music
By WP Newsroom on Monday, May. 24, 2010 - 1:53 pm
An array of local and national celebrities took to the pages of the Times Herald-Record today to wish Levon Helm, who's celebrating his 70th on Wednesday, a happy birthday. Here's Simone Felice (of the Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King):
Levon... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 7, 2010 - 10:48 pm
Truck, a three-day annual music fest that's been running in Britain since 1998, touched down on American soil last weekend for the first time. The venue: The Full Moon Resort in Big Indian.
Local music writer Tony Fletcher says he's "desperately hoping it... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 4:49 pm
Clearly Woodstock ain't what it used to be:
Given that the usual fare in Woodstock is either jam bands, singer-songwriters, or retro folkies, the Hold Steady’s aggressively contemporary take on bar band blues and seventies rock arrangements was not to... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 4:29 pm
The Woodstock Times reports:
According to Woodstock Arts Board President Joan Roberts, who has been the public face for the struggling cultural venue in the town's gateway district - established to help protect the site of the town's key theater since... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Mar. 20, 2010 - 12:57 pm
If you missed homegrown Delaware County twang-rockers Esquela at the Autumn Cafe last night, you'll get your chance. The band is celebrating the release of The Owl Has Landed, their upcoming album from Bovina Records, with a couple of back-to-back parties... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010 - 11:36 pm
New York Times jazz critic Nate Chinen recently spent an evening at the Falcon, an Ulster County venue he describes as an "unlikely jazz haven."
I began hearing about the Falcon four or five years ago, from musicians who had played there. It sounded like... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 3:11 pm
On eBay: A 1956 clipping from Coronet magazine, with a long article about Catskills violinmaker Harry Stoughtenburgh.
50-plus years later, this probably still holds true:
In Ulster County, boys aren't encouraged to be luthiers.
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 - 3:28 pm
The Brooklyn-based band, fronted by Halcottsville's own Arleigh Kincheloe (with brother Jackson on the harmonica), plays two shows in the Catskills this weekend. Catch them tonight at the T-Bar Saloon in Roxbury, or tomorrow (Saturday) at the Andes Hotel... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 - 10:38 am
Tony Fletcher finds an unexpected treasure trove of '70s music history in his basement.
It’s not like I don’t already have several boxes full of cassettes in the storage room behind my office, including tapes of my pre-pubescent bedroom band from back in... Read more
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