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Suzanne Vega to play Helsinki Hudson

Suzanne Vega to play Helsinki Hudson

Friday, August 11: No two-hit wonder, she: Suzanne Vega has put together a long and distinguished career as an agreeably eccentric modern songwriter with a New York artsy lean and a hushed voice that commands with its quiet intensity and with the strange things it has to say. 

Martin Sexton at Bearsville

Martin Sexton at Bearsville

Saturday, August 5: To say that the accomplished singer/songwriter is a local favorite is a bit redundant. Tireless in the studio as on the road, Sexton is pretty much a local favorite everywhere.

Some nuggets from the Golden Age of New Paltz

Some nuggets from the Golden Age of New Paltz

I was present (if not fully accounted for) during the Golden Age of New Paltz – and, if you’ll pardon my bias, I wouldn’t trade it for any other Golden Age, not even that of ancient Greece. That conviction has been reinforced by the current exhibition at the Wired Gallery in High Falls: “The Golden Age of New Paltz,” the first in a series of three exhibitions celebrating New Paltz artists of the 1960s.

Amen to art

Amen to art

Friday-Sunday, July 28-30: Secret City Woodstock returns this weekend. It has been called a tent-revival meeting for artists, a salon and even a “church of art.”