Saturday, July 7: Familiar to audiences as the current lead singer of the world-famous Original Blues Brothers Band, Harden has shared the stage with Solomon Burke, Eddie Floyd, Ben E. King, Robert Cray and Delbert McClinton.
July 10-27: The Festival is full of events open to the public, ranging from master classes to full-length recitals, but its main focus is on the 25 students who come from literally around the world to study with master teachers.
Tuesday, July 10: Dave Eggers declared the Tivoli writer “one of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I have read in years.” Hunt’s recently reissued novel is about a young woman who believes herself to be a mermaid. She falls in a love with a damaged veteran of the first Iraq war, a fisherman named Jude.
Friday, July 13: He’s touring in support of his ambitious new genre-defying release Rearview Town.
It turns out this shortness of breath wasn’t caused by fluid in my lungs; it was 1.04 liters of fluid in my heart!
The cunning and adaptable coyote was deified by the Native Americans and persecuted by the U.S. government. But as other predators were killed off, the coyote thrived, mating with wolves and producing a hybrid that now roams the fields and forests of the Northeast- including the Hudson Valley.
Sunday, July 1: One of the most accomplished piano trios in the world
Sunday, July 1: Locally, the pillar of Ed Sanders’ fame might well be his lead role in the band of rock ‘n’ roll subversives known as the Fugs, but internationally he will always be known principally as the best-selling author of The Family, the first great work on Charles Manson. Sanders is an unabashed fan of RFK and of what might have been.
Friday-Sunday, June 29-July 1: Lumberyard’s Under Construction Summer Festival begins with Urban Bush Women musical at Helsinki Hudson
Artist Jesse Lee Wilson and two assistants created The River, wheeling chalk dust over nearly an acre of parking lot in Woodstock. Wilson based his piece on a single line copied from a topographical map of Kaaterskill Falls, a site that inspired the Hudson River School of landscape painters.