Belleayre Music Festival
at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center
Belleayre Music Festival, Route 28, Highmount, NY
Catskill Mountain High Peaks
PO Box 198, Highmount, NY 12441 • (800) 942-6904, ext. 1344

Highmount, NY –Verdi’s tragic masterpiece “La Traviata,” springs to life at the Belleayre Music Festival on Saturday, July 23 at 8 p.m.
A company of 50, including opera singers from New York City and the Metropolitan Opera, accompanied by chamber musicians and a large chorale group, will [...]

Schenectady Museum Receives $10,000 Grant from the William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation, Inc. for FETCH! Lab

The William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation, Inc. has awarded a grant for $10,000 to the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium to help fund the Museum’s FETCH! Lab, a place where kids can try science and engineering challenges like the ones they see on the PBS television show, FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman. This award will be used to assist the Museum with FETCH! Lab program staff, new activity development, supplies and materials, program promotion, and other activities.

The Museum offers six hours of hands-on activities in the FETCH! Lab each week, Thursday through Sunday from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Activities change weekly and [...]

Schenectady Museum Receives $250 Grant from WGY Christmas Wish for Powering the Future: The STEM Fund

WGY Christmas Wish has awarded a grant for $250 to the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium’s Powering the Future: The STEM Fund, which provides free or reduced admission and transportation assistance for underserved youth whose lack of resources would otherwise prevent participation.

WGY has accepted donations for its Christmas Wish program for the past 30 years. The program benefits children 19 years and under in the Great Northeast. Special emphasis is given to critical care services and recreational programs for ill, underprivileged and homeless children.

Founded in 1934, the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium is the only science center in Tech Valley offering a multimedia experience for [...]

Belleayre Music Festival
at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center
Belleayre Music Festival, Route 28, Highmount, NY
Catskill Mountain High Peaks
PO Box 198, Highmount, NY 12441 • (800) 942-6904, ext. 1344

Attn: Entertainment/Music Ed. For immediate release June 2011
Note: Please see below for interview contact information

Note: To download hi-resolution photos of any of our artists, please visit:

http://belleayremusic.org/belleayre-festival-press.php

Creedence Clearwater Revisited Brings Hit-Filled Show to Belleayre

Highmount, NY – The “soundtrack of a generation” will spring to life when Creedence Clearwater Revisited plays the Belleayre Music Festival on Saturday, July 16 at 8 p.m.
Stu Cook and Doug “Cosmo, ” Clifford the original rhythm section of Creedence Clearwater Revival, will crank up classics like “Proud Mary,” “Heard it Through the Grapevine,” “Fortunate Son,” [...]

Schenectady Museum Receives $6,840 Grant from the National Institute for Conservation’s Heritage Preservation Program
The National Institute for Conservation’s Heritage Preservation Program has awarded a grant for $6,840 to the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium to help fund collections preservation initiatives.

This funding will assist the Museum in improving collections care, developing a long-range preservation/conservation plan for collections, improving environmental conditions, and increasing staff awareness of collections preservation concerns. The Museum will also participate in the 2011 Conservation Assessment Program.

Founded in 1934, the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium is the only science center in Tech Valley offering a multimedia experience for visitors of all ages. In addition to the Suits-Bueche Planetarium, which has the only GOTO Star Projector in the Northeast, the Museum houses the GE [...]

HUNTER PENCE BOBBLEHEAD GIVEAWAY
MONDAY AT “THE JOE”
First bobblehead images revealed of Astros’ All-Star outfielder

TROY, N.Y. – The ValleyCats will give away bobblehead dolls of All-Star outfielder and former Tri-City star Hunter Pence before Monday evening’s game against the Staten Island Yankees. The giveaway, one of two bobblehead nights this season at Joe Bruno Stadium, is part of “Joe to the Show Night,” honoring the 21 former ‘Cats who have reached the major leagues.

Pence will participate in tonight’s All-Star Game, playing for the National League as the sole representative of the Houston Astros. 2011 marks the second time that the 28-year-old outfielder has been selected by [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: July 6, 2011
CONTACT: Rosalie Phan
(518) 434-5416

Call for Entry – Arts and Crafts Vendors
September in the City Art Fair 2011

Albany, NY – The City of Albany Office of Special Events is seeking arts and crafts vendors for a lunchtime exhibition at the September in the City Art Fair in downtown Albany’s TriCentennial Park. Artists will be able to display and sell their work on September 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2011 (Wednesdays) from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm.

Eligibility: Painting (watercolor, acrylic, pastel, oil, etc.) sculpture, prints, photography and mixed media. Original and handmade crafts. NO manufactured products, ceramics from commercial molds, or cut bottles and kits.

All exhibitors must be 18 years or older.

Cost: $10 per day OR $35 to exhibit all 4 Wednesdays.

Deadline [...]

Contact:
Jennifer Holick
Time Warner Cable
518-817-0154

Rotterdam, NY; June 30, 2011- Time Warner Cable today announced that Siobhan Magnus, a finalist on the ninth (2010) season of American Idol, will appear at the 2nd Annual Time Warner Cable Customer Appreciation Celebration with the Tri-City ValleyCats on July 9, 2011.
Time Warner Cable customers at the game will be able to meet and greet Magnus, plus enjoy her performance of the National Anthem to open up the [...]

‘Cats one of 90 clubs participating among Minor League Baseball

TROY, N.Y. – The Tri-City ValleyCats will be wearing caps with the American flag etched into their logo during their next homestand on July 4 and 5 in celebration of the Independence Day holiday.

The caps will be available for purchase at “The Joe” in SouthPaw’s Den and online at www.tcvalleycats.com. The ValleyCats and Major League Baseball Properties Inc.,

Minor League Baseball’s licensing agent, have agreed to donate all royalties from the sales of the caps to Welcome [...]