FIVE WRITERS on LOVING AND LEAVING NEW YORK CITY to READ at HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Elisa Albert, Sari Botton, Chloe Caldwell, Dana Kinstler, and Rebecca Wolff will read from Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, a recent anthology of essays, at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 5pm. The event will be dedicated to the memory of the late Maggie Estep, a contributor the anthology who lived in Hudson. Estep’s friend Chloe Caldwell – herself a contributor to the anthology and a Hudson resident — will read Maggie’s essay.
AFROPOP LEGEND OLIVER ‘TUKU’ MTUKUDZI to PERFORM at CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – One of Afropop’s living legends, Oliver Mtukudzi, bring his fusion of traditional Zimbabwean music and African funk along with his band, the Black Spirits, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, March 7, 2014, at 9pm. Mtukudzi is so renowned in his native land and throughout Southern Africa that his nickname, “Tuku,” has been applied to an entire genre of music.
MANY SHADES of BLACK SHOWCASED in CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY EXHIBITION
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for In the Black, an exhibition of works by a half-dozen-odd artists in a variety of media — painting, drawing, encaustics and sculpture, primarily in shades of black – at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Saturday, March 8, 2014, from 6 to 8pm. The show will be on display from Wednesday March 5 through April 15, 2014, and includes works by Joseph Maresca, Ralph Stout, Betsy Weis, Sarah Berney, Kris Perry, David Paulson, and Linda Cross.
STEPHEN KELLOGG BAND BRINGS ORIGINAL FOLK-ROCK to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Folk-rock singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, March 6, at 8pm, for the final swing of his “All Love, Future’s Bright” tour with the Stephen Kellogg Band, celebrating the release of his ninth studio album, “Blunderstone Rookery.”
WORKS by JEN P. HARRIS to BE SHOWN at VALLEY VARIETY
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for an exhibition of artworks by Hudson-based artist Jen P. Harris at Valley Variety on Saturday, March 8, 2014, from 6 to 8 p.m. The work in the exhibition, which includes a number of paintings that draw on Tarot iconography to explore conceptions of time, love, sex and mortality, will be on display through June 1, 2014. As a special offering at the opening, guests will have the opportunity to receive insights into their own life with Tarot readings by Jeanne Cameron, who has been reading Tarot for 30 years.
THE SCHOEMER FORMATION to PLAY SPOTTY DOG
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson-based post-rock trio the Schoemer Formation performs two upcoming shows in the region: at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 8pm (with openers Two Guys); and at the Low Beat in Albany on Thursday, March 13, 2014, at 8pm.
HUDSON VALLEY PHILHARMONIC to TACKLE BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH at BARDAVON
(POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – The Hudson Valley Philharmonic will perform Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 – perhaps the best-known, most popular work in the classical repertory – at the Bardavon on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at 8pm. The concert will also include renditions of Comet, a new piece by Hudson Valley composer George Tsontakis, and Bloch’s Suite 1919 for Viola and Orchestra featuring HVP String Competition Winner Michael Casimir on viola.
SOUL COUGHING’S MIKE DOUGHTY to BRING “QUESTION JAR SHOW” to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Mike Doughty brings his world-renowned, award-winning “Question Jar Show” to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, March 8, at 9pm. The former Soul Coughing frontman will pick audience questions and requests out of a jar, and his loyal, fervent audience is wickedly good at coming up with extremely weird things to ask. Although perhaps best known for his work with 1990s “deep slacker jazz” outfit Soul Coughing – whose proto-hipster sound was characterized by Doughty’s half-sung, half-spoken poetry that veered close to rap — Doughty has spent the last 15 years or so as a solo artist.
SCULPTURES by ANTHONY MASINA GO on DISPLAY at J. DAMIANI GALLERY
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – A series of cast bronze sculptures of animals by Anthony Masina are on display at J. Damiani Gallery in Hudson now through June 1, 2014. In an artist’s statement, Masina says, “Animals are already perfectly designed. My goal is not to improve upon those designs, but to use the basic form as a basis to create something familiar but different.