight Wednesdays, June 4–July 23, 5:30–6:45 PM

Vinyasa Yoga focuses on the dynamic connection between different postures, creating a flowing movement between poses. Blocks and straps provided, mats available or bring your own. Pre-registration not required. All levels and ages; $75 for all eight classes/$10 per session

BELLY DANCE AFTERNOON With Jo BoringSaturday, June 14, 1–4 PM

Geared for everybody, this afternoon of exotic dance will bring out your inner sensuous soul. No matter what your age or shape, these rhythmic gyrations are a fun and exciting exercise for body and spirit. Come as you are—Jo will provide Egyptian music, coin sashes, ankle bells, and other exotic adornments! Pre-registration suggested. All ages; $20/$15 WKC Member

YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATER ARTS WORKSHOPS Month of JulyCo-sponsored by Frank Lumia Real Estate Plus, Clark Companies, Geo. Powers Construction, and New York Central Mutual Insurance

SHAKESPEARE With Zane RelethfordTuesdays–Fridays, July 8–August 1, 1–5 PM

Intensive ensemble acting taught by YPTAW alumnus Zane Relethford. The workshop will culminate in two fully staged productions of Twelfth Night at 8 PM on August 1 and 2, with music directed by workshop alumnus Jake DeNicola and written by composer John DeNicola, following the 6 PM Introduction to Acting performance and picnic dinner. Ages 13–19; $400/$350 WKC Member

THEATER GAMES With Terry BradshawMonday–Friday, July 14–July 18,1–4 PM

Beginning with Charles Dickens’s story The Magic Fishbone, students will learn basic acting skills using group improvisations and creative play and developing theatrical imagination and self-confidence. There will be a performance for family members on Friday, July 18, at 3 PM. Ages 6–9; $110/$90 WKC Member

INTRODUCTION TO ACTING With Vanessa Van Burek and Hannah Pearl Walcott

Tuesdays–Fridays, July 22-August 1, 11 AM–3 PM

The actors will focus on character development, movement, stage presence, and improvisation-al skills and develop a strong sense of tribe and passion for theater. They will present two full-dress performances of “The Faces of Wonderland,” a celebration of the characters from Alice in Wonderland at 6 PM on August 1 and 2. Ages 9–12; $190/$170 WKC Member

TECHNICAL THEATER With Ian AustinTuesdays–Fridays, July 22–August 1, 11 AM–3 PM

Hands-on learning taught by a YPTAW alumnus and theater pro. Students will experience all phases of technical theater production—set design, scene painting, lighting design, props, and sound—culminating in two fully produced performances of Twelfth Night on August 1 and 2. Ages 12–19; $190/$170 WKC Member

COSTUME DESIGN With Melissa MossTuesdays–Fridays, July 22–August 2, 1–5 PM

Taught by YPTAW alumna and professional costume designer Melissa Moss. Participants will learn all phases of costuming—design, building/production, and backstage dressing—for the entire cast of Twelfth Night. Ages 12–19; $190/$170 WKC Member

Community supported arts Members are the donor-owners of The West Kortright Centre. As a member, you’ll receive advance notice of programs, reduced ticket and workshop prices, WKC rental privileges, choice of admission-free ushering opportunities, invi-tations to special member events, and a listing in the annual season program booklet.

Volunteer! The Centre serves thousands of people each year with a helping hand from the committed folks and businesses who have talents and time to share with their community.

Rent the West Kortright Centre Our beautiful stained-glass-lit auditorium seats 200 com-fortably and the property hosts an in-ground wooden dance deck for private events.

To become a member, offer your services, or learn more about renting the facilities, visit www.westkc.org, contact us at (607) 278-5454, or write to 49 West Kortright Church Road, E. Meredith, NY 13757 or to info@westkc.org.

The Centre’s endowment trust fund is for ongoing preservation and improvement of the build-ing and grounds. The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation generously matches all donations to the trust fund dollar-for-dollar.

THE WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE

MEMBERSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:

INDIVIDUAL $30

FRIEND $50–99

SUPPORTER $100–249

SUSTAINER $250–499

PATRON $500–999

BENEFACTOR $1000 & UP

Our latest financial report is available at The Centre and is on file with the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, Attn: FOIL Officer, 120 Broadway, New York, New York 10271 or by e-mail to Charities.FOIL@oag.state.ny.us.

A short drive through the scenic West Kortright Valley brings you past grazing sheep and cattle, meandering streams, open fields, and mountain views, and finally to a picture-perfect 1850 country church building. It is just the beginning of the magic that’s in store for you. You take a step back in time in the cozy auditorium with its historic stained glass, antique chande-liers, and handcrafted woodwork and throughout the two-acre property with its bucolic views in every direction. Then, together with neighbors, visitors, and folks who’ve travelled great distances to this unlikely locale for arts and community programs, you en-

counter the world-class and cutting-edge programs you’ve come here for—that’s The West Kortright Experience. There’s simply no place like it.

The Centre has treated audiences to the work of musicians, actors, writers, dancers, and other performers from as far away as Ireland, Italy, Zaire, Ukraine, Jamaica, Angola, Palestine, Uganda, Cuba, Haiti, Peru, Zimbabwe, Mali, Sweden, Morocco, Israel, South Africa, and Brazil.

We have hosted composers John Cage, Meredith Monk, Peter Schickele, and Virgil Thompson; poets Allen Ginsberg, Sekou Sundiata, and Hayden Carruth; bluegrass, country, and roots musicians Rhonda Vincent, J.D. Crowe, The Cox Family, Claire Lynch, Rail Road Earth, Mary Gauthier, and Linda & Robin Williams; traditional musicians Queen Ida and her Zydeco Band, Solas, Fairfield Four, Väsen, Johnny Cunningham, Susan McKeown, Karan Casey, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Beau Soleil; Naumburg Chamber Music award winners; jazz and funk virtuosos Jack DeJohnette, Teddy Wilson, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Burrell, Jacky Terrasson, Steve Lacy, Sonny Fortune, Dakota Staton, and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings; folk musicians Greg Brown, Leo Kottke, Amos Lee, Odetta, Iris DeMent, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Loudon Wainwright III, Leon Redbone, and Richie Havens; blues standouts Mose Allison, Henry Butler, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, John Hammond, The Holmes Brothers, James Cotton, Maria Muldaur, Olu Dara, Pinetop Perkins, and Junior Wells; crossover musicians The Roches, Nellie McKay, and Lake Street Dive; monologists Paul Zaloom, David Cale, and Reno. Artists from distant places and traditions, including Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Hassan Hakmoun, Bhundu Boys, Luciana Souza, Boukman Eksperyans, Mamadou Diabate, Kanda Bongo Man, The Skatalites, Susana Baca, Vieux Farka Touré, Hazmat Modine, Oregon, Simon Shaheen, and Red Baraat have brought the world to our remote farm valley.

For more information on our season visit

www.westkc.org

work-shops

FICTION WRITING 34 With Mermer BlakesleeEight Wednesdays, August 6–September 24, 6:30–9 PM

The immensely popular Fiction Writing Workshop celebrates its 34th time around! (See Fiction Writing 33 description.) Adults; $210/180 WKC Member

WILD FOOD FORAGING/SUMMER With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSaturday, August 9, 12:30–5 PM

Take a summer adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. (See Wild Food Foraging/Spring description.) All ages; $15

EAST MEETS WEST: THEATER WORKSHOP With Lanny HarrisonFour Thursdays, August 7, 14, 28, & September 4, 7–9 PM

In the instructor’s East Meredith studio

Back by popular demand for a fourth year! Through exercises that emphasize imagination, improvisation, and transformation, actor Lanny Harrison will lead the group on a voyage of theatrical exploration and contemplative practice, with live music. No prior experience in the-ater or dance necessary. Pre-registration not required. All ages; $60/$45 WKC Member or $15 per session

PLEIN AIR PAINTING With Richard KathmannSaturday & Sunday, August 16 & 17, 10 AM–3 PM

In Cooperstown

Sponsored by Golden Paints

Under painter Richard Kathmann’s instruction, students will use both a limited and full color range palette to depict intricate, deep spaces inspired by the lake and surrounding nature. Rain or shine. Note: Pre-register early to receive materials list and travel directions to the site. All skill levels, ages 16 & up; $150/$125 WKC Member

WILD FOOD FORAGING/FALL With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSunday, October 5, 12:30–5 PM

Take a fall adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. (See Wild Food Foraging/Spring description.) All ages; $15

2014 WORKSHOPS F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N : W E S T K C . O R G

Unless otherwise noted, pre-registration is required for all workshops. Scholarships are available for children’s programs. Workshops fill up quickly. Register online at www.westkc.org, call 607-278-5454, or e-mail us at info@westkc.org to request a registration and/or scholarship form.

WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE 2014 EXHIBITIONSReceptions Sponsored by Brewery Ommegang & Hand in Hand Farm

KAMILLA TALBOT LandscapesOpening reception, Friday, May 23, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from May 23 through July 14

Many of Talbot’s landscapes are painted en plein air, starting with motifs of the trees and ponds of the Catskills, urban landscapes from Governors Island in New York City, and the rocky coast of Norway. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the New York Studio School, has taught at the Art Students League and the New York Studio School, and currently teaches at NYC’s National Academy. Talbot’s watercolors and oil paintings have been shown in numerous galleries in New York City, including a solo show at Bruno Marina Gallery and at Johannes Larsen Museum in Denmark. Past honors include a 2013 art symposium in Norway and residencies at the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation (Maine), the Vermont Studio Center, the World Trade Center, and organizations in Newfoundland and Iceland. She recently returned from painting residencies in Norway and Italy and is currently the artist in residence for the National Park Service on Governors Island.

JOSEPH KURHAJEC Paintings and sculptureOpening reception, Friday, July 18, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from July 18 through August 25

Painter and sculptor Joseph Kurhajec has studios in Paris and Merida, Mexico and has maintained a summer base at the Treadwell Museum of Fine Art in Treadwell, N.Y. since 1971. Kurhajec’s extensive career includes exhibitions at Allan Stone

Gallery and the Whitney and Guggenheim museums in New York City; the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, N.Y.; Galleria Etrusculudens in Rome; Art 6’75 Basel, Switzerland; Gallery Alexander Monet, Brussels; Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris; and Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague. Art critic Edward Bryant called Joseph Kurhajec “a wild and generous artist, the creator of formidable, declarative sculptures which bite sharply into our fin de siècle complacency.”

2014 FUNDRAISING EXHIBIT “Fowl Play”—Artists Render the Yellow Rubber Ducky

Group Multi-Media Exhibit

Opening reception, Friday, August 29, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from August 29 through end of season

Our annual fundraising exhibition will be a collection of toy-themed artworks born from the inventive minds of area artists. Beginning from the classic yellow rubber ducky, artists are challenged to create an art piece from the beloved bathtub toy. (For guidelines, contact The Centre.) The results will be available for purchase by silent bidding throughout the exhibit, to benefit The West Kortright Centre. Final bids will be accepted at the last performance of the season.

WILD FOOD FORAGING/SPRING With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSaturday, May 10, 12:30–5 PM

Take a spring adventure with a wild plants expert in the fields surrounding the WKC. Those weeds you thought useless will prove quite the opposite! Discover how many common wild plants can feed your body and nourish the soul. Pre-registration is required. All ages; $15

FICTION WRITING 33 With Mermer BlakesleeEight Wednesdays, May 28–July 16, 6:30–9 PM

Novelist Mermer Blakeslee’s long-standing, immensely popular Fiction Writing Workshop begins its 33rd cycle! The workshop welcomes both new and experienced writers. New students are asked to bring a sample of either a story or a small piece. Adults; $210/$180 WKC Member

RUG HOOKING With Annie Hayes

Five Tuesdays, June 3–July 1, 6:30–8:30 PM

Handmade hooked rugs are rooted in the early American tradition of making coverings for the floor using wool strips from old garments hooked into burlap. This workshop will cover creat-ing your own design, transferring it, learning to hook a rug and to finish it off, as well as how to dye the wool. Ages 12 & up; $130/$110 WKC Member (includes $65 materials fee)

COLLABORATIVE SELF-PORTRAITS FROM NATURE With Joe LaMantia

Wednesday, June 4, 9 AM–1 PM & Thursday, June 5, 1–5 PMOn the grounds of Zelený Les Artist Residency, Bloomville

Under the guidance of collaborative artist Joe LaMantia, students will create self-images from materials found on the land. The portraits will stay on the land and disappear with time, but a digital photo document will go home with each participant. Pre-registration not required. Travel directions can be found at westkc.org or by calling the office. All ages; Free

VINYASA FLOW YOGA With Nancy Forstbauer

Eight Wednesdays, June 4–July 23, 5:30–6:45 PM

Vinyasa Yoga focuses on the dynamic connection between different postures, creating a flowing movement between poses. Blocks and straps provided, mats available or bring your own. Pre-registration not required. All levels and ages; $75 for all eight classes/$10 per session

BELLY DANCE AFTERNOON With Jo BoringSaturday, June 14, 1–4 PM

Geared for everybody, this afternoon of exotic dance will bring out your inner sensuous soul. No matter what your age or shape, these rhythmic gyrations are a fun and exciting exercise for body and spirit. Come as you are—Jo will provide Egyptian music, coin sashes, ankle bells, and other exotic adornments! Pre-registration suggested. All ages; $20/$15 WKC Member

YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATER ARTS WORKSHOPS Month of JulyCo-sponsored by Frank Lumia Real Estate Plus, Clark Companies, Geo. Powers Construction, and New York Central Mutual Insurance

SHAKESPEARE With Zane RelethfordTuesdays–Fridays, July 8–August 1, 1–5 PM

Intensive ensemble acting taught by YPTAW alumnus Zane Relethford. The workshop will culminate in two fully staged productions of Twelfth Night at 8 PM on August 1 and 2, with music directed by workshop alumnus Jake DeNicola and written by composer John DeNicola, following the 6 PM Introduction to Acting performance and picnic dinner. Ages 13–19; $400/$350 WKC Member

THEATER GAMES With Terry BradshawMonday–Friday, July 14–July 18,1–4 PM

Beginning with Charles Dickens’s story The Magic Fishbone, students will learn basic acting skills using group improvisations and creative play and developing theatrical imagination and self-confidence. There will be a performance for family members on Friday, July 18, at 3 PM. Ages 6–9; $110/$90 WKC Member

INTRODUCTION TO ACTING With Vanessa Van Burek and Hannah Pearl Walcott

Tuesdays–Fridays, July 22-August 1, 11 AM–3 PM

The actors will focus on character development, movement, stage presence, and improvisation-al skills and develop a strong sense of tribe and passion for theater. They will present two full-dress performances of “The Faces of Wonderland,” a celebration of the characters from Alice in Wonderland at 6 PM on August 1 and 2. Ages 9–12; $190/$170 WKC Member

TECHNICAL THEATER With Ian AustinTuesdays–Fridays, July 22–August 1, 11 AM–3 PM

Hands-on learning taught by a YPTAW alumnus and theater pro. Students will experience all phases of technical theater production—set design, scene painting, lighting design, props, and sound—culminating in two fully produced performances of Twelfth Night on August 1 and 2. Ages 12–19; $190/$170 WKC Member

COSTUME DESIGN With Melissa MossTuesdays–Fridays, July 22–August 2, 1–5 PM

Taught by YPTAW alumna and professional costume designer Melissa Moss. Participants will learn all phases of costuming—design, building/production, and backstage dressing—for the entire cast of Twelfth Night. Ages 12–19; $190/$170 WKC Member

Community supported arts Members are the donor-owners of The West Kortright Centre. As a member, you’ll receive advance notice of programs, reduced ticket and workshop prices, WKC rental privileges, choice of admission-free ushering opportunities, invi-tations to special member events, and a listing in the annual season program booklet.

Volunteer! The Centre serves thousands of people each year with a helping hand from the committed folks and businesses who have talents and time to share with their community.

Rent the West Kortright Centre Our beautiful stained-glass-lit auditorium seats 200 com-fortably and the property hosts an in-ground wooden dance deck for private events.

To become a member, offer your services, or learn more about renting the facilities, visit www.westkc.org, contact us at (607) 278-5454, or write to 49 West Kortright Church Road, E. Meredith, NY 13757 or to info@westkc.org.

The Centre’s endowment trust fund is for ongoing preservation and improvement of the build-ing and grounds. The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation generously matches all donations to the trust fund dollar-for-dollar.

THE WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE

MEMBERSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:

INDIVIDUAL $30

FRIEND $50–99

SUPPORTER $100–249

SUSTAINER $250–499

PATRON $500–999

BENEFACTOR $1000 & UP

Our latest financial report is available at The Centre and is on file with the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, Attn: FOIL Officer, 120 Broadway, New York, New York 10271 or by e-mail to Charities.FOIL@oag.state.ny.us.

A short drive through the scenic West Kortright Valley brings you past grazing sheep and cattle, meandering streams, open fields, and mountain views, and finally to a picture-perfect 1850 country church building. It is just the beginning of the magic that’s in store for you. You take a step back in time in the cozy auditorium with its historic stained glass, antique chande-liers, and handcrafted woodwork and throughout the two-acre property with its bucolic views in every direction. Then, together with neighbors, visitors, and folks who’ve travelled great distances to this unlikely locale for arts and community programs, you en-

counter the world-class and cutting-edge programs you’ve come here for—that’s The West Kortright Experience. There’s simply no place like it.

The Centre has treated audiences to the work of musicians, actors, writers, dancers, and other performers from as far away as Ireland, Italy, Zaire, Ukraine, Jamaica, Angola, Palestine, Uganda, Cuba, Haiti, Peru, Zimbabwe, Mali, Sweden, Morocco, Israel, South Africa, and Brazil.

We have hosted composers John Cage, Meredith Monk, Peter Schickele, and Virgil Thompson; poets Allen Ginsberg, Sekou Sundiata, and Hayden Carruth; bluegrass, country, and roots musicians Rhonda Vincent, J.D. Crowe, The Cox Family, Claire Lynch, Rail Road Earth, Mary Gauthier, and Linda & Robin Williams; traditional musicians Queen Ida and her Zydeco Band, Solas, Fairfield Four, Väsen, Johnny Cunningham, Susan McKeown, Karan Casey, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Beau Soleil; Naumburg Chamber Music award winners; jazz and funk virtuosos Jack DeJohnette, Teddy Wilson, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Burrell, Jacky Terrasson, Steve Lacy, Sonny Fortune, Dakota Staton, and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings; folk musicians Greg Brown, Leo Kottke, Amos Lee, Odetta, Iris DeMent, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Loudon Wainwright III, Leon Redbone, and Richie Havens; blues standouts Mose Allison, Henry Butler, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, John Hammond, The Holmes Brothers, James Cotton, Maria Muldaur, Olu Dara, Pinetop Perkins, and Junior Wells; crossover musicians The Roches, Nellie McKay, and Lake Street Dive; monologists Paul Zaloom, David Cale, and Reno. Artists from distant places and traditions, including Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Hassan Hakmoun, Bhundu Boys, Luciana Souza, Boukman Eksperyans, Mamadou Diabate, Kanda Bongo Man, The Skatalites, Susana Baca, Vieux Farka Touré, Hazmat Modine, Oregon, Simon Shaheen, and Red Baraat have brought the world to our remote farm valley.

For more information on our season visit

www.westkc.org

work-shops

Pre-registration is required for most workshops. Unless

otherwise noted with a per-session price,

fees include the entire workshop.

Scholarships are available for children’s programs.

Workshops fill up quickly. Register online: www.westkc.org/

workshops and download a registration form there.

Call 607-278-5454 or e-mail us at info@westkc.org to request a

registration and/or scholarship form.

FICTION WRITING 34 With Mermer BlakesleeEight Wednesdays, August 6–September 24, 6:30–9 PM

The immensely popular Fiction Writing Workshop celebrates its 34th time around! (See Fiction Writing 33 description.) Adults; $210/180 WKC Member

WILD FOOD FORAGING/SUMMER With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSaturday, August 9, 12:30–5 PM

Take a summer adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. (See Wild Food Foraging/Spring description.) All ages; $15

EAST MEETS WEST: THEATER WORKSHOP With Lanny HarrisonFour Thursdays, August 7, 14, 28, & September 4, 7–9 PM

In the instructor’s East Meredith studio

Back by popular demand for a fourth year! Through exercises that emphasize imagination, improvisation, and transformation, actor Lanny Harrison will lead the group on a voyage of theatrical exploration and contemplative practice, with live music. No prior experience in the-ater or dance necessary. Pre-registration not required. All ages; $60/$45 WKC Member or $15 per session

PLEIN AIR PAINTING With Richard KathmannSaturday & Sunday, August 16 & 17, 10 AM–3 PM

In Cooperstown

Sponsored by Golden Paints

Under painter Richard Kathmann’s instruction, students will use both a limited and full color range palette to depict intricate, deep spaces inspired by the lake and surrounding nature. Rain or shine. Note: Pre-register early to receive materials list and travel directions to the site. All skill levels, ages 16 & up; $150/$125 WKC Member

WILD FOOD FORAGING/FALL With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSunday, October 5, 12:30–5 PM

Take a fall adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. (See Wild Food Foraging/Spring description.) All ages; $15

2014 WORKSHOPS F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N : W E S T K C . O R G

Unless otherwise noted, pre-registration is required for all workshops. Scholarships are available for children’s programs. Workshops fill up quickly. Register online at www.westkc.org, call 607-278-5454, or e-mail us at info@westkc.org to request a registration and/or scholarship form.

WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE 2014 EXHIBITIONSReceptions Sponsored by Brewery Ommegang & Hand in Hand Farm

KAMILLA TALBOT LandscapesOpening reception, Friday, May 23, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from May 23 through July 14

Many of Talbot’s landscapes are painted en plein air, starting with motifs of the trees and ponds of the Catskills, urban landscapes from Governors Island in New York City, and the rocky coast of Norway. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the New York Studio School, has taught at the Art Students League and the New York Studio School, and currently teaches at NYC’s National Academy. Talbot’s watercolors and oil paintings have been shown in numerous galleries in New York City, including a solo show at Bruno Marina Gallery and at Johannes Larsen Museum in Denmark. Past honors include a 2013 art symposium in Norway and residencies at the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation (Maine), the Vermont Studio Center, the World Trade Center, and organizations in Newfoundland and Iceland. She recently returned from painting residencies in Norway and Italy and is currently the artist in residence for the National Park Service on Governors Island.

JOSEPH KURHAJEC Paintings and sculptureOpening reception, Friday, July 18, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from July 18 through August 25

Painter and sculptor Joseph Kurhajec has studios in Paris and Merida, Mexico and has maintained a summer base at the Treadwell Museum of Fine Art in Treadwell, N.Y. since 1971. Kurhajec’s extensive career includes exhibitions at Allan Stone

Gallery and the Whitney and Guggenheim museums in New York City; the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, N.Y.; Galleria Etrusculudens in Rome; Art 6’75 Basel, Switzerland; Gallery Alexander Monet, Brussels; Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris; and Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague. Art critic Edward Bryant called Joseph Kurhajec “a wild and generous artist, the creator of formidable, declarative sculptures which bite sharply into our fin de siècle complacency.”

2014 FUNDRAISING EXHIBIT “Fowl Play”—Artists Render the Yellow Rubber Ducky

Group Multi-Media Exhibit

Opening reception, Friday, August 29, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from August 29 through end of season

Our annual fundraising exhibition will be a collection of toy-themed artworks born from the inventive minds of area artists. Beginning from the classic yellow rubber ducky, artists are challenged to create an art piece from the beloved bathtub toy. (For guidelines, contact The Centre.) The results will be available for purchase by silent bidding throughout the exhibit, to benefit The West Kortright Centre. Final bids will be accepted at the last performance of the season.

WILD FOOD FORAGING/SPRING With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSaturday, May 10, 12:30–5 PM

Take a spring adventure with a wild plants expert in the fields surrounding the WKC. Those weeds you thought useless will prove quite the opposite! Discover how many common wild plants can feed your body and nourish the soul. Pre-registration is required. All ages; $15

FICTION WRITING 33 With Mermer BlakesleeEight Wednesdays, May 28–July 16, 6:30–9 PM

Novelist Mermer Blakeslee’s long-standing, immensely popular Fiction Writing Workshop begins its 33rd cycle! The workshop welcomes both new and experienced writers. New students are asked to bring a sample of either a story or a small piece. Adults; $210/$180 WKC Member

RUG HOOKING With Annie Hayes

Five Tuesdays, June 3–July 1, 6:30–8:30 PM

Handmade hooked rugs are rooted in the early American tradition of making coverings for the floor using wool strips from old garments hooked into burlap. This workshop will cover creat-ing your own design, transferring it, learning to hook a rug and to finish it off, as well as how to dye the wool. Ages 12 & up; $130/$110 WKC Member (includes $65 materials fee)

COLLABORATIVE SELF-PORTRAITS FROM NATURE With Joe LaMantia

Wednesday, June 4, 9 AM–1 PM & Thursday, June 5, 1–5 PMOn the grounds of Zelený Les Artist Residency, Bloomville

Under the guidance of collaborative artist Joe LaMantia, students will create self-images from materials found on the land. The portraits will stay on the land and disappear with time, but a digital photo document will go home with each participant. Pre-registration not required. Travel directions can be found at westkc.org or by calling the office. All ages; Free

VINYASA FLOW YOGA With Nancy Forstbauer

Eight Wednesdays, June 4–July 23, 5:30–6:45 PM

Vinyasa Yoga focuses on the dynamic connection between different postures, creating a flowing movement between poses. Blocks and straps provided, mats available or bring your own. Pre-registration not required. All levels and ages; $75 for all eight classes/$10 per session

BELLY DANCE AFTERNOON With Jo BoringSaturday, June 14, 1–4 PM

Geared for everybody, this afternoon of exotic dance will bring out your inner sensuous soul. No matter what your age or shape, these rhythmic gyrations are a fun and exciting exercise for body and spirit. Come as you are—Jo will provide Egyptian music, coin sashes, ankle bells, and other exotic adornments! Pre-registration suggested. All ages; $20/$15 WKC Member

YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATER ARTS WORKSHOPS Month of JulyCo-sponsored by Frank Lumia Real Estate Plus, Clark Companies, Geo. Powers Construction, and New York Central Mutual Insurance

SHAKESPEARE With Zane RelethfordTuesdays–Fridays, July 8–August 1, 1–5 PM

Intensive ensemble acting taught by YPTAW alumnus Zane Relethford. The workshop will culminate in two fully staged productions of Twelfth Night at 8 PM on August 1 and 2, with music directed by workshop alumnus Jake DeNicola and written by composer John DeNicola, following the 6 PM Introduction to Acting performance and picnic dinner. Ages 13–19; $400/$350 WKC Member

THEATER GAMES With Terry BradshawMonday–Friday, July 14–July 18,1–4 PM

Beginning with Charles Dickens’s story The Magic Fishbone, students will learn basic acting skills using group improvisations and creative play and developing theatrical imagination and self-confidence. There will be a performance for family members on Friday, July 18, at 3 PM. Ages 6–9; $110/$90 WKC Member

INTRODUCTION TO ACTING With Vanessa Van Burek and Hannah Pearl Walcott

Tuesdays–Fridays, July 22-August 1, 11 AM–3 PM

The actors will focus on character development, movement, stage presence, and improvisation-al skills and develop a strong sense of tribe and passion for theater. They will present two full-dress performances of “The Faces of Wonderland,” a celebration of the characters from Alice in Wonderland at 6 PM on August 1 and 2. Ages 9–12; $190/$170 WKC Member

TECHNICAL THEATER With Ian AustinTuesdays–Fridays, July 22–August 1, 11 AM–3 PM

Hands-on learning taught by a YPTAW alumnus and theater pro. Students will experience all phases of technical theater production—set design, scene painting, lighting design, props, and sound—culminating in two fully produced performances of Twelfth Night on August 1 and 2. Ages 12–19; $190/$170 WKC Member

COSTUME DESIGN With Melissa MossTuesdays–Fridays, July 22–August 2, 1–5 PM

Taught by YPTAW alumna and professional costume designer Melissa Moss. Participants will learn all phases of costuming—design, building/production, and backstage dressing—for the entire cast of Twelfth Night. Ages 12–19; $190/$170 WKC Member

Community supported arts Members are the donor-owners of The West Kortright Centre. As a member, you’ll receive advance notice of programs, reduced ticket and workshop prices, WKC rental privileges, choice of admission-free ushering opportunities, invi-tations to special member events, and a listing in the annual season program booklet.

Volunteer! The Centre serves thousands of people each year with a helping hand from the committed folks and businesses who have talents and time to share with their community.

Rent the West Kortright Centre Our beautiful stained-glass-lit auditorium seats 200 com-fortably and the property hosts an in-ground wooden dance deck for private events.

To become a member, offer your services, or learn more about renting the facilities, visit www.westkc.org, contact us at (607) 278-5454, or write to 49 West Kortright Church Road, E. Meredith, NY 13757 or to info@westkc.org.

The Centre’s endowment trust fund is for ongoing preservation and improvement of the build-ing and grounds. The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation generously matches all donations to the trust fund dollar-for-dollar.

THE WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE

MEMBERSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:

INDIVIDUAL $30

FRIEND $50–99

SUPPORTER $100–249

SUSTAINER $250–499

PATRON $500–999

BENEFACTOR $1000 & UP

Our latest financial report is available at The Centre and is on file with the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, Attn: FOIL Officer, 120 Broadway, New York, New York 10271 or by e-mail to Charities.FOIL@oag.state.ny.us.

A short drive through the scenic West Kortright Valley brings you past grazing sheep and cattle, meandering streams, open fields, and mountain views, and finally to a picture-perfect 1850 country church building. It is just the beginning of the magic that’s in store for you. You take a step back in time in the cozy auditorium with its historic stained glass, antique chande-liers, and handcrafted woodwork and throughout the two-acre property with its bucolic views in every direction. Then, together with neighbors, visitors, and folks who’ve travelled great distances to this unlikely locale for arts and community programs, you en-

counter the world-class and cutting-edge programs you’ve come here for—that’s The West Kortright Experience. There’s simply no place like it.

The Centre has treated audiences to the work of musicians, actors, writers, dancers, and other performers from as far away as Ireland, Italy, Zaire, Ukraine, Jamaica, Angola, Palestine, Uganda, Cuba, Haiti, Peru, Zimbabwe, Mali, Sweden, Morocco, Israel, South Africa, and Brazil.

We have hosted composers John Cage, Meredith Monk, Peter Schickele, and Virgil Thompson; poets Allen Ginsberg, Sekou Sundiata, and Hayden Carruth; bluegrass, country, and roots musicians Rhonda Vincent, J.D. Crowe, The Cox Family, Claire Lynch, Rail Road Earth, Mary Gauthier, and Linda & Robin Williams; traditional musicians Queen Ida and her Zydeco Band, Solas, Fairfield Four, Väsen, Johnny Cunningham, Susan McKeown, Karan Casey, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Beau Soleil; Naumburg Chamber Music award winners; jazz and funk virtuosos Jack DeJohnette, Teddy Wilson, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Burrell, Jacky Terrasson, Steve Lacy, Sonny Fortune, Dakota Staton, and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings; folk musicians Greg Brown, Leo Kottke, Amos Lee, Odetta, Iris DeMent, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Loudon Wainwright III, Leon Redbone, and Richie Havens; blues standouts Mose Allison, Henry Butler, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, John Hammond, The Holmes Brothers, James Cotton, Maria Muldaur, Olu Dara, Pinetop Perkins, and Junior Wells; crossover musicians The Roches, Nellie McKay, and Lake Street Dive; monologists Paul Zaloom, David Cale, and Reno. Artists from distant places and traditions, including Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Hassan Hakmoun, Bhundu Boys, Luciana Souza, Boukman Eksperyans, Mamadou Diabate, Kanda Bongo Man, The Skatalites, Susana Baca, Vieux Farka Touré, Hazmat Modine, Oregon, Simon Shaheen, and Red Baraat have brought the world to our remote farm valley.

For more information on our season visit

www.westkc.org

work-shops

More informat ion @ www.westkc .org/exhib i t ions

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FICTION WRITING 34 With Mermer BlakesleeEight Wednesdays, August 6–September 24, 6:30–9 PM

The immensely popular Fiction Writing Workshop celebrates its 34th time around! (See Fiction Writing 33 description.) Adults; $210/180 WKC Member

WILD FOOD FORAGING/SUMMER With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSaturday, August 9, 12:30–5 PM

Take a summer adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. (See Wild Food Foraging/Spring description.) All ages; $15

EAST MEETS WEST: THEATER WORKSHOP With Lanny HarrisonFour Thursdays, August 7, 14, 28, & September 4, 7–9 PM

In the instructor’s East Meredith studio

Back by popular demand for a fourth year! Through exercises that emphasize imagination, improvisation, and transformation, actor Lanny Harrison will lead the group on a voyage of theatrical exploration and contemplative practice, with live music. No prior experience in the-ater or dance necessary. Pre-registration not required. All ages; $60/$45 WKC Member or $15 per session

PLEIN AIR PAINTING With Richard KathmannSaturday & Sunday, August 16 & 17, 10 AM–3 PM

In Cooperstown

Sponsored by Golden Paints

Under painter Richard Kathmann’s instruction, students will use both a limited and full color range palette to depict intricate, deep spaces inspired by the lake and surrounding nature. Rain or shine. Note: Pre-register early to receive materials list and travel directions to the site. All skill levels, ages 16 & up; $150/$125 WKC Member

WILD FOOD FORAGING/FALL With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSunday, October 5, 12:30–5 PM

Take a fall adventure in the fields surrounding the WKC. (See Wild Food Foraging/Spring description.) All ages; $15

2014 WORKSHOPS F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N : W E S T K C . O R G

Unless otherwise noted, pre-registration is required for all workshops. Scholarships are available for children’s programs. Workshops fill up quickly. Register online at www.westkc.org, call 607-278-5454, or e-mail us at info@westkc.org to request a registration and/or scholarship form.

WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE 2014 EXHIBITIONSReceptions Sponsored by Brewery Ommegang & Hand in Hand Farm

KAMILLA TALBOT LandscapesOpening reception, Friday, May 23, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from May 23 through July 14

Many of Talbot’s landscapes are painted en plein air, starting with motifs of the trees and ponds of the Catskills, urban landscapes from Governors Island in New York City, and the rocky coast of Norway. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the New York Studio School, has taught at the Art Students League and the New York Studio School, and currently teaches at NYC’s National Academy. Talbot’s watercolors and oil paintings have been shown in numerous galleries in New York City, including a solo show at Bruno Marina Gallery and at Johannes Larsen Museum in Denmark. Past honors include a 2013 art symposium in Norway and residencies at the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation (Maine), the Vermont Studio Center, the World Trade Center, and organizations in Newfoundland and Iceland. She recently returned from painting residencies in Norway and Italy and is currently the artist in residence for the National Park Service on Governors Island.

JOSEPH KURHAJEC Paintings and sculptureOpening reception, Friday, July 18, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from July 18 through August 25

Painter and sculptor Joseph Kurhajec has studios in Paris and Merida, Mexico and has maintained a summer base at the Treadwell Museum of Fine Art in Treadwell, N.Y. since 1971. Kurhajec’s extensive career includes exhibitions at Allan Stone

Gallery and the Whitney and Guggenheim museums in New York City; the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, N.Y.; Galleria Etrusculudens in Rome; Art 6’75 Basel, Switzerland; Gallery Alexander Monet, Brussels; Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris; and Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague. Art critic Edward Bryant called Joseph Kurhajec “a wild and generous artist, the creator of formidable, declarative sculptures which bite sharply into our fin de siècle complacency.”

2014 FUNDRAISING EXHIBIT “Fowl Play”—Artists Render the Yellow Rubber Ducky

Group Multi-Media Exhibit

Opening reception, Friday, August 29, 5–7 PM

Exhibit runs from August 29 through end of season

Our annual fundraising exhibition will be a collection of toy-themed artworks born from the inventive minds of area artists. Beginning from the classic yellow rubber ducky, artists are challenged to create an art piece from the beloved bathtub toy. (For guidelines, contact The Centre.) The results will be available for purchase by silent bidding throughout the exhibit, to benefit The West Kortright Centre. Final bids will be accepted at the last performance of the season.

WILD FOOD FORAGING/SPRING With Marguerite Uhlmann-BowerSaturday, May 10, 12:30–5 PM

Take a spring adventure with a wild plants expert in the fields surrounding the WKC. Those weeds you thought useless will prove quite the opposite! Discover how many common wild plants can feed your body and nourish the soul. Pre-registration is required. All ages; $15

FICTION WRITING 33 With Mermer BlakesleeEight Wednesdays, May 28–July 16, 6:30–9 PM

Novelist Mermer Blakeslee’s long-standing, immensely popular Fiction Writing Workshop begins its 33rd cycle! The workshop welcomes both new and experienced writers. New students are asked to bring a sample of either a story or a small piece. Adults; $210/$180 WKC Member

RUG HOOKING With Annie Hayes

Five Tuesdays, June 3–July 1, 6:30–8:30 PM

Handmade hooked rugs are rooted in the early American tradition of making coverings for the floor using wool strips from old garments hooked into burlap. This workshop will cover creat-ing your own design, transferring it, learning to hook a rug and to finish it off, as well as how to dye the wool. Ages 12 & up; $130/$110 WKC Member (includes $65 materials fee)

COLLABORATIVE SELF-PORTRAITS FROM NATURE With Joe LaMantia

Wednesday, June 4, 9 AM–1 PM & Thursday, June 5, 1–5 PMOn the grounds of Zelený Les Artist Residency, Bloomville

Under the guidance of collaborative artist Joe LaMantia, students will create self-images from materials found on the land. The portraits will stay on the land and disappear with time, but a digital photo document will go home with each participant. Pre-registration not required. Travel directions can be found at westkc.org or by calling the office. All ages; Free

VINYASA FLOW YOGA With Nancy Forstbauer

Eight Wednesdays, June 4–July 23, 5:30–6:45 PM

Vinyasa Yoga focuses on the dynamic connection between different postures, creating a flowing movement between poses. Blocks and straps provided, mats available or bring your own. Pre-registration not required. All levels and ages; $75 for all eight classes/$10 per session

BELLY DANCE AFTERNOON With Jo BoringSaturday, June 14, 1–4 PM

Geared for everybody, this afternoon of exotic dance will bring out your inner sensuous soul. No matter what your age or shape, these rhythmic gyrations are a fun and exciting exercise for body and spirit. Come as you are—Jo will provide Egyptian music, coin sashes, ankle bells, and other exotic adornments! Pre-registration suggested. All ages; $20/$15 WKC Member

YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATER ARTS WORKSHOPS Month of JulyCo-sponsored by Frank Lumia Real Estate Plus, Clark Companies, Geo. Powers Construction, and New York Central Mutual Insurance

SHAKESPEARE With Zane RelethfordTuesdays–Fridays, July 8–August 1, 1–5 PM

Intensive ensemble acting taught by YPTAW alumnus Zane Relethford. The workshop will culminate in two fully staged productions of Twelfth Night at 8 PM on August 1 and 2, with music directed by workshop alumnus Jake DeNicola and written by composer John DeNicola, following the 6 PM Introduction to Acting performance and picnic dinner. Ages 13–19; $400/$350 WKC Member

THEATER GAMES With Terry BradshawMonday–Friday, July 14–July 18,1–4 PM

Beginning with Charles Dickens’s story The Magic Fishbone, students will learn basic acting skills using group improvisations and creative play and developing theatrical imagination and self-confidence. There will be a performance for family members on Friday, July 18, at 3 PM. Ages 6–9; $110/$90 WKC Member

INTRODUCTION TO ACTING With Vanessa Van Burek and Hannah Pearl Walcott

Tuesdays–Fridays, July 22-August 1, 11 AM–3 PM

The actors will focus on character development, movement, stage presence, and improvisation-al skills and develop a strong sense of tribe and passion for theater. They will present two full-dress performances of “The Faces of Wonderland,” a celebration of the characters from Alice in Wonderland at 6 PM on August 1 and 2. Ages 9–12; $190/$170 WKC Member

TECHNICAL THEATER With Ian AustinTuesdays–Fridays, July 22–August 1, 11 AM–3 PM

Hands-on learning taught by a YPTAW alumnus and theater pro. Students will experience all phases of technical theater production—set design, scene painting, lighting design, props, and sound—culminating in two fully produced performances of Twelfth Night on August 1 and 2. Ages 12–19; $190/$170 WKC Member

COSTUME DESIGN With Melissa MossTuesdays–Fridays, July 22–August 2, 1–5 PM

Taught by YPTAW alumna and professional costume designer Melissa Moss. Participants will learn all phases of costuming—design, building/production, and backstage dressing—for the entire cast of Twelfth Night. Ages 12–19; $190/$170 WKC Member

Community supported arts Members are the donor-owners of The West Kortright Centre. As a member, you’ll receive advance notice of programs, reduced ticket and workshop prices, WKC rental privileges, choice of admission-free ushering opportunities, invi-tations to special member events, and a listing in the annual season program booklet.

Volunteer! The Centre serves thousands of people each year with a helping hand from the committed folks and businesses who have talents and time to share with their community.

Rent the West Kortright Centre Our beautiful stained-glass-lit auditorium seats 200 com-fortably and the property hosts an in-ground wooden dance deck for private events.

To become a member, offer your services, or learn more about renting the facilities, visit www.westkc.org, contact us at (607) 278-5454, or write to 49 West Kortright Church Road, E. Meredith, NY 13757 or to info@westkc.org.

The Centre’s endowment trust fund is for ongoing preservation and improvement of the build-ing and grounds. The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation generously matches all donations to the trust fund dollar-for-dollar.

THE WEST KORTRIGHT CENTRE

MEMBERSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:

INDIVIDUAL $30

FRIEND $50–99

SUPPORTER $100–249

SUSTAINER $250–499

PATRON $500–999

BENEFACTOR $1000 & UP

Our latest financial report is available at The Centre and is on file with the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, Attn: FOIL Officer, 120 Broadway, New York, New York 10271 or by e-mail to Charities.FOIL@oag.state.ny.us.

A short drive through the scenic West Kortright Valley brings you past grazing sheep and cattle, meandering streams, open fields, and mountain views, and finally to a picture-perfect 1850 country church building. It is just the beginning of the magic that’s in store for you. You take a step back in time in the cozy auditorium with its historic stained glass, antique chande-liers, and handcrafted woodwork and throughout the two-acre property with its bucolic views in every direction. Then, together with neighbors, visitors, and folks who’ve travelled great distances to this unlikely locale for arts and community programs, you en-

counter the world-class and cutting-edge programs you’ve come here for—that’s The West Kortright Experience. There’s simply no place like it.

The Centre has treated audiences to the work of musicians, actors, writers, dancers, and other performers from as far away as Ireland, Italy, Zaire, Ukraine, Jamaica, Angola, Palestine, Uganda, Cuba, Haiti, Peru, Zimbabwe, Mali, Sweden, Morocco, Israel, South Africa, and Brazil.

We have hosted composers John Cage, Meredith Monk, Peter Schickele, and Virgil Thompson; poets Allen Ginsberg, Sekou Sundiata, and Hayden Carruth; bluegrass, country, and roots musicians Rhonda Vincent, J.D. Crowe, The Cox Family, Claire Lynch, Rail Road Earth, Mary Gauthier, and Linda & Robin Williams; traditional musicians Queen Ida and her Zydeco Band, Solas, Fairfield Four, Väsen, Johnny Cunningham, Susan McKeown, Karan Casey, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Beau Soleil; Naumburg Chamber Music award winners; jazz and funk virtuosos Jack DeJohnette, Teddy Wilson, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Burrell, Jacky Terrasson, Steve Lacy, Sonny Fortune, Dakota Staton, and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings; folk musicians Greg Brown, Leo Kottke, Amos Lee, Odetta, Iris DeMent, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Loudon Wainwright III, Leon Redbone, and Richie Havens; blues standouts Mose Allison, Henry Butler, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, John Hammond, The Holmes Brothers, James Cotton, Maria Muldaur, Olu Dara, Pinetop Perkins, and Junior Wells; crossover musicians The Roches, Nellie McKay, and Lake Street Dive; monologists Paul Zaloom, David Cale, and Reno. Artists from distant places and traditions, including Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Hassan Hakmoun, Bhundu Boys, Luciana Souza, Boukman Eksperyans, Mamadou Diabate, Kanda Bongo Man, The Skatalites, Susana Baca, Vieux Farka Touré, Hazmat Modine, Oregon, Simon Shaheen, and Red Baraat have brought the world to our remote farm valley.

For more information on our season visit

www.westkc.org