The Music Oasis presents a very special evening celebrating songwriting spanning folk, blues, soul, and jazz. Featuring co-founders Greg Dayton (New York Blues Hall of Fame) and Marlon Saunders (Stevie Wonder, Sting, The Lumineers), with special guests Professor Louie and Miss Marie (The Band, The Crowmatix, 5 Grammy nominations) and Anson Jones (5 time Downbeat magazine Award winner), along with new music and performances from their students spending the week-long creative workshop and retreat in Hunter. 

Now in its 27th year, the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization which offers a variety of programs and workshops centered on the arts. It owns and runs The Orpheum Performing Arts Center, The Doctorow Center for the Arts (which includes the Mountain Cinema, a performance space, and the Piano Performance Museum), Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, a Natural Agriculture farm and the Guide Magazine. The Foundation has long term partnership programs with The Joyce Theater Foundation, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, the National Dance Institute and Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, and is also home to the Hunter International Music Festival, The Academy of Fortepiano Performance, the Orpheum Dance Program, and the Maude Adams Theater Hub.