Make way for the 174th Dutchess County Fair
Tuesday-Sunday: August 20-25: The Salute to Agriculture tent includes the Dairy Birthing Center, which allows spectators to witness the live birth of a calf.
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Colony hosts Eric Squindo’s Basement Tapes tribute
Sunday, Aug. 18: Historically speaking, Dylan was a house guest in Woodstock; but the Band, they were the house band. While the Band backed Dylan on several records and tours, nothing better captures the intensely collaborative and equal nature of the relationship better than The Basement Tapes.
Ella Ray Kondrat releases Hum to Your Heart
Across its eight devilishly musical and imaginative compositions, Hum to Your Heart’s basal setting is one woman: her syrupy, melismatic vocals and her fingerpicked, throaty acoustic guitar. But only 40 seconds into “Bringing Myself Back Home,” Hum to your Heart announces its one grand permission, its loophole: lush, reverb swamped choirs of Ellas, sometimes deployed in deep and rich block chords, other times in savvy counterpoint.
Bard Music Festival’s “Korngold and His World” opens this weekend
August 9-18: Through 12 themed concerts, pre-concert lectures, panel discussions and expert commentary, the 30th Bard Music Festival examines the life and times of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957).
BSP hosts Huichica East festival
Saturday, Aug. 10: Roky Erickson’s death precipitated Huichica’s move from the Dutchess County farm that has been its New York home to the big back room at BSP in Kingston. It also led the organizers to shorten it to a one-day festival, one held in Erickson’s honor and memory.
Makers’ map: Saugerties Artists’ Studio Tour features 37 artists
This weekend: Unlike the gallery experience, in which one rarely meets the exhibiting artist, an open studio tour is a two-way street, where visitors get to ask questions of the artists and the artists get feedback. Visitors have the opportunity to see works-in-progress as well as completed works, and some of the artists offer a hands-on experience.
Hardeman Orchards to host Professor Louie and Todd Shaeffer of Railroad Earth
As the original Falcon in Marlboro once proved beyond argument, barn concerts can be pretty high-end affairs, not just straw-strewn and horsey hootenannies. Hardeman Orchards in Red Hook are themselves old hands at the high-end barn venue game: a point that will be amply proven over the next two weekends.
Multiinstrumentalist Sam Kogon plays Colony in Woodstock
Sunday, Aug. 11: Kogon can play at least ten instruments. His proclivities were helped along by Sam’s Surplus Store, an Uptown Kingston pawnshop that his family had owned for 99 years before its 2018 closure, resulting in a collection of unexpected instruments like the autoharp and balalaika.
The Fugs will exorcise Washington again, from Byrdcliffe Barn
Saturday, Aug. 17: In the 1960s, no band defied social taboos with such unrestrained glee as the Fugs. Considering how many later punk bands cited them as a source of inspiration, one might fairly describe the Fugs as “seminal” in more ways than one.
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.