CLMF On Tour: Cooperstown Summer Music Festival

Caroga Arts Ensemble performs Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and more patriotic favorites to celebrate the Fourth of July! Plus, special guests: saxophonist Eddie Barbash and comedian Alex Moffatt.

Hailed by Jon Batiste as “one of the world’s most important saxophonists,” Eddie Barbash was a founding member of the house band for the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and currently tours the world with Cory Wong and the Wongnotes. His unmistakable sound is featured on the Oscar and Grammy-winning soundtrack of Soul. He has performed at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Madison Square Garden to the Village Vanguard and has headlined both the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the Umbria Jazz Festival. Barbash’s versatile sound has led him to collaborate with musicians in many styles. At 18 he joined the sextet of legendary jazz drummer Chico Hamilton and the quintet of emerging jazz star Jon Batiste. In his 20’s he fell in love with American traditional music and began touring with bluegrass phenom Sierra Hull. He’s a frequent guest with funk band Vulfpeck and indie rocker Sam Evian. In 2016 he performed a duet on national TV with Yo-Yo Ma and he performs regularly with chamber choir Amor Artis.

Eddie has released 4 albums: “For Murray and Lillian”, a collection of crooning melodies dedicated to his late grandparents, arranged by Kyle Athayde for an octet of four strings and jazz quartet; “Eddie Barbash Live Parts 1-4”, a selection of the best performances of 6 years of leading bands in NYC; and most recently “Live With Jim, Joe, and Dave”, a snapshot of one night of improvised music in Brooklyn, recorded directly to tape in one of the borough’s hippest local haunts.
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Eddie was born in West Islip, NY and was raised in Oaxaca, Mexico, Atlanta, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He lives in Nashville.

A breakout performer on SNL, Alex Moffat succeeded Jim Carrey as Joe Biden on the show. He is best known for his impersonations of Eric Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, Anderson Cooper, Joe Scarborough amongst others,
as well as his original recurring Weekend Update character Guy Who Just Bought A Boat.

His most recent films include SUSIE SEARCHES, which premiered at the 2022 TIFF on September 9th, and the holiday comedy, CHRISTMAS WITH THE CAMPBELLS, opposite of Britany Snow and Justin Long. He can next be seen on Apple’s BAD MONKEY series, an adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s novel where he’ll star with Vince Vaughn. Moffat is currently filming the second season of the award-winning FX series THE BEAR, opposite Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ayo Edebiri. He will also be making his Broadway debut with THE COTTAGE, directed by Jason Alexander.

Over the 2020 holiday season, Alex appeared in the Netflix feature, HOLIDATE, directed by John Whitesell and starring Emma Roberts. He also worked on the Paramount feature CLIFFORD, the live action hybrid based on the best-selling book series and directed by Walt Becker. Alex can be seen playing opposite Britany Snow in the breakout romantic comedy SOMEONE GREAT. He has also been receiving great praise for his performance in THE OPENING ACT, produced by Peter Billingsley.

Aside from SNL, he can be seen on TV in Showtime’s series BILLIONS and is the voice behind JIMMY in Disney’s sequel WRECK-IT RALPH 2. Spending the earlier years of his career in Chicago, he was a regular performer at iO and The Annoyance Theatre as well as an official acro-dunker for the renowned Chicago Bulls. He played in the Celebrity All-Star game in February 2020.

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