About Still Alive
Verna Gillis Soundscape presents
STILL ALIVE
A celebration of life through music and stories
Saturday, November 2nd
Doors at 6pm / Show 7pm
That we're here at all is the great mystery we all have in common. Join us. While we all can and are STILL ALIVE*.
*All those participating are still alive. All those who attend are still alive.
- Jennifer Maidman and Annie Whitehead
- David Oquendo and his Afro-Cuban Groove
- Verna Gillis - SCHTIKSA. LOL -OS - LITTLE OLD LADY ON STEROIDS
- Not As Funny As It Used to be!
- Still Alive Band:
Ivan Rubenstein-Gillis - Guitar,
Craig Santiago - Drums,
Scott Petito - Bass
Length: TBA
TICKET PRICING:
•$35 for all seats; each $30 ticket includes a $5 handling & processing charge; all sales are final; no refunds nor exchanges.
About Woodstock Playhouse
During the late 1950s and into the 60s, the Woodstock Playhouse directors instituted Saturday morning children's productions & concerts as well as midnight concerts featuring such artists as Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, Tim Hardin, Pete Seeger, Happy and Artie Traum, Billy Faire, and Jack Elliot. The Band, including Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Jaime Robbie Robertson, would record their album Stage Fright at the Woodstock Playhouse with Todd Rundgren serving as sound engineer. As the 1960s evolved and Woodstock found itself at the center of a cultural revolution, the Playhouse was host to the final concert in a series of performances known as the Sound-Outs in 1968. Produced by John “Jocko” Moffitt and generally perceived as a precursor concert to the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel a year later, the Playhouse concert featured Richie Havens, with additional performances by Jerry Moore, Don Preston, Major Wiley and Bunky and Jake.
Throughout the 60s and 70s, legendary musicians and bands played at the Woodstock Playhouse, including Arlo Guthrie, Van Morrison, Orleans, Richie Havens, Full Moon, Sonia Malkine, John Hammond, Holy Moses, Dave Van Ronk, Levon and The Band, The Montgomeries, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Jim Rooney and Bill Keith, Billy Faire, and after the burning and rebuilding of the Woodstock Playhouse: Leon Russell, Cindy Cashdollar, Jack DeJohnette, Sonny Rollins, Peter Yarrow, Bethany and Rufus Cappadocia, John Sebastian, Natalie Merchant, Larry Campbell, David Bromberg, Noel Paul Stookey, The Indigo Girls, Leon Russell, Well Strung, all of the amazing Headliners at the annual String Sampler Concert, and so many more.
Additionally, the Woodstock Playhouse, established in 1938 by a member of one of Woodstock's Oldest Families, became a central hub for the launching of major careers on Broadway and in film and television, as it continues to do today.