A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Hudson Valley region.
(AMHERST, Mass.) – The Klezmatics, Eleanor Reissa, Socalled, and Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket Revue headline the 10th annual YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, taking place at the Yiddish Book Center over the course of four days, Thursday, July 7-Sunday, July 10, 2022. This year’s festival – once again curated by Yidstock artistic…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include opera, comedy, folk, jazz … plus a whole lot more. MID-WINTER MOZART Soprano Maria Valdes and tenor Alex McKissick will perform arias and duets written throughout Mozart’s career in “Mid-Winter Mozart,” a presentation of Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) at St. James Place in Great Barrington,…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include Indian music, Irish music, Greek and Yiddish music, modern dance … plus a whole lot more. CRASH TEST DUMMIES in DALTON Left-of-center alternative rock group Crash Test Dummies — best known for lead singer Brad Robert’s impossibly low bass-baritone voice and hits including “Superman’s Song,” “Mmm…
Internationally acclaimed Dutch Yiddish singer Niki Jacobs will bring her Yiddish version of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis’s “Mauthausen Cycle” to three Northeastern U.S. venues in mid-March. Performing with her classical/klezmer ensemble, Jacobs will present her Holocaust-themed program drawn from “The Ballad of Mauthausen,” also known as the “Mauthausen Cantata,” at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include all varieties of chamber music, rock, pop, folk … plus a whole lot more. HELEN GILLET at THE FOUNDRY Belgian-born cellist, singer, composer Helen Gillet has been described as a “whirling dervish of the cello.” Gillet brings her diverse, eclectic sounds to the Foundry in…
(WOODSTOCK, N.Y.) — Darlene Love, Joan Osborne, Kate Pierson (B-52s), Genya Ravan, Amy Rigby, and Simi Stone headline We Got the Beat, a women-in-music summit featuring three days of concerts, panel discussions, film screenings, conversations, and more, at the legendary Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, March 25-27, 2022. The brainchild…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The 2022 edition of the Hudson Jazz Festival, dubbed “Lift Every Voice” after the Black national anthem, promises an eight-day festival celebrating the artistry of Black jazz musicians and their innovation of the genre. The festival, taking place over the course of two long weekends (February 10-13 and 17-20) at Hudson Hall,…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include ballet, chamber music, jazz, comedy … plus a whole lot more. THE LUCKY 5 BRINGS SWING-JAZZ to EGREMONT BARN On Saturday at 7:30pm, the Lucky 5 brings its hard-swinging jazz, drawing on the tradition of jazz from the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s, to the…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include jazz, comedy, opera … plus a whole lot more. MONOLOGUES at PS21 In early December, acclaimed playwright/director Pascal Rambert arrived at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y., from France for a weeklong residency with actors Jim Fletcher and Ismail ibn Conner, to rehearse and refine two of…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include Punjabi party music, Mozart, theater, memoir … plus a whole lot more. SONNY SINGH at MASS MoCA On Saturday at 8pm, Sonny Singh, the vocalist and trumpeter who fronts the bhangra brass band Red Baraat, brings his own band to perform boundary-defying Punjabi anthems…
