Friday, Jan. 19: Club Helsinki in Hudson was early in as a forecaster of the impending breakout fame of Lake Street Dive, the jazz/roots/pop hitmakers who have carved themselves a unique place in the Americana musical landscape. Now Club Helsinki gets some back-end payback when Lake Street Dive vocalist Rachael Price revives an especially fine project from her past.
A primer on Kingston’s own soldier/statesman.
Invasive absinthe is not difficult to grow.
Sunday, January 7: The Levin Brothers have been involved in some of the most daring and experimental music of the last 50 years: Tony cutting a striking figure as bassist and Chapman-stick player with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and many more; Pete working more behind-the-scenes as an ace keyboardist on the legendary New York session scene.
Pages with potations.”We want to be as hospitable as we can be… We’re staying open later for professionals just getting off work, or night-owls who want a cup of coffee or a savory pie at 10 p.m.”
From our un-light-polluted region, binoculars pointed at the belt show it immersed in a multitude of little stars, like a swarm of fireflies.
Saturday, January 6: Masse is the classically trained singer/songwriter and member of the popular and critically lauded roots group the Wailin’ Jennys.
Monday, January 8: That mop of gray hair you see standing between McCartney and Clapton at all the royal tribute concerts would be none other Albert Lee, the British chicken-pickin’ country and rockabilly guitar ace whose credit list is a rather gaudy plume of Hall of Fame associations.
Sunday, January 7: Salon lecture at Catskill’s Cedar Grove. A traveling exhibition of works by the Hudson River School founder will open on January 30 at the Met, then get packed up and shipped off to London in June.
Thursday, January 11: “Captain Dixie” Kiefer was a US naval commander during World War II who saw so much action that his men joked that the ship’s compass needle always pointed to him, on account of all the shrapnel in his body. While awarding him a medal, the Secretary of the Navy dubbed Kiefer “the Indestructible Man.” But shortly after the war ended, Kiefer perished, along with five other Navy men, in an airplane crash on Mount Beacon. A group called the Mount Beacon Eight is working to attain recognition for those who died alongside Kiefer in the 1945 plane crash.