The Village of New Paltz Historic Preservation Commission unveiled its fourth annual art exhibit and announced the award-winners at a reception Saturday, April 28. The show will remain on view in the community room of the Elting Memorial Library during regular library hours through May 12.
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Getting out in support of their much-anticipated new release Free Yourself Up (due on May 4), the popular American outfit Lake Street Dive appears at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Sunday, May 6 at 7 p.m.
The Phoenicia Playhouse takes on Moon Over Buffalo from May 4 through 20, Fridays through Sundays, with direction by the theater’s artistic director Michael Koegel.
Opening on Saturday, May 5: “Handwriting on the Wall” exhibition at Arts Society of Kingston. “Cancer and other illnesses that are feared are whispered about, and it’s time to stop the whispering, because we’re all suffering on one level or another. And so many of us suffer alone.”
Sunday, May 6: To hear this virtuoso Scottish fiddle-and-cello duo, you would think they’d been playing together for centuries.
Saturday, May 5: This band gets way out there, demonstrating once again that the difference between “experimental” and “jam” is semiotic more than musical.
Saturday-Sunday, May 12-13: The dance is a feminist tour de force meant to remind the world of the contributions of two Latina powerhouses of centuries past.
For breweries, the season launches at Hunter Mountain at the end of April with the TAP New York Craft Beer & Food Festival. The 2018 gathering that I attended last weekend was the 21st year running, making TAP NY itself old enough, technically speaking, to drink legally.
I hate clock-time. I love life-time.