Includes: Nellie McKay at Town Crier, Holidelic at Helsinki Hudson, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams play Bearsville, New Paltz candlelight concert on Huguenot Street, Guitar Junior Johnson plays Beacon’s Towne Crier, Listen to Bridge Music all winter at Marlboro’s Falcon.
The New Paltz artist’s oversized garments evoke memories of childhood, when you were small and adults were tall.
Julia Santos Solomon looks back — with paint and gold leaf — at her Dominican Republic childhood. “You see the world from those eyes – where you’re from,” says the Woodstock artist whose work has been collected by the Smithsonian.
Matt Pond PA in Kingston, Joey Alexander in Hudson, Miki Orihara with Senri Oe in Tivoli, Ars Choralis in Kingston, Woodstock, Foodstock at the Chance, America plays Bardavon, bossa nova in Kingston, Rock ’n’ Roll Flea Market in Kingston, Darol Anger holiday concert in Hudson, Tuba Christmas, Irish Christmas in Beacon, Joan Osborne in Hudson
Tsontakis, who lives in a home overlooking the Ashokan Reservoir, won the two biggest prizes in classical music composing: the Grawemeyer Award and the Charles Ives Living Award. Three of his concertos will soon come out on a recording by Naxos, the world’s best-selling classical label.
Pauline Oliveros died in her home in Kingston on Thanksgiving Day, at the age of 84. If many of the big names of musical experimentalism preferred a contentious, noisy, heterogenous and randomized sound, most of Oliveros’ best-known work embodies the other approach: meditative, dwelling, concordant and, in its own earthy way, lush. She was every bit as revolutionary as Cage in her efforts to strip serious music of its elitism, its many centuries of accumulated manners and expressive devices and its deeply ingrained gender inequality.
Basilica Farm & Flea Holiday Market in Hudson, Unison Art, Craft & Design Fair in New Paltz, and two in Poughkeepsie: the Craft Fair at Dutchess Community College and Hudson Valley Art Market at Locust Grove
The owner describes the (P)optimism Shoppe as a “pop-up experiment: part gallery, part studio and part laboratory.”
Supporting the brand-new, overtly jazzy outing Day Breaks, Norah Jones makes a trip upstate to perform at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston on Monday, November 28 at 8 p.m.
The Brothers are still touring in support of their poignant and elegiac 2016 release “Life in the Dark.” A concise collection of surreal Americana, the record finds the band assured and in complete command of their idiom, waltzing, swinging, boogieing and stumbling with the lyrical grace of some serious road dogs. The Catskills’ leading musical export of the last decade will be accompanied by singer/songwriter Wyndham at Grossman’s venerable barn theater.