Happy & Friends Solstice concert Dec. 17 at Woodstock Playhouse
Woodstock Tradition has it that the Winter Solstice won’t happen unless Happy Traum and his Friends get together to perform a concert celebrating its arrival.
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Tom Pacheco at Rosendale Cafe, Dec. 17
About this time each year, singer/songwriter Tom Pacheco designates a local appearance as a “Peace Concert…”
Lucas Handwerker collaborates with Philippe Petit on a new show
Philippe Petit, 68, the high-wire artist who walked a cable between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in 1974, began his career with magic shows at the age of six. Lucas Handwerker, 23, who performs as a mentalist, also started out as a six-year-old magician. The two men are collaborating on Piece of Mind, a performance by Handwerker, and will present sneak previews at Arts Society of Kingston Dec. 9-10.
Authors talk butter, cannabis cocktails in Woodstock
Two gastro-literary events this Saturday at the Golden Notebook.
The Band, the book and The Last Waltz Anniversary
The Golden Notebook presents Whispering Pines: The Band, Woodstock, and the 40th Anniversary of the Last Waltz, an event celebrating the Hudson Valley’s most famous musical sons.
Renato returns
Renato After Alba proceeds in fits and starts, unlike Renato, The Painter, allowing what plot twists there are, and final rising to something life-affirming and almost ethereal, to come about with the naturalness of life’s small elements of life that capture the painter’s attention as he returns to the world, and eventually the art that shaped his life before his partner’s passing.
From royalty to refugee
Now that millions of people are seeking refuge from the war-torn Middle East, it’s instructive to read the memoir of a Hudson Valley resident who spent her early childhood in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II.
Guitarist Adrian Legg to perform at St. Gregory’s in Woodstock
“There are guitarists, there are axe-wielding maniacs, and then there are wizards. Adrian Legg is one of the wizards,” says the Philadelphia Enquirer, of the “Guitarist of the Decade” (Guitarist Magazine — for four consecutive years) who will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 19 at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, the A-frame house of worship at 2578 Route 212, Woodstock.
Fund-raiser for Standing Rock Reservation’s legal defense fund Saturday in Rhinebeck
The event begins with a Healing Arts session of Acupuncture, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Massage, Reflexology, Reiki, and more and runs until 4 p.m. It will be followed by an evening concert at 6:30 p.m. featuring The Akwesasne Traditional Women’s Singers. Standing Rock activist Lyla June Johnston will fly in from Taos with a welcoming message. The Nimham Mountain Singers begin drumming at 6:30 p.m. to open the concert portion and there will also be spoken word and storytelling, and Charles Lyonhart will perform locally for the first time in over a year to support the effort.
Harvest Hop Dance and performance will raise funds for Center for Spectrum Services
The venerable Center for Spectrum Services, one of the area’s premier schools for children with autism, is hosting its Harvest Hop Dance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 19 at Diamond Mills in Saugerties. The fundraiser will help support the programs and services for the school’s students.