Saturday, May 13: Hit songwriter, art-rock bandleader, A-list producer and genuine technology visionary: Only Todd “Is God” Rundgren comfortably fits that description. The Wizard of Mink Hollow returns to his former home region.
Kingston’s Vanderlyn was the first American artist to study in France, on Aaron Burr’s dime, and the first American artist to show in the Paris Salon — his self portrait.
Saturday & Sunday, May 6-7: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee required only his first big gig – as an original member of Springsteen’s E-Street Band – to justify his induction; but for good measure, he went on the play with Sting, Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, Seal, Aretha Franklin, Santana, Jeff Beck and a “many more” list that I’ll leave to your imagination.
When the auction closes, the fashion show begins: an extravaganza of the latest styles that the Woodstock community has to offer, featuring talented local models parading down a full-sized catwalk constructed just for the occasion.
Saturday, May 6: For quite a few years now, Flying Cat Music has quietly been bringing a special class of folk talent – both Americana and world – into the small-but-acoustically-and-visually-stunning space at the Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia. The room tends to be not only packed, but also attentive in that endangered listening-room way.
The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice is seeking kids 8-18 for a choir to perform at this summer’s staging of La Bohème on August 5.
His “Winner’s Concert” will be an all-American program, including works of Sousa, Copland, Gershwin (an original work for strings!), Chawick, Conni Ellisor, and Dvorák’s “New World” Symphony.
Our first order of business here is clerical. It is to be called Colony now, not the Colony Café, as we have long been conditioned to think of it: that stylish, on-again off-again hotel/restaurant/venue that has been standing there all cool and Euro on Rock City Road just past the Green in Woodstock since 1929.
Nina Doyle, the Woodstock School of Art’s new executive director, says her management philosophy is simple: to listen and learn.
The artists of the Hudson River School captured their landscapes in a way that strikes a chord with all of us. We look at their paintings and our hearts beat as one with theirs.