Melora Creager
MELORA CREAGER to ACCOMPANY SILENT MOVIE with ORIGINAL MUSIC at TSL
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Melora Creager, founder and leader of indie-rock band Rasputina, will perform her original score to the silent film classic, “A Trip to The Moon,” with her band, the Calico Indians, featuring Ryder Cooley and other regional musicians, at TSL on Thursday, April 23, at 8pm. Additionally, Patrick Higgins (Z’s), John Rosenthal, Aron Sanchez (Buke and Gase) and Saviour Self (Colin LaClair and Logan Visscher) will perform their improvised score to “The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari.”
Red Drivers 39 x 67 inches oil on canvas by Joe Richards
‘CAST OF CHARACTERS’ & ‘HEAVY METAL’ GO on VIEW at CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “Cast of Characters” & “Heavy Metal,” new exhibitions featuring figurative works by Michael Crawford, Paul Katz and David Austin, and highly realistic paintings by Joe Richards, respectively, go on view at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, and remains on display through Sunday, May 31. There will be an artists’ reception on Saturday, May 2, from 6 to 8pm.
Bobby Previte (photo Michael DiDonna)
BASILICA HUDSON to HOST 24-HOUR ‘DRONE’ FESTIVAL
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – 24-HOUR DRONE: Experiments in Sound and Music, an immersive event and all-encompassing experience featuring musicians from the region and beyond experimenting in electronic, psychedelic, classical, non-Western and instrumental drone music for a full 24 hours, inaugurates the fifth season at Basilica Hudson on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at 3pm, running through Sunday, April 26, at 3pm. Featured musicians include Prurient, SUUNS, Bobby Previte, Patrick Higgins, Arone Dyer, Randy Gibson, Eric Fraser, Brian Dewan, Eliot Kessel, Slow Collins, and Lea Bertucci.
American Symphony Orchestra (photo Stephanie Berger)
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA to PERFORM WORKS by JANÁ?EK, GOETZ, AND GINASTERA AT BARD
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) will perform works by Leoš Janá?ek, Hermann Goetz, and Alberto Ginastera in the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College on Friday, April 24, and Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. The program – the ASO’s final concert of the season – includes Janá?ek’s Sinfonietta; Goetz’s Symphony No. 2 in F Major, Op. 9, and Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, featuring Xing Gao ’17, on harp. The concert will be conducted by Leon Botstein, music director.
Buffalo Stack
BUFFALO STACK BRINGS BLUESY ROOTS-ROCK to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson’s own Buffalo Stack brings its bluesy brand of roots-rock to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, April 25, at 9pm. With slide blues guitar, gospel organ chords, New Orleans-style horns, and group harmonies, bluesy roots-rockers Buffalo Stack can’t help but recall Woodstock heroes the Band. In fact, it was at Levon Helm’s barn in Woodstock that husband-and-wife Andy and Tania Stack (a Grammy and Juno award- winning fiddle player) of Hudson met the musicians who would soon join them to become Buffalo Stack.
Jenny Zigrino
LITERARY DEATH MATCH RETURNS to THE MOUNT
(Lenox, Mass.) – Authors Jedediah Berry, Arda Collins, Ron Currie Jr., Paul La Farge, Courtney Maum, Sue Smith and Jenny Zigrino will take part in a Literary Death Match at The Mount: Edith Wharton’s Home, on Friday, April 24, at 8pm. Four of these authors will read original work before a panel of three all-star judges. Performances will be judged on literary merit, performance style, and intangible factors.
BIFF HOSTS ‘ANIMAL HOUSE’ SCREENING and REUNION PARTY
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – An unprecedented cast reunion and screening of “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” the classic 1978 comedy directed by John Landis and starring the late John Belushi, will take place at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, April 25, at 7pm, in a presentation by the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF). Cast members expected to attend the reunion include Karen Allen (Katy), Peter Riegert (Donald), Mark Metcalf (Neidermeier), Martha Smith (Babs), Jaime Widdows (Hoover), Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Judy Belushi and Otis Day, for a fun Q&A and a performance by Otis Day following the screening. The BIFF weekend of Hollywood glamour kicks off with “Hollywood Costume,” a presentation by Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis at the Mahaiwe on Friday, April 24, at 7pm. Landis will present a behind the scenes look into “costume as character” and the magical relationship between costume designers and filmmakers.