Art and Soul of the Catskills

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Artist Lineup 2010

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2010 Artists Include:

Helen Fuschetto, Jewelry, Mt Vision
David Geer, Painting - Unadilla
Barbara Mellon Kolb, Mixed Media, Mosaics - Fleischmanns
Michael Musanti, Photography - Deposit
Slickpott, Ian Lamont, Chocolate Fudge Sauce - Delhi
Carolyn Neidlinger, Water Colors - Bainbridge
Kristen Neidlinger, Jewelry - Bainbridge
Brad Kato, Pottery - Rhinebeck
Oakworks Studio - Barbara Consentino and Bill Walsh - Mixed Media and Wood - Hancock
Angelina Blasich - Fibers - Binghamton/Vestal
Diane Parsons Fiber Wearables - Hartsdale

"Bringing Home the Colors of the Catskills"

This year, watch wool spinning and demonstrations by Tamitha Gilmore-Barnes. On display and for purchase, Tabitha's blankets, table linens, and taperstries are inspired by the seasonal colors of the Catskills viewed from her studio. Tabitha Gilmore Barnes Studio will be demonstrating on Saturday, July 31st throughout the day.

2010 Musical Entertainment Schedule

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Saturday, July 31st

11 am - 11:45 am

"John Scarpulla" - Blues and Rock from Schoharie County has established a good following throught the Catskill Region. Having played in New York City shows, Scarpulla still believes that the best talent in the industry is the undiscovered artist's off the beaten path. His soulful and heartfelt style tells his story.

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
"Uncle Rock" - Kids Rock and Pop band from Ulster County has won critical praise from the LA Times, the New York Times and Cookie Magazine. He has also been a mainstay on Sirius and XM Satellite Radio. His rapidly growing fan base loves to dance to his cross-generational style of music. His music connects with preschoolers and the "little kid" in all of us.

1:30 pm to 2:15 pm

"Esquala" - The most anticipated "Rock" album release from locally owned and operated Bovina Records. They have a great following in the region and will without a doubt get people to the festival early and create alot of foot traffic. How you ask? Front person and lead singer, Rebecca, hails from Delhi, NY. Their Blues and Rock style music will get you up and dancing.

2:45 pm to 3:30 pm

"Ira and Laurie McIntosh" - Folk musicians from their home in Andes, New York, this pair of Catskill Mountain entertainer's whose performances include all sorts of stories and many genres of music. They offer lively, participatory programs, chock full of traditional tunes, fantastic fables, magical myths, silly songs and more. No one can tell a story like Laurie, making local history come alive.

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

"The Blues Maneuvers" - One of the Catskill Regions premier special event bands for more than a decade. They are based in the heart of the Catskills and have an eclectic repertoire that span from today's music to the 1940's. From Motown, Classic R & B, Oldies and Swing. They will undoubtly get you off your seat dancing.

Sunday, August 1st

11:15 to 12:00pm
"Stoddard Hollow Sting Band" - This upper Catskill Folk and Bluegrass Band calls Delancey, New York home. Known for its grassroots bluegrass sound, they have developed a loyal following throughout the entire Catskill and Hudson Valley regions.

12:30 pm to 1:15pm

"Skip West" - If you have kids or have ever attended a morning program at a school, you probably tapped your foot to a Pop, Rock and Folk tune of Skip West. Watch the children around you as they laugh and dance, while singing a catchy chorus to one of Skip's songs. He has become a legend in the Catskills and his following spans across generations.

1:45pm to 2:45pm

"Just Throw Money" - One of the fastest growing Classic Rock band followings in the area. Band member, Willie, calls Walton home and brings his loyal followers wherever they play. From Van Morrison to Willie Nelson, Just Throw Money has a great repertoire of music that will get people swaying to a familiar tune.

3:00pm to 4:00 pm

"Horse Shoe Lounge Playboys" - This Bluegrass, Folk, Rock band calls Oneonta, New York their home base. But their musical trail leads their following through the Catskills and beyond. They have received excellent reviews within the music industry. They have established themselves as one of the top bands in the Catskill Region with a huge following.

Music scheduling prepared by "Millennia Entertainment."

Food 2010

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- Karolyn Krossroad's Cafe... BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich, Fresh Mozzarella & Tomato Basil Salad, Stuffed Portabella Mushrooms and Minted Fresh Fruit with a Pina Colada Dip - New Berlin

- The Lyon's Den...Taco Salad served in homemade shell, Beef/Chicken Quesadilla's with Cheese, Jalapena Cheddar Burgers, and MexiDogs

- Candyland Concession... Enjoy Maple Cotton Candy made with Delaware County's finest Maple Syrup. Other foods include Candied Apples, Popcorn, Nachos and Sno-kones

- Casa Granita...Cool down with a cup of Italian Ices or Gelato!

Just in the mood for a taste? Enjoy Free Tasting of New York Wines, sponsored by the Greater Delhi Area Chamber of Commerce!

Delaware Phoenix Distillery, owned by Cheryl Lins, is a little absinthe distillery, licensed by the Federal and State Governments, located in Walton, along the Delaware River in the Great Western Catskills. Cherly's Absinthe is made with the finest herbs from the United States, Italy and Spain. To enjoy a tasting, visit Ray's Fine Wines and Spirits, 70 Main Street in Delhi, during the Art & Soul Festival on Saturday from 1 pm to 5 pm. For more information on Delaware Phoenix Distillery visit http://www.delawarephoenix.com/

Literary Arts 2010

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2010 Literary Artists

Saturday, July 31st

Ron De Luca, Hancock, Writer - 11:50 am to 12:10 pm - retired after forty-four years in the advertising business. His experience includes art director, writer, creative director, operating officer, president. He wrote his first stories in college and put them in a shoe box after his handful of rejections and becoming pitifully addicted to eating. He wrote much of and supervised all of the creative work for two resurrections of Chrysler and the enthronement of Lee Iacocca. After retirement he wrote a book on his experiences in the business which became so focused on Lee Iacocca it was old news and never published. Since then he has taken up writing his personal stories again. His story, "Stone Man Willy," was published in The Second Word Thursdays Anthology (Bright Hill Press) and subsequently republished by Stockport Press with four other stories. He writes to pass on what he remembers and understands of life, love and death. Ron is a graduate of Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and the New School University of New York City.
Uri Shulevitz, Treadwell, Children's Book Author and Illustrator - 2:20pm to 2:40pm -illustrated more than 40 children's books, out of which, he has written more than a dozen. Amond his awards and honors are: A Caldecott Medal, 3 Caldecott Honors, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages. Books that he has illustrated and written include The Moon in My Room; The Mystery of the Woods; A Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse; The Second Witch; The Twelve Dancing Princesses; The Carpet of Solomon; The Month Brotherse; Runaway Jonah and Other Tales; One Monday Morning; The Magician; The Fools of Chelm and Their History; Dawn; Hanukah Money; The Golem; Writing with Pictures; Toddlecreek Post Office; The Golden Goose; Snow; What is a Wise Bird Like you Doing in a Silly Tale Like This; The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela; So Sleepy Storey; How I learned Georgraphy and others!
Bertha Rogers, Delhi, Poet - 1:05 pm to 1:20 pm published more than 300 poems and reviews in journals and anthologies, and in several collections, including Heart Turned Back (Salmon Poetry Publishing, Ireland, 2010), Even the Hemlock (Six Swans, NY - 2005), A House of Corners (Three Conditions Press, Baltimore - 2000), The Fourth Beast (Snark Publ, III - 2004), Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, NY - 1991). Her translation of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, was published in 2000 (Birch Brook Press, NY), and her translation of the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things, will be published in 2010 (Birch Brook Press, NY). In 2010, her poem sequence, "Three for Summer's End," was selected by the MacDowell Colony/Monadnock Music Festival for an original composition by composer Jamie Keesecker and performance at the festival. In 2002, she received a Ludvig Vogelstein grant and in 2006 was the recipient of an AE Ventures Grant for excellence in poetry and visual art and for contributions to the field through the not-for-profit literary press and center she founded in 1992, brighthillpress.org. She has been awarded residency fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, Caldera, and Jentel. In 2007, Rogers, a Master Teaching Artist, was given the 2007 Teaching Artist Distinguished Service to the Arts in Education Field Award at the Common Ground Conference. She serves as a program director for the New York State Literary Web Site, www.nyslittree.org, publisher of the first Literary Map of New York State (2005, in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts and she is a member of the New York State Writers in the Schools Panel. Visit her at www.bertharogers.com.
Share the Words High School Poet

Cara Staib, Jefferson High School - 1:20 pm to 1:30

Sunday, August 1st

Mermer Blakeslee, Roscoe (Delaware County), Writer - 1:20 pm to 1:40 pm - published two novels, Same Blood (Houghton Mifflin, 1989) and In Dark Water (Ballantine, 1998). In Dark Water, called by Connie May Fowler "a novel of uncommon grace and soaring beauty," was selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover Great New Writers series. "Blakeslee's world," the San Francisco Chronicle state, "is lyrical and mythic, filled with magic, visions and reams." Mermer was awarded three fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the most recent in 2008. An excerpt from Digger's God, her latest novel, won the 2006 Narrative prize from Narrative Magazine. Mermer is also a professional skier and her non-fiction book, In the Yikes! Zone: A Conversation with Fear (Dutton, 2002) emerged fromher intensive work with fearful students over the last twenty-five years. Mermer was born, raised and still lives in the Catskill Mountains and her work reflects its dialect - the rhythm, weight and swing, the inevitable dive at the end of the sentence back to the land it came from.
Susan King, Walton, Writer - 2:45 pm to 3:00 pm - published her work in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Bennington Banner. She worked as a technical editor and public relations writer at General Electric Co. in Schenectady, where she wrote and edited for PEO, and International Power Plan division and for the R&D Center. While at General Electric, she wrote an article (appeared in the LA Times) announcing the development of a chip that is a camera, now used widely for security and law enforcement applicaitons, as well as the NASA purpose for which it was originally developed. King taught at Southern Vermont College, where she developed a BA Communications Program and taught courses in English Composition, News Writing and Production, Mass Communications and Television Production. She also taught at the University of Akron, OH, where shed earned a Masters in a teaching assistant program; she continued her graduat work at RPI, in Troy, where she completed the technical writing program as well as course work for her PhD.
John Paul O'Connor, Franklin, Poet - 12:05 pm to 12:25 pm - published his poems in numerous literary magazines, including Poet Lore, Silk Road, Indian Review, Cold Mountain Review, Rattle, Baltimore Review, Columbia, Sycamore Review and St. Anne's Review. His poems have won him AWP's Prague Prize and two nominations for a Pushcart. he has been awarded fellowships at Vermont Studio Center and the Saltonstall Arts Colony. John was a finalist in last year's Patricia Bibby book Contest and a semi-finalist in the Gerald Cable Book Award. This spring, John's poetry appeared in the anthology on the Obama presidency, Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days. John has also worked as a touring songwriter and singer, recording on the Flying Fish/Rounder label. his song "North by North" was adapted by the French artist, Renaud and was number one on the French charts this past winter. he serves as Vice-President of the New York City Musicians Union.
Lisa Wujnovich, Hancock, Poet - holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. She writes poetry and farms at Mountain Dell Farm in Hancock, New York. An herbalist, theater artisit, and community activist, as well as apoet, Lisa currectly directs the Hancock Community Education Foundation Afterschool Garden. Her poetry is featured in the traveling art show, Earth Stewards: Atists Respond to Drilling in the Marcellus Shale. Her Poetry book, This Place Called Us, with photos of Mark Dunau, and High Watermark Saloon, Volume 1, Number 6, both published by Stockport Flats, feature poems about twenty years of life on her family farm. Wujnovich is a found member of Poets for Ayiti, a collective poets from diverse backgrounds committed to the power of poetry to transform and educate. her poetry is included in the Crowns of your Head, a limited edition chapbook. All donations for her chapbook go to rebuilding the Bibliotheque du Soleil, the Port-au-Prince Library destroyed during the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. To order a copy and to obtain further information, to to www.poetsforayiti.org. Her translation of Marina Tsvetaeva's "I Know the Truth," can be read in Poetry International 2010.

Literary Arts funded in part by Poets & Writers

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Fun for Kids

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Events for children and family include:

Arts & Crafts Area for Kids!

Rock Painting
Make your own Crown or Tiera or Book Marks
Paint or color a picture
Beading

Muscial Entertainment for Kids!

Saturday, July 31st
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm
Uncle Rock - calls Chichester, New York his home. He has won critical praise from the LA Times, the New York Times and Cookie Magazine. He has also been a mainstay on Sirius/XM Satellite radio. His rapidly growing fan base loves to dance to his cross-generational style of music. His music connects with preschoolers and the "Little Kid" inside all of us.

2:45 pm to 3:30 pm
Ira and Laurie McIntosh - from Andes, New York. They are a pairof Catskill Mountain entertainer's whose performances include all sorts of stories and many genres of music. They offer lively, participatory programs chock full of tradtional tunes, fantastic fables, magical myths, silly songs and more. No one can tell a story like Laurie, and they make local history come alive.

Sunday, August 1st

12:30 pm to 1:15 pm

Skip West - If you have kids or have ever attended a morning program at school, you have probably tapped your foot to a Skip West tune or at least hummed along. Watch the children around you laugh and dance singing to a catchy chorus of Skip West. He has become legendary in the Catskill region and his following spans across generations.

Get the Word Out

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Help Art & Soul to get the word out about this great event!!
Poster (8 1/2 X 11) - print some out and hang'em up!!

Volunteer Information

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Volunteer Positions Available:
• Information Booth - Assist visitors with general information about the festival. Check in volunteers and help staff with vendor information.
• Booth Sitters - Watch an art vendor booth while the artist takes a break.
• Hospitality Booth - Assist with making and serving complementary food for VIPs and artists.
• Environmental Volunteer - Help keep the festival looking great by helping with trash removal (lifting and bending required).
• Evaluator - Ask visitors survey questions and record their response.
• Set-up and Take-down Volunteer- Help with general set-up and clean up after the event (heavy lifting and bending may be required).
• General Volunteer - Will be glad to work in any position.
Please contact us if you are interested in volunteering!
Volunteer Registration

Food Product Vendor Information and Application

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Food Product Vendor Application
Eligibility:
Art & Soul of the Catskills invites all food producers to apply for jury selection. There is an emphasis on local products to be featured.
Summary:
Art & Soul of the Catskills: Two days of visual and literary art, food, music to stimulate and revitalize the spirit! The event reaches from Courthouse Square, to the Village of Delhi businesses along Main Street, and up to SUNY Delhi, rain or shine.
Contact Information:
5 1/2 Main Street, Delhi, NY 13753, (607) 746-8833
ArtAnd SouloftheCatskills.com
Date, Time, Location:
Friday, July 30th beginning at 3 pm - Set-up
Saturday, July 31st, from 10AM to 5PM and Sunday, August 1, 2010, from 11AM to 4PM.
Delhi, NY is located on Route 28 in Delaware County, NY.
Deadline:
Applications will be accepted until space is filled.We currently have only 2 openings left so call

Visual Art Vendors Information and Application

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Visual Artist Vendor Application
Eligibility:
All artists and fine craftsmen are invited to apply for jury selection.
Summary:
Art & Soul of the Catskills: two days of visual and literary art, food, music to stimulate and revitalize the spirit! The event reaches from Courthouse Square, to the Village of Delhi businesses along Main Street, and up to SUNY Delhi, rain or shine.
Contact Information:
5 1/2 Main Street, Delhi, NY 13753, (607) 746-8833
Website: ArtAndSouloftheCatskills.com.
Date, Time and Location:
Set up starting 3PM Friday, July 30, 2010.
Saturday, July 31, 2010 from 10AM to 5PM and Sunday, August 1, 2010, from 11AM to 4PM.
Delhi, NY is located on Route 28 in Delaware County, NY.
Awards:
Monetary awards are based on on-site judging.
Fees:
- Applications must be accompanied by a nonrefundable $15 jury fee.
- 12’X12’ booth space is $125.
Accommodations:
SUNY Delhi has dormitory rooms available in Catskill Hall: Single Room $32/night; Double Room $54/night. When accepted, artists will be sent a form to reserve rooms, if required.
Deadline:
Applications being accepted until space is filled.

FIRST ANNUAL ART & SOUL OF THE CATSKILLS ATTRACTS 2500 PEOPLE TO DELHI, NY

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Some 2,500 people took the summer-rain in stride during the successful two-day event that featured local products and regional artists August 2 and 3, 2008.

Visual Arts Awards: Best in Show went to Mike Quattrociocchi, wood working; 1st Place went to Joseph Kurhajec, Ceramics and Painting; 2nd Place went to Carolyn Neidlinger, Watercolor; and 3rd Place went to Barbara Mellon Kolb, Mixed Media, Mosaics.

Food Awards: Best Taste of the Catskills went to Midtown Grill, with an honorable mention to Quarter Moon Café. The award, sponsored in part by Pure Catskills, emphasized the use of local products.

Music could be heard throughout the Village of Delhi and included the Sidney Community Band, Drummatic Cymbolism, Just Throw Money, Fetish Lane, Red Light District, Gonstermachers, Professor Louie and The Crowmatrix, Skip West, Blue Sky Mission Club, Charley Orlando Trio, Jamie Notarthomas Band, and featured the Jen Chapin Quartet.

Organizers are already planning next year’s event: Get involved now as a vendor or volunteer call (607) 746-8833 or go to http://www.artandsoulofthecatskills.com/