Woodstock Chamber Orchestra shines again
I have never heard the WCO sound as good as it did during this concert, under the direction of William Stevens.
Art & Music
Masterson’s paintings highlight ‘people of the fields,’ now on view in Kingston
Barbara Masterson, who lives on a farm at the top of a small mountain in the southern Ulster hamlet of Milton, had always painted landscapes. But one day in May 2015, when she was out painting on a neighboring farm in Marlborough, some migrant workers wandered into the scene and her subject began to change. “I just painted them in quickly,” she said. “It was kismet. I was just innocently painting and they just kind of appeared.”
Open Season at WAAM
A new year brings new exhibits at the Woodstock Artists Association Museum.
YouTube sensation Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox comes to the Bardavon
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox has racked up a ridiculous number of internet plays with their imaginative and flawlessly executed “this hit meets that style” musical gamesmanship.
Modern trends, historical undercurrents at the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz
On view- “Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts”; Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s “Gloves Off;” Text/ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy” and “Intimately Unfamiliar: New Work by SUNY-New Paltz Art Faculty.”
Noam Pikelny brings his wit and gargantuan chops to Hudson
Punch Brothers banjoist Noam Pikelny plays Club Helsinki Friday, Feb. 10.
The Band Band at the Falcon
The Band, THE Band, are a tough cover. Believe it. Underneath the swampy roots rock grooves and the oft-imitated baying and braying ensemble vocals, the flagship rockstars of the Catskills hid a healthy load of complexity and sophistication like landmines for the naïve imitator.
“Heroes, Monsters and Madmen” at the CIA in Hyde Park
Broadway star Craig Shulman is the only man to have played The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s “The Phantom Of The Opera,” Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables,” and the title roles in “Jekyll & Hyde,” the trifecta of pre-Hamilton modern musical theater starring roles.
The Moonlights’ new record moves with pajama-footed innocence and slippery grace
The Moonlights celebrate the release of “The Moonlights” with a performance at the Pivot Ground Café & Work Space on Saturday, February 4 at noon, at 63 Broadway in Kingston.
Kingston After Dark: Scott Grower gets personal
There is something empowering about not only facing mortality but also coming into yourself.