2019 Chalfonte Hotel Events Calendar

• June 12

  Chalfonte Summer Concerts – Free Outdoor Concert Front Porch 8:00pm
  CBC Trio
  The CBC Trio consists of Claire Marie Moblard on piano, Byron Stay on trumpet and Carl Glover, vocals. The trio plays popular, jazz, folk and gospel music. Their playlist will include music by Leroy Anderson, Duke Ellington, and W. C. Handy.

• June 19

  Chalfonte Summer Concerts – Free Outdoor Concert Front Porch 8:00pm
  Festive Brass
  Festive Brass is a quintet of highly accomplished, professional musicians from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region. Founded in 1982 by Joan and Nancy Dowlin, this chamber ensemble has been delighting audiences throughout the tri-state area for many years. As a group, Festive Brass has performed in such prestigious venues as the Wilmington (DE) Grand Opera House, Ocean City (NJ) Music Pier, Longwood Gardens (PA), Bristol (PA) First Nights concerts, Shannondell (PA) Performing Arts Center, and the historic Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May (NJ). The members of Festive Brass are Barbara Prugh and John Thyhsen, trumpets; Joan Dowlin, horn; Stephen Shiffer, trombone; and Brian Brown, tuba.

• June 26

  Chalfonte Summer Concerts – Free Outdoor Concert Front Porch 8:00pm
  Barry Long Trio
  The Barry Long Trio, featuring pianist Steve Rudolph, bassist Joshua Davis, and Long on trumpet and flugelhorn, perform a diverse set of jazz originals and standards from Miles, Mingus, Monk, and more.

• July 2 - 31

  Art Exhibit, Lou Riccio with reception Sunday, July 7, from 2-3:30pm
  Cape May's natural beauty and Victorian architecture continues to inspire local artist: Louis M. Riccio, Industrial Designer/Watercolorist. Louis will be displaying works that reveal his visions and love of Cape May's rich historic past as well his appreciation for the wealth of beauty surrounding them in Cape May County. Free & open to the public. The self-guided exhibit will be on display from July 2 through August 31 viewing daily from 11am-4pm daily. For sales information please go to the hotel front desk.

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  July 3

  Chalfonte Summer Concerts – Free Outdoor Concert Front Porch 8:00pm
  Maria Damore Trio

  The Maria Damore Trio grooves with great harmonies on tunes from the 60s, 70s and 80s: Linda Rondstadt, Carole King, The Beatles, Patsy Cline, Paul Simon, and more! Maria Damore on vocals, Ken Bagenstose on guitar and vocals, Stavros Flamporis on bass and vocals.

• July 10

  Chalfonte Summer Concerts – Free Outdoor Concert Front Porch 8:00pm
  Fish Fry Piano Trio

  1920s Blues piano trio.

• July 30 & 31

  Chalfonte Summer Concerts – Free Outdoor Concert Front Porch 8:00pm
  Borderland Family Ceili Band
  The Borderland Family Ceili Band performs a lively variety of songs and tunes from the Celtic tradition- including Irish, Scottish, English and American folk melodies-updated with their own fresh arrangements. Humorous ballads, love songs, songs of immigration, jigs, reels, slow airs and some clogging thrown into the mix are representative of the annual concert fare, infused with some youthful energy of the band's younger generation and grounded in the stories and histories related by their musical parents.

• August 3 - TBA

  Art Exhibit, Penelope Chiusano with reception Sunday, August 4, 2:00-3:30pm

  Inspired by Georgia O Keefe's credo: "I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore" New York water-colorist Penny Chiusano's delightful feminine dreamscapes humorously speak to her audience about nuances of the female experience with invigorating freedom and sweeping spiritual energy. Fantasy and whimsy intermingle with skillful, exacting artistic technique in her Magic Realism mixed media work.

• August 7

  Chalfonte Summer Concerts - Free Outdoor Concert Front Porch 8:00pm
  Alfred James Band

  With past venues that include the White House, NBC's The Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America, Carnegie Hall, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and The Academy of Music, the Alfred James Band is making waves with their cello-driven acoustic rock sound. Inspired by a variety of musicians including Yo Yo Ma, Sting, and Dave Matthews, Alfred James reminds audiences that the cello isn't just for classical music anymore!

• August 14

  James Day & the Fish Fry

  Turbo charged Zydeco & New Orleans grooves.

• August 21

  Chalfonte Summer Concerts – Free Outdoor Concert Front Porch 8:00pm
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