Melissa Etheridge to play UPAC in Kingston
Saturday, Dec. 16: Academy Award- and Grammy-winning artist Melissa Etheridge brings a full band to the newly renovated Ulster Performing Arts Center this weekend.
Art & Music
Kenro Izu at the Center for Photography
Saturday, Dec. 16: The exhibition will highlight Izu’s “Sacred Places” series.
The plow, the paint and the pipes
Through Jan. 7: An art exhibit at Red Hook’s Greig Farm runs the gamut.
New Saugerties music store is a hit
“Our philosophy is to provide a good instrument at a fair price,” says Alex Kellner, owner of Kingtone Music on Main St.
Fionn Reilly’s Kolkata Calcutta at Woodstock’s Center for Photography
Fionn Reilly’s new photo book, Kolkata/Calcutta will be celebrated at a December 9 afternoon book launch party at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Author Tony Fletcher, who wrote the book’s introduction, will be interviewing his fellow Londoner.
New Paltz’s Roost Studios hosts Holiday Gala & Art Show
The exhibit will be on view through Jan. 7.
Bob Schuler (1925-2017)
In 1986, the High Falls artist began the Tethys Project, a sort of personal time capsule that would become his primary artistic endeavor for the rest of his life. Each side of each cube was incised (via sandblasting) with images, glyphs, poetic statements, as well as the latitude and longitude for each block—all created and designed by the artist. The idea was that the Tethys Project would be as close to a permanent artistic statement as possible, with the submerged granite blocks discovered hundreds or thousands of years from now, if then.
Nude Party at Colony in Woodstock
Saturday, Dec. 9: Look, even their own press kit warns that the Nude Party are called that for a reason: an aberrative behavioral tendency to disrobe. But even in Woodstock, where nudity was largely invented, local ordinances apply, and them pretty-faced Carolina bucks would do well to keep their trousers fastened unless they want to taste the salt on the cold concrete floors of the taxpayers’ mighty fine county detention center.
Robbie Dupree and Friends at Falcon, Colony
Robbie Dupree brings a whole new crop of ‘Friends’ with him when he takes the stage for the first time in two years in the area, at 8 p.m. Saturday, December 9 at the Falcon, in Marlboro, and then right at home in Woodstock, at 8 p.m. Sunday, December 10 at Colony, 22 Rock City Road.
Unison Arts Center hosts Holiday Fair Dec. 2-3 on SUNY campus
Unison Arts Center will host its 27th annual Holiday Craft, Art and Design Fair on Saturday and Sunday, December 2-3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the glass atrium student union building on the SUNY New Paltz campus.