A-list Staten Island Musicians Play the Raritan Bay Festival

June 23, 2010 - PRLog -- On Saturday, June 26, six Staten Island musicians or bands play at the First Annual Raritan Bay Festival. The musicians are:

Noon: Harry Oppenheimer, mountain dulcimer player and master of ceremonies

2 pm: Mac Gollehan, jazz trumpeter with solos on David Bowie's “Let's Dance,” Jagger and Bowie's “Dancin' the Street,” Grace Jones's “Inside Story,” Duran Duran's “Notorious,” Billy Ocean's “Get Out Of My Dreams,” and on the soundtrack to Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America. See http://www.myspace.com/macssmokinsection for more information.

3 pm: Allergic to B's, the bluegrass duo of Gary and Joan Moore

4 pm: Gene Gambardella, bluegrass

5 pm: Norm Pederson, Bob Conroy, two members of the American and Irish folk music group Stout. See http://www.stoutmusic.org/ for more.

6 pm: FigureHead, an alternative/grunge band popular at the Cup in Stapleton

7 pm: Kama Linden, country rock. See http://kamalinden.com/ for more information.

Also on the schedule are free kayaking offered by Kayak Staten Island, a craft & art fair sponsored by Friends of Fire, the Sleeping Beauty puppet show from City Parks Foundation’s Puppet Mobile, oyster farming demonstrations by the NY/NJ Baykeepers, and fishing demonstrations by the Fishermen’s Conservation Association.

The Conference House Association will provide discounted tours of the Conference House museum from noon to 4 p.m., as well as run an “attic treasures” sale of items from the Conference House Collection and from board and auxiliary members.

Sponsors are City of New York Parks & Recreation, Kayak Staten Island, http://www.kayakstatenisland.org/, Friends of Fire, http://friendsoffire.org/, and the Conference House Association, http://conferencehouse.org.

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The Conference House is a Staten Island stone manor house named for the peace conference that took place there in 1776 between Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge, and Britain's Lord Richard Howe.