Artist studio tours have become a defining element of the Hudson Valley’s summer and autumn cultural scenes. Like chamber music

“Back in the day, jazz was almost exclusively a man’s field. That has changed over time, but it is still

Never mind Bambi. Among the even-toed ungulates of our planet, is there any creature more appealing than a llama, with

The inspiration for the Summer Hoot Festival, which debuts at the Ashokan Center August 23 through 25, was partly the

I grew up with an unfortunate default reverence for jazz players, an across-the-board assumption that they all carried cards and

On 2011’s exquisite Barlande, 74-year-old flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler engages in a musical dialogue with his 29-year-old-son, cellist Gaspar Claus.

Some people like music. Others prefer songs, and they’re not exactly the same thing. Songs are an aggressively limited subset

Even in this age of short attention spans, there’s something comforting about the predictability of county fairs. A large part