All posts by Frances Marion Platt

New Year’s Dance & Dinner at Ashokan Center

New Year’s Dance & Dinner at Ashokan Center

Tuesday, December 31: The 6 p.m. four-course dinner is followed at 8 p.m. by couple dancing and called dances in two rooms ’til the wee hours, with a midnight countdown and more dancing in the upstairs Zydeco Lounge. Your dance style choices include swing, Cajun, Zydeco, contras, squares, blues and waltzes, with red-hot music to propel you, supplied by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason with Swingology, Christine Balfa & Balfa Toujours, the Russet Trio and Zydegroove.

Ars Choralis New Year’s Eve concert in Kingston benefits Ulster Immigrant Defense Network

Ars Choralis New Year’s Eve concert in Kingston benefits Ulster Immigrant Defense Network

Tuesday, Dec. 31: Titled “We All Come from Somewhere,” the program celebrates the rich diversity of the American people via music from many genres, ranging from the African American spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” to Woody Guthrie’s protest song “Deportee” to “Gabriel’s Oboe” from Ennio Morricone’s sublime score to the movie The Mission.