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13. Auditions and shows will be at the Bainbridge Town Hall Theatre, 15 N. Main St. in Bainbridge. Night of Jewish music set Cherry Valley Artworks Contributed Holmes Brothers. Blues brothers to play at WKC The Holmes Brothers will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at West Kortright Centre. According to the Chicago Tribune: "The Holmes Brothers deliver magnificent old-time, gospel style R&B, and raw electric blues with unparalleled artistry and authenticity. ... Inexplicable yet sublime, (the group is) a gift to the world of music." The band features Sherman Holmes on guitar, Wendell Holmes on bass and piano and Popsy Dixson on drums. They've played on stage with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Peter Gabriel, Al Green, Lucinda Williams and many more. The group's latest album, 2010's "Feed My Soul," was pro- duced by Joan Osborne. Tickets are $25 for adults and $16 for those under 19 years old. The venue is at 49 W. Kortright Church Road in East Meredith. For more info, call (607) 278-5454, email info@ westkc.org or go to www.westkc.org. Auditioners sought for play The Out of the Woodwork Players will hold auditions for the one-act play "Dark Lady of the Sonnets" by Bernard Shaw. The days and times are: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23; 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25; and 11 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27. Roles are: The night guard (approximately 30 to 40 years old), Queen Elizabeth I (a young or older woman), Mary, "the dark lady" (same age range as Elizabeth) and William Shakespeare (same age range as the two women.) The show focuses on a first en- counter between Shakespeare and the queen. Performances are set for Nov. 11, 12 and will present the third in a series of Sunday night concerts featuring mem- bers of the Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, at the Star Theater. It will be the first full-length performance of The Big Galut(e). According to a media release, the ensemble takes its name from the Hebrew word for "diaspora," as well as hinting at the combination of instruments in- cluding — along with the traditional clarinet, violin, bass and accordion — baroque guitar and giant lute. The night will feature music drawn from worldwide Jewish traditions: Spanish-tinged Sephardic songs, Middle Eastern melodies, Klezmer freylekhs, as well as songs and shtick from Yiddish theater. The ensemble features clarinetist Robin Seletsky, violinist Sasha Margolis, guitarist Michael Leopold, bassist Rich Sosinsky and Mark Rubenstein on accor- dion and percussion. They will be joined by singers from the Glimmerglass Festival Young Artists program. Tickets are $7. The Star Theater is at 44 Main St. in Cherry Valley. For more details, call (607) 286-9085. RAG to present pair of plays The Roxbury Arts Group will host a pair of play readings on alternating nights. "Fruit Bat Safari Camp," written by John-Richard Thompson and directed by Philip Potak, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, and Saturday, Aug. 26. "What Comes Around," written by Potak and directed by Thompson, will be read at 7:30 p.m. Satur- day, Aug. 20, and Friday, Aug. 26. All four nights will open with informal wine-tasting events hosted by professional wine taster and writer Albert Verdesca. Question-and-answer sessions with play director, writer, cast and others will follow all performances. "Fruit Bat Safari Camp" focuses on Estelle Van der Phloog, a Park Avenue matron and society goddess who takes an African safari with husband, Chippy. The pair stay at the Fruit Bat Safari Camp with eccentric Brits, a hostile German and renegade hyenas. "What Comes Around" opens in the home of the Secrest family on the day of a party that never happens. Lies, secrets, omissions and the seven deadly sins play roles in the multigenerational family dynamic. Tickets per show are $10; admission to both shows is $15. To make reservations, call (607) 326-7908. For more info, go to www. roxburyartsgroup.org/. Oneonta to host arts festival Main Street in Oneonta will host the ninth annual City of the Hills Arts Festival from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20. Visual artists and art organizations will have booths showcasing their creations and crafts for sale. A juried visual arts exhibit also will have awards presented in graphics, photog- raphy, painting, sculpture and fine craft. The event also will feature performances throughout the day by local and regional singing, instrumental and performing artists. The Wilber Mansion galleries, at 11 Ford Ave. in Oneonta, will be open during the day. Two of the artists in the Three Artist Group Show at the mansion, Elena Fischer-Greenman and David Frye, will be at the gallery to answer questions. For more information on the event, call the Upper Catskill Com- munity Council of the Arts at (607) 432-2070 or email admin@uccca.com. Open Eye to stage show, din- ner The Open Eye Theater will present two events in the coming weeks. Beginning at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 18, the company will perform 13 short plays — each 10 minutes in length or shorter — at the Open Eye Theater, 960 Main St. in Margaret- ville. Performances will run for two weeks, on Thursday through Sunday. Curtain times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 5:30 p.m. The first half of the program, "Shortcuts to Theater," follows the performing artist's process from early preparation and audition through performance and, finally, to unem- ployment, a media release said. The second part, "Shortcuts to Life," puts human relation- ships under a microscope. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $7 for students. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, the group will host a cocktail reception and dinner event called "A Midsummer Night's Dinner" on the dining patio of Summerfields Restaurant, 645 Main St. in Margaretville. The guest of honor will be Assemblyman Clifford Crouch. Two characters from the Open Eye group, President Abraham Lincoln (John Exter) and John Burroughs (Walter Putrycz) will also be at the event. The night also will include Civil War music, violins in concert, country music group The Andes Gang and a group of characters from William Shakespeare's "The Temptest," who will perform selections from the show. Tickets are $40, or two for $75. Reservations for both events can be made by calling (845) 586-1660 or emailing open- eye@catskill.net. Exhibit to open in New Berlin "VELOCITY," an exhibition of selected works by New York City painter Larry Poons, will open with an artist reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery (the SAGG) at Golden Artist Colors Inc., 188 Bell Road in New Berlin. "VELOCITY" will feature paint- ings created between 1975 and 2009, including some of Poons' large-scale works. The show will in- clude an essay called "Larry Poons: Five Decades" by critic Karen Wilkin. The artist has exhibited paintings world- wide in museums and commercial galleries for more than 50 years. According to media release, Poons "has undergone stylistic trans- formations that turned away from identifiable signature painting methods and plunged directly into radically different approaches to satisfy his own needs for forward motion." The shows runs through Nov. 19. For more details, go to www.thesagg.org. Film festival postponed The inaugural Cooperstown Film Festival, scheduled for Friday, Aug. 19, and Saturday, Aug. 20., has been postponed. Ticket refunds will be issued at purchasers initial point of purchase. For upcoming event dates, visit cooper- Aug. 18, 2011 O-Town Scene 23

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