Skeleton Keys bring “Deadtronica” to Bearsville
“I call it ‘Deadtronica,’ though it is really not the best description,” says keyboardist/singer/songwriter Alex Mazur of Skeleton Keys, his
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Stomp is great, but it killed my band
Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas’ enduringly popular performance piece Stomp is part musical composition, part dance, part wordless comedy and,
Estelle Parsons to front HV Philharmonic for Bernstein’s Kaddish
Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, has lent its complex themes and functions, as well as its title, to
David Sedaris at the Bardavon this Friday
When cultural historians of the future attempt to account for the surging popularity of oral history and performance memoir in the
Jam-packed: Max Creek headlines Rock the Resort in Kerhonkson
I Rocked the Resort once, or tried. My ever-miscast band the Sweet Clementines did its spiel at the 2010 edition
Adir L. C. releases Oceanside Cities & performs at BSP
In 2012, Fairweather Friends – a large, ragtag New Paltz musical collective led by songwriter/guitarist Adir L. C. and drummer
Improv Cubed at Bard’s Fisher Center
“History’s best composers were expected to churn out improvisational masterpieces with regularity, so why are our associations with improvisation so
An evening of Walt Whitman in New Paltz
The literary eminence and tastemaker Ralph Waldo Emerson declared Walt Whitman to be the first truly American poet. His sustained
John Menegon sextet to play Studley Theatre
Jazz bassist/composer John Menegon forged his career as a sideman, working with leaders on the order of Dewey Redman, David
Marc Ribot to play Quinn’s in Beacon
“Perfectly wrong.” The words didn’t occur to me as such, but that’s what my gut said the first time I