x
  1. Home
  2.  Entertainment

GWL Library’s music series recognized as the best

| 10 Jan 2013 | 01:27
    On Jan. 7, Greenwood Lake Mayor Barbara Moore presented the Greenwood Lake Public Library with a certificate of recognition for its Ramapo Catskill Library Systemís 2012 Adult Program of the Year Award for the libraryís ìThursday Nite Music Makers Concert Series. Pictured here are Kelly Corrado, coordinator of adult services at the Greenwood Lake Public Library (left) and Mayor Barbara Moore. The recognition ceremony was also attended by Library Director Joan Carvajal (not pictured).
    On Jan. 7, Greenwood Lake Mayor Barbara Moore presented the Greenwood Lake Public Library with a certificate of recognition for its Ramapo Catskill Library Systemís 2012 Adult Program of the Year Award for the libraryís ìThursday Nite Music Makers Concert Series. Pictured here are Kelly Corrado, coordinator of adult services at the Greenwood Lake Public Library (left) and Mayor Barbara Moore. The recognition ceremony was also attended by Library Director Joan Carvajal (not pictured).

GREENWOOD LAKE — Greenwood Lake Mayor Barbara Moore presented a “certificate of recognition” earlier this week to Kelly Corrado, coordinator of adult services, and to the Greenwood Lake Public Library in recognition of the library’s winning the Ramapo Catskill Library System’s 2012 Adult Program of the Year Award for its “Thursday Nite Music Makers Concert Series.”

This series of nine musical programs was launched in the fall of 2011, with each program featuring a different musical genre. With the award from RCLS comes a plaque to commemorate this very special accomplishment and a check for $500, which will be added to the library’s adult programming budget to bring more music offerings.

“Whatever moves people is powerful and music moves people,” Corrado said in a press release announcing the award and the recognition.

“Many of our patrons were asking for more musical programs and quality musical programs can be expensive,” she added. “Because the library wants to offer the very best for our patrons, I began to seek out grant money and was awarded a $5,000 grant from the County of Orange and Orange County Tourism to fund the series. We were so very lucky and grateful to have been awarded this most generous grant. In addition, this series was also supported by individual donations by members of the community.”

Several of the bands performing in the series were Greenwood Lake residents, such as Gabriele Tranchina, along with her husband Joe Vincent Tranchina and their band, Leigh Jonaitis and Larry Newcomb, and Steve Sgambati of “Come Together,” a Beatles tribute band, to name just a few.

Corrado thanked the mayor and the community as well as Library Director Joan Carvajal and the library’s Board of Trustees for their ongoing support.