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Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Free Admission
Taikoza will take listeners on a journey through the seasons
in Japan using Japanese Taiko drums, bamboo flutes, and colorful dances. Taikoza
has appeared on the History Channel and in The Last Samurai. Please join us for this
fun event! This performance is funded by Mandel Therapy Group and a grant from the
New York State Council on the Arts
Decentralization
Program through the Aurora Free Library .
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Adults $12, Seniors/Students $10, Children $8
A quintet of world class brassists will electrify the audience with
Bach to Bernstein by way of Brahms, plus some of their own excellent arrangements
of jazz and other traditional numbers. Take advantage of this unusual opportunity to
hear "the cream of the cream" in Aurora as these
Ithaca College professors of music let loose.
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Friday, May 11, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Adults $7, Seniors/Students $5, Children $3, Family Cap of $20
Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved operetta - full of swashbuckling
pirates, fearless police and modestly beautiful maidens - will be performed by the
talented students of Auburn's Tyburn
Academy. Relish the wordy wit of William Gilbert and the unforgettable tunes
of Arthur Sullivan. Guffaw at the antics of the "Modern" Major General.
This is the group that brought us "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat" in 2005.
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Friday, May 18, 2007 at 8:00 PM
The Zabriskie Folk Art Series
Adults $12, Seniors/Students $10, Children $8
Nightingale is a trio from Vermont - usually fiddle, guitar
and accordion-with three splendid albums to its credit and a host of happy fans,
especially in the contra dance community of the Northeast. Inspired by the musical
traditions of French and Scotch Canada, Ireland, France and Scandinavia, they
make music to dance, swoon and live by.
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Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 2:00 PM
Donations Welcome
Charles Snyder, historic tour guide, Elderhostel instructor and Civil
War buff will regale us with stories and anecdotes both humorous and somber arising
from the great battle at Gettysburg. Confederate casualties in dead, wounded and missing
were 28,000 out of 75,000 and Union casualties were 23,000 out of 88,000. Place names like
Little Round Top, Devil's Den, the Wheat Field, the Peach Orchard, and Cemetery Ridge
became familiar to all.
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Saturday and Sunday, July or August
TBA
Aurora Childrenıs Theater is tentative this year. Without a
volunteer adult coordinator (or pair of coordinators) to oversee the program, it will
not take place. Call Ellen Wikstrom at (315) 364-7237 if you are willing to help.
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Friday, August 10, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Amphitheater of the United Ministry Church
Donations Welcome
Klezmer is the music by the people for the people. Enjoy it
from your lawn chair or on a blanket or on a bench, in the lake side amphitheater
behind the United Ministry Church. This traditional klezmer group of mandolin,
bass, clarinet, accordion and drum, will perform music to move your heart as well
as your feet. Dancing encouraged! Sponsored by Mandel Therapy Group of
King Ferry and Moravia.
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 at Noon
Free Admission
David Moreland is a born comic showman. He has appeared
in films and television shows including Legally Blonde, Friends, Seinfeld and Becker.
Come see David and his pal, Chester the library rabbit, for magic and storytelling.
You'll be spellbound! Bring your favorite bear, a picnic lunch, and your imagination
to this fun-filled event. Co-sponsored by the
Aurora Free Library
and the Morgan Opera House.
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Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Adult $8, Student/Senior $5, Child $3
Heather MacKenzie-Childs Chaplet brings a unique event to the
opera house. Perplex is a combination of live music and livelier dance, of powerful
visual, audio and tactile experiences. Dave Tobin of the Syracuse Post Standard:
". . . an electric performance, with live improvised jazz, that drew upon word
play, traditional clowning, European cabaret singing and ... visual playfulness . . ."
This performance is not to be missed.
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Henry's Wives
by Aoise Stratford
Gloria Ann Barnell Peter Playwright Competition Winner
Adult $10, Student/Senior $8, Child $6
This original play is the winner of the first Gloria Ann
Barnell Peter Playwright Competition. The Henry in question IS the King Henry
of many wives. In this quasi-historical piece, some of the more feisty of them
reminisce, compare notes and generally compete verbally, if posthumously, for
precedence in the throne room and in the boudoir.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Adult $7, Student/Senior $5, Child $4
Contradictions in concert offer an eclectic mix of
fiddle tunes and songs from American and European traditions. The quartette
performs Irish jigs, French Canadian reels, bluegrass tunes, enchanting Venezuelan
waltzes and 30s swing standards. They've got it all and more. Your toes will tap
and your hands will clap with this lively musical group.
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Donations Welcome
Slow down! Read the text on those cast iron New York State
historical markers along the roadside. In 1923 the growing popularity of the automobile
brought about a new style of tourism. The NYS Education Department created a program
to identify roadside historical attractions with these distinctive signs. The quirky stories
behind some of our local markers will be explored in this afternoonıs event.
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