Established one year ago to honor folk music legends and to sustain the “folk process” as a vibrant part of American culture – an ongoing and ever-evolving one, not merely a pop-culture trend of the 1960s – ACFM has found its headquarters: River House, the red “barn” building restored by Scenic Hudson in Long Dock Park.
Alice-in-Wonderland Follies at Kaatsbaan in Tivoli, Meet LEGO Pop-Up creator in Rhinebeck, Coming-Out-Day Teen Dance in Kingston, Youth Features at Woodstock Film Festival, Beacon Sloop Club’s Pumpkin Festival, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & more.
Two nonviolent movements, two blues masters and the healing power of music for Holocaust survivors
One Book/One New Paltz, the annual joint community reading and discussion experience, returns to town with a week’s worth of activities from November 13 to 20. But this year it’s going to be a little different: Instead of the usual novel, the book selected by the One Book/One New Paltz Committee is a sobering non-fictional account of the lives of people living in extreme poverty.
Guests will bear witness to the legendary true story of a tormented mother and an unorthodox macabre wedding ceremony, while also learning about sexist witch trials, kidnapped wives, mourning brides and the curse of infertility.
“If there was one mistake we made this year it was taking our foot off the marketing gas after the overwhelming response on opening day.”
The event doesn’t call for a million women drummers get together in one place, but rather for a particular day to be designated for women to gather locally in small groups to drum and make music together, to raise consciousness about sustainability and to honor and plant trees.
As always, there are too many good bands, too many choices. But here are three you shouldn’t miss: two headliners and an up-and-comer.
This year’s festival will include numerous acts with a feminist bent, underscoring the theme of “Mothers of Invention.” The festival, now in its seventh year, began as a benefit for the large numbers of artists and musicians without health insurance, a problem that has yet to be fully solved. It’s also a fantastic time.
While it’s always skin-crawly fun to experience Nosferatu in a real cinema – you may come out of it feeling about rats the way a lot of people feel about spiders or snakes – what makes this weekend’s presentation in Woodstock extra-special is the musical accompaniment