2010 Elvis Festival to be held at the Lake George Forum

LAKE GEORGE, NY (January 2010) –– The Seventh Annual LakeGeorge.com Elvis Festival (June 3-6, 2010) may be half a year away, but registrations from Elvis Tribute Artists are already coming in from around the globe. Terry Collins, the festival’s Talent Director, announced today that “The 2010 festival is attracting the largest pool of international talent we’ve ever had, with performers traveling from Brazil, Australia, England and Qatar joining the talent from Canada and the US.”

Festival organizers are already hard at work planning the upcoming festival, which will return to the Lake George Forum in 2010. The Forum recently reopened under new owners. “We are so excited to be returning to the Forum,” commented festival director Jason Sherry. “We had a really great show last year, but the Forum [...]

Colonie Central High School PTSA
5th Annual Spring Fling Fair

Saturday March 27, 2010 9am-3pm
CCHS Multi-Use Gym
(1/2 mile east of Colonie Center Mall)

The fair is open to crafters and vendors of all kinds. This is not a ‘handmade only’ fair.
8’ x 10’ spaces available for $30.00 (2 spaces for $55.00)
Limited spaces with electricity available for additional $5.00 (per space)
Table(s) are not provided. One (1) chair provided per space. NYS Tax ID# required.

If you are interested, please send a request for an informational packet/contract to:

Colonie Central High School – PTSA
Spring Fling Fair
1 Raider Blvd
Albany, NY 12205

City of Albany Office of Special Events & Volunteer Services
City Hall – Room 402 – Eagle Street
Albany, New York 12207
(518) 434-2032 fax: (518) 426-0759
www.albanyny.org
www.albanyevents.org

Albany, New York – The City of Albany, the Palace Theatre & Albany Medical Center have partnered to assist with relief efforts in Haiti. Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings, Albany Medical Center President and CEO James J. Barba and Palace Theater General Manager Christopher Gould announced the “Hearts for Haiti” benefit concert and fundraising effort.

City of Albany is going to present a benefit concert on Thursday, February 11 at 7:00 pm at the Palace Theatre featuring the following bands:

• The Audio Stars – A 4-piece cover band featuring former members of some of the top bands in the Northeast, delivering classic songs with energy & passion.
• Sirsy – A [...]
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Wine & Dine for the Arts and Albany Area Chefs have announced that they will host “A Taste of Haiti” on Thursday, January 28 at the Crowne Plaza in downtown Albany to benefit Haitian earthquake relief efforts through the American Red Cross.

Get the details!

What: A Taste Of Haiti
Why: Haitian earthquake victims relief benefit
Where: Crowne Plaza in downtown Albany
When: Thursday, January 28 from 5-9 pm

“A Taste of Haiti” will begin with a cocktail reception from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m., featuring Haitian cocktails, wine, soft drinks and hors d’ouevres. From 6:30 p.m. ’til 9:00 p.m., guests will enjoy a menu of sumptuous traditional Haitian dishes created by top chefs Michael St. John of The Desmond, Brian Molino of Marche at 74 State, Jaime Ortiz of Angelo’s 677 Prime, Yono Purnomo of Yono’ [...]

5th Annual eba BENEFIT CABARET… and All That Jazz!
Performance by Maude Baum and Company Dance Theatre

Saturday, March 6, 2010
7:00 pm: Wine Tasting, hors d’oeuvres and Silent Auction
8:00 pm: The Performance begins…
eba Theater- 351 Hudson Ave. (corner of Lark St. and Hudson Ave.) Albany

Complementary delectable HORS D’OEUVRES & DESSERTS
and…
a complementary WINE TASTING with Empire Wine & Liquor Outlet
and…
a SILENT AUCTION
and…
Steamy DANCE THEATRE – charming, naughty, funny, and eyebrow raising!!!! The Neighborhood Sensationals will join the show again this year.

Tickets: Big Spenders $100, All That Jazz $65, Don’t Tell Momma $45.
Purchase tickets early, eba Benefit Cabarets SELL OUT!

Each Company Performing Artists – Mary Beth Hampshire, Isabella Ientile, Sarah LaRoe, Katie Newhall, Deb Rutledge, Amy Vincent; along with guest artists and musicians brings their [...]

Indulge your senses in the Inspiring, Tragic, Sensual, Breathtakingly Beautiful Dances of Isadora Duncan, performed by the City of Albany’s “ Premiere Dance Company”- Mayor Jerry Jennings

Maude Baum is planning something different to open the second decade of the 21st Century. The Company’s annual Spring Salon will feature an entire concert of dances choreographed by legendary artist and visionary Isadora Duncan. These magnificent dances are vigilantly kept alive by the handful of artists who now share them in concerts around the world. Duncan’s choreography was inspired by Greek and Renaissance Culture and performed to Master Composers of Classical Music. Her dances celebrate women from the ethereal to heroic, tragic and spiritual.

Maude Baum has been working with Duncan Artist and Reconstructor Jeanne Bresciani for over 20 years. She first commissioned Bresciani, Artistic Director of the International Isadora Duncan Institute, [...]

2010 Elvis Festival to be held at the Lake George Forum

LAKE GEORGE, NY (December 2009) –– The Seventh Annual LakeGeorge.com Elvis Festival (June 3-6, 2010) may be half a year away, but registrations from Elvis Tribute Artists are already coming in from around the globe. Terry Collins, the festival’s Talent Director, announced today that “The 2010 festival is attracting the largest pool of international talent we’ve ever had, with performers traveling from Brazil, Australia, England and Qatar joining the talent from Canada and the US.”

Festival organizers are already hard at work planning the upcoming festival, which will return to the Lake George Forum in 2010. The Forum recently reopened under new owners. “We are so excited to be returning to the Forum,” commented festival director Jason Sherry. “We had a really [...]

“Manhattan: Seeds of the Big Apple” by Gloria Waldron Hukle, available currently in both hard and soft cover, is now available (January 2010) in electronic version as an ebook. Hukle’s story of early Manhattan was the lead novel for the Waldron series (followed by “Threads – An American Tapestry” and “The Diary of a Northern Moon”).

“Manhattan: Seeds of the Big Apple” opens in 1653 when lower Manhattan was a Dutch community of about 120 houses, its people protected by a fort and a log wall which stood as a defense against Indian attacks. Today’s Wall Street follows the line of that ancient plank wall.

With historic accuracy Hukle tells the story of Sheriff Resolved Waldron, his wife, Tennake, and their three children who lived at the present day crossing of Wall Street and Broadway. There, along with them on Block B, across the street from [...]

For immediate release: December 29, 2009

Albany, NY – The Junior League of Albany (JLA) presents Rock for Reading, a fund-raising event featuring local bands The Stynals, The Foy Brothers and the Bent Rail Blues Band, as well as comedian/emcee Donnell Ellis. This event is open to the public and takes place on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at Red Square (388 Broadway, Albany) beginning at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door; patrons must be at least 21 years of age to attend. Proceeds from the event will benefit the JLA and its newest project, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

About Dolly’s Imagination Library:

The JLA adopted Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library as our project for 2008-2013. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was developed in 1995 by Dolly Parton to provide every preschool child in her hometown with their own library of books to encourage in them [...]