Woodstock School of Art wants to keep art non-toxic
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Art & Music
Geezer Corps takes on a delicate mission: Moving a beloved Woodstock mural
A few days before he and fellow Geezer Corps members Lorin Rose and Jim Hanson were set to release Paul Wesley Arndt’s 32 foot six inch long canvas painting from the Bank of America wall it has made beautiful for decades, town historian Richard Heppner had a slight note of apprehension in his voice.
Indigo Girls at UPAC in Kingston
Saturday, May 19: New Folk trailblazers, massive hitmakers and ardent social activists, the Indigo Girls are synonymous with the lighter side of ’90s music – which is to say pretty darn dark themselves, but leavened with a fine sense of close harmony and with songs that sport at least glimmers of hope and redemption.
Culture to perform at Bearsville
Saturday, May 19: A reggae touring and studio powerhouse
Drums along the Esopus in Big Indian Park
Saturday, May 19: This free celebration brings together numerous drum groups: Spirit of the Mountain, the band of the Tainos, Maxwell Kofi Donkor and friends. Bring a chair.
Jules Taylor to release Mountain Time at Saugerties show
Saturday, May 19: On his third record, the Woodstock-area songwriter/producer quickly announces the turf: a kind of high-drama ambient American rock with equal parts grit and ether.
Michelle Shocked to headline the Falcon’s Springfest
Saturday, May 26: Curated by Ron English, the three-stage, noon-to-close show boasts an impressive list of performers entitled The Falcon in Delusionville, centering around English’s Rabbits in Delusionville rock opera and artwork.
Warren Vache and John Di Martino Trio at Senate Garage
Thursday, May 24: Jazzstock welcomes the trumpet/flugelhorn legend to Uptown Kingston. Vache’s “played with” credits aren’t so shabby. Any list that begins with Benny Goodman…and goes on to include Rosemary Clooney, Benny Carter, Hank Jones, Gerry Mulligan and Woody Herman tells you something about the man’s history.
Catskill Jazz Factory presents Ladies of the Blues at Woodstock Playhouse
Saturday, May 26 :It will be a retrospective spanning the early blues of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday up to the iconic works of Dinah Washington and Nina Simone, starring the Dominick Farinacci Quintet with special guest vocalist Shenel Johns.
Tony Moore’s sculpture at WAAM
Tony Moore, the British-born sculptor whose solo show opened May 12 at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum brings a burly, Cedar Bar-like New York School sense of creativity that’s drawn such adjectives as “heroic,” “confrontational, “elegant,” “minimalist,” “substantial” and even “delicately detailed” to reviews of his work.