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In review: A Jazzy finale to Bach fest

The June 11 matinee performance that concluded this year’s Bach & Beyond Baroque Music Festival was a testament to the strong sense of community that has developed here in Fredonia over the past 26 years. Each summer, when not experiencing a global pandemic, musicians from numerous national and international locations converge upon our modest village in Chautauqua County in order to prepare, rehearse, and perform a selection of music carefully curated by Maestro Grant Cooper. Our community responds enthusiastically, with a devoted cohort of concert goers opening their homes to house ...

Opera House presents Tokyo Stories

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House will present Tokyo Stories, a special cinematic exploration of the visual art scene in Japan, on Saturday at 1 p.m., as part of its Art & Architecture On Screen Series. Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of ...

WESTFIELD – Artist Maia A’Brams Horvath will be featured at Living Glass Gallery in Westfield for the month of July in time for the town’s annual Alumni Weekend, bringing to town her exhibit “Knitting with Pencils”: Art of the Self-Created Woman. Horvath is originally from ...

Former county resident illustrates second children’s book

LEESPORT, Pa. – Artist, art teacher, and former Chautauqua County resident Cheryl Bielli illustrated the new children’s book “Henry Didn’t Listen.” This is Bielli’s second time illustrating a children’s book. “Henry Didn’t Listen” is the story of a young frog who wants to stay at the park as darkness falls instead of coming when his mother calls. Henry thinks himself clever before an owl, a snake, and a coyote teach him a life lesson: Parents know better! Prior to illustrating “Henry Didn’t Listen,” Bielli illustrated Crave Press’s The Boy Who Never ...

Fredonia resident pens castle ‘Mystery’

Iron Pelican Publications has announced the release of “Braided Lies: A Thousand Islands Castle Mystery” by Catherine D’Agostino. A Fredonia resident, she is currently employed as a Dunkirk Secondary School English teacher and Jamestown Community College English instructor via its ...

Lecture series explores Brocton’s 19th century “cult”

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center continues its free-admission Chautauqua County History Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday with The Brotherhood of the New Life, presented by D.R. Barker History Museum Board President Jeff Adams and Archivist Catherine Oag-Miller. This ...