Retro Rally Car & Motorcycle Show in Kingston this Saturday
Renee Darmstadt explains how her Cornell Street Studios’ Retro Rally Car & Motorcycle Show, Musical Gala and Group Art Show, which runs in Midtown Kingston in and around her popular space this Saturday…
Spotlight on cicadas in New Paltz
The cicadas are coming! If you haven’t seen or heard them by now, you soon will. June 3 through 6 is Summer Nature Week at Mohonk Mountain House, and the resort is celebrating…
Star-studded Soundout: Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration at Bearsville
Among the most beloved and iconic of American songwriters, but also among the most idiosyncratic and eccentric, Bob Dylan is a tough cover. The temptation to do “that voice” is irresistibly strong; in…
Ludwig Day in New Paltz this Saturday
A celebration to honor the life of New Paltz resident Ludwig Montesa will take place this Saturday, May 25 with music and art performances scheduled throughout the day at various local venues. Montesa,…
Reunited Babe the Blue Ox at Beacon’s In the Pines Music Festival
What glad news that Babe the Blue Ox is back together, playing out and releasing new music. The Brooklyn-born art/alt-rock trio (now a quartet) introduced its jarring, witty and impassioned avant-rock sound with…
Bern & the Brights in Rosendale this Saturday
Hoboken’s Bern & the Brights kick off their crisp, bracing EP Work with “Slave Driver,” a track that, almost in sequence, introduces all the components of their multi-genre but coherent sound. Dub lasers,…
Man Man to play BSP in Kingston
I can’t believe I have finally grown tired of detecting and celebrating the influence of Tom Waits in modern music. But, 28 years after Rain Dogs changed my life irreversibly and for the…
Creative Music Studio to celebrate its 40th anniversary
Woodstock’s Creative Music Studio (CMS) avoids such self-descriptions as “experimental,” “avant-garde” and “revolutionary” in its literature, preferring to emphasize the cross-cultural universality of music and such kernel virtues as “keen awareness,” “personal expression”…
Smooth sailing with Robbie Dupree
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” says the White Queen to Alice, prescribing for the girl a kind of training regimen for the development of credulity and…
Liana Gabel to perform at BSP
On her upcoming debut CD Rest and Heal, New Paltz-based singer/songwriter Liana Gabel finds an idiosyncratic sweet spot somewhere between traditional vocal jazz and impressionistic, surreal indie pop. The sound is truly her…
