The concert will be in “jazz chamber orchestra” format: a small ensemble featuring a core quartet with the addition of strings, wind and percussion.

The blues interpreter John Hammond has never moved far off his spot. A pretty pure embodiment of the raw energies, dangerous identities and elusive eccentricities of the blues, regardless of complexion, Hammond has his acoustic modes and his electric modes, his urban modes and rural.

Multiple Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Graham Nash performs in the intimate confines of the Bearsville Theater on Tuesday, Oct. 4.

Ben Neill’s revelatory environmental composition Manitoga somehow manages to transport you to the place where you already are. It is named for the location at which the work is intended to be performed, exclusively: Manitoga, the idyllic-but-subtly-surreal Russell Wright Design Center in Garrison.

“In the midst of America’s epidemic of gun violence that results in 90 deaths, over 200 injuries and a mass shooting every day, this powerful coast-to-coast concert and organizing effort will raise awareness and – very importantly – get out the vote on gun violence prevention in the November elections and beyond.”

It’s a naïve, self-flattering assumption to believe that your art is a direct, gashed-vein expression of your experience, your larger

The tireless touring machine that is Zepparella makes another local stop on Friday, September 16. This time around, the all-female