Micheal Krause’s New Release

Agujero Azul

I just wanted to follow up on the record I released this past May with an easy-access YouTube link. If you haven’t downloaded it yet this is an easy ‘one-click’ chance to take a quick listen to it:

It’s also in higher fidelity there than the playback option provided on Bandcamp (where it’s parked/you can download the record in the higher AIFF or WAV format: https://mikekrauseandthethirdexpression.bandcamp.com/album/instrumental-americana). The project was done with the help of some very talented friends (more info on them below) and I hope you enjoy it/let me know what you think! 

Mike K.

Mike Krause & The Third Expression explore musical territory ranging from classic Americana, Rock, Noir Jazz and Cinematic soundscapes to a diverse array of wider influences. ‘Instrumental Americana’, the 2024 album of Mike Krause penned and produced original compositions, features NC heavyweights Dan Davis (drums), E. Scott Warren (bass) and special guest John Neff of Mike Mill’s ‘R.E.M. Explored’, The Bad Ends (w/R.E.M.’s Bill Berry), Booker T. Jones (the Grammy winning album ‘Potato Hole’ featuring Neil Young), Bloodkin, Drive-By Truckers, Japancakes among others on pedal steel. The album along with more information is available at:

https://mikekrauseandthethirdexpression.bandcamp.com/album/instrumental-americana

Mike Krause | Co-Director/Instructor

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Apartment in Italy for rent

From Kiki Nwokoye <nkiruka30 at yahoo.com>

APARTMENT VISTA AZURRA
It is a 2 br / 1 bath, located in the town of Sala Comacina on the western shore of Lake Como in northern Italy (Lombardia), an hour’s drive from the Milan Malpensa airport.
 
If anyone is ever interested to rent it, please contact Kiki (nkiruka30 at yahoo.com) first as we will provide a 10% discount to MacMahaners during the season, and 50% in off-season (Nov 1-February 28).  Please check availability on the website first.

Source: Property

Current Issue of WoodenBoat Magazine – Ellery Brown

Ellery Brown,  former SICO summer worker,  and the Hylan & Brown boat shop in Brooklin, Me. are featured in a cover story in the July/August edition of WoodenBoat magazine.

The article is an extensive review of the career of boatbuilder Doug Hylan, with many illustrations demonstrating his signature adaptations of classic working boats to pleasure boating. The cover is a photograph of Gatsby, a 26-foot power cruiser based on a concept by Ellery and construction drawings by his partner and mentor.

Check out Ellery & co. at http://www.dhylanboats.com/

WoodenBoat magazine Source: Current Issue of WoodenBoat Magazine | WoodenBoat Magazine

Janet Stebbins, chairwoman of the college’s governing board

PORTLAND — Members of the senior college at the University of Southern Maine are so enthusiastic about the institution that it’s grown into a vibrant, thriving community of engaged learners almost entirely by word of mouth. “They’ll put you in a car, drive you in to get registered and introduce you to everyone. It’s wonderful,” said…

Source: OLLI at 20: Still engaging, inspiring, teaching Portland-area seniors – The Forecaster

Murray Zimiles’ Show

When artist, Murray Zimiles was growing up rough in Brooklyn, the son of impoverished immigrants, the last thing he could have dreamed of was the style, colors, beauty and traditions of fox hunting.
When he and his wife, artist, Martha Zimiles, finished working on their fixer-upper on Charlie Hill Road in Millerton, and finally moved in, they were shaken out of bed on their very first morning by the clatter of hooves and the baying of hounds as the Millbrook Hunt rallied below their window. They were sure they were hallucinating. That was in 1973.
Farm animals and horses have surrounded them ever since, but Murray was focused in his art career on other subjects and on the formal concerns germane to a contemporary artist . His work has been sold and exhibited around the world and is in many collections and museums. Most recently he had one-person shows in Paris and in Chelsea, NY.
Being an artist meant getting to Europe, and other countries, as often as he could and he became acquainted with the pageantry, rivalry and even danger of the famous horse race around the campo in the Tuscan city of Siena., called “The Palio”.
All his artistic life Zimiles has been challenged by the difficulty of showing movement on a two-dimensional canvas. Four-legged creatures lend themselves well to this exploration.
After painting several canvasses showing the whirl and medieval pagentry of the Palio, it dawned on him, one Fall morning as the hunt gathered again by his house, that there was action, grace, movement and tradition enough right here. Thus began his fox hunting series. What he did not want to do was follow the venerable and popular tradition of English hunting prints. Rather he turned his contemporary eye on the landscape, the riders, hills, fences, hounds, barns and wood lots of our own Dutchess County; tossing them into different angles of perspective and using overlapping images to show movement. Just as he had sought to reinvent landscape painting for at least eighteen years before that, he created works unlike anything done on the subject. They are perfectly readable as images of the hunt, but entirely new.
The 15 large paintings will be on exhibit at The Warner Gallery at The Hollbrook Arts Center at The Millbrook School from June15- August 1. The opening reception is from 5-7 p.m. on June 15.