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For the weekend of June 8-10, 2012

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WELLSVILLE — Sonny & Perley are coming to town for a performance at 7 p.m. today at the David A. Howe Public Library, 155 N. Main St.

The performance will take place in the Nancy Howe Auditorium.

Featuring vocalist Perley Rousseau and accom-panied on the piano by Sonny Daye, this concert will highlight the music of legendary American com-posers such as Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Ellington, Rodgers. Included are entertaining illustrated stories about the music and composers, according to

library officials.This library-sponsored

concert is free and open to the general public.

For more information, call (585) 593-3410. Those interested can learn more about the artists at their website, www.sonnyand-perley.com.

ANGELICA — James Krueger, an artist dabbling in contemporary country, Americana and folk, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Black-Eyed Susan Acoustic Café, 22 W. Main St.

There is no cover charge, but guests are expected to contribute to the musician’s tip jar, according to café officials.

Krueger, who hails from Pine Hill in the Catskill Mountains, was called by café officials a consum-mate musician with a sharp sense for poetry. His songs paint kaleidoscopic portraits of human longing and redemption within landscapes of beauty, they say.

Krueger’s songs “probe beneath the surface of seemingly simple topics,” according to Rambles Magazine. He has been lauded by Great American Song Contest judges as an “extraordinarily talented writer with a real talent for poetic imagery.”

His songs are not typical folk story songs, but are more impressionistic. At the same time, they are not abstract but very realistic, combining some grit with some grace.

Krueger performs on guitar and piano and has entertained for the North American Bluebird Society, the Sierra Club and the New York Maple Growers’ Association. He tours the eastern United States, appearing in clubs, coffeehouses, nature centers, libraries and private homes. He is a two-time honor award winner in the Great American Song Contest.

Those interested can learn more at www.jamesk-rueger.com.

St. Mary’s event runs Friday to Sunday

OLEAN — The 41st Annual Church Festival at St. Mary of the Angels kicks off the summer festi-val season Friday through Sunday with the longest festival of the sea-son, operating 28 total hours.

New to this year’s event is the Taste of the Twin Tiers Food Fest, featuring samplings from regional restaurants, from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Inaugural Taste of the Twin Tiers is being brought to St. Mary’s Festival as part of a continued effort to keep the festival fresh and new.

“Being a large, diverse parish like St. Mary of the Angels, we always try to reach everyone’s tastes, and what better way to do this than by bringing a large part of the Twin Tiers’ best food establishments to our venue?” said Rich Rasey, chairman of the food concessions. “We have regional powerhouse restaurants, includ-ing The Watermark, Wing City Grill, Brother’s Bistro, Randy’s Up The River, Whispering Mountain Lodge, Angee’s, and more to come.”

The church festival has come to be known for its authentic Filipino food, genuine Wellsville Texas Hots, O’Gregor Delmonico steak sandwiches, an outdoor Friday

fish fry, Sunday pancake breakfast — with real maple syrup — and homemade pies served restaurant-style on a historic Victorian porch. Also new on this year’s menu is a pulled-pork sandwich, which orga-nizers explain adds zest to such

staples as Italian sausage sand-wich, Napoli pizza, chicken wings, hot dogs and hand-cut curly fries.

Because free, live, ’round-the-clock entertainment is the other important draw to festivals, this year’s event will feature two top

bands from Buffalo, according to Mike Tominez, who books enter-tainment for the event.

Friday’s headline band, Fat Brat, has consistently been recognized over the years as Buffalo’s best classic rock band, he notes. Back

from last year’s popular debut to the festival is Saturday’s headline band, Breakaway — voted last year as one of Buffalo’s top new rock bands.

Friday night’s festivities begin with the Rick Bokman Classic Car Show — unique for offering the public a chance to vote for their favorite cars in a variety of cat-egories. The public will also get a chance to meet the Southern Tier Diesel football team and Hellbilly Heartbreakers roller derby skaters, who will be on hand to help with the car show.

The final day is dubbed “All Irish Sunday,” featuring a chicken barbecue grilled by the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Irish Rovers will be on stage playing tradi-tional Irish music. Irish dancing will be performed by a local dance troupe. Live bagpipes at noon are also part of the festival’s traditional Corpus Christi proces-sion, one of three daily traditional religious processions which orga-nizers say are the highlight of the weekend’s events.

All three days include children’s amusements, such as bounce houses, slides and games, “I Got It” BINGO-style, cake wheel, theme basket raffles, games of chance, merchandise vendors and McCarthy’s Emporium Prize Fair. Topping off the festival are cash raffles totaling $4,500.

For more information, visit wwwsmaolean.org.

Food, tunes and fun at season’s longest festival

Photo submittedThe annual Church Festival at St. Mary of the Angels is the longest such event in the area, emcompassing 28 hours over three days, organizers say.

Olean

Angelica

Folk artist highlight of weekend at Sonny & Perley to cover legendary composers

Photo submittedJames Krueger will bring his American, folk and country sounds to Angelica on Saturday at the Black-Eyed Susan Acoustic Café, 22 W. Main St. Krueger is originally from the Catskill Mountains.

Black-Eyed Susan

Wellsville