This intimate gathering for the community of acoustic stringed-instrument builders, players, collectors and aficionados has become one of the premier international events of its kind in the world today
Here Comes the Wave, Shana Falana’s second record made in collaboration with drummer Mike Amari and producer D. James Goodwin, is due out on October 21 on the New Paltz-headquartered boutique label Team Love Records. Falana celebrates the release with a show at her home den, BSP in Kingston, on Friday, October 21 at 9 p.m.
Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, well deserved from this view, and a portion of the body of work on which he’s been judged was created in Woodstock. People often wonder about how an actor learns the long soliloquies of Shakespeare. But most can readily quote Dylan. See if you can follow the meandering puzzle below.
The unifying topic of the interview will be “Artistic Freedom and Creative Paths.” Two weeks out from the US presidential election, they will ponder the existential question of what role the arts can and should play in these turbulent times.
Established one year ago to honor folk music legends and to sustain the “folk process” as a vibrant part of American culture – an ongoing and ever-evolving one, not merely a pop-culture trend of the 1960s – ACFM has found its headquarters: River House, the red “barn” building restored by Scenic Hudson in Long Dock Park.
The event doesn’t call for a million women drummers get together in one place, but rather for a particular day to be designated for women to gather locally in small groups to drum and make music together, to raise consciousness about sustainability and to honor and plant trees.
As always, there are too many good bands, too many choices. But here are three you shouldn’t miss: two headliners and an up-and-comer.
This year’s festival will include numerous acts with a feminist bent, underscoring the theme of “Mothers of Invention.” The festival, now in its seventh year, began as a benefit for the large numbers of artists and musicians without health insurance, a problem that has yet to be fully solved. It’s also a fantastic time.
Now the place all but sparkles, from its shiny radiant flooring to the new windows created to look like what had been there since its early days as a New Deal crafts training center during the last years of the Depression, and its later time as an upstate home for New York City’s Arts Students League.
With the Maverick Concerts season just recently ended, I’m particularly thankful for Saugerties Pro Musica to occupy at least some