“Singer-songwriter [“Diary of a Mod Housewife”]…doesn’t fully describe Rigby’s immense gifts . . .
Muldoon’s Picnic 2023
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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. -
Austin is a graduate of Catawba College whose career spans international touring, major stage productions including Cats, Showboat, and The Wiz, as well as film and commercial work. He is also the owner of Austintacious: Handmade Truffles & Chocolates in Sharon Springs and is thrilled to be playing Hoke Coleburn in Driving Miss Daisy. -
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 -
For over 30 years, violinist Chris Murphy has been dedicated to writing, performing, and recording original music. -
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. -
Sharon Springs resident Drew Taylor has performed on Broadway, in national tours, and at leading regional theaters, with credits including Sweet Smell of Success, The Secret Garden, and Annie. In addition to his work as a performer, he is an accomplished writer and creator of original musicals and theatrical works developed and produced in New York and beyond. -
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. -
Heard is a collective of musicians that bring their skills and passion for world music, jazz and improvising together to create irresistible grooves set in a unique sonic tapestry. Together for over 16 years, their vibrant sound incorporates influences from West Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean and beyond. Their debut CD Karibu reached #15 on the WorldJazz charts and 2018’s daring Flyway is similarly garnering much critical acclaim. Heard is a 5 time Eddy Music Awards nominee in the World Music category. The core ensemble includes Laura Andrea Léguia (woodwinds), Jonathan Greene (woodwinds), Bobby Kendall (bass), Brian Melick (drums), Zorkie Nelson (percussion/vocals), Felix Nelson (dance/vocals/percussion) and Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius (keyboard/vocals). We also often feature amazing additional players, including: Steve Horowitz (trumpet/flueglehorn) Augustina Nelson (dance/percussion/vocals), Fofo Neequaye (dance/percussion/vocals), Matt Steckler (woodwinds), Jason Emmond (bass). -
Ukrainian-American poet, critic, translator and currently professor at Princeton University. -
Poet and editor Jana Prikryl was born in the Czech Republic. At age six, she immigrated to Canada with her family. Prikryl earned a BA from the University of Toronto and lived in Dublin before moving to New York, where she earned an MA in cultural criticism from New York University. She is the author of the poetry collections The After Party (2016) and No Matter (2019). -
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. -
Poet, editor, essayist, playwright, and lyricist Mary Jo Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She grew up in Michigan and Maryland, and earned degrees from Harvard and Cambridge University. A former editor at the Atlantic Monthly, poetry editor at the New Republic, and co-editor of the fourth and fifth editions of the Norton Anthology of Poetry, Salter’s thorough understanding of poetic tradition is clearly evident in her work. -
2023 Sharon Springs Dance Festival & Alfred Uhry’s “Driving Miss Daisy” -
Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton, 2022) and American Faith (Sarabande Books, 2019). She is the poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and teaches poetry at New York University. -
The band performs music of Big Bands of the 30’s 40’s n’ 50’s – as well as modern tunes in Big Band style. -
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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Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, and an excerpt from which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. -
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. -
Peter Balakian is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ozone Journal (2015), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Ziggurat (2010), which wrestles with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11; and June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974–2000. His poems have been widely anthologized, including in the 1985 Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, and have been translated into several languages. -
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 Oliphant is a collective of musicians that specializes in playing original songs and accompanying spoken word lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon. -
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. -
Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene poet and novelist, was born on October 7, 1966, on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He received his BA in American studies from Washington State University in Pullman. -
Sophie Cabot Black was born in New York, New York, in 1958 and grew up on a small farm in Connecticut. She received a BA from Marlboro College in 1980 and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in 1984. -
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! -
Born in 1969 in Providence, Rhode Island, Timothy Donnelly holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA from Columbia University. Donnelly is the author of four collections of poetry. -
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.” -
Veronica Klaus is an award-winning jazz and cabaret vocalist whose work evokes the elegance of mid-20th-century swing and torch song traditions, drawing inspiration from artists like Peggy Lee and Billie Holiday. Known for her rich, expressive voice and refined phrasing, she blends jazz, blues, and classic pop into performances that feel both timeless and deeply personal, reintroducing contemporary audiences to the emotional depth of the American songbook. 
