The Lakeview Hotel and Restaurant 

Rick Newell, owner of The Lakeview Hotel and Restaurant is a 100% supporter of the Chautauqua Lake Pops.  He has maintained the lakefront property where the Pops is located, helped with advertising in the Buffalo market having grown up in Clarence, has willingly changed performance times at his restaurant to work with the Pops performance schedule. He has been involved with many local Mayville projects including being in the music business so he knows the importance of working together for the good of the community. 

 

It was amazing to witness the Pops presence making Mayville look busy like a 4th of July weekend. Even folks driving through town created a visual advertisement for the Mayville-Chautauqua region especially the lake area.  The Lakeview was able to manage traffic therefore people saw that the Pops wasn't a vehicle detriment.  Rick met out of town folks at his restaurant who really weren't familiar with the area, but they had heard about the Pops and decided to come see for themselves what we, as a community, had to offer its locals and visitors.  The Lakeview is directly across the street from the historic train depot and the Pops concert schedule for the summer season. He sees the Pops and all that it offers as helping him, not hurting him.

 

Rick truly feels the majority of residents in the Village of Mayville are 100% in favor of the Pops.  He feels this way because he knows that it brings business to town which helps the local economy and, in turn, promotes having fun in the summer. 

 

"The days of manufacturing are over!  Our biggest asset is the lake and tourism!  The majority of Mayville residents are positive-minded people who accept new changes that benefit their village which then allows positive community spirit to grow and thrive."

 

Rick Newell

Music Matters.

Pat Locke

Maestro Muse

 

 

2015

                              Celebrating 18 Years of Bringing the Arts to the People

 2014

Celebrating Music From Around the World .. 50 Years of The Beatles .. and 17 Years of the Bemus Bay Pops!

Music Matters.

Pat Locke

Maestro Muse

 Matter, Music and the Mind

"A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound which was polished until it became music."

Mark Strand, US poet laureate (1990)

"Music is the profoundest expression of nature. Music, the combiner, nothing more spiritual, nothing more sensuous, a god, yet completely human, advances, prevails, supplying in certain wants and quarters what nothing else could supply.  

Walt Whitman

"Music is a laboratory for feeling and time whose mysterious power both eclipses and illuminates all the other arts."

Philosopher Susanne Langer

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time. It is the sound wave of the soul."

Igor Stravinsky

"Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts."

Susan Sontag

"God has given us music so that above al it can lead us upwards.  Music unites all qualities:  it can exalt us, divert us, cheer us up or break the heardest of hearts with the softest of is melancholy tones."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music ... stands quite apart from all the other arts.  It is the universal language."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"That is the quality which dance music has no other.  It is as though some swift current of water swept you along with it.  It is magic music."

Virginia Woolf

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

Victor Hugo, poet

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley

"Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and emotional.  It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings.  Music can pierce the heart directly.  It needs no mediation.

Oliver Sacks 

Celebrating music is celebrating life

..with one another..

No matter wherever or whenever you find it .. Music Matters.

Pat Locke, Maestro Muse

Sebastian Anzaldo as Frank Sinatra

Sebastian made his television debut as Sinatra in the summer of 2007 on the ABC hit show, The Next Best Thing, Who is The Greatest Celebrity Impersonator.  Sebastian came in 2nd to none other than Elvis! 

After Sebastian worked in Los Angeles for 14 years he relocated to The Entertainment Capitol of the World, Las Vegas where he discovered his knack for doing "Frank".  With a dedication to perfecting the art of Sinatra, everything was in place and Sebastian began doing one corporate events after another.  As word got out that there was a new 'Chairman' in town, he got the call to star in The Tribute To The Rat Pack show on the Strip.  This, in turn, led to the show entitled Barbra and Frank, The Concert That Never Was appearing at the Riviera Hotel and Casino and eventually onto the Bemus Bay Pops floating stage in Bemus Point NY. 

Thank you, Dan for bringing Sebastian as "Frank" and Sharon as "Barbra" to our corner of the world!  

Pat Locke

Maestro Muse