Join Ms. Nancy for Story and Craft from 4:30 – 5:30!  Our theme for March is Kites to Fly. We will read some stories and create a craft. Recommended for ages 4 – 6.  

Registration is open for our Spring Beginners Mah Jongg Classes starting on Friday, May 2nd from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. Join Linda Gottlieb for a 6-class series of Beginners Mah Jongg Classes. Learn to play an exciting game while meeting new people and having fun. Register on our website events calendar.

Join us on Wednesday, March 19th, from 6:30 – 7:30 pm, for our new Parent Child Book Club with Ms. Nancy. Have a fun evening with your son or daughter by reading and discussing the same great book. Books are available to check out at the library. Please register both parents and children. For March, we are reading Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata.

Join us on Sunday, March 16th, at 3:00 pm for “From Italy with Love” with Salvatore Chiarelli.  Chiarelli will perform a musical concert including popular, traditional, and classical Italian, Neapolitan, and Italian/ American songs. He will be accompanied by Mary Pinto on piano. The performance will be approximately an hour and fifteen minutes with a short intermission.  
 

Salvatore Chiarelli, a native of New York City, was vocally trained in both Italy and New York City for the opera stage.  Mr. Chiarelli has been heard on Television and Radio as well as on the Opera Stages of both North America and Europe.  He has performed as a soloist on satellite television reaching seventy  five countries around the world. At the very outset of his vocal training he was one of only three Tenors chosen in the United States to participate in a five week concert tour of Europe.

In a short time, Mr Chiarelli has established himself as a “world class performer and entertainer receiving rave reviews from his critics. Performing to capacity-sold out crowds. Mr. Chiarelli has an excellent reputation on and off stage and has a loyal and dedicated following of fans.

Mr. Chiarelli  has been a finalist for several regional vocal competitions throughout the U.S. and has been the recipient of several distinguished artist awards.

Mr. Chiarelli has a wide singing range, sings in seven languages and many different styles and genre of music. In addition, he has sung as a church soloist in Manhattan and the N.Y. Metro area for over fourteen years.

Join us on Sunday, March 9th, at 3:00 pm for Global Fusion and the Future of Jazz, the fourth and final session of the multipart concert/lecture series, The History and Evolution of Jazz in the 20th Century Through Performance hosted by Eric DiVito.  This session will focus on jazz as it was influenced by the diverse musical styles, characteristics and cultures throughout the world and what the future of jazz might look and sound like.

*This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislator, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Eric DiVito

New York area guitarist, composer and educator Eric DiVito has been performing throughout the greater NY area since 2003.  Either as a soloist or leading his own groups, he has performed at many of NYC’s renowned jazz clubs and live music venues as well as performances and festivals both domestic and abroad.  DiVito has recorded two studio jazz albums, Breaking the Ice (PJC Records, 2012) and The Second Time Around (PJC Records, 2013) and one solo classical guitar album, Soothing Classical Guitar Music (Inner Splendor Media, 2016).  He has also worked as a guitarist for Carnival Cruise Lines and the Bateaux NY.

As an educator, Mr. DiVito has taught classroom and instrumental music in the NYC public schools and Westchester public school districts since 2006.  He teaches as an adjunct lecturer of music at Dominican University in Orangeburg as well in his private guitar studio both in person and remotely.

DiVito is an Eastman guitar artist and has been published several times in Downbeat Magazine, RAE Magazine, PlayJazzGuitar.com and more.

He resides with his wife and three children in Pearl River, New York.