Mardi Gras concert with Marcia Ball & The Subdudes at Bearsville
Ball’s latest Alligator Records CD is the critically acclaimed The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man.
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Dorsky Museum to host Family Day
The Dorsky Museum at SUNY-New Paltz was recently praised by Huffington Post for hewing close to its mission to serve both the college campus and the artistic culture of the mid-Hudson region, “the Cradle of American Art,” calling it “unlike any other regional museum.”
A sneak preview of the Thomas Cole House restoration
Thomas Cole’s home on Spring Street in Catskill has left behind its near-death experience of the 1970s and as an independent non-profit organization affiliated with the National Park Service has been engaged in a recovery that would have seemed miraculous a generation ago.
Ben Wigfall remembered as African-American arts pioneer
Benjamin Wigfall, a retired professor of art at SUNY New Paltz and former owner of the Watermark Cargo Gallery in Kingston, died on Thursday, Feb. 9, at age 86.
Storytellers for Hope: St. Baldrick’s & Relay for Life Fundraiser in Hurley
Storytellers for Hope: St. Baldrick’s and Relay for Life Fundraiser this Sunday, February 19 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. at Twin Lakes Lodge. Bring the kids to this one for 15-minute family photo sessions for only $15, fresh baked goods, hot food, music, raffles, free face-painting; and at 3 p.m., a Cup, Corks & Canvas session begins, the proceeds of which benefit Relay for Life. No appointment is necessary for the photos; just show up, and a cash bar is open all day.
Rosendale Theatre recreates Norman Corwin’s We Hold These Truths onstage
Corwin traveled the world creating broadcasts for the United Nations, until McCarthyism drove him out of the radio medium and into writing for the screen and stage.
Uptown Boogaloo to feature more than 40 breweries and cideries in Kingston
Held in the cavernous back room at BSP on Wall Street in Kingston’s Stockade District, the Boogaloo is a craft beer festival where your price of entry allows you to sample to your heart’s content from among 75 microbrews from more than 40 breweries and cideries, many of them New York State-based.
Celebrate Presidents’ Day with Washington Cake or Washington Pie
There was a Madison Cake, a Tyler Pudding and even a Jackson Jumble. But much like the man himself, none of those desserts became as popular as Washington Cake and Washington Pie.
X’s John Doe to play Helsinki Hudson
At 63, former co-frontperson of the seminal California punk band X John Doe now looks and sounds the part of the dark-but-tender American roots bard.
Les Amies to perform in Kingston at the Church of the Holy Cross
The 49th annual Ulster Chamber Music Series kicks off with works by Ravel, Fauré and Debussy