Sunday, October 14: Members of the public are invited to attend for a short or a long time between 2 and 5 p.m. to observe, and perhaps respond to, The Psalms R Us at the Saugerties Reformed Church, part of the Shout Out Saugerties month-long arts festival.
Saturday, October 13: Hudson Valley Philharmonic opens its 59th season with Puccini, Verdi and Rossini gems.
Sunday, October 14: Pianist Hiroko Sakurazawa introduces a new concert series in a new venue that doesn’t even have a piano. “George Tsontakis, one of our great local musicians and a friend, helped to find and contact these performers. Since there is no piano at the venue, George reached out to some of his friends, including harpist Nancy Allen [of the New York Philharmonic] and violinist Phil Setzer [of the Emerson Quartet]. I am grateful that we could have such distinguished performers here ‘in the middle of nowhere’.”
Saturday, October 13: AJJ is the elliptical rechristening of the jesting, jostling, Phoenix-bred punk-rock band Andrew Jackson Jihad. Why the rebrand? Many good reasons come quickly to mind, but even so, the old fans grouse.
Friday, October 12: The great progressive bluegrass banjoist, whose name may not be quite as big as Béla’s or Grisman’s but whose contribution to the jazzification and reinvention of the form is just as vital.
Opening reception on Saturday, October 13: This exhibition about female identity is an embarrassment of riches. Artworks by 26 artists – all women – represent a range of materials and approaches. “People are doing really significant work, and we could have filled a museum.”
Friday-Sunday, October 5-7: Somewhere Alley at 73 Crown Street: a graffiti-lined descending ramp that, under normal circumstances, one would be wisely cautious about entering. For a number of festivals now, this space has become one of O+’s more popular pop-up venues.
Friday-Sunday, October 5-7: Conceived by Manhattan-based interior designer Brad Ford, who weekends in Ulster County, Field and Supply: A Modern Maker’s Craft Fair got started in 2014, attracting notice from high-end design publications.
October 2-28: The book Cummins will be working on has to do with the unearthing and exposing of family secrets; hence, her tenure in the window, in which she herself is exposed, “sort of parallels the book — it’s a simulacrum of the book,” she says.
Saturday, October 6: The violinist and songwriter Deni Bonet burst onto the national scene in the ’90s as the first-call violinist for such era-defining artists as REM, Sarah McLachlan, the Indigo Girls, Warren Zevon, Cyndi Lauper, Robyn Hitchcock and on and on.