Felice Brothers & Yard Sale coming to Bearsville
Friday, March 23: The Felice Brothers are more Dylan, Yard Sale more Band. Read on.
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Zombies at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock
Friday, March 9: Their masterwork asserted itself like a time-release capsule in the bloodstream of pop culture.
Dumpstaphunk plays Helsinki Hudson
Saturday, March 10: Heirs not only to the Neville polyglot musical tradition, but also to the very Neville name itself, Dumpstaphunk has been providing the jam and festival scene with an uncommonly high grade of funk for years.
All-star Celtic concert at Ashokan Center
Sunday, March 11: Low Lily teams up with seven-time All-Ireland accordion champion John Whelan and fiddler Katie McNally
The Dixie Dregs will play (or rather blow the damn roof off) Bearsville Theater
Saturday, March 17: Blazing virtuosity has always been the basic bar to entry in this band.
Beach Boys to perform at UPAC
Sunday, March 18: Family infighting, warring legacies, a mastermind in absentia and hits, hits, hits: If it gets to bear the name the Beach Boys, it is probably worth seeing while you still can.
Tony Kushner to talk at Bard about Leonard Bernstein & Spielberg remake of West Side Story
This January, the news dropped that Steven Spielberg is doing a big-screen remake of the stage musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein’s iconic music will be retained, but one of the most brilliant of contemporary playwrights, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America), has come aboard to rewrite the screenplay.
New music by Susie Ibarra in New Paltz
Saturday, March 10: The acclaimed percussionist and composer joins forces with the experimental flautist and MacArthur “genius grant”-winner Claire Chase and SUNY-faculty member and pianist Alex Peh to premiere Ibarra’s newest work, Talking Gong for flute, percussion and piano.
Spreading good cheer: Kingston’s “Paint the Town Yellow” mental health campaign
Kickoff parties on Saturday, March 3: Kingston-based artist/activist G. Riley Johndonnell has made it his personal mission to bring a little more yellow into this drab and dreary world. He founded a not-for-profit, UMEWE.org (as in you/me/we), dedicated to happy yellow subversion of the dominant social order of doom and gloom. In fact, he has made it the focus of an entire artistic and philosophical movement, frequently pressing the claim that Optimism is as valid an aesthetic as Modernism or Cubism.
Titus Andronicus at BSP
Friday, March 2: An uncharacteristically quiet performance by the epic, era-defining New Jersey punk band, who will be celebrating the release of their new record, Productive Cough, which comes out on Merge Records that day.