Woodstock’s Kleinert to host Jack DeJohnette’s concert for inner peace
A jazz iconoclast of the highest order, DeJohnette has long been a genuine, walking-the-talk community member as well.
Art & Music
Club d’Elf launches new LP at Helsinki Hudson
Club d’Elf is the rotating-membership collective headed by Boston-based bassist and composer Mike Rivard. The rotation has featured a number of luminaries over the years, but the most frequent big name on the marquee has been the wicked exploratory keyboardist and Hudson Valley resident John Medeski.
Anthony Haden-Guest artist talk
For anyone familiar with party scenes in New York City from the heady 1970s on, the name Anthony Haden-Guest — who has a new exhibit opening at Cross Contemporary on Partition Street next weekend, as well as a talk at a new performance venue and B&B on the Saugerties/Woodstock border January 14 — is instantly recognizable.
The Big Takeover to debut new LP in Kingston
This Saturday at BSP- The band has long been the region’s premier reggae/ska/global pop group – maybe the only band that can pack the Bearsville Theater, the Falcon, Club Helsinki and BSP, the grand slam of our small-to-mid-sized national-circuit rooms.
New book captures photographer Nora Scarlett’s ten-year visual odyssey through the Gunks
The bedrock of the Ridge creates growing conditions for its trees that inspired Scarlett. “In those hundreds of hours hiking the Gunks, I became awed at how life perseveres despite formidable handicaps, how it adapts to adversity and how it succeeds in astonishing ways.”
Sonny Ochs keeps the legacy of Phil Ochs alive
In the Trump era, Sonny feels Phil’s music is more pertinent than ever. If he were alive today, “I don’t think he’d have time to sleep, there’s so much material out there,” she said. “He’s already written songs that are, unfortunately, still relevant.”
Members show kicks off new year at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
The Guild is pushing two faces this year. One is historic, best emblemized by the face of one of the original arts colony’s founders, Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, who tried her hand at all mixes of arts and crafts explored in the studios built around she and her husband’s rural home here. The other is young and exploring, one of 600 members of the new organization who as often as not first experienced the place as part of Byrdcliffe’s annual, and growing, Artist in Residence program.
New membership-based Gallery@Rhinebeck opens
“We feel, if we’re asking for the community’s financial support, the artists will in turn do something for the community.”
Free Kakizome workshop at Arts Mid-Hudson
The Japanese like to visualize good fortune to come by making their first calligraphy of the year an auspicious Chinese character called a kanji, encapsulating the particular flavor of positive energy that one next wishes to embody. The practice is called Kakizome, meaning “first writing.”
Mike Hollis to debut Lost and Found at Marlboro’s Falcon Underground
Mike Hollis celebrates the release of Lost and Found at the Falcon Underground in Marlboro on Thursday, January 5 at 7 p.m. Dante Defelice opens. Per usual at the Falcon, there is no cover, but generous donation is encouraged.