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The distinguished guests we’ve hosted in Sharon Springs over the years
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"Singer-songwriter ["Diary of a Mod Housewife"]…doesn’t fully describe Rigby’s immense gifts . . . Muldoon's Picnic 2023 -
Angela Easterling brandishes her songwriting chops with rootsy, refreshing, homespun tunes. -
Anne Waldman is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She has published over forty books of poetry. -
Billy Collins is perhaps the best know poet in the US. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, former US poet Laureate, distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York and Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Winter Park Institute of Rollins College. -
Mr. Gasparini currently serves as a Consultant at NeoGenomics Laboratories. Previously, he served and retired as President and Chief Scientific Officer and member of the Board of Directors. -
Historic performance from Klinkhart Hall; folk singer, song writer, collector of old songs, and popular radio entertainer. -
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, Artistic Directors 2022 Sharon Springs Dance Festival -
Poet, lyricist, librettist, visual artist and professor, Dora Malech is the author of four collections of poetry. -
J. B. Goss, PhD., R.Ph., CPS is a neuroscientist and science blogger who lectures and consults internationally on both human consciousness and neuroscience. -
Dr. Richard Pfau presently teaches the history of U.S. foreign policy at Hartwick College. -
Ellen Bass was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey. She received a BA from Goucher College and an MA in creative writing from Boston University, where she studied with Anne Sexton. -
Erica Jong is a celebrated poet, novelist & essayist with over twenty-five published books that have been influential all over the world. Her most popular novel, Fear of Flying, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013. -
Francesca Zambello is the Artistic and General Director of the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown NY. -
Ukrainian-American poet, critic, translator and currently professor at Princeton University. -
Celebrated author of eight novels and founder of BOOKTHEWRITER, a New York City based service that offers "Pop-Up Book Groups" where readers can discuss books with their authors. -
Sharon Springs Poetry Festival 2022 “…seeing, reading, writing, translating are to me inextricable modes of being and thinking.” -
Salinas, California native whose artwork can best be described as 'giant cut-out art', ordinarily viewed from the comfort of your automobile. For the sake of a title that people can relate to, he calls himself a muralist . . . -
Sharon Springs Poetry Festival 2022 Novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist -
Kat Kinsman is Senior Editor of Food and Drinks for Extra Crispy, a food website devoted to the joys of breakfast. -
Poet and memoirist, author of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, listed in Publishers Weekly, Top 10 Poetry Books of 2023 -
Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, including, Foreign Bodies (2020); Brain Fever (2014), and Toxic Flora (2010), The narrow Road to the Interior (2006), and The Unbearable Heart (1996). -
Award winning director, storyteller, producer and accomplished visual designer. -
Poet, teacher, and editor from Cherry Valley, New York, Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets: A Love Story. "An astounding debut." The New York Times Book Review -
Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of five collections of poetry. -
Mark Doty is a renowned author of four memoirs and nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane, published in 2018. -
2023 Sharon Springs Dance Festival & Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" -
Michael Dickman earned a BA at the University of Oregon and received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. He now teaches poetry at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. -
Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently BLACKACRE (Graywolf Press 2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. -
Nancy DiPace Pfau grew up in Sharon Springs. She received a BA in History from Syracuse University and a Masters in the Teaching of History from Columbia University.
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Owen Nied is a 22-year old singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. As a solo artist, he performs high-energy, jazz -infused rock, blues and hip-hop was soulful vocals and virtuosity guitar playing. -
Paul Muldoon is an international award-winning poet, professor of poetry, as well as an editor, critic, and translator. He is also the founder of the Sharon Springs Poetry Festival. -
Paula Petry, PhD, is an author, speaker, presenter, and energy medicine practitioner. -
Musicians Peter, Paul & George in an age-old tradition of a hoedown with live & lively fiddle music. -
Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, translator, teacher, and speaker. His first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism—and such national enthusiasm in response—that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. -
Rogue OliphantChris HarfordRay KubianDavid Mansfield and Cáit O'RiordanWarren ZanesPaul MuldoonMuldoon's Picnic Rogue Oliphant is a collective of musicians that specializes in playing original songs and accompanying spoken word lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon. The band recorded I Gave the Pope a Rhino in 2016, followed by Sadie & the Sadists in 2019. The band toured Ireland with "Muldoon's Picnic" in 2017, 2019, and again in the summer of 2022 before returning for its tenth season at the Irish Arts Center in New York City. The band previously appeared in Sharon Springs with Mr. Muldoon in 2019 and 2021, before arriving with "Muldoon's Picnic" in September 2022, returning in September 2023 In addition to Paul Muldoon, the September 2023 Sharon Springs lineup includes Chris Harford (electric & acoustic guitar & vocals), Ray Kubian (drums & vocals), David Mansfield (electric guitar, fiddle), Cáit O'Riordan (electric bass & vocals), and Warren Zanes (electric & acoustic guitar & vocals). -
Multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, translator, and journalist. -
Perking ears and turning heads with his Soulful melodies and acoustic-inspired rock lines, Ryan Ledick is in his own league . . . -
Shane McCrae teaches at Columbia University and is the author of seven poetry collections, including Sometimes I Never Suffered (2020), and The Gilded Auction Block (2019). -
Our friend and neighbor Sharon Jones passed away on November 18, 2016. Just two months earlier she arranged a showing of the new documentary film, "Miss Sharon Jones!" as a fundraiser for the Arts Center during the Sharon Springs Harvest Festival Weekend. -
Poet, literary critic, and Harvard University professor, Stephanie Burt is “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” -
Author of five novels, including the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction for Trust Exercise. Muldoon's Picnic 2023 -
Sharon Springs Poetry Festival 2022 Poet, essayist, educator, and MacArthur Fellow -
The Terry Gordon Quintet performs creative original compositions and adventurous jazz improvisations. -
Performing "Shakespeare is for Lovers" August 5, 6, & 7, 2022 at 2:00 PM in Chalybeate Park -
A dance/theater company that is a multi-media artistic venture -
The most famous composer to appear at Klinkhart Hall . . . he inspired Dizzy Gillespie, Elton John, and T. Bone Burnett. And now he will inspire you! -
Tracy K. Smith is the author of four collections of poetry, including "Life on Mars," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. In 2017 and again in 2018 she was named US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. -
"A new and better quartet . . . no need to travel to the Capital District to hear a high level of performance."
