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Kids’ Almanac (12/6-13)
Into the Light at Kaatsbaan; Holiday Cookie Decorating for Kids; Frozendale; Snowflake Festival
Wendy Whelan dances in The Day at Catskill’s Lumberyard
Friday/Saturday, Dec. 7/8: The Baryshnikov-lauded dancer and cellist Maya Beiser join forces with seminal modern dance choreographer Lucinda Childs to create The Day, an evening-length work with music by Pulitzer Prizewinning composer David Lang. This bold new work explores themes not easily grappled with – memory, aging, death, the survival of the soul.
Orange Is the New Black star Lea DeLaria sings at Bard
Saturday, Dec. 8: The television performer will bring her sassy and swinging interpretations of holiday classics to the Fisher Center stage with her all-female jazz trio.
Banjo god Tony Trischka and ethnomusicologist Tim Eriksen to perform old-time yuletide gems
Friday, Dec. 14 at Towne Crier Café in Beacon; Sunday, Dec. 16 at Ashokan Center in Olivebridge: Tim Eriksen is known for teaching the musicians for the film Cold Mountain to sing the eerie pentatonic scales of the Sacred Harp tradition. It’s a style of performance that evolved out of the use by circuit-riding ministers in the 19th century of a hymnal for illiterates that taught tunes using “shape notes,” and hearing it is guaranteed to capture your interest.
Sing along with Handel’s Messiah at the Bardavon
Saturday, Dec. 15: Though George Frideric Handel wrote his most famous oratorio in 1741 with the intent that it be performed with “modest” instrumentation, including a harpsichord, and only a few dozen voices, Messiah’s subsequent growth in both popularity and orchestral/choral scale is a juggernaut scarcely to be resisted.
Saugerties High School Honor Roll: First quarter
The academic elite in grades 9-12.
Robbie Dupree returns to Bearsville
Robbie Dupree & Friends make their first appearance at the Bearsville Theater in several years with a show at 8 p.m. Saturday, December 8, featuring longtime cohorts Peter Bunetta on drums and Rick Chudacoff on bass, along with guitarist Tony Pulizzi, keyboardist Bette Sussman and Manuel Qunitana on percussion.
Three charged with murder in Sawkill Rd. shooting
A 38-year-old man and two 17-year-old males have been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place Saturday, December 1 in the roadway on Sawkill Rd. in the town of Ulster.
Kids’ Almanac: Local holiday happenings
Ralph Breaks the Internet; Sinterklaas comes to Rhinebeck; Winter Walk in Hudson; Celebration of Lights in Poughkeepsie; A Christmas Carol ballet in Kingston; WoodstockLand.