Friday, August 11: No two-hit wonder, she: Suzanne Vega has put together a long and distinguished career as an agreeably eccentric modern songwriter with a New York artsy lean and a hushed voice that commands with its quiet intensity and with the strange things it has to say.
Saturday, August 5: To say that the accomplished singer/songwriter is a local favorite is a bit redundant. Tireless in the studio as on the road, Sexton is pretty much a local favorite everywhere.
Saturday, August 5: Tracy Tynan’s memoir Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life features stories from the fashionable lives of her parents, theater critic Kenneth Tynan and novelist Elaine Dundy.
Friday, August 4: Full moon picnic & drum gathering in Poughquag to help equine rescue effort.
Saturday, August 5: Learn herstory at Linda Russell’s performance on Huguenot Street in New Paltz.
Drum & Bugle Competition at Dietz Stadium in Kingston; Mermaid Parade in Rosendale; Great Hudson River Estuary Fish Count; go aboard the Galeón Andalucía.
If your only acquaintance with Giacomo Puccini’s beloved opera La Bohème is as the source material for the stage musical Rent, maybe it’s time that you got to know the original.
Friday-Sunday, August 4-6: Opera singer Louis Otey and the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice
Saturday-Tuesday, Aug. 5-8: Hop aboard the El Galeón Andalucía, a modern replica of the type of vessel used by the Spanish Crown for maritime exploration and trade expeditions from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
The fair runs through Sunday, August 6.