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1- r. i 4 te(j 5 u. By BILL FARRELL 'V 1 I i 1 f1- if- I ft Available are Larry Kiyers xjncoiruenn-' er 20th Anniversary poster $350 for the print. New York Shakespeare Festival Gift Shop (425 Lafayette St. 598-7135).

Never one to be outdone, Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival has a little shop that is big on goodies. Prices here tend to be lower than uptown. For example, the Paul Davis Folio a collection of seven posters (which can decorate a whole room) includes "Hamlet," "For Colored "Streamers," "Threepenny Opera," "Ashes," and "The Cherry Orchard," and "Measure for Measure" is $5.50 downtown but $8 at One Shubert Alley. They also feature albums, cigarette lighters and other trinkets, like a "I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On the Road" tote bag. Waterproof, it is red with black lettering, folds into a case when not it use and costs $12.

Every play produced by the Public Theater, and even some that they never performed, are here and cost from $2.25. There are shirts and sweat shirts and "A Chorus Line" satin jacket with your name on the front is $37.95. Larger posters go for $5 and a 14 22 "Chorus Line" poster is also $5. Anna Sosenko (8 W. 62d St.

between Central Park XV. and Broadway 247-4816). "Just say I have one of the no say I Christmas shopping is like the little girl with the curl. When it is fun it's lots and lots of fun but when it's necessary, it horrid. One way to help make it fun is to know two important things: first, what the person you're buying the gift for likes or wants and second, where to find what it is your looking for.

Being in New York affords shoppers wider selections of goods because there is a wider selection of shops. After all, what other city can offer every type of shop from Sears to Korvettes to Bergdorf to Woolworth to Tiffany with thousands of other in between. New York also is the theatrical, musical and dance capital of the world. Because it holds this position there are numerous shops that offer a wonderful assortment of gifts inspired by the stage. Sg, if you have someone on your One Shubert Alley (Shubert Alley between 44th and 45th 921-9725).

In the middle of Shubert Alley, between Broadway and Eighth this shop, made from three small Booth dressing rooms, specalizes in gifts with a Broadway rhythm. It's run by Theater Refreshment the people who sell souvenir programs and shirts at theaters during intermission and after the show. Since theaters sell only the shirts or programs of their own shows, picking up "Sweeney Todd," "Annie" and "Dracula" shirts could become time consuming. Fortunately, One Shubert Alley puts all under one roof and offers items not available at theaters. Annie dolls are available here in two sizes, at $7.95 and a colorful Sweeney Todd Apron is $14.95 and you can wear it while making your own pies.

There are Tony Award key chains pewter plates and ashtrays from Sctrcli's shirts go from $6 to $9.50, and posters from all Broadway shows cost from $4 unframed. There are also satin jackets with "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "A Chorus Line" logos, ranging from $45 to $70. Paperweights, jewelry, umbrellas, albums, towels, books and calendars are also available. It's open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday through Saturday and from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday. Lincoln Center Gift Shop (Under the Metrpolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, 64th St west of Amsterdam Ave. 799-2442). One of the finest gift shops of its kind, it is in four sections Opera, Music, Theater and Ballet, each offering items to fit any budget.

Opera section has everything from Blackcurrant Pastilles (favorties of singers for keeping the throat refreshed) to a selection of garnets and amber jewelry (favorites of female opera af icionodos for keeping the throat and ears attired). There are recordings ($17 and up), busts of composers ($225 in bronze patina $3,600 in actual bronze), a fan for "Madam Butterfly" fans the Opera Encyclopedia ($25) and of course, binoculars. The Music section carries a Mostly Mozart motif. What music lover wouldn't appreciate a briefcase with a Mozart sonata woven into the fabric ($55) a matching memo pad ($13.95) and pocket diary aspics 'SH 1 yV ir Buying theater gifts at Lincoln Center Mozart ties, with Piano Sonata in across the front ($15) come in various colors. There are music boxes in all shapes and sizes priced from $7.50 to $2,500 (for $20.95, music box busts of your favorite composer are available).

Pewter letter openers graced by Beethoven or a treble clef go for $15.95. Mostly Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Hayden and other shirts are $5 to $12. French Horn earrings stickpins and tie tacks ($25) as well as Musicgraphs a new art form created Stephen Jabonsky are $100 (framed). If there is still some money left, the Drama section has decks of Shakespeare inspired playing cards ($15) with Lady Macbeth as queen and Lear as king. There are flashlight pens Lincoln Center totes ($12) and shirts ($7) as well as drama muses in stickpin form ($13.95) and a harlequin pendant The Ballet section offers a variety of Nutcrackers, all hand carved in various sizes.

This section also features the 1980 Dance Ballet Calendar there are books (Lincoln Kirstein's "Thirty Years at the New York City Ballet" for $15, and "Baryshnikov at Work" at $30) are among the selections. There are mice dolls from the "Nutcracker" and swans from "Swan Lake." The shop also features a line of silk screen posters and limited edition prints. have the greatest collection of theater programs in the world." So says Anna Sosenko, owner of this theatrical memoribilia shop. No shirts and tote bags here, just stuff for theater lovers and programs, signed and unsigned, date back to the 18th century with prices starting at $3. There are letters and notes and autographed pictures of Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Judy Garland, Charles Dickens, Franz Liszt, George Gershwin, Judith Anderson and countless others.

As Anna says "you could spend $3 to infinity but there is something for everyone in here." The shop is open from 1 to 5 p.m, Monday through Saturday. Triton International Theater Posters, (323 W. 45th St. 765-4272). If its posters you want this is the place.

Old shows, new shows, large, small, can all be had here. It deals mostly in theater but there is a selection of movie posters of old classics like "Casablanca," "Top Hat," "The Gay Divorce," "King Kong," "Dracula," "Frankenstein," "Gone With The Wind," "City Lights" and "Animal Crackers." They cost $5 each. The current posters cost $6 to $50. The Triton Gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Wanna dry up? Try towel shopping list ho would just love to have a little piece of Broadway or opera, or music or ballet or whatever check these out: The pick ofbluegrass fills Avery Fisher Hall BY BILL CARLTON Carolina. He became nationally known in the early '60s through concerts at Gerde's Folk City and especially at the Newport Folk Festival. Stanley is one of the great forces in bluegrass. He and his late brother Carter became famous in the late '40s for their "high harmony gospel" style and were among the first to set old mountain ballads and gospels songs to a bluegrass beat. With Ralph on banjo and vocals, backed by the boys from Clinch Mountain, a good time is guaranteed.

Bowers performs country material on the autoharp. The autoharp is a small harp or zither with a delicate, shimmering sound. On most of them the player presses a button to get a particular chord, but virtuosi like Bowers can get the same sound by chording strings with their fingers. Mother Maybelle Carter played autoharp and June Carter does now too. But you don't hear it on records or radio much.

Rowan has an interesting background. He grew out of the folk revival in Cambridge in the early '60s and sung with Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass." He went on to sing in a bluegrass band called Old And In the Way which included Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead) on guitar and the legendary fiddler Vassar Clements. Rowan played with the Rowan Brothers and Seatrain and composed "Panama Red" for the New Riders of the Purple Sage. In the past couple of years, however, he has returned to the bluegrass circuit with violinist Tex Logan. Last, but certainly not least, the bluegrass bill will feature the solo talents of John McEuen, who plays banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and who recently toured with Dolly Parton.

The Dirt Band played an important role in popularizing bluegrass music through its own sound and with the album, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." That milestone recording of a few years back was a veritable gathering of the older and younger generations in which country greats Roy Acuff, Doc Watson, Merle Travis and the Carter Family were backed by the Dirt Band. With such an incredible roster of talent, this concert should be very enjoyable and even historic. Y'all come now, heah? BLUEGRASS will be greenest at Avery Fisher I Hall tomorrow in a four-hour concert starring tJ Doc and Merle Watson, John McEuen, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, Bryan Bowers and Peter Rowan with Tex Logan and the Greengrass Boys. The event is billed as the first "Englishtown Music Hall Bluegrass Festival at Lincoln Center" and starts at 7 p.m. The music hall, in central New Jersey, is a center for bluegrass music in these parts, and since 1974 producer Geoff Berne has presented over 200 bands-there from 25 states.

But now bluegrass is growing all over the country. People who don't like it are a cult now, and the 300-seat music hall isn't big enough anymore. Berne has 7,000 people on his mailing lists alone, many of whom attend some of the bluegrass festivals held every year across the country. The Englishtown hall certainly wouldn't be big enough to handle this show, which has to be one of the best of its kind the Apple has ever hosted. It's an interesting mixture of older and newer exponents of bluegrass and other forms of traditional country music.

Bluegrass was created 40 years ago by Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. In this style of music only stringed instruments are used steel-stringed guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and bass. Electric instruments are forbidden, and you won't find drums or pianos in a bluegrass band, either. Sharp, high harmonizing is the norm and the songs contain very few chords. It's simple, rural music with a dash of improvising jazz as melodies are kicked around from one soloist to another.

Most non -Southerners were recently introduced to bluegrass via Flatt and Scruggs' rendition of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" in the movie "Bonnie and Clyde." And remember that great scene in "Deliverance" where they play "Dueling That's bluegrass, too. Doc Watson and son Merle are two of the most beloved and popular musicians on the program, though strictly speaking they play folk or countryrock rather than pure bluegrass. They are wonderful crowd pleasers, If I John McEuen: from Nitty Gritty to bluegrass whether fingerpicking on "Windy and Warm" or "Deep River Blues," or blazing away with flatpicks on "Black Mountain Rag" and "Billy in the Low Ground." Doc (real name Arthel), is in his mid-50s and comes from North.