In this issue:
Phanfare
Shades of Jazz
Music Conservatory of Westchester

Phanfare Offers Six Months Free Service and Unlimited Storage to All Yahoo! Photos Customers Whose Pictures Will Be Deleted

Phanfare, the premier video and photo sharing service for families, offers Yahoo! Photos subscribers an alternative that includes immediate access to all of their full-size images.

Online video and photo sharing service Phanfare (www.phanfare.com) announces a special offer for current customers of Yahoo! Photos. Yahoo! Photos recently informed their customers that their photos stored at Yahoo! Photos will be deleted at the end of the summer. In response, Phanfare is offering Yahoo! Photos customers the opportunity to move and save their photos from Yahoo! Photos to their own Phanfare Web sites known for family-friendly, private, secure, advertising-free albums. As an added bonus, current Yahoo! Photos customers will get six months free service when they move their photos to Phanfare*.

Unlike most other photo and video sharing services, Phanfare allows its customers to access and download all of their full-size originals at any time, for no additional cost. Like all Phanfare customers, those customers who move photos from Yahoo! Photos get unlimited storage for all of their videos and photos.

Those Yahoo! Photos customers wanting to move to Phanfare can do so immediately by simply following the easy instructions listed here: http://www.phanfare.com/yahoo. For those customers that require assistance moving their photos, they can contact Phanfare customer support by email at support@phanfare.com or by a toll-free phone call to 800-699-9354.

"Yahoo! Photos provided a great way for customers to share photos and the personal memories they represent in a private environment," said Andrew Erlichson, Phanfare's CEO. "The photo-printing sites that Yahoo! Photos has highlighted as alternatives to their service offer excellent printing services but they are not focused on the sharing needs of families. For those customers whose primary goal is to share their treasured photos and videos in a secure and private environment with no ads or storage limits, a Phanfare online album is the better choice."

* Note: Six months free service is for existing Yahoo! Photos customers only and is only for new Phanfare accounts. See Phanfare Web site for details.

About Phanfare
New Jersey-based Phanfare, Inc. provides the fastest, easiest way to share and protect all your videos and photos. For life. Phanfare's subscription-based online video and photo sharing service provides customers with private, permanent, polished, advertising-free online albums. Phanfare offers consumers personalized web galleries with unlimited storage and flexible security controls. Powerful, yet easy-to-use, patent-pending software simplifies the time and effort required by customers to create, share and maintain their albums. Phanfare also offers MyPhanfare-- a web-based AJAX client that allows customers to use Phanfare's sophisticated workflow solution to manage videos and photos right on the web from any online computer anywhere in the world. Phanfare was founded in 2004 by CEO Andrew Erlichson and CTO Mark Heinrich.

Phanfare is available for $54.95 per year, $6.95 per month or $299.95 for a lifetime membership and is PC and Mac compatible. A 30-day free trial is available via download for both Mac and PC. The Phanfare service is free to nonprofits, schools, and religious groups. For more information visit www.phanfare.com.

Call the babysitter and get out and about next week at the Katonah Museum of Art. Their summer jazz series allows for a casual and fun evening in a beautiful setting, and the last one is coming up-- if you haven't gotten there yet, here's your last chance!

Next Wednesday, August 8th at 6:00pm, experience the final installment of Shades of Jazz with Gregoire Maret. Enjoy the sound of harmonica virtuoso Gregoire Maret's GAIA trio, with Federico Gonzalez Pena on keyboards and Gene Lake on drums. Having toured and recorded extensively, with such names as David Sanborn, Anita Baker, and George Benson, Gregoire Maret has most recently joined the Pat Metheny group.

The sculpture garden gates open at 5:30 for picnicking. Presented by John Scofield, this popular three-part jazz series is sponsored by the legendary Blue Note music club, with support from Willy Nick's Restaurant & Bar, Captain Lawrence Brewing Company and The Little Wine Company. $10 for members / $15 for non-members. The museum is located at Route 22 at Jay Street. For more information: 914-232-9555 or www.katonahmuseum.org

Grab a picnic dinner to bring from William Nicholas in Katonah or head to Willy and Nick's for dinner or a drink afterwards, www.willynicks.com You won't be disappointed either way!

Soprano Harolyn Blackwell will join the Summer Vocal Performance Academy at the Music Conservatory of Westchester to teach a master class at 6:30 p.m., August 8th in the Conservatory Recital Hall, 216 Central Avenue in White Plains. There is a $10 admission fee.

Blackwell began her career on Broadway in Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story." Shortly afterwards, she was selected as a finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and her career path changed from musical theatre to opera. She has performed with many national and international opera companies, and at festivals around the world, including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Colon de Buenes Aires, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Opera Orchestra of New York and New York's Mostly Mozart Festival. She has appeared in several productions at the Metropolitan Opera, including "Un Ballo in Mascara" and "La Fille du Regiment." She starred in the Broadway revival of "Candide" in 1997. She has performed in several concert series, including London's Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and The San Francisco Performance Series at the Herbst.

In its first year, the Summer Vocal Performance Academy, directed by members of the Conservatory's voice faculty: Thomas Jamerson, former leading artist with the New York City Opera; Shirley Love, former soloist with the Metropolitan Opera; Mary Elizabeth Poore, recording artist and performer with the Gregg Smith Singers; Lorraine Goodman, Broadway appearances in "Les Miserables" and "Master Class"; Nancy Marano, recorded seven Jazz CDs and performs internationally; and Nakia Verner, participant in the 2006 Renata Scotto Opera Academy. There are 12 students ranging from 14 to 20 years old. During the academy, which runs through Aug. 10, students will develop their potential in the vocal arts, gain an awareness of healthy vocal technique and build essential skills which are the foundation for a range of vocal styles, including classical/opera, musical theatre, jazz and gospel. The program will wrap up Aug. 10 with free student performances at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall.

For information, call the Music Conservatory of Westchester at 914-761-3900 or visit www.musicconservatory.org