Aug. 18-19 Hope Rocks offers onsite counseling, speakers offering their personal experiences and a myriad of activities, including: approximately 50-plus live musical performances; a motorcade; a 5k and 10k run; softball; volleyball; basketball; tennis; pickleball; human foosball; art exhibition; and, crafters. New to the 2018 festival is a walk- and bike-a-thon, children’s area, petting zoo and t-shirt design contest.
“What’s worse than raining cats and dogs? Hailing taxis.”
Sunday, August 19: This one-day festival in Accord assembles many of Levon Helm’s most famous collaborators (and admirers).
Chef Etsko Kizawa has opened Soy, a restaurant showcasing Japanese home cooking at 419 Main Street in Rosendale.
Mary Frank describes the subject matter of her latest body of her work, much of it exhibited at a new show at Elena Zang Gallery titled “Refuge,” as about “evolution and de-evolution. For me, everything is about returning to origins.”
“Since new vanguards emerge in quick succession, my career choice has allowed me to track several generations of art pioneers.”
The ninth annual Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, held August 3-5, took the theme of “Sirens of the Voice” in the year of #metoo.
Opening reception Friday, Aug. 10 at Opus 40, and self-guided tour of artist studios Aug. 11-12.
Saturday, August 11: He is one of the most recent and most popular ambassadors of New Orleans’ complex musical heritage of jazz, blues, Cajun, funk and more. He is hardly alone on this bill, however. Also performing will be the popular funk/jam band Galactic, the great Preservation Hall Jazz Band and at least two people with the last name Neville, for legitimacy.
Saturday, August 11: Giesberg brothers host a summer ale release party in Wawarsing.