Country-/pop-/folk-influenced veteran punk singer-songwriter and her similarly inclined husband, Wreckless Eric, called Catskill home for 10 years before relocating to her spouse’s homeland in 2024. On September 24, Rigby will return to the Greene County hub to perform a solo set at Left Bank Ciders.
The songstress is touring in support of two recent artistic efforts: her latest album, Hang in There (reviewed by your arts editor in the February 2025 edition of Chronogram), and her new memoir, Girl to Country, a sequel to her celebrated 2019 book Girl to City. Hang in There was the last release that the Pennsylvania-born Rigby recorded in the US; she and her partner taped in the living room of their former Catskill ranch-style house.
“Girl to Country depicts the tricky second act of a creative life: How do you keep doing the work you love into your forties and beyond in a game everyone told you was only for the young?” reads the book’s advance hype copy on Rigby’s website.
“What’s the price for juggling parenthood with fulfilling your dreams? And how about love—will it knock you off balance or help you keep going?” Besides, of course, reading the much-awaited book to find that out, certainly catching Rigby’s set will go a long way to answering the question as well. Plus you’ll hear some truly great songs and likely have a lot of fun. Sounds good, right?
Amy Rigby will perform at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill on September 24 at 6:30pm.
