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Teri Roiger sings Abbey Lincoln at the Falcon for Juneteenth

Here in the Northeast we don’t tend to hear much of a fuss made over the holiday known as Juneteenth, even though New York is one of the 42 states that confer it…

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Woodstock Playhouse hosts “Antique Road Show” to benefit Saugerties Tree Commission

Anecdotal evidence shows that television viewers on Monday nights at 8 p.m. are generally either watching people learning how to dance the paso doble on network television or they’re tuned to PBS for…

Abigail Levine’s Distance Measures and As Sugar Loaves Train Horses.

Choreographer Abigail Levine kicks off Mount Tremper Arts Summer Festival

According to Mathew Pokoik, photographer, artistic director and co-founder with choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke of Mount Tremper Arts (MTA), “One essential aspect of our mission is to create a space that questions the confines…

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Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival this weekend in Croton

“Exquisite torture” isn’t the first phrase that would leap to mind for most people if asked to characterize the Great Hudson River Revival, popularly known as the Clearwater Festival. Nonetheless, it’s an apt…

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Kids’ Almanac (June 13-20)

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. – John Burroughs   Family Tree ID Spree at Sloan Gorge Preserve in Woodstock The Lorax may speak for the trees, but…

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Friends of Poughkeepsie Library to host giant book sale

The annual Giant Sale of Books and Media sponsored by the Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District is living up to its name. Always one of the biggest sales of its type…

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Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts returns to Woodstock

Actress, playwright and former Psychology professor Grace Kiley had long been haunted by the personality of her near-namesake, Grace Kelly, and finally gave in to the urge to write about her with Longing…

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Chris Bergson Band at the Falcon in Marlboro

It is not every day – or week, or month – that a high blues adept of the caliber of Chris Bergson is called to my attention, but it feels like it. It…

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Hudson Valley musicians, scientists, artists and poets celebrate the cicada

They’re here, in their billions: the bug-eyed monsters (or rather, monster-eyed bugs), invaders from a strange world beneath our own. If you live in one of the pockets of territory paralleling the Appalachian…

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Photographer Joan Barker showing in High Falls

Joan Barker – who’ll be the focus of one of Wired Gallery’s Art Forays in the form of a “Pop Up” one-weekend show at a High Falls space June 8 and 9 –…

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