Unison hosts Willa Vincitore
Saturday, Apr. 27: A newly honored New York State Blues Hall of Fame inductee, singer/songwriter Willa Vincitore brings her take on modern bluescraft to to New Paltz.
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Snug’s in New Paltz marks Bicycle Day
Friday, Apr. 19: Bicycle Day celebrates the Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hoffman’s accidental first LSD trip, his surprising bicycle ride home from the lab that day and everything that followed.
Turkuaz plays back room at BSP
Friday, Apr. 19: With piping horns, gooey analog synth lines, infectious grooves and a horde-style approach to vocals reminiscent of Sly and his family, Turkuaz has become a wildly popular live attraction and a current incarnation of the Dionysian funk family impulse.
4/20 Tribute to Peter Tosh at Colony
Saturday, April 20: Via time zones and the 12-hour clock, it is always 4:20 somewhere, I guess, though my head is too foggy to really think it through. But a real 420 only comes once a year, and the entire day is given to what, most days, receives only an hour or two. A weekend 4/20 is like Venus-in-Gatorade rare.
Clearwater Festival announces June lineup
June 15 and 16: One should never sleep on Clearwater. Over the years, it has quietly become the most inclusive and progressive of all the major New York summer festivals, belying its reputation as a weekend of Pete Seeger’s two favorite things: banjos and garbage cleanup.
Wildly resourceful singer-songwriter Dar Williams to perform in New Paltz
Friday, April 12: She has released ten albums, written four books and been called “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters” by The New Yorker. Unison booked her, but she’ll be performing at SUNY-New Paltz’s Studley Theater.
Record Store Day to be celebrated throughout the valley
Saturday, April 13: I am not sure anyone would have predicted the return of vinyl, and with it the flourishing of record stores, and with that the renaissance of record-store culture and its barbershop vibe of feverish cultural engagement and curation. But here we are.
Bach B minor Mass performed at the Bardavon
Saturday, April 13: Augmented by the Vassar College Choir and Capella Festiva under the direction of Christine Howlett, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic will play J. S. Bach’s final work.
Skatalites to play BSP’s big back room in Kingston
Friday, Apr. 5: In existence since the early 1960s, the Skatalites scored numerous hits under their own name and served as house band for many of the biggest names during the first heyday of ska and reggae.
Visual punch: Rivka Shifman Katvan’s “Photographs of Cus D’Amato’s Boxing Gym” opens in Catskill
Saturday, April 6: “When they have a boxing match, it’s a neighborhood thing: a small village of people coming together to watch, and everybody knows everybody.”