"Under The Moon In Callicoon" Summer Concert Series Continues on July 16th with MazMyth

Saturday, July 16th at 8PM
MazMyth with 

opening act AventeGorz

$12 suggested donation at the door, children under 12 admitted free.
Bring your chairs/blankets, picnic baskets and your dancing shoes!
Callicoon Creek Park is located on A. Dorrer Drive between Lander's and Peck's in Callicoon, New York.

Livingston Manor's own MazMyth is an award winning progressive fusion rock band. Having played the mainstage at the Bamboozle festival at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, they return to Sullivan County to kick off the "Under The Moon In Callicoon" concert series. High energy, intricate rhythms and electronically generated sounds combine to create an amazing aural experience.

Opening act AventeGorz is based in Cochecton and plays regularly with MazMyth. Sammy Sackstein, a professional hoop dancer, promises to accompany AventeGorz at this show.

Upcoming Concerts:

Saturday, July 23rd at 8PM
Universa Trio (Chacho Ramirez) with opening set by Dr. Mambo 
Latin Jazz

Saturday, July 30th at 8PM
Barbecue Bob and the Spareribs with opening set by Janet Burgan
Roots rhythm & blues with folk opener

"Under The Moon In Callicoon" Summer Concert Series Begins

Friday, July 8th at 8PM

Basket Landing

Suggested donation $12 at the door, children under 12 admitted free.

Bring your lawn chairs, picnic baskets and dancing shoes.

Callicoon Creek Park is located on A. Dorrer Drive between Lander's and Peck's in Callicoon, New York.

Basket Landing is a folk music and dance ensemble.  The band performs a mix of traditional American Folk music and songs from the British Isles, Canada, and Australia--sweet Appalachian folk ballads, lilting Irish melodies, seafaring tunes, Ozark Mountain bluegrass, an vibrant spirituals. 

Basket Landing is accompanied by the Basket Landing Dancers for many of its performances. The dancers range from ages nine to twenty-three and perform a wide variety of international folk dances, including Ukrainian, Irish, Scottish, English, Italian, Bulgarian and American selections.

"Under The Moon In Callicoon" is a concert series produced by Janet Burgan for the Callicoon Creek Park Association.  This concert is made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program for Sullivan County, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.

In case of rain please listen to WJFF radio 90.5FM for weather-related updates.  Please check back often for event updates and park information.

Upcoming Concerts:

Saturday, July 16th at 8PM

MazMyth with opening set by AventeGorz

Progressive fusion rock

Saturday, July 23rd at 8PM

Universa Trio (Chacho Ramirez) with opening set by Dr. Mambo

Latin jazz

Saturday, July 30th at 8PM

Barbecue Bob and the Spareribs with opening set by Janet Burgan

Roots rhythm & blues with folk opener

Dance Party in the Park

On Saturday, August 6th the park will be hosting an outdoor dance party and fundraiser for the NACL Theatre. 

Fun starts at 6:00pm with a DJ from 7:00 to 11:00pm 

Suggested donation for dance party is $10 

(children under 12 free)

NACL is a local professional theatre ensemble that creates cutting-edge theatre, stilt walking performances, offers children’s theatre classes, and presents contemporary performance by local and international artists. The company operates a church-turned theatre and an artists’ residence in Highland Lake, NY. The company is currently touring its newest family performance, THE LITTLE FARM SHOW, a musical extravaganza about farming, food, and environmental sustainability. This year the show will tour to theatres and schools across the county, New York City, and to cities in the northeast.

Second Annual Callicoon Creek Park Plant Swap: Veggies, Herbs, Ornamentals and Friends!

May 21, 2011 dawned without rain (which is almost worth saying twice!) and by 9:30 am, local gardeners were stocking the Callicoon Creek Park Plant Swap tent with pots and flats of brussels sprouts, oregano, lilies, garlic for eating and planting, geraniums, chives, broccoli, hot peppers, salad peppers, baking peppers, hostas, hundreds of heirloom tomatoes, and much, much more.

Besides welcoming our community to The Callicoon Creek Park and encouraging the growth of kitchen gardens, this year's Swap was designed to raise awareness of The IOU Thrift Store on Main Street in Callicoon and the many supports it offers Callicoon-area families struggling to buy nutritious food and pay their fuel bills. If you want to learn more about IOU's Blessings Food Pantry, their holiday baskets and toy exchange, the counseling services they help subsidize and their fuel bank, please stop by The Thrift Store on Lower Main in Callicoon. They're friendly, helpful and offer a wonderful assortment of clothes, appliances and furniture for everyone!

At 10 am, our first official swapper was Linda Bastian who rattled off--three times fast--"Callicoon Creek Park Plant Swap" and was rewarded with an embossed ceramic pot planted with a hearty batch of oregano. (Thanks to Ginny Boyle!) In fact, Linda returned several times and even dug up flowers donated by Mother Joan LaLiberte and brought those along with her own flowering geraniums.

Three Times Fast!

The camaraderie of Swap Day itself is a joy but I think my favorite thing is knowing that as each winter turns to spring, Linda’s geraniums, Marcie’s mint, Joan’s Episcopal lilies, and Ginny’s oregano will be poking through the soil in untold gardens for as long as someone tends them.

In that light, The Callicoon Creek Park Association offers especial thanks to:

• The Delaware Valley Farm & Garden store (Agway) for its generous donation of pepper, tomato, brussels sprouts and broccoli seedlings which left the tent like hotcakes; 
• Sondra Patton for transporting a huge variety and hundreds of heirloom tomatoes and squashes from her greenhouse in Long Island;
• Will Conway, Master Gardener and subject of a recent Our Country Home article, who spent the entire day with us answering questions and providing recommendations for plant selection, siting, soil and pest management, complementary sowing and weed controls. We were extremely grateful for his knowledge and ability to de-mystify the horticultural tangle of Latin and soil types.

And to the many swappers who made the day a success with the gifts they brought and took away we say, "Be sure to visit next year! Thanks to your generosity, several new plantings will be seen in the Park this summer--ask about them when you come down for our Under The Moon in Callicoon concert series in July!--and we were even able to split $130 with The IOU whose programs are so necessary in these difficult economic times."

Tea, anyone?

Lastly, as I sip the iced tea I made this morning from sprigs of Marcie's Mint and Dottie's Lemon Balm, I tip my glass to the Swaps to come and thank Alex Siroc for photos that captured the day! --Liz Bucar

UPDATE: "Under the Moon in Callicoon" Concert Series 2011

The park will be alive with the sound of music, all sorts of music, come July, in our second annual "Under the Moon" concert series. CCPA's mission of a diverse slate for the season has been accomplished with the addition of a night of rock, featuring not one but two local young bands with bright futures. MazMyth is a five piece progressive fusion band from Livingston Manor with a fast spreading fan base and an impressive list of credits. They will rock the park on July 16, along with opener AventeGorz, self-described on My Space as "Three people uniting into a sound of mass confusion and energy for a matter of moments." The three, from Cochecton, play alternative/psychedelic rock.

Opening the series on July 8, as promised, will be the always well-received Basket Landing, eclectic folk musicians, singers and dancers from Hankins.

Our third concert will bring Chacho Ramirez's Universa Trio, following the Dr. Mambo. Chacho is a musical director, drummer, and composer who performs in the New York metropolitan area, making beautiful music based on West African and Latin rhythms, using standard jazz forms. On July 23, we will have him and his friends all to ourselves!

Closing the season as only he can, Barbecue Bob will return with the Spareribs on July 30 for his annual smokin' R&B dance party in the park. We love being a regular gig on Bob's busy schedule of performances all over the Northeast! (He makes it south, too, keeping the barbecue real.) Opening for Bob once again will be our own Janet Burgan, singer, songwriter, concert producer, and really cool MC.

All shows take place at 8 p.m. in Callicoon Creek Park, off Audley Dorrer Drive, in Callicoon, NY. The suggested donation at the door is $12, children under 12 will be admitted free.

The July 16, 23 and 30 concerts are partially funded by a 2011 Decentralization grant, allocated by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered locally by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY.