HudsonValleyWeekend June 20-24, 2013

Suzanne VegaSUZANNE VEGA to PLAY INTIMATE SHOW at CLUB HELSINKI

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega performs a rare, intimate nightclub gig at Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, June 22, 2013, at 9pm. One of the most literate and poetic singer-songwriters of the rock era, Vega is also a folk-pop craftsman, with a string of radio-ready hits that began with “Luka” and “Tom’s Diner” and have continued throughout her career, though “Book of Dreams,” “99.9F,” “(I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie May” and “Pornographer’s Dream.”

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Haim Steinbach Display #6 Studio Installation 1979

Haim Steinbach Display #6 Studio Installation 1979

ENGLISH and ISRAELI ARTIST FEATURED in BARD SUMMER EXHIBITIONS

(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Exhibitions featuring works by contemporary artists Haim Steinbach and Helen Marten go on display at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) on Saturday, June 22, 2013, with an opening reception from 1 to 4pm. The shows will run through the summer, and in the case of the Steinbach exhibit, through the end of the year.

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Zal Idrissa Sissokho

Zal Idrissa Sissokho

SENEGALESE GROUP BRINGS WEST AFRICAN SOUNDS to PS21

(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Senegalese vocalist, oral historian and master kora player Zal Idrissa Sissokho and his band Buntalo will perform an evening of West African music on Saturday, June 22, 2013, at 7:30pm, at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, located at 2980 Route 66 in Chatham. The concert will begin at 7:30pm. The music of Zal Idrissa Sissokho and Buntalo is a mix of traditional and modern world music, both festive and reflective. At its core is the sound of the kora, a 21-stringed harp-lute.

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Artwork by Jenny SharafCALIFORNIA ARTIST to EXHIBIT at HENRY HUDSON STUDIOS

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – FemmeGestures, a solo exhibition of new work by California artist Jenny Sharaf, opens at Henry Hudson Studios (724 Union St.) on Saturday, June 22, 2013, from 6 to 9 p.m. The show is composed mostly of nonrepresentational pour and drip paintings in the vein of Lynda Benglis and Jackson Pollock. She was inspired by Hudson’s pink light, about which painters of the Hudson River School often spoke.

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Soovin Kim

Soovin Kim

ALL-HUNGARIAN PROGRAM at TANNERY POND

(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Violinist Soovin Kim leads an all-Hungarian program featuring works by Béla Bartok, Zoltán Kodály and Ernst von Dohnányi on Satrurday, June 22, 2013, at 8pm, as part of the Concerts at Tannery Pond chamber music series. Joining Kim will be violinist Jessica Lee, cellist Ed Arron, violist Maurycy Banaszek, and Tannery Pond artistic director Christian Steiner. performing the Piano Quintet in C minor, No. 1, Op. 1 by Ernst von Dohnányi.
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Gregory Amenoff

Gregory Amenoff

NEW PAINTING and SCULPTURE EXHIBITIONS at JOHN DAVIS GALLERY

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for new exhibitions of paintings by Craig Olson, Snider, Gregory Amenoff, Peter McCaffrey and Jason Stopa and sculpture by Jon Isherwood at John Davis Gallery on Saturday, June 22, 2013, from 6 to 8pm. The works will be on display through July 14.

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Downtown EnsembleEXPERIMENTAL MUSIC ENSEMBLE to PLAY HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The DownTown Ensemble, which performs experimental works incorporating traditionally notated and graphic music scores, sound/text music, ritual/intermedia pieces, performance art and Fluxus, improvisation in a number of traditions; large ensemble, scores for variable (unspecified) instrumentation, and interactive computer music, returns to the Hudson Opera House for its annual upstate New York concert on Saturday, June 22, 2013, at 8pm.

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