Submission: The competition will consider all entries submitted up to the November 8th, 2019 with the theme “Reflections on Nature”. Entries may be brought to Newark Valley United Church of Christ, 32 S. Main Street, Newark Valley, NY on:
Sunday November 3rd between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm, and between 4:30 pm and 5:00 pm
Thursday, November 7th between 3 pm and 5 pm or
Friday November 8th, between 4 pm and 6 pm.
A reception and awards announcement will take place on Sunday, November 10th , 2019 from Noon to 2 pm.
There are three main prizes, Category 1: for artists aged 12 to 15. Category 2: artists aged 16 to 19, and Category 3, Artists Age 20 and older. (Youth Art from children 6-11 is also encouraged and will be displayed as well. )
Prizes from $50-$150 for the top 3 entries in each age category.
The Art work will be displayed from Sunday, November 10th thru Sunday December 1rst. Arrangements may be made to pick up artwork earlier, if necessary, however, we wish to keep the display up during our Annual Community Thanksgiving Day Meal if possible. All art work may be picked up after 12 pm on December 1rst. Artists have the unique opportunity to participate by creating artworks that highlight experiences or reflections upon the theme we have chosen for this inaugural year, which is: Reflections on Nature. Email cateworth@gmail.com for more information and rules. Or go to NVUCC.wordpress.comor our Facebook page, Newark Valley United Church of Christ for more information.
Come and Listen to great music Saturday, May 11th at 7:00 pm. Valley Harmony was unanimous in its decision to ask Elmira College freshman, Farrah Fiacco, to return for a second year as their guest soloist. Little did they know that besides a dynamic soprano voice, she would also have a particularly good suggestion on hand for the concert’s theme: “I figured,” she said, “that it might be a good thing—in light of today’s political climate—that all our songs focus around positivity and goodness.”
Valley Harmony’s 11th
annual community concert titled “Good Life” will do just that and will be
performed at 7:00pm on Saturday, May 11, 2019, at the Newark Valley United
Church of Christ (32 S. Main Street, Newark Valley, NY). The title is taken
from a song popularized by American pop rock group NewRepublic, recorded in
2008, and which Valley Harmony had been rehearsing at the time of Fiacco’s
suggestion.
The a cappella quintet found plenty of songs focused “around positivity
and goodness,” ranging over the past 240 years. Probably the oldest is “Amazing
Grace,” which dates back to 1779, but “Come Thou Fount” is almost as old and
almost as popular.
Besides “Good Life,” Valley Harmony will also
sing Jason Marz’s “I’m Yours,” which was also released in 2008. Sandwiched
between the oldest and the newest songs are one from the nineties, Sting’s
“Fields of Gold; four from the seventies, including John Denver’s “Annie’s Song
and James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain”; and four from the sixties, among them the
Turtles “Happy Together” and Elvis’ “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” but using the
arrangement written for the Pentatonix.
Elvis’ music will help
bridge the songs between the old and the new with his version of “Swing Low
Chariot,” which he popularized in 1960. The audience will surely tap their feet
and clap their hands to that number! Other spirituals will include “Deep River”
and “Ev’ry Time I Hear the Spirit.”
Fiacco, a Newark Valley
resident, has selected “Count on Me,” “Seize the Day” from Newsies and “Papa Can You Hear Me?” from Yentl. She will be accompanied by Endicott pianist Aric Phinney,
who will also play two piano solos, along with accompanying woodwindists Laurie
Holdridge of Johnson City and Anne Austin of Endwell on several numbers,
particularly “Deep Peace.”
Valley Harmony is
pleased to announce the addition of its newest member, Steve Palinosky of
Owego. With a BA in Applied Music, Palinosky served as a musician in the U. S.
Marine Corps for 22 ½ years before returning to Owego to work for Tioga County.
Valley Harmony includes Mike Sheldon (Berkshire) singing
tenor, George Lohmann (Berkshire) singing bass and Randy Kerr (Newark Valley)
and J. Ladd Yost (Nichols) alternating baritone and tenor. This all male quartet has done countless
engagements throughout the Southern Tier since their founding in 2007,
including church services and church and secular events in Newark Valley,
Berkshire, Richford, Waverly, Owego, Apalachin, Endicott, Vestal, Candor,
Spencer, Ithaca, Greene, Binghamton and Athens, PA. Their repertoire, as you might gather from
the songs mentioned above, consists of all sorts of a cappella music. They enjoy singing folk songs, spirituals,
barbershop, swing, pop, rock, rhythm and blues, show tunes, sacred, and even
classical music.
A free will offering will be taken. Concert proceeds benefit outreach programming
at the Newark Valley United Church of Christ.
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