Alternative Kingston: O+ Festival music showcases growing indie scene
Anyone well-versed in the peaks and the caverns, the royals and the rabble of the current mid-Hudson Valley music scene
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Hot & cool at The Falcon this Saturday
Singer/songwriter Bianca Merkley has landed a good gig, opening for David Johansen at the Falcon in Marlboro. But perhaps there
Bearded bard Steve Earle to play Bardavon
Country likes to dress up its outlaw icons lavishly, sell them on spangled stages and in lush, larger-than-life recordings. Rock
Ex-Bongo Richard Barone to perform at BSP
With former Bongos frontman and solo artist Richard Barone making so many intimate local appearances lately (and performing winningly, by
Banjo wizard Tony Trischka in New Paltz
One of the banjo’s true innovators and a foundational figure in the current progressive bluegrass renaissance, Tony Trischka will perform
Bard to host Carolina Chocolate Drops
Old-time string-band revivalists the Carolina Chocolate Drops have been reconstructing and recombining deep-past American music so well and for so
Jorma to play Bearsville
I grew up believing that Jefferson Airplane was awarded a lifetime ban from SUNY-New Paltz for its drug-infested 1969 concert
Maverick to host jazz pianist Fred Hersch
Pianist Fred Hersch is a kind of model for what a top-tier jazz career looks like anymore. His is not
Have a Hart
Many Grateful Dead sympathizers tend to prefer the material that the band recorded as a one-drummer ensemble, during drummer/percussionist Mickey
Tunes from Die Pfalz
Shana Falana, Breakfast in Fur & Cycad tout new Team Love compilation CD at BSP in Kingston this Friday