A Weekend of Music and Movement at the Stissing Center
High Horse brings progressive acoustic bluegrass Friday; The Bang Group's rhythm-driven dance follows Saturday.
Friday, May 29 and Saturday, May 30, 7:30pm | Pine Plains, NY
The Stissing Center has a good pairing this weekend. Friday night in the Grace Note, High Horse, a Boston-area quartet playing fiddle, guitar and banjo, cello, and bass, brings a sound that sits somewhere between bluegrass, old-time, and Celtic music pushed through the energy level of alternative rock.
The Grace Note, the centers 85 seat club downstairs , puts you close enough to the musicians that you can watch exactly what's happening.
Saturday night moves upstairs to Banning Hall with The Bang Group, the New York City dance company founded in 1995 by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin, returning with "A Mouthful of Shoes."
The piece transforms musical scores into choreography played entirely by feet, voices, and bodies. Parker has spent three decades exploring the sonic potential of the dancing body, and the result is equal parts exacting and funny, which is a combination that doesn't always survive contact with the stage but does consistently with this company.
The Stissing Center, 2950 Church St., Pine Plains, NY. Tickets at thestissingcenter.org.
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After a decade of writing for RI (along with many other publications and organizations) Jamie took over as editor in 2025. He has a masters in journalism from NYU, a wonderful wife, two kids and a Carolina dog named Zelda.
