A highly selective preview of cultural events taking place this weekend in the greater Hudson, N.Y., region, including Grammy-nominated Americana and Americana-inspired art; three-dimensional surreal sculptural art; a 20th century American opera classic; and a whole lot more.
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams
LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS to BRING AMERICANA SOUNDS to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Husband-and-wife duo Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams will bring their award-winning Americana music to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, February 25, at 9pm.
The Woodstock, N.Y.-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell is a Grammy Award-winning producer and an Americana icon whose career has been inextricably intertwined with the likes of Judy Collins, Lucy Kaplansky, Linda Thompson, Sheryl Crow, Paul Simon, B. B. King, Willie Nelson, Eric Andersen, Buddy and Julie Miller, Kinky Friedman, Little Feat, Hot Tuna, Cyndi Lauper, k.d. lang, Rosanne Cash, most notably, Levon Helm – for whom he served as musical director of the Midnight Rambles – and Bob Dylan, with whom he toured and recorded for eight years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as part of what is generally agreed to have been the strongest lineup of Dylan’s “Never Ending Tour” band.
The Americana Music Association presented Campbell with its Lifetime Achievement – Instrumentalist award. In addition to guitar, Campbell plays mandolin, violin, Irish bouzouki, banjo, pedal steel guitar, and bass.
Teresa Williams has Americana flowing through her blood, having grown up picking and hoeing cotton on her family’s seventh-generation West Tennessee farm. Williams left the farm to make her mark as a singer in New York, gaining a job as a member of Southern Comfort, opening act and backup for Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy. She went on to perform with favorite singers Bonnie Bramlett, Emmylou Harris, Mavis Staples and Buddy Miller, among others.
Chloe Zerwick, ‘A Sublime Situation’
CHLOE ZERWICK CONJURES the SURREAL in EXHIBITION at HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “Inside the Box,” a solo exhibition of sculptural work by Hudson-based artist Chloe Zerwick, opens at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, February 25, with a reception with the artist from 5 to 7pm. The exhibition, in which the artist transforms everyday objects into enigmatic, three-dimensional statements framed inside boxes, will be on display in the Hudson Opera House Center Hall Gallery until March 26.
James Bagwell, conductor
THE ORCHESTRA NOW TACKLES BERNSTEIN’S ‘CANDIDE’ at BARD
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – James Bagwell conducts The Orchestra Now in a semi-staged concert performance of Leonard Bernstein‘s acclaimed opera “Candide” at the Fisher Center at Bard College on Saturday, February 25, at 8pm, and Sunday, February 26, at 2pm.
Under the EL by Arthur Hammer
MULTIMEDIA EXHIBIT at CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY EXAMINES ‘AMERICANA’
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “Americana,” a new exhibit that stages concrete and abstract symbols of American values in a striking selection of ballpoint pen drawings, wood and cardboard constructions, paintings, and photographs that recall contemporary “artifacts” relating to American history, culture, and tradition defined by previous centuries, is on view at Carrie Haddad Gallery through Sunday, March 12.