CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Amy Helm Saturday, March 2, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – No sooner did one think he had Amy Helm pegged – “Aha, she’s at heart a gospel singer,” for example, after one number – than did she turn on a dime and another roots-music tributary of American music came…
CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Martin Sexton Friday, February 1, 2013 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Talk about your one-man band! As Martin Sexton demonstrated in his first set at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday night, sometimes less is more – as in, one musician who can do it all. No matter how…
Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – There wasn’t quite as much emphasis on bass as one may have expected from an event titled “Home Bass: Four Strings, Four Hearts,” a concert to benefit the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, which is building affordable passive solar townhouses in this quiet but needful…
CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Matisyahu Monday, December 17, 2012 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Expectations were somewhat low going into Matisyahu’s “Acoustic Evening with…” performance at Club Helsinki Hudson on Monday night. Was this to be yet another case of a formerly lively performer now forced by a combination of the harsh…
BARDAVON OPERA HOUSE GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR Sunday, November 25, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – Two great English R&B-fueled rock bands reunited on Sunday night with original members after years – decades in one case — of layoffs. Over in London, original bassist Bill Wyman and long-ago guitarist Mick Taylor…
CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Felice Brothers with Hunger Mountain Boys Saturday, November 24, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – It’s too bad the Felice Brothers have been hyped to the heavens as the second coming of The Band or more, because that’s an impossible comparison to live up to. It’s not fair to…
Club Helsinki Hudson Human Sexual Response November 7, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Judging by how many people stopped me to tell me that they had seen Human Sexual Response in a club somewhere 30 years ago, I may have been one of the few at Club Helsinki Hudson on Wednesday night…
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Toots and the Maytals Sunday, November 4, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Some fifty years into his career, one can’t begrudge Toots Hibbert the desire to kick back and be casual onstage. Which is just what the reggae pioneer is doing on his current acoustic tour, which…
Mahaiwe 2012 Gala An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin October 14, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – I’m not a great fan of Broadway show tunes or “the Great American Songbook,” but that’s apparently partly because so few performers render it like Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin did on Sunday…
Kris Perry Basilica Hudson Kris Perry’s MACHINES Friday, August 10, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – The sounds of machinery and industry returned to Basilica Hudson, on Friday night. But this time around, the sounds – part of the kickoff of the Basilica Music Festival, in conjuction with Hudson MusicFest — were organized…
