Friday, March 2: The New Paltz-born reggae band the Big Takeover have been dominating the local club scene for a decade now, with numerous personnel changes over a core anchored by songwriter and singer Nee Nee Rushie and bassist/musical director Rib Kissner. What has been a struggle for this accomplished and successful band has been naming the style they play.
Friday, March 2: Deejay Dave Leonard’s annual Pisces Party is now, remarkably, in its 22nd year. Non-Pisces are not only allowed but encouraged to attend what is typically one of the great dance parties of the year.
Saturday, March 3: They’ll be celebrating their newest CD Naked and playing staples from across their storied career.
The band will perform at Ulster Performing Arts Center May 6.
Sunday, Feb. 25: For the opening of its 50th season, the Ulster Chamber Music Series brings us a program of Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Beethoven.
Friday, Feb. 23: This 13-piece funk orchestra includes a five-piece horn section, and delivers their versions of music by Tower of Power, James Brown, the Ohio Players, Kool and the Gang, Earth, Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, the Average White Band, Sly & the Family Stone, Chaka Kahn, Montel Jordan and Prince.
Saturday, Feb. 24: He’s called “an operatic singer whose range shatters the conventional boundaries of classical singing” by The New York Times.
Andrew Bird will forever be associated with hallmarks of the New Serious: gorgeous proficiency on a non-rock instrument (violin); insanely deft mastery of the solipsistic technique of live, off-the-grid looping; High Plains whistling and the prevalence of glockenspiel; tremolo-noir guitars and lyrics that are big-brained, difficult to the point of being functional nonsense for most listeners and almost never about girls.
An influential if not era-defining bandleader and songwriter, filmmaker, author and novelist, social critic, multimedia performance artist and eternal hipster who stays hip by feeding on the fresh blood of young hipster admirers, Byrne just doesn’t stop expanding.
Learn the life aquatic. Michael Puryear will offer a class in which up to four members of a family will be guided in working together to build their own Echo Bay Dory: a lightweight, car-toppable skiff, easy to row or sail, that can be built within a week.