Jack DeJohnette Trio
“The Paul Butterfield Blues Band brought me up here actually,” says longtime Woodstock area resident and legendary jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette, calling from Switzerland the afternoon before playing the iconic Montreux Jazz Festival with the other members of his red-hot trio: saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and bassist Matthew Garrison. “A couple of players that I knew…
Leaf Peeper Concert Series Hits Hillsdale
The 2014 season begins with a September 13 concert by flutist Eugenia Zukerman.
King Crimson Holds Court in Albany Next Week
The prog rock legends debut a newly expanded lineup and kick off their 2014 US tour at the Egg.
Swans to Headline Basilica Soundscape Festival in Hudson
The legendary avant rockers will perform on September 13.
Embrace Your Vision and Be Realistic
Things don’t always go according to plan; yet the curve balls that may come your way could actually be beneficial synchronicities.
Garage Rock DJs Blast Kingston This Thursday
Japan’s DJ Shotaro will join host DJ Wayne Manor to spin rockin’ tunes at the Rondout Bay Marina.
Noisy Night Nears in Hudson
The Spotty Dog Books & Ale will present three experimental music acts on August 31.
Late Leo, Plus Sun Virgo and Mars Conjunct Saturn
Do not let any matter that might be a confrontation come to blows. The best martial artist knows how to avoid a fight.
Abrams Channels Wagner in Kingston
The pianist will perform works by the Austrian composer, as well as several by Mozart, Beethoven, and others.
Kingston Festival of the Arts
Art lovers rejoice, for the last 11 days of August the Kingston Festival of the Arts is taking over the city for over a week of dance performances, concerts, art exhibitions, and much more. The events will take place throughout the city at various venues, including Uptown Gallery and the Old Dutch Church. Founded last…
The Dutchess County Fair
From Tuesday, August 19 through Sunday, August 24, the classic fair returns to Rhinebeck for another year of farm animals, concerts, carnival rides, local craft vendors, and some really great milkshakes.
Say “Cheese”
August is a busy month for all of us, so you’d be forgiven if you overlooked the announcement of the winners of the American Cheese Society’s annual awards. You’ll also be forgiven if you were unaware that there even was such a thing as the American Cheese Society’s Annual Competition, but now might be a…
Bishop Allen Video Release
About to kick off a national tour, the Kingston band reveals a video for their new song “Why I Had to Go,” shot in the back of BSP.
Celtic Cross Visits Greenwood Lake
The band will perform a free show at the town’s Thomas Morahan Waterfront Park.
Kingston Film Festival Returns
The Kingston Film Festival returns to BSP for its third year, from August 14-17.
RCS Fine Art presents Summerland
For over twenty years, Elizabeth Meyersohn has drawn inspiration for her paintings from the landscapes around her studio in western Massachusetts. Her approach lies at the intersection of physical and perceived atmosphere and color, utilizing bright colors and stylized imagery to evoke the impressionist paintings from an earlier time. She is particularly interested in raking…
Pianist Julia Dusman Performs in Ellenville
The Russian-born virtuoso will appear at MISU this month.
“Rewire” Author Talk in Rhinebeck
According to Richard O’Connor, PhD, you can teach on old dog new tricks. That’s the gist of O’Connor’s new book, Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, and Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior (Hudson Street Press, 2014). O’Connor will visit Oblong Books in Rhinebeck at 4pm today to offer a discussion, Q&A, and book…
“booksmart” opens at Matteawan Gallery
Books as art take center shelf space at Matteawan Galery in Beacon this month.
Choreography on the Edge
The dance show celebrates 25 years at the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock this weekend.
Beyond the Tent at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
HVSF2, the festival’s play reading series and workshop, returns for its fifth year.
Harlem Valley Rail Trail to Get an Update
On Saturday, August 9, the Hudson Valley Rail Trail Association will host an open house at Hillsdale’s Roeliff Jansen Community Library to discuss a proposed paving project.
Podcast Episode 61: Marshall Karp, Alison Gaylin, Steve Hamilton
Nina Shengold chats with Hudson Valley mystery writers Marshall Karp, Alison Gaylin, and Steve Hamilton about their craft.
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
Windham Mountain hosts the international mountain biking competition for the fourth year.
Instrument Maker Butler Plays Roxbury Gallery
The sculptor and musician will lead an ensemble at the Orphic Gallery on Saturday.
Juice Me: 7 Quick Stops for Healthy Imbibing
When it comes to fresh vegetable juices and healthy smoothies, the Hudson Valley is no desert. Juice bars and cafes have been sprouting up in our area like countertop wheatgrass. Storefronts are abuzz with the whir of commercial-grade pulpers and cold-press juicers, and they’re flowing with a rainbow of liquids, from beet red to kale…
Windows on Main Street: WOMSX
Beacon’s month-long, storefront art event returns for its tenth year.
Calling All Baritone Saxophone Players
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art hosts Fit the Battle, artist Justin Randolph Thompson’s piece honoring Paul Robeson.
Video: Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Photographs by Carolyn Marks Blackwood will be exhibited through September 7 at the Albany Institute of Art.
Rock, Rattle, & Drum Pow Wow
Healing Winds hosts its annual Rock, Rattle, and Drum Pow Wow
New Paltz: Downtown & Gown
David King explores the college town, from SUNY New Paltz to the Shawangunks.
Joy of Jazz Week
The Catskill Jazz Factory and 23A Arts Initiative present four-day series of classic, 1940s Harlem jazz.
Aquarius Full Moon: Steam, Ice Cream, Quirky Parties, and a Rising Tide
Sunday’s Aquarius Full Moon will bring some newfound energy and productivity, which may help you get out of a personal rut.
Short Takes: August 2014
Fiction comes in many flavors. Six new books from Hudson Valley independent authors and small presses offer a delicious summer picnic.
PS21 Dance Festival
PS21 in Chatham will host a series of internationally acclaimed dance companies this summer.
Poem: 10 Centimeters As Measured by the Midwife’s Hand Penned by the Writer’s Hand
A poem by H.D. Stubblefield
On the Cover: Steve Lambert
Steve Lambert’s “Sand Ocean Sky—The Commons” is featured on this month’s cover.
Virgo
You may be wondering why relationships have to be so challenging. You may even be wondering if they need to be that way. I think that mostly this involves the various rules and definitions we put around connecting with others, which include various regulations around sex. There’s also a kind of seeming “unconsciousness” hanging like…
Hudson Music Festival
“New York State’s largest free outdoor music festival” returns to Hudson, August 8-10.
Libra
Mars has finally left your sign, which changes a relationship dynamic that seems like it’s been stuck for months. The actual dynamic that changes is a resounding message of looking to yourself for the fulfillment that, in the past, you would seek only in relationships. We have this idea, perpetuated by generations before us (but…
Catskill High Peaks Festival
The five-year-old chamber music summit celebrates an Italian theme this summer.
Scorpio
After spending eight months in a strange and sensitive angle of your chart (known as the solar 12th house), your ruling planet, Mars, has ingressed your sign. This may have arrived with the sensation of your ear pressure equalizing after a fast elevator ride. And you may suddenly have the added confidence of knowing what…
While You Were Sleeping: August 2014
Swimming in the Hudson, medical marijuana, Archie Comics banned, and more.
Embracing Boredom
Some parents find inactivity a means of fostering creativity in their kids.
Esopus Creek Puppet Suite
The Arm-of-the-Sea Theater puts on its annual puppet pageant.
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Larry Beinhart on democracy and the free market.
Sagittarius
[image-1} Focus on your plans, by which I mean specific plans to go specific places or do specific things. Did I say specific? Most people work with general plans, such as “I will be a musician,” or “I will be rich,” or “Someday I will write something.” Or to give another example, “Someday I won’t…
Hudson Valley Jazz Festival
The annual summer jazz event welcomes the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
An Architect-Designed Studio in Ancram
Jennifer Farley profiles a local painter’s tractor garage-turned-studio in Columbia County.
Capricorn
You may have this idea that you’re on the right track but heading toward an obstacle of some kind. You might also consider what could intervene long before that obstacle materializes. Said another way, nothing is certain; everything exists in a state of potential or of probability. Those factors are changing constantly as various factors…
Cynthia Hopkins at Mount Tremper Arts
We sit down for a Q&A with the famed performance artist.
Home & Garden Events: August 2014
A garden party at Ludlow Homestead, the Dutchess County Fair, and more.
Aquarius
You have a whole new world of relationships opening up with Jupiter spending the next year in your opposite sign Leo. That’s likely to manifest as more and as better, though I suggest you keep your eye on a few factors. For example, notice when a situation you’re in does not offer you space to…
Keeping Your Annuals in Bloom
Michelle Sutton offers advice on pruning annuals and perennials to keep them fresh.
Pisces
This can be one of the most productive times in your life. You have many options. You have tremendous freedom, in part because you’ve invested so much in mastering your skills—though freedom is also an invitation to choose carefully. Best of all, your energy is running strong and solid, and all you need to do…
25th Anniversary Bard Music Festival Opens This Friday
Named “a highlight of the musical year” by the Wall Street Journal, the world-renowned Bard Music Festival returns to celebrate its 25th anniversary season with a two-week, in-depth, illuminating exploration of Schubert and His World (August 8–10 and 15–17).
Continuing Education: Open Enrollment in Life
Anne Pyburn Craig surveys the possibilities for continuing education in the Hudson Valley and finds that you can learn something new every day.
The Return of the Kingston Artist Soap Box Derby
The famous not-quite-a-race is back.
Murder, They Wrote
Nina Shengold chats with Hudson Valley mystery writers Marshall Karp, Alison Gaylin, and Steve Hamilton.
Lyme Lessons
One doctor finds that Lyme disease has a lot to teach us about epidemics, chronic illnesses, and a medical establishment in need of a paradigm shift.
Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
Martin Scorsese presents a tour of restored Polish cinematic classics, some of which will show at Upstate Films beginning Sunday, August 10.
Jack DeJohnette Trio
The Jack DeJohnette Trio will play a benefit concert for Family of Woodstock on August 16 at the Bearsville Theater.
Aries
You get to live a little bolder than usual, though I don’t mean impulsively. I mean taking thoughtful risks, knowing what you stand to lose and stand to gain. I also mean a commitment to development over time—at least one year, and maybe more. This is the kind of risk that involves taking a chance…
10 Things to Know About New Paltz
A few things you may not have known about the quintessential college town.
Book Review: can’t and won’t (stories)
Jana Martin reviews Lydia Davis’s new collection of short stories.
Taurus
Your charts describe a time of domestic bliss. For some that is a shack on the beach, and for others it’s a duplex on the Upper West Side. What is it for you? How do you want your home to be? Forget, for a moment, what you think you can afford, or what you think…
Bishop Allen
Peter Aaron chats with frontman Justin Rice about the band’s development and upcoming release, Lights Out.
The Rail Trail Café
An intimate look at this outdoor eatery just off the Wallkill Valley Rail Trial in Rosendale.
Book Review: Getting a Life With Asperger’s: Lessons Learned on the Bumpy Road to Adulthood
Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Jesse A. Saperstein’s book about living with Asperger’s.
Gemini
You’ve been involved in some unusually deep soul searching in recent seasons of your life and working out some concept of your value. I would say that you’ve been through a time of making up your mind that life is worth living. That phase of reflection for its own sake has drawn to a close,…
Heart Wisdom and Practical Luck
Dear Chronogram Reader: Mercury enters Virgo, one of the two signs it rules, Friday at 12:44 pm EDT. This brings some stability to our mental processes, but also the potential for perfectionism, criticism and a tendency to try and understand the world — driven as it is by emotion and belief — through logic alone.…
“Peter and the Wolf” at Maverick Concerts
Maverick Concerts puts on a special production of this fable with music.
Cancer
Money requires focus, and several recent astrological events are hinting strongly at a state of abundance—and that you must match the emphasis of the planets with your own effort and awareness. This calls for a vision, which is a way of saying an elaborated set of goals. Most people respond to the notion of anything…
NECC’s Chef and Farmer Brunch
The annual brunch, uniting local chefs and farmers, is back.
25th Anniversary Bard Music Festival Continues This Weekend
The Bard Music Festival: Schubert and His World continues this weekend after a successful, sold-out opening. This weekend (August 15–17), the programs address the nature of Schubert’s originality, his exploration of form and harmony, and the connection of words and music.
26th Annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
The annual festival welcomes 2013 favorites The Boxcar Lilies and Darlingside back to Dodds Farm.
Woodstock Concert Honors Jeff Marx
A Saturday concert will pay homage to the late saxman and feature top local and New York jazz musicians.
