Ryder and Hazel
RYDER COOLEY BRINGS NEW MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM ‘REVIVAL’ to TAVERN BAR in TROY
(TROY, N.Y.) – Performance artist Ryder Cooley will present her new multimedia work, “Revival,” at the Tavern Bar and Library above Pecks Arcade (217 Broadway) coinciding with Troy Night Out on Friday, February 27, at 9pm. The program is a 20-minute live-cinema performance comprised of re-edited archival film, live music, recorded sound, projections, shadows and movement. Cooley will also perform a selection of musical numbers from her vast repertoire with her Dust Bowl Faeries bandmate Karen Cole. Regional storyteller Richard Lovrich of Regrettable Lagniappe fame will be introducing each of the sets with a series of short story readings topically appropriate to the evening’s theme.
Sha’ar
JEWISH WORLD-BEAT JAZZ GROUP SHA’AR at ART OMI
(GHENT, N.Y.) – Jewish world-beat jazz quartet Sha’ar performs a Candlelight Concert at ?Omi International Arts Center on Saturday, February 28, at 6:30pm. ?The quartet features acclaimed musician (and 2007 Music Omi alumni) drummer/percussionist David Freeman, along with guitarist Oren Neiman, Iván Barenboim on clarinet and bass clarinet, and bassist Doug Drewes.
Bindlestiff’s Stephanie Monseu aka Philomena
BINDLESTIFF CIRKUS BRINGS MONTHLY WINTER CABARET to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson’s own Bindlestiff Family Cirkus continues its wintertime tradition of hosting a monthly cabaret, featuring a variety of circus, theater, comedy and musical entertainers, at Club Helsinki Hudson with four shows: its adult-oriented cabaret on the fourth Saturday of each month, continuing on Saturday, February 28, at 9pm; and again on Saturday, March 28; plus a Sunday matinee show on March 29 geared to the entire family.
Momenta Quartet (photo John Gurrin)
MOMENTA QUARTET to PLAY IVES and TAN DUN at SIMON’S ROCK
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The adventurous Momenta Quartet will perform works by Charles Ives and Tan Dun at Simon’s Rock College as part of the South Berkshire Concerts series on Saturday, February 28, at 8pm in the McConnell Auditorium of the Daniel Arts Center. The program will include the Second String Quartet of Charles Ives followed by “Ghost Opera,” a theatrical work for quartet and pipa, a Chinese lute, composed by Tan Dun, perhaps China’s best known living composer. The quartet will be joined in this performance by pipa virtuoso Zhou Yi.
Luther Dickinson (Lightnin Malcolm in rear)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS and ANDERS OSBORNE JOIN FORCES at HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Grammy Award-nominated North Mississippi Allstars and singer-guitarist Anders Osborne will combine forces as N.M.O. (North Mississippi Osbornes) at Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, March 1, at 8pm. The evening will feature one acoustic and one electric set, combining the Southern blues-rock approach of the North Mississippi Allstars with Anders Osborne’s unique brand of New Orleans soul to make for a new American roots fusion.
Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes
SCULPTURES BY BRUNO PASQUIER-DESVIGNES at HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Caprices, a solo exhibition of sculptures by Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes, curated by R.O. Blechman, is on view at the Hudson Opera House through Sunday, March 29. The exhibit includes a selection of Pasquier-Desvignes sculptures made from recycled and found materials including wooden wine crates, cardboard boxes, wire hangers, plastic bottles, and bicycle wheels. Pasquier-Desvignes cuts and paints and reassembles whatever is at hand to create expressive and wonderfully detailed sculptures; for his animation film, “The Song of Roland,” he used corks and toothpicks, and he filled Grand Central Station in New York City and the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires with his Musical Bicycle sculptures.
‘Midtown Twilight’ by Bill Sullivan
LAST CALL: URBAN SCENES at CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – This weekend marks your last chance to catch “Cityscapes,” an inspiring group show of urban scenes by a dozen artists, on view at Carrie Haddad Gallery through Sunday, March 1. Painters in the exhibition include Margaret Crenson, Darshan Russell, Arthur Hammer, Robert Goldstrom, Dan Rupe, Joseph Maresca, Bill Sullivan, Patty Neal, Edward Avedisian, and Richard Merkin. The show also features unique burned and scorched works on paper by Paul Chojnowski and watercolors by Scott Nelson Foster.