(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “Cast of Characters” & “Heavy Metal,” new exhibitions featuring figurative works by Michael Crawford, Paul Katz and David Austin, and highly realistic paintings by Joe Richards, respectively, go on view at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, and remains on display through Sunday, May 31. There will be an artists’…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – 24-HOUR DRONE: Experiments in Sound and Music, an immersive event and all-encompassing experience featuring musicians from the region and beyond experimenting in electronic, psychedelic, classical, non-Western and instrumental drone music for a full 24 hours, inaugurates the fifth season at Basilica Hudson on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at 3pm, running through Sunday,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson’s own Buffalo Stack brings its bluesy brand of roots-rock to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, April 25, at 9pm. With slide blues guitar, gospel organ chords, New Orleans-style horns, and group harmonies, bluesy roots-rockers Buffalo Stack can’t help but recall Woodstock heroes the Band. In fact, it was at Levon Helm’s barn…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – A group of eight Writers Omi residents will read from their works at the 3rd Floor Gallery on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at 5:30 pm. The writers, whose work predominantly addresses issues of political action and human rights in their home countries, are in residence for the spring session at the Omi…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – New paintings by Trevor Hunter and Keith Batten go on view at McDaris Fine Art on Saturday, April 18, 2015, with an opening reception from 6 to 8pm. The works will remain on view through May 17, 2015. Hunter’s works are abstract and blow hot and cool; Batten’s paintings explore the meditative qualities…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Photographer Ash Thayer will give a slide presentation and sign copies of her new book, “Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992-2000” (Powerhouse Books), at Time & Space Limited (TSL) on Sunday, April 19, 2015, at 3:45pm. The event, a collaboration between TSL and Karen Schoemer, Bookseller, is free and open to…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik will perform selections from his most recent album, “Music from the Suitcase,” a collection of Russian rarities, as well as Cesar Franck’s towering Sonata in A, in a program called “From Russian with Love” at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday April 18, 2015, at 7pm, as part…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – A triple bill of electro-ambient drone music, featuring Insect Factory, Public Speaking, and Jeremy Purser, will take place at Spotty Dog Books & Ale on Thursday, April 9, 2015, at 8pm. The performers come from Washington DC, Brooklyn, and the Hudson Valley, and variously all descend musically from Brian Eno’s ambient experiments…
Nellie McKay Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. Sunday, April 5, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Every Nellie McKay concert is different – I’ve seen at least three now – but they’re all tied together by McKay’s faux-naif character, her dazzling wit and wordplay, and her virtuosity. Musically, she ranges all…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – A solo exhibition of paintings and sculptural works by Boston-based artist Steve Locke opens at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, April 4, 2015, with an artist’s reception at 5pm, and remains on view through May 10, 2015. The exhibit, that last time we touched the water, features a selection of paintings…
