Individuals from Auburn’s Arts District Study group will be reporting on their April 2010 visit to Paducah, KY at 7:00 pm, Thurs. Aug. 12, 2010 at Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St. at Genesee, Auburn, NY. Donna Lamb, Ex. Director of Schweinfurth Art Center, Angela Daddabbo, Artistic Director of Auburn Public Theater, and Hilary Ford, Acct. Executive, Mack Studios visited Paducah to learn more about how Paducah used the arts as a tool for economic development, and how we might apply some of their lessons and successes in Auburn. The team will be giving a power point presentation about Paducah, and sharing ideas that could be implemented in Auburn. The presentation is free and open to the public. The Arts District study received funding through a grant from the Kauffman Foundation and Cayuga Community College.

AUBURN PUBLIC THEATER (APT) is a new, non-profit, professional performing and presenting company currently renovating the former Grant’s building located in downtown Auburn, New York as an arts complex. The building is air-conditioned and free evening and weekend parking is available in the garage directly behind the theater. This is an exciting new cultural center in Central New York. For any other information, call (315) 253-6669 or www.auburnpublictheater.org

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Fun Fact about Syracuse/Onondaga County …. did you know …..

… that in 1882, Ben and George Maurer purchased land and developed Long Branch Amusement Park. Named for its famed chestnut trees, this park offered various attractions that were family oriented including picnic areas, baseball games, playgrounds, skating parties and fireworks for the 4th of July. For the sportsman, the park offered ice boating, row boating, bowling alleys, a billiards room and a shooting gallery. Other features of the park included a dance pavilion, a restaurant, an arcade and various amusement rides including a carousel. In fact, the carousel was brought to Long Branch Park around 1926 where it remained for the next 15 years, even after the park closed in 1938. Roseland Park, an amusement park in Canandaigua, NY purchased the carousel in 1941, and held on to it for 43 years. The Pyramid Company later purchased it at an auction and restored it to its original look. The carousel is now the centerpiece of the Carousel Center shopping mall where people can still take a ride on it and enjoy its splendor.

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Singer Songwriter Phil Henry
with percussionist Gary Moon
Opening act: Wendy Ramsay, Joanne Perry & Donna Dennihy
Saturday, August 21st @ 8:00pm
Phil Henry is a singer-songwriter and music educator in West Rutland, Vermont. He sings energetic contemporary folk originals which resemble detailed four-minute short films, with diverse stories and leading characters. His upcoming CD, Robots and Romance, for example, puts the listener insidea bank robbery, a mining disaster, a heart transplant, a hurricane, and the decline of a 50’s drive-in movie theater. Henry’s songs have been honored in many songwriting competitions and showcases, including the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Contest and the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist Showcase. He took first place inthe songwriter contests at SolarFest in Tinmouth, VT and Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival in Havre-De-Grace, MD.
Gary Moon is a singer-songwriter from Lake George, NY, and is afrequent host of the open mic at Saratoga Springs’ famous listening room Caffe Lena. In addition to his performance schedule and promoting his own new CD Big Sky, Gary has lent vocals and hand percussion to Phil and other folk performers. It is not unusual to see him add Djembe, Cajon, shakers, and foot-operated tambourine,sometimes all within the very same song.
$8 advance/door Watch Phil Henry

Wednesday, August 11 – Saturday August 14 Skaneateles Festival
• Wednesday 11:00 AM Family Fest: Pictures at an Exhibition – Free Event
• Wednesday 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Behind the Scenes: Open Rehearsal
• Thursday 7:00 PM Behind the Scenes: Pre Concert chat with composer Paul
Moravec
• Thursday 8:00 PM Concert at First Presbyterian Church featuring Dohnanyi, Paul
Moravec and Mussorgsky.
• Friday 7:00 PM Behind the Scenes: Pre Concert chat with composer Paul Moravec
• Friday 8:00 PM Concert at First Presbyterian Church featuring Schubert, Carl
Fruhling, & Paul Moravec
• Saturday 7:30 PM Concert at Brook Farm featuring Zachary De Pue, violin; Nicolas
Kendall, violin and Ranaan Meyer, double bass.
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To order tickets online www.skanfest.org or order by phone (315) 685-7418

Wednesday, August 11 Pirate Day with Mid-Lakes Navigation. All Cruises
throughout the day on Skaneateles Lake and the Erie Canal , will have a pirate theme.
Prizes will be awarded for best costumes, and drink specials and pirate loot will be
offered, along with other surprises! Reservations required by calling (315) 685-8500.