Friday-Sunday, August 24-26: An overstuffed lineup of cool music, and one that, per usual, taxes any stable definition of “folk music” to its breaking point. You get the idea: All high-end stuff in an extraordinary setting with the high-fiber community values that have always distinguished the Hoots from your standard-issue folk bacchanalia.
Saturday, August 25: For people like me who love little more than the smart, Beatle-derived guitar-pop tradition that includes everyone from XTC to Aimee Mann to Elliott Smith, Glen Tilbrook is nothing short of Mount Rushmore royalty.
Saturday, August 25: This hunt begins with the essentials of mushroom foraging, as well as a lesson in the etiquette surrounding the practice.
The heroine teaches Economics at NYU (specializing, significantly to the plot, in Game Theory).
Saturday, August 25: Maverick Concerts’ music director Alexander Platt has enlisted players from the Caroga Arts Ensemble; singers from the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice; and members of Actors & Writers to read the poems.
Opens August 29: It connects the past with the present, featuring selections from the New York State Museum’s collections of contemporary Native American art and archaeological artifacts, plus objects from Historic Huguenot Street.
Friday, August 31: The screening begins at dusk, but attendees are encouraged to picnic on the grounds beforehand.
A rainbow requires a sunshower. It must be raining. But the CZA can appear against a blue sky.
As Susan Sontag said, “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” I invite you to look through this collection of special Hudson Valley spots and take in as many as you can before Labor Day.
Runs weekends through September 9: Bang Bang! is feisty and fun and will make your face hurt from laughing.