Lily Dale The Dave Golando Big Band will perform on Lily Dale Assembly’s floating stage on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public as a gift to the community from Lily Dale Assembly.

The Dave Golando Big Band has been performing throughout western New York for the past decade, entertaining audiences with its blend of jazz, blues, R & B, rock, vocal favorites, gospel, Latin and swing.

Critics have called the band’s performances “an enjoyable evening of jazz and big band music the perfect addition to any summer concert series” and said the band’s “powerful horns combined with its smooth jazz grooves provide for a great evening of big band music!”

Lily Dale’s floating stage was built in the early 1990s and donated to the Lily Dale Assembly by the Lily Dale Fine Arts Council, a group of volunteers who planned and coordinated a summer concert series on the stage for more than a decade. The stage was rebuilt two years ago by Lily Dale Assembly and is anchored in Cassadaga Lake behind Lily Dale’s Leolyn Hotel. This will be a relaxing and enjoyable evening of music in a great location on the shores of beautiful Cassadaga Lake.

“Lily Dale Assembly attracts a significant portion of its summer visitors from communities in the area,” says Lily Dale Assembly President Donn Smeragliuolo. “This concert is our way of saying thank you to those communities and is part of what we hope will become an annual summer concert series.” There is no charge for admission; concertgoers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets or to come by boat.

This event is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Cattaraugus County Arts Council. Support also comes from the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County Projects Pool Grant Program.

Lily Dale is a Spiritualist community located in Chautauqua County, N.Y., on the shores of Cassadaga Lake. Lily Dale became renowned for Spiritualism and identified as the center of the Spiritualist movement when the childhood home of its American founders, Kate and Margaret Fox, was moved from Hydesville, N.Y., to Lily Dale in 1916. This established Lily Dale as the home of Spiritualism in the United States. Today, Lily Dale is a place of pilgrimage for many Spiritualists and others interested in Spiritualism. Each year nearly 30,000 visitors come for classes, workshops, public church services and mediumship demonstrations, lectures, and private appointments with mediums.