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CNN commentator Tara Setmayer, viral dance sensations Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies, and operatic soprano Kearstin Piper Brown will be featured at Rochester Institution of Technology’s annual Expressions of King’s Legacy celebration Jan. 31. The Expressions of King Legacy program is ...

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A play center for children seven and under will hold its grand opening at the Whitney Town Center in Perinton this weekend. LADYBUGS Play, at 650 Whitney Road, just outside the village of Fairport, has scheduled its grand opening Saturday ...

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Rochester Music Hall of Fame on Feb. 1 will debut a new event that will look at how musicians and industry professionals craft books about the world of music. Books Backstage will host multi-platinum musician Lou Gramm, founding member of ...

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Rochester Contemporary Art Center and Genesee Land Trust will celebrate the connection between artists and the changing nature around them in a new exhibition slated to open Feb. 1. “Landscapes and the Unbuilt” will reflect artist interactions with land and ...

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The owners of the Record Archive have won a national music retailing award that will be presented in Nashville in May. Richard Storms and Alayna Alderman have been named the 2019 Independent Spirit Award winners by the Music Business Association. ...

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“Shapely,” a show of recent paintings and prints by Alan Singer, comes to AXOM Gallery for a six-week engagement. The works of Singer celebrate a blend of art and geometry, with design and color offering guiding principles. His new work ...

The Rochester Women’s Community Chorus winter concert, Journeys in Song, will take place on Jan. 12 at the Asbury First Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, ...

A sculpture by former Rochester artist Scott Small has been permanently installed on the grounds of the Metropolitan. Dancing Bear, a large bronze sculpture dedicated to Small’s late mother, Rochester artist Edith Lunt Small, commemorates her love of animals and ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology opens a new gallery in downtown Rochester tonight (Friday, Dec. 7) with an exhibit featuring two of its stellar artists. The RIT City Art Space is in Sibley Square at Liberty Plaza and its first exhibit ...

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The 2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival has booked its first two headline acts: the Steve Gadd Band and George Benson will play the 18th annual festival, which next year runs from June 21 through June 29. Gadd, a Rochester ...

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An Ontario County art gallery this month will begin an after school program to bring art to children, and children to art. Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs will begin “The After School Art Experience,” a four-week immersive art program ...

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There’s now a reason to go to the state fair in the winter: a miniature, indoor version of the Great New York State Fair in February was announced Tuesday. Winter Fair 2019 will include rides, games, sausage sandwiches and fried ...

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The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival this weekend will host the 2018 U.S. Association of Fringe Festivals annual conference. “This is a real honor for us, both for our festival and for our city,” festival producer Erica Fee said in a ...

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A world renowned composer will join the Eastman School of Music this month as this year’s Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. Charles Wuorinen will be in residency at Eastman from Nov. 12 through 16. His visit will culminate in ...

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You might call it Hollywood East. Or the Big Apple North. But the dozens of people who turned out for the grand opening Tuesday call the new building at Rochester Institute of Technology the MAGIC Spell Studios. The 52,000-square-foot, $31 ...

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