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Sunday, August 16 at
5pm
Gilles Malkine, Musician,
Mikhail Horowitz, Poet/Parodist, Sharon Gannon, Co-founder Jivamukti Yoga Method
  
Gilles Malkine Mikhail Horowitz
Sharon Gannon
Mikhail Horowitz and
Gilles Malkine have been wowing
area audiences for decades with their engaging music
and subversive humor. Sharon Gannon is one of the
nation’s most widely known and respected teachers of
Yoga.
Sunday,
August 23 at
7pm
Marshall Crenshaw, Singer-Songwriter,
Denny Dillon, Comedian/Actress, Stephan Rechtschaffen, Co-founder Omega Institute
  
Marshall
Denny Dillon
Stephan
Crenshaw
Rechtschaffen
Of Marshall Crenshaw
The New York Times said
“His
songs, like Brian Wilson’s, are harmonically
sophisticated yet immediately hummable. Mr. Crenshaw
is a master craftsman.”
Saturday Night Live
alumna
and artist Denny Dillon is a veteran of stage and
screen. Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD, is an author and
renowned pioneer in the wellness movement.
Friday,
September 4 at 5pm
Gus Mancini &
Studio Stu, Musicians, Patrick Carlin,
Comedy Writer/Author, Doug Grunther, WDST
Radio Host
   
Gus Mancini Studio Stu
Patrick Carlin
Doug Gunther
Joe will be joined by
the “dysfunctional family” of WDST’s Woodstock
Roundtable, the humorist Patrick Carlin and
musicians Gus Mancini, Studio Stu and
WDST radio personality Doug Gunther.
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ABOUT THE
PARTICIPANTS
Patrick Carlin
has had a long
career a comedy writer, author, radio personality
and professional rabble-rouser. His older brother,
comedian George Carlin, once told him, “The reason
you’re so happy is because you have a taste for the
bitterly ironic.” In the 1990s Patrick wrote two
episodes of the George Carlin Show (“thanks
to nepotism” he says). He is now a regular
contributor to the Woodstock Roundtable radio
program, heard Sunday mornings on WDST. His own
radio show, Weekly Chunk O’ News Roundup, is
a sharp and offbeat take on current events in the
outspoken Carlin tradition. Patrick’s first novel,
Highway 23, was published in 2007.
Marshall Crenshaw
(“one
of the finest pop songwriters of his age – or, for
that matter, any age,” – The New Yorker) has
built an impressive body of work over the course of
his long and still flourishing career. Early on, he
performed as John Lennon in the touring theatrical
production of Beatlemania and later played
Buddy Holly in the film, La Bamba. His
self-titled 1982 album, with such classic songs as
Someday Someway and Cynical Girl,
established him as a first rate artist and his
subsequent recordings offer an evolutionary journey
through an array of musical landscapes. He was
recently nominated for a Grammy Award for co-penning
the title track to the acclaimed John C Reilly film,
Walk Hard. His new studio album,
Jaggedland, has generated glowing reviews and
been hailed by the All Music Guide as “compelling
and powerful.”
Denny Dillon
is a Tony-nominated stage, television, and film
actress. She won a CableACE Award for the HBO hit
series Dream On and is an alumna of
Saturday Night Live. Her film credits include
Saturday Night Fever, United 93 and
Ice-Age. Active in upstate's vital artistic
community she is a member of Actors & Writers
Theatre performing original writing; one of which
was published "Suspicion of Sanding" in the recent
anthology Some Delights of the Hudson Valley.
Denny teaches improvisation and has an improv
company, Improv Nation. A visual artist as well,
Denny has an art gallery, The Drawing Room, in her
1840's farmhouse in Stone Ridge, where her whimsical
pen and ink drawings and "art inside the box" are on
display. Visit her website: www.thedrawingroomonline.com
Sharon Gannon
is the co-creator
(with David Life) of the Jivamukti Yoga Method, a
path to enlightenment through compassion for all
beings. A student of Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati,
Swami Nirmalananda, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, she is
a pioneer in teaching yoga as spiritual activism and
is credited for making yoga cool and hip—relating
ancient teachings of yoga to the modern world.
Sharon is a musician and is a featured vocalist on
many CDs. She has produced numerous yoga-related
DVDs and is the author of several books, including
Jivamukti Yoga, The Art of Yoga,
Cats and Dogs are People Too!, and Yoga and
Vegetarianism. Her writing has appeared in
numerous publications, including Toward 2012,
Semiotexte and Yoga Journal. She is a
contributor to Reality Sandwich and writes a
monthly essay called the Focus of the Month, which
can be read at:
jivamuktiyoga.com
Doug Grunther
has been
Woodstock’s leading radio talk show host for nearly
30 years and he has interviewed many of the most
insightful teachers and authors in the country.
Whether focusing on the Four Noble Truths of the
Buddha with Tibetan scholar Robert Thurman, delving
into the human psyche with renowned poet Robert Bly,
or engaging in creative dialogue with Zen Master
John Daido Loori, Doug has made a career of bringing
wisdom to the airwaves. A popular speaker on the
lecture circuit, his new program is Enlighten Up:
How Laughter Improves Our Physical, Emotional and
Spiritual Health. Five years ago Doug became so
fascinated with his dreams that he began a deep
study and was certified as a dream work facilitator
by the Marin Institute For Projective Dream Work. He
now leads dream workshops and works with private
clients.
Mikhail Horowitz
has been spewing his literary spoofs, linguistic
triple flips, jazz fables, and (with Gilles Malkine)
folk song parodies and political satire at just
about every venue in the Catskills since 1973. He
also has appeared at the late great Village Gate and
many other clubs and theaters in New York City; the
Taos Heavyweight Poetry Championships; the
Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle; Robert Bly’s Great
Mother Conference in Maine; and at numerous cafés,
colleges, correctional facilities, and New Age funny
farms. He is the author of Big League Poets
(City Lights, 1978) and two books of poetry, and his
performance work has been featured on 10 CDs,
including The Blues of the Birth, a
collection of his jazz fables released by Sundazed
Records. The former Cultural Czar of the
Woodstock Times, he currently impersonates an
editor in the Publications Office at Bard College.
Gilles Malkine
has been on stage, acting, singing, playing guitar
and other instruments since the age of 10. He
studied acting under Brad Dourif at the Woodstock
Film and Actors Guild; played with Tim Hardin at
Carnegie Hall and at the 1969 Woodstock Festival;
recorded as an accompanist for other
instrumentalists and singers, and co-produced three
albums with his current partner in crime, Mikhail
Horowitz. Their comedy performance art, now spanning
20 years, includes music, poetry, comedy, parody,
satire, songs and theatrical skits. Gilles plays and
sings his own songs, as well as folk, instrumental
and children’s songs. His guitar pieces include rags
and etudes, as well as compositions in the South
American style. Among many other projects, he
composed, arranged, performed and recorded scores
and soundtracks for the Woodstock Shakepeare
Company, Bird-On-A-Cliff, for productions of Much
Ado About Nothing and 12th Night.
Gus Mancini,
known as “The Sultan Of Sonic Soul,” is a rare blend
of classically trained musician, composing scores
and classical works, and a master of improvisational
jazz. A graduate of New York University, with a B.S.
in Music Education, he has studied and performed
with many of the principle soloists for the New York
Philharmonic and Jazz elite as well.
Barbara Pitcher (Director) has directed over 35
NYC productions in more than 20 venues . Winner of
the Best Director - Jean Dalrymple Award, her work
includes Classical, Contemporary, Opera, One Person
Plays and Performance Art, with works of Pinter,
Chayefsky, O’Neill, Shakespeare, Salinger, Chekhov,
opera composer, Mark Grant--and in recent years,
introduced 16 new playwrights to the NYC Scene. It’s
been said that her directing “has demonstrated the
highest quality of Artistry one can imagine.” - As a
performer, she worked in TV for 11 years in The
Doctors , Search For Tomorrow , The Haunting of
Rosalind and many other shows. Highlights of her
theatre career include Y Is A Crooked Letter
opposite Al Pacino and the creation of Monica in
Robert E. Lee’s Sounding Brass . Her film, Pate is
an official Sundance Selection, and has received
over 15 awards. As an actress, she has “worked out”
at The Actor’s Studio (Lee Strasberg, being her
mentor). - She is a Permanent Resident Director of
the American Theatre of Actors, and has a long
history with Theatre Within as a performer/director.
- Woodstock Fringe Audiences may remember her
direction of Joe Raiola, in Almost Obscene , the
last two seasons. She has also directed Joe in
Confessions Of An Ex-Standup , Sex Secrets Of A
Closet Heterosexual , and The Joy Of Censorship .
Joe Raiola
is appearing in the
Woodstock Fringe for the third consecutive year. His
critically acclaimed solo show, Almost Obscene,
was a hit at each of the last two festivals. He
recently completed a 14-show Northwest Tour of
The Joy Of Censorship, his fiery first amendment
program which has been seen at countless libraries,
colleges and professional conferences, and broadcast
nationally on C-SPAN. Joe is Artistic Director of
Theatre Within, a not-for-profit Performing Arts
Presenter, and creator/producer of the Annual
John Lennon Tribute in New York City, the
longest running Lennon tribute in the world.
Celebrating his 25th year at MAD
Magazine, Joe remains MAD “Senior Editor,” a title
he insists “means nothing since I work at the only
place in America where if you mature, you get
fired.” He can be heard frequently as co-host of the
Woodstock Roundtable on WDST. Joe is married to the
love of his life, Lisa.
Stephan Rechtschaffen,
MD, is a co-founder of Omega and currently serves on
Omega’s Board of Directors. He regularly consults
with centers, organizations, and businesses in the
emerging field of holistic and wellness-related
business. Rechtschaffen is also a holistic physician
who uses concepts of time and healing as the focus
for developing optimal health. He is the author of
Timeshifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your
Life and a co-author of Vitality and Wellness.
His new project – Blue Beach Retreat in Nosara,
Costa Rica – will open in December, 2009 in a
tropical beach setting and offer programs taught by
many of the teachers who have come to Omega over the
years.
Studio Stu,
with his state-of-the-art “Studivarious” single
string bass, unique Brooklyn humor, and unusual,
hypnotic vocals, takes the very best in classic
jazz, pop, and originals, and twists and bends them
into what he calls ‘evocative jazz & exotic lounge’.
He starts with standard tunes and a loop machine,
except, nothing is sacred...improv is
rampant...lyrics are changed at will...familiar
languages are obliterated...harmonies are sweet and
sour perfection, yet, his music is serious,
sophisticated and uncompromising in execution. He is
one in-tune, out-of-tune, offbeat, beatnick. Visit
studiostu.biz |
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