2018 Chalfonte Hotel Events Calendar

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  May 1 - June 17

  Art Exhibit, John Safrit

  Retired advertising art director living in Cape May has finally been able to pick up the brush to paint to his heart's content. Now in his 8th year of painting John has been recognized and awarded for his work in numerous shows. John's paintings are in collections all over the world from Park Avenue, NYC to Warsaw, Poland. His main medium is watercolor but switches from time to time to oils.

• June 23 - August 1

  Art Exhibit, Lou Riccio with reception Sunday, July 8, 2018, 2:00-3:30pm
  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 June 23 through August 1 viewing daily from 11am-4pm daily. For sales information please go to the hotel front desk.

• Wednesday, July 11

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

  Ken Shiles, CiBon, and Valerie Vuolo form the soulful, innovative Atlantic City, New Jersey-based trio: Originaire.

  Ken and CiBon performed their first show together with no prior face to face contact and no rehearsal. From the moment their voices blended with effortless and seamless perfection for the first time, they knew it was the beginning of something extraordinary.

  Keeping in kind with Ken and CiBon’s serendipitous connection, they discovered violinist, Valerie Vuolo in a similarly fateful fashion. While running the sound stage at a singer-songwriter festival for a local venue, Ken was introduced to the musically malleable, genre hopping fiddle player as she shared the stage with multiple acts throughout the course of the event. He invited her to join him for his solo set upon the same stage later that evening (sans CiBon). He later made the introduction to his partner in song, inviting Valerie to join him and CiBon at a performance for a high profile benefit concert a few months later. When the three met backstage before the show and played all together for the first time, an almost chilling synergy occurred when their voices blended with soulful strings as effortlessly as when there were only two.

• Wednesday, July 18

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

  1920s Blues piano trio.

• Tuesday, July 24 & Wednesday, July 25

  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 1

  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 4 - 26

  Art Exhibit, Penelope Chiusano with reception Sunday, August 5, 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 22

  James Day & the Fish Fry

  Turbo charged Zydeco & New Orleans grooves.