Kids Almanac: 3/15-21
Spring break boosters for the whole family.
Entertainment
Comedian Louie Anderson at the Bardavon
Sunday, March 18: Anderson co-stars (with Zach Galifianakis) in the hit FX series Baskets. His extraordinary performance as Christine Baskets, the matriarch of the Baskets clan, won him his third Emmy Award.
Arias for Abe in Lincoln: Lamp of Liberty concert
Saturday, March 17 in Kingston & Sunday, March 18 in Woodstock: Ars Choralis and the Riverview Missionary Baptist Church choir Voices of Praise will perform some of Lincoln’s favorite arias, spirituals, freedom songs, fiddle tunes and sentimental ballads. Criticized for attending the opera while the Civil War raged, Lincoln’s response was terse: “The truth is, I must have a change of some sort, or die.”
Beacon’s Towne Crier hosts Clancy Tradition
Saturday, March 17: The Clancy Tradition celebrates brothers Eugene and Pat Clancy, who first started performing with their family’s Ceili Band in Ireland in the 1950s before coming to America in the ’60s, where they toured as the Irish Ramblers and performed at Carnegie Hall.
A father, a son, and a collaboration 25 years in the making
Saturday, March 24: This year’s Woodstock Bookfest will feature the world premiere of Lost Dreams, a collaboration between the late writer John Hersey and his son Baird, a composer who lives in West Shokan.
Millerton’s Moviehouse to screen Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
Tuesday, March 20: Featuring interviews with curators from the National Portrait Gallery in London, MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the film takes audiences beyond the exhibition to the places Cézanne lived and worked and sheds light on an artist who is perhaps the least-known of all the Impressionists – until now.
Felice Brothers & Yard Sale coming to Bearsville
Friday, March 23: The Felice Brothers are more Dylan, Yard Sale more Band. Read on.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: Owning my anger
Erica’s old anger patterns as directed at my children and husband, or, per Stephen King, “Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”
Zombies at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock
Friday, March 9: Their masterwork asserted itself like a time-release capsule in the bloodstream of pop culture.
Dumpstaphunk plays Helsinki Hudson
Saturday, March 10: Heirs not only to the Neville polyglot musical tradition, but also to the very Neville name itself, Dumpstaphunk has been providing the jam and festival scene with an uncommonly high grade of funk for years.