The internationally celebrated Irish instrumental band Lúnasa joins forces with the Celtic music singer/songwriter Ashley Davis on Saturday, Dec. 16, and psychedelic-rock eccentrics the Slambovian Circus of Dreams present their annual holiday concert on Saturday, Dec. 23.
Saturday, Dec. 16: Academy Award- and Grammy-winning artist Melissa Etheridge brings a full band to the newly renovated Ulster Performing Arts Center this weekend.
Saturday, Dec. 16: The exhibition will highlight Izu’s “Sacred Places” series.
Through Jan. 7: An art exhibit at Red Hook’s Greig Farm runs the gamut.
In 1986, the High Falls artist began the Tethys Project, a sort of personal time capsule that would become his primary artistic endeavor for the rest of his life. Each side of each cube was incised (via sandblasting) with images, glyphs, poetic statements, as well as the latitude and longitude for each block—all created and designed by the artist. The idea was that the Tethys Project would be as close to a permanent artistic statement as possible, with the submerged granite blocks discovered hundreds or thousands of years from now, if then.
Saturday, Dec. 9: Look, even their own press kit warns that the Nude Party are called that for a reason: an aberrative behavioral tendency to disrobe. But even in Woodstock, where nudity was largely invented, local ordinances apply, and them pretty-faced Carolina bucks would do well to keep their trousers fastened unless they want to taste the salt on the cold concrete floors of the taxpayers’ mighty fine county detention center.
Unison Arts Center will host its 27th annual Holiday Craft, Art and Design Fair on Saturday and Sunday, December 2-3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the glass atrium student union building on the SUNY New Paltz campus.
Friday, Dec. 1: The Bay Area native has thrown more than a few curveballs, but he is a serious top-tier modern roots ace.
Preview party on Friday, Dec. 1: The five-by-seven-inch works were donated by Hudson Valley artists for the fundraiser and will be exhibited anonymously at Byrdcliffe’s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts. Each is priced at $100. Given the art-world notables who regularly donate a work to the event – including Milton Glaser, Portia Munson, the Starn Twins and Joan Snyder – some buyers who purchase a piece for the love of art find out later that they made a good investment, too.
Sunday, Dec. 3: Well into his ninth decade, the award-winning composer/conductor/multi-instrumentalist and author is receiving awards and honors worldwide, composing two new commissioned symphonic works, performing at major folk, jazz, classical, spoken-word and film festivals, working on his fourth book, and posing as the subject of a new feature film documentary by filmmaker Michael Patrick Kelly.