Hudson Hall in the Hudson Opera House restoration to be celebrated
Saturday, April 22: It’s time for a celebration. The Proprietors Ball marks the grand re-opening of New York State’s oldest theater.
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Our weekly roundup of Hudson Valley family activities.
Amnesty International screens Who Is Dayani Cristal? at Rosendale Theatre
Tuesday, April 18: Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora Desert, in the so-called Corridor of Death, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered tee-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Who is this person? What brought him here? How did he die
Mipso visits the Bearsville Theater
Sunday, April 23: The North Carolina new-old-folk quartet Mipso aims for an archaic string band sound with a matching set of timeless Americana personae, intending to betray little if any evidence of the modern world within the musical and thematic confines of their songs. They really miss the mark, and in a wonderful variety of ways.
Lake Street Dive’s Kearney celebrates solo recording at Helsinki
Saturday, April 22: Bridget Kearney, bassist of the wildly popular Massachusetts band Lake Street Dive, is celebrating the release of her new solo record, Won’t Let You Down, the first on which the conservatory-trained instrumentalist steps forward as the featured vocalist.
Joe Lovano at Jazzstock with improvisers
Saturday, April 15: April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and Jazzstock is celebrating with a concert “The Moment of Now: A Night of Improvised Music!” at the Senate Garage in Kingston, featuring saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Joe Lovano.
Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors opens April 20 at SUNY-New Paltz
Thursday, April 20: Like your Shakespeare on the “lite” side? The Bard’s early comedies, with their roots in classical Roman farce and medieval Italian commedia dell’arte, are surefire crowd-pleasers that bear endless revisitation.
Kinky Friedman to play Bearsville Theater
Thursday, April 20: Nobody could invent a character quite like Kinky Friedman, the stogie-waving, black-hat-wearing self-proclaimed Texas Jewboy singer, storyteller, tequila purveyor, animal rescuer, sometime political candidate and full-time iconoclast.
Helena’s Specialty Foods in Kerhonkson makes peerless pierogies
Folks come from miles around to stock up on delicious pierogies and other Eastern European fare.
Board-game café to open in Hudson
Cafés dedicated to board games are a relatively new thing. Miller says that the first one she heard about is in Toronto: a place called Snakes and Lattes.