March of Champions Drum & Bugle Corps Competition in Kingston
Saturday, August 4: The Children’s Home of Kingston presses the spacious Dietz Stadium into use for this annual event, which will feature performances by nine corps.
Entertainment
Igudesman & Joo perform at Doctorow Center in Hunter
Saturday, August 4: Monty Python member (and Chaucer scholar) Terry Jones raved, “A Little Nightmare Music brings Surrealism to the concert hall and takes its trousers down! Very musical, very engaging and very funny.”
Charming Disaster at Kingston’s Rough Draft
Wednesday, August 8: The Brooklyn-based duo present the odd and offbeat in storytelling and music. “We read a lot, and our music is as influenced by books as it is by other music. We’re working on a song cycle around Marie Curie and her work.”
Erica’s Cancer Journey: “Dancing in the rain”
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
Woodstock School of Art’s Monoprint Invitational
July 30-Aug. 4: The School of Art’s Monoprint Invitational, featuring 62 artists backed by four master printers. What are monoprints? Unlike classic multi-print formats from block and wood cuts to etching and intaglio, monoprints are often the simple transfer of paint to paper through a glass or other “negative.” It’s messy, unpredictable, perfect for experimentation, and hence not only a challenge but a great way for artists to fully explore their creativity, to really show underlying chops.
Bird-on-a-Cliff’s Romeo and Juliet
The production runs at the Comeau Property in Woodstock from July 27 through September 2, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, at 5:30 p.m.
Secret City Art Revival in Woodstock
Thursday-Sunday, July 26-29: The main event, an artistic tent revival featuring Amanda Palmer, Rebel Girls and more at Andy Lee Field, happens on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Demon resurrected at Bard
July 27, 29, August 1, 3 & 5: Though wildly popular in its native Russia, Anton Rubinstein’s 1871 opera is rarely mounted in the West. So it naturally falls to Bard SummerScape, with its ongoing mission to revive at least one unjustly neglected operatic work at the Fisher Center each summer, to right this wrong.
Hudson Valley Brassroots festival in Kingston
Saturday, July 28: The bands on the bill at Seed Song Farm are some of the best-known in the genre, including Brooklyn’s Raya Brass Band and the What Cheer! Brigade.
Hair to be performed at Opus 40
Sunday, July 29: New Jersey’s Centenary Stage Company will mount a new production of the “tribal love/rock musical” at the bluestone sculpture park in Saugerties.