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Tedeschi Trucks Band
The family that plays together

Tedeschi Trucks Band visits UPAC in Kingston this Sunday


Musical husband-and-wife partnerships rarely survive the rigors of the road, and as recent news from the Sonic Youth camp showed, even having faith in a decades-long couple like Thurston Moore and ...

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

Sheep and Wool Show returns to Dutchess Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck this weekend


Leaping llamas, dogs herding sheep and doing tricks with Frisbees™, sheep-shearing demonstrations, sheep’s milk cheese cooking demos, a wool fashion show, drop-spindle and wheel-spinning contests, ...

October 15, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Grey Lady up

Lloyd Living History Ghost Walk haunts Hudson Valley Rail Trail this Friday


The Headless Horseman isn’t the only ectoplasmic emanation to gallop through the Hudson Valley this time of year, when the veil between the realms of the living and the dead is at its thinnest; and...

October 13, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sean Traynor
Curse you, Orange Baron!

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome presents Pumpkin Festival this weekend


The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome will host its annual Pumpkin Festival on October 8 and 9, signifying the colorful shift from summer to fall as well as the coming end of its own 2011 show season. The Fe...

October 07, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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The battle of the beans

Chili Cook-off returns to Woodstock Harley-Davidson this Saturday


Chili is serious business. Which is why you’ll understand that the annual Chili Cook-off at Woodstock Harley-Davidson is the sort of thing that people mark in their calendars as soon as they’ve fin...

October 06, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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For years, Fitch Brothers, one of the largest local bluestone businesses (shown above), shipped tons of bluestone from its yards in the Wilbur section of Kingston. (Lithograph courtesy of the Friends of Historic Kingston)
Something old, something blue

Free Kingston Historic Bluestone Festival returns to The Strand


Way back in the Devonian Period of the Paleozoic Era, about 350 million years ago, when the lobe-finned fishes were beginning to evolve legs, a mountain range now known as the Acadians or Ancestral...

September 29, 2011 12:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Adrien Brody in Tony Kaye’s Detachment
Hot tix, choice pix

Tony Kaye to receive 2011 Maverick Award this Saturday in Kingston; seats still available for some Woodstock Film Festival events


As this issue of Alm@nac hits the newsstands, the 2011 Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) is already underway. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t still get into screenings – even ones that are publicl...

September 22, 2011 11:36 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Liam Teague
The beat goes on

Drum Boogie Festival spotlights world percussion at Kingston’s Cornell Park this Saturday


Among all the different kinds of music in this world, there is none so elemental and grounding as percussion. The very first sound that each of us hears, in utero, is the drumbeat of our mother’s h...

September 15, 2011 12:24 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Get ready

Temptations play HITS in Saugerties this Sunday


Call it Motown on the Hudson. On Sunday, September 11, HITS-on-the-Hudson, in association with the Bardavon, will welcome the Temptations to the Saugerties-based equestrian center. The concert is p...

September 08, 2011 12:27 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Isaac Abrams
Handicrafts holiday

Undeterred by the storm, Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair returns to County Fairgrounds this weekend


Summer goes out with a bang on Labor Day with the Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair, a three-day extravaganza of the handmade held at the Ulster County Fairgrounds, which features more than 300...

September 01, 2011 08:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Blues belter babe

    Shemekia Copeland joins this Saturday’s Bluestock Festival lineup at Hunter

    by Crispin Kott
    08.25.11 - 10:41 am
  • An estuary runs through it

    Between the Tides Festival features live music & good eats to benefit Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy this Sunday

    by Frances Marion Platt
    08.18.11 - 11:00 am
  • Life cycle

    Wildcat Epic 100 bike race through Shawangunks this weekend benefits Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

    by Ann Hutton
    08.11.11 - 12:01 pm
  • Goodnight, sweet prince

    Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival at Boscobel performs Hamlet on the Hudson

    by Rich O’Corozine
    08.04.11 - 10:00 am
  • Mixing your metamorphoses

    Die Liebe der Danae opens for its first-ever fully staged NY performance this Friday at Bard

    by Frances Marion Platt
    07.28.11 - 11:59 am
  • Like Mothers, like son

    Bearsville presents Cracker this Friday, Dweezil Zappa with Flo & Eddie next Thursday

    by Paul Smart
    07.21.11 - 11:40 am
  • Now opening in 3-D near you

    Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Byrdcliffe’s “Quick, Down & Dirty” show opening this Saturday

    by Paul Smart
    07.14.11 - 12:05 pm
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