Peter Max art exhibition at Bethel Woods
Opening on April 7: The iconic art of Peter Max defined the psychedelic experience of the 1960s, or at least the broad commercial expression and perception of it.
Art & Music
David Garland’s revelatory new release, Verdancy
Garland is an eminence in the New York music world, a generous, prolific presence with whom people flock to work– including collaborations with John Zorn, Yoko Ono, Sufjan Stevens and Meredith Monk. He also hosted WNYC’s Spinning on Air for 28 years. On Verdancy, Garland sings of nature, but his tongue is as New York as “fuhgettaboutit.”
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons coming to Kingston
Saturday, April 7: It is one thing to have fame reignited in a wave of nostalgia, and quite another to be up for capitalizing on it. Thing is, Valli, the most famous falsetto in rock, has never gone away.
Phoenicia Arts and Event Space arrives
The walls have a fresh coat of white paint, the aged carpet is gone from the staircase, and the former Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia’s community gallery that closed in February, is about to reincarnate under new proprietors and a new name.
WAAM shows focus on the abstract
From the look of the Woodstock Arts Association & Museum’s new exhibits opening this weekend, with receptions set for March 24, abstraction’s back in town…if it ever really left.
Arias for Abe in Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty concert
Saturday, March 17 in Kingston & Sunday, March 18 in Woodstock: Ars Choralis and the Riverview Missionary Baptist Church choir Voices of Praise will perform some of Lincoln’s favorite arias, spirituals, freedom songs, fiddle tunes and sentimental ballads. Criticized for attending the opera while the Civil War raged, Lincoln’s response was terse: “The truth is, I must have a change of some sort, or die.”
Beacon’s Towne Crier hosts Clancy Tradition
Saturday, March 17: The Clancy Tradition celebrates brothers Eugene and Pat Clancy, who first started performing with their family’s Ceili Band in Ireland in the 1950s before coming to America in the ’60s, where they toured as the Irish Ramblers and performed at Carnegie Hall.
A father, a son, and a collaboration 25 years in the making
Saturday, March 24: This year’s Woodstock Bookfest will feature the world premiere of Lost Dreams, a collaboration between the late writer John Hersey and his son Baird, a composer who lives in West Shokan.
Millerton’s Moviehouse to screen Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
Tuesday, March 20: Featuring interviews with curators from the National Portrait Gallery in London, MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the film takes audiences beyond the exhibition to the places Cézanne lived and worked and sheds light on an artist who is perhaps the least-known of all the Impressionists – until now.
Felice Brothers & Yard Sale coming to Bearsville
Friday, March 23: The Felice Brothers are more Dylan, Yard Sale more Band. Read on.