This is an Emergency!
Have you protested the fall of democracy? Or contributed to the Hudson Valley culture? Here is how.
This week there are protests, community gatherings, emergency rallies, and barnraisings to attend. And lots of concerts and art.
Follow the links the your protests, shows, exhibitions, openings, rallies, workshops, and more.
Monday, July 21
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
PROTEST
July 21: Lavinia Meijer, Clarice Jensen, Caimin Gilmore at PS21, Chatham. Hudson Valley cellist/composer Clarice Jensen & Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer, culminating in the US premiere of “BlackGate,” by Irish composer Caimin Gilmore.
July 21: Phat, Inc. at Backbar, Hudson.
Tuesday, July 22
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 22: Mr. Softheart, Spite Club, Screaming Worms at Tubby’s, Kingston.
July 22: Cheer-Accident, Infantephant, Grocer at The Avalon Lounge.
Wednesday, July 23
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 23: Errant Space, Modular Moose at Quinn’s, Beacon.
July 23: Roseanne Cash with John Leventhal at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington.
Thursday, July 24
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
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.
Friday, July 25
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 25: Rensselaer Honk, Wave and Protest 4:30 p.m. at Washington Avenue at I-90 exit 7 stoplight in Rensselaer. Park along 10th St or Farley Dr. Bring signs, noisemakers, nonviolence.
July 25-26: Susanne Bartsch at Bard Spiegeltent.
July 25: Cindy Lauper at Bethel Woods.
July 25: Kyle Morgan and Tamar Korn at Rohmer Gallery, Saugerties.
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.
Saturday, July 26
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 26: Jake Xerxes Fussell, Nora Brown, Stephanie Coleman at Colony, Woodstock.
July 26: Phat, Inc. at Isaan Thai Star, Hudson.
July 26: Robert Titus at Opus 40.
July 26: No Kings in Kingston protest at 3:30 p.m.
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.
Sunday, July 27
Avg. 88°, Low 70° at 6 a.m., High 79° at 3 p.m. per Merry Sky.
July 27: Dorothea Pass, Eliza Niemi, Blue Ranger at Tubby’s, Kingston.
July 27: John Esposito Trio at Backbar, Hudson.
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.
COMING SOON
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: Yeison Landero at Tubby’s, Kingston.
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.
Aug. 1: Diciannove at TSL, Hudson.
Aug. 1: Bunnybrains at Prattsville Art Center.
Aug. 1: William Hale and Miss America at Sweet Side Records, Glens Falls.
Aug. 2: Joe Morris Counter Spectacle, McKain/Smith/Walter, Mosley/Miller at Marmalade.
Sept. 24: Amy Rigby at Left Bank Ciders, Catskill.
ALSO
RADIO REMOTES
Hudson Valley public radio station WJFF is claiming they are losing 25 percent of their budget. Federal budget cuts are affecting the large public radio stations.
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
"Let's Do Drugs"
...And other top pop hit takeaways from a life-affirming weekend of live music.
BEN KNOLL WEATHER
A tiny taste of September ☺️
Update #663: Low humidity on Monday and Tuesday in the Hudson Valley will give early fall vibes. But it won't last long, with hot weather late in the week.
FOGGY OTIS
Catskill’s Foggy Otis just released an off-Spotify album “When life hand you lemons, play the ukulele,” with all songs written by Otis and Tom Gioia, and Dana Newman adding melodica on one track.
RADIO DRAMA
Tom Roe, the writer of this column, makes this weekly radio show.
Donald Drumpf Theatre #245: Not Like Us, or Is Jeffrey Epstein This Superman's Kryptonite?
You say you want a revolution?
This week: “Not Like Us, or Is Jeffrey Epstein This Superman's Kryptonite?” The new/old president says these are not the pedophiles you’re looking for 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"), The Clique (“Superman”), R.E.M. (“Superman”), The Jackson Five (“ABC”), and Kendrick Lamar (“Not Like Us,” “). Clips and excerpts from Ronnie Chieng; Benjamin Netanyahu; Karoline Leavitt; Seth Meyers; Dan Bongino; J.D. Vance; Donald Drumpf, Jr.; Pam Bondi; Laura Ingraham; Jon Stewart; Elmo; Jesse Watters; Brian Kilmeade; John Roberts; and Ali Velshi. Episode 245.
IVY
Has returned!
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