Wednesday, Feb. 27: Rachael & Vilray pairs Rachael Price, singer of the popular band Lake Street Dive, with her mysterious compadre Vilray, whom she met at the New England Conservatory of Music in 2003, long before Lake Street Dive took off. The two share a love for the pop music of the ’30s and the ’40s.
The institution now known as the Hudson Correctional Facility in the City of Hudson was, from 1904 to 1975, the state’s only reformatory for delinquent girls. Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald arrived there in April 1933 – described in the logbook as “ungovernable” – and soon became one of the notorious institution’s runaways.
Think artisan, and you picture a maker space in a factory loft or farm cottage and handcrafted items artfully displayed in a charming storefront on a pedestrian stretch of Main Street. Since last fall, however, some serious artisan activity has been taking place right off the highway. Easy to miss as you’re whizzing by on Route 28 on your way from Kingston to Woodstock, the Woodstock Art Exchange and Pablo Glass Studio are located in a complex of buildings in West Hurley. Rather than gasoline and coffee, they offer art, hand-blown glassware and an array of unique handcrafted items – plus glassblowing.
Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia:Beacon on the last Sunday of each month, which falls on Sunday, February 24 this month. Additionally, City of Beacon residents (including the adjacent Hudson Valley communities of Chelsea, Fishkill and Glenham) receive free admission to Dia:Beacon every Saturday and Sunday. Qualifying guests are asked to present identification and proof of residence at the admissions desk.
Friday-Sunday, February 15-17: In an age when Aerosmith has headlined major jazz festivals and the lineups tend to be stacked with non-jazz acts, the Hudson affair is micro and boutique, small and intensive and truly designed for aficionados on the cutting edge of jazz aesthetics.
This year’s preliminary lineup reads like a casual FU to hip and an all-in reaffirmation of the festival’s core values.
Given his reliance on the synthetic and man-made (a favorite place for scavenging materials is the Town of Rochester dump), Victor’s deep connection to nature is not immediately obvious.
Friday, Feb. 15: Farinacci has been recently credited the title Global Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center by Wynton Marsalis, working to further integrate jazz into communities around the world.
Thursday, Feb. 21: SUNY-New Paltz presents A Musical Refuge under the Stars: a special planetarium show featuring Music Department students performing Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel and Fratres under the direction of Department of Music professor Alex Peh, as well as improvised pieces inspired by the planetarium show.
Let us put to rest – before we even begin – all debates and squabbles regarding the rightful heirs and owners of the Woodstock Festival tradition, as its 50th anniversary approaches. Brand wars, it seems to me, are not exactly in the spirit of the original event, and in this case, both of the major festivals scheduled for that weekend in August 2019 have a compelling claim. One has the very field itself; the other has Michael Lang.