Friday, May 17: Known at home as Dominque Jones, Lil Baby rose rapidly to fame on the strength of his 2017 mixtape Perfect Timing. Best-known for his hit singles “My Dawg,” “Freestyle,” “Yes Indeed” and “Drip Too Hard,” Lil Baby has been on the upper reaches of the charts ever since.
Legendary Woodstock Festival producer Michael Lang was laughing Tuesday afternoon as he reviewed the previous 30 hours’ work on a 50th commemoration event in Watkins Glen. He said he was amused by the similarities he was finding to all that had gone down as he was putting together that first mega-festival in the Summer of 1969.
Dave Brenner is a sound architect and mind-pirate who performs in the noise project Gridfailure, which sounds like a haunted insane asylum under construction — a parade of jackhammers and banshee screams mixed with moments of uneasy calm. He’s bringing his chameleon-like sound project to Tubby’s on Broadway with local hardcore band Parkbench Messiah and Philly black metallurgists Zud in tow this Thursday, May 2 for a special night.
Works by Cami Fischer, Lana Privitera, Maureen Rogers and Agnes Devereaux took top honors in the fifth annual exhibit, which calls for submissions of “artwork that focuses on and is inspired by local and area historic landmarks, landscapes and architectural details, and explores the theme of preservation, and life within a historic context.” Works will be on display in the Elting Memorial Library’s Ron Steinberg Reading & Meeting Room until May 4.
Sunday, April 28: There are 260 lots up for sale. How can you count the various treasures up for sale from some of our greatest local art collections?
Sunday, Apr. 28: Over two nights in January 1972, the late Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, recorded a live album of music reflecting her gospel roots at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Joining her on the program were Rev. James Cleveland, Cornell Dupree, Rev. C. L. Franklin, Ken Lupper, Pancho Morales, Bernard Purdie, Chuck Rainey and the Southern California Community Choir. The two-record set, Amazing Grace, went double-platinum and became the biggest-selling live gospel music album of all time.
Saturday, Apr. 27: The triple-threat pianist, songwriter and vocalist later went on to replace the late Brent Mydland in the Grateful Dead, demonstrating a willingness to get down with the Dead’s free-running electric counterpoint that might have surprised a lot of his FM fans.
Sunday, Apr. 28: The long-running, brilliantly curated Ulster Chamber Music Series switches it up a bit in April with an April 28 performance by Litvakus, a unique klezmer collective, founded and led by the clarinetist, vocalist and composer Zisl Slepovitch.
Saturday, Apr. 27: A collaboration between the Hudson multidisciplinary arts center Basilica Hudson and the Netherlands’ acclaimed festival of new music Le Guess Who, the festival features sitar and singing bowls, overtone singing and accordion – not just self-perpetuating electronica.
Saturday, Apr. 27: A newly honored New York State Blues Hall of Fame inductee, singer/songwriter Willa Vincitore brings her take on modern bluescraft to to New Paltz.