Bash the Trash concert & workshop at Widow Jane Mine
Sunday, July 23: This benefit for the Snyder Estate’s Century House features the ensemble Bash the Trash, the members of which will show the audience how to make musical instruments out of trash.
Sunday, July 23: This benefit for the Snyder Estate’s Century House features the ensemble Bash the Trash, the members of which will show the audience how to make musical instruments out of trash.
Friday, July 21: Embraced by hipsters as much as by oldsters, the girl-pop of the ’50 and ’60s represented a high point both in pop fun and in savvy writing and top-shelf arrangement.
Friday, July 21: Legends from different places and different times collide when the British superstar teams up with the great American pop eccentric.
Sunday, July 23: In a kind of musical history lesson, jazz guitarist Alex Wintz traces the lineage and progression of the art of the jazz guitar by focusing on the work of six pivotal innovators (nine, actually, as Wintz gets a little clever with his math). Wintz will examine legends Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, the “Big Three” of the modern jazz guitar (Metheny, Scofield and Frisell) and, in a curious inclusion, the Brazilian nylon-string jazz guitarist and singer Toninho Horta.
Sunday, July 23: The program features Haydn’s String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1, Brahms’ String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2, and one new work: String Quartet No. 3, “River” (2015) by Aaron Jay Kernis.
Saturday, July 22: BSP continues its swanky, stylish and monthly series with a beginners’ swing dance lesson, included in the cost of admission.
A 195-foot stainless steel floating concert hall and gallery space created by modernist architect Louis Kahn may be making the voyage to Kingston.
Author Greg Robinson will discuss the conflict between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt over the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Topics include: Gentrification’s not inevitable; city’s ‘rabbit pellet policy.’
Topics include: critiquing Faso’s “accomplishments,” thanks for emergency medical help at Stallions game, America alone, Faso tells letter-writer to scram, taking issue with column on Saugerties politics, invitation to Indivisible Saugerties meetings, county Legislature race and more.