Reading in Rhinebeck for the clothes-minded
Saturday, August 5: Tracy Tynan’s memoir Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life features stories from the fashionable lives of her parents, theater critic Kenneth Tynan and novelist Elaine Dundy.
Entertainment
Drumming for horses
Friday, August 4: Full moon picnic & drum gathering in Poughquag to help equine rescue effort.
Remember the Ladies: American Women in Song
Saturday, August 5: Learn herstory at Linda Russell’s performance on Huguenot Street in New Paltz.
Kids’ Almanac: August 3-10
Drum & Bugle Competition at Dietz Stadium in Kingston; Mermaid Parade in Rosendale; Great Hudson River Estuary Fish Count; go aboard the Galeón Andalucía.
La Bohème anchors French-accented Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice this weekend
If your only acquaintance with Giacomo Puccini’s beloved opera La Bohème is as the source material for the stage musical Rent, maybe it’s time that you got to know the original.
The big voice that helped a small hamlet
Friday-Sunday, August 4-6: Opera singer Louis Otey and the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice
Spanish galleon sails into Kingston this weekend
Saturday-Tuesday, Aug. 5-8: Hop aboard the El Galeón Andalucía, a modern replica of the type of vessel used by the Spanish Crown for maritime exploration and trade expeditions from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Check out the Ulster County Fair in New Paltz
The fair runs through Sunday, August 6.
Saugerties’ Bluestone Tavern and Tandoori Grill brings both comfort and spice
Can’t decide between shepherd’s pie or a lamb karahi curry? Why not both? Welcome to Bluestone Tavern and Tandoori Grill,
Phoenicia Festival of the Voice will feature music of France, La Bohème, and Duke Ellington
The Phoenicia Festival of the Voice returns for its seventh season beginning Friday, August 4 and finishing Sunday, August 6.