Arts
By Jenna Scherer on Tuesday, Jul. 30, 2013 - 10:10 am
Fest-goers listen to opera under the stars at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice.
There are plenty of small towns in America that have come to be defined by the festivals they host; but it’s not every place that can say that attendance... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Saturday, Jul. 27, 2013 - 4:31 pm
Above: Square dancers in motion at the Ashokan Center.
Good clean mountain air just makes you wanna kick your heels up and dance sometimes. If you’d like to polish that urge into a style that generation after generation of mountainfolk have tried and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 25, 2013 - 10:16 pm
Above: A scene from Tannersville's Crazy Race, an annual Main Street tradition gearing up for its sixth run this weekend.
The trout are running, the weather is glorious, and the last weekend in July is packed from one end to the other with Catskills... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Jul. 25, 2013 - 10:01 am
From palace to porch: Chamber musicians Judith Pearce, Matt Sullivan, Gina Cuffari, Adam Schommer and Pascal Archer performing much-loved works by Bach, Borodin, Beethoven and Mozart at the Weekend of Chamber Music's opening event at the Jeffersonville... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 19, 2013 - 1:57 pm
Scene from "Roadside Attraction." Image courtesy of Third Rail Projects.
Flattened by Hurricane Irene’s floodwaters, feisty little Prattsville is coming back strong -- and even emerging as a hotspot for avant-garde art, thanks to the Prattsville Art... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 19, 2013 - 9:06 am
It’s the 35th Street Festival weekend in the Festival Town, and sweet, funky little Rosendale will be turned on, tuned in and turned inside out on Saturday and Sunday. This year’s count is, in Street Fest parlance: One street, two days, five stages and 74... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2013 - 8:52 am
Photo from Catskills Irish Arts Week's Facebook page.
The Catskills have been a favorite haunt and cultural crucible for wandering Irish folk for well over a hundred years. The Michael J. Quill Center -- christened for the indomitable Mike Quill, who took... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Jul. 12, 2013 - 2:59 pm
Above: A scene from the Hudson Valley Chalk Festival in 2012, the event's first year.
Artists who work in chalk on public ground are pouring their hearts into big bold creations that get washed away nearly as soon as they’re done, sharing the process... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 28, 2013 - 8:52 pm
Above: The Bibliobarn's Linda Wilson with Bookcourt's Zack Zook, June 2013. Photo courtesy of Zack Zook.
Zack Zook, the 28-year-old son of the founders of the Brooklyn-based BookCourt bookstore, wants to build the "ultimate literary destination" in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jun. 21, 2013 - 12:47 pm
State Route 375 in Woodstock, now known as the Levon Helm Memorial Boulevard. Photo by Flickr user Doug Kerr; published under Creative Commons license.
With a stroke of the gubernatorial pen, Route 375 between West Hurley and Woodstock has been officially... Read more
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