Getting out in support of their much-anticipated new release Free Yourself Up (due on May 4), the popular American outfit Lake Street Dive appears at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Sunday, May 6 at 7 p.m.
Opening on Saturday, May 5: “Handwriting on the Wall” exhibition at Arts Society of Kingston. “Cancer and other illnesses that are feared are whispered about, and it’s time to stop the whispering, because we’re all suffering on one level or another. And so many of us suffer alone.”
Sunday, May 6: To hear this virtuoso Scottish fiddle-and-cello duo, you would think they’d been playing together for centuries.
Saturday, May 5: This band gets way out there, demonstrating once again that the difference between “experimental” and “jam” is semiotic more than musical.
Tuesday, May 1: A legendary performer well into the sixth decade of his hit-studded career, Jones effortlessly bridges camp and art because he probably doesn’t give a damn about either. He has sold more than 100 million records, scoring not just hits, but cultural landmarks with such tracks as “It’s Not Unusual,” “Delilah,” “What’s New, Pussycat?” and a cover of Prince’s “Kiss” that sent his already-established career hurtling into the pop stratosphere.
Friday, April 27: This New Paltz-area band is serious, studious and fastidiously respectful of the music they have loved and learned well. They have apprenticed whenever possible with “the real thing,” but make no claim to being it themselves. They play their thing: a fusion of authentic West African “butterfly” guitar pop, island grooves and various folk styles from their own soil.
Friday, May 4: If Stevie Wonder is the Toots Thielemans of the harmonica, then Popper is its Yngwie Malmsteen: a bit of a terrifying technician, less inclined to melodies and more inclined to frenetic, dazzling sheets of notes on an instrument upon which that really shouldn’t be possible.
Opening Saturday, April 28: An extraordinarily gifted painter and printmaker from an early age, Wigfall was also famously accessible, humble, engaged and engaging, tirelessly challenging and boosting younger artists. He ran the influential Watermark/Cargo Gallery in Kingston’s Rondout; and turned his print studio in Ponckhockie into a community center and contemporary art showcase called Communications Village, where up-and-coming stars of the Black Arts Movement would meet and mingle with Wigfall’s academic colleagues, students and protégés and regular people from the neighborhood.
Saturday, April 28-Sunday, April 29: Novel, experimental, international, hip and entirely Hudson, the overnight Drone festival takes over the world-famous repurposed industrial venue for its fourth collaboration with the Netherlands’ Le Guess Who?
Friday, April 20: The 420 Funk Mob features a revolving cast of musicians that includes veterans of Bowie, D’Angelo, Outkast, Amy Winehouse, Lenny Kravitz, Bad Brains, Bootsy Collins, Kung Fu, the MuzikMafia posse and Parliament-Funkadelic.