New blood revitalizes Woodstock’s Creative Music Studio
CMS has a kick-ass new board, a supercharged trio of artistic directors, and the original god-parents of World Music, Karl Berger & Ingrid Sertso, imperturbably at its heart.
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Maverick Concerts season gets off to rousing start
The audience responded to contemporary music string quartet called ETHEL enthusiastically.
Woodstock’s Center for Photography turns 40
Forty years ago, Howard Greenberg and Michael Feinberg got together with a group of other photographers and decided that while being in a community known for respecting the arts, their particular art form needed more respect than it was getting.
Woodstock Playhouse’s homegrown stars highlight 42nd Street
Tommy Joscelyn’s legs seem to bound forever. A tall guy, he’s got the build and sense of movement of a Ray Bolger or Tommy Tune, the singing chops of a young Astaire or Kelly. He opens the Woodstock Playhouse’s new season’s opening musical 42nd Street with aplomb, running the dancing line/chorus through its stage moves like the true Broadway professional he plays.
The utopian leftist camp that helped spawn the American folk music movement
One town hosted both American Nazis and some of the earliest folkies.
Spirit of the Maverick leads to innovations in its second century
After 101 seasons of chamber music in the woods, you might think that Maverick Concerts doesn’t need to make any changes. But Maverick’s spirit remains young and changes are in the works.
Jonathan Gould’s Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life
By getting at such unexplainable truths about how art works itself from history, and finding the slow, methodical, yet personalized means to analyzing that which is basically intuitive, Jonathan Gould has demonstrated true literary soul.
Performing Arts of Woodstock presents offbeat comedy Still
Opening June 2: A comedy about a still-born baby — starring the baby. Let’s see how Performing Arts of Woodstock (PAW) pulls this one off!
Ed Sanders and the Fugs seek to cleanse the political morass
If you don’t have solid plans for Tuesday, May 30, here’s an idea for you, care of Woodstock bard and activist Ed Sanders. Join in at that time as he and The Fugs, the band he started with Ken Weaver and the late Tuli Kupferberg in the mid-1960s, reunite with their full coterie of the past 30 years with a new song/performance set to close out that day’s giant Veterans for Peace Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Tinker Street: Voices from the Green and Beyond at Golden Notebook in Woodstock
Poetry, local and state-honored, rolls into the upstairs reading room at Golden Notebook Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28, with readings by former New York State poet laureate Marie Howe with New York City-based Donna Masini on Saturday, and authors from the new “Tinker Street: Voices from the Green and Beyond” literary collection on Sunday.