Baring Teeth, Cognizant, Waldhexen, Hallucination Realized musical performances
2019-08-11 21:00 - 23:00 (America/New_York) | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
[source: Facebook, 2019-Aug-5]

Pavarotti screening (2019-Aug-12 @ 7 p.m.)
2019-08-12 19:00 - 20:54 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Pavarotti (Ron Howard, U.K. / U.S. 2019, 114 min.) "A look at the life and work of opera legend, Luciano Pavarotti." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2019-Aug-7]

Wild Rose screening (2019-Aug-12 @ 8:55 p.m.)
2019-08-12 20:55 - 22:36 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
The Cinema will screen Wild Rose (Tom Harper, U.K. 2018, 101 min.) "A troubled young woman from Glasgow, Scotland dreams of becoming a Nashville country star." [source: Cinema Theater coming soon page, 2019-Aug-7]

Clibbus, Yippeekiyay, AreTheYesTheyAre musical performances
2019-08-12 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Pavarotti screening (2019-Aug-13 @ 7 p.m.)
2019-08-13 19:00 - 20:54 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Genesee Reading Series: Chen Chen and Catherine Faurot
2019-08-13 19:30 - 20:30 | Writers & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Now in its 36th year, the Genesee Reading Series is a smorgasbord for your literary palate. On the second Tuesday of each month, listen to two authors read their work up close and personal in the intimate Performance Space upstairs. By the end of the year, you will have feasted on the work of 24 regional authors (some prominent, some emerging; writers of fiction, poetry, essay, creative nonfiction, memoir). Stay afterward and talk to the authors while eating cookies. $3 for members, $6 for the general public.
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Bloodaxe Books has recently published the U.K. edition. Chen's work has appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Best American Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Saltonstall Foundation. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a Ph.D from Texas Tech University. Currently he teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence. Photo credit Mike Lovett.
Catherine Faurot's first poetry book, Plow Harrow Seed, was published in 2006 by Foothills Publishing and her second book, Theology of the Broken, is forthcoming from Eyewear Publishing. She completed an MFA degree at Bennington College and holds an Ma from Dartmouth in creative writing. Her poems have been published in The Colorado Review, Free State Review, The Christian Century, The New Orphic Review, Westchester Review and Classical Outlook, among other publications. Ms. Faurot taught creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and the Rochester Institute of Technology and currently works at the Susan B. Anthony Center at the University of Rochester.

[source: Writers and Books website, 2019-Aug-5]

Wild Rose screening (2019-Aug-13 @ 8:55 p.m.)
2019-08-13 20:55 - 22:36 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Pavarotti screening (2019-Aug-14 @ 7 p.m.)
2019-08-14 19:00 - 20:54 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Jontavious Willis musical performance
2019-08-14 20:00 - 23:00 | Abilene Bar and Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Every generation or so a young bluesman bursts onto the scene. Someone who sends a jolt through blues lovers. Someone who has mastered the craft for sure, but who also has the blues deep down in his heart and soul.
At the age of 22, bluesman Jontavious Willis may be the one. "That's my Wonderboy, the Wunderkind," Taj Mahal said after inviting Jontavious to play on stage in 2015. "He's a great new voice of the twenty-first century in the acoustic blues. I just love the way he plays."
And four years later he was playing on Taj Mahal's stage. "When I heard him play I said to myself: this is how the blues, as I know it, is going to stay alive," said Paul Oscher.
"Only a few like him emerge every decade or so, when even the most hard core blues fans realize immediately that this is the real deal," writes Frank Matheis in Living Blues Magazine.
Hailing from Greenville, Ga., Jontavious grew up singing gospel music at the Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church with his grandfather. At the age of 14, he came across a YouTube video of Muddy Waters playing "Hoochie Coochie Man" and was hooked. That's when he set his course on the blues. All types — Delta, Piedmont, Texas, gospel. As a fingerpicker, flat-picker and slide player. On guitar, harmonica, banjo and cigar box.

[source: Bop Shop website, 2019-Aug-5]

Wild Rose screening (2019-Aug-14 @ 8:55 p.m.)
2019-08-14 20:55 - 22:36 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Inertia, White Tides, Plagues of Endeavor musical performances
2019-08-14 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Twighlight Tour
2019-08-15 18:30 - 19:45 | Mt. Hope Cemetery North Gatehouse, 791 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
This 75-minute tour includes some topics covered on Sunday North Section tours as well as new material, on an alternate route in the North Section.
[source: Friends of Mt. Hope website, 2019-Aug-5]

Pavarotti screening (2019-Aug-15 @ 7 p.m.)
2019-08-15 19:00 - 20:54 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Songwriters Circle, Katy Wright musical performance
2019-08-15 20:00 - 22:00 | Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Katy Wright is the Rochester Resident for August. For her second week, she will be hosting a Songwriters Circle. An intimate evening of Katy and some of her friends playing music for you.
[source: Facebook, 2019-Aug-5]

Wild Rose screening (2019-Aug-15 @ 8:55 p.m.)
2019-08-15 20:55 - 22:36 | Cinema Theatre, 957 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States

Opening Reception: First Light
2019-08-16 17:00 - 20:30 | Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Image City Photography Gallery will host an Opening Reception for First Light, on display through September 1.
Six women veterans share their stories through black and white photographs and writing. First Light is the culminating event of a 12-week photography and writing program, Eyes Front, at Flower City Arts Center.
Eyes Front is a 12-week photography and writing program for women combat veterans; an opportunity for them to express, both visually and in writing, their unique experiences and to share their stories with the community.

[source: Flower City Arts Center website, 2019-Aug-5]

The Endless Mountain Derelicts, Whirlin Jack, Late Earth musical performances
2019-08-16 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Real Steam Train Rides (2019-Aug-17 @ 10 a.m.)
2019-08-17 10:00 - 16:00 | Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, 282 Rush Scottsville Rd., Rush, New York, 14534, United States
This summer the hills will once again echo with steam whistles when the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum hosts real steam train rides on August 17-18 and 24-25. The museum will host Viscose Co. No. 6, a vintage steam locomotive that once operated for the American Viscose Co. in Roanoke, Virginia. If you've heard of Thomas the Tank Engineâ„¢, this is his real life cousin!
Enjoy a ride in our new open-air touring car so you can experience all the sights and sounds of the steam locomotive as it works hard to pull against the steep grades. Seats are also available inside our caboose if you prefer a quieter ride. Thanks to the cooperation of the neighboring New York Museum of Transportation, visitors will be able to enjoy an extended two-mile round trip through our bucolic museum grounds.
Live entertainment will be provided by banjo player Mike Kornrich. Tour our museum exhibits and enjoy our large collection of historic trains. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Our museum gift shop is stocked with many railroad souvenirs for train buffs of all ages. Train rides depart every 45 minutes. All Aboard!

[source: Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum website, 2019-Aug-5]

Theme Tour: Wakes and Tears: 19th Century Mourning Ritual
2019-08-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Mt. Hope Cemetery North Gatehouse, 791 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
This new tour explores the Victorians' view of death and their expressions of grief through socially expected rituals and customs. The tour includes: the "Good Death," wakes and funerals, mourning etiquette and clothing, gravestone symbolism, and epitaphs.
[source: Friends of Mt. Hope website, 2019-Aug-5]

70th Anniversary Party in the Parking Lot
2019-08-17 17:00 - 20:00 | Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St., Rochester, New York, 14605, United States
[source: Rochester City Newspaper events calendar, 2019-Aug-5]

Onesie, Forevers, Taylor Kelly, Full Body musical performances
2019-08-17 21:30 - 23:30 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

Real Steam Train Rides (2019-Aug-18 @ 10 a.m.)
2019-08-18 10:00 - 16:00 | Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, 282 Rush Scottsville Rd., Rush, New York, 14534, United States

North Section Public Tour (2019-Aug-18 @ 2 p.m.)
2019-08-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Mt. Hope Cemetery North Gatehouse, 791 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, New York, 14620, United States
This overview tour is a two-hour walk of approximately one mile. It includes the graves of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, as well as topics of local history, horticulture, geology, architecture, monument symbolism, and more. Please note that in addition to paved roads the route includes some hills and uneven terrain, grassy areas, and dirt paths.
[source: Friends of Mt. Hope website, 2019-Aug-5]

Bare Walls, The Joke's on Us, Make It Stop musical performances
2019-08-18 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States

The Birdcage screening
2019-08-19 19:00 - 20:57 | Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd., Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Come as you are! Join Geva and ImageOut as we screen the 1996 box office hit, The Birdcage, starring Nathan Lane and Robin Williams. After the film, stay for a conversation with director of Geva's production of La Cage Aux Folles, Melissa Rain Anderson, and members of the cast.
[source: Geva Theatre Center website, 2019-Aug-5]

Death Valley Girls, Mike Bruno, John Markow musical performances
2019-08-19 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
Death Valley Girls – At the core of Death Valley Girls, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel channel a modern spin on Fun House's sonic exorcisms, ZZ Top's desert-blasted riffage, and Sabbath's occult menace. On their third album Darkness Rains, Death Valley Girls churn out the hypercharged scuzzy rock every generation yearns for, but there is a more subversive force percolating beneath the surface that imbues the band with an exhilarating cosmic energy.
[source: Facebook, 2019-Aug-5]

Dinner with the Community (2019-Aug-20 @ 6 p.m.)
2019-08-20 18:00 - 21:00 | Gandhi Institute (M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence), 929 S. Plymouth Ave., Rochester, New York, 14608, United States
Join us for our "Dinners with the Community" series as part of this year's season for nonviolence!
Let's connect, talk, mourn, celebrate, exchange stories, create ideas, dream, and get to know each other over a nice shared meal! Bring a dish if you can, but if you can't don't worry, we'll be cooking up a few of our own. Participation is donation based, just give what you can. Everyone is welcome — all we ask is that you bring curiosity, respect, and an appetite!

[source: M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence website, 2019-Aug-5]

Paul Cebar and Tomorrow Sound musical performance
2019-08-20 21:00 - 23:00 | Abilene Bar and Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester, New York, 14604, United States
Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound bring forth a funky, lyrically charged racket that is explosive, yet intimate.
Taking cues from the dance bands of western Louisiana (and his native Midwest,), the streets (and 45's) of New Orleans, touring African and Caribbean combos and the soul, funk and blues of his youth, Paul Cebar is a masterful synthesist of rhythmic culture. His time spent in his second home of New Orleans, as a musicologist in Florida, and as a journeyman wanderer in Cuba, is reflected in his musical worldview.
At the core is gifted songwriting, and the company Paul keeps bears it out: Bonnie Raitt, Nick Lowe, Chris Smither, John Hiatt and Cesar Rosas are among his friends and admirers.
Tomorrow Sound are an elite crew. Drummer Reggie Bordeaux, New Orleans native percussionist Mac Perkins, and bassist Mike Fredrickson, throw down some of the best dance grooves in the business. Multi-instrumentalist Bob Jennings adds the luxury of implying a much larger ensemble with his multi-hued contributions on keys and reeds.

[source: Abilene Bar and Lounge website, 2019-Aug-5]

Steve Katz musical performance
2019-08-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York, 14618, United States
Legendary guitarist Steve Katz is or at least was definitely a rock star: a pioneer of the blues-rock genre with his early 1960s band, the Blues Project; a founder in the late 1960s of the groundbreaking and hugely popular jazz-rock big band Blood, Sweat and Tears; and the producer of Lou Reed's best-selling and still-influential live LP Rock 'n' Roll Animal (as well as its follow-up Sally Can't Dance, Reed's only top-10 album). Katz engagingly recounts fascinating stories in an insightful, intelligent, sometimes wistful and sometimes funny style that makes this one of the few rock memoirs worth reading from beginning to end. Highlights include his early days getting lessons from blues guitar genius Rev. Gary Davis in a "little clapboard shanty" in the South Bronx; the birth of Blood, Sweat and Tears despite Katz's contentious relationship with co-founder and Dylan collaborator Al Kooper ("Al never liked my guitar playing and I never liked his voice"); the phenomenal success with Kooper's replacement singer, David Clayton-Thomas of BS&T's second self-titled LP with hits such as "Spinning Wheel"; and later, "David's transformation from soul singer to slinger of schmaltz." Katz also reveals that the audience sound on Reed's live LP was lost and then replaced by the audience track from a John Denver live LP, a priceless story for all Reed fans or detractors. — Publisher's Weekly, May, 2015
[source: Bop Shop website, 2019-Aug-5]

Jan the Actress, The Warp/The Weft, Cavalcade musical performances
2019-08-21 21:00 - 23:00 | Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, 14607, United States
