A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Hudson Valley region.
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – BasilicaSoundScape, a waterfront arts and performance festival located inside Basilica Hudson, a reclaimed 19th-century factory in Hudson, takes place Friday, September 13, and Saturday, September 14, 2013, and boasts appearances and installations by the likes of Richard Hell, Matthew Barney and Teengirl Fantasy. Organized by Basilica Hudson with Pitchfork editor Brandon…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – Pianist Vincent Adragna will join duo parnas – violinist Madalyn Parnas and cellist Cicely Parnas – to play works by Prokofiev, Brahms, and Schubert, as part of the Tannery Pond Concerts series in the barn at the Darrow School, on Saturday, September 7, 2013, at 8pm. The Parnas sisters grew up…
SARAH LEE GUTHRIE and JOHNNY IRION UNVEIL NEW SOUND at HELSINKI HUDSON (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion bring their new sound and new repertoire of songs from their third studio album, Wassaic Way, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, September 7, 2013, at 9pm. Produced by Jeff Tweedy and Patrick…
(SAUGERTIES, N.Y.) – Americana music legends Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, who collectively boast 13 Grammy Awards between them, join forces to perform at HITS-on-the-Hudson on Sunday, September 8, 2013, at 5pm. The longtime friends and occasional musical partners recently released Old Yellow Moon, their first duo album. The concert was scheduled as a replacement…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion bring their new sound and new repertoire of songs from their third studio album, Wassaic Way, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, September 7, 2013, at 9pm. Produced by Jeff Tweedy and Patrick Sansone of Wilco, the 11-song album introduces a new Guthrie and Irion, with…
(SHARON, Conn.) – An exhibition of paintings by Copake, N.Y., artist Jeffrey L. Neumann – who some consider an inheritor of a torch figuratively passed down by Edward Hopper, in terms of Neumann’s vision of the loneliness of small-town life in America – opens at the Sharon Historical Society and Museum with an artist’s reception…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Bard College Conservatory of Music celebrates composer Joan Tower, one of America’s most important living composers, with a gala concert, “Joan Tower and Friends Celebrate Her 75th Birthday,” to benefit the Joan Tower Composition Scholarship, on Saturday, September 7, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the László…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Lydia Davis, the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize awarded for “an achievement in fiction on the world stage,” is one of more than a dozen authors who will be featured in the annual CCCA ArtsWalk Literary Festival to be held Friday through Sunday, October 4-6, 2013. The festival will…
PARSONS DANCE CELEBRATES ELLSWORTH KELLY’S 90th BIRTHDAY at PS21 (CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Parsons Dance Company previews EK90, a newly commissioned dance work celebrating artist Ellsworth Kelly’s 90th birthday, at PS21 on Friday and Saturday, August 30 and 31, 2013, at 8pm. The program also includes Nascimento Novo, Brothers, Ebben, and Caught. These two special…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Comedian and singer Sandra Bernhard returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, August 31, at 9pm. The keen cultural observer, political satirist, actress and author straddles the line between comic and performance artist while always pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a comedian in the great tradition of Lenny…
