Highland wine bar combines art and drink
Knaus Gallery & Wine Bar is coming up on its first anniversary.
Entertainment
Kingston After Dark: Globelamp illuminates
Globelamp (aka Elizabeth Gomez aka Elizabeth Le Fay) is in the Woodstock-Kingston area to record the follow up to 2016’s The Orange Glow, released on Wichita Records, at Bohemesphere Studios in Saugerties. ‘I’d never been to Upstate New York,” she says. “I like it here. It reminds me of the Taylor Swift album Red.’
Former home of painter George Bellows is Woodstock’s newest historic site
Located on what is now Bellows Lane, the home looks like many in the area. Yet during its time it served as a center of the town’s cultural life.
Roger Ricco’s journey through the art world
Ricco, a legendary New York City gallery owner one month into his creative retirement, speaks of artists, famous and anonymous, as well as the complexity of an adventurous life that’s had him living in and around Woodstock for decades.
This humble Rhinebeck chocolate shop won the gold in an international contest
“Your career has to be about mind/body/chocolate every day. That’s my philosophy.”
Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at Bard’s Fisher Center
Sunday, Dec. 17: “You get a singer like this once in a generation or two,” says Wynton Marsalis.
Kids’ Almanac: Dec. 14–21
Gingerbread festival, Hanukkah happenings, A Christmas Carol, Hands-On Décor, Kwanzaa, Nativity Performances.
Celtic Christmas one weekend, psychedelic the next at Beacon’s Towne Crier
The internationally celebrated Irish instrumental band Lúnasa joins forces with the Celtic music singer/songwriter Ashley Davis on Saturday, Dec. 16, and psychedelic-rock eccentrics the Slambovian Circus of Dreams present their annual holiday concert on Saturday, Dec. 23.
Melissa Etheridge to play UPAC in Kingston
Saturday, Dec. 16: Academy Award- and Grammy-winning artist Melissa Etheridge brings a full band to the newly renovated Ulster Performing Arts Center this weekend.
TSL in Hudson screens Sondheim’s Follies via National Theatre Live
Saturday, Dec. 16: One of Stephen Sondheim’s darkest stageworks — and that’s saying something — Follies, which debuted in 1971, doesn’t get revived very often, despite being regarded as a classic of musical theater. National Theatre’s revival has been called “superb.”