ArtsRock and Rivertown Film present
An Online Conversation with Tom Chapin and Elliott Forrest
Tom Chapin will discuss his brother with ArtsRock Artistic Director Elliott Forrest on Tuesday, October 27, via Zoom.
DISCUSSION WITH RICK KORN, TOM CHAPIN, AND ELLIOTT FORREST
Time: Oct 27, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join the discussion on Zoom:
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Tom Chapin is a musician, entertainer, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and the younger brother of Harry Chapin. From 1971 to 1976, Chapin hosted Make a Wish, a Sunday-morning children's TV series. Chapin takes part in the storytelling festival circuit and has been a Featured New Voices Teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He has won Grammy Awards for three Best Spoken Word albums. He often appears at tribute concerts for his brother, along with many other members of his musical family. He, and The Chapin Sisters, will appear in ArtsRock's Songs of Protest 4 on April 24.
Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster and producer. He is currently heard on Classical 105.9FM WQXR and guest-hosts for Leonard Lopate and John Schaefer and on WNYC. He is the Artistic Director of ArtsRock. He's produced at The Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center and scores of concerts, events and shows. He is the host and producer of the national radio concerts of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; and hosts and produces regular podcasts for the New York Philharmonic; has been the 'voice' of CNN and LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER on PBS. For more than 12 years he was with the A&E Television Network as host of Breakfast with the Arts and Biography.
June 3, 2023
Tony Award-winning actor Harvey Fierstein took center stage in Nyack Saturday night to kick off Pride Month. "I didn't want to be in theater, but I wanted to meet Andy Warhol," said the four-time Tony Award winner at Nyack High School during the presentation called "Harvey Fierstein in Conversation with Elliott Forrest." Forrest is the executive artistic director of the Rockland County-based nonprofit, artsrock.org.
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