A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Hudson Valley region.
Experimental Music Project to Premiere at Basilica Hudson (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nous, an experimental music project exploring ritual and spontaneity within music, will have its public performance debut at Basilica Hudson on Saturday, February 1, 2014, at 8pm. The performance follows a weeklong residency at Dreamland Recording Studio in Woodstock, and precedes the project’s New…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Nous, an experimental music project exploring ritual and spontaneity within music, will have its public performance debut at Basilica Hudson on Saturday, February 1, 2014, at 8pm. The performance follows a weeklong residency at Dreamland Recording Studio in Woodstock, and precedes the project’s New York City debut at Baby’s All…
Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Gallery owner Carrie Haddad has wild, whimsical and eclectic taste in artworks, and this is always reflected in the shows she hangs at her eponymous Carrie Haddad Gallery. The current exhibition, Modern Artists, featuring contemporary painting and photography and running through March 2, is no exception. I love…
ZACH DEPUTY to BRING ORIGINAL POP-SOUL to HELSINKI HUDSON (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriter Zach Deputy will bring his original pop-soul music to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, January 26, 2014, at 8pm. Deputy, who calls his danceable sound “island-infused, drum ‘n’ bass, gospel-ninja-soul,” creates the sonic palette of a full band via the use of…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Folksinger Liv Carrow and fiddler-banjoist Matt Heckler of Deep Chatham will perform American roots music at Spotty Dog Books & Ale on Saturday, January 25, 2014, at 8pm. Liv Carrow explores the shadowy terrain of Appalachian melody and traditional balladry in its many forms, crafting songs both strange and familiar that invoke…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Modern Artists, a new exhibition featuring contemporary painting and photography, both figurative and abstract, from a small group of gallery artists – including Donise English, Jenny Kemp, Newbold Bohemia, Katheryn Holt, Tracy Helgeson, Giselle Potter, and Patty Neal — opens at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Thursday, January 23, 2014, and runs…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriter Zach Deputy will bring his original pop-soul music to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, January 26, 2014, at 8pm. Deputy, who calls his danceable sound “island-infused, drum ‘n’ bass, gospel-ninja-soul,” creates the sonic palette of a full band via the use of state-of-the-art looping technology created live and in real time.…
(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, kicking off at 9pm on Saturday, January 25, 2014; Friday, February 14; and Saturday, March 29; plus a…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Author Jessica Lamb-Shapiro will read from her new book, Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture (Simon & Schuster), at The Spotty Dog on Sunday, January 26, 2014, at 5pm. As Lamb-Shapiro points out in Promise Land, a blend of memoir and reportage, everyone is affected by self-help, an industry that…
SWEAR AND SHAKE BRINGS INDIE-FOLK to HELSINKI HUDSON (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Brooklyn-based neo-folk outfit Swear and Shake brings its hard-charging indie-folk to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, January 19, at 8pm. The band may remind some listeners of 10,000 Maniacs, another folk-rock group with roots in upstate New York. READ MORE…. AIMEE NORWICH…
