Juilliard String Quartet at Bard
Saturday, June 3: The Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle opens its June Concert Series with a dazzler.
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Taste of Country Festival at Hunter Mountain
June 9-11: Taste of Country is the region’s secret little alternative universe. And it is hopping as all get-out.
Kingston After Dark: Be yourself
Worth putting on your radar: Butchers Blind and The Sweet Clementines June 10 at The Anchor.
John Hall remembers Gregg Allman
John Hall, singer-songwriter, ex-congressman, ex-Saugerties School Board member, former county legislator and longtime area resident who will be presented the Spirit of Woodstock award at an event this Saturday afternoon, June 3 at 5:30 p.m. in Woodstock, played many times with musician Greg Allman, who passed last weekend.
How much can you eat? A walk up Woodstock’s Mill Hill Rd.
It’s inescapable from just looking at the construction around town, and following the planning board’s sessions that there is a huge amount of activity in Woodstock, much of it centered around food.
Two Kingston artists featured in Dubai exhibit
Andrew Lyght, a Guyana-born artist whose home and studio are located in a former mule barn in Ponckhockie, and Valerie Piraino, who left Brooklyn a year ago with her husband, Drew Piraino, to move into a house in Connelly, are two of the four artists represented in a Dubai exhibition that opened this month.
Ed Sanders and the Fugs seek to cleanse the political morass
If you don’t have solid plans for Tuesday, May 30, here’s an idea for you, care of Woodstock bard and activist Ed Sanders. Join in at that time as he and The Fugs, the band he started with Ken Weaver and the late Tuli Kupferberg in the mid-1960s, reunite with their full coterie of the past 30 years with a new song/performance set to close out that day’s giant Veterans for Peace Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Tinker Street: Voices from the Green and Beyond at Golden Notebook in Woodstock
Poetry, local and state-honored, rolls into the upstairs reading room at Golden Notebook Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28, with readings by former New York State poet laureate Marie Howe with New York City-based Donna Masini on Saturday, and authors from the new “Tinker Street: Voices from the Green and Beyond” literary collection on Sunday.
With new building, Mass MoCA nearly doubles in size
Sunday, May 28: The North Adams museum will mark the opening of Building 6 with an all-day celebration, featuring a Nick Cave Soundsuit parade and a concert by Cake.
All-day Springfest at Marlboro’s Falcon
The Falcon’s first-ever all-day festival, with food vendors, a New York Craft Beer Garden, street performers and live music on three stages.