Blessing of the bikes at Woodstock Harley-Davidson
Saturday, Mar. 23: Get your bikes and riding bells blessed by Pastor Frank in this annual ritual.
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Andy Frasco & the UN to perform in Woodstock
Saturday, Mar. 23: They lit up 2018 Mountain Jam with a wild set or organ-fired funky rock ‘n’ roll led by an irrepressible entertainer who understands nothing of restraint.
The eyes of Carrie Haddad
The pioneering gallerist looks back at Hudson’s remarkable renaissance.
“Lost Lighthouses of the Hudson” lecture at Maritime Museum
Saturday, Mar. 23: Just eight Hudson River lighthouses now remain, but dozens once dotted the shores of the Hudson between Troy and New York City, at places like Stuyvesant, Coxsackie, Rockland Lake, Danskammer Point, Esopus Island and Crossover Dike.
Kaatsbaan kicks off its season with Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Sunday, Mar. 24: Under artistic director Alberto Lopez, Calpulli brings a new work-in-progress, Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo, which will be followed by a post-show discussion.
Chris Botti to perform at UPAC in Kingston
Friday, Mar. 29: A smooth jazz master with a truly global purview, this trumpeter/composer is one of the very few pop superstars that the genre has produced. While he always keeps it accessible, singable and user-friendly, there is no denying the man’s musical substance.
Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra to perform “Flight” at CIA
Saturday, Mar. 30: The Hudson Valley takes “Flight” in the upcoming Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra presentation of music and pictures that will showcase the history of flying, from the earliest attempts all the way to space travel. The media presentation, created by local filmmaker Jarek Zabcynski, will also feature Hudson Valley flight, including the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome and the Hudson Valley Balloon Festival.
Hudson native Gary Grossman to bring his new spy thriller to his old stomping ground
Sunday, March 31: RED Hotel reading at TSL. Gary belongs to the family who built and operated Grossman’s Bakery in the building that now houses Time & Space Limited in Hudson.
Local author reads from her book Never Too Young! in Kingston
Saturday, March 30: Aileen Weintraub tells the inspiring stories of early achievers in Never Too Young! 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference. The book became a best-seller when it debuted on Amazon, and won a Parents’ Choice Award. The Accord-based author has written more than 50 children’s books, with her next, Secrets of the American Museum of Natural History, due out this spring.
Famed writer/arborist William Bryant Logan to read from Sprout Lands in Rhinebeck
Thursday, Mar. 28: Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them; rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known.