Saturday, June 10: Proceeds from the inaugural festival will go to the Hudson Valley Hero Project, which provides aid to veterans and current military through scholarships, paying overdue bills and offering equine-assisted PTSD therapy.
Sunday, June 11: The Canadian jazz vocalist and pianist has attained commercial peaks upon which jazz artists are seldom allowed to tread. She has done it with great personality, great skill and intelligent repertoire.
Fly a kite, find a fairy house, make a mask, go to drag queen story hour.
The surprising influence exerted on troubadour Kurt Henry.
Saturday & Sunday, June 17-18: Always misperceived as primarily a doctrinal folk and bluegrass festival because of its tight association with the late and legendary Peter Seeger, it is, in fact, one of the most inclusively curated and globally sourced festivals anywhere. I love this year’s lineup.
June 16-18: The festival continues its gradual transition from jam band music to more structured, roots-leaning classic rock, but this year’s lineup has the String Cheese Incident for the diehards.
I wanted Wonder Woman to be better than it is. It’s still pretty damned exciting. Go see it by all means, and if you or your friends have daughters, bring them along.
Lucky Bug Clothing Company finds new home in old barracks at Stewart.
Succinctly defined by the National Wildlife Federation as “the study of how the biological world times natural events,” phenology matters to humans in a million different ways.
Viewed from New Paltz, Bonticou is that first notable white outcrop to the north of Sky Top. Some accounts claim that it was named after an early surveyor; others that the Bonte Coe (Spotted Cow in Dutch) was, like the Gilded Otter, one of the ships that brought European settlers to the area. Whatever it means, locals tend to pronounce it “Bontikyew,” not “Bontikoo.”