Thursday, July 26: It’s an endless tug-of-war that Woodstockers wage – even more so in the digital age – but someone, everyone, needs to do it. On Thursday evening, local producer/director and documentary filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss will host a multimedia event at the Maverick Concert Hall that will give some sense of the value of what is always endangered.
Young People’s Concerts at Maverick | Dragon Boat Races in Poughkeepsie | Hike to Falling Waters Preserve and the Saugerties Lighthouse
Saturday, July 21: While it was their Southern rock forbears the Allman Brothers who titled a record The Road Goes on Forever, it is Florida’s (not Alabama’s) Lynyrd Skynyrd who are living it – whether that is your vision of Heaven, Purgatory or Hell.
Tuesday, July 24: Multi-prizewinning novelist Joyce Carol Oates has just published a new short-story collection that’s generating plenty of buzz in literary circles: Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense. The title story is her homage to the eldritch horror tales of H.P. Lovecraft; the volume of six new works also includes Eleven A.M., 1926, Oates’ contribution to a writing challenge to imagine the backstories behind iconic paintings by Edward Hopper.
Friday, July 20: Naturally, the BAND Band will play “The Weight,” “Chest Fever” and “I Shall Be Released.”
Saturday-Sunday, July 20-21: The self-guided tour of more than 30 studios will take you all over the Town of Shandaken from Boiceville to Belleayre.
Thursday-Sunday, July 19-22: It’s barely a stretch to say that all the giants of bluegrass, newgrass and old-timey country music still living since its 1984 founding have graced its stages. Fans come back year after year after year, as much to camp out and engage in informal picking sessions as to listen to the headline talents.
Saturday, July 21: Kane’s son gives an illustrated talk about the great 20th-century photographer and former Margaretville resident who shot the famous photograph “Harlem, 1958,” as well as other iconic photographs of the Rolling Stones, the Who, Janis Joplin, the Doors, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan.
The Society for the Preservation of Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture welcomes new members.
To anyone who loves sociopolitical satire, dystopian science fiction and transgressive humor, check out the invigorating directorial debut of Boots Riley, heretofore best-known as the lead rapper of the politically active Oakland band the Coup.