Ulster County Fair opens in New Paltz with Carload Night
Tuesday-Sunday, Aug. 1-6: B. J. Thomas and Oak Ridge Boys headline this year’s musical offerings.
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Joyce Carol Oates reading in Woodstock on Saturday
Saturday, July 29: The Golden Notebook in Woodstock presents a reading by the dynamo of American arts and letters Joyce Carol Oates at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.
Dweezil Zappa parses Mothers’ Freak Out! at Bardavon
Friday, July 28: Think of Dweezil Zappa not as someone riding on his father’s coattails, but rather as an apologist for and curator of his father’s formidable legacy.
Rock out on the Rondout at Rosendale Street Festival
Saturday-Sunday, July 15-16: With so many years of curation and scheduling under their belt, the Festival’s savvy organizers have developed an undeniably distinctive aesthetic for each of the seven stages.
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Oak Hill
July 13-16: Every summer, the venerable festival showcases the full spectrum of American bluegrass and folk: the old and the new, the traditional and the progressive, unknowns and certified national treasures with last names that strike awe.
Dean Jones’ Curling for Amateurs plays in New Paltz this Thursday
Thursday, July 13: Curling for Amateurs is a highly skilled core band accompanied by Jones’ Hocket Workshop. Various sets of instruments – end-blown wooden organ pipes, pitched wood blocks, PVC tubes, bottles and the human voice – are played hocket-style, in which each person plays or sings a single note, which, in collaboration with others, creates melody and rhythm.
Feltsman’s dream realized
July 10-28: Now tuition-free, PianoSummer brings top emerging pianists from all over the world to SUNY-New Paltz. This year the Flier Competition carries a new first prize: a solo debut recital at Carnegie Hall.
Dan Tepfer to play in Windham
Saturday, July 8: Tepfer alternates between performances of Bach’s famous variations (at one time the quarry of Glenn Gould and a few others with the technical facility to handle them) and modern improvisations on Bach’s themes by a truly liberated improvisor.
Steely Dan tribute this Saturday at the Falcon
Saturday, July 8: The visionary novelist and cyberpunk William Gibson famously wrote, “I have always maintained that Steely Dan’s music was, has been and remains among the most genuinely subversive oeuvres in late-20th-century pop.”
Bethel Woods hosts John Mellencamp
Friday, July 7: Emmylou Harris and Carlene Carter join him on stage during his Sad Clowns and Hillbillies tour.