Theatre Program

Celebrating Lucid's 20 year anniversary as a band!

Lucid was born and raised in the diverse musical culture unique to the City of Plattsburgh, New York, nestled high in the Adirondack Mountains. The area’s mix of local musicians, college students, out-of-towners and rural regulars brings together music fans from all walks of life. Two decades of progress and development has established Lucid as one of the most dynamic, hard working, finely tuned bands in the North Country. Lucid’s enlivening, powerful performances energize concert goers from open to encore. Their songs remain structurally tight and carefully woven, distinguishing them from their jam band counterparts. Still, they’re unpredictable in nature, with a knack for improv and a talent for delivery. Find yourself in the celebration that is a Lucid show, and you’ll quickly understand the infectious, unique experience that music fans are raving about. Come. Join the party!

Joining Lucid for a special performance to warm things up, are Special guests "WHEN PIGS FLY". 

When Pigs Fly is a local blues driven virtual super group, featuring members of Lucid, Shameless Strangers, and front man and local music legend George Wurster.. the man himself. 

The Coastal Suite stands as a significant achievement in the notable career of jazz composer-pianist Alan Blackman. A New Jazz Works commission by Chamber Music America with funding awarded by the Doris Duke Foundation, the full-length, multi-media work was premiered live in Baltimore and New York and featured on NPR's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Performances of The Coastal Suite have met with widespread acclaim by audiences and jazz pundits alike.

"...It's poetry in slow motion, words translated into sound..." -All About Jazz.com

“An absolutely gorgeous album, which communicates its waterside vision with stunning resonance.” said Dave Sumner from the Bird is the Worm.com.

Blackman created an evocative concept piece that explores a 24-hour tidal cycle from pre-dawn through the night at a remote ocean beach. Highly programmatic, The Coastal Suite conjures the sound-universe of the seashore, as the musicians create nautical sounds through extended techniques and expand the vocabulary of their instruments’ sonic capabilities. Augmenting Blackman’s regular trio of bassist Max Murray and drummer Frank Russo are Canadian saxophonist Jeff Antoniuk and Brazilian percussionist Rogerio Boccato. The Coastal Suite is performed with projected images of gorgeous abstract seascape paintings by the renowned Shetland Islands artist RuthBrownlee. With equal parts written and improvised, Blackman’s long-form suite features 17 continuous numbers, with titles such as “Before Dawn,” “Eddies and Pools,” “Driftwood,” “Steps in the Sand,” and “Fractured Moonlight.” In their improvisations, the musicians constantly react and respond to the changing images, as the paintings inspire them to sonically reproduce the environment that the projected images evoke.

NEW this year! We’re thrilled to offer full-day (9am-4pm) camps: ART CAMP! We have 3 options available this summer. These camps are in addition to the dozens of partial-day camps our community has enjoyed the past several years.

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an artful conversation held monthly where artists, writers, and arts professionals come together to bond, network and get out of their heads for a little while. It is a conversation; A support group; always a networking extravaganza; an experimental lab for new ideas; a place to learn and grow by leaps and bounds as an artist and a professional.

The evening's highlight will include a talk or other short production by an invited Artist, followed by conversation and critique of current works in progress.

This event is FREE and open to the public!

In STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928), Buster Keaton plays the son of a riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence) who comes home from college to help run the family business. As luck would have it, his girlfriend from school (Marion Byron) also has a father with a steamboat, who is trying to put Steamboat Bill, Sr. out of business. In the film 's climax, Buster faces a windstorm to save his father and his boat and win the heart of his girl. The film is known for what might be considered Keaton's most famous film stunt: the facade of an entire house falls on top of him while he stands in the perfect spot to pass through the open attic window instead of being flattened. In 2016, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

The film will be accompanied by renowned silent film accompanist Ben Model on the Strand’s historic Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

Ben Model is one of the nation's leading silent film accompanists, performing on both piano and theatre organ. Over the past 40+ years, he has created and performed thousands of live scores for silent films at universities, museums, and historic theaters, and is one of the few exponents of this craft who is working at it full-time. Ben is a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theatre, and he accompanies silents at classic film festivals around the USA and internationally.

Ben’s Blu-ray/DVD label Undercrank Productions works with archives and collectors to bring undiscovered gems of silent cinema to fans. Ben is a Visiting Professor of Film at Wesleyan University.  silentfilmmusic.com  @silentfilmmusic