I have never heard the WCO sound as good as it did during this concert, under the direction of William Stevens.

A new year brings new exhibits at the Woodstock Artists Association Museum.

The husband and wife team of fiddler/mathematician T.G. Vanini and songwriter/musician Julie Parisi Kirby will celebrate the release the first of a quartet of CD’s titled Seed-Maid: Sentimental Songs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 14 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock.

For anyone familiar with party scenes in New York City from the heady 1970s on, the name Anthony Haden-Guest — who has a new exhibit opening at Cross Contemporary on Partition Street next weekend, as well as a talk at a new performance venue and B&B on the Saugerties/Woodstock border January 14 — is instantly recognizable.

In the Trump era, Sonny feels Phil’s music is more pertinent than ever. If he were alive today, “I don’t think he’d have time to sleep, there’s so much material out there,” she said. “He’s already written songs that are, unfortunately, still relevant.”

The Guild is pushing two faces this year. One is historic, best emblemized by the face of one of the original arts colony’s founders, Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, who tried her hand at all mixes of arts and crafts explored in the studios built around she and her husband’s rural home here. The other is young and exploring, one of 600 members of the new organization who as often as not first experienced the place as part of Byrdcliffe’s annual, and growing, Artist in Residence program.

On January 14, William Stevens will demonstrate his qualifications for conducting a small symphony orchestra as the latest candidate for music directorship of the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. Stevens is the third of four candidates for the job abruptly vacated by Nathan Madsen.