HEUVELTON -- Folk-singer Ray Lambiase will perform original works at the Pickens Hall Opera House, 83 State St., Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m.

Musician Tom Richter will open the show.

Ray Lambiase is a veteran Long Island singer-songwriter who has performed in concert with Marshall Crenshaw, Dave Van Ronk, Pure Prairie League, Suzanne Vega, Dave Mason, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Buzzy Linhart, The Mamas and the Papas, Dr. John, and many others.

The folk musician began writing and performing his own songs as a teenager on Long Island.

After travelling the college coffeehouse circuit in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, he formed his first band and recorded Slow Dance Romeo/Who'll Run to You Now in the early 1980s.

The single received local radio airplay and led to publishing contracts with Nashville's Combine Music and Bob Dylan's Special Rider Music publishing arm.

The follow-up EP “Take Me To The Movies” included six songs, and was released on Great Divide Records, a music cooperative formed by Jack Hardy during the early days of the Fast Folk Greenwich Village folk movement whose members included Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin and Bill Morrissey.

“The Ballad of Three Finger Brown,” was released in August 2016, and featured eleven acoustic performances of new original material.

The CD charted at #12 on the national Folk DJ list that month, with two cuts finishing among the twenty most-played tracks.

To learn more about Lambiase and to hear tracks of his music, log on to http://www.raylambiase.com.

Admission to the show is $10, or $9 for non-members. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.pickenshall.com.

Contact Pickens Hall at 315-344-7950 for more information.