Make some good trouble this week
Or watch Julia Kent's cello, Nels Cline's guitar, Squanderers' improvisations, Sarah Sherman's comedy, and MV Carbon's noise.
“Friday, July 18, is the hottest and most humid day of the year in the Hudson Valley on average. It will live up to expectations this year,” meterologist Ben Noll reports. See below for more hot weather, and lots more noise.
Tuesday, July 15
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 15: Cheap Trick at SPAC.
July 15: Natalie Jane Hill, Nick Panken at Tubby’s, Kingston.
Wednesday, July 16
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 16-20: Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival at Oak Hill.
July 16: White Denim, Tagua Tagua, Sarah La Puerta at Assembly, Kingston.
July 16: Gary’s Dream, Raybody, Story Littleton at The Avalon Lounge.
Thursday, July 17
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
PROTEST
“Good Trouble Lives On” is a national day of nonviolent action [at many locations] to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s passing, we’re taking action across the country to defend our democracy and carry forward his legacy of Good Trouble.”
• 4-5:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 344 Main St., Great Barrington.
• 4-5 p.m. at Public Square, Hudson.
• 4:30-6 p.m. at 45 Main St., West Stockbridge.
• 5–6 p.m. at the Catskill Municipal Courthouse, 320 Main St., Catskill.
• 5–7 p.m. by the Pavilion, Depot Square, Chatham.
• 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Center for Creative Education, 10 Cedar St. Kingston.
• 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 163 Main St., New Paltz.
• 6-7 p.m. at 5 Winslow Gate Rd., Poughkeepsie.
• 6-8 p.m. at Willett Street and Madison Avenue, Albany.
• 6:30–7:30 p.m. at Rt. 9 and Market St., Hyde Park.
• 8:30-9:30 p.m. at Village Green, 16 Tinker St., Woodstock.
July 17: “Weird Al” Yankovic at SPAC.
July 17: Jon Spencer at No Fun, Troy.
July 17: The Jason Carter Band at Bard Spiegeltent.
July 17: Carrellee, Allie Young at The Avalon Lounge.
Friday, July 18
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 18: Yeison Landero at Opus 40.
July 18: Josh Johnson at PS21, Chatham.
July 18: Lara Hope Band at Colony, Woodstock.
July 18: Nels Cline, Yuka Honda, Spencer Zahn, Booker Stardrum at Tubby’s, Kingston.
July 18: Tina Friml at Bard Spiegeltent.
July 18: Discount Fireworks, A Very Special Episode, Dirt Bikes at Green Growler, Croton-on-Hudson.
July 18: Bad Moves, Theo Grizol, Sweet Harm at The Avalon Lounge.
Saturday, July 19
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 19: Squanderers at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie.
July 19: Gelsey Bell, Jess Tsang at 647 Planck Road, Phoenicia.
July 19: Sarah Sherman at Mass MoCA.
July 19: Wazumbians at The Falcon, Marlboro.
July 19: Ducks LTD, Trace Mountains at Tubby’s, Kingston.
July 19: Olatuja at Bard Spiegeltent.
July 19: Greem Jellyfish, DJ Guy at The Avalon Lounge.
Sunday, July 20
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 20: Roseanne Cash with John Leventhal at Assembly, Kingston.
July 20: Julia Kent at PS21, Chatham.
July 20: Ingrid Sertso, Peter Apfelbaum, Kenny Wessel, Michael Bisio, Tani Tabbal at Lace Mill, Kingston.
Monday, July 21
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 21: Lavinia Meijer, Clarice Jensen, Caimin Gilmore at PS21, Chatham.
COMING SOON
July 22: Mr. Softheart, Spite Club, Screaming Worms at Tubby’s, Kingston.
July 22: Cheer-Accident, Infantephant, Grocer at The Avalon Lounge.
July 23: Roseanne Cash with John Leventhal at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington.
July 24: Bonny Light Horseman at Assembly, Kingston.
July 24: Michael Daves, Jacob Jolliff at Bard Spiegeltent.
July 24: Sandra Bernhard at Bearsville Theater.
July 24: Sisters, Ruby Arthur, Scarlett at The Avalon Lounge.
July 25: Cindy Lauper at Bethel Woods.
July 25: Light Asylum, Heavy Halo, DJ Midna Mayhem, DJ Hueman, DJ Chris Hefner at Tubby’s, Kingston.
July 25: Barbez, The Lonesome Organist at The Avalon Lounge.
July 25-26: Susanne Bartsch at Bard Spiegeltent.
July 26: Jake Xerxes Fussell, Nora Brown, Stephanie Coleman at Colony, Woodstock.
July 26: Little Winds, Lina Tullgren, Sarah La Pureta at Tubby’s, Kingston.
July 26: Guster and The Mountain Goats at Mass MoCA.
July 26: Extension Cords II electronic music fest w/Dan Friel, Daedelus, others at Shea Theater, Turner Falls, MA.
July 27: Dorothea Pass, Eliza Niemi, Blue Ranger at Tubby’s, Kingston.
July 27: Jeffrey Broussard and The Creole Cowboys at The Falcon, Marlboro.
July 27: Heidi Woolever tree medicine workshop at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy.
July 27: Cuddle Magic, Rose Stoller at The Avalon Lounge.
July 27: Hannah Herschend and Lily Goldman, Ogga L at 647 Planck Road, Phoenicia.
July 29: Femi Kuti & The Positive Force at Assembly, Kingston.
July 29: Emmylou Harris and Graham Nash at Tanglewood.
July 29: Maria Chavez at The Avalon Lounge.
July 30: Wolf Eyes, Melting Regular, Forced Stability, Bloodx3 at No Fun, Troy.
July 30: Bobby Previte and Wendy Eisenberg, Steve Jansen at The Avalon Lounge.
July 31: Lucy Sante and Joe Hagan at Orpheum, Saugerties.
July 31: Lane Changer, Garden Variety at Unicorn Bar, Kingston.
July 31: Ann Golden on The Raincoats at Mass MoCA.
July 31: Haywire, Juicebox, All 4 All, Sunbloc at No Fun, Troy.
July 31: Rhett Miller and the All Starts at The Lemon Squeeze, New Paltz.
July 31: Alison Brown Quintet at Bard Spiegeltent.
July 31: Wolf Eyes, Rose Club at Tubby’s, Kingston.
ALSO
RADIO REMOTES
July 18: Radio Kingston Midtown Make a Difference Day, Kingston.
Last Sunday of the Month
Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. That’s for residents of Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester counties.
Tuesdays, 4-5:30 p.m.
“We'll stand on an overpass over Route 91, on Chestnut St in Hatfield [MA], with flags, signs, and messages in BIG letters. We engage drivers by waving, get friendly honks (and the occasional middle finger) from cars, and we educate people and let them know the resistance is alive! Each week we decide on a new message for the following week. It's helpful to sign up, in case we have to cancel for rain, or if we decide we want to switch days or locations to evade counterprotesters. NOTE that we have moved, for now, from Mountain Drive, because of construction there.”
SUNDAYS, NOON
WORDSMITH
When the Politics gets in the way of the Pop. And a dozen great times it did not.
Also: why Facebook is shit, but I just can't quit.
ALL MY DEAD AND LIVING THINGS
On Two Wheels: Bikes, Belonging, and the Future of Hudson’s Mobility
Arone Dyer on what biking can teach us about community, confidence, and care
DIARY OF AMY RIGBY
An Excitement of Peaches
Good things about growing old(er)
BEN KNOLL WEATHER
The most humid week of summer
Update #662: Here comes the Hudson Valley's most persistently humid week of summer — so far.
JADED AZURITES
New Jaded Azurites video featuring, for the first time, the members of Jaded Azurites (Columbia County-based poet Karen Schoemer, and bassist Mike Watt).
MUSIC
Matthew Shipp’s latest album, and this radio-centric song, both live up to their titles as otherworldly trips using a language both familiar and entirely new. Tune in “The Cosmic Piano” and these “Radio Signals from Jazz Keys.” This is, so far, my. favorite album of 2025, a real trip. Coupled with last year’s “New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz” (with Newman Taylor Baker and Hudson Valley-based bassist Michael Bisio), the two records are astounding, clear-eyed statements of intent to create a new jazz language. And both albums are amazing successes, rewarding repeat listenings, and deeper understandings.
RADIO DRAMA
Tom Roe, the writer of this column, makes this weekly radio show.
Donald Drumpf Theatre #244: What Is Donald Drumpf Theatre?
It is professional wrestling.
This week: “What Is Donald Drumpf Theatre?” The new/old president explains how professional wrestling works this week on the “Donald Drumpf Theatre” radio show. Opening theme includes clips from Rod Serling; Bill Cosby; Donald Drumpf; Eric Cartman; Jon Stewart; Richard Nixon; Kent Brockman; and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Thanks for the songs from Golden Earring ("Twilight Zone"), Ross Goldstein (“Odd Man Out”), Lou Christie (“Lightnin’ Strikes”), Busta Rhymes (“What It Is”), The Village People (“Y.M.C.A”), and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (“Blinded By The Light”). Clips and excerpts from Jon Stewart, Anthony Anderson; Willie Geist; John Roberts; Pam Bondi; Chris Hayes; Mickey Rooney; Judy Garland; Josh Hawley; Ron Johnson; Tim Burchett; Ryan Nobles; Lisa Murkowski; Troy Nelhs; Andy Kaufman; David Letterman; and Jerry Lawler. Episode 244.
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