Colony to host Amanda Palmer’s Party in the Cemetery
Friday, Nov. 30: A special night of Gothic celebration with the singer/songwriter, Dresden Doll, playwright, filmmaker, music-business theorist and author.
Art & Music
Kingston arts revival drives manufacturing
Kingston isn’t just a community of artists, it’s also a community of arts-related businesses — and the two are intrinsically connected.
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis play Senate Garage
Saturday, Nov. 17: The lauded trombonist explores the intersection of indie art song, jazz and world music with Catharsis, whose latest politically charged record, Find the Common, Shine the Light, was described by The Nation as “unpretentiously intelligent and profoundly moving.”
Music from the Silk Road at the Bardavon
Saturday, Nov. 17: This concert will feature classical music with Asian influences: Stravinsky’s Nightingale and Bartok’s Mandarin, plus Silk Road Ensemble clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh will perform in his own Suite for Improvisor and Orchestra.
Felice Brothers play homecoming show at Bearsville
Wednesday, Nov. 21: The brothers Felice, sporting a revamped lineup and a bottomless catalogue of classic Americana surrealism, will be joined by Not My Sister.
Ernest Shaw’s “The Form of Shadows” exhibition opens at SUNY-Ulster
Friday, Nov. 16: According to the artist, who also practices psychiatry and teaches mediation, “Psychologically, the shadow worlds are viewed as a projection of denied aspects of the ‘self’ onto an ‘other’… I view these photographs as narrative, our place in this world.”
Kate McGloughlin’s Requiem for Ashokan in Olivebridge
Sunday, Nov. 18: As part of Ashokan’s Catskill Conversations, the painter and printmaker tells the story of the devastation and upheaval that her ancestors survived during the creation of the Ashokan Reservoir.
Exhibit of textured abstract oils by artist Jerry Teters on view at Elting Library
His process of being “open to the unexpected things that can happen on a canvas” is aligned with the improvisational spirit of a jazz musician, Teters says. And he should know; as a lifelong professional drummer and percussionist, he has managed to integrate his musical passions into a lifetime of making and teaching art.
Sancious, Calhoun’s Open Secret perform at Bearsville
Open Secret, inspired by the Tony Parsons book quoted above, is the intriguing project of keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist and composer David Sancious and percussionist, composer Will Calhoun who will be performing the first show of a tour at 8 p.m. Saturday, November 10 at the Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock.
The farsighted vision of Tony Falco
The Falcon has never sold a ticket. Not one ever to anyone – not when Pat Metheny played here; not for Chris Thile, who might have sold out Carnegie Hall the night before.