Sunday, September 2: On guitar…well, you weren’t expecting Richie Blackmore, were you? His parting from DP was ages ago, and permanent. Will you take Steve Morse of the Dixie Dregs, who has not only been a member DP for several decades but is also one of the greatest living progressive (and country, and fusion, and nylon string, and…) rock guitarists?
Saturday, September 1: It’s as a benefit for the local Hope Rocks organization, dedicated to illuminating the darkness of isolation, depression and addiction by celebrating hope, the arts and community. The lineup includes the Mateo Dougan Band, the godfathers of Catskill rock the Paul Luke Band, Ian Flanigan, the Mead Mountain Resonators, Logan Callahan and Susan Cattaneo.
Despite slim pickings during this “end-of-season,” there she was: not just a bikini, but my bikini: strap-free bandeau top, right size and clearance pricing. It practically came with its own boobs styled right into the cups. This was the one.
Starting at noon on Saturday, Aug. 25, Kingston’s Ruby Mae’s Restaurant, one of the only eateries between Albany and Newburgh exclusively serving soul food standards, will commemorate its first year in business with an open-to-the-public block party.
Two regional premieres and a world premiere are in store for Paltzonians this fall, as the Denizen Theatre takes shape on the upper level of the Water Street Market.
Clearwater public sails from Beacon, Kingston & Kayaking 101 at Kingston Point.
Friday-Sunday, August 24-26: An overstuffed lineup of cool music, and one that, per usual, taxes any stable definition of “folk music” to its breaking point. You get the idea: All high-end stuff in an extraordinary setting with the high-fiber community values that have always distinguished the Hoots from your standard-issue folk bacchanalia.
Saturday, August 25: For people like me who love little more than the smart, Beatle-derived guitar-pop tradition that includes everyone from XTC to Aimee Mann to Elliott Smith, Glen Tilbrook is nothing short of Mount Rushmore royalty.
The heroine teaches Economics at NYU (specializing, significantly to the plot, in Game Theory).
Saturday, August 25: Maverick Concerts’ music director Alexander Platt has enlisted players from the Caroga Arts Ensemble; singers from the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice; and members of Actors & Writers to read the poems.