Zombies at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock
Friday, March 9: Their masterwork asserted itself like a time-release capsule in the bloodstream of pop culture.
Art & Music
Dumpstaphunk plays Helsinki Hudson
Saturday, March 10: Heirs not only to the Neville polyglot musical tradition, but also to the very Neville name itself, Dumpstaphunk has been providing the jam and festival scene with an uncommonly high grade of funk for years.
All-star Celtic concert at Ashokan Center
Sunday, March 11: Low Lily teams up with seven-time All-Ireland accordion champion John Whelan and fiddler Katie McNally
The Dixie Dregs will play (or rather blow the damn roof off) Bearsville Theater
Saturday, March 17: Blazing virtuosity has always been the basic bar to entry in this band.
Beach Boys to perform at UPAC
Sunday, March 18: Family infighting, warring legacies, a mastermind in absentia and hits, hits, hits: If it gets to bear the name the Beach Boys, it is probably worth seeing while you still can.
Tony Kushner to talk at Bard about Leonard Bernstein & Spielberg remake of West Side Story
This January, the news dropped that Steven Spielberg is doing a big-screen remake of the stage musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein’s iconic music will be retained, but one of the most brilliant of contemporary playwrights, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America), has come aboard to rewrite the screenplay.
“Talking Gong” for flute, percussion and piano debuts at SUNY New Paltz
“Talking Gong” was inspired by the gong chime culture of Southeast Asia, particularly the rhythms and language of the gandingan, the Philippine Maguindanaon “talking gongs.”
New music by Susie Ibarra in New Paltz
Saturday, March 10: The acclaimed percussionist and composer joins forces with the experimental flautist and MacArthur “genius grant”-winner Claire Chase and SUNY-faculty member and pianist Alex Peh to premiere Ibarra’s newest work, Talking Gong for flute, percussion and piano.
Simi Stone will join David Byrne on tour
When the email invitation came from David Byrne, best known for fronting the hit band Talking Heads (“Burning Down the House”) in the 1980s, native Woodstocker Simi Stone was so ecstatic, she cried.
Edelman at Cross Contemporary
Work by Edelman, including a new series of self-portraits, will be part of the new two-person exhibit that opens this weekend with a preview from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March 2 and an artists’ reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday March 3 at Cross Contemporary, 99 Partition Street, in Saugerties.