The pastoral work of making sustainable jazz
Tannersville’s Catskill Jazz Factory provides support for both sides of jazz’s legacy: the traditional and the revolutionary.
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Woodstock Playhouse presents Hair
The Woodstock Playhouse cast of professionals brings Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical’ to the stage of the Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Road, August 2 thru August 18 for three great weekends in celebration of the roots the Woodstock Festival connected to the town and the playhouse.
R. R. Pollak exhibit of comic strip art opens August 3 at Ellenville Library
Comic strip fans of all generations will have the unique opportunity to check out the history of the genre at the Ellenville Public Library and Museum and meet our own hometown cartoonist at the opening reception on Saturday, August 3.
Minnewaska hosts first Forest Bathing Workshop
Sunday, Aug. 4: Studies are showing that even small periods of time spent in the forest reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol and lower blood pressure and heart rate. Trees release phytoncides into the air, which boost the immune system and stimulate production of white blood cells. Being in natural settings also activates our nervous system’s relaxation response, allowing us to recover from the chronic low-intensity “fight-or-flight” environment of daily life.
Check out the one-of-a-kind Wassaic Project
Aug. 3: The scope and density of this one-day affair defies easy description. It is full of exhibits; serious talks by serious artists; five hours of world-class international dance in and around barn; live music with a hip, global, and Bacchanalian bias; and general pageantry executed at the visual and conceptual level one would expect from an artist’s colony.
Explore Wethersfield Estate and Gardens
It could be one of Dutchess County’s best kept secrets. The Wethersfield Estate and Gardens is off the beaten path — well, gravel road — near the village of Amenia. Just the right amount of privacy and bucolic splendor make it the perfect getaway for an early 20th century industrialist, particularly one who enjoyed horse riding and generally communing with glorious nature.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival delivers zesty five-actor Cyrano
Aug. 6-30: Cyrano is a truly larger-than-life character. Go make his acquaintance this summer in the theater tent perched above the finest view in the Hudson Highlands at Boscobel House and Gardens.
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love serves up more Leonard than Marianne
The film is a poignant, lyrical and occasionally eye-opening documentary about musician Leonard Cohen and muse Marianne Ihlen that is doomed to disappoint its intended audience on one or more levels, even while they lap it up.
Midtown Arts District’s Celebration of the Arts set for Aug. 3
For its fifth annual Celebration of the Arts, to be held on Saturday, Aug. 3, the nonprofit group Midtown Arts District (MAD) is doing something different: an all-day series of interactive workshops — an expo of the arts, if you will — at the Kingston Center of SUNY Ulster, located in the former Sophie Finn elementary school at 94 Mary’s Ave.
Guster performs at Arrowood Farm Brewery
Saturday, Aug. 3: The popular earthy Boston-area college rock band known for, among other things, beating the crap out of bongos, has just released a record that is not only largely electronic, but exquisitely so.