Frohawks & funk
Lee Patterson runs Kingston’s Master Cuts Barbershop by day, Room Service band by night.
Art & Music
Bard Conservatory performs Mothers’ Day concert (free for moms)
Sunday, May 13: The program will feature Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.
Russian pianist Anton Batagov premieres new work at Cragsmoor’s Stone Church
Saturday, May 12: The language of his compositions is rooted in the harmonic and rhythmic patterns of Russian church bells and folksongs mixed with the spirit of Buddhist philosophy.
“100 for 100” art benefit in Rhinebeck
Saturday, May 12: Beginning at 6:30, numbers will be drawn at random. When your number is called, you choose the artwork that you would like to take home.
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad at Bearsville
Saturday, May 12: This band combines reggae grooves and gestures with an experimental jam-band aesthetic.
Yale curator Tim Barringer lectures on Thomas Cole in Catskill
Sunday, May 13: Barringer is co-curator of the exhibition “Picturesque and Sublime,” which opened at the Thomas Cole Site on May 1, as well as co-curator of “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Women’s Studio Workshop to honor Annie O’Neill & Dani ReStack
Sunday, May 20: The Binnewater workshop is a nurturing space where thousands of women (and now men) have been able to show and share their art, and learn hands-on skills like papermaking, screenprinting, bookbinding and ceramics.
Tully wrings wry comedy from the dark underbelly of new motherhood
If you’ve been there, you’ll be grateful to see the postpartum ordeal depicted so grittily and grungily. The film still manages to qualify as a comedy, but without glossing anything over with unearned cuteness.
Tito Puente Jr. to perform at the Ritz in Newburgh
Saturday, May 12: Raised by the greatest and more than just a torchbearer of the family brand.
Habitat for Artists: A place to work
British sculptor Simon Draper founded the Habitat for Artists movement just as the economy was collapsing in 2007/2008. Starting this week, on May 2 to be precise, its small studio built by a team of local creators returns to the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum for its third season of exciting and diverse community engagement projects set to continue through July 29.