‘We are also considering its future home if the need comes for that. We want it available to the Town’s people…’

Creative Music Studio (CMS), the ground-breaking Woodstock-based improvisation lab, turns over a new leaf in 2018, as co-founder Karl Berger hands over the presidency to jazz drummer and educator Billy Martin.

Ricco, a legendary New York City gallery owner one month into his creative retirement, speaks of artists, famous and anonymous, as well as the complexity of an adventurous life that’s had him living in and around Woodstock for decades.

Robbie Dupree brings a whole new crop of ‘Friends’ with him when he takes the stage for the first time in two years in the area, at 8 p.m. Saturday, December 9 at the Falcon, in Marlboro, and then right at home in Woodstock, at 8 p.m. Sunday, December 10 at Colony, 22 Rock City Road. 

It’s now the holiday season, and as local art aficionados await the annual 5 by 7 show at the Kleinert, the big cultural news comes from the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum’s major year end awards, presented as part of the reception for WAAM’s annual Holiday Show last Saturday, November 18.

The Paul Green Rock Academy is about to become Rock Academy, at least in Woodstock and the rest of the Hudson Valley.

It’s easy to overlook the power an artist has when she’s able to move between genres with ease.