The Silver Spaceship comes to Colony
Tuesday, December 31: Part cocktail hour, part disco, part funky rock and roll review, The Silver Spaceship will blast you into the new year.
Tuesday, December 31: Part cocktail hour, part disco, part funky rock and roll review, The Silver Spaceship will blast you into the new year.
Tuesday, December 31: Club Helsinki Hudson lands a giant one-two punch of famous locals on New Year’s Eve: The Felice Brothers and Tommy Stinson.
Tuesday, December 31: The 6 p.m. four-course dinner is followed at 8 p.m. by couple dancing and called dances in two rooms ’til the wee hours, with a midnight countdown and more dancing in the upstairs Zydeco Lounge. Your dance style choices include swing, Cajun, Zydeco, contras, squares, blues and waltzes, with red-hot music to propel you, supplied by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason with Swingology, Christine Balfa & Balfa Toujours, the Russet Trio and Zydegroove.
Tuesday, Dec. 31: Titled “We All Come from Somewhere,” the program celebrates the rich diversity of the American people via music from many genres, ranging from the African American spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” to Woody Guthrie’s protest song “Deportee” to “Gabriel’s Oboe” from Ennio Morricone’s sublime score to the movie The Mission.
Gallerist and auctioneer Jim Cox is hosting a totally online auction in the holiday week between Christmas and New Year’s, on Monday December 30 starting at 1 p.m. He feels the time is right for such a move, and as always is full of stories that reveal his thinking about the move.
Saturday afternoon, December 21: There will be a total of 140 instrumentalists and singers on the Bardavon stage, and in the time-honored Messiah tradition, audience members will be invited to sing along – especially when they get to the famous “Hallelujah Chorus.”
Saturday night, Dec. 21: Alexa Tarantino headlines Seasonal Bird tribute. She’s gathering a quintet of today’s top women in jazz to perform a program titled Seasonal Bird, highlighting the iconic bebop recordings and repertoire of the holiday season. Other greats of the genre, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Dexter Gordon and Dizzy Gillespie, will also get a Santa-hatted nod.
Monday, Dec. 23: Musical theater star and Newburgh native Lexi Lawson presents a selection of Christmas classics at the Falcon on Monday, December 23. The Newburgh Free Academy graduate is best-known for performing in the role of Eliza in the generational box-office smash Hamilton. She has also appeared on Broadway in Rent and In the Heights and is currently featured in the Lifetime Movie Original Always and Forever Christmas.
Woodstock Artists Association, One Hundred Years of Community and Art includes essays by noted Woodstock scene art historians Tom Wolf and Bruce Weber, a valuable arts timeline put together by WAAM archivist Emily Jones, and 300 pages filled with the best Woodstock art of the past 100 years and longer. It’s scholarly, placing Woodstock art among the best of American 20th century achievement, and alongside the best anywhere.
Hello and welcome to another humble rendering of Kingston After Dark. Think of it as a rough-hewn snow angel portrait