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Cultural Commentary From Shawn Stone

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Shawn Stone joins us to talk about what he's seen lately and what cultural events are coming up this week in our region.

Seen: Maudie, Dunkirk, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Upcoming:

Sweeney Todd - Mac-Haydn Theatre, Chatham, opens 7/27 Thursday (2 and 8 PM) through Aug. 6

Old Salt Union, Chris Kasper - Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, 7/27 Thursday, 7 PM

John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous - Palace Theatre, Albany, 7/27 Thursday, 7 and 9:30 PM [7 PM sold out]

Phantogram - The Egg, Albany, 7/27 Thursday, 8 PM

The Parlor, Marian Hill - Alive @ Five Corning Preserve Boat Launch (rain site), Albany, 7/27 Thursday, 5-8 PM

The Rory Block Gospel & Blues Fest Weekend at PS 21 - The Campbell Brothers, 7/28 Friday at 8 PM; Sisters of Slide: Rory Block & Cindy Cashdollar, 7/29 Saturday at 8 PM; A Gospel Choir Fest, 7/30 Sunday, 2 PM - PS 21, Chatham

John Prine - Palace Theatre, Albany, 7/28 Friday, 8 PM

Linda Lavin: My Second Farewell Concert with Billy Stritch & Aaron Weinstein - Helsinki Hudson, Hudson, 7/29 Saturday, 8 PM

Trio Con Brio Copenhagen: Mozart, Smetana, Shostakovich - Maverick Concerts, Woodstock, 7/30 Sunday, 4 PM

The Philadelphia Orchestra: Russian Festival Day 1, Tchaikovsky & Musorgsky - SPAC, Saratoga Springs, 8/2 Wednesday, 8 PM

New movies: Atomic Blonde, The Emoji Movie, A Ghost Story, 13 Minutes, Lady Macbeth

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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