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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 - 10:39 am
Kingston, New York’s first capital, is hotter than ever -- which is saying something for a town that once went up in flames. Famed for years now for epic bashes like Hooley on the Hudson, the virally contagious O+ Festival, the Sculpture Biennial, and... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 - 10:36 am
If you’ve always thought three days of peace, love, and music sounded like fun, look no further than Olivebridge this weekend for the real thing. The lineup for the inaugural Summer Hoot, taking place this weekend at the Ashokan Center, reads like a who’s... Read more
By BarryDIA on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 - 12:17 pm
By Christine Crawfis on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 - 4:35 pm
By Christine Crawfis on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013 - 4:24 pm
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013 - 12:04 pm
Above: Photo of a page from an 1803 shape note tunebook, The Art Of Singing by Andrew Law. Photo by Flickr user Kelly Taylor; published under Creative Commons license.
The shape note revival is coming to Roxbury's newly renovated Kirkside Park barn in the... Read more
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