Saugerties artist tour draws a crowd
With near-perfect weather for a drive around the countryside, the 15th annual Saugerties Artists’ Studio Tour drew hundreds of visitors last weekend.
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Kids’ Almanac (Aug. 24-31)
Erica’s cancer journey, make shadow puppets, learn about wildflowers, check out the firetrucks!
Lynyrd Skynyrd & Hank Williams, Jr. at Bethel Woods
Saturday, August 26: “People may say, ‘they need the money,’ well I don’t think any of us need the money,” singer Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd says. “It’s just that we love the music, it’s bigger than the money.”
Sounds of Twin Peaks at Falcon and BSP
Friday-Saturday, August 25-26: Silencio will be making two regional appearances in tribute to the music of the enduringly popular and recently revived television show Twin Peaks, which is to say the music of Angelo Badalamenti. Badalamenti’s evocative soundtracks (and songs co-written with series creator David Lynch) combine unironic sentimentality with jet-set swank and all kinds of creeping menace, which is just another name for “Lynch.”
Robbie Fulks is so good it hurts
Saturday, August 26: He jumps on as the headliner of an already well-stocked Americana lineup at the Livestock Music Festival in Bovina.
Watch Star Wars: Rogue One under the Walkway over the Hudson
Saturday, August 26: There will be music by Matthew Fink & Friends in a sunset concert before the movie, along with activities and food trucks on the Poughkeepsie waterfront.
Huichica Festival in Pine Plains
Friday-Saturday, August 25-26: The lineup is impressively hip (downright awesome, actually), featuring the likes of chimey indie-rock sensation Real Estate, the great songwriter Cass McCombs, retro soul and blues dynamo Charles Bradley, Marissa Nadler and many more.
Bumper Jacksons to play Hunter’s Doctorow Center
Saturday, August 26: Combining jazz, blues and a little bit of country, the Bumper Jacksons are a veritable American music history lesson.
The mom behind the mitzvah wall
Lagusta Yearwood remembers her mother with her latest innovation at Commissary, a vegan oasis in New Paltz. Here’s where the mitzvah wall (the word means “good deed”) comes into play: A customer can purchase a treat of any sort for anyone who may be short of cash or merely in need of a pick-me-up. The customer can describe someone as imaginatively as they wish – a lonely vegan, a kilt-wearing Scot yearning for a good cup of tea, a blue-eyed dog-lover – and post their offering in a note to the wall. When someone matching the description comes along, they can claim their iced coffee or pickle plate or macaron.
Susan Sarandon is Film Fest’s Maverick Award Recipient
Iconic actor and producer Susan Sarandon was announced this week as the Woodstock Film Festival’s honorary Maverick Award recipient.