Bands to Perform for Fundraiser
The Cattaraugus County Arts Council (CCAC) has announced a fundraising benefit to help fund the Southern Tier Biennial (STB) art exhibition on Saturday, March 28 from 6-10pm at the Other Place tavern on Main Street in Allegany, NY. The evening will feature music by Dave Dorson, Andy Hannon and Bill O’Connell’s Wild Rovers, and the Mojo Hand Blues Band. Free pizza will be served and a portion of the bar receipts will go towards the fund. Tickets at the door are $10. All event proceeds will go to the close the budget gap for this year’s Southern Tier Biennial exhibition. In early January, the Cattaraugus County Arts Council (CCAC), producers of the STB contemporary art exhibition, were informed that there would be no funding for the 2009 Biennial. The STB endowment fund, managed by the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation, had dropped well below the original investment and according to law would be frozen until the fund recovered. Through careful strategizing and many donations of se...