It’s the Esopus Creek Conservancy’s biggest fundraiser of the year. It’s called “100 for 100,” meaning that 100 artists from all over the Hudson Valley (and even from New York City) create works on canvases of identical size, which are sold for $100 each. The artwork, astonishing in its variety, is unsigned. The buyer only finds out who created it after making the purchase and, as an extra bonus, gets to meet the artist.
Civilians who visit the Veteran Arts Showcase in Hyde Park will not only witness the healing power of art, but also become a part of the conversation.
The record by the New Paltz-based group is an unassuming winner: unfailingly sturdy and openhearted songs, rock-energized bluegrass propulsion in a no-fuss setting, sweet licks and a gang-chant communal approach to singing by some dudes who maybe didn’t pass the choir audition in high school.
About as decorated as a young, serious composer can be anymore, Yale’s Hannah Lash is featured in the next “Conversations with” series presented by Close Encounters with Music at the Hudson Opera House.
The legendary jazz trombonist and composer (and longtime local resident) Roswell Rudd has helmed some of the most outrageous and daring jazz ever recorded, but a certain sweetness, playfulness and accessible humanity have also characterized everything that he has done – not just his more user-friendly, song-oriented recent work. At 80, he’s going strong, and he has elected to celebrate his 81st birthday at the Falcon in Marlboro on Saturday, November 19 at 7 p.m.
The Hudson Valley Hullabaloo is a holiday-season crafts market, but it’s also a party with a hipster vibe, designed to lift people’s spirits just as the gloom of late November settles in.
“There are guitarists, there are axe-wielding maniacs, and then there are wizards. Adrian Legg is one of the wizards,” says the Philadelphia Enquirer, of the “Guitarist of the Decade” (Guitarist Magazine — for four consecutive years) who will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 19 at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, the A-frame house of worship at 2578 Route 212, Woodstock.
The piece uses several novel technologies and its creator’s formidable imaginations to “sonify” data gathered by the Institute in the course of Hurricane Sandy.
The event begins with a Healing Arts session of Acupuncture, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Massage, Reflexology, Reiki, and more and runs until 4 p.m. It will be followed by an evening concert at 6:30 p.m. featuring The Akwesasne Traditional Women’s Singers. Standing Rock activist Lyla June Johnston will fly in from Taos with a welcoming message. The Nimham Mountain Singers begin drumming at 6:30 p.m. to open the concert portion and there will also be spoken word and storytelling, and Charles Lyonhart will perform locally for the first time in over a year to support the effort.
Bonham will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of her debut: the Grammy-nominated gold album The Burdens of Being Upright, which featured the megahit single “Mother Mother.”