Performances
There is a suggested donation of $10.00 a person or $20.00 a family help to support the arts and culture of Warwick.
Saturday, July 16th, at 7:00 p.m.
AMBER RUBARTH
Ms. Rubarth won the Grand Prize in this year’s NPR Mountain Stage New Song Contest. Her songs have attracted enthusiastic praise from NPR's All Songs Considered, The Huffington Post, BBC Radio, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, a Sun Studio Session now airing nation-wide on PBS and many TV shows such as One Tree Hill and she’s getting over a million hits on her My Space site. "With songs both quirky and endearingly candid, Amber Rubarth is a refreshing talent on the rise. As illustrated on her third and latest LP, Good Mystery, she complements a gentle folk/pop vibe with a storyteller's engagement and the unassuming, often awkward charm of a girl you wished lived next door." -BlogCritics.
Sunday, July 17th, 7 p.m.
THE DEFIBULATORS
...have emerged as one of the most engaging live acts from the thriving roots scene in Brooklyn, NY – melding bluegrass, rockabilly, honky-tonk, and punk into their own eclectic sound. They wield an arsenal of guitars, banjos, fiddles, and junkyard percussion, with relentless energy and virtuosity. The Defibulators jump-start new life into vintage country music and deliver a unique sound that’s anything but old timey. Razor sharp harmonies by Bug Jennings and Erin Bru, along with dark and surreal lyrics, illuminate songs that are gritty and witty; spinning tales of deception, debauchery, depleted bank accounts, fanaticism, vintage firearms, biological anomalies, airline intoxication, and animal ennui.
BOUNTIFUL BY WILL MACADAMS
The third in the cycle of plays created by playwright Will MacAdams about the Warwick region, which began with Water and Stone during last year's Festival - and continued with a collaboration with the Alamo Farm Workers Community Center this spring. Like those pieces, Bountiful takes as its central subject our local soil and the stories that define it. In this piece, Mr. MacAdams creates a mythical character inspired by the Black Dirt, who weaves an interactive tale of glaciers, immigration, hard working hands and, of course, onions. The short play is written and performed by Will MacAdams, and features costumes by Warwick’s own mad hatter, Gar Wang, and prop design by local artist Gaby Ramirez.
Isis Movement Company
Co-director, Warwick native, Melissa Padham, will investigate energy transference through the incorporation of original movement, recorded lectures and spacial exploration. Isis Movement Co., founded in 2009 and based in Brooklyn, NY, is co-directed by Marcela Alvarez and Melissa Padham. Since their 2009 debut at the Warwick Arts Festival, Isis Movement Co. has performed at various venues including The Winter Garden of the World Financial Center, Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn and Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn. This will be Isis Movement Co.'s third year performing at the Warwick Arts Festival.
About the Festival
The Warwick Summer Arts Festival is Orange County’s premiere performing Arts Festival presenting music, theater and dance in locations around the Town of Warwick. We look to present original work that is both challenging and inspiring and to bring the arts out to every part of the community: the parks, the storefronts, and the farms, and to produce the performances with the highest production quality possible. Our intent is always to involve the community by offering pre-festival workshops and presentations and to continue to look for ways to bridge the artist/audience roles as we have with the establishment of the annual Art Parade and with the commissioned performances involving community members such as Martha Bower’s Local Heroes and JoAnna Medle Shaw’s Dancing With Horses. In 2003, we are initiating the establishment of a Warwick Children’s Chorus that will perform at the Gemini concert in July.
We have presented over 100 artists at various locations around Warwick. We have presented workshops at the Community Center, Warwick Valley High School, The Bookstore, Wisner Studios and the Moving Company Dance Studio. The Warwick Summer Arts Festival 2001 all took place within the Village and inspired the first Arts and Culture Week declared by Mayor Michael Newhard. Highlights of past festivals include JoAnna Mendl Shaws Dancing With Horses performed by four dancers and six horses and their riders; The Eric Bass Sandglass Theater, Dierdre Murrey’s String Ensemble, the renowned experimental violinist Leroy Jenkins, and the establishment of the first ever Art Parade down Main Street. Festival 2001’s Celebration of the Drumset with Newman Taylor Baker was highlighted in the prestigious Drummers World Magazine.
The summer of 2002 was a significant turning point: every event, from the poetry readings to the films to the concerts were crowded with enthusiastic audiences. The Town adopted the Festival as its own. We displayed the work of over 20 visual artists in the storefronts of the Village of Warwick; ran weekly art making workshops leading up to the Festival (for the Art Parade); presented a New York Foundation for the Arts grant writing workshop; added film to the roster, presenting a screening of Strange Fruit followed by a talk with the filmmaker; and added an evening of Spoken Words at the local Bookstore. Highlights of the summer included the James Emery Trio playing at sunset out on the Black Dirt farm of Bob Scheuermann; the community created performance, Local Heroes, at the Winslow Therapeutic Riding Center, and the final evening concert, Tom Chapin at Stanley Deming Park, with a crown 1,000+.
The New York State Council on the Arts gave unprecedented support to jump-start The Warwick Summer Arts Festival. We are now in need of additional funding in order to continue bringing quality programming to Orange County. The Festival is being funded under the umbrella of Community 2000, a not-for-profit organization.
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