Arts
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Sep. 6, 2013 - 12:25 pm
Drink deep of the delights of the written word all weekend long at the Hobart Book Village’s Festival of Women Writers, where you can plunge into literature de la femme for three glorious days of immersion in the company of writers from far and wide for... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Sep. 5, 2013 - 10:54 am
Above: The scene at 2011's Drum Boogie Festival, held in Kingston's Cornell Park. This year, the biennial drumfest returns in a new location, at Woodstock's Andy Lee Field.
Dance the day away at the 2013 Drum Boogie Festival, set to take place Saturday... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2013 - 5:18 pm
Meet Steve Heller's Cro-Magnum: The body of a 2006 Dodge Magnum, the tail fins of a 1957 DeSoto, the bumpers of a couple of mid-century Cadillacs, and 160 silver bullets welded to the front grille. With its modern body and its collage of parts from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2013 - 9:40 am
Flickr user A Man Called ACME took this shot of a tree at Mine Kill Falls in Schoharie County over the Labor Day weekend. What photos did you take on your holiday? Upload them to our Flickr pool and we may publish them here.
The Watershed Post HQ is... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013 - 9:36 am
Child of the corn: A young Catskillian ventures into a corn maze at the annual Bovina Farm Day, returning to Crescent Valley this Sunday.
Still deciding how to spend Labor Day Weekend? The Catskills has it all, from farm days to fire jugglers. Below: Our... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 - 12:45 pm
Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, whose upcoming album, Fight, drops October 1. The eight-piece funk/soul band calls Brooklyn home, but frontwoman Arleigh Kincheloe and her blues harmonica-wielding brother Jackson Kincheloe hail from rural Delaware... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 10:39 am
Kingston, New York’s first capital, is hotter than ever -- which is saying something for a town that once went up in flames. Famed for years now for epic bashes like Hooley on the Hudson, the virally contagious O+ Festival, the Sculpture Biennial, and... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 - 10:36 am
If you’ve always thought three days of peace, love, and music sounded like fun, look no further than Olivebridge this weekend for the real thing. The lineup for the inaugural Summer Hoot, taking place this weekend at the Ashokan Center, reads like a who’s... Read more
By Jenna Scherer on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 - 8:27 pm
In the realm of Catskills-area arts organizations, which are more often focused on inclusiveness than innovation, Mount Tremper Arts is something of an outlier. Come June, the Summer Festival brings emerging and established experimental artists from New... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 - 12:04 pm
Above: Photo of a page from an 1803 shape note tunebook, The Art Of Singing by Andrew Law. Photo by Flickr user Kelly Taylor; published under Creative Commons license.
The shape note revival is coming to Roxbury's newly renovated Kirkside Park barn in the... Read more
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