Saugerties galleries plan a month of sculpture
This year, the town is throwing itself into International Sculpture Day— not just on the official day of April 24, but all month.
Entertainment
Bethel Woods explores cashing in on the counterculture
“Love for Sale: The Commercialism of the Counterculture,” will be display at the Special Exhibit Gallery at Bethel Woods through December 31.
Live music roundup: April 7-9
Including: Robert Sarazin Blake at Rocket Number Nine in Kingston, Irish accordionist Máirtín O’Connor and trio at St. Paul’s Church Hall in Red Hook, James McMurtry at Helsinki in Hudson, The Dream of Gerontius performed at Bard, JBM Trio at Gomen Kudasi in New Paltz, Munich Philharmonic String Quartet at St. George’s Church in Newburgh, Homage to Louis Moreau Gottschalk at Fisher Center, and acoustic blues workshop and concert with Ari Eisinger at A.I.R Studio
Kids’ Almanac (4/6-13)
Our weekly roundup of local family activities.
Discussion of Karl Marx City with filmmakers at Upstate Films
Friday, April 7: Has the daily onslaught of revelations about Vladimir Putin’s involvement in the 2016 U.S. election got you thinking about what life might be like under a totalitarian government? You might want to check out the new documentary, Karl Marx City, which has its mid-Hudson premiere at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck.
Pasta Primo Vino tour returns to Shawangunk Wine Trail
Each spring (for nearly two decades now!) scenic Shawangunk Wine Trail wineries in Ulster and Orange counties get together to co-host a two-day wine-and-dine blowout called Pasta Primo Vino, and it’ll be back this weekend.
High Falls to become home for gnomes
4/8: Some of Sam Tufnell’s resin “power gnomes” are already testing their footing on what’s soon to be Gnome Mountain
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn to play Bearsville
4/8: Fifteen-time Grammy-winner and serial collaborator Béla Fleck is one of the least predictable mavericks of modern Americana.
Hudson Valley Philharmonic to be accompanied by audience smartphones
4/8: The program features Become Ocean by the Pulitzer Prizewinning composer John Luther Adams and radical, Grammy-winning composer Tan Dun’s Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds, a piece in which the audience may participate by downloading an app that produces bird sounds.
Second Bob Dylan show added for Kingston brickyard
After the first date sold out in less than 24 hours, Bardavon announced a second show for Bob Dylan and his Band at the Hutton Brickyards.