Friday-Sunday, July 6-8: Scattered in years past over many locations, the 2018 Hudson Valley Hot-Air Balloon Festival will be concentrated in one spot: the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck. Nearly 100 balloon launches are scheduled, as well as aerial thrills of all kinds.
His show, while constantly reinforcing messages that helped children feel secure and loved and valuable, was anything but “safe.”
Friday-Sunday, July 6-8: A gravity-defying, family-friendly performance by the Brooklyn-based company known as the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, a/k/a SLAM or just Streb.
Revolution on Huguenot Street!
Sunday, July 8: What’s called the Best Little Car Show in the Northeast is about to roll into Saugerties.
Saturday, July 7: ne of the brassiest ideas Jeff Tweedy ever had was to open Wilco’s elegant and inclusive progressive-roots sound to the shred-grade chops of Nels Cline. Let’s be clear: Hip people hate chops, and let’s be equally clear: Cline has them and makes no attempt to hide them.
Four Quartets is the first authorized dance performance ever to be based on T. S. Eliot’s career-crowning work.
Saturday, July 7: Founder of the band Orleans and former US congressman from New York, Hall also scored co-wrote such classics as “Still the One,” “and “Dance with Me.”
Saturday, July 7: The audience follows the performers around Opus 40 during the “Scottish play,’’ and the scenes take on different auras as they move through different parts of Harvey Fite’s sculpture.
Saturday, July 7: Down on Creation: On Top of the World with the Carpenters offers a glimpse into the troubled life of the ’70s icon and the music she left behind.