Christopher Bono
Experimental Music Project to Premiere at Basilica Hudson
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nous, an experimental music project exploring ritual and spontaneity within music, will have its public performance debut at Basilica Hudson on Saturday, February 1, 2014, at 8pm. The performance follows a weeklong residency at Dreamland Recording Studio in Woodstock, and precedes the project’s New York City debut at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg. These shows follow five-days of recording sessions in Woodstock, during which the participants will seek inspiration through various musical approaches, both ancient and immediate, as they explore a wide spectrum of improvisational possibilities.
‘Dream Vacation’ by Newbold Bohemia
A Stroll Through ‘Modern Artists’ at Carrie Haddad Gallery
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Gallery owner Carrie Haddad has wild, whimsical and eclectic taste in artworks, and this is always reflected in the shows she hangs at her eponymous Carrie Haddad Gallery. The current exhibition, Modern Artists, featuring contemporary painting and photography and running through March 2, is no exception. I love Carrie’s shows, because she mixes and matches artists of seemingly wildly different temperaments and approaches. The only thing that unifies them is that she likes them, and that’s just fine with me.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Warms Up Winter at Helsinki
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is neither properly a family attraction nor a circus. Rather, it is more in the vein of an old-time medicine show, featuring an eclectic array of ad hoc performers – making every show different – unified, albeit, by the performing and real-life duo of Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson. That’s about as far as the family nature of the somewhat risqué cabaret-style evening of entertainment extends (although the group does on occasion tone things down for audiences of all ages, as it will at Club Helsinki Hudson on March 30), as seen at Club Helsinki Hudson this past Saturday night. The Bindlestiffs and their crew of acrobats, comedians, magicians, snake-oil salesmen, sword swallowers, trapeze artists, and musicians will be back at Helsinki doing their grown-up thing on Friday, February 14, and Saturday, March 29.