Exit 18 to a new bohemia
Saturday, July 1: “The Golden Age of New Paltz” show at Wired Gallery charts an explosion of creativity in a college town.
Art & Music
Natalie Merchant to play free concert in Woodstock
Saturday, July 1: Touring in support of her ten-CD career retrospective The Natalie Merchant Collection, Natalie Merchant’s June 30 stop at the Bardavon is sold out; but some imaginative folks have figured out a way to include more fans in the festivities.
It’s Raining Poetry in Roxbury
Saturday, July 1: Twenty-one disappearing and reappearing poems will be stenciled on sidewalks with water-repellent spray. When wetted down, the biodegradable, invisible “ink” emerges in verse.
The ghost bars of New Paltz
A reluctant veteran looks back…and shudders.
Kingston After Dark: Truth, love and justice
PUGG Gallery on Broadway may be moderately sized but the space is currently holding some very big ideas within its walls. The Life of Moa, a temporary solo show by Adrielle Farr, an artist with Kingston roots, is a multi-media repurposing of myth and imagination with the aim of turning thoughts on the current state of the world into a more immersive and positive experience.
Young New Paltz and Highland musicians and musical artists blend their styles
845th Street Entertainment is a group of ten mostly New Paltz and Highland twenty-something year-olds, who grew up together rapping in the locker rooms and after school.
The utopian leftist camp that helped spawn the American folk music movement
One town hosted both American Nazis and some of the earliest folkies.
Rhinebeck Craft Festival at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds
Saturday & Sunday, June 24-25: It’s a celebration of all things handmade, featuring 200 independent artists and craftspeople from all over the U.S.
High-octane weekend for ETHEL
Friday & Saturday, June 23-24: The postmodern indie/classical string quartet plays WAAM and Maverick mini-residency.
John Paul White to perform in Hudson
Saturday, June 24: One half of the Grammy Award-winning Southern Gothic folk duo the Civil Wars, John Paul White, will perform at Club Helsinki.