Eviyan (photo Standa Merhou)
ALL-STAR GLOBAL NEW MUSIC TRIO to PERFORM at HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Eviyan, an all-star trio of new music virtuosos and composers, will bring its unique blend of Eastern European folk, Western classical, Asian traditional, jazz and minimalist music to the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, April 5, 2014. The trio consists of new-music avatars Iva Bittová on violin and vocals; Gyan Riley on guitar; and Evan Ziporyn on clarinet.
HEATHER MALONEY to BRING JAZZY FOLK-ROCK to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriter Heather Maloney will bring her unique blend of folk, rock, jazz and pop to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, April 4, at 9pm. Critics have likened Maloney’s blend of pop songcraft and meaningful, at times outspoken, lyrics to those of Aimee Mann, Erin McKeown and Ani DiFranco. Some have also invoked Ella Fitzgerald and the Beatles to encapsulate her broad, commanding range of styles and her unique voice.
JIM TOROK DRAWINGS FEATURED at ART OMI
(GHENT, N.Y.) – There will be a reception and artists talk celebrating the exhibition Jim Torok: Drawings – on display now through May 31, 2014 – in the Visitors Center Gallery at Omi International Arts Center on Saturday, April 5, 2014, from 2pm to 5pm. Jim Torok is known for his photorealistic, miniature portraits and his narrative storyboard, cartoon-like paintings, both based on acute observation. His portraits are generally of ordinary people he knows – artists, friends, neighbors – and depict the everyday rather than celebrity status. They are small studies of fact and plainness. His cartoon works are simultaneously hilarious and sobering, innocently optimistic and cynical, because they state so plainly what is known but most often left unsaid.
Art Spiegelman (photo Enno Kapitza – Agentur Focus)
GRAPHIC NOVEL LEGENDS ART SPIEGELMAN and NEIL GAIMAN at BARD
(ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning artist/illustrator Art Spiegelman and acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and will discuss cartooning and writing, working across artistic mediums, friendship, identity, and more in a public conversation in the Sosnoff Theater at the Fisher Center at Bard College on Friday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m.