David Olney plays Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia
Saturday, August 18: You may not know the name (or maybe you do), but to insiders the guy is a giant.
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Kansas is coming to Kingston
Saturday, August 18: If you listen to the first four Kansas albums, you will hear compositions that are every bit the equal of early Genesis in terms of counterpoint and formal design, and the music routinely rocks harder as well.
Live recording session with Kat Wright in Woodstock
Saturday, August 18: Guests are invited to sit in on the mystery of studio recording as the Vermont-based retro soul/pop singer lays down a live album that will be her next release. The Burlington singer and her band work in the swanky, uptown-retro tradition of Dap-Tone and Amy Winehouse.
Christopher Robin is sweet and utterly predictable
The film gets the job done — transporting kids to the lovely Hundred Acre Wood and taking their parents along for a pleasant nostalgia trip. There are worse ways to spend a rainy afternoon.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: “Cars, coiffures and catnaps”
“What’s worse than raining cats and dogs? Hailing taxis.”
Jackson Browne to headline Dirt Farmer Festival at Arrowood Farms
Sunday, August 19: This one-day festival in Accord assembles many of Levon Helm’s most famous collaborators (and admirers).
Mary Frank looks at the world without blinking
Mary Frank describes the subject matter of her latest body of her work, much of it exhibited at a new show at Elena Zang Gallery titled “Refuge,” as about “evolution and de-evolution. For me, everything is about returning to origins.”
Linda Weintraub’s eye for activism
“Since new vanguards emerge in quick succession, my career choice has allowed me to track several generations of art pioneers.”
The best meteors in years?
Saturday-Sunday, August 11-12: It’s all due to a backwards comet. All we need are mostly clear skies.
Trombone Shorty’s Voodoo Threauxdown at Bethel Woods
Saturday, August 11: He is one of the most recent and most popular ambassadors of New Orleans’ complex musical heritage of jazz, blues, Cajun, funk and more. He is hardly alone on this bill, however. Also performing will be the popular funk/jam band Galactic, the great Preservation Hall Jazz Band and at least two people with the last name Neville, for legitimacy.