UNITED BY NATURE WITH JEFF HAYNES & FRIENDS

Annual Performance - September 29, 2018

Manitoga’s 2018 Annual Performance honors the 50th anniversary of Wright’s Summer in the Parks – a program he launched with the National Park Service to invite the Washington D.C. community into the city’s parks and green spaces through multi genre music and dance, play, poetry, and recreation. The year was 1968. Across the country, people demonstrated against war and threats to civil liberties. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated. Olympic medalists raised gloved fists during the national anthem protesting racial discrimination. Hey Jude was released in the United States, and Hair opened on Broadway. Yale University voted to admit women after 267 years. Richard Nixon won the presidency. Russel Wright believed then in the power of nature to unite and to heal. With a designer’s vision and naturalist’s heart, he created Manitoga – a place of great spirit, inspiration, and beauty. 

Jeff Haynes, producer / percussionist; Jacob Lee Bernz, poet / musician / balladeer; Casey Erdmann, singer / song writer; Sean Harkness, guitar artist; Joan Henry, poet-lyricist / vocalist / percussionist; Timothy Hill, singer / composer; Gina Lenee', pianist; Premik, multi-instrumentalist; With Julie Harris, Native American flute player; Lisa Jensen and Becky Nielsen, drummers

Manitoga's central Quarry Pool, moss-covered alcoves and rock terraces come alive with music and song.

Celebrate the stunning natural setting and the natural bonds that unite us all - under one sun.

Enjoy live music set in the surrounds of nature and you.

Let multi-genre music, rhythm and voice sing around the Quarry and through the woodlands.

Let it organically lift you.

Let it remind you of all that unites us.  

ABOUT JEFF HAYNES

Jeff Haynes is a world-renowned percussionist who has recorded on nearly two hundred CDs and toured extensively with Jazz, World Beat and Pop artists. He is a multi-genre percussionist, teaching artist and producer and a multi-faceted talent and resource in the Hudson Valley. Haynes produces both live performances and recorded productions that feature his vast network of talented and prominent musicians, representing a crossroad of cultures and genres. He is a Grammy Award winner for Best Musical Album for Children for Pete Seeger’s Tomorrow’s Children. His creative direction as a producer of the Grammy nominated audio book Pete Seeger Storm King—spoken word set to multi-genre music from over 50 musicians—has been recognized with acclaim from Publisher’s Weekly, Amazon, AudioFile Magazine and School Library Journal. Through his D.R.U.M. (Discipline, Respect, Unity and Music) Program residencies in schools in Beacon and Newburgh and private, Jeff is enriching the mind, body and spirit of people of all ages.    

2018 ARTIST RESIDENCY HOST COMMITTEE

Lead Sponsors / David & Nanci McAlpin, Marilyn & Jim Simons

Sponsors / Tom Krizmanic, Gary & Laura Maurer

Supporters / Joe Chapman, Sidney Babcock & José Romeu, Allison Cross & Henry Nye, David Diamond & Karen Zukowski, Lyn & John Fischbach, Melissa Meyers & Wilbur Foster, Dick & Cathy Polich, Frederic C. Rich, Bill Roos & Scott Olsen, Katy Moss Warner. 

Artist Residency Program support also provided by Donald Albrecht, William Burback & Peter Hofmann, Jack & Cheryl Lenhart, the Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, the PCLB Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.