Foreigner at Civic Center in Poughkeepsie
Saturday, April 29: Foreigner has long been an arena-rock staple. Foreigner may also be the band most often cited when people try to explain what punk rock was a reaction to.
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Today is the Day at Darkside Records
Saturday, April 22: Celebrate Record Store Day with the legendary progressive metal band in Poughkeepsie.
Jazz prodigy Joey Alexander comes to Woodstock
Friday, April 21: Hear the 13-year-old pianist who has already turned the jazz world on its ear.
Mipso visits the Bearsville Theater
Sunday, April 23: The North Carolina new-old-folk quartet Mipso aims for an archaic string band sound with a matching set of timeless Americana personae, intending to betray little if any evidence of the modern world within the musical and thematic confines of their songs. They really miss the mark, and in a wonderful variety of ways.
Lake Street Dive’s Kearney celebrates solo recording at Helsinki
Saturday, April 22: Bridget Kearney, bassist of the wildly popular Massachusetts band Lake Street Dive, is celebrating the release of her new solo record, Won’t Let You Down, the first on which the conservatory-trained instrumentalist steps forward as the featured vocalist.
Joe Lovano at Jazzstock with improvisers
Saturday, April 15: April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and Jazzstock is celebrating with a concert “The Moment of Now: A Night of Improvised Music!” at the Senate Garage in Kingston, featuring saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Joe Lovano.
Kinky Friedman to play Bearsville Theater
Thursday, April 20: Nobody could invent a character quite like Kinky Friedman, the stogie-waving, black-hat-wearing self-proclaimed Texas Jewboy singer, storyteller, tequila purveyor, animal rescuer, sometime political candidate and full-time iconoclast.
Dale Ziegenfelder’s pipe dream
His desire for an in-house pipe organ was triggered when he was a high school senior in 1969. It took most of his lifetime and nearly superhuman attention to detail to make that wish come true.
Bethel Woods explores cashing in on the counterculture
“Love for Sale: The Commercialism of the Counterculture,” will be display at the Special Exhibit Gallery at Bethel Woods through December 31.
Live music roundup: April 7-9
Including: Robert Sarazin Blake at Rocket Number Nine in Kingston, Irish accordionist Máirtín O’Connor and trio at St. Paul’s Church Hall in Red Hook, James McMurtry at Helsinki in Hudson, The Dream of Gerontius performed at Bard, JBM Trio at Gomen Kudasi in New Paltz, Munich Philharmonic String Quartet at St. George’s Church in Newburgh, Homage to Louis Moreau Gottschalk at Fisher Center, and acoustic blues workshop and concert with Ari Eisinger at A.I.R Studio