Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabaret Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. February 28, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is in the midst of its annual winter residency at Club Helsinki Hudson, performing monthly shows from January through March, and Saturday night’s show, on the final night of…
Mavis Staples Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. Sunday, February 22, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – “I done reach the point where I wanna be real,” Mavis Staples sang at one point in her triumphant concert at Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday night, and not a soul in the standing-room-only house…
Seth’s Sauerkraut Revue Club Helsinki Hudson Friday, December 26, 2014 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – As I’m sure Seth Travins well knows, when you have a still relatively uncommon name such as “Seth,” you are often confused with anyone else bearing your name in the same community. So for starters, let’s…
Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express Club Helsinki Hudson Saturday, November 22, 2014 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – I’ve been seeing Chuck Prophet annually at Club Helsinki for the past dozen years, and two things are pretty constant: Prophet just gets better each time, and his relative lack of fame just…
Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y., November 11, 2014) – Melora Creager, best known as the founder and leader of cello-rock band Rasputina, is the midst of a month-long residency at Club Helsinki Hudson, called, aptly enough, “Mondays with Melora.” I caught the second of four scheduled show last night, and I wouldn’t be surprised…
by Seth Rogovoy (ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON) – From the very first time I heard it, one of my favorite Amanda Palmer songs has been “The Bed Song.” It’s an intimate, first-person account of a long-term relationship, which uses the couple’s evolving sleeping arrangements as a weighty symbol of their emotional entanglement or lack of such. It’s a…
Amanda Palmer Bard Spiegeltent Bard Summerscape Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Friday, August 15, 2014 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Rock singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer is very much a cabaret artist at heart – literally and figuratively – and thus it was magical to see her perform in the intimate, casual cabaret setting…
Stephin Merritt Club Helsink Hudson Hudson, N.Y. Friday, July 25, 2014 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y., July 27, 2014) – “This song is about a dead bird,” Stephin Merritt introduced one of his many three-minute masterpieces of wit, concision and melody on Friday night at Club Helsinki Hudson. And the room…
Simi Stone Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. July 26, 2014 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y., July 27, 2014) – I went to see Simi Stone again at Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday night, just to see if what I observed last December was a fluke or if lightning could indeed strike twice.…
The Baseball Project Club Helsinki Hudson Wednesday, July 23, 2014 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – You didn’t have to know jack about baseball to enjoy last night’s easygoing concert by the Baseball Project at Club Helsinki Hudson, but I’m sure it helped. Especially if you were a fan – possibly a…
