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Hunt for Pink October by Haven James 
Music returns to the Bearsville Theater in a big way this Saturday night, October 24, with a benefit concert featuring a bevy of top-notch female talent for the WDST Pink October concert in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This grande finale event will culminate a month of activities to raise funds, which will be split between The Fern Feldman Anolik Breast Center at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston and NABCO (the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations), which networks more than 375 independent educational and consultation units. The doors open at 7 and music starts at 8 with Woodstock artists Jake kicking off the dance. Earlier this month, we profiled the music of Jake's singer/songwriter Jessie Lee Montague for her EP/CD debut party at Tinker Street Cafe; Bloodblue is her second major release and first on the independent Desert Dog Records label. A multi-talented musician, Jesse sets the tone for an evening of women players, all of whom have developed a wide range of abilities in the musical arts. Another Woodstock fave, Deni Bonet, follows Jake to the stage. Updates on Deni are that she's been working a lot in New York City doing session work and developing new material for her next recording. Also a multi-instrumentalist, Bonet has logged many performances in Woodstock and is expected to bring some surprises to the Bearsville Theater show. Headlining the event will be Mercury recording artist, Emm Gryner. What is it about Woodstock's love affair with Canadian artists? Whatever it is, Emm's trail has been due south since her beginnings in the north woods, listening to long-distance Detroit radio. Childhood piano lessons built a foundation for her musical skills, but sibling rivalry fostered her gravitation to the bass guitar, since her brothers played keyboards and straight guitar. A move to Toronto brought Emm closer to the flux and flow of the scene, and she continued to write music and began to produce as well. Founding Dead Daisy Records and studying recording and production arts, Gryner found her way back to the varietal keyboard instruments like the Hammond organ, the Mellotron, Wurlitzer, Harmonium and synthesizer, all of which opened the way for new creative material. Public is her new release on Mercury and you've probably heard the single, "Summerlong," on WDST. "Some songs are born as a result of my strangling disability to say exactly what I feel in conversation," Emm writes in her bio. "Other songs are diary entries. Some songs are pleas. Others are apologies. `Summerlong' is about letting go of one of the most important friendships of my life." Though summer is in the title, the song is actually about autumn, so it's a timely entry. There's the usual flurry about special guests, but as of press time, no details were firm enough to quote. In any case, Saturday looks to be a rich night of music for a very important effort. Tickets are $15 and can be ordered by phone by calling WDST at 679-7266 and hitting Extension #0 when prompted by the voice-phone guardian. If you prefer to buy from a human, Rhythms, Abrams, Rhino and Media Place are all selling tickets, and they'll be available at the door as long as the show is not sold out in advance. Halloween Preview: Don't forget that Woodstock National Day, otherwise known as Halloween, is fast approaching. We'll highlight the hot spots next week, and do be aware that the major happenings will have costume contests with significant treats being paid out for the best tricks. Also, catch Werewolves on the web at http://www.HVmusic.com where you'll find links to the artists we cover as well as all sorts of additional info on the entertainment scene in the Hudson Valley.
Haven James has been a consistent contributor to the Music & Arts scene around the Hudson Valley and beyond for almost a decade through his column, Werewolves of Woodstock, published weekly in the Woodstock Times A writer, musician, philanthropist, and Mac addict; he lives reclusively, high atop Overlook Mountain with his son and a menagerie of animals, both wild and domesticated. Though currently unmarried, rumors abound as to his intimate relationships with Madonna, Sandra Bernhardt, and Eli Bach; though he insists these notions to be pure hearsay. His identity has remained a mystery to all but the closest of friends as he often travels in disguise and appears unannounced and undercover at concerts and venues in a dedicated effort to get the real story.
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