(HUDSON, N.Y.) – For the last three weeks, nineteen musicians have gathered at Club Helsinki Hudson every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon from noon to 3pm to play jazz, New Orleans music, and African drumming and percussion. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be so unusual – after all, Helsinki Hudson is a music venue where jazz is…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Author and humorist Roy Blount Jr will speak to Columbia County Habitat for Humanity supporters at a brunch on Sunday, August 4, 2013, at 11:30am at Helsinki Hudson. The celebrated author of 23 books will speak about his latest, Alphabetter Soup — The Joy of Text. The brunch will benefit Habitat’s next…
Tickets Go on Sale This Friday, July 26(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Sonic Youth members Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley have chosen to launch the upcoming album by their band Lee Ranaldo and the Dust at Club Helsinki Hudson on Tuesday, October 8, at 8pm. The album will be released that same day on Matador Records. Tickets…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Eat the Farm, a farm greenhouse dinner bringing together the culinary talents of Helsinki Hudson executive chef Hugh Horner and the summer bounty of Holmquest Farms, will take place on Thursday, July 25, 2013, at 7pm, in the Holmquest Farms greenhouse at 516 Spook Rock Rd. Eat the Farm reverses the familiar,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – One of Afropop’s living legends, Oliver Mtukudzi, bring his fusion of traditional Zimbabwean music and African funk along with his band, the Black Spirits to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, July 19, 2013, at 9pm. Mtukudzi is so renowned in his native land and throughout Southern Africa that his nickname, “Tuku,” has…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Jazz greats Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso will lead the Omi Improvisers Orchestra, featuring a baker’s dozen musicians from around the globe, in a unique concert of “guerrilla jazz” at Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, July 21, at 8pm. Ensemble members hail from South Korea, Sweden, Russia, China and Italy, and are…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Folk-blues singer-songwriter Chris Smither performs at Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 9pm. Having distilled his own signature sound of blues and folk for over 40 years, Smither is truly an American original. A profound songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, Smither continues to draw deeply from the blues, American folk…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Lake Street Dive brings its unique fusion of jazz, classical, pop, swing and soul to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, July 6, at 9pm. Lake Street Dive is a unique quartet with an approach like no other group you’ve ever heard. Four jazz- and classical-trained musicians who met at Boston’s New England…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Jazz-pop vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway brings her cabaret show, “Celebrating The Great American Songbook,” to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, July 7, at 7pm, as part of the Helsinki on Broadway series presented in association with Showstoppers. Returning to Club Helsinki by popular demand, Callaway presents the best of Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Bluesy soul-gospel trio the Holmes Brothers bring their unique stew of Southern funk and Northern blues to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, July 5, at 9pm. Originally from Christchurch, Va., the New York City-based group has shared stages and recordings with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Willie Nelson, Lou…
