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Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) is a large amphitheatre located in Saratoga Springs, New York, on the grounds of Saratoga Spa State Park. It presents summer performances of classical music, jazz, pop and rock, country, comedy, and dance.
The Saratoga Foothill Club has played a role in the community's social history. In 1927, club members raised $12,000 (equivalent to $210,483 in 2023) to fund the construction of the Saratoga Village Library, the first library in Saratoga. [8] The club has been in continuous service as a women's club, while also serving the community gatherings ...
The Embers was a 1950s and 1960s-era New York City restaurant and nightclub formerly located at 161 East 54th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues. [1] It was opened in late 1951 by former jazz musician Ralph Watkins, [2] who had also been involved with clubs such as Bop City and Royal Roost, and featured many notable jazz acts over the years, including Marian McPartland, Dorothy Donegan ...
The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs. Today, men are admitted as guests. [2]
In 1923 it was sold to Matthew J. "Matty" Dunn, a noted New York nightclub owner. In 1925 a raid found that Riley's had "nearly 100 tables, a large orchestra and thirty negro waiters." [11] In 1931 Riley's burned and was sold in 1932 to "Doc" Farone who rebuilt it, and renovated it in art deco style between 1934 and 1936. Dunn continued to ...
It met first at the Cosmopolitan Club (New York City) (a women's club) and met four to five times a year at multiple locations. [16] Membership was capped at 40 members by the 1950s; members included Ruth S. Granniss, who was librarian to the Grolier Club. [17] [18] Jamaica Women's Club, Jamaica, Queens; Manor Club, Pelham Manor
The Flurry Festival (previously the Dance Flurry Festival and often abbreviated to just the Flurry or Flurry) is an annual weekend festival held in February in Saratoga Springs, New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The festival includes one of the largest contra dances in the U.S., as well as other types of traditional folk dance and music , and draws ...
Ziegfeld Theatre, New York City Sportin' Life [96] [97] 1967 Hello, Dolly! St. James Theatre, New York City Horace Vandergelder Cast replacement in November 12, 1967 [98] 1973–1974 The Pajama Game: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City Hines 1976–1977 Bubbling Brown Sugar: ANTA Playhouse, New York City Calloway provided music [98] 1986 ...