Arts Just Announced: Natalie Merchant Joins the Rough Notes Festival Lineup August 29 The singer-songwriter will play piano and talk craft with Folk Alley's Sarah LaDuke—tickets likely to move fast for the festival's second night. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Jibz Cameron Brings “Hell in a Handbag” to TSL Jibz Cameron moves between memoir and her Dynasty Handbag persona in “Hell in a Handbag,” coming to Time & Space Limited in Hudson on August 23. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Arts A Closer Look at Laura Ellen Bacon's Woven Willow Sculpture at the Clark Part of the "Ground/work 2025: A Close Look" series, examining how a British artist's nest-like installation converses with the museum's woodland trails. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Taylor Mac and 50 Years of Punk Lead Hudson Hall’s Fall 2026 Season Hudson Hall’s fall season features Taylor Mac and Matt Ray, “50 Years of PUNK,” mentalist Vinny DePonto, jazz, bluegrass, and chamber music.by Brian K. MahoneyAugust 13, 2026 By Jamie Larson •
Arts Puppet Monsters Sing to Kids About the Theory of Multiple Intelligences at the Stissing Center Up In Arms brings its Hudson Valley-based puppet musical, built on Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, to the Summer Children's Series By Jamie Larson •
Arts Jack Grace Brings 25 Years of Genre-Hopping Americana to Roe Jan Brewing Co. A Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter and guitarist plays country, rock, and Latin-inflected Americana. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Buster Keaton's "The General" Comes to Music Mountain with Live Score and Croquet Lakeville locals Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton perform live piano and vocals to Keaton's 1926 Civil War comedy, preceded by a 1920s-themed picnic By Jamie Larson •
Arts The Art of Hardware: NUTS + BOLTS Opens at Available Items Thirteen New York designers turn off-the-shelf materials into furniture and home decor for the Tivoli gallery's third annual DIY design show. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Revolutionary Teapots: Ceramic Artists Reimagine 1776 at Chesterwood A juried show of teapots by regional potters, judged by leading ceramic art specialist Leslie Ferrin, marks the Boston Tea Party's 250th anniversary. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Olana Puts More Than 200 Hi-res Frederic Church Works Online for Free, 1,000 More to Come A Henry Luce Foundation grant is funding the digitization of Church's full body of work at Olana, launching in the middle of the artist's bicentennial year. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Spencer LaJoye Loops a Whole Choir Out of One Voice at The Grace Note A viral queer folk anthem, a theology degree, and a loop pedal come together for an intimate evening in Pine Plains. By Jamie Larson •
Arts A Vietnamese Water Puppet Musical Returns to the Quarry Lake Where It Was Born After a sold-out New York premiere, Tommy Nguyen and Doug Fitch bring “The Magnificent Ms. Pham” back to TurnPark for two nights on the water, framed as a country-western musical about one woman's escape from Vietnam by boat. By Jamie Larson •
