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September 28-29, 12:30-5pm
EVENTS @ PELHAM ART CENTER INCLUDE
Live Music, Habitat for Artists, & Convergency
What's ArtsFest? New Rochelle Council on the Arts' annual cultural festival ArtsFest gives visitors the opportunity to explore all the cultural venues in New Rochelle and Pelham. The weekend-long celebration includes art installations in traditional spaces and downtown windows, tours of artist's studios, live music and performances, delicious food, eclectic shopping and a free "Culture Trolley" to take visitors from stop to stop. For info on all events click here.
PELHAM ART CENTER EVENTS
 IN THE COURTYARD
MUSIC
Saturday, September 28 2-3pm- Small Talk
Genre: Bluegrass/folk-rock For fans of: bluegrass and a good time Small Talk is an all girls, Brooklyn-based bluegrass, folk, indie-rock five piece. Stomping, clapping, and yodeling all the way home. listen watch
4-5pm- Cornell Brothers
Genre: Original Acoustic American Roots Music For fans of: Bluegrass, The Band, The Stanley Brothers, CSNY, Walt Whitman Original songs of redemption and hope played on: fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, upright bass, harmonica, sometimes lap steel and piano, as well as a pared down drum kit that helps them rock and roll. listen
 Sunday, September 29
1-2:30pm- Westchester Harp Ensemble
Westchester Harp Ensemble was founded by Lois Colin in 2004 and is influenced by Celtic music.
3-3:45pm- Kings
Genre: Country
For fans of: Dixie Chicks, Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco, Jackson Browne, Fleet Foxes, Dolly Parton
Kings is a folk/country trio based in Brooklyn. We draw inspiration from American roots music.
listen
4-5pm- Jim Greene & Paul Ryan
Jim Greene sings, writes songs, and plays the bass. Influenced by folk-rock writers like John Hiatt, Jackson Browne and John Prine. The words and music are thick with emotion, and evoke moods and places that we all seem to know, or want to visit. listen Paul Ryan is an Irish-born singer and guitarist. With songs of life, love, and living, he is inspired by the music of Tom Waits, Tim Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, The Beatles, and more.
 IN THE COUTRYARD
HABITAT FOR ARTISTS If you haven't experienced it yet, stop by this weekend September 28, 2013 Simon Draper- come speak with the creator of Habitat for Artists on site Saturday from 1-5pm Lauren Jo (see image) 12:30-5pm Experience Writer's Block on Saturday Objects in Existential Crisis: Writer's Blocks The visual pun of the writer's blocks combine the imagery of the iconic concrete cinderblock used for constructing foundations for buildings, with less solid writing materials. The idea is to create a physical manifestation of the intangible notion of writer's block; vacillating between the feelings of frustration and the pressure to create. Visitors to the space are free to use the blocks to write and draw on the paper-lined walls, floors, and tabletops of the space, while the awkward size and shape of the writing utensils creates an involuntary choreography by exaggerating the normal motions of writing on paper. September 29- October 6 (new dates) Andrea Stanislav + Jarod Charzewski Bring an item to exchange with the artists
The public is invited to take the items we place in compartments -- but must leave something in return. We will recycle/transform what the public leaves for us into a new art object etc. to be placed once again in the exterior drawers and cabinets, thus creating an accumulative and circular process of recycling and making.
 IN THE GALLERY
ConvergencyA group exhibition of sculpture and installation by contemporary mid-career artists addressing narratives related to science and technology. Curator Jeffrey Mongrain is an internationally recognized artist and Head of MFA Sculpture at Hunter College in NYC. 
Upcoming
Scottish Folk Arts Event
Performance by North Sea Gas October 5, 2013, 2-3:30pm FREE Listen to and learn about traditional Scottish folk music. North Sea Gas is currently on a North American tour from Edinburgh, Scotland, "introduc(ing) audiences to the wider world of the folk tradition and its riches" (John O'Regan, Living Tradition Magazine). At the Pelham Art Center event, North Street Gas will share the history and origins of the traditional songs they perform - a part of the oral history of Scotland -- and identify Scottish words and terminology. After the concert, the musicians will be available to speak with anyone curious about Scottish culture, music, history and the instruments used during the performance. For more information about NSG visit www.northseagas.co.uk  Sign up when you stop by for ArtsFest!
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