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Rissman retirement party/concert to benefit Rescue Squad
Randy Rissman “It’s funny seeing that we all call him Randy and not Dr. Rissman,” says Cindy Cashdollar, the Grammy award winning steel guitar and dobro player. “I think that says a lot right there,...
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Maverick and the summer openings
(Photo by Dion Ogust) The Maverick Concerts season opens this weekend with a Young People’s Concert by Elizabeth Mitchell & Family on Saturday, June 25, at 11 a.m. That evening at 8 p.m., Actors...
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Photography Center offers free workshop for youth
If there’s one person that has a pulse on the heroin problem in town it’s Provisions’ Emily Sherry. Ms. Sherry’s “A Different Delicatessen” is on Tinker Street a few doors down from CPW, The Center for...
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Maverick Concerts begins its second century
(Photo by Dion Ogust) When I went backstage during intermission of the first regular season Maverick Concert, I spoke with members of the Escher Quartet. Reading through the ensemble’s bio in the...
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Mount Tremper Arts goes year round
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) has announced a shift from its usual seven-week summer festival of weekly performances and artist residencies to an almost year-round schedule of monthly events and month-long...
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Strong start to Maverick season
(Photo by Dion Ogust) Maverick Concerts’ classical series got off to a rousing start with two strong quartets (not a typo!) On Sunday, June 26, the Escher Quartet started things off with a superlative...
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Beppe Gambetta plays Ashokan
In these post-packaged years when people no longer buy media in piece goods but prefer electronic sources…a pretty decent sized audience still prefers good old hand made music on wooden instruments,...
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Review: ‘False Documents’ by Peter Lamborn Wilson
The cover of False Documents shows two commedia dell’arte characters — medieval Italian clowns — dancing audaciously above the surface of the moon. I was surprised to discover that this literally...
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‘Comedy of Errors’ at Comeau
Members of the Bird-on-a-Cliff cast at the Comeau. (photo by Violet Snow) Before Orphan Black, before the Olsen twins, before The Patty Duke Show, Elizabethan audiences laughed their arses off at the...
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Local Elders’ lives in song
Colette Ruoff Like a clearing in a forest, an unusual event on the weekend offers a step away from this year’s underbrush of police shootings, Brexit, missing State Department emails, impending threats...
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Acts of Utopian art
Mark Robbins in front of the Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library at the American Academy in Rome. (photo by Gerardo Gaetani) In 1988, artist and architect Mark Robbins, while visiting Woodstock’s...
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Pollock-Krasner officials honored by Byrdcliffe
Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock ran off an eastern Long Island back road 60 years ago next month and died among gnarled trees. He was still making money from his drip paintings of several years earlier...
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Cherry’s Patch to open at Playhouse
Ron Scott Stevens (photo by Dan Barton) The Woodstock Playhouse will delve into its only summer drama when it presents Cherry’s Patch for one weekend, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 29 and...
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Songs of healing at Phoenicia Voice Fest
At the 2013 Festival of the Voice. (photo by Dion Ogust) “If people were going to concerts more and bathing in art, there would be less mess in the world,” said Maria Todaro, the co-founder and...
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Moving the Water(S) at Kleinert
Ashokan Fugues by Margaret Cogswell. Moving The Water(S): Ashokan Fugues 2016, the world class multi-media installation by West Shokan/New York City-based artist Margaret Cogswell that’s been filling...
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Art From The Ashes – (burned and saved)
Yale Epstein and salvaged artwork. Yale Epstein, whose retrospective-like From The Ashes – (burned and saved) exhibit in the solo gallery space at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum runs...
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Summer Salon at WFG
Bombay Washday by Harriet Livathinos. Seven women artists of the Hudson Valley are featured in the Summer Salon Show at the Woodstock Framing Gallery on Mill Hill Road. A sense of summery brightness —...
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Race, Love, and Labor at CPW
Photograph by LaToya Ruby Frazier. When the current exhibit of the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s current artists-in-residence program, “Race, Love, and Labor,” first opened at the Samuel Dorsky...
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In Town: Byrdcliffe’s Legacy
George Ault, Autumn Hillside. Watercolor on paper. From The Historic Woodstock Art Colony Collection of Arthur Anderson, part of the Byrdcliffe Guild’s Handmade In The 20th Century show opening...
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Woodstock Museum Film Festival returns
Still from Pin Up! The Woodstock Museum on Bach Road in Saugerties is a “living museum,” says co-founder Nathan Koenig, who along with Shelli Lipton created an environment there that celebrates the...
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