Neil Alexander Quartet to play the Ritz
The concert will be in “jazz chamber orchestra” format: a small ensemble featuring a core quartet with the addition of strings, wind and percussion.
The concert will be in “jazz chamber orchestra” format: a small ensemble featuring a core quartet with the addition of strings, wind and percussion.
The blues interpreter John Hammond has never moved far off his spot. A pretty pure embodiment of the raw energies, dangerous identities and elusive eccentricities of the blues, regardless of complexion, Hammond has his acoustic modes and his electric modes, his urban modes and rural.
I’m out here a thousand miles from my home, he started out singing to Woody Guthrie — The very last
Art Walk Kingston this weekend features open studios, performances & Lace Mill’s first-ever public group exhibition
Multiple Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Graham Nash performs in the intimate confines of the Bearsville Theater on Tuesday, Oct. 4.
“A lot of people don’t know what a maker- or hackerspace is. It’s a fairly new concept, but they’re all over the world.”
The nature of the narrative is not made clear, but the seductively withholding teaser text may provide some clues: “What if we can shape human destiny, unveil our true superselves and rewrite the story of our time? We Are Making the Movie of Our Lives.”
There’s something giddily freeing about being granted official sanction to do something that’s usually deemed to be transgressive – like creatively “defacing” public property.
Ben Neill’s revelatory environmental composition Manitoga somehow manages to transport you to the place where you already are. It is named for the location at which the work is intended to be performed, exclusively: Manitoga, the idyllic-but-subtly-surreal Russell Wright Design Center in Garrison.
“I like work which asks questions, involving emotional states of mind. Beauty is not enough, because we live in urgent times. I want the work to speak back.”