Saturday and Sunday, August 12-13: Visit 37 artists in their creative spaces at the Saugerties Artists’ studio tour. This annual event is free and it’s self-guided; one has only to pick up a map from local businesses (or print one out online at the event website) and chart a course.
Saturday, August 12: In the morning, the Harlem String Quartet will perform a concert for children. All children are admitted free. That evening, internationally known and innovative percussion ensemble NEXUS takes the stage at Maverick. Headed by Woodstock’s master percussionist and instrument-builder Gary Kvistad, NEXUS performs Modernist compositions and world music on a staggering variety of instruments: Swiss cowbells, Chinese drums, Tibetan prayer bowls, Middle Eastern hand drums, Southeast Asian water buffalo bells and much more.
Saturday, August 12: Watch local artists as they work, creating paintings inspired by the landscape of the Huguenot Street National Historic Landmark District.
Saturday, August 12: Nowadays, the German-born artist is headquartered part of the time in Catskill and draws inspiration from the Hudson River School. “Since moving there, I have been enthralled by the Mawignack, the lowlands where the Catskill and Kaaterskill Creeks converge,” Smith reports.
Tuesday & Wednesday, August 15-16: Brooklyn art-rock celebrities Grizzly Bear are not only back-room material, but also material enough for two nights of it.
Friday, August 11: The British-born music star was the first reggae artist to have a number-one hit worldwide.
Saturday, August 12: The home is adjacent to property along Catskill Creek where Thomas Cole sketched some of his Hudson River School paintings. It is described as “magnificently tattered.”
Saturday, August 12: From the podium and in his capacity as artistic director, longtime Hudson Valley Philharmonic conductor Randall Craig Fleisher has been a highly visible bridge-builder between the Big Show wing of classical music and the world of pop – especially rock – music.
The festival runs from August 11-20, and includes 16 musical programs and discussion panels. Pieces range from solo piano to opera, and include not just the eponymous composer, but others from the 19th century.
Friday, August 11: I have long contended that the Belew/Levin-era King Crimson of the early ‘80s into the ‘90s reenergized the prog/rock tradition and may well have saved it from its own excesses and misguided middle brow pretentions, providing an alternative, lean and funky model of what prog could be that the genre continues to invoke to this day.