Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Oak Hill
The doors open Wednesday for campers, and the music begins on Thursday, July 14, as the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival returns for its yearly gathering in Oak Hill, off Route 145 in Greene…
Take your pick at the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers’ Showcase
The seventh annual Woodstock Invitational Luthiers’ Showcase (and Tonewood Festival) returns to Woodstock’s Bearsville Theater with three days of high communing with the wood and wires of fine acoustic guitars – flattops, archtops, manouche, resonators,…
At 98, Manuel Bromberg won’t give an inch
Manuel Bromberg needed a cliff. It would be a grand sculpture. It was the mid-1960s and the artist, a professor of painting at SUNY New Paltz, had just been awarded a grant for…
Game day with the Renegades
Let’s take in a ball game. Oh, it’s a beautiful evening for baseball. Check out the Mets. Let’s see. Uh, tickets are $324 each for the best seats; you can start moving further…
Woodstock Invitational Luthiers’ Showcase
The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers’ Show runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27, with more than 40 exhibitors showing beautiful guitars – classical, archtop, flattop, resonators…
Film on Sonny Rollins opens Woodstock Film Festival
Twice a week in the early 1980s, I hosted a program called The Sound of Jazz on WDST Radio (Betty MacDonald created the show and hosted it three other evenings). On my nights,…
Dick Cavett to headline Woodstock Comedy Festival
Talk show host/comedian headlines Woodstock Comedy Fest “In trying to concentrate so hard and being sure to look like you’re listening,” Dick Cavett once said of hosting a television talk show, “you forget…
Man of the earth, soul for the ages
“It was late on an autumn afternoon, the maples and oaks were glowing orange and red, and I couldn’t take my eyes off Overlook Mountain and the rolling terrain,” Levon Helm wrote in…
Levon Helm passes on
Levon Helm passed away at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19 at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was surrounded by family, friends and bandmates. The 71-year-old drummer whose Midnight…
Simon says: Reminiscences of a Life in Rock & Roll to benefit Shadowland this Saturday
The music we hear as teenagers is the music that becomes ours. I haven’t listened to a lot of new stuff. I know it exists. Last year with my granddaughter, she’s into electronic…
