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LINDA MANZER’s “Extreme Wedge” Guitar
Absolutely instrumental

Bearsville Theater hosts Woodstock International Luthiers’ Showcase this weekend


The third annual Woodstock International Luthiers’ Showcase returns to the Bearsville Theater and its environs this Friday, October 21 to Sunday, October 23. There will be three days of events, con...

October 20, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Blood ties

Murder Café Dinner Theatre to perform Night of the Witches’ Wedding and Poe’s Last Mystery


Frank and Kristen Marquette’s passion for interactive comedy/murder mysteries has been expressed through their Murder Café Dinner Theatre these past dozen or so years, entertaining audiences in pub...

October 16, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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cellist Cicely and violinist Madalyn as Duo Parnas
Offspring on strings

Duo Parnas headlines Hudson Valley Philharmonic season opener at Bardavon this Saturday


Quick: Name the Top Ten classical cellists of the past century. The first five or so aren’t too hard: Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline du Pre, Lynn Harrell…but by the time ...

October 13, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Good for what ails ya

O+ Festival schedule of events for this weekend in Kingston


Once again Uptown Kingston is being adorned with works of art in preparation for the outrageously jam-packed second annual O+ Festival of music, art and the arts of medicine. The three-day event ta...

October 06, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Village Green to British racing green

Playhouse hosts Woodstock British Car Show on October 9


So things are shifting: We’ve entered the Long Emergency, and some are predicting that our future will more resemble a return to the Days of Rail than anything we saw on The Jetsons, Star Trek or F...

September 29, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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In exchange for donating their time to the O+ festival, musicians, artists and volunteers will receive a screening of their health needs in an on-site weekend clinic during the festival, plus vouchers for follow-up office visits, and case-by-case continued care as needed via participating non-profits and residency programs.
Positive vibration

Volunteers needed for O+ Festival’s return to Kingston Columbus Day weekend


A little over a year ago, a small group of artists and healthcare providers conceived a plan to decorate Uptown Kingston with artwork that was wheat-pasted onto the exterior walls of businesses in ...

September 22, 2011 11:51 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Skateistan: Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul
Get real

Docu-rama at the 2011 Woodstock Film Festival


For those of us who can’t get ever enough information about the issues of the day, documentaries abound at the 2011 Woodstock Film Festival (WFF). Some even have a local angle, and Paltzonians in p...

September 15, 2011 12:31 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Merce Cunningham, 1975, by Jack Mitchell
A moving tribute

Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s farewell tour visits Bard this weekend


For 65 years, Merce Cunningham was a formidable force in the American avant-garde, collaborating with his life partner John Cage in creating dance compositions drained of narrative that used chance...

September 08, 2011 12:48 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Francesca Tanksley
Women on top

Wall Street Jazz Festival returns to Kingston this weekend


Artistic director Peggy Stern and executive producer John Bilotti were inspired to start the Wall Street Jazz Festival, which is held over Labor Day weekend on the main drag of Uptown Kingston, in ...

September 01, 2011 08:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mary Ellen Mark’s South Beach, Miami, Florida 1979
International geographic

Mary Ellen Mark, Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb to lecture at Center for Photography at Woodstock


The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) has been having a very good summer. Its “CAMP: Visiting Day” exhibition, curated by executive director Ariel Shanberg, has drawn accolades and large au...

August 25, 2011 10:46 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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