NEW BERLIN – With thirty-five years of experience, the New Berlin Art Forum proudly announces its 2009 – 2010 performing arts series for the enjoyment of the community.
The Woods Tea Company, that uses a variety of instruments to make great music, will start off the new season. Woods Tea Company, Vermont’s Famous Folk Group, is scheduled to perform in New Berlin Saturday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Unadilla Valley Central School, Route 8, New Berlin. This group is popular in this area and other areas with about 120 performances a year from pubs to Lincoln Center. Including a mix of old favorites and new material their famous audience interaction will transport everyone into an evening of folk, Celtic, sea shanties, French Canadian and bluegrass musical fun. Established in 1981, Wood Tea Co. has a goal to please the audience.
The Singing Boys of Pennsylvania was founded in 1970 as the Pocono Boy Singers and they have won great acclaim throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, England and Japan. The company consists of young artists – aged 10 to 14 – selected from the ranks of the organization’s training choir who have been rigorously prepared for two or more years. Their fast-moving format has been enthusiastically received by audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, throughout Japan, as well as by critics who have applauded the choir’s imaginative and versatile programming. The remarkable proficiency which the choir brings to performances has been demonstrated in hundreds of recitals for colleges and universities from Oxford to Stanford, many Community Concert Associations and hundreds more schools and churches. The Singing Boys of Pennsylvania is an attraction with wide appeal and is sure to delight our audience with an irresistible format of music and entertainment on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church on S. Main Street, New Berlin.
Local Seisún, a Traditional Irish Instrumental Musical group will perform in New Berlin Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 7 p.m. at the Heights Terrace Community Center in New Berlin. Local Seisún grew out of the social and musical congeniality at weekly Irish music sessions originally hosted by Steve Eisenberg at his antique shop in Bainbridge. Now gatherings are held at the Susquehanna Café in Bainbridge. At public presentations they play traditional Irish music with the same informal spirit as at a session, similar to what was, and still is, played in homes and pubs in Ireland and in American cities where Irish immigrants and their descendents would gather in social community to share music stories, songs, refreshment and other forms of self-entertainment. The instrumental music often accompanies dancing, and includes jigs, hornpipes, reels, slip jigs, polkas, slides and marches, as well as slow airs derived from songs. They enjoy it when anyone in the audience who feels like dancing to the music will get up and follow their inclination to do so.
The members of Local Seisún include: Steve Eisenberg - Whistle, flute, bodhrán; Rob Grassi - Mandolin, tenor banjo; Jim Haggerty – Whistle; Kathy Shimberg – Fiddle and Jean Withrow - Concertina.
