01/20/2021
Community Spotlight 🌟
Aree Bray, folks, holding down the WKC lighting booth since 1993(!!)
We’ve really missed seeing Aree and look forward to working with him to present some outdoor shows later this year. In the meantime, he's been busy with Raven Reclaiming, Kaaterskill House Lodging, Wooden Nickel Redemption Center, Belvedere Country Inn, & Stamford NY Business Alliance, among others.
It’s been fun to follow along with his series on Instagram and feel nostalgic reading his answers to our questions 💓
Favorite local walk:
From my truck to The WKC...warm summer day, amazing musicians doing a soundcheck. Say hi and walk past my friends setting up the ticket booth, walk between the last two rows of pews; stop to listen. Say hi to Alex on the soundboard, walk up an aisle and across the front of the stage; look up at the lights and consider what needs to be done with the lights and what I can get away with not doing. Walk back down the aisle and out the back door, light my pipe and wait for soundcheck to end.
Favorite WKC performance thus far:
Tough call, I have been super lucky in that I’ve been able to see just about every show in the last 27 seasons. Sloan Wainwright’s show early in my tenure was my favorite, however— it was amazing in every way. A close second was the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
The musical near-perfection of so many jazz, blues, and classical geniuses on our stage is staggering. (I must also admit that I greatly enjoyed the handful of truly awful shows because I have gotten so much mileage out of them story-wise!)
Favorite local beverage: Muddy River Farm Brewery!!!
Currently on heavy rotation on your playlist: Beastie Boys
Local ingredient that is always in your fridge: Solinsky's - Stamford Smokehouse LLC
Favorite film: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Greatest extravagance: the really good cheese at the grocery store
Coffee or tea: coffee
If you had more time: I’d actually finish a project. One project, Any project...
Most treasured possession: my 1951 Chevy 3100 Boyertown Panel Van
Your hero or heroine of fiction: Owen Meany
Thank you, Aree, for everything you do!!🌟
