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Marbletown hosts Historic House Tour to benefit the Ulster County Historical Society
Local History

Marbletown hosts Historic House Tour to benefit the Ulster County Historical Society

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Saturday, April 28: All the historic houses on the tour started as one- or two-room houses. Most of them were constructed of stone, while others had stone foundations and were built of clapboard. Over the centuries, the houses were expanded. The houses on this tour reflect a range of the decisions owners had to make: how much of the original house should be preserved, what features should be kept, what features could be added. 

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company performs in Tivoli
Stage & Screen

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company performs in Tivoli

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Saturday-Sunday, April 28-29: The top level of the American Ballet Theatre training ladder, the ABT Studio Company is a classical ensemble made up of 12 dancers of outstanding potential. All performances take place in the Kaatsbaan black-box theater, which has 160 seats, with a performance floor the size of the stage at the Metropolitan Opera.

Center for Symbolic Studies hosts Beltane Festival in Tillson
Community

Center for Symbolic Studies hosts Beltane Festival in Tillson

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Saturday, April 28: There’s a huge open field perfect for dancing horses and processions of mummers, a ritual stone circle and a maypole and an outdoor stage where the Vanaver Caravan conducts the elaborate pageant featuring world musicians, young dancers and giant puppets that’s the cornerstone of each year’s Festival. 

Blues Traveler’s John Popper to play Bearsville
Art & Music

Blues Traveler’s John Popper to play Bearsville

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Friday, May 4:  If Stevie Wonder is the Toots Thielemans of the harmonica, then Popper is its Yngwie Malmsteen: a bit of a terrifying technician, less inclined to melodies and more inclined to frenetic, dazzling sheets of notes on an instrument upon which that really shouldn’t be possible.

Black Arts Movement show in Kingston honors Ben Wigfall
Art & Music

Black Arts Movement show in Kingston honors Ben Wigfall

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Opening Saturday, April 28: An extraordinarily gifted painter and printmaker from an early age, Wigfall was also famously accessible, humble, engaged and engaging, tirelessly challenging and boosting younger artists. He ran the influential Watermark/Cargo Gallery in Kingston’s Rondout; and turned his print studio in Ponckhockie into a community center and contemporary art showcase called Communications Village, where up-and-coming stars of the Black Arts Movement would meet and mingle with Wigfall’s academic colleagues, students and protégés and regular people from the neighborhood.

A contemporary King Lear in Rhinebeck
Stage & Screen

A contemporary King Lear in Rhinebeck

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Friday-Sunday, April 27-29: Ever wonder how Donald Trump might end up if his more ambitious offspring turned against him in his old age? Consider this adaptation of William Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear that’s currently being presented at the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.

Birdwatchers get ready for The Big Sit
Nature

Birdwatchers get ready for The Big Sit

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Saturday, May 5: It’s a creative (and slightly competitive) birding challenge, in which participants are required to stay within a 17-foot circle and identify as many species of birds as possible within a 24-hour period.

24-Hour Drone Festival at Basilica Hudson
Art & Music

24-Hour Drone Festival at Basilica Hudson

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Saturday, April 28-Sunday, April 29: Novel, experimental, international, hip and entirely Hudson, the overnight Drone festival takes over the world-famous repurposed industrial venue for its fourth collaboration with the Netherlands’ Le Guess Who?