The Band, THE Band, are a tough cover. Believe it. Underneath the swampy roots rock grooves and the oft-imitated baying and braying ensemble vocals, the flagship rockstars of the Catskills hid a healthy load of complexity and sophistication like landmines for the naïve imitator.

The Moonlights celebrate the release of “The Moonlights” with a performance at the Pivot Ground Café & Work Space on Saturday, February 4 at noon, at 63 Broadway in Kingston.

New Paltz resident Roman Iwasiwka was part of Camera 5, an elite agency of celebrity- and culture-attuned photographers associated with the late, great American photojournalist Ken Regan, a photographer who gained a rare level of intimate access to the lives of the famous and influential.

You get the feeling that Donna the Buffalo – a band that has been splitting the difference among Americana, global groove and jam rock and singer/songwriter for well over 20 years – has developed a special relationship with the venues and audiences of the mid-Hudson Valley.

“Eppard” is a bit of a holy name in this region.

A jazz iconoclast of the highest order, DeJohnette has long been a genuine, walking-the-talk community member as well.

Club d’Elf is the rotating-membership collective headed by Boston-based bassist and composer Mike Rivard. The rotation has featured a number of luminaries over the years, but the most frequent big name on the marquee has been the wicked exploratory keyboardist and Hudson Valley resident John Medeski.

This Saturday at BSP- The band has long been the region’s premier reggae/ska/global pop group – maybe the only band that can pack the Bearsville Theater, the Falcon, Club Helsinki and BSP, the grand slam of our small-to-mid-sized national-circuit rooms.

Mike Hollis celebrates the release of Lost and Found at the Falcon Underground in Marlboro on Thursday, January 5 at 7 p.m. Dante Defelice opens. Per usual at the Falcon, there is no cover, but generous donation is encouraged.