Art & Music

Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair this weekend in New Paltz

Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair this weekend in New Paltz

Saturday-Monday, Sept. 2-4: Labor Day weekend brings the return of the semiannual Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair to the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz. It features a selection of high-quality juried creations by more than 200 artists and craftspeople from across America. The show highlights furniture, architectural crafts, jewelry, demonstrations, handcrafted specialty foods, healthcare products and live performances by Hudson Valley-based musical talent.

Sounds of Twin Peaks at Falcon and BSP

Sounds of Twin Peaks at Falcon and BSP

Friday-Saturday, August 25-26: Silencio will be making two regional appearances in tribute to the music of the enduringly popular and recently revived television show Twin Peaks, which is to say the music of Angelo Badalamenti. Badalamenti’s evocative soundtracks (and songs co-written with series creator David Lynch) combine unironic sentimentality with jet-set swank and all kinds of creeping menace, which is just another name for “Lynch.”

Huichica Festival in Pine Plains

Huichica Festival in Pine Plains

Friday-Saturday, August 25-26: The lineup is impressively hip (downright awesome, actually), featuring the likes of chimey indie-rock sensation Real Estate, the great songwriter Cass McCombs, retro soul and blues dynamo Charles Bradley, Marissa Nadler and many more.

WAAM’s Radius 50 show

WAAM’s Radius 50 show

Radius 50, the new regional exhibit that’s up at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum this month, pushes both WAAM and the Woodstock art scene into fresh territory via its serious inclusion of bold new visions, savvy Janus-faced simultaneous takes on a shared art history and emerging visual culture, and diverse receptivity to our contemporary world.

A lively August art scene in Saugerties

A lively August art scene in Saugerties

Saugerties’ gallery scene is seeking to transform the town into a must-visit destination for art aficionados. Four outstanding shows this month are clustered within two blocks. Paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures have overflowed the gallery walls and are showing up in storefront windows and inside restaurants.