Head for Rhinebeck to enjoy the second-largest fair in NY state
August 21-26: The 173-year-old tradition continues in Rhinebeck.
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Huichica East festival takes over Chaseholm Farm in Pine Plains this weekend
Friday-Sunday, August 24-26: Huichica (pronounced wah-CHEE-ka) East answers the West Coast’s storied festival with pastoral settings, adventurous and hip music and farm-grown food.
Live recording session with Kat Wright in Woodstock
Saturday, August 18: Guests are invited to sit in on the mystery of studio recording as the Vermont-based retro soul/pop singer lays down a live album that will be her next release. The Burlington singer and her band work in the swanky, uptown-retro tradition of Dap-Tone and Amy Winehouse.
Second annual Saugerties music fest highlights addiction and suicide issues
Aug. 18-19 Hope Rocks offers onsite counseling, speakers offering their personal experiences and a myriad of activities, including: approximately 50-plus live musical performances; a motorcade; a 5k and 10k run; softball; volleyball; basketball; tennis; pickleball; human foosball; art exhibition; and, crafters. New to the 2018 festival is a walk- and bike-a-thon, children’s area, petting zoo and t-shirt design contest.
Kingston Times letters (8/9-15)
VanBlarcum deserves your support; Saving Private Francis.
Jackson Browne to headline Dirt Farmer Festival at Arrowood Farms
Sunday, August 19: This one-day festival in Accord assembles many of Levon Helm’s most famous collaborators (and admirers).
Saugerties Times letters (8/9-15)
Facing the facts on the Vietnam War; Saugerties solar project; concentrate power locally; worrying about children.
Saugerties Artists’ Studio Tour Guide 2018
Opening reception Friday, Aug. 10 at Opus 40, and self-guided tour of artist studios Aug. 11-12.
Hudson Valley man wins $1 million from lotto ticket purchased in Kingston
A Woodstock man received a $1 million check this morning at the Kingston Stewart’s Shoppe where he bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket during a unplanned stop for soda.
Trombone Shorty’s Voodoo Threauxdown at Bethel Woods
Saturday, August 11: He is one of the most recent and most popular ambassadors of New Orleans’ complex musical heritage of jazz, blues, Cajun, funk and more. He is hardly alone on this bill, however. Also performing will be the popular funk/jam band Galactic, the great Preservation Hall Jazz Band and at least two people with the last name Neville, for legitimacy.