Category: Arts & Entertainment

Oblong Books’ Local Author Event: Sarah S. Kilborne

Friday (October 19, 2012) at Oblong Books & Music’s Rhinebeck location: Local author, Sarah S. Kilborne of Germantown, discusses her book, American Phoenix.

American Phoenix is the true story of William Skinner, Kilbourne’s great-great-grandfather and a nineteenth-century millionaire who lost everything, and his improbable, inspiring comeback. Kilbourne’s book is a story of an American town devastated by unimaginable disaster and an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs.

 

WHEN: Friday (October 19, 2012)
TIME: 7:00pm
PLACE: Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY.
MORE: OblongBooks.com

Jason Webster Concert @ New Lebanon Library

This Friday (October 12, 2012) at the New Lebanon Library: Jason Webster in concert!

Join us for an evening of music with wonderful Berkshire musician Jason Webster, who will perform a combination of original music and folk/rock covers for guitar.

Jason Webster attended the Berklee College of Music. His former band, Xavier a.k.a. Lord Hill, toured the country and the world with Arlo Guthrie. He has also performed with Little Feat, Kate Taylor, The Allman Brothers, and Pete Seeger. The ever-popular Jason Webster Band is a local favorite and allows him to showcase his original music.

Free and open to the public – donations for the performer are welcome.

WHEN: Friday (October 12, 2012)
TIME: 6:30
PLACE: New Lebanon Library (550 State Route 20, New Lebanon)
Phone: 518-794-8844
Email: leb@taconic.net

John Matteson Reading @ Oblong Books

Sunday (October 14, 2012) at Oblong Books & Music’s Rhinebeck location, author, John Matteson discusses his award-winning book, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father.

From OblongBooks.com:

John Matteson is a distinguished professor of English and legal writing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his first book, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

This event forms part of Rhinebeck Reads initiative, centered around Geraldine Brooks’ 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, March, about Little Women author Louisa May Alcott’s father’s exploits during the American Civil War.

Matteson will discuss his own writing process and share invaluable insights into the Alcott family, gleaned through his extensive research which will offer readers the opportunity for further exploration of one of literature’s most iconic figures.

WHEN: Sunday (October 14, 2012)
TIME: 4:00pm
PLACE: Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY.
MORE: OblongBooks.com

John Kelly Reading @ Oblong Books

Thursday night (August 30, 2012) at Oblong Books & Music’s Rhinebeck location, author, John Kelly discusses his book “The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People”

From OblongBooks.com:

John Kelly is the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time andThree on the Edge: The Stories of Ordinary American Families in Search of a Medical Miracle. He has written about medicine, history, and psychology for many years.

The Graves Are Walking is a magisterial account of the worst disasters to strike humankind—the Great Irish Potato Famine—conveyed as lyrical narrative history. Deeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions, John Kelly’s retelling of the awful story of Ireland’s great hunger will resonate today as history that speaks to our own times.

WHEN: Thursday, August 30, 2012
TIME: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
PLACE: Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY.
MORE: OblongBooks.com

 

 

Sandra Bernhard at Club Helsinki

Sandra Bernhard will be performing this Saturday (August 4, 2012) at Club Helsinki in Hudson, NY.

From Club Helsinki’s site:

Fueled with performance versatility and vehement honesty, Bernhard seamlessly weaves together politics, art, sex, drama, comedy and all things mesmerizing and dirty to create what cannot merely be called a show, but an experience.

WHEN: Saturday August 4, 2012
TIME: 9pm
TICKETS: $45 in advance, $50 day of show
21 and over, General Admission

For more info, visit HelsinkiHudson.com.

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