MARCH COUNTRY CLUB HAPPENINGS North Shore Towers Courier n March 2014 31 MARCH EVENTS Don’t Miss This Return Engagement!! Saturday, March 15, 2014 Come to the Cabaret A “Sweet” Evening with Wine, Desserts, Coffee, Soda, Knoshes! and Vocalist/Guitarist Matthew Cutillo 8:30 pm – VIP Room If you missed our last one….be sure to mark this one on your calendar! Matthew had everyone singing and dancing. This time the dance floor will be opened! Dance, Rock, Pop, Country, Soul, Americana, Motown, you name it! $10/members $20/non-resident guests • Open Seating – Space Limited Monday, March 17, 2014 Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the Towers Country Club Concert Series Selection “Celtic Woman – A New Journey Live at Slane Castle” 8 PM – VIP ROOM Celtic Woman: A New Journey is the second on-stage production by the group Celtic Woman. The show was filmed at Slane Castle in County Meath, Ireland and featured Hayley Westenra as a new addition to the group. Performers in A New Journey are vocalists Chloë Agnew, Órla Fallon, Lisa Kelly, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha and Hayley Westenra, Máiréad Nesbitt on violin and Órla Fallon on harp. Tuesday, March 25, 2014 92ndST Y Program……This month’s selection… “Your Life Calling: Jane Pauley with Tom Brokaw” followed by a discussion led by Fred Chernow 7:30 pm – VIP Room Pioneering TV anchors Jane Pauley and Tom Brokaw reunite for an inspiring discussion about “the lucky generation”—boomers who, at 50 and up, are finding their true callings.Pauley shares practical ideas and motivating advice from her new book, Your Life Calling—as well as her own personal story of reinvention. A not-to-be-missed evening for anyone who knows the yearning for “something different” or “something more.” Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Vocalist, Susan King 8 PM – VIP Room Susan is an accomplished and versatile singer with over fifteen years of professional experience. She is equally at home with the standards of bygone eras to the theatrical comedy of Broadway. There have been rave revues for Susan and her spectacular recent cabaret performances of “Babes on Broadway!” Susan King has entertained audiences throughout the tri-state area at numerous events and parties including Glamour Magazine, Avon, Phillip Morris and even once at an event for the governor of New Jersey! Susan is a sophisticated, comedic and talented performer. She is sure to charm and entertain everyone. For more happenings visit www.queenscourier.com COMPILED BY VICTOR G. MIMONI The Queens Museum of Art New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park www.queensmuseum.org Open Wed – Sun noon to 6pm. Admission: $8 adults and children over 12; $4 seniors and students; children under 12 free. On Friday, March 7, from 7-10 p.m. (doors open 6 p.m.) Levys’ Unique New York Panorama Challenge involves questions about assorted city landmarks, bridges, neighborhoods, parks and more. Identify the most locations and your team will have their name etched on the trophy at the Queens Museum! Suggested admission fee $15; proceeds support the City Reliquary Museum in Brooklyn. Free shuttle to and from beneath the Mets-Willets Point 7 train stop before and after the event (6:30- 10:30 p.m.). There will be an electrifying performance by Batala NYC – New York’s ONLY all-woman Brazilian drum corps while scores are tallied. For more information and instructions to reserve your team contact: [email protected] On Saturday, March 15, from noon to 8 p.m., ETERNiDAY: Queens Poet Lore Festival of the Language Arts is a day-long festival showcasing a diverse selection of poets, artists, musicians, performers, educators, and publishers from the borough and beyond. Curated by the current poet laureate of Queens, Paolo Javier, it features readings, panel discussions, musical performances, live film narrations and screenings, writing workshops, and a publishers’ alley. Poetsin the-Gallery events throughout the day commemorate recent exhibits at the QMA, as well as performances by the festival participants. The final schedule will be announced on Saturday, March 1. Visit the web site or call 718-592-9700. Through March 30, “Peter Schumann: the Shatterer” marks the 50th anniversary of Bread and Puppet Theater and is the first solo museum exhibition of its founder and director Peter Schumann. Bread and Puppet’s 20-foot-high puppets have towered impassively over protests and demonstrations since the Vietnam War. The exhibit consists of two new large-scale immersive installations, created specifically for the Museum’s new galleries. Schumann will be performing “Fiddle Sermons,” where he plays and speaks, on Saturday, March 15, at 4 p.m. Nassa u County Museum of Art One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor, NY www.nassaumuseum.org Admission: $10 adults; $8 seniors (62+); $4 students; $2 children (4-12); members free $2 for parking on weekends (members park for free). From Saturday, March 8 through Sunday, July 6, “Garden Party” is an exhibition exploring the imagery of fête champêtre - outdoor entertainments garden parties. Guest curators, Franklin Hill Perrell, the Museum’s former senior curator, and JoAnne Olian, curator emeritus at the Museum of the City of New York, have assembled a bouquet of paintings and objects illustrating the appeal of flowers in every season. Included are works by a range of artists, among them Louis Comfort Tiffany, Marc Chagall, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Maurice Prendergast, David Hockney, Janet Fish, Jane Freilicher, Robert Mapplethorpe and Georgia O’Keeffe, among others. Fl ushin g Town Hal 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing www.flushingtownhall.org Tickets at online box office or call (718) 463-7700 Ext. 222 Through Sunday, March 30: “The New Vision” is an exhibition of Korean folk painting, also called Minhwa. Sixty works from Baraem Art Research Institute in Korea and will give you a chance to experience the beauty of Korean folk paintings. Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, noon-5 p.m. Suggested Admission: $5; Members free On Friday, March 14 at 8 p.m. the “Trumpeters of Queens” series Part 2 showcases Queens-based musicians in the tradition of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry, with Ron Horton’s Sextet and Josh Deutsch’s Pannonia. Tickets are $15 ($10 Members & Students.) On Sunday, March 30, at 2 p.m., 2012 Latin Grammy nominee Gustavo Casenave, pianist, educator and current Composer in Residence at Flushing Town Hall, presents a lecture/demonstration on composition and improvisation. This event is free. Kupferb erg Cent er for the Arts Queens College, Flushing, NY www.kupferbergcenter.org Box Office: (718) 793-8080 On Saturday, March 8 at 8 p.m. in Colden Auditorium, The Fab Faux, “the greatest Beatles cover band – without the wigs” according to Rolling Stone, celebrate “The Beatles on Ed Sullivan” and other favorites, joined by the Crème Tangerine Strings and Hogshead Horn. Tickets are $65, $55, $45 online or by phone. On Monday, March 10 at 10:30 a.m. in Colden Auditorium, the dancers and musicians of DanceBrazil never fail to enthrall audiences with the company’s unique fusion of Afro- Brazilian movement, contemporary dance and Capoeira, the traditional dance/martial arts form that had its origins in Africa and evolved in colonial Brazil as a means of fighting enslavement. Tickets are $8, with discounts available. Call the box office for more information. From Thursday, March 13 through Sunday, March 16 in the Goldstein Theatre, the Queens College Opera Studio and Queens College Orchestra fully stage the opera, “Dialogues of the Carmelites” in French with English supertitles. Tickets range from $20 to $7 and showtimes vary by day. Call the box office for more information. On Sunday, March 16 at 3 p.m. (rescheduled from October 26, 2013) JES Entertainment presents Bobby Vinton in concert at Colden Auditorium. “The Polish Prince” appears with Jimmy Sturr and his Orchestra, as well as family members, to sing his most beloved hits and other favorites. Tickets are $65, $55, $45. Contact the box office if you previously purchased tickets.
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