Holidelic holiday funk spectacular at Helsinki Hudson
Friday, Dec. 22: Part dance party, part concert and comedy show, the holiday spectacular features original holiday songs as well as loose, funk-infused favorites and outrageous costumes.
Art & Music
Ian Felice touts new LP at Colony
Friday, Dec. 22: In the Kingdom of Dream finds the Felice Brothers’ principal songwriter turning toward personal subjects.
Beacon’s Towne Crier hosts Very Slambovian Christmas
Saturday, Dec. 23: This nationally recognized psych/folk/rock outfit is among the longest-running and most colorful of all regional bands.
Running Without the Devil
Music was the big dark lake in the middle of my soul, roughly in the shape of my brother, and I preserved and defended that sprawling emptiness like Muir, Burroughs and Greenpeace combined.
Gospel Candlelight Service in Newburgh to feature winner of The Voice
Friday, Dec. 22: The Voice winner and Orange County native Jermaine Paul will be home for the holidays to headline the 2017 Christmas Gospel Celebration. The winner of Season Two of NBC’s popular vocal tournament, Paul lives in Orange County with his wife, Melissa, and their four children. The celebration is free and open to the public.
Kingston After Dark: Globelamp illuminates
Globelamp (aka Elizabeth Gomez aka Elizabeth Le Fay) is in the Woodstock-Kingston area to record the follow up to 2016’s The Orange Glow, released on Wichita Records, at Bohemesphere Studios in Saugerties. ‘I’d never been to Upstate New York,” she says. “I like it here. It reminds me of the Taylor Swift album Red.’
Former home of painter George Bellows is Woodstock’s newest historic site
Located on what is now Bellows Lane, the home looks like many in the area. Yet during its time it served as a center of the town’s cultural life.
Roger Ricco’s journey through the art world
Ricco, a legendary New York City gallery owner one month into his creative retirement, speaks of artists, famous and anonymous, as well as the complexity of an adventurous life that’s had him living in and around Woodstock for decades.
Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at Bard’s Fisher Center
Sunday, Dec. 17: “You get a singer like this once in a generation or two,” says Wynton Marsalis.
Celtic Christmas one weekend, psychedelic the next at Beacon’s Towne Crier
The internationally celebrated Irish instrumental band Lúnasa joins forces with the Celtic music singer/songwriter Ashley Davis on Saturday, Dec. 16, and psychedelic-rock eccentrics the Slambovian Circus of Dreams present their annual holiday concert on Saturday, Dec. 23.