The Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet is the first performance of the 2023 Origins Cafe Concert Series. (Photo provided) Grammy Award-winning Pedro GiraudoTango Quartet Returns to Coop By IAN KENYONCOOPERSTOWN In another indisputable sign that spring is upon us, noted Latin Grammy award-winning artist Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet will return to perform at Cooperstown’s Origins Cafe on Sunday, May 7 to open the venue’s seasonal concert series. Giraudo, a native Argentine bassist and composer, frequently noted as one of the most…
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Letter from Chip Northrup Carefree Gardens + Origins = Paradise As the days grow shorter and the nights grow colder, we begin to think of heading back to Texas. But we never leave before the closing event of the season: the plant auction at Carefree Gardens on October 10, Columbus Day. One of our great pleasures at Cooperstown is our time spent at Carefree and at Origins Café, where, if I’m lucky, I get to shoot the breeze with my…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 HEART Jazz Ensemble Performs At Origins Cafe CONCERT – 5 p.m. The Cooperstown Concert Series presents ‘HEART: A Jazz Ensemble’ featuring the warm, brilliant tones of Melissa Stylianou, Godwin Louis, Chris Dingman and Ike Sturm in an enveloping and powerful quartet. Tickets, $20. Origins Cafe, 558 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Visit cooperstownconcertseries.org/heart-september-18-2022/…
Ike Sturm Returns to Origins By Evan Jagel What does it take to be a jazz musician in 2022? Not just a jazz musician, but also someone who creates bold, new art that has the power to speak to and move people from around the world? It takes much more than the ability to play at a virtuosic level. It takes the ability to forgo genre and to write, improvise and communicate from the heart. Internationally acclaimed bassist, composer, and…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, AUGUST 1 Concert at the Golf Course CONCERT FEST – 7 p.m. Enjoy the Tom Hovey Summer Music Festival. This week is a performance by the Glimmerglass Trombone Quartet. Free. Rain or Shine. Meadow Links Golf Course, 476 Co. Rd. 27, Richfield Springs. 315-858-1646 or visit www.meadowlinks.com/#5_News-and-Events…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, JUNE 13 Make a Mandala with Huntington Memorial Library CROCHET MANDALA – 6:30 p.m. Learn how to make your own crochet mandala, which will give your the skills to make wall art, Christmas ornaments and more. Basic crochet skills recommended. Will be taught by experienced knitter/crocheter Liza Lauritzen. Materials will be provided. Registration required. Presented by Huntington Memorial Library in Huntington park, Oneonta. Visit www.eventbrite.com/o/huntington-memorial-library-12633934784…
Staff Dining Picks July 29, 2021 Origins Café provides vegetarian food; Mt. Fuji has sauce with extra flavor Larissa Ryan Business Manager Mt. Fuji A nice spot to sit down for dinner, Mt. Fuji is conveniently located on Main Street in Cooperstown and has some of the most delicious food around. They also provide takeout if that’s more your speed. I recently had the chicken hibachi dinner there. It comes with a small salad to start. It’s not so filling…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JUNE 26 Jazz Concert at Origins CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Kimberley Hawkey to perform mix of songs from Jazz, Broadway, and folk. She will be joined by pianist/vocalist Loren Daniels, bassist Evan Jagels, and drummer Graeme Francis. Music charge, $15. Origins Cafe, 558 Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. 607-437-2862 or visit www.celebrateorigins.com…
Best Bets Oneonta architectural tour, the circus, jazz concert at Origins Explore the architectural gems found in the city of Oneonta. Trolley tour will be led by Dr. Cindy Falk, professor of material culture at SUNY Oneonta, and will visit the historic districts of Downtown Oneonta and Walnut Street, featuring examples from the first European settlement to the boom of the Victorian era, when the railroad came to town, and more. Registration, masks and proof of COVID-19 vaccination are required.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Pulitzer-Winning Author Akhtar To Give ‘Common Read’ Lecture LECTURE – 7 p.m. Novelist, playwright (Pulitzer-Prize winning play “Disgraced”), screenwriter, actor Ayad Akhtar presents a lecture on this year’s “Common Read” – the Mills Distinguished Lecture – this evening at the Dewar Arena, Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta.…