Richard Thompson Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. Thursday, April 23, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – About halfway through Richard Thompson’s masterful solo concert at Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday night, he played an original song that I hadn’t heard before (it might be one of a selection of new…
BoDeans Colonial Theater Pittsfield, Mass. Thursday, April 16, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Time and trends may have finally come around for the BoDeans, who have played an Americana-tinged style of heartland rock since forming in Wisconsin in 1983, during the reign of new-wave, dance-rock and hair-metal, and years before…
Nellie McKay Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. Sunday, April 5, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Every Nellie McKay concert is different – I’ve seen at least three now – but they’re all tied together by McKay’s faux-naif character, her dazzling wit and wordplay, and her virtuosity. Musically, she ranges all…
Pine Hill Project with Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams Club Helsinki Hudson Saturday, March 14, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriters Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell brought their new duet effort, the Pine Hill Project, featuring producer-multi-instrumentalist-bandleader-extraordinaire Larry Campbell, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday…
Brazilian Girls Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. Saturday, March 7, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Dance-rock outfit Brazilian Girls, led by the sultry and alluring Sabina Sciubba, entertained a standing-room-only crowd at Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday night with its patented blend of state-of-the-art dance rhythms and world-beat-flavored textures. This…
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 Anna Rogovoy, for Dance Pulp (BROOKLYN, N.Y.) – Pina Bausch has a gift for holding up a beautiful mirror and gently showing us how ridiculous we look. In Kontakthof, scenes unfold wildly out of proportion, with hysterical shrieks meeting compulsive preening meeting a fake mouse corpse. “There are dancers onstage,” Anna Wehsarg comments…
