Saturday, August 4: After founding the Runaways at the age of 15, Jett went on to score eight platinum and gold records and nine Top 40 hits with the Blackhearts. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee was also ahead of the curve on the industry side, founding her own Blackheart Label in 1980 after being rejected by a bevy of major labels who must still be smarting about it.
Saturday, August 4: Wassaic Project programming runs year-round, but on Saturday, the Wassaic Project hosts a jubilant, wild flagship celebration: a mix of art, music, dance and film. Performers include Underground System, Innov Gnawa, Square Peg Round Hole, Chuño and Miles Francis.
Saturday, August 4: The Children’s Home of Kingston presses the spacious Dietz Stadium into use for this annual event, which will feature performances by nine corps.
Saturday, August 4: Monty Python member (and Chaucer scholar) Terry Jones raved, “A Little Nightmare Music brings Surrealism to the concert hall and takes its trousers down! Very musical, very engaging and very funny.”
Thursday-Sunday, July 26-29: The main event, an artistic tent revival featuring Amanda Palmer, Rebel Girls and more at Andy Lee Field, happens on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Saturday, July 28: The bands on the bill at Seed Song Farm are some of the best-known in the genre, including Brooklyn’s Raya Brass Band and the What Cheer! Brigade.
Saturday, July 28: The professionals pay a visit to the Summer Jazz Academy at Olin Hall.
Friday-Sunday, August 3-5: At this time in history, when women’s voices are being heard as never before, it seems appropriate that the female voice will be the focus of this year’s genre-spanning festival.
Friday, July 20: With her first consistent post-Sonic Youth project, Kim Gordon certainly did not make a beeline toward pop and the big payday. Body/Head – her somewhat unsettling collaboration with guitarist Bob Nace – is, if anything, more abstract and less congenial than most anything Sonic Youth ever recorded.
On view now: Allison Janae Hamilton’s The peo-ple cried mer-cy in the storm is made up of a towering stack of tambourines on an island in one of Storm King’s ponds. The installation was inspired by the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, and accounts of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, referenced in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Both storms devastated the state of Florida, the latter killing thousands of black migrant workers who were buried in unmarked mass graves.