The Youngbloods immortalized Spring Weekend at SUNY-New Paltz in 1970 by putting a shot of the crowd on the back cover of their album. That famous two-day concert also featured performances by Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker and Leon Russell.
In which our intrepid middle-aged music critic samples the life of a young punk on tour.
Rhett Miller, longtime New Paltz-area resident, barely seems taxed by the responsibility of stocking a solo career and the legendary alt/country pioneers with sturdy songs. Undertones of sin and salvation erupt to the surface in the (suddenly red-hot) single, “Good with God,” a smoldering duet with Brandi Carlisle.
Saturday, March 4- The Levin Brothers finds Pete and Tony uniting over a shared musical passion of their youths: old-school cool jazz. “There are so many artists, writers and filmmakers in the area. Taking Woodstock as the spiritual center and fanning out from there, the Hudson Valley really is like a large, extended art colony.”
Among my many fusion favorites was one – precisely one – local band. They weren’t from here, they didn’t form here and they’re not here anymore; but for a period in the early ’80s, they camped out in Coochie’s in New Paltz
Ever more ceremonial and ritualized, Uptown Kingston is now adding a Mardi Gras celebration to its yearly calendar of chaos.
Saugerties Pro Musica welcomes the return of the esteemed pianist Yalin Chi, principal pianist of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, on Sunday, February 19 at 3 p.m.
At 63, former co-frontperson of the seminal California punk band X John Doe now looks and sounds the part of the dark-but-tender American roots bard.
In 2015, the legendary Native American singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie released a fabulous hybrid traditional/electro effort, Power in the Blood.
Punch Brothers banjoist Noam Pikelny plays Club Helsinki Friday, Feb. 10.