RiverJack Z of the Zucchini Brothers brought his 2022 “Creating Oceans of Sound” program to kids at libraries across three ADK Quad-County regions, supported by the SCR Program. (Photo: CEFLS)

Based in Brooklyn, Ghost Funk Orchestra, the brainchild of producer and multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum, started as a one-man band and evolved into a 10-piece powerhouse-live ensemble. The band performed at the 2022 Northern Current Music Festival at Riverside Park, Saranac Lake, in Franklin County in September (photo courtesy of Northern Current). Both programs were supported by 2022 SCR funding.

The Brooklyn- and Ithaca, NY-based Dara Anissi Ensemble, which has deep roots in Middle Eastern culture—two of its members, Dara Anissi (right) and Martin Shamoonpour (lower left) hail from Tehran, Iran, and the third, Nikolai Ruskin (upper left), a San Francisco native, has made a lifetime study of Middle Eastern music—performed at the Saranac Fire Hall, Saranac, in Clinton County, in November 2022, presented by Hill and Hollow Music (photo courtesy of HHM).