SKANEATELES — The 46th annual Antique and Classic Boat Show will be July 26 to 28 at Clift Park in Skaneateles.
It takes place 3 p.m. to dusk July 26, 9 a.m. to dusk July 27 and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
The show, now in its 46th year overall and its 30th year in Skaneateles, returns to Clift Park July 26-28. Hours are 3 p.m. to dusk Friday, 9 a.m. to dusk Saturday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.
The show, hosted by the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society and the Skaneateles Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation, draws exhibitors from across New York, the East Coast, the Midwest and Canada. About 10,000 visitors attend each year.
Visitors will be able to view, and meet the owners of, some 80 runabouts, launches, sailboats, canoes, rowing craft and race boats, many restored to their original condition. Featured boats include Triple Crown, a 1948 Century Sea Maid owned by Dan and Ashley Ritchey of Bolivar, Ohio; Mazu, a 1940 Gar Wood Vacationer owned by Susan and Mark Cranfill of Fairfax Station, Virginia; ACME, a 1940 Lightning sailboat built in Skaneateles and owned by Mike Yates of Skaneateles; and GoodWood, a 1962 Century Coronado owned by Brenda and Ed Evans of Skaneateles.
Highlights:
•Boat parade at 3:15 p.m. Saturday.
•Performances by the Skaneateles Community Band, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday; the Diana Jacobs Band, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday; and the Soda Ash 6, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
•Display of model antique boats by the Syracuse Model Boat Club, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
•Guided village bus tours by the Skaneateles Historical Society, 10:30 a.m., noon and 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
•Youth judging competition, 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
•Opportunities for children to paint toy wooden boats, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, and a McClurg Kids Building Corner, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
Cornell presents piano academy
The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards announces the return of the Forte/Piano Summer Academy with the Chamber Music Collective July 30 to Aug. 3 at Cornell University.
The series will feature experts in 18th- and 19th-century music, culminating in a series of concerts, presentations and discussions.
“The main goal of the collaboration is for our students to get to know the expansive collection of instruments intimately in order to interact with the works and improvisatory practices we have assigned them in a new and meaningful way,” siad collective co-founder Sezi Seskir. “The concerts will include a variety of composers such as Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Schubert, Brahms, Debussy, Emilie Mayer, and Louise Farrenc on an equally large range of instruments, from a five-octave Walter copy to original nineteenth-century Graf, Blüthner, and Pleyel pianos.
The CCHK also presents two Showcase Concerts from Tom Beghin (Senior Researcher at the Orpheus Institute for Advanced Studies & Research in Music) and Tuija Hakkila (piano faculty at the Sibelius Academy) to preview next summer’s Forte/Piano 2025, a major international festival featuring musical artists, scholars, and technicians who play and work with a plethora of pianos, from Steins to Steinways and Broadwoods to Blüthners.
The schedule.
• 7:30 p.m. July 30 in Barnes Hall.
• 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1 in Barnes Hall.
• 8 p.m. Aug. 2 in A.D. White House.
• 4 p.m. Aug. 3 in Barnes Hall.
• 8 p.m. Aug. 3 at Kiplinger Theater in the Schwartz Center.
