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Collage to be at SUNY

Collage Performing Arts Center Presents its annual dance production “A Show to Remember” at SUNY Fredonia’s Marvel Theater on Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and will be available at the door or by calling (716) 673-3501. Participants include, row one: ...

Fundraiser supports Bach Festival

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House will hold a special Bach & Brats fund-raiser on Saturday, in Fredonia’s West Barker Common near the Gazebo. A Bake Sale and Basket Auction also will be a part of the event. All proceeds benefit the Opera House’s annual Bach & Beyond Baroque Music ...

Jazz ensembles win astounding third DownBeat award in five years

New category/new year, but the same award-winning outcome. A jazz ensemble at the State University of New York at Fredonia has captured yet another award in DownBeat Magazine’s Student Music Award competition. The Fredonia Jazz Flextet, under the direction of School of Music Assistant Professor Nick Weiser, received the magazine’s Outstanding Performance Award in the Undergraduate Division of the Blues/Pop/Rock Group Category. The 2023 award – the third Outstanding Performance Award won by a SUNY Fredonia ensemble in the last five years – comes on the heels of the flextet’s ...

‘Mafia Mamma’ showing at Opera House

The next film in the Cinema Series at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center is the action comedy “Mafia Mamma,” starring Toni Collette. It will be screened Saturday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather’s affairs in ...

Met Live season continues with ‘Don Giovanni’

Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Sat., May 20, at 1 p.m., with Wolfgang Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Tony ...

Alumni return as special guest artists for pops concert

After having stepped out and made a mark in the professional world as performers, two distinguished alumni will return to Fredonia as special guest artists for Rockefeller Arts Center’s traditional commencement eve concert at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Amanda Lynn Bottoms and Jordan Weatherston Pitts will be featured as part of “Commencement Eve Pops: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber” on Friday, May 19 at 7:30 p.m. in King Concert Hall. Rockefeller Arts Center’s Commencement Eve Pops is a tradition dating back 30 plus years. This season, the concert pays ...