This Sunday, KRVC, in partnership with the South Riverdale Avenue Merchants Association, will host a

block festival. Here are the details.

May 4 (noon - 4 p.m.)Riverdale Avenue, 236th-238th sts.Riverdale, New York

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This fun-f il led communit y day wil l feature l ive music , street per formers, a puppet show, local business exhibits, food specials, a bouncy castle, children’s activities, original art, and much more. We thank our sponsors, including State Senator Jef f Klein, Congress-man Eliot Engel, Assemblyman Jef frey Dinowitz, Councilman Andrew Cohen, The Tennis Club of Riverdale (TCR), TD Bank, Weicher t , Realtors-House & Home, Bedrock Preschool, Lin-da’s Jazz Nights, Friends of the

Hudson River Greenway, Sal-vatores of Soho, Yo Burger, Corner Cafe, Pizza Plus, DJ Drugs, Ginger Grill, Sothe-by’s International Realty, Tin Marin, Larry the Lock-smith, Hebrew Book Store, H&R Block, The Whole You Spa, Riverdale Art Associa-tion, Riverdale Choral So-ciety, Parents Association of PS24 and Curves. We are also grateful to Community Board 8 and the 50th Pre-cinct for making the event’s permitting possible.

Don’t Miss KRVC’s South Riverdale Avenue Block Festival

Spring 2012 Riverdale Festival

of the Arts

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Here are Some Festival HighlightsPhil Palombi

G r a m m y a w a r d - w i n n i n g ba ssist Phil Palombi is “one of the most sought after bass players in New York,” according to Steely Dan tenor saxophon-ist and renowned jazz musician Walt Weiskopf.

Since moving to New York City in 1997, Palombi has slow-ly but surely moved through t h e r a n k s o f t h e N ew Yo r k Jazz elite. His resume now in-cludes recordings and perfor-mances with Michael Brecker, Billy Har t , Joe Lovano, Dave L i e b m a n , Et t a J o n e s , M ay -nard Ferguson, Chris Pot ter, Rich Perry, Curtis Stigers, To-shiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabackin, Chucho Valdes, Mark Turner, and The Village Vanguard Or-chestra to name a few. Author

of “Scott LaFaro – 15 Solo Tran-scriptions,” in which he tran-scribed all of Scot t LaFaro’s bass solos from the Bill Evans recordings “Sunday at the Vil-lage Vanguard” and “Walt z

for Debby.” Palombi recorded the t r ibute CD “RE:Per son I Knew – A Tribute to Scott La-Faro” in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of LaFaro’s untimely death. The 12-track

recording features piano leg-end Don Friedman and drum great Eliot Zigmund. Phil was gr a n ted ac ce s s to L a Fa ro’s 1925 Prescott bass for the trib-ute, which helps to make this a

very special recording. In ad-dition to performing, Phil also has a passion for teaching that includes presentations at the

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The Phil Palombi Jazz Trio: Featuring Phil Palombi on bass;

Tony Romano on guitar; Eric Halvorson on drums

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International Society of Bass-ists convention in 2005, 2007, and 20 09, numerous ma ster classes at colleges around the world (most notably Eastman School of Music), and four arti-cles written for Double Bassist Magazine. (www.PhilPalombi.com)

Tony RomanoRounding out the tr io, we

have Tony Romano, who ha s been a vital par t of the New York City music scene for over twenty years, and Eric Halvor-son. Of Romano, Just Jazz Gui-tar magazine wrote: “His tone is beautiful and soulful, and his remarkable technique is a ser-vant to his rich musical imagi-nat ion a nd broad ha rmonic palette.”

With a wide range of play-ing styles, Romano has toured worldwide and performed and recorded with many notable Latin, jazz, pop, and Broadway artists. Romano’s guitar work can be heard on all 52 episodes of the BBC series “3rd & Bird.” He has also performed for the Discovery Channel miniseries “Going, Going, Gone!” and Na-tional Public Radio broadcasts, a s well a s NBC’s The Today Show, Telemundo, and the ABC

Morning Show. (www.TonyRo-manoMusic.com)

Halvorson has collaborated with such jazz artists as Dave L iebma n , Dave St r yker, Joe Lo c ke , B r u c e B a r t h , J a m e s Moody, R & B legend Ben E . King, and blues icon Pinetop Perkins to name a few. He has toured internationally with vo-calist Ute Lemper. Festival ap-pearances include the Montreal Jazz Festival, Norwich Music Festival (UK), Silda Jazz (Nor-way), Radio Classica (Chile), Cork Jazz Festival (Ireland), Festival de Ja zz (Colombia), Bayreuther Jazz Festival (Ger-many), Kauna s Ja zz Festival (Lithuania) and the Iowa City Jazz Festival. He has performed at New York City’s top venues, including Lincoln Center, Town Hall and jazz venues Iridium, B lue Note , Smoke and Bird -land to name a few. Eric plays PAISTE cymbals exclusively. (www.EricHalvorson.com)

Michelle DeAngelisMichelle DeAngelis is an ac-

complished pianist, singer and songwriter. She is a graduate of the conservatory of music at SUNY Purchase with a B.A. in studio composition. DeAn-gelis ha s per formed at The Bitter End, CBGB’s, The Triad Theater, Downtime, Tribecca

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Blues, Don’t Tell Mamma’s, The Danbury Music Hall, Yonkers River Fest, NYC Chamber of Commerce street fair and Purchase College. Her original music has been featured on local radio, internet radio, and television stations. Her song, “With The Angels” written for 9/11, was fea-tured on two documentary DVD’s. She was honored with a plaque and a letter of gratitude from the NYC Fire Commissioner. One of DeAngelis’ works, “Lady,” was performed by artist Anthony Rodriguez (for-mer Madonna dancer and choreographer for major pop artists) for the presi-dent of Turkey. Currently DeAngelis’ song “Alone” will be featured in an up-dated indie version of “Ro-meo and Juliet” and is be-ing recorded by a Grammy award winning engineer. A few of Michelle’s past credits as a musical direc-tor include “Peter Pan,” “Big River” and “Les Miz,” “Songs for a New World,” “Children of Eden,” “The Music Man,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “West Side Story,” “Something Funny Hap-pened on the Way to the Forum,” “Spit f ire Grill ,”

and “13”. In addition, DeAn-gelis is an accompanist for choirs and solo artists, as well as being a church or-ganist and music teacher.You can see her performing weekly at Croton Creek in Croton Falls, N.Y. or month-ly at 12 grapes in Peekskill. (www.mdeangelismusic.com)

Second StageSteve Oats

Of guitarist Steve Oates, Acoustic Beat says: “Daz-zling f ingerpicked rendi-tions of contemporary, jazz and pop tunes...Steve’s a f ine entertainer as well, and his shows are always a special event.”

Steve Oates is a solo in-strumental guitarist who has played in such places as The United Nations, The Plaza Hotel, The Tavern on the Green, The Cunard QE2, The Metropolitan Club and the Boat House in Central

Park. Locally he has played at KRVC events, the Elisa Con-temporary Art Gallery and is a regular performer at the An Beal Bocht Café. Steve has also worked professionally as an ac-tor and can be seen in the fea-ture film “Ransom.”

Puppet showKid Lancelot’s Adventures:

Once upon a time, there was a brave knight who saved the Kingdom of Lockheart. It’s up to Kid Lancelot to defeat bul-lies, help wizards, ride a dragon and save the day! This medi-eval adventure includes lots of laughter and a cast of hilarious puppet characters. (www.won-dersparkpuppets.com)

Local performing groups

• Riverdale Rising Stars Junior• Kids Rock U• Preschool of Rock• Street Performers• Dawn Jones – stiltwalking• Susan McBrien – face painting

Original artThe festival will feature orig-

inal artwork created by mem-bers of the Riverdale Art As-sociation (RAA). RAA was cre-ated in 1999 by a small group of Steve Oats

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artists for the purpose of exhib-iting, selling their work and shar-ing information about art in all its forms. The founders of RAA met in their homes and became exposed to each others’ artistic talents. It was established that there would be monthly business meetings with visiting artists, trips to muse-ums, exploring environs to sketch, paint and photography in the com-munity and beyond.

Featured artists include: • Bob Robinson• Carol Frank• Brian Allan Skinner• Lorraine Cantori-Trovato• Joan Brown Levine

• Olga Kitt• Laraine Pearson• Joyce Dutka• Beverly Joachim Barker• Aija R. Sears• Esther Wallach• Jerry Friedman • Maria Formoso • Joan O’Brien

More funStep right up under the big red

tent and join us for a bean bag toss, duck pond fishing, toss the ring, bubble machine, homemade play-dough station and more. Free prizes, giveaways and BedRock Preschool canvas bags. BedRock Preschool serves ages three months to six years old. (www.

BedRockPreschool.com)Tapas restaurant Tin Marin will

feature a performance by Flamen-co dancers, which is sure to be a big hit. The dancers will perform

to traditional Spanish folk music.The Club of Riverdale ha s

membership raffles, giveaways, chair massages and healthy snacks. Stop by and learn about

its after-school and summer pro-grams for children, and member-ship options. (www.tcr-nyc.com)

Check out www.krvcdc.org for more details.

Maria Formoso

Joyce Dutka

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