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5th Annual Oldtone Roots Music Festival, Sep 5 – 8

The 5th Annual Oldtone Roots Music Festival features traditional mountain fiddling, bluegrass, hot swing, classic country, brass, cajun and contra music.

A family-friendly full camping festival with kids activities, dance tent, hands-on instrument workshops led by world-class musicians, instrument and band contests, Hudson Valley farm-to-table food, libations, and exceptional national & regional acts on the main, dance, & workshop stages.

The Festival has three stages offering traditional music performances, dances, workshops, contests, and children’s activities. The festival seeks to preserve American Roots music and dance with an intimate and interactive festival that includes opportunities to engage with main stage artists in workshop settings. Jamming in the campground late into the night is encouraged. In the evenings attendees and artists dance under a tent that perches over the spectacular rolling hills of upstate New York Farm Country.

Full Lineup at oldtonemusicfestival.com/2019

Local craft beer and food vendors are featured as well as handmade and vintage clothing vendors.

DATES:
Thursday, September 5 – Sunday, September 8, 2019
Camp all weekend or go for a day

LOCATION:
Cool Whisper Farm
1011 County Road 21
North Hillsdale, NY 12529

TICKETS:
$15 – $200
Purchase Online at eventbrite.com

MORE:
oldtonemusicfestival.com
instagram.com/oldtonemusicfest

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The Theater Barn Presents: ‘Lucky Stiff’

The Theater Barn, in New Lebanon, presents “Lucky Stiff”, this Thursday through September 1.

Based on the novel, The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff is an offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds and a corpse in a wheelchair. Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit the fortune before the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn or to his uncle’s gun-toting ex-mistress.

Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty

DATES/TIMES:
Thursday, August 29 through Sunday, September 1, 2019:
Thursday and Friday at 8pm
Saturday at 4pm and 8pm
Sunday at 2pm

TICKET PRICES:
$29.00 for the evening and Saturday performances
$27.00 for the Sunday matinee
$2 convenience fee per ticket
Group rate available upon request

LOCATION:
654 Columbia Pike
New Lebanon, NY 12125

MORE:
TheTheaterBarn.org
facebook.com/thetheaterbarn
Box Office – 518-794-8989

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The Hudson Eye, 10-Day Program Focused on Arts & Nightlife

Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation is launching The Hudson Eye between August 23 – September 2, 2019 in partnership with Artists, Venues, Collectors, Communities, Volunteers, Small Businesses – and underground Hudson Nightlife.

In dialogue with local Artists and Partners, this artist-driven program which will be mounted in Hudson to build and strengthen our communities through contemporary performance & art celebrating artists that, like Jonah, have a longstanding commitment to the City of Hudson while also recognizing the next generation of artists who have chosen to call Hudson their home.

The Hudson Eye will be an annual 10-day public program and urban showcase, artist-driven, with a focus on Dance, Music, Performance, Film, Visual Art, Dining Out, and Nightlife during the final week of August, running through Labor Day weekend, as a celebratory close to Hudson’s peak tourism weekend of the summer.

“For nearly 200 years during and since the founding of the Hudson River School, our city and region have been a source of inspiration for artists to live, work, commune, meditate, create, find shelter, renew themselves – and seek a sustainable creative sanctuary. As we go further in depth during our planning phase of The Hudson Eye we remain mindful of this history, and steadfast in our support of the Hudson community: we have plans to expand our commitment to with many artists. Our program features a number of artists both within the Hudson region and abroad, to be curatorially framed in a multi-venue exhibition program, while also featuring a daily 1pm Panel Salon and “Dine Around” in town each evening”.

DATES/TIMES: Friday, August 23 – Monday, September 2, 2019

LOCATION: City of Hudson, Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534

MORE:
thehudsoneye.com
facebook.com/thehudsoneye
instagram.com/the.hudson.eye

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Dancer Wendy Whelan Leads Movement Without Borders Class at PS21, Aug 22

PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, presents Wendy Whelan, one of the foremost dancers in the world, leading a Movement Without Borders workshop.

Movement Without Borders brings the best and brightest in the dance world to PS21 to teach classes all summer long.

Wendy Whelan, widely considered one of the world’s leading dancers, will be at PS21 to lead a Movement Without Borders class as part of this ongoing series of novel experiments in motion and sensation dedicated to the mind, body, and spirit. Whelan, a principal dancer at New York City Ballet for more than 20 years, is now the company’s associate artistic director. Called “the epitome of the contemporary ballerina, taking ballet into the future,” she worked with Jerome Robbins and originated roles in many NYCB ballets, notably with Christopher Wheeldon, who created 13 roles for her before enlisting her as a guest artist for his Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Mikhail Baryshnikov has called her simply “the best” and described her artistry as “a complexity, a sense of internal life, a woman on stage. You’re always trying to decode this person when she moves.”

DATES/TIMES:
Thursday, August 22, 2019 / 6pm – 7:30pm

COST:
Pay What You Wish

LOCATION:
PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century
2980 Route 66
Chatham, NY 12037

MORE:
ps21chatham.org
facebook.com/PS21Chatham
instagram.com/ps21chatham

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Harmonies on the Hudson Concert Series: Jessi Mason, Aug 15

Cleremont State Historic Site presents the Harmonies on the Hudson Outdoor Concert Series. This Thursday, singer-songwriter Jessi Mason.

Cleremont State Historic Site presents the Harmonies on the Hudson Outdoor Concert Series. Relax on the beautiful lawn adjacent to the mansion and enjoy a FREE outdoor concert. Bring a blanket, chair and a picnic. Children are welcome.

New York based singer-songwriter Jessi Mason’s songs are honest and intimate, her voice sweet and soulful. Jessi just released her second EP, Night Owl. One of the songs from the album, “This One’s On Me,” just won her a nomination for the 16th Annual Independent Music Awards.

She performs around New York and Los Angeles in venues such as Rockwood Music Hall, The Iridium, The Viper Room, and Hotel Cafe and studies performance and songwriting in the Popular Music Program at University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Greene County Council on the Arts.

DATE/TIME:
Thursday, August 15, 2019 / 6pm – 7:30pm

LOCATION:
Clermont State Historic Site
87 Clermont Ave,
Germantown, New York 12526

ADMISSION:
Free

MORE:
www.friendsofclermont.org
facebook.com/friendsofclermont

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