Described as “an exhibit that stages concrete and abstract symbols of American values,” the Carrie Haddad Gallery’s new exhibit titled “Americana” opens on January 25 and runs through March 12, with an artists’ reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, January 28.
New Paltz resident Roman Iwasiwka was part of Camera 5, an elite agency of celebrity- and culture-attuned photographers associated with the late, great American photojournalist Ken Regan, a photographer who gained a rare level of intimate access to the lives of the famous and influential.
You get the feeling that Donna the Buffalo – a band that has been splitting the difference among Americana, global groove and jam rock and singer/songwriter for well over 20 years – has developed a special relationship with the venues and audiences of the mid-Hudson Valley.
“Eppard” is a bit of a holy name in this region.
“On the public street, you have an expectation about how things are going to play out, but there’s no control and you’re incredibly vulnerable.”
It wasn’t until his death that his three adopted children found out why this talented musician had shunned the spotlight (and doctors): Billy had been born, in 1914 in Oklahoma City, as Dorothy Lucille Tipton. She adopted a male persona in order to break into a music business that was still not very friendly to women performers, and went on to live as a man so persuasively that the two women with whom he had multi-year common-law marriages claimed never to have known that “Billy” was biologically female.
One of our several great resident vocal ensembles, Ars Choralis, has dreamt up a grave and serious concert for Inauguration
Alex Mazur’s excellent, regional Dead cover band Gratefully Yours returns to the Falcon Underground in Marlboro on Friday, January 20.
The husband and wife team of fiddler/mathematician T.G. Vanini and songwriter/musician Julie Parisi Kirby will celebrate the release the first of a quartet of CD’s titled Seed-Maid: Sentimental Songs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 14 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock.
The sheer volume of material that has been gathered is astounding: 16,000 wind-spinners; millions of plastic pony beads; thousands of ceramic birds, fruits and animals; 13 gilded pigs; more than ten miles of crystals; 24 chandeliers; one crocodile; and 17 cast-iron lawn jockeys.