Walk-in concerts on menu at Rosendale’s Rail Trail Café
Imagine the joy of stumbling upon a tango-obsessed saxophone quartet or an actual harpist shredding while on a hike in the woods.
Art & Music
Big Takeover plays Falcon Underground
Saturday, June 29: One of the Hudson Valley’s leading musical exports, the horn-powered global pop sensation plays a local show in the intimate downstairs space of the Falcon. The band’s latest single is a cover of Sophia George’s 1985 dancehall hit “Girlie Girlie.”
Rosendale Theatre hosts Robert Burke Warren’s Bowie tribute Acoustic Stardust
Saturday, June 29: Of all the giants that Warren has fêted and roasted (Cash, Cohen, others), it is his acoustic David Bowie tribute that has perhaps drawn best (hard to say, though, as sold out is sold out and there is no way to count the heads looking in the window).
Hundreds of artisans set up shop at the Rhinebeck Crafts Festival
Saturday/Sunday, June 22/23: This celebration of all things handmade at the Dutchess Fairgrounds features contemporary crafts and art, gourmet specialty foods, tastings from Hudson Valley distilleries and wineries, interactive craft demonstrations and family activities.
Beauty in seclusion: Brice Marden’s calligraphic works on view at Rhinebeck’s ‘T’ Space
Half-hidden in the woods, the T-shaped gallery (configured so that a portion of the space is always hidden from view) is completely illuminated by natural light.
Ralph Moseley exhibits for the first time in nearly 50 years
Saturday, June 22: The upcoming exhibit in the Art Gallery of Lockwood Architecture has been curated by Moseley’s longtime friend and champion, Barbara Redfield (an original trustee of Olana). She says, “His studio is a treasure-trove. I pestered him for 20 years to take his work out. After [being involved] in the Color Field movement in the late ’60s early ’70s, he felt that the people who were really worthy were not selling, and he said, ‘That’s it’ and just dropped out of the art world. But he’s painted every single day without any connections to anyone.”
In the Kitchen debuts new LP at Falcon
Friday, June 21: The New Paltz-headquartered original acoustic roots band In the Kitchen is the kind of earthy ensemble who might justifiably decide to make a studio album gathered around one omnidirectional microphone in a nice-sounding, woody room and cut it directly to tape.
Ars Choralis to perform “Bach & His World” at the Maverick
Saturday/Sunday, June 22/23: Led by Barbara Pickhardt, the 50-voice chorus and soloists capture the brilliance of six Baroque composers.
Levon Helm Studios to host Gipsy Kings
Saturday, June 29: The imperial nature of fusion usually starts with a modern world perspective and toolset trained on something old, something remote, something weird. When they broke onto the charts, the Gipsy Kings reversed the direction of cultural conquest and appropriation, scoring a massive hit with their fiery reworking of “Hotel California” and backing it with year after year of substantive, serious music.
Wilderstein Sculpture Biennial on view in Rhinebeck
The 40-acre estate created by Calvert Vaux (co-designer of Central Park) includes trails adorned with specimen trees and 25 sculptures.