The Statewide Regional Regrants program is funded by the New York State Council for the Arts and administered through the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts. This annual grant opportunity supports arts-related programming that benefits the community.

On most Tuesday evenings, non-instructional drawing sessions are hosted at Lake Flower Landing from 6 to 9 p.m. The grant helps support hiring models (clothed) for each session. Artists of all abilities are welcome to join the supportive group that encourages development by simply participating.

Lake Flower Landing also launches their Sound & Vision concert series, with four events in September and October that feature local and visiting performers, some making their first visit to the area. Lake Flower Landing is an intimate setting, more like a house concert.

The series begins with the Electronic Music Summit at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15. Starting the evening will be Antonin Fajt (Czech-born, living in New York City), a composer, pianist and electronic musician working at the intersections of folk music, contemporary music, and jazz. Brian Dewan will present Dewanatron, analog-synthesizers (pre-digital), that he co-created with his cousin Leon.

Syd Straw (Provided photo)

“We have a fondness for that ‘golden age’ of electronic music that does not fall back on preset sounds or patterns [like on a laptop] but has to be dished up ‘fresh.’ … The sounds you get out of analog electronic instruments or acoustic instruments are limited only by the laws of nature,” Dewan said. “I think there’s a lot more variety in that. … We set up gymnasiums that electrons kind of fling around in.”

Also as part of the Electronic Music Summit is the duo PearlyKesh. Luisa Mei (Saranac Lake) and Jesse Chandler (Plattsburgh) may be familiar from their performance at the Station in Onchiota last year. Mei manipulates and loops Chandler’s guitar with a program built in Supercollider. The result is a swirling conversation of sounds, phrases and sequences, all created from Chandler’s guitar.

The Station’s impresario and organizer, Echo, will run sound for the evening and during PearlyKesh’s set at 9 p.m. will project a light show.

The second event of this series, “Billy & Shamim, the Allens and Friends,” will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Local legend Billy Allen, formerly of the Waterhole in Saranac Lake, shares Shamim’s last name but they are not actually related, they’re friends. Their repertoire will be from Billy’s extensive catalog of songs that evoke the heartfelt work of Townes Van Zandt, with close harmony vocals, always reaching, and firmly rooted in local Adirondack lore.

The third event is the North Country debut of Hinterlands at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. Hinterlands is an accordion and violin duo playing original music ranging from contemplative to howling. Ben Russell and Matt Schreiber weave together threads of vernacular music, improvisation, and songcraft to create a musical fabric entirely their own. Sometimes fiery, sometimes melancholy, Hinterlands journeys through landscapes of shapes and sound. Russell has performed with Kronos Quartet, Max Richter, Bjrk, Sufjan Stevens, The National and Johann Johannson. Schreiber has studied and performed Romani and Balkan music for almost two decades and is considered one of a handful of American accordionists moving the instrument beyond a state of perpetual comeback.

The last event features Indie-rock diva Syd Straw with local Monsterbuck frontman, Chris Kowanko at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12. Both artists courted mainstream success, with Chris having his debut album, “Spell,” produced by Steve Fisk, who produced many prominent Northwest Grunge bands. Syd Straw started as a backup singer for Pat Benatar and in the 1980s was a front person for the Golden Palominos alongside Jack Bruce (Cream). Straw’s solo debut album landed her appearances on MTV’s “Unplugged,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Late Night with David Letterman.” Her collaborators include Richard Thompson, Michael Stipe, Ricky Lee Jones, Rosanne Cash, Wilco, Los Lobos and Brian Eno. Her acting career includes the 1993 mini-series “Tales of the City.”

Advance tickets are available by emailing seward.peter@gmail.com. Lake Flower Landing is at 421 Lake Flower Ave., in Saranac Lake and is ADA assessable.

These projects are made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.