POOR OLD SHINE BRINGS GRASSROOTS SOUNDS to CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Folk-roots quintet Poor Old Shine brings its energetic take on acoustic Americana to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, November 23, 2013, at 9pm. The band will be celebrating the release of its new, eponymous album – showcasing the group’s vintage bluegrass and grassroots ethos – at the show. Poor Old Shine’s music is rooted in the folk and Appalachian mountain music tradition and fits in well at bluegrass festivals and sticky rock clubs alike. Each set mixes the band’s original songwriting with traditional folk ballads, prison work songs, and front porch style jamming.
‘House on West Kerley’ by Joel Griffith
NEUMANN FINE ART FEATURES JOEL GRIFFITH, PAINTER LAUREATE of TIVOLI, in SOLO EXHIBITION
(HILLSDALE, N.Y.) – Oil paintings by Joel Griffith are on display at Neumann Fine Art (65 Cold Water St) through January 4, 2014. A reception and gallery talk by the artist will take place on Saturday, November 30, at 5pm. Joel Griffith was named the official Painter Laureate of his hometown of Tivoli, N.Y., in 2003. His paintings, many of which grace the walls of Tivoli’s Town Hall, “are like a great story told at the local bar by a profound poet with a visionary eye,” said Bard College associate professor Tim Davis in an essay on Griffith’s work.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC INSTITUTE HOSTS MARATHON READING at BASILICA HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), in collaboration with Basilica Hudson, will host a 24-hour marathon reading of The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers from Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 2pm through until the book is completed, until approximately Sunday, November 24, at 2. The event will be held at Basilica Hudson, about one mile from the future Institute. Over the course of 24 hours, students, teachers, and other Hudson community participants will read the entirety of Walter Moers’s fantastic tale.
ORCHESTRA to PERFORM HOLST’S ‘THE PLANETS’ with DIGITAL IMAGERY
(POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – The Hudson Valley Philharmonic will tackle Holst’s “The Planets,” joined by the Vassar Women’s Choir (Christine Howlett, Choral Director); the Bardavon’s mighty Wurlitzer organ; and digital projections provided by NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope, at the Bardavon on Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 8pm. Also on the program, conducted by Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer, is Prokofiev’s Symphony no. 7, op. 131. (The performance is sold out.)