The Bop Island Big Band will play three concerts at the Woodstock Playhouse this fall, alternating with two performances by smaller ensembles, in the Bop Island Jazz Festival. The first show features Jazzmasters, a quartet led by guitarist Peter Bernstein, on Saturday, September 22.
The Radio Kingston-sponsored show dubbed “The Fall Fling” is slated for this Sunday, Sept. 23 at 2 p.m. The show will feature a hip-hop dance party with Radio Kingston DJ Micah Blumenthal and a performance by “Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads,” a band that offers reggae interpretations of the music of iconic New Wave band Talking Heads.
Back in the early ‘90s, when the New Paltz Chamber of Commerce referred to their newly conceived “Taste of New Paltz” event as “New Paltz’s newest tradition,” the assertion was optimistic, but turned out to be prophetic.
Friday, Sept. 21: She’s something like the female equivalent of Tom Waits: an unapologetically idiosyncratic songwriter and record-maker who, like Tom, can appear as a deep roots torchbearer or as a mad pop avant-gardist.
Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 22-23: Get an eyeful (and earful) of how the arts community is turning this city around.
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 21-22: Far from the Tree is an intimate, profoundly human look at families raising children whom society deems “abnormal.” The documentary is about what it means to be family, and above all, about love, no matter what.
Sail to the Rondout Lighthouse, visit the Trevor Zoo and catch a film at the Four Brothers Drive-In
Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 22-23: One of the greatest suspense thrillers of all time, this cinematic masterpiece comes alive with the Orchestra’s performance of Bernard Herrmann’s spine-tingling score.
Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 22-23: As always, Oktoberfest features authentic German and German-American entertainment, but this weekend will also include a Ciders in the Catskills tasting and some high-flying action by the Monster Energy Aerial Stunt Show.
Saturday, Sept. 22: He’s a mainstay in the New York City New Music scene, a founding member of the hip string quartet Brooklyn Rider and a longtime member of the Silk Road Ensemble, founded by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma.