For 14 years Jeffrey Friedberg has been leading a Bossy Frog and a not so bossy Monkey. For eight years he has been bringing his eclectic band to Nyack for ArtsRock’s annual winter Holiday Extravaganza – The Bossy Frog’s Band Happy New Year Concert Plus Musical Petting Zoo –for children, their parents and grandparents. This […]
BY HARRY WAITZMAN My poem is a dead horse that attracts flies and stinks to the end of town. My friends avoid it, wishing it had been shot and staggered to its death elsewhere. A child walks close to the trail and pulls. Horsehair comes out of the carcass in long strands. The boy yells […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE With a brand new young female vocalist, Natalie Angst, and a band ofmusicians from across the United States led by energetic Nick Hilscher(also a vocalist), the Glen Miller Orchestra had the fans standing at theend of a two hour concert at the Elmsford venue. Playing many of the Miller standards such […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE The 78-year-old Antrim Playhouse, founded in 1936 by a group of college students, faced a serious problem owing $30,000 in back taxes to the Town of Ramapo and The Village of Wesley Hills. But State Senator David Carlucci sponsored a bill in Albany to give the non-profit theatre a three year […]
BY GEORGE J. DACRE ArtsRock and Temple Beth El in Nyack present Swingtime Big Band Home For Holidays on Saturday, December 13 at 8 p.m., at the Temple. Music of Goodman and Miller, Duke Ellington and Les Brown and some swinging Chanukah tunes along with vocalists doing Ella, Eartha Kitt, Judy Garland and more. Contact […]
Elmwood Playhouse’s “Sunday in the Park with George” music director, ASSAF GLEIZNER, and lead actress, KIMBERLY HAWKEY (Dot) will be doing double-duty on Sunday, December 7th. First, they’ll perform the Sunday matinee of Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical at 2 p.m., and when the curtain comes down they’ll immediately start setting up for a “Sundays at […]