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 (Concert Review) Oliver Mtukudzi, Club Helsinki Hudson, 3.7.14 State Funding to Allow MASS MoCA to Complete Final Development of Campus HudsonValleyWeekend, March 5-9, 2014 Sculptures by Anthony Masina Go on Display at J. Damiani Gallery
Oliver Mtukudzi (photo Sabina Curti) Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits Club Helsinki Hudson Friday, March 7, 2014 Review by…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – In the wake of the passage of a funding bill in the State House of Representatives…
FIVE WRITERS on LOVING AND LEAVING NEW YORK CITY to READ at HUDSON OPERA HOUSE (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Elisa Albert,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – A series of cast bronze sculptures of animals by Anthony Masina are on display at J. Damiani…
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 Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits Club Helsinki Hudson Friday, March 7, 2014 Review by Seth Rogovoy Photography by Sabina Curti (HUDSON, N.Y.) – With the aid of his topnotch band, the Black Spirits, Oliver Mtukudzi spun his hypnotic web of African funk, folk and rock at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday night, keeping a…
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 (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – In the wake of the passage of a funding bill in the State House of Representatives that includes a $25.4 million grant to MASS MoCA for its Phase III renovation, MASS MoCA announced yesterday that it is embarking on the final phase of its multi-decade effort to renovate its 26-building, 600,000-sq.-ft.,…
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 FIVE WRITERS on LOVING AND LEAVING NEW YORK CITY to READ at HUDSON OPERA HOUSE (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Elisa Albert, Sari Botton, Chloe Caldwell, Dana Kinstler, and Rebecca Wolff will read from Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, a recent anthology of essays, at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday,…
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 (HUDSON, N.Y.) – A series of cast bronze sculptures of animals by Anthony Masina are on display at J. Damiani Gallery in Hudson now through June 1, 2014. In an artist’s statement, Masina says, “Animals are already perfectly designed. My goal is not to improve upon those designs, but to use the basic form as…
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 (HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for In the Black, an exhibition of works by a half-dozen-odd artists in a variety of media — painting, drawing, encaustics and sculpture, primarily in shades of black – at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Saturday, March 8, 2014, from 6 to 8pm. The show will be…
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 (HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for an exhibition of artworks by Hudson-based artist Jen P. Harris at Valley Variety on Saturday, March 8, 2014, from 6 to 8 p.m. The work in the exhibition, which includes a number of paintings that draw on Tarot iconography to explore conceptions of time, love,…
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 (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Nationally acclaimed comedienne Loni Love brings her stand-up tour to the Colonial Theatre on March 7, 2014, at 8pm. Love is co-host of the new daytime talk show “The Real,” a guest DJ for “The Ellen Show,” a regular panelist on E!’s “Chelsea Lately,” co-host of “CafeMocha Radio Show,” and author of…
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 (POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – The Hudson Valley Philharmonic will perform Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 – perhaps the best-known, most popular work in the classical repertory – at the Bardavon on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 8pm. The concert will also include renditions of Comet, a new piece by Hudson Valley composer George Tsontakis, and…
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 (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson-based post-rock trio the Schoemer Formation performs two upcoming shows in the region: at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 8pm (with openers Two Guys); and at the Low Beat in Albany on Thursday, March 13, 2014, at 8pm. The Schoemer Formation began when Karen…
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(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Elisa Albert, Sari Botton, Chloe Caldwell, Dana Kinstler, and Rebecca Wolff will read from Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, a recent anthology of essays, at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 5pm. The event will be dedicated to the memory of the…
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 NEW MASS MoCA INSTALLATION REIMAGINES WHISTLER’S ‘PEACOCK ROOM’ (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – In his first major museum exhibition on the East Coast, painter Darren Waterston‘s installation Filthy Lucre – the centerpiece of his exhibition Uncertain Beauty – reimagines James McNeill Whistler’s decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). The exhibition, for…
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 (HUDSON, N.Y.) – One of Afropop’s living legends, Oliver Mtukudzi, bring his fusion of traditional Zimbabwean music and African funk along with his band, the Black Spirits, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, March 7, 2014, at 9pm. Mtukudzi is so renowned in his native land and throughout Southern Africa that his nickname, “Tuku,” has…
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(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Folk-rock singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, March 6, at 8pm, for the final swing of his “All Love, Future’s Bright” tour with the Stephen Kellogg Band, celebrating the release of his ninth studio album, “Blunderstone Rookery.” Kellogg got his start in the thriving new-folk scene of Northampton,…
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 (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Mike Doughty brings his world-renowned, award-winning “Question Jar Show” to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 9pm. The former Soul Coughing frontman will pick audience questions and requests out of a jar, and his loyal, fervent audience is wickedly good at coming up with extremely weird things to ask.…
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 (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Movement artist Jeanine Durning brings her solo performance experiment, inging, to the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance’s Directing Studio at Williams College on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, and Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 8pm both nights. The program is being presented as part of the ’62 Center’s Off-CenterSeries, whose stated mission…
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 (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – In his first major museum exhibition on the East Coast, painter Darren Waterston‘s installation Filthy Lucre – the centerpiece of his exhibition Uncertain Beauty – reimagines James McNeill Whistler’s decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). The exhibition, for which the artist has been in residency at…
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 (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Canadian indie-rock group Cowboy Junkies return to the Mahaiwe with a new batch of their patented alternative country/blues/folk rock songs on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 8pm. With its quiet, Velvet Underground-influenced drone-rock combined with a rootsy, country-folk approach, the Cowboy Junkies were one of the original bands to give birth…
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 North Mississippi Allstars/Lightnin Malcolm and Stud Club Helsinki Hudson Sunday, March 2, 2014 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – The North Mississippi Allstars did a brave thing on Sunday night at Club Helsinki Hudson. They brought along a blues duo opening act called Lightnin Malcolm and Stud, which may well have…
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