Woodstock’s Kleinert to host Jack DeJohnette’s concert for inner peace
A jazz iconoclast of the highest order, DeJohnette has long been a genuine, walking-the-talk community member as well.
Entertainment
A Monster Calls is a gorgeous, heartfelt fable about letting go of a dying parent
On the surface, A Monster Calls looks a CGI-heavy thrill ride for the YA crowd, and the elaborate special effects involved in bringing one of Great Britain’s ancient yew trees to terrifying life are indeed impressive. But this is no conventional monster movie. It’s a powerfully emotional, intimate parable about the internal struggle between denial and acceptance in a child whose beloved parent is dying of a slow, wasting disease.
Club d’Elf launches new LP at Helsinki Hudson
Club d’Elf is the rotating-membership collective headed by Boston-based bassist and composer Mike Rivard. The rotation has featured a number of luminaries over the years, but the most frequent big name on the marquee has been the wicked exploratory keyboardist and Hudson Valley resident John Medeski.
Kids’ Almanac: Activities for the MLK weekend
Local family activities for the long weekend, including pirate school, weird science, a reptile show, MLK Day of Giving and a birthday tribute, an intro to Broadway and more.
Anthony Haden-Guest artist talk
For anyone familiar with party scenes in New York City from the heady 1970s on, the name Anthony Haden-Guest — who has a new exhibit opening at Cross Contemporary on Partition Street next weekend, as well as a talk at a new performance venue and B&B on the Saugerties/Woodstock border January 14 — is instantly recognizable.
The Big Takeover to debut new LP in Kingston
This Saturday at BSP- The band has long been the region’s premier reggae/ska/global pop group – maybe the only band that can pack the Bearsville Theater, the Falcon, Club Helsinki and BSP, the grand slam of our small-to-mid-sized national-circuit rooms.
Oblong Books’ “Fiction into Film” dissects Our Man in Havana
Upstate Films in Rhinebeck will host a film screening of Our Man in Havana (1960) on Sunday, January 15 at 12:30 p.m. Those planning to attend are invited to read the book on which the film is based beforehand, sign up for Oblong’s book group, then stay after the screening for a book-versus-movie discussion.
Mightier than the sword: Local writers plan pre-inauguration resistance event
“Hudson Valley Writers Resist: Louder Together for Free Expression” will bring a collective of writers and musicians to the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on Sunday, January 15 – the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a few days before the inauguration – to celebrate the power of words, compassion, equal rights, free speech, social justice and environmental issues.
New book captures photographer Nora Scarlett’s ten-year visual odyssey through the Gunks
The bedrock of the Ridge creates growing conditions for its trees that inspired Scarlett. “In those hundreds of hours hiking the Gunks, I became awed at how life perseveres despite formidable handicaps, how it adapts to adversity and how it succeeds in astonishing ways.”
Sonny Ochs keeps the legacy of Phil Ochs alive
In the Trump era, Sonny feels Phil’s music is more pertinent than ever. If he were alive today, “I don’t think he’d have time to sleep, there’s so much material out there,” she said. “He’s already written songs that are, unfortunately, still relevant.”