Miro Quartet
MIRO QUARTET to PLAY SCHUBERT and BEETHOVEN at TANNERY POND
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Miro Quartet will perform a program featuring works by Schubert and Beethoven in the Tannery Pond Concert Series at the Darrow School on Saturday, August 1, at 8pm. The dynamic quartet, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, will be playing Schubert’s Quartet in G major, No. 15 and Beethoven’s Quartet in C-sharp minor, No. 14, Op. 131:2.
Psychic Green Trailer
TRAILER INSTALLATION GETS ONE NIGHT SHOWING at BASILICA HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Psychic Green Trailer, a historic marker / installation by Alan Danielson, will open for one night only on Saturday August 1, from 6 to 8pm at the trailer next to Basilica Hudson. The event is free and open to the public. Tony Stone, co-founder of Basilica Hudson, preserved the former Hudson Handling trailer on Basilica’s property as a relic of Hudson’s industrial past. The trailer has evolved into a location for a site-specific artist-in-residency project, directly informing the work made during time spent inside the trailer.
JP Harris
JP HARRIS BRINGS HONKYTONK to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nashville-based JP Harris & the Tough Choices bring their classic country and honkytonk sounds to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, July 31, at 9pm. Rolling Stone named JP Harris one of fall 2014’s “Country Tours Not To Miss” as well as one of “21 Must-See Country Acts at SXSW 2015.”
Duncan Sheik
DUNCAN SHEIK WORKSHOPS NEW MUSICAL at VASSAR
(POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer Duncan Sheik returns to Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College with an Inside Look Workshop of his new musical, “Noir,” from Friday, July 31, through Sunday, August 2. This lush and mysterious new musical, inspired by radio plays and classic film noir, is the story of a heartbroken man who never leaves his apartment, consoled only by the music on the radio. Through the thin walls he hears almost every word of the couple next door and before long his eavesdropping becomes an obsession. Soon he finds himself drawn into a web of lust, lies, deceit and danger.
Judy Collins
JUDY COLLINS HEADLINES FALCON RIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL
(HILLSDALE, N.Y.) – Judy Collins, Garnet Rogers, Susan Werner, Nerissa and Katryna Nields, the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, June Rich, and the Duhks headline the 27th annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, taking place at Dodds Farm from Friday through Sunday, July 31 to August 2. The festival includes concerts and workshops, hours of dancing on the 7,000-sq.-ft. dance floor, a family stage, kids activities, an international food court, and an array of vendors. The dance tent starts with wake-up yoga and continues until 2am Friday and Saturday.