Saturday, June 9: The Pussy Galore husband-and-wife team of Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez are bringing their band Boss Hog and its mix of blues, noise and provocation to Club Helsinki in Hudson. Welcome your new neighbors.
Saturday, June 9: As to the title Heddagabalus, I get the Ibsen reference, but I don’t even want to know what “gabalus” is; probably something to do with brain anatomy or a Roman general.
Friday-Sunday, June 15-17: Jack Johnson, Alt-J, Sturgill Simpson, George Clinton, Kurt Vile, the Decemberists and dozens more bands take to the hills. Compared to the urban polyglot favored on Roosevelt Island, the slopes of Hunter are a place where guitars still play.
Saturday-Sunday, June 16-17: More than any other established music festival, the Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival is directly associated with activism and the environmental movement via the imprimatur of its founder, Pete Seeger. This year’s performers include Jeff Tweedy, Rhiannon Giddens, Ani DiFranco, The Mavericks, Beth Orton and They Might Be Giants.
Thursday, June 14: Jazzstock, our region’s tireless collective of professional jazz players, promoters and preservers working now out of the Senate Garage, has made big-name jazz bookings routine. But even by their high standards, this is a huge get: Multiple-Grammy-winner Cassandra Wilson will perform with the Lonnie Plaxico group.
In Poughkeepsie June 8-10; Kingston June 15 -17; Catskill Point June 19: The Corning Museum of Glass’ 30-by 90-foot steel canal barge has a glassblowing studio built-in, and it’ll be docked in Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Catskill. Register online if you want a spot at these amazing free art-making demonstrations.
Saturday-Sunday, June 9-10: The vendors on hand offer unique, high-quality, locally made items in a relaxed, partylike setting with music by deejay Mr. Chips.
You can tell that the annual self-guided mobile artfest is imminent when dozens of brightly painted doors, unhinged, start popping up in the heart of the hamlet, fresh from their seasonal debut at the Gardiner Cupcake Festival.
A total of five performers will be singing and playing a selection of songs from past and current Broadway shows this Sunday, June 3 at 3 p.m. at the 243 Albany Ave. synagogue.
Younger players are, famously, all about renegotiating roles and identities, redistributing power arrangements and smashing the guitariarchy.