A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Hudson Valley region.
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Americana music scion Justin Townes Earle – the son of Steve Earle (who sold out his recent show at Club Helsinki Hudson) – will bring his country-inflected brand of folk-rock to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, March 20, 2014, at 8pm. Rootsy singer-songwriter Natalia Zukerman — one of my all-time favorite performers…
HONKY-TONK AMERICANA FESTIVAL COMING to HELSINKI HUDSON (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Seth’s Sauerkraut Revue, a mini-festival of regional Americana and honky-tonk performers hosted by “Sauerkraut” Seth Travins, returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, March 15, at 9pm, featuring Miss Tess; Melora Creager (of Rasputina); Pat Linnan (of Nature Films); the Minivans; Robby Lee Coalter;…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Regional act Quiet In The Head, the ongoing musical project of guitarist Seamus Maynard and violinist Jonathan Talbott, will perform at Spotty Dog Books & Ale on Thursday, March 13, 2014, at 8pm. Their original acoustic music has evolved over many years of playing together and is always an exploration of texture…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for an exhibition of new works by Letha Wilson and Jason Middlebrook at Retrospective on Saturday, March 15, 2014, from 5 to 7pm. The show of Middlebrook’s paintings and Wilson’s sculptural photographs will run through Sunday, April 13. Both Jason Middlebrook and Letha Wilson use landscape…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten and the world premiere of Payne Hollow by Shawn Jaeger, with libretto by Wendell Berry, will be staged by the Graduate Vocal Arts Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music in the Sosnoff Theater of the Fisher Center at Bard College on Friday,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Seth’s Sauerkraut Revue, a mini-festival of regional Americana and honky-tonk performers hosted by “Sauerkraut” Seth Travins, returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, March 15, 2014, at 9pm, featuring Miss Tess; Melora Creager (of Rasputina); Pat Linnan (of Nature Films); the Minivans; Robby Lee Coalter; Chris Neumann; and a reunion of…
FIVE WRITERS on LOVING AND LEAVING NEW YORK CITY to READ at HUDSON OPERA HOUSE (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Elisa Albert, Sari Botton, Chloe Caldwell, Dana Kinstler, and Rebecca Wolff will read from Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, a recent anthology of essays, at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – A series of cast bronze sculptures of animals by Anthony Masina are on display at J. Damiani Gallery in Hudson now through June 1, 2014. In an artist’s statement, Masina says, “Animals are already perfectly designed. My goal is not to improve upon those designs, but to use the basic form as…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for In the Black, an exhibition of works by a half-dozen-odd artists in a variety of media — painting, drawing, encaustics and sculpture, primarily in shades of black – at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Saturday, March 8, 2014, from 6 to 8pm. The show will be…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There will be an opening reception for an exhibition of artworks by Hudson-based artist Jen P. Harris at Valley Variety on Saturday, March 8, 2014, from 6 to 8 p.m. The work in the exhibition, which includes a number of paintings that draw on Tarot iconography to explore conceptions of time, love,…
