PROFESSOR LOUIE AND THE CROWMATIX
Aaron Professor “Louie” Hurwitz- Multi-instrumentalist – Hammond organ/keyboards/accordion and exceptional vocalist. He was tagged Prof. “Louie” by The Band vocalist/bassist Rick Danko while performing together as a duo. Prof. Louie co-produced, engineered and performed on The Band’s last three CD’s, “Jericho”, “High On The Hog” and “Jubilation”. Other production credits include two CD’s with Ireland’s Four Men and A Dog, The David Nelson Band’s Visions’ Under The Moon, Rick Danko’s CD’s “Live On Breeze Hill” & “Times Like These” , produced and played with The Crowmatix on “The Sea To The North” by Garth Hudson. He has performed with Graham Parker, toured and recorded with Mercury Rev on their acclaimed CD’s & Guy Davis. Early in his career, he was the pianist and organist for the The Mighty Gospel Giants Of Brooklyn. Recently, Louie made an instructional DVD for Homespun Tapes – “Rock & Blues Accordion”. In the last two years, Louie traveled three times to Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia where he taught students English through singing and performed with many musical groups there. A documentary of his experiences “Woodstock-Siberia Blues Express” was featured in the 2007 Woodstock Film Festival and The International Maine Film Festival.
MARIE SPINOSA – Miss Marie from Brooklyn, NY – singer/songwriter, pianist/percussionist had performed for many years in concert with her own groups in the tri-state area. Marie toured the college circuit before moving to upstate NY. She has co-written many of the songs on Professor “Louie” & The Crowmatix releases. Miss Marie’s strong vocals and percussion can be heard on varied recordings: “Deserter’s Song” by Mercury Rev, “Jubilation” by The Band and also with Four Men & A Dog. Her soulful background vocals are featured on Rick Danko’s “Sip The Wine” single CD and also on Rick Danko’s “Times Like These” CD. Marie’s percussion can be heard on Garth Hudson’s CD “The Sea To
The North”. Miss Marie has a solo CD with The Crowmatix Collection.
GARY BURKE has held an esteemed career as drummer for Bob Dylan, Graham Parker and many others & best known to the public for his long tenure on drums on over a dozen albums with Joe Jackson. Starting in 1983 with the release of the Top Ten Gold album “Body and Soul”, Gary continued on into the 90s with Joe in a mind-boggling mix of musical landscapes of gold, platinum and Grammy winning albums combined with many world tours and media profiles such as in Modern Drummer Magazine. Gary was the drummer and percussionist for The Radio City Music Hall Orchestra for four years during the 80’s.
FRANK CAMPBELL – played bass with The Rick Danko, Levon Helm duo tours of the 70’s and early 80’s. From there, he moved on playing with Steve Forbert and later relocated to Austin, TX where he worked
with Asleep At The Wheel for ten years in the studio and on the road. Frank moved back to The Woodstock area and teamed up with “Louie”.
JOSH COLOW – From Woodstock, New York – An in demand rhythm & blues guitarist, Josh has toured The United States and Europe with Jesse Winchester with his own groups and solo. Josh was signed to
EMI Europe and had a #1 hit in Italy with his group TiPiCal in the ‘90’s. He has worked in the studio with Livingston Taylor, Artie Traum.
For more info: www.woodstockrecords.com www.myspace.com/professorlouie or www.youtube.com/professorlouie

February 5th and 6th, 2010

SPLIT ESTATE

Documents the devastating effect that oil and gas drilling is having on the health of families and the environment in the Rocky Mountain West.

Narrated by Ali MacGraw

Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine another shocking truth: you have little or no recourse to protect your home or land from such development. SPLIT ESTATE maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health. Exempt from federal protections like the Clean Water Act, the oil and gas industry has left this idyllic landscape and its rural communities pockmarked with abandoned homes and polluted waters. One resident demonstrates the degree of benzene contamination in a mountain stream by setting it alight with a match. Many others, gravely ill, fight for their health and for the health of their children. SPLIT ESTATE zeroes in on Garfield County, Colorado, and the San Juan Basin, but the industry is aggressively seeking new leases in as many as 32 states. They are even making a bid to drill in the New York City watershed, which provides drinking water to millions. As our appetite for fossil fuels increases despite mounting public health concerns, SPLIT ESTATE cracks the sugarcoating on an industry that assures us it is a good neighbor, and drives home the need for alternatives — both here and abroad.

Angela Daddabbo
Artistic Producing Director
Auburn Public Theater
315) 253-6669
angela@auburnpublictheater.com.

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

THE READER (R)

What is the nature of guilt–and how can the human spirit survive when confronted with deep and horrifying truths? The Reader, a hushed and haunting meditation on these knotty questions, is sorrowful and shocking, yet leavened by a deep love story that is its heart. In postwar Germany, young schoolboy Michael (German actor David Cross) meets and begins a tender romance with the older, mysterious Hanna (Kate Winslet, whose performance is a revelation). The two make love hungrily in Hanna’s shabby apartment, yet their true intimacy comes as Michael reads aloud to Hanna in bed, from his school assignments, textbooks, even comic books. Hanna delights in the readings, and Michael delights in Hanna.
Years later, the two cross paths again, and Michael (played as an adult by Ralph Fiennes) learns, slowly, horrifyingly, of acts that Hanna may have been involved in during the war. There is a war crimes trial, and the accused at one point asks the panel of prosecutors: “Well, what would you have done?” It is that question–as one German professor says later: “How can the next generation of Germans come to terms with the Holocaust?”–that is both heartbreaking and unanswerable. Winslet plays every shade of gray in her portrayal of Hanna, and Fiennes is riveting as the man who must rewrite history–his own and his country’s–as he learns daily, hourly, of deeds that defy categorization, and morality. “No matter how much washing and scrubbing,” one character says matter of factly, “some sins don’t wash away.” The Reader (with nods to similar films like Sophie’s Choice and The English Patient dares to present that unnerving premise, without offering an easy solution. –A.T. Hurley

Angela Daddabbo
Artistic Producing Director
Auburn Public Theater
315) 253-6669
angela@auburnpublictheater.com.

January 29th and 30th, 2010

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD

A screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks. From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the Cult of Greed. Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun?

Angela Daddabbo
Artistic Producing Director
Auburn Public Theater
315) 253-6669
angela@auburnpublictheater.com.

CRUDE

Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the
environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex
situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril
and human suffering into focus.

Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film explores a complex situation from all angles, bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. “Absolutely the most powerful, emotion- provoking, heart-wrenching documentary I have ever seen.” (John Perkins, Author, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man)

Angela Daddabbo
Artistic Producing Director
Auburn Public Theater
315) 253-6669
angela@auburnpublictheater.com.