 Premiere jazz quartet that includes Charley Krachy, sax, Dave Frank, piano, Joe Solomon, bass, and T-kash Inuoe, drums. Two of the members were closely associated with the Legendary jazz pianist/educator Lennie Tristano. The mission of the Westchester Jazz Alliance and the WAJQ is, through education, performances, and jazz parties, to increase awareness, participation, and enjoyment of jazz in the New York area and beyond.
Written and Performed by THE CREATOR OF Always... Patsy Cline TED SWINDLEY Produced and Directed by GERALD vanHEERDEN  EASY LAUGHS FOR TOUGH TIMES After five albums and three comedy specials, Christian Finnegan has a new hour of standup, and he's here to answer all of your burning questions. Namely: • Is it a bad sign if your surgeon is covered in tattoos? • What does it mean to "go hard," and can we make people stop saying it? • And most importantly, is it time we all consider joining a cult? An evening of personal revelation, curdled whimsy and, yes, a lot of heart. christianfinnegan.net  One-Man Circus-in-a-Suitcase allowed everyone to participate in an enthralling, whimsical celebration of the imagination. From Kevin O’Keefe’s suitcase an entire circus emerges: tent, band, lights, the boisterous ringmaster Steve Fitzpatrick, the officious Mervin Merkle, the incredible Bumbilini Family, the Magician to the Stars Clyde Zerbini, and Keefer–an innocent trying to run away and join the circus. However, the most important performers emerge from the audience. (This program was produced in part with the support of the State of New York Office of Children and Family Services upon the legislative initiative of Assembly member Jonathan Jacobson. ) Click here for the Photo Gallery  Jacob and David Bernz and Guest! Local heroes are coming together to honor two giants of the folk music genre through their songs and related melodies. An early Bob Dylan arrives in New York, eager to sing a song for his hero, Woody Guthrie. Join us for an evening of stories and music that draws inspiration from the past and remains relevant today.  Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Lapham’s Quarterly, Slate, Aeon, The Forward, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her documentary film awards include an Independent Spirit Award for directing IFC’s Keep the River on Your Right, and an Emmy nomination for HBO’s Finishing Heaven. Shapiro is the 2021 winner of Best NYC Essay or Article from the GANYC Apple Awards, the 2021 winner of the Damn History Award for “The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes” for The New Yorker and gold medallion winner in the People Profiles category for the Silurian Press Club’s 77th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. The Stowaway (Simon & Schuster) was her best selling first full-length work of nonfiction, and was an Indie next selection. Her next nonfiction book will be The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam and the Marriage that Made an American Icon, for Viking Books. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in the graduate program.  Adam McKible is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the author of Circulating Jim Crow (2024) and The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York (2002). He edited and introduced Edward Christopher Williams’s When Washington Was in Vogue (2004), a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance, and he co-edited the collection, Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches (2005).
stanzabooks.com This fest included a DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH! Launching not one, but TWO big, huge, amazing middle grade books this year! Dan Poblocki's all new book MY BROTHER'S BUTT IS HAUNTED, and horror icon Paul Tremblay's first middle grade book, ANOTHER.          |
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