#Art galcon full#
The Falcon's backline is assembled to please its artists - Yamaha C7 grand piano, a Hammond B3 organ with the sought-after Leslie amp & pedals, full drum kit, guitar & bass amps, powered monitors with separate mixes, along with light, projection and sound systems of quality.Ī 2,500 square foot viewing space, on the Main Stage floor, regularly features the large format works of both regionally and nationally recognized visual artists and photographers. The 3,500 square foot main floor provides the acoustically correct, live performance venue with a 24’ X 16’ stage. "Away from Manhattan's urban frenzy, one man's hospitality has created an intimate stage for top tier musicians." - The New York Times Within nine weeks of the opening, The New York Times ran a story with the sub-head, The new facility rapidly became the “Village Vanguard of the Hudson Valley” and on a regular rotation with New York City's most respected venues a rural Mecca for the finest in multiple genres to include jazz, blues, rock, world music and contemporary chamber music. Through the years, the main floor of the building had been a roller-skating rink, community center and a cabinet factory.
1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, New York, is perched over Marlboro Falls, once used to power the factory’s operations. purchased a 19th century button factory in the center of the hamlet of Marlboro. In 2005, Falcon Music & Art Productions, Inc.
#Art galcon series#
The success of the series strained the small facility. The world over, one can find musicians who have not only played well at The Falcon, but have eaten and slept well in the Falco home. If there’s an award in the music world for hospitality, it goes, hands down, to Tony & Julie Falco and their children. The response to these private performances was unbelievably enthusiastic! The community attended, listened and supported living artists, using a donation box and a potluck table for their contributions. When asked how long it was before The Falcon was discovered by the upper echelon of the music world, Falco answered, "About two months." These well-regarded players, many of whom were Grammy Award nominees & winners, had found a “home away from home” - an intimate space where they could play without restriction to an appreciative, generous audience. The remarkable space with its fine acoustics was outfitted with a studio grand piano, stage lighting, a sound & PA system and seating for nearly 100. Gallery walls were made available to painters & photographers. In 2001, Tony Falco became an art & music promoter, forming Falcon Music & Art Production, Inc., and began the now legendary, private house concert series.
The real magic, though, was concentrated in the upper floor - an intimate listening room of a concert hall.
Exquisite stained glass windows, imposing doors and beams were employed to create what appeared to be a well-proportioned “carriage house”. Falco set about dismantling the place, carefully removing and storing each architectural detail for its next destination.Ī magnificent building began to grow behind the Falco home. Relief came by way of the United States Postal Service of Marlboro, NY. He bought the tired architectural relic and rented half to the Marlboro Children’s Center, a day care service, reserving the other half for various music performances. Cyril brought life to the old building by hiring a rock band with the impossible name of “The Wild Animals of North America” led by Tony Falco.įalco, naturally engaging by virtue of his musicianship and interests in the arts, and naturally civic-minded, by virtue of his homeownership in Marlboro, saw a community center with endless possibilities. In the mid-1990s, Cyril Nolen, of the Knights of Columbus, a selfless and generous man, organized a benefit to raise funds for a homeless shelter he was building in Newburgh, NY. It had been built by a Methodist congregation in the early 19th century, who stuck it out till the 1960s and left when they merged with another congregation. The Falcon’s story begins with a church in the Hudson River Valley hamlet of Marlboro, NY.