(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Voodoo Orchestra North, led by legendary jazz drummer, improviser, bandleader and composer Bobby Previte and featuring many great upstate New York musicians, continues its regular series of performances devoted to exploring the music of Miles Davis’s eternal electric jazz-funk masterpiece, “Bitches Brew,” at Club Helsinki Hudson, on Friday, February 13, 2015,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Indie-rock singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins brings her blend of pop-fueled hooks and moody introspection to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, February 14, at 9pm, providing a perfect soundtrack for a modern-day Valentine’s Day adventure. Atkins’s unique blend of styles connects the dots from Roy Orbison to the Shangri-Las to Janis Joplin to Led…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Award-winning writer and humorist Tim Federle, author of novelty cocktail recipe books “Hickory Daiquiri Dock” and “Tequila Mockingbird,” will entertain at Café Le Perche on Thursday, February 5, 2015, from 6 to 8pm, in an event sponsored by and benefiting the Campaign for the New Hudson Area Library. The restaurant will…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “Small Works,” an exhibition of artworks by more than 50 contemporary American and international artists working in a small format — under 20 inches – is on display at Limner Gallery on Warren Street, now through February 21, 2015. All media and styles are represented in the eclectic exhibition, which includes works…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Bacchantes and Bivalves, a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Thomas Micchelli, opens at John Davis Gallery on Saturday, February 7, 2015, with a reception for the artist at 6pm. The work will be on display through March 1. The show presents two bodies of work: Bacchantes, an ongoing series of…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Barnstar!, an all-star collective of bluegrass and roots-music talent, will celebrate the release of its new album, “Sit Down! Get Up! Get Out!,” at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, February 6, at 9pm. Using the familiar tools of the genre, Barnstar! forges its own brand of song-based bluegrass, gloriously harmonized and raucously…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Artist Isidro Blasco invited fourteen artists to help imagine the renovation of the house he bought at the southwest corner of State and Third streets. The result of their efforts is the on-site installation, INTERVENTIONS II, which will be on view at 257 State Street from Friday, January 30, 2015, to Sunday,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “On & Off the Wall,” the annual juried sculpture show by CCCA Gallery, opens with a reception on Saturday, January 31, 2015, from 5 to 7pm, and remains on view through March 21, 2015. The exhibit was curated by Chatham, N.Y., sculptor John Cooley. Artists whose works were selected by Cooley include…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Musical Box, an exhibition featuring two pairings of artists: John Newman and Cary Smith, and Evie Falci and Robert Otto Epstein, opens with a reception at Jeff Bailey Gallery on Saturday, January 24, 2015, from 6 to 8pm. The exhibit, inspired by a 1971 song by art-rock group Genesis, remains on…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, best known as a champion of the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, is the subject of a reading by his biographer, Philip Gefter, author of “Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe,” at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, January 24, 2015, at 5pm. …
