The summer is winding down and many are at the Dutchess County Fair this week. An annual tradition in the Arts Mid-Hudson office, the staff heads to the fair and for a few hours, enjoy the handicrafts, flowers, and food from our area. We missed the pig races, but loved that the chickens were back!
This weekend there are plenty of arts and cultural events happening beginning on Friday night with the Final Front Porch Concert at the Red Hook Pubic Library. Bring a picnic and the whole family and lounge on the lawn while enjoying a variety of feel good music from four different bands. Free and open to all – 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Saturday night Broadway actor and Hudson Valley favorite Donald Corren brings his new cabaret show to The CENTER with comedy, songs and stories from his 40 year career in the theatre. With 4-time Emmy winning musical director, Glen Roven at The CENTER for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck. 8:00 p.m.
It’s Newburgh’s Last Saturday, and along with openings and other arts events, make it a point to join the African American walking tour, In Washington’s Shadow. This is a great way to not only see the city, but to also learn about local history and the black lives that have shaped the City of Newburgh.
Sunday at The Falcon, enjoy Alan Broadbent and Sheila Jordan – The Falcon – Marlboro – 7:00 p.m.
After the weekend, there is more! Monday is the Soiree in the Parlor Series, “Room,” produced byCocoon Theatre – 7:00 p.m. at Cunneen-Hackett’s parlor at 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie.
Save the date: September 2-4: Cocoon Theatre’s 2nd Annual No Theme Performance Festival
September 3-4: Art Studio Views September 10: Paris on Hudson in Beacon October 6: 30th Annual Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards
Throughout the early wars in America, powder horns were a close companion to colonial weapons such as the musket, fowler, flintlock rifle, and pistol. This exhibit features seven powder horns from the Historic Huguenot Street’s permanent collection dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Both owner and professionally-made examples of scrimshaw are featured, as well as horns with provenance to descendants of Huguenot Street patentees.
Join The Ashokan Center for 3 days of world-class music on two outdoor stages, camping, hiking, food and craft vendors, and memories to last a lifetime! This is a summertime weekend event you won’t want to miss.
This exhibit displays, in photographs and words, more than twenty acts of armed uprisings against Nazi oppression, in ghettos, concentration camps, and the forests and fields of Europe-with prominent portraits of Mordechai Anielewicz (commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), Vitka Kempner, Abba Kovner, Roza Robota, and numerous others. Also included is a section on Righteous Gentiles who risked their lives to help Jews. The exhibit, with its evidence of the resistance, powerfully undermines the ™sheep to slaughter∫ trope about the Jewish response to Nazi genocide.
Join Ulster County Executive’s Arts Award winner Coach House Players for their annual variety show. This event is a salute to folk music. Join them for two hours of laughter and music all weekend long.
The exhibition celebrates the people and landscape of Tivoli, including for the first time, invited artists who live or work in the village. TAG artists in the exhibition are Dana Matthews, Pamela Tucker, Tarryl Gabel, Anita Kiewra, Eileen Powers and Julia Aneshansley, display their landscapes. Tivoli artist invitees include Arnaud Cornillion, Joel Griffith, Chad Kleitsch, Pete Mauney, Emily Mayer, Phyllis Palmer, David Sater, Maribeth Blum Tuton and Laura Gayle Tyler.
Inspired by summer’s seasonal magic and featuring artworks by over 35 AMH member artists, come by for the last chance to see this amazing exhibit using a variety of media including: sculpture, drawing, painting, mixed media and fiber. Enjoy a light brunch and discuss everything from inspiration to creation with our exhibiting artists. This event is free and open to the public.
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