The Band, THE Band, are a tough cover. Believe it. Underneath the swampy roots rock grooves and the oft-imitated baying and braying ensemble vocals, the flagship rockstars of the Catskills hid a healthy load of complexity and sophistication like landmines for the naïve imitator.
Broadway star Craig Shulman is the only man to have played The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s “The Phantom Of The Opera,” Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables,” and the title roles in “Jekyll & Hyde,” the trifecta of pre-Hamilton modern musical theater starring roles.
The Moonlights celebrate the release of “The Moonlights” with a performance at the Pivot Ground Café & Work Space on Saturday, February 4 at noon, at 63 Broadway in Kingston.
Described as “an exhibit that stages concrete and abstract symbols of American values,” the Carrie Haddad Gallery’s new exhibit titled “Americana” opens on January 25 and runs through March 12, with an artists’ reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, January 28.
New Paltz resident Roman Iwasiwka was part of Camera 5, an elite agency of celebrity- and culture-attuned photographers associated with the late, great American photojournalist Ken Regan, a photographer who gained a rare level of intimate access to the lives of the famous and influential.
You get the feeling that Donna the Buffalo – a band that has been splitting the difference among Americana, global groove and jam rock and singer/songwriter for well over 20 years – has developed a special relationship with the venues and audiences of the mid-Hudson Valley.
“Eppard” is a bit of a holy name in this region.
“On the public street, you have an expectation about how things are going to play out, but there’s no control and you’re incredibly vulnerable.”
It wasn’t until his death that his three adopted children found out why this talented musician had shunned the spotlight (and doctors): Billy had been born, in 1914 in Oklahoma City, as Dorothy Lucille Tipton. She adopted a male persona in order to break into a music business that was still not very friendly to women performers, and went on to live as a man so persuasively that the two women with whom he had multi-year common-law marriages claimed never to have known that “Billy” was biologically female.
One of our several great resident vocal ensembles, Ars Choralis, has dreamt up a grave and serious concert for Inauguration