ABOUT THE SHOWCASE
Food | Lodging | Directions | Special Exhibit
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SHOW HOURS:
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday
October 24 & 25, 2009
General Admission $10 per day
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LOCATION:
BEARSVILLE THEATER
291 Tinker Street (Route 212)
Woodstock, New York 12498
www.bearsvilletheater.com
845-679-4406
Show & Sale, Live Acoustic Music
No Personal Instruments Allowed in the Bearsville Theater
The Bearsville Theater is handicap and wheelchair accessible.
Please, no small children; no baby carriages or strollers will be permitted. No Smoking, per NY State law.
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ALCHEMY CAFE
297 Tinker Street
(Route 212)
Woodstock, New York 12498 |
www.alchemyofwoodstock.com
845-684-5068
Right next door to the Bearsville Theater, Alchemy Cafe’s stage will be open as The Overflow Opportunity Lounge, for improptu performance by Showcase attendees.
No admission; personal instruments permitted.
PLUS,
Instructional Clinics upstairs, by separate admission, advance registration required.
Please see our Music & Events page for listings and schedule.
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SPECIAL EXHIBIT
On the main stage of the Bearsville Theater - Not For Sale! Please Do Not Touch! – significant historic, vintage and contemporary guitars and spectacular stringed exotica, a mini-museum of rarities encompassing over a century of the luthiers art.
Collector and authority Jeff Doctorow is generously loaning the following instruments: Harp guitars by Joseph Bowman, Chicago, late-1800s; Knutsen; Maurer; Selmer-Maccaferri; Fred Carlson’s “New Dream”; Linda Manzer’s “Pikasso”, made for Scott Chinery. A 1937 Willi Wilkanowski archtop.
Contemporary flattops by Edward Klein; Thierry Andre; Stephan Sobel; Sheldon Schwartz “Oracle”; Michihiro Matsuda; Alan Beardsell.
Plus vintage and antique Middle Eastern ouds and lutes, loaned by Sharon Klein, and more! |
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“On Campus” in the Bearsville Theater complex:
Alchemy Café
Homemade soups, salads, wraps, lunch, dinner, late-night, coffee & tea, desserts & pastries, nothing over $10!
The Little Bear
Chinese Restaurant, lunch, dinner, take-out, full bar
http://bearsystems.com/lilbear/lilbear.html
845-679-8899
The Bear Café
One of the best restaurants in the entire Hudson Valley region. Dinner only, full bar, extensive wine list, reservations probably essential.
http://www.bearcafe.com/
845-679-5555 |
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"Walking distance":
The Cub Market, right around the corner, next to Bearsville P.O.
Delicatessen, coffee, sandwiches, snacks, etc. Open 7 AM to 7 PM
"Nearby":
The Gypsy Wolf Cantina
261 Tinker Street (Route 212)
Mexican Restaurant, dinner only, full bar, children love the Gypsy Wolf
Sunfrost Farms
217 Tinker Street (Route 212)
Farm Market, Fresh Fruits & Vegetables, charcuterie, Juice Bar serving sandwiches, salads, wraps, etc.
"In and around Woodstock, fairly complete listings at":
http://woodstockchamber.com/woodstock-new-york-ny-restaurants.html
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Woodstock, New York is in the Catskill Mountain Park, about 100 miles North of New York City (approximately 2-hour drive), and 60 miles South of Albany, NY (about 1 hour drive).
In addition to NYC area airports JFK, La Guardia (LGA), & Newark, NJ (EWR), the region can be conveniently reached by air through Albany International Airport (ALB), or Stewart International Airport (SWF) in Newburgh, NY.
BY BUS:
Adirondack-Pine Hill-New York Trailways from NYC, Albany, anywhere to Kingston, Woodstock, Bearsville http://www.trailwaysny.com
Busses will drop passengers off directly in front of Bearsville Theater complex on request; scheduled stops in Woodstock or next door at Bearsville Post Office. Passenger pick-up at Bearsville Post Office, or you can just flag down the bus. |
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BY CAR:
From North, I-87/New York State Throughway EXIT 20 (Saugerties) to Route 212 West approximately 12 miles to Woodstock; go through center of town, another 2 miles to Bearsville Theater complex on Left
From South, I-87/NYState Thruway EXIT 19 (Kingston) to Route 28 West approximately 5 miles to Right turn on Route 375 North, 3 miles to Left turn on Route 212 Woodstock; go through center of town, another 2 miles to Bearsville Theater complex on Left
From West, Route 28 East to Left turn on Route 375 North, 3 miles to Left turn on Route 212 Woodstock; go through center of town, another 2 miles to Bearsville Theater complex on Left
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