TUPPER ARTS
Monday Summer Sunset Series
Join us on Monday Evenings
Introducing the 2023 Summer Sunset Series lineup for Monday evenings! Join us every week at the Tupper Lake Sunset Stage on Mill Street in Flanders Park for a FREE evening of music.
Bring your lawn chairs and blankets!
Rain venue for the Summer Sunset Series soon to be announced.
Read a recent article on the Summer Sunset Series featured in the online music publication NYS Music:
Tupper Lake Hosts Free Music On Monday And Wednesday Nights This Summer
Michael Shofi, Brock Gonyea,
& Folkfaces
Date: Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Times:
Michael Shofi @ 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Brock Gonyea @ 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Folkfaces @ 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Firework Celebration @ 9:15 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
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Michael Shofi is a 25 year old singer songwriter living in Astoria, Queens. Specializing in nature-based indie, folk music, Tupper Lake is an incredibly inspiring place to him. He has spent summers in Tupper since he was an infant and is so glad to be sharing his music with the community. Happy Fourth of July!
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Brock Gonyea is a singer and songwriter from Tupper Lake with a classic country sound.
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Folkfaces is a New York state based roots music quartet. Folkfaces play a mix of original and traditional music. The group takes its influence from weird old american music. An energetic variety show and traveling music review. Exploring a wide range of genres including country blues, traditional jazz, rock and roll, honky tonk, western swing, bluegrass and oldtime, jugband music and more.
The music is driven by songwriter and frontman, Tyler Westcott (Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica, Kazoo) who founded the band in 2011. The rest of the band has taken many forms over the years, but the current lineup includes multi-instrumentalist and fiddler Brendan Gosson, upright bass player, Patrick Jackson, and percussionist Dan Schwach on drumkit and washboard. Each of the band’s members come from different musical backgrounds, but find common ground in the rare and captivating sound of Folkfaces.
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FREE and open to the public.
The Big Takeover
Date: July 10, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
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Fronted by the charismatic Jamaican-born singer and songwriter Nee Nee Rushie, the seven-piece New York band The Big Takeover plays original music that is rooted in and reverent toward the genres and rhythms of Jamaican pop: reggae, rocksteady, ska. They are devotees of Desmond Dekker and the way the old school did it. At the same time, The Big Takeover crosses lines and blends traditions like global pop fusionists. Their deceptively complex arrangements and big hooks connect with the spirit of Motown and the uptown sophistication of the 21st century retro soul and R&B revival scene.
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FREE and open to the public.
The Altered Tones
Date: July 17, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
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A four piece band out of Long Lake consisting of guitar, bass and drums playing a mix of acoustic and electric covers of classic alternative and rock songs.
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FREE and open to the public.
Night School
Date: July 24, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
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Alright class, settle down…Night School is a five piece dance-rock band from Tupper Lake, NY consisting of brothers Andrew and Ben McClelland, alongside Jay Martin, Micah Tyo, and Ryan Gillis. Performing some of the most popular dance hits from yesteryear and today, everything from The Beatles to Talking Heads, from Rick James to The B-52’s. Night School is guaranteed to get you moving and grooving. Class is in session.
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FREE and open to the public.
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Shakespeare in the Park:
The Tempest
Date: July 31, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
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The Tempest, a free, outdoor show at town parks, beaches, and campgrounds, is an abridged version of the Shakespeare classic by director Karen Lordi-Kirkham.
Prosper uses her magic to conjure a storm and torment the survivors of a shipwreck, including the King of Naples and Prosper's treacherous brother, Antonio. Prosper's slave, Caliban, plots to rid himself of his master but is thwarted by Prosper's spirit-servant, Ariel. This tale, one of Shakespeare’s most popular, involves magic, a deserted island, betrayal, comedy, and love.
Performances run from July 28-August 2, and venues will include Arrowhead Park in Inlet, Overlook Pavilion in Newcomb, Sabattis Pavilion in Long Lake, the Sunset Stage in Tupper Lake, the Speculator Pavilion in Speculator, and Prospect Point Cottages and Chef Darrell’s Mountain Diner in Blue Mountain Lake.
Watch for more information, including casting lineup, on the arts center’s website.
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FREE and open to the public.
Annie & The Hedonists
Date: August 7, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
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The band interprets the songs of the great female blues artists of the ‘20s, 30s & 40s: Bessie Smith, Sippie Wallace, Memphis Minnie, Billie Holiday, Rosetta Tharpe, Blue Lu Barker, Ella Fitzgerald and others. Other styles include western swing, bluesy country, and roots Americana.
Annie Rosen on lead vocals; Jonny Rosen on guitar and vocals; Peter Davis on clarinet, tenor guitar, piano, and vocals; Don Young on bass and vocals; Jerry Marotta on percussion/drums
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FREE and open to the public.
An Evening with The Silks
Date: August 14, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
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The Silks are a true grit rock and roll band out of Providence, Rhode Island. You could say The Silks are the rock and roll band from Providence. With two consecutive Boston Music Awards for “Blues Artist of the Year” 2016 and 2017 The Silks are well on their way to achieving a rightful place in rock n roll history, or at least folklore. Wait ’til you read the book, you can’t make this sh*t up!
The Silks deliver honest sounds of the blues-based rock n roll variety. You’ve got guitar pyrotechnics galore from frontman Tyler-James Kelly. Chicken-pickin’ or taking a soaring lead break, it’s quickly apparent Kelly is on a whole’nother level. It makes you wonder just when did he get his first real six-string? Then there’s the voice. Bluesy, however you want to describe it, it just sounds like ripping a telephone book in half and feels like scratching a really good itch.
The Silks nail down the groove with its rhythm section of Uncle Sam Jodrey on drums, Jonas Parmelee on bass and Johnny Trama on rhythm and lead guitar. Fast songs, slow songs, it doesn’t matter. For this humble group of seasoned players, it’s all about the dance floor, and with the right chemistry, the dance floor reciprocates.
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FREE and open to the public.
The Bob Stump Band
Date: August 21, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Location: Tupper Lake Sunset Stage, Flanders Park, Tupper Lake
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The performance is a musical experience that highlights the blues and Appalachian folk music, moving on to cover popular bluegrass, country, jazz standards and rock music.​
The band features Bob Stump on guitar and vocals, Doug Moody on fiddle, Tom White on banjo, fiddle, and mandolin, and Roy Coates on the big bass.
This ensemble of virtuoso musicians has played countless shows and is always unpredictable and exciting. Although the members of this band play with other groups, when they get together to perform they call it “The Golden Band.”
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FREE and open to the public.
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