Jackson Browne to headline Dirt Farmer Festival at Arrowood Farms
Sunday, August 19: This one-day festival in Accord assembles many of Levon Helm’s most famous collaborators (and admirers).
Art & Music
Mary Frank looks at the world without blinking
Mary Frank describes the subject matter of her latest body of her work, much of it exhibited at a new show at Elena Zang Gallery titled “Refuge,” as about “evolution and de-evolution. For me, everything is about returning to origins.”
Linda Weintraub’s eye for activism
“Since new vanguards emerge in quick succession, my career choice has allowed me to track several generations of art pioneers.”
Festival of the Voice shines in Phoenicia
The ninth annual Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, held August 3-5, took the theme of “Sirens of the Voice” in the year of #metoo.
Saugerties Artists’ Studio Tour Guide 2018
Opening reception Friday, Aug. 10 at Opus 40, and self-guided tour of artist studios Aug. 11-12.
Trombone Shorty’s Voodoo Threauxdown at Bethel Woods
Saturday, August 11: He is one of the most recent and most popular ambassadors of New Orleans’ complex musical heritage of jazz, blues, Cajun, funk and more. He is hardly alone on this bill, however. Also performing will be the popular funk/jam band Galactic, the great Preservation Hall Jazz Band and at least two people with the last name Neville, for legitimacy.
Bernard Purdie at Falcon
Saturday, August 11: The man who laid down grooves for more or less everyone brings his hot band to Marlboro’s jewel of a venue.
Bard Music Festival spotlights Rimsky-Korsakov
Next two weekends: It’s a series of concerts, talks and performances in related arts, all orbiting the work and cultural milieu of a single great composer.
Day of the Bird at Storm King Art Center
Sunday, August 12: One of the thought-provoking works on view is Birds Watching by Jenny Kendler, current artist-in-residence with the Natural Resources Defense Council. It’s a site-specific installation of 100 reflective aluminum signs, each depicting a large scaled, realistic bird’s eye. Each represents a species of bird facing the threat of extinction due to climate change. The birds are watching us humans, it seems to say, to find out what we’re going to do about it.
Todd Sheaffer of Railroad Earth to perform at Hardeman Barn in Red Hook
Sunday, August 12: Before striking gold with the wildly popular Americana collective Railroad Earth, Sheaffer flirted with major-label success for years with the beloved New Jersey rock band From Good Homes.