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2025 Mostly Modern Festival

By Sarah LaDuke
Published May 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM EDT
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The Mostly Modern Festival is an international music festival that celebrates modern music by living composers from across the globe, alongside 20th and 21st-century classics. Taking place at the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College, the 2025 Mostly Modern Festival features 10 concerts from June 5 to June 20.

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Sarah LaDuke
Sarah has worked in public radio since 2006. 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. She is on the board of WAM Theatre and lives in Albany, New York with her husband, Paul, and their dog, Doritos.
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