2019 Rosendale Street Festival schedule
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Taiko drums to reverberate within Rosendale’s Widow Jane Mine
Sunday, July 14: Founded by master drummer Hiro Kurashima, Taiko Masala performs a combination of dance, martial arts and extremely percussive music on huge handmade drums and other traditional Japanese instruments: shakuhachi, fue, koto.
Bring Your Own Bag Act launches in Ulster County
With this move, the county anticipates the statewide act, scheduled for 2020 enforcement, with which New York will join only two other US states to date (California, of course, but also Hawaii) and 30 nations, from France to Madagascar.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Summer Jazz Academy begins at Bard
July 15-28: Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Summer Jazz Academy, a two-week residential high school summer institute for advanced study in jazz performance, takes place at Bard College and offers locals a number of opportunities to hear great jazz performed by both the Jedis and the Padawans.
Bard stages opera about a B-movie star with a mysterious past
The production explores the world of Acquanetta—aka Mildred Davenport—star of such cult 1940s horror films as Captive Wild Woman, Jungle Woman, The Sword of Monte Cristo and Tarzan and the Leopard Woman.
Producer to screen new Toni Morrison documentary at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck
Saturday, July 13: Beloved won her the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, and her body of work was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to being a writer for the ages, Morrison helped plenty of other black writers get published and taken seriously by critics during her 15 years at Random House, where she was the first black woman senior editor in the fiction department.
Antique cars congregate at Locust Grove
Sunday, July 14: More than 300 cars will be on view throughout the beautiful grounds at Locust Grove, the mansion once home to artist and inventor of the telegraph Samuel F. B. Morse.
Celebrate the old ways at Stone House Day in Hurley
Saturday, July 13: Explore America’s oldest private homes in a National Historic Landmark village.
The Secret Garden cast is in fine voice at Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck
The musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved 1911 children’s novel by Lucy Simon (Carly’s sister)is varied in style and technically challenging. Elizabeth Thomas delivers a stunning vocal performance as Lily, whose death in childbirth led to her widower Archibald’s ban on anyone ever again entering the walled garden that was her favorite haunt in her lifetime.
Sadie Penzato exhibition at Highland’s Knaus Gallery
The Knaus Gallery & Wine Bar will exhibit a number of Penzato’s paintings from July 13 through 27. Its hours of operation are Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 9 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 10 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 9 p.m. The opening reception on Saturday, July 13 will be a fond farewell party.