Artists on the Street event returns to Historic Huguenot Street
After more than four months of programming limited to virtual platforms, Historic Huguenot Street has begun a gradual return to live events.
Art & Music
Artists on the Street: A Plein Air Event in New Paltz
Artists on the Street: A Plein Air Event will take place Saturday, August 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year’s Historical Huguenot Society’s street event will feature a dozen local artists.
Saugerties artist unveils new Main Street mural
Multi-media artist Kelli Bickman has created a new mural on the side of the Odd Fellows Hall on Main Street in Saugerties to replace the one that was damaged during a windstorm. The mural installed on July 21 is completely different from the original. The village name, Saugerties, is painted in large type across the top. Inside, a starry sky stretches over a yellow leaf above a blue sky with the words “Strong Together” at the bottom.
A scene-making personality: MK Burnell launches local/national music podcast
MK’s position at WDST was an early Covid casualty. It was a somber note for a lot of us when she announced the layoff, and a portent of what was to come. MK promptly set up a home recording studio and started a podcast called More Music Please: Quarantine Beat, where she interviews professionals from all areas of the music industry about life in lockdown and whatever else they want to talk about.
Bearsville Center reopens this weekend
After more than a year and many, many hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on construction deconstruction, and reconstruction, the Bearsville Center will open to the public on a limited basis this weekend, according to owner Lizzie Vann. The vision, Vann has written, is “to reignite the Center amongst a thriving music community, supporting local and international music legends.”
Saugerties Artists’ virtual studio tour reinvented
Starting July 15, videos filmed and compiled by videographer Michael Nelson will feature visits to the studios of 22 painters, sculptors, ceramic artists, photographers, print makers, collagists, digital and mixed-media artists who want to tell their story and show their work.
The Colony in Woodstock opens its back garden for socially distanced food and a bit of music
Woodstock’s Colony on Rock City Road is softly reopening as a rethought entity, taking care to quietly walk forward where few musical venues have previously trod.
The outdoors is the new indoors at The Falcon in Marlboro
So far, the Falcon has tested the waters of its beer garden format with a trio of July shows by some consensus stars of the local scene. On July 19, it enters stage two of its re-launch with a performance by the kind of internationally recognized jazz visionary that has always made the difference between the Falcon and everywhere else: Don Byron, the reed player, composer and bandleader who has helmed deep, intellectual and groovy explorations of funk, gospel, klezmer, swing, Latin, and all manner of experimental modernism.
Janice LaMotta resigns as executive director of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
The directors of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, which itself underwent some major changes at the beginning of June, announced the resignation of the organization’s executive director of the past four-and-a-half years, Janice LaMotta, effective June 30.
Olana announces reopening with launch of new outdoor tours
Frederic Church’s Olana announces the restart of public programs with new Olana outdoor tours. While the park has been continuously open, public programs were suspended due to COVID-19. Now, new outdoor, limited-attendance tours follow NYS Department of Health guidelines and represent the first phase in reopening public tours and providing educational experiences for visitors.