MAVERICK CONCERTS: A Short History
RAIL EXPLORERS IN THE CATSKILLS AND COOPERSTOWN
HARMONIOUS METAMORPHOSIS: Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice Gains Enthusiastic Support
CATSKILLS PAST: A Useful Man by T.M.
BradshawTHE CANDY MAN IS COMING TO TANNERSVILLE THIS JULY!
WHO NAMED THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS ANYWAY? by
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HANFORD MILLS EXPLORATION DAY TO FOCUS ON ECOSYSTEMS A GREENE COUNTY GARDEN IN JUNE: Milkweed by
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Founded by the visionary Hervey White in 1905, the Maverick Artist Colony stands as a testament to artistic collaboration, freedom, and creativity. Maverick was scruffy, communal, and anarchic. It provided young talent with a chance to earn a living while pursuing their artistic passions. Nestled in the serene woods just outside Woodstock, New York, the colony became a sanctuary for artists seeking inspiration and camaraderie.
In August 1915, the inaugural Maverick Festival unfolded, its purpose twofold: to raise funds for a colony well and to celebrate the arts. Patterned after European fairs, the festival featured music performances that echoed through the surrounding woods. Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 77, No. 1, Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, and Schumann’s piano quintet graced the stage. Concert camping became popular, and spirited gatherings unfolded—even during Prohibition! However, after 1931, the festival was suspended due to rowdy crowds and financial pressures.
Built in 1916, the Maverick Concert Hall remains an architectural gem. Its barn-like structure, with a gambrel roof and heavy timber framing, creates an acoustically luminous environment. The walls consist of wide planks nailed directly to the frame, providing the perfect backdrop for live chamber music. From late June to early September, the Maverick Concerts enchant audiences with world-class performances. Distinguished
soloists and ensembles grace the stage on Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, spanning genres from classical to jazz, folk, world, and contemporary music. Under the guidance of music director Alexander Platt, the Maverick legacy thrives.
In 1924, Hervey White commissioned sculptor John Flannagan to create the iconic Maverick Horse. Flannagan wielded an ax as his primary tool, transforming a chestnut tree trunk into an extraordinary sculpture. The monumental piece depicts a horse emerging from the outstretched hands of a man—an embodiment of freedom and spirit. For thirty-six years, the Maverick Horse stood at the entrance to the concert hall, welcoming music enthusiasts. Weather-worn and resilient, it became a silent witness to countless performances.
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Maverick Horse, its story resonates. Weathered by time, it found refuge in artist Emmet Edwards’ nearby studio for two decades. In 1979, Edwards’ generosity allowed the Maverick Horse to find a new home on the concert hall stage. Today, this mysterious and magical artwork continues to preside over the enduring legacy of Hervey White’s original vision. It reminds us that art transcends time, connecting generations through creativity and expression.
For the full line-up of concerts in the Maverick 2024 season, visit maverickconcerts.org.
Rail Explorers in the Catskills and Cooperstown offer unique, exciting experiences for riders of all ages and abilities.
These operations feature commercial grade explorers which are the ‘Rolls Royce’ of railbikes, and are the global leader in safety, design, performance, and ease of operation. Couples young and old, groups of friends, and families can enjoy the Rail Explorer experience. Both tours offer electric pedal assist—Rail Explorers has developed the ‘REX Propulsion System,’ a custom built electric assist motor that makes the experience truly effortless, even when climbing the steepest of inclines.
Rail Explorers is one of the very few activities where multigenerational groups can participate, and everyone, from the oldest great-grandparent to the youngest great-grandchild can enjoy the ride—even teenagers have been caught smiling! Many riders bring a light refreshment to enjoy at the 20-minute break at the turnaround picnic areas.
The ‘Cadillac’ of the fleet is the four-person Quad Explorer. With 4 seats and 4 sets of pedals, this is ideal for families or groups of friends. At 10 feet long, and weighing in at over 750 lbs, when the quad gets going it doesn’t want to stop. Not everyone has to pedal—in fact it is possible for two people to enjoy a ride on the Quad Explorer or for two to pedal and two others get a free ride!
With two seats, the Tandem Explorer is the ‘coupe’ of the fleet—the sports convertible built for two, with the top always down. At six feet long and weighing 570 pounds it is fast, slim and gobbles up the miles.
At Rail Explorers Catskills, located in Phoenicia, New York, your tour on the historic Ulster & Delaware Railroad will follow the Esopus Creek through the beautiful woods of the Catskill Mountains.
Parking and check in for all Catskills tours is at 70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia, New York 12464
Rail Explorers Cooperstown features a round trip tour that journeys through the farmlands and forests alongside of the Susquehanna River.
Parking and check in for all Cooperstown tours at 136 East Main Street, Milford, New York 13807
Rail Explorers also operates divisions in Boone, Iowa; Rhode Island; Versailles, Kentucky; and Amador County, California.
Seats are limited and reservations are strongly recommended. Bookings can be made a railexplorers.net or by calling 877 833 8588. These seasonal attractions are open from April to November.
As the Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice prepares to celebrate its 15th Anniversary, it does so with a momentous shift: a new home in the scenic town of New Paltz, New York. Formerly known as The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, this landmark event is undergoing a transformation, promising an extraordinary celebration of international opera and community spirit.
Marking its milestone anniversary, the festival organizers are thrilled to announce a revamped, multi-location event centered in the vibrant town of New Paltz, nestled in the heart of the Hudson Valley. This move underscores the festival’s commitment to delivering a diverse opera experience accessible to both novices and seasoned enthusiasts alike. Strategic partnerships with SUNY New Paltz, the Studley Theatre, and the Ulster County Fairgrounds highlight the festival’s adaptability, with additional local venues set to join the lineup. By attracting visitors to New Paltz, the festival aims to bolster the local economy, enticing guests to explore the region’s culinary delights and services, thereby providing a significant economic boost.
Maria Todaro, the Festival’s General Director, expressed her excitement, stating, “Embracing the transformative magic of vocal music, our mission remains steadfast. We are thrilled to return to our pre-COVID roots, where our harmonious voices will resonate in diverse local settings, inviting our community to rediscover the enchanting tapestry of New Paltz—its restaurants, coffee shops, orchards, boutiques, and the timeless grandeur of opera.” She
emphasized the festival’s commitment to cultivating a model of genuine relevance in the performing arts, featuring a captivating lineup of world-renowned performers accessible to newcomers, igniting their passion for opera and the performing arts.
Beyond entertainment, the festival places particular emphasis on addressing critical community needs, including anti-human trafficking initiatives, youth development, arts education, and fostering diversity in the arts. Its remarkable success in building community engagement while maintaining a light ecological footprint positions it as a replicable model for cities nationwide, with plans to share insights with opera companies across the country.
Anticipation for the festival is palpable, with government officials, community leaders, and academics rallying in enthusiastic support.
Senator Michelle Hinchey lauded the festival, saying, “The Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice is an unforgettable celebration of world-class vocal performances that makes a diverse array of musical arts accessible to our rural communities. This year, the festival takes on even greater cultural significance as it expands to several new locations, serving as a vibrant platform for artistic expression and community connection while providing a vital boost to our local small businesses here in Ulster County.”
Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger echoed the sentiment, remarking, “The Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice stands as a testament to the remarkable power of artistic expression and community engagement. With its world-class vocal
performances spanning diverse genres, this festival not only enriches our cultural landscape but also brings substantial economic benefits to our community, drawing thousands of visitors.”
As June approaches, anticipation builds for the enriched and redefined Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice, promising an unforgettable celebration of voice, music, and community amidst the breathtaking backdrop of the Catskills.
Tickets and more information are available at hudsonvalleyvoicefest.org.
June 28, 2024
10:30 am: Latté Lecture—Opening Gala Stars at Dry Fly Coffee Company, 87 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY
8:30 pm: 15th Anniversary Gala at Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice, Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz, NY
June 29, 2024
10:30 am: Latté Lecture— The Marriage of Figaro at Dry Fly Coffee Company, 87 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY
3:30 pm: Lady Parts at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 90 NY-32, New Paltz, NY
8:30 pm: The Marriage of Figaro at Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice, Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz, NY
June 30, 2024
10:30 am: Latté Lecture—Messa Di Gloria at Dry Fly Coffee Company, 87 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY
3:30 pm: Messa Di Gloria at Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice, Studley Theatre - SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY
“The business of life is to be useful.” —Zadock Pratt
Zadock Pratt (October 30, 1790–April 05, 1871) was a tanner, a soldier, and served in various political capacities: as an elector, as a convention delegate, and twice a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. In Congress he pushed legislation to reduce the price of postage from twenty-five cents to five cents, calling the higher price a tax on intelligence that disproportionately affected the poor, and to begin a survey for a transcontinental railroad. He was especially proud of those two efforts and they are listed on his gravestone. He also moved to build the dry dock in Brooklyn, to construct public buildings in Washington from marble or granite rather than sandstone, saving on both construction costs and maintenance; to create the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; worked to get the stalled Washington Monument project moving; and started the practice of hanging presidential portraits in the Rotunda.
He built the town of Prattsville around the tannery he built there. Other tanneries relied on a migrant workforce, but he envi-
sioned a more stable environment. He built one hundred houses, which he sold as inexpensively as possible, enabling his work force to live with their families. He built stores, endowed schools, rebuilt one fire-damaged church and built others.
He was born in Stephentown in Rensselaer County, the fifth of seven children. His family moved to Middleburgh when he was seven and to Windham when he was twelve. But don’t picture the Windham you know now; the counties of the Catskills had by this time been established, drawn from what had been a very large Albany County, but town lines were still in something of a state of flux. The place where the Pratt family lived when Zadock was a boy became Lexington and is now Jewett.
Zadock (many old newspaper accounts say Zadoc) worked on his father’s farm and tannery. At twenty he was apprenticed to a saddle maker in Durham. Following his apprenticeship he traveled as an itinerant saddler for a year, then continued that work after settling back down in Lexington. In 1814 he volunteered to
serve in the War of 1812, returning to Lexington in 1815. With his brothers Ezra and Bennet he established a tannery business in 1817.
Pratt married Beda Dickerman in the fall of 1818; she died of tuberculosis the following spring. In 1823 he married her sister, Esther, who also died of tuberculosis within the year. Pratt left the tannery business he shared with Ezra—they had previously bought Bennet out—and spent the summer of 1824 scouting out a location for the larger tannery he envisioned. He found the perfect spot, surrounded by the necessary hemlock forest and with plenty of water from the Schoharie Creek, in a little settlement, Schohary Kill, in the western part of Windham. The town he built would officially become Prattsville in 1833, split off from Windham.
He bought a meadow, hired help, dammed the creek and began building immediately, starting with a small building on the river’s edge that served as home and office. That little red building, the Prattsville Commercial Building, just east of the bridge on the western edge of the village, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has been lifted off its foundation by flooding twice—once in 1996 and again in 2011 from Hurricane Irene, when it seemed to be carefully placed immediately next to its foundation.
In October of 1827, Pratt married Abigail Watson. They had three children. Abigail died on February 5, 1834, ten days after giving birth to their second daughter, also named Abigail. Baby Abigail died soon after. A year later he married Mary Watson, again his previous wife’s sister. They had no children, but she lived until 1868. He married his fifth wife, Susie, in 1869 in Grace Episcopal Church in Prattsville, another building for which Pratt had donated the land and paid part of the building costs.
Pratt left pictorial records of his life and work through art he commissioned. He engaged five stone carvers to create images of his only son George, who died as a result of injuries he received at the Second Battle of Bull Run; of Pratt himself; of his favorite horse, Prince; and a hemlock tree. The hike up to the carvings in Pratt Rock Park begins at a small parking area at the eastern end of Prattsville.
A large primitive painting that has in the past been erroneously attributed to Pratt himself hangs in the Pratt Museum; it was probably the work of at least two artists. On the left we see the Dutch Reformed Church, which was there when Pratt arrived and is the one he helped rebuild; the Prattsville Commercial Building, the first thing Pratt built in the new village; and Pratt riding on Prince. Behind this grouping is the Wright School, a boarding establishment. Thomas Cole’s son Theodore was a student there. The center and righthand portions of the canvas reveal the rest of what Pratt built—houses, the tannery, the Methodist Church at the eastern end of the village, and the Prattsville Academy. In 1842 he donated the land for the Academy and contributed half of its construction cost. His own home is in the middle portion and is now the Pratt Museum.
In January 1846, J. L. Hackstaff established a newspaper, the Prattsville Advocate with assistance from Pratt, who provided equipment and space, and who paid for 100 copies, but only took five.
Later in life, Pratt hired young Jay Gould to survey a tanning site in Pennsylvania. Impressed with Gould’s work in also finding tracts of hemlock for sale, Pratt made Gould a partner in the new tannery, although the entire $120,000 capital of the new company came from Pratt. But the small returns on his investment led Pratt to believe Gould was embezzling. Gould cultivated a
friendship with Charles Leupp, a wealthy New York City merchant, and secured a loan from him to buy Pratt out. Pratt accepted the $60,000 offered. Years later, the Delaware County Dairyman of December 16, 1892 commented on the Pratt-Gould business relationship by relating a story from the Roxbury Times. In it, it was noted that initially Pratt had the money and Gould the [surveying] experience and that “when they parted, Jay had both.”
The basic facts of Pratt’s life are widely available, but contemporaneous newspaper articles offer insights to his personality unavailable through that factual history and provide a few quotes from him.
Mentions of Pratt’s travels appeared in many newspapers. Pratt himself wrote a letter to the editor of the New Orleans Delta describing an event he experienced while in Cuba. He decided to visit Francisco Estrampes, a teacher and journalist concerned with the cause of Cuban independence. It occurred on the day before Estrampes’ execution. While Pratt claimed not to have an opinion on what condemned Estrampes, he noted the grace with which he approached death. Pratt wrote, “Right or wrong—whether impelled by true patriotism or misguided zeal—Estrampes met his fate in a manner which would have been worthy of the ablest of those martyrs who have offered up their lives in the noblest of causes.” The letter was reprinted in the Coxsackie Union, May 16, 1855.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter, an aptly named publication to report on travels, although its real purpose was information and ads for businesses in the leather trade. No doubt Pratt’s prominence as a tanner was why its editors featured stories about Pratt’s journeys on several occasions: An 1861 European tour; aboard the ship Arago, bound for Southhampton, in June 1859, and coverage of Pratt’s round trip to California, which was recapped in the Bloomville Mirror on March 2, 1860. He had left New York in December 1859, traveled across the Isthmus of Panama (the canal would come later), journeyed 1,000 miles through California, and then returned by stage to New York, a total of 12,000 miles in 70 days. The quotes attributed to him in that article indicate he had a sense of humor, announcing he had been well fed on the plains, “having good coffee, ham and bread for breakfast, good ham, coffee and bread for dinner, and good bread, ham and coffee for supper.” He said that, “no man ought to undertake the journey who is not made of well tanned leather.”
Many thanks to the Prattsville Town Historian.
T. M. Bradshaw shares other thoughts on history at tmbradshawbooks.com.
When Roald Dahl first penned Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964, he couldn’t have imagined that fifty years later his story about misbehaving children and an eccentric chocolatier would spawn three feature films, an opera, two musicals, countless animated and radio adaptations, a video game, and of course, a robust line of confections.
Imagination is at the core of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the key to its lasting power in multiple generations of children. This July, the ubiquitous candy man will make an appearance in Maude Adams Theater Hub’s wonderful production of the 2018 musical version at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville Once again MATH will be gathering local talent from around the region to step into these iconic shoes.
The casting of the titular role, Charlie, has its own ironic serendipity, as Ezra Kashman’s parents just happen to own … a candy store. Last Chance Cheese first opened in 1971, the brainchild of Loren and Anita Kashman (Ezra’s grandparents), and today carries over 100 varieties of candies and chocolates, due, according to Lauren Kashman, to a shared family sweet tooth. Ezra, a fifth grade student at Hunter Tannersville Elementary, first caught the theater bug at summer camp, and has since appeared in a number of productions, including 101 Dalmatians last fall. He was born to play Charlie Buckett!
As luck would have it—and community theater is always leaning on luck—Jake Shipley left NYC in January in search of quieter pastures, landing on Main Street Tannersville, where he has been working on a stand up routine while waiting tables at Tabla Restaurant—in his words, living the dream. On a whim, he auditioned and nailed the part of Willy Wonka. Jake’s and Ezra’s chemistry was evident that first day, when they both set aside their scripts and brought down the house.
Grandpa Joe, aka Chris Cade, can also be found on Main Street, either at the counter of the Tannersville Antique Center, or managing the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop across the street. The always dulcet tones of Greene Room Players’ Songbirds soprano Cara Dantzig are already making rehearsal attendees teary eyed as Mrs. Buckett, and local favorites Katherine Reich, Kat Wood, and Brian Flynn bring the laughs as the bedridden grandparents.
Under the joyful direction of Liz Piccoli, the cast is drawn from Saugerties, Jewett, Windham, Lexington, Hunter, Phoenicia, Elka Park, Woodstock, and Jefferson, and includes Glenda Lauten as Mrs. Gloop, Henrietta Phillips as Augusta, Hedda Flynn as Mrs. Salt, Emma Schneider as Veruca, Matthew Weiman as Mr. Beauregard, Ella Jones as Violet, Shama Davis as Mrs. Teavee, and Asa Davis as Mike. Also featuring Josh Fromer and Ginger McMahon as Jerry and Terry, newbie Michell Jenab as Mrs. Greene, Anita Goodrich as Mama Squirrel, and a cast of up-and-comers Astrid Conybeare, Safiya Doran, Everly Jones, Daisy Mason, Anahlea Nunez, Raina Rabuffo, Cassidy Dantzig, Poppy Davis, Kaeden Goodrich, Maya Goodrich as Oompas and Squirrels.
You can (and should!) buy your tickets now at catskillmtn. org. Showtimes are Friday, July 5 at 6:00 pm and Saturday, July 6 at 1:00 pm and 6:00 pm. Orpheum Performing Arts Center is located at 6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485.
There is no life I know, to compare with pure imagination…
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Book by David Greig, Music by Marc Shaiman, Lyrics by Scott Wittman and marc Shaiman, with songs from the Motion Picture by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.
Imagine this … what a great job it would have been to be the “Original Official Namer of All Things.” As our planet unfolded there were so many new things to name and added into our languages. Countries, continents, states, streets, children, pets, oh I could go on, and yes I often do.
Every day you awaken knowing that everything you see needs an identifying name. EVERYTHING!! It could be exhausting if you looked at the task as never-ending, like getting to the end of the internet, but name you must, so you persist, for everyone needs to point out and differentiate items through our conversations with others that have been identified with its own name, wow. So many names, so little time.
So, nestled in the heart of southeastern New York, there existed a yet unnamed land mass near New England and the Adirondack Mountains (these mountains were previously named, we think) and so what would we call this parcel of land we so love?
There had to be a process, official or otherwise, and oftentimes there was, but what was it? So let’s put on our Columbo hats and investigate why our area was named the “Catskill Mountains.”
Ok … we now know there was an event that occurred (a land mass naming) and now our job is to meticulously trace back the process and determine just how “The Official Namer” arrived at our region’s name, and who was it?
Residents and visitors alike understand that the Catskill Mountains stand as a testament to the test of time and to nature’s grandeur and mystery. Behind our mountains’ rugged beauty lies a myriad of stories as rich and varied as this landscape itself. So, just how did these ancient peaks come to bear the name “Catskill”?
Unraveling this enigma requires delving into a tapestry woven from Native American legends, colonial history, and geological wonder, so let’s embark on a journey to uncover the secrets behind this most fascinating name for our remarkable corner of the northeast.
One legend and one of the most enduring tales surrounding the origin of the Catskill Mountains’ name harkens back to the time of the indigenous Lenni Lenape people. This group was spread out from Delaware to New York from a region called
Lenapehoking. Their name comes from the term “pure and genuine people.” According to legend, these mountains were home to fierce creatures known as mountain wildcats.
These elusive and majestic felines roamed the dense forests and rocky crags, instilling both fear and fascination among the Lenape tribes folk. As the story goes, European settlers encountered the Lenape’s tales of these formidable beasts and christened the region accordingly. However, this interpretation remains shrouded in the mists of time, blending history with myth in equal measure.
Dr. Rachel Green, a historian specializing in Native American folklore points out, “Legends often serve as cultural touchstones, offering glimpses into the beliefs and imaginations of past civilizations. The story of the wildcats embodies the deep connection between the natural world and human culture, illustrating how myths can shape our understanding of the land.”
New York has strong and deep Dutch roots, as those who traveled from the Netherlands to their “new” Amsterdam produced our next naming theory, tracing back the name’s origins to these settlers who arrived in the Hudson Valley during the 17th century.
According to this interpretation, the name “Catskill” is derived from the Dutch term “Kat’s Kil,” meaning “cat’s creek” or “cat’s stream.” This moniker allegedly referred to the abundance of bobcats or lynxes that populated the area, coupled with the Dutch word for creek, “kil.”
Dr. Johannes Van der Voort, a linguist specializing in Dutch colonial history, explains, “The Dutch left an indelible mark on the landscape and language of the region. ‘Kat’s Kil’ likely evolved into ‘Catskill’ over time, reflecting the intricate linguistic shifts that occurred back in the day as English became the predominant language in the area.”
So do you (yes you, our reader) like this theory? Well, hold that thought while we continue to investigate….
Next, jumping into our “Wayback Machine,” a time traveling device, set for our Colonial heritage to see what else we might find on this topic. The arrival of European colonizers here to the Americas brought profound changes to our pristine landscape and its nomenclature.
As these foreign settlers established footholds in the “Valley,” they bestowed many new names (as namers do) upon rivers, mountains, and settlements, often drawing upon their own cultural heritage and encounters with indigenous peoples. “The naming of geographical features served not only as a means of navigation but also as a reflection of power dynamics and cultural exchange,” remarks Dr. Benjamin Thompson, a colonial historian. “The name ‘Catskill’ embodies this convergence of indigenous lore, European exploration, and linguistic adaptation.”
Around these parts, hardly a day goes by without hearing a Rip Van Winkle legend story so let’s steer our exploration of the Catskill Mountains’ name to Washington Irving, who was the celebrated author of “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
Irving’s detailed descriptions of the Catskills have immortalized our region in the American literary imagination, ensuring its place in the annals of folklore and fiction. In “Rip Van Winkle,” Irving weaves a tale of a hapless Dutchman who wanders into the mountains, only to awaken decades later, his world completely transformed by time. The Catskills serve as both backdrop and character illuminations in Irving’s narrative and their looming presence imbued with a sense of timelessness and mystery.
“Washington Irving’s writings have played a pivotal role in popularizing our Catskills and embedding them in the cultural consciousness of the nation,” observes Dr. Emily Jacobs, a literary scholar. “His romanticized portrayals of the region helped solidify its reputation as a place of enchantment and adventure.” (To me, this seems like more of a marketing plan than a naming story, but it’s been added for flavor and context.)
Beyond the realms of myth and history, the Catskill Mountains offer a geological tableau millions of years in the making. Composed primarily of sedimentary rock which formed during the Devonian period, also known as the “Age of Fishes” back in the Paleozoic era during the Phaneron eon (as in, many eons ago), these ancient peaks bear witness to the ebb and flow of prehistoric seas and the gradual emergence of terrestrial landscapes here creating our unique and distinctive topography, still enjoyed by all.
“The geological history of the Catskills is a testament to the forces of nature and the inexorable march of time,” says Dr. Michael Chen, a geologist specializing in mountain formation. “From their origins as seabeds to their present-day prominence, these mountains embody the dynamic processes that have shaped our planet over millennia.”
So, more history and geology to build the foundation of our story, but we amateur Columbos are left nevertheless wondering, here in the heart of the Catskill Mountains, on the original question of how these majestic peaks acquired their name, and how some feel it remains open to our own interpretation.
Whether rooted in indigenous lore, Dutch etymology, or literary imagination, the name “Catskill” serves as a testament to the layers of meaning woven into the fabric of this ancient landscape. As we gaze upon the rugged contours of these endlessly storied mountains, let us not only marvel at their natural splendor but also contemplate the myriad of stories and legends that have shaped their identity.
Here in the Catskills, our historic past whispers through the fir trees, reminding us that the mysteries of this land are as enduring as the mountains themselves, and as the history and geology of our future surrounds us now in the present moment as we all reach for what we will experience going forward.
So, as Lieutenant Columbo would say at the end of many of his episodes , “just one last thing, you know, something still keeps bothering me, what would it be like if the original spelling stayed Kaatskill from the old Dutch?”
Well, we may never know or we might start a new naming movement and next time you pick up a copy of our magazine next month, it just might be retitled the Kaatskill Mountain Guide. (Columbo wink).
Greg Madden is the Development Manager at Wellness Rx, Pharmacy for the Public Good where he also practices ancient healing modalities like Tui-Na Medical Massage and BioPhoton Light Therapy. More at IlluminatingWellness.care.
WellnessRx, Pharmacy for the Public Good is America’s first nonprofit Community Pharmacy located in Phoenicia, NY (PharmacyforthePublicGood.org), on Main Street.
Photo by Fran Driscoll, francisxdriscoll.com
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windhamfinearts.com
518 734 6850
Windham Fine Arts (WFA) is a contemporary art gallery located in the heart of the Catskills at the base of Windham Mountain Resort. Now in its 22nd year, WFA represents more than 60 local and internationally acclaimed artists showcasing a diverse collection of original paintings, photography, and sculpture. Mixed media, oils, watercolors, encaustic and other mediums are portrayed in inspiring landscapes, abstracts, figuratives, Hudson River School styles, and more. With over 3,000 square feet of curated artwork, the gallery stands out as a unique gem of artistic inspiration.
Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts
34 Big Hollow Road Maplecrest, NY 12454 sugarmaples.org
A program of the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts offers short term adult workshop programming in ceramics, painting, drawing, fiber arts and weekly classes in ceramics and fiber arts during the summer season. All classes are led by artists who are renowned and celebrated in their field. The summer Art Explorers program provides opportunities for local youth to explore their creativity through art exploration. Registration for 2024 summer courses for adults and Art Explorers for youth is now open. This summer, Sugar Maples Center For Creative Arts redefines the art and craft experience. In addition to traditional offerings in ceramics, painting, and fiber arts, we will now be hosting workshops in writing on art, craft and memoir, written alphabet design, fly tying, and perfumery.
Catskill Mountain Railroad 55 Kingston Plaza Road Kingston, NY 12401
CatskillMountainRailroad.com 845 332 4854
Catskill Mountain Railroad’s Catskill Flyer runs every Saturday, and the Ice Cream Sundays Train runs every Sunday. On Saturdays take a ride on the Catskill Flyer and enjoy on the trip in our coaches or on our open air flat cars. On Sundays, passengers enjoy the same great ride and get an Ice Cream to enjoy on the trip. Open Saturdays and Sundays from May 25 through September 15, 2024.
Catskill Water Discovery Center
669 County Highway 38 Arkville, NY 12406 waterdiscoverycenter.org
Open by appointment: call 845 586 6622
The Water Discovery Center is an educational organization that tells the story, past and present, of the New York City
water supply system—one of the most extraordinary municipal water systems in the world, one that promotes sound management of a working watershed, open to recreation, while protecting the precious natural resource of the Catskill Mountains. It tells the story of community sacrifice that came with the building of this water system; a story of the cultural heritage of the watershed communities; a story of the wondrous bounty that nature has bestowed on the Catskills and the care that must be taken to access, harvest, distribute, preserve and protect that bounty and fresh water everywhere.
Gilboa Museum
122 Stryker Road
Gilboa, NY 12076
gilboafossils.org
607 588 6894
Gilboa Museum promotes natural and cultural histories. Gilboa village of 1915 was a hamlet with large residential, business and industrial sections nestled in nearly 4 square miles of rich Schoharie valley farmland. Within a decade, this cultural center had been documented, photographed, and archived before being razed and the valley filled with water destined for New York City. The Nicholas J. Juried History Center provides insight into turn-of-the-century life in rural America. Visit Sat-
urday and Sundays from 12 to 4, Memorial Day to Columbus Day, or arrange a tour by calling 607 588 6894.
Hanford Mills Museum
51 County Highway 12 East Meredith, NY 13757
hanfordmills.org
607 278 5744
Experience a story of innovation, ingenuity and entrepreneurship at a historic working mill site. Hanford Mills Museum offers insights into the past and lessons about the relationships between people, the things they make, and the places they live. Join us for our 2024 season starting May 15. Go to hanfordmills.org for more information about visiting the museum and our 2024 Exploration Days, including Let’s Grow! on June 15 and Dairy at the Mill on July 20.
Iroquois Museum
324 Caverns Road
Howes Cave, NY 12092
iroquoismuseum.org
518 296 8949
Open April through November, the Iroquois Museum offers a window into the rich complexity of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture and history through Haudenosaunee visual and performing arts. The 7300-square foot facility features changing and permanent exhibits; interactive, family-friendly learning stations; and the largest collection of contemporary Haudenosaunee art worldwide. Dance performances, storytelling, artist demonstrations, and special events. Gift shop offers fine hand crafted Haudenosaunee art purchased directly from the artists, as well as books and music CDs.
Railexplorers.net
1 877 833 8588
In Cooperstown:
136 E Main Street Milford, NY 13807
Catskills Division: 70 Lower High Street Phoenicia, NY 12464
Rail Explorers in the Catskills and Cooperstown offer unique, exciting experiences for riders of all ages and abilities. These operations feature commercial grade explorers which are the ‘Rolls Royce’ of railbikes, and are the global leader in safety, design, performance, and ease of opera-
tion. Couples young and old, groups of friends, and families can enjoy the Rail Explorer experience. Both tours offer electric pedal assist—Rail Explorers has developed a custom built electric assist motor that makes the experience truly effortless, even when climbing the steepest of inclines.
Shandaken Historical Museum
26 Academy Street Pine Hill, NY 12465
shandakennymuseum.org 845 254 4460
Set in a uniquely charming schoolhouse built in 1927, this museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It displays a fascinating collection of 19th and 20th century tools, machinery clothing, letters and unique artifacts relating to the town and its hamlets: Allaben, Big Indian, Bushnellsville, Chichester, Highmount, Mt, Pleasant, Mt. Tremper, Oliverea, Phoenicia, Pine Hill, Shandaken, and Woodland Valley. The Museum also offers special events such as art exhibits, multi-media shows, and lectures. As part of the museum’s continuing lecture series, there will be a presentation by Glenn Kreisberg on March 23rd from 1:00-3:00 pm. Glenn is an author, outdoor guide, and radio engineer, who researches archeoastronomy and landscape archaeology in the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains of New York.
Briars & Brambles Books
Route 296 & South Street
Windham, NY 12496
briarsandbramblesbooks.com
518 750 8599
Briars and Brambles Books is your go-to Indie Bookstore in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. Briars & Brambles Books is a dream come true for owner & part-time Windham resident, Jen Schwartz. Jen has combined her love of books with her experience as a long-time library volunteer and past library board president to create an inviting, knowledgeable and professional atmosphere. The Briars & Brambles team understands that being a bookseller involves so much more than simply “selling books” and is committed to providing unparalleled personal attention.
Thorpe’s GMC
5964 Main Street
Tannersville, NY 12485
thorpesgmcinc.com
518 589 7142
Thorpe’s unmatched service and diverse GMC inventory have set them apart as the preferred dealer in Tannersville. With a full-service team of sales and service professionals, visit them today to discover why they have the best reputa-
tion in the area. They offer one of the largest GMC inventories in New York, and their trained sales staff will help you every step of the way.
Main Street
Community Center
5494 NY-23
Windham, NY 12496
mainstreetcenter.org
518 734 4168
The Main Street Community Center strives to build a caring, welcoming and inclusive environment to benefit all of the communities on the Mountain Top. Centrally located in Windham, the building contains multiple rooms, including two bathrooms (one is handicap accessible), a large sitting area, a conference room, individual workspaces with computer monitors and a large screen TV, free WIFI, access to printers, and a studio for creative activities. The Artist’s Hideaway provides individual lockers for artists to safely store their supplies. There is plenty of on site parking. The Center has an ever increasing offering of classes, programs, and events for people of all ages.
Phoenix Web Collective
7947 Main Street
Hunter, NY 12442
phoenixwebcollective.com
518 628 5101
Mutual aid resource on the mountain!
Local artist shop, makers’ space, and our free mart, where you can get gently used and vintage clothing, home goods, food, toys, books, music, movies, jewelry, electronics, and more for free or pay-what-you-can. We also host small events and workshops. All are welcome!
Pure Catskills purecatskills.com
A regional, buy local campaign developed by the Watershed Agricultural Council to improve the economic viability of the local community, sustain the working landscapes of the Catskills and preserve water quality in the NYC Watershed Region. Pure Catskills works to promote hundreds of farm, forest and local businesses throughout Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties. Search their website for local products, or pick up a copy of the Guide to Pure Catskills Products!
Shawn’s Fresh Fish
5150 Route 28
Mount Tremper, NY 12457
On Instagram: @ShawnsFreshFish
845 702 2120
Located at the Migliorelli Farm Stand. We started our business in 2016. We carry a large selection of fresh fish and seafood. Also, try our fresh made soups, salads and locally smoked fish. Requests welcomed.
Augustine Nursery
9W & Van Kleecks Lane
Kingston, NY 12401
AugustineNursery.com
845 338 4936
We’ve been creating landscapes of distinction throughout the Hudson Valley since 1974. We started small in our hometown of Kingston. Today, Augustine Nursery has grown to become one of the leading residential and commercial landscape design firms and the “nursery of choice” among high-end landscape architects, independent contractors and discerning homeowners. We offer a stunning selection of larger scale, estate-grade trees, shrubs and plants. There are hundreds of varieties, ranging from the most popular to the new and emerging. We also offer a full menu of nursery services, from planning and design to installation and dress finish for greenscapes and hardscapes.
Gardens by Trista
176 Polen Hill Road
Gilboa, NY 12076
gardensbytrista.com 607 588 6762
Gardens by Trista is a full service landscape company focused on providing each client with the individualized landscape or garden of their dreams. We know each property and client holds their own unique essence which we use to transform the land and its elements into their personalized landscape. We strive to fulfill the needs of each and every customer, whether it be a complete design/build for new construction or help with an existing garden that needs a rejuvenation. We also have an extensive garden maintenance division to help keep your landscape and garden in pristine condition. We also offer tree and bush pruning, orchard planning and renovation, and natural sheet mulch and organic fertilization services.
GNH Lumber
5477 Route 23
Windham, NY 12496
518 734 3760
11513 NY-32
Greenville, NY 12083
518 966 5333
Online at GNHlumber.com
Renovating your home or building new? Ask our Team of Experts for inspiration, help, and on-site delivery.
We offer: Lumber & Building Materials • Plumbing & Electrical Supplies • Cabinets, Countertops & Design Services • Tools, Paints, Stains & More! Discover why GNH has a reputation for high-quality products and friendly customer service since 1937. We’ll see you soon!
The Ice Cream Station
76 Main Street
Phoenicia, NY 12464
845 688 3333
Amidst the restaurants and shops crowded along Main Street in Phoenicia, a dessert oasis awaits you inside the Ice Cream Station. The name of the place says it all: a bounty of traditional and unique ice-cream flavors is ready to be scooped into a dish, cone, milkshake, or whatever else strikes your fancy. Open from May through late October, The Ice Cream Station offers hard and soft ice cream, shakes, cones, sundaes, malts, candy, and homemade fudge. The Ice Cream Station is owned by the Kirk Family, who also operate The Nest Egg just up the road.
catskillmtn.org
Ticket line: 518 263 2063
Catskill Mountain Foundation 2024
Performing Arts Season
Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main St., Hunter, NY 12442
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main St. Tannersville, NY 12485
Our 2024 Performing Arts season is filled with music, dance, theater and much more! On June 7, students from the Academy of Fortepiano Performance Chamber Music Workshop will perform a free concert. On June 22, artist Judd Weisberg and pianist Yi-heng Yang present a free performance showcasing their collaboration: Woven Currents. Weisberg has created a series of prints capturing the magical junctions where two streams meerge, and Yi-heng Yang has composed music drawn from the musical pitches of the currents as they meet. This performance includes projected images from the print series and live drawing, accompanied by composed and improvised works on piano.
Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice
June 28-30, 2024
Multiple Venues
New Paltz, NY 12561
HudsonValleyVoiceFest.org
As the Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice prepares to celebrate its 15th Anniversary, it does so with a momentous shift: a new home in the scenic town of New Paltz, New York. Formerly known as The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, this landmark event is undergoing a transformation, promising an extraordinary celebration of international opera and community spirit.
120 Maverick Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
maverickconcerts.org
Maverick Concerts, Inc. is the oldest, continuous summer chamber music festival in America, celebrating over a century of world class music in the woods. The mainstay of the festival, which runs from June to September, is to be found in the Sunday chamber music concerts performed by renowned soloists and ensembles. Jazz and Contemporary Music presentations
have been given more prominence in recent seasons. Our popular Maverick Family Saturdays, are designed for enjoyment by children in grades K-6. The festival is a winner of the Award for Adventurous Programming, accorded jointly by Chamber Music America and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP.)
Music and Art Center of Greene County Rt. 23A Jewett, NY 12442 grazhdamusicandart.org 845 514 2960 or 517 980 1295 (June-September)
The Music and Art Center of Greene County, the first and oldest classical music summer concert series in Greene County, offers an opportunity to hear outstanding musicians perform in the architecturally unique Grazhda hall. An architectural landmark in the region, built in a traditional style typical of the Carpathian region in Ukraine, the complex is a focal point for a well-established Ukrainian summer community and draws tourists from near and far. Established in 1983 by composer and musicologist Dr. Ihor Sonevytsky, the Music and Art Center has become an established presence in the region and on the Ukrainian cultural scene in general. Eminent artists who have performed at the Grazhda in the past include Metropolitan Opera bass Paul Plishka, pianist Alexander Slobodyanik, violinist Oleh Krysa, composer Myroslav Skoryk, Kyiv Opera tenor Anatoliy Solovyanenko and soprano Maria Stefiuk, as well as the Leontovych String Quartet.
Belleayre Lodge
15 Hostel Drive
Pine Hill, NY 12465
belleayrelodge.com
845 254 4200 or belleayrerentals@gmail.com
Belleayre Lodge is located minutes from Belleayre Ski Center in the hamlet of Pine Hill. The eleven vintage modern cabins are warm and welcoming and range from studios with kitchenettes to two and three bedroom cabins with full kitchens. Guests enjoy outdoor amenities; fire pit, and salt water hot tub. The lodge room is open daily for pool, games, and relaxation.
Greenville Arms
11135 State Route 32
Greenville, NY 12083
greenvillearms.com
518 966 5219
Originally built in 1889, our historically registered Inn is situated on six acres of gardens, lawns, and woodlands. The Queen Anne Revival-style main house, renovated Carriage House, and recently constructed Cottage building are host to 16 guest rooms open year-round to guests. Every guest room is uniquely decorated with a blend of antiques and modern amenities. A hot, cooked-toorder breakfast is included with each room.
Hampton Inn
1307 Ulster Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401
Kingston.hamptoninn.com
845 382 2600
Additional location in New Paltz:
4 S. Putt Corners Road
New Paltz, NY 12561
Newpaltz.hamptoninn.com
845 255 4200
Our hotel is near I-87, with several restaurants within walking distance. Historic Downtown Waterfront and Uptown Kingston are both just four miles away with many local shops and dining options. Spend some family time at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, seven miles away. An hour drive or less from many outdoor recreation opportunities. Unwind in our indoor saltwater pool. Enjoy complimentary hot breakfast and free WiFi.
Windham Manor
1161 Co Rd 10
Windham, NY 12496
windhammanor.com
518 944 1448
Our serene 45-acre property features a beautiful twelve-bedroom Victorian mansion, a newly-constructed luxury reception barn, and breathtaking mountain views. The Main House, which can accommodate up to 24 overnight guests, offers 12 private bedrooms, an on-site gym, a full spa, a large kitchen, ADA accommodations, and
sprawling communal areas. It’s the perfect space for any small reception and is also ideal for a weekend getaway with friends or family; a wellness retreat; or a corporate off-site event. Just a few steps west of The Main House, The Barn at Windham Manor can hold up to 300 guests for dinner and dancing. With beautiful tall ceilings, tons of natural light, and no detail spared, the space offers the perfect mix of classic mountain charm and unique modern luxury. We also offer various outdoor wedding ceremony locations throughout the property— one more beautiful than the next!
Mountain Top
illuminatingwellness.care 518 718 4228
Transformative therapeutic massage practice combines elements of many of the healing arts such as Acupressure, Reflexology, Reiki, Chiropractic adjustment and many forms of Asian and Thai massage. BioPhoton Light Therapy – Biontology is a European healing process that detoxes, neutralizes and resets the body and healing begins immediately. This practice finds the root-cause of any symptomproducing malady and quickly neutralizes it and thus assists you in raising the body’s immune system, the key to your health. (biontology.com).
Catskill Mountain Foundation’s
Mountain Cinema
7971 Main Street
Hunter, NY 12442
catskillmtn.org
518 263 4702
Hollywood, foreign & independent films just a mile west of Hunter Mountain and a short drive from Windham. Shows run Friday through Sunday. Also available for rental.
Sunflower Market
75 Mill Hill Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
24 Garden Street
Rhinebeck, NY, 12572
sunflowernatural.com
845 679 5361 (Woodstock) • 845 876 2555 (Rhinebeck)
Sunflower is dedicated to providing products you can feel good about sharing with people you love. Prioritizing working with local farms, families, and business, we know where our food comes from. Sunflower is devoted to providing clean and sustainably sourced food, 100% organic produce and a selection of carefully curated items that fit all dietary needs.
518 263 2000
Catskill Mountain Foundation
7971 Main Street
Hunter, NY 12442
catskillmtn.org
Founded in 1998, the Catskill Mountain Foundation is a 501 (C)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to arts, culture and educational enhancements in the northern Catskill Mountains. The Foundation creates programs in the performing arts, visual arts, studio arts, and film. We support the work of artists through performance opportunities and residency programs; create cultural and educational opportunities for residents and visitors in the Catskill Region; and use these initiatives to build on the Mountaintop’s assets and turn it into a major cultural and educational center in the region.
Windham Foundation
windhamfoundation.com info@windhamfoundation.com 518 734 9636
Windham is a special place for all of us. Our mission is to preserve and enrich Windham and the people who live, work, and visit here. We are a 501c3 grants-based organization, funding programs in education, recreation, the arts, and community initiatives. Established in 2004, the Windham Foundation is run by an all-volunteer Board. Donations are tax deductible.
Work available for purchase at:
Tannersville Antiques & Artisans: 518 589 5600
Rustic Mountain Antiques: 518 589 1202
Smitty’s Nursery: 518 734 3489 francisxdriscoll.com • 518 821 1339
A frequent contributor to the Guide magazine, Francis X. Driscoll is an award-winning nature photographer whose work involves total immersion in a setting so that he might capture that rare glimpse. His primary subject is the Catskill Forest Preserve. He shares his craft with others by leading hikes, conducting workshops and giving private instruction.
Locations in Fishkill, Brewster, Kingston, Catskill, and Hudson, NY; and Danbury, CT
nssupply.com
N&S Supply is your one-stop resource for all your plumbing, heating and HVAC needs; Whether it’s an oil or gas burner, electric or gas water heater, furnace, toilet, faucet or custom shower, our service parts counters or our beautiful Bath Classics Showrooms will have what you need. We carry complete product lines, in-
cluding all the accessories needed for any installation, with dependable, on-time delivery service available. We provide everything you would expect from a full-service distributor, including specialty products designed and manufactured to meet your needs and lifestyle. Contact us today and learn more about how we can provide the best solutions for you. Or, visit us at one of our full service locations or showrooms throughout the Hudson Valley and CT.
Rice Plumbing and Heating
Accord:
riceplumbingandheating@gmail.com 845 626 5088
Boiceville:
riceplumbingboiceville@gmail.com 845 657 7423
riceplumbingandheating.com
Whether you’re dealing with a leaky faucet, a clogged drain, or a plumbing emergency, we’ve got you covered. Our team of experienced and licensed plumbers, our commitment to quality craftsmanship, prompt service, and customer satisfaction sets us apart. Explore our website to discover our wide range of services, from plumbing repairs and installations to maintenance and inspections. We take pride in using the latest industry techniques and high-quality materials to ensure reliable and long-lasting solutions for all your plumbing needs. We offer quick response times and strive to complete every job efficiently and effectively.
Kaatscast
kaatscast.com
Free to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Kaatscast is a biweekly podcast focusing on Catskills history, community, arts & culture, sustainability, and tourism. Voted “Best Regional Podcast” two years in a row, the podcast has collaborated on programming with several regional organizations and is produced by Brett Barry, of Chichester-based Silver Hollow Audio, a creator of podcasts, audio tours, public radio segments, and audiobooks.
Catskill Mountain Printing Services
7971 Main Street
Hunter, NY 12442
518 263 2001
Your one-stop shop for fast, personal service for all of your printing needs. Graphic design services are available, and we can print green!
Campbell Pristine
Coxsackie, NY
campbellpristinellc.com
518 291 2036
At Campbell Pristine LLC, we are dedicated to providing top-quality services for both residential and commercial properties. With our team of skilled professionals, we cover everything inside and out to keep your property looking its best all year round. With years of experience in the industry, you can trust us to deliver exceptional results. Whether you need a fresh coat of paint for your home or a detailed cleaning for your office space, we have the expertise to handle it all. Contact us today to discuss your next project and let us bring your vision to life.
91.3FM
Cable Channel 20
WIOXRADIO.ORG on computers and smartphones
WIOX Community Radio—where public access meets public service to build public trust. WIOX programming is wildly diverse, live and local, and non-commercial, broadcasting from the Catskill Mountains region of upstate New York in the heart of the New York City Watershed. WIOX talk and music programs range from farming to brewing to cooking,
forestry to healthcare, Rock to Pop, Bach and Goth, Blues, Folk, Country, Americana, Jazz and Salsa. WIOX: produced and supported—by you!
WRIP 97.9FM
wripfm.com
Streaming at rip979.com
RIP 97.9 is the radio voice of
the Mountaintop and Valley. Broadcasting 24/7 with the equivalent of 6,000 Watts of power, we are the only radio station covering the entire region between the Hudson Valley and Oneonta. WRIP is independently owned and operated. WRIP is heard on these FM frequencies: 97.9 in Windham and Hunter, 97.5 in Durham and Greenville, 103.7 in Catskill and Hudson, 104.5 in Stamford and Delaware County, and streaming worldwide at rip979.com.
Brainard Ridge Realty
237 South Street
Windham, NY 12496
brainardridge.com 518 734 5333
Specializing in Windham Mountain and the surrounding area for over 35 years. Visit our web site at brainardridge.com for a variety of listings both on and off the mountain: Homes, Townhomes, Rentals and Land. Whatever your needs we are here for you. Call us today!
Coldwell Banker—
Timberland Properties
TimberlandProperties.com
CatskillPremier.com
Margaretville: 845 586 3321
Boiceville/Mt. Tremper: 845 657 4177
Delhi: 607 746 7400
Stamford: 607 652 2220
Sidney: 607 604 4394
Roscoe: 607 290 4130
Start your real estate career today! Unrivaled agent support & the best training in the region. Call or email to learn more: Debra G. Danner, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker/ Branch Manager: 518 937 0924 or Debra.Danner@Timberlandproperties.net.
Gordon Hunter Mountain Realty
6528 Route 23A Hunter, NY 12442
gordonrealty.com 518 589 9000
Gordon Hunter Mountain Realty is dedicated to serving you when you’re looking for property in Upstate New York and Northern Catskill Mountains. Our professional staff specializes in properties near Hunter Mountain and Windham Mountain ski resorts, including Hunter, Tannersville, Jewett, Lexington, Prattsville, Windham, and Ashland. We know the Catskill Mountains and look forward to showing you all that is available to see, do and live in our wonderful world.
Carol Shaw, Broker/Owner—
Shaw Country Realty
5359 State Route 23
Windham, NY 12496
518 734 3500
I have been a real estate broker in the mountain top area for nearly four decades. Representing buyers and sellers, as well as dealing with various types of properties such as homes, land, and country homes, rentals, indicates a broad expertise in the local real estate market. With our many years in the industry, Shaw Country Realty has built a strong network, deep understanding of the market trends, and a keen ability to match buyers with suitable properties and help sellers navigate successful transactions. If you have any specific questions about real estate feel free to ask!
winmorrisonrealty.com
Locations in Kingston, Catskill, Phoenicia, Saugerties, Windham & Woodstock
At Win Morrison Realty we listen to your wants and needs while assisting you to make them a reality. We pride ourselves on being the largest and most respected real estate company in the Hudson Valley. Whether it is a weekend retreat, mansion, land, commercial property or business, our experienced agents will assist you every step of the way. We have seven offices located throughout the Hudson Valley and a team of over 100 real estate professionals. We
are members of numerous MLS (Multiple Listing Services) to serve you, from New York City to the Adirondacks. Please stop in or call any of our offices.
Catskill Visitor’s Center
5096 State Route 28
Mt. Tremper, NY 12457
catskillsvisitorscenter.org
845 688 3369
Your gateway to Catskills, where you can learn about the vast outdoor recreational opportunities in the area as well as discover the cultural and natural history of the Region. The center features educational exhibits along with maps, books, gear, and gifts, as well a friendly and knowledgeable staff.
Chamber of Commerce
Margaretville, NY 12455
centralcatskills.com • sceniccatskills.com
845 586 3300
The Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce works to advance the economic and community vitality of the many hamlets, villages and towns in our region and promote and foster events, programs and initiatives that will support its members. Collaboration and innovation will inspire community enhancement and quality of life opportunities for all who live, work and visit our communities.
Sullivan County Tourism
SullivanCatskills.com
1 800 882 CATS
Go! Sing
Sing with the band at the site of the ’69 Woodstock concert. Our creative spirit is alive all over our charming small towns, which are bursting with food, drink, and outdoor fun all summer long. PLAN AHEAD: June 14-16: Sullivan Catskills Pride Drag Me to the Catskills Weekend; June 15: Catskills Barbeque Backyard BBQ Competition & Family Festival; July 2-14: Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritaville at Forestburgh Playhouse; July 6: The Outlaw Music Festival at Bethel Woods; July 20: Hurleyville Rainbow Festival
Ulster County Tourism
VisitUlsterCountyNY.com
Seek for Yourself & Bloom Brighter
A wise man named Buddha once said, “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” Imagine if Buddha could see Ulster County in the spring and summer when fields of flowers make their triumphant reappearance. How many lives could Ulster’s millions of blooms change? Head upstate and discover the rich, vibrant colorful symphony of colors when Ulster County’s flowers put on a show just for you. Plan your trip at VisitUlsterCountyNY.com
1316 Ulster Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401
asliceofitaly7115.com 845 336 7115
The finest Italian dishes, pizza, hot and cold subs, salads and more made with the freshest ingredients and served with five star customer service. Full bar featuring a range of red and white wines, bottled beers, beers on tap and liquor. We also cater, and pride ourselves on being able to deliver our quality restaurant dishes right to your door. Whatever the event, no matter how many or how few, we are there for you. Open Monday through Saturday from 11 am to 10 pm, closed on Sundays.
1923 Ulster Avenue
Lake Katrine, NY 12401
angelaspizzarestaurant.com
845 382 2211
Angela’s is more than just pizza! Soups, salads, pastas, subs, wraps, Italian dinners, desserts & more. … But, yeah, our pizza is dang awesome, too! Try our specialty pies or build your own! Open every day 11:00 am to 10:00 pm. Eat in or take out, and delivery is available. Catering is also available: let us bring our delicious food to your next event! Angela’s mobile app—available on both Android and iOS devices—is designed just for you. Get instant access to online ordering, Angela’s Loyalty Program, coupons, dining & catering menus, wing flavors and much more! Download the app today!
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In the Bearsville Center: 295A Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498 thebearcantinawoodstock.org 845 684 7223
Contemporary Mexican made fresh! All of your favorites are here: burritos, tacos, quesadillas, fajitas, chimichangas and more, with several meat, fish, chicken and vegan options, and a kids menu. Enjoy streamside dining with both indoor & outdoor seating. View our full menu and place your order on the Clover app. Open Monday-Thursday 3-9 pm; Friday-Saturday 12-10 pm; Sunday 12-9 pm.
Brandywine
11157 State Route 23 Windham, NY 12496
brandywinewindham.com 518 734 3838
For the past 35 years, this full-service Italian restaurant has offered great food and impeccable service. Share wonderful memories with your loved ones as we fill your table with delicious Italian cuisine. Born and raised in Southern Italy, owner Louis Carac-
ciolo mastered the art of Italian cookery, and passed it on to his son Joseph, who has continued that art and tradition as chef in the restaurant. We guarantee that we know the formula to capture the rich flavor of your favorite Italian dishes.
Chef Deanna
1645 County Highway 6 Bovina Center, NY 13740
chefdeanna.com
Weddings and special event catering, with delivery available for larger events! Chef Deanna is on the cutting edge of the sustainable food. Surrounded by farmers and local food makers, Chef Deanna creates beautiful dishes using her Sicilian heritage and her love of everything sweet and savory.
Gracie’s Luncheonette
969 Main Street
Leeds, NY 12451
graciestruckny.com
518 943 9363
Our diner-style burgers, fried chicken sandwich, loaded fries and donuts are our signature menu items. All of our breads, pastries and desserts are made fresh in house every day. We make all of our own condiments and even our own cheese. We buy whole beef from Josef Meiller’s farm in Pine Plains, NY and we grind our own special blend for our burgers as well as cut our own steaks. We also cure and smoke our own bacon, pastrami and other meats. All eggs, dairy, produce and other meats are all sourced
as locally as possible. the potatoes for our French fries are even grown right in Catskill at Story’s Farm and hand-cut daily!
Jessie’s Harvest House
5819 Main Street
Tannersville, NY 12485
jessiesharvesthouse.com
518 589 5445
Jessie’s Harvest House Restaurant and Lodge is a welcoming & cozy place to gather, featuring a delicious menu of American-style cuisine and elevated comfort foods, with locallysourced ingredients, a friendly tavern, and rustic country lodging. Family-owned & family-run, we love to share all the freshest foods our area has to offer! Catering is available. Indoor dining.
Mama’s Boy Burgers
6067 Main Street (at the traffic light)
Tannersville, NY 12485
Mamasboyburgers.com
518 589 6667
Established in 2015, Mama’s Boy Burgers was voted the “Best Burger Shack” in the Hudson Valley by Hudson Valley Magazine. We are all about fresh and local ingredients. Our burgers are made from local, black Angus beef from a farm 6 miles away. Our seasonal produce comes from Story Farms, our ice cream is made in the Hudson Valley. We also offer vegetarian and vegan options. Eat In, Take Out or Order Online.
Pancho Villa’s
Mexican Restaurant
6037 Main Street
Tannersville, NY 12485
panchovillamex.com
518 589 5134
The Best Mexican Food this side of the Border! Pancho Villa’s is owned and operated by the Oscar and Patricia Azcue family. They have been proudly serving authentic Mexican food on Main Street in Tannersville since 1992. Rooted in tradition, their passion is sharing great food and good company. All of the traditional Mexican favorites are served here, from enchiladas and burritos to chimichangas and flautas...plus great margaritas and daiquiris! Open every day except Tuesday.
Restaurant & Tap Room
8373 State Route 28
Big Indian, NY 12410
peekamooserestaurant.com
845 254 6500
Devin and Marybeth Mills hail from some of New York City’s finest restaurants, including the famed Gramercy Tavern. Seeking to move closer to the farms supplying their menu, they have beautifully restored this country farmhouse set among the Catskill Mountains. The restaurant supports local growers by changing the menu daily, using the freshest ingredients available.
Tito Bandito’s
302 Main Street
Pine Hill, NY 12465
titobanditos.com
845 254 3113
Tito Bandito’s is the spot to enjoy a Catskills twist on Mexican Cuisine. Our menu offers a little something for everyone from our fun & inventive tacos, to burritos, quesadillas and much more. While visiting, be sure to try one of our artfully crafted seasonal margaritas. Super fun and casual setting. Reservations are suggested for all parties, required for parties larger than 12 people.
6006 Main Street
Tannersville, NY 12485
campcatskill.co 518 303 6050
Sustainable gear & gifts, including clothing, footwear, backpacks, and hiking gear. Our mission is to help you feel good about what you buy, what you wear, and the gear you use (and reuse) in the wild. Having the right gear lets you spend more time outside in nature, which in turn connects you to the importance of preserving the natural wonders of our world. We work with brands that care about their impact on the planet and its people, and we donate 1% of our revenue to environmental nonprofits here in the Catskills.
Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop
6042 Main Street
Tannersville, NY 12485
518 589 7500
Operated by the Catskill Mountain Foundation and located
next door to the Orpheum Performing Arts Center, our shop features a curated selection of gifts from around the Region and around the world. Open for holiday shopping Thursday through Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm.
The Knitting Room
11111 State Route 23
Windham, NY 12496
theknittingroomny.com
518 768 1944
Co owned by long time friends May and Zairi, The Knitting Room is a yarn store specializing in locally produced and hand dyed yarn. Come touch gorgeous yarn and
stay to knit or crochet over a cup of hot cocoa, latte or tea. We offer beginner and advanced classes, and help starting new projects. With gorgeous views of Windham Mountain and a great atmosphere, any afternoon spent at The Knitting Room is guaranteed good fun in fantastic company.
Moose Crossing
1 Reservoir Rd.
Shokan, NY 12481 rustic-cabin.com
845 657 9792
Casual, rustic and country Adirondack-style furniture, home furnishings, home decor, accessories, gifts and collectibles. Hand-crafted, Made-In-America sold wood furniture and furnishings for your home, lodge or cabin. Jewelry, blankets, pillows, rugs and clothing in Native American, Western and country motifs and styles. The best selection of nature-inspired items hand crafted from artisanal craftsmen located locally and from around the country.
The Nest Egg
84 Main Street
Phoenicia, NY 12464
thenesteggcountrystore.com nesteggshop.com 845 688 5851
An old-fashioned country store in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. You’ll find lots of specialty and artisan crafted foods here, from local maple syrup, honey, preserves, to nostalgic candies and gourmet chocolate, to gourmet peanut butter, and more! Your source for mountain clothing and souvenirs, including Minnetonka Moccasins, tshirts & sweatshirts, local area books and hiking maps, candles, soaps, incense, jewelry, toys, puzzles, games and more.
Our home-made delicious fudge is worth the trip! Owner Robin Kirk’s family has owned The Nest Egg since 1968.
Catskill Center for Conservation & Development
43355 Route 28
Arkville, NY 12406
catskillcenter.org
845 586 2611
Since 1969, the Catskill Center has led the effort to protect the more than 700,000 acres of the Catskill Park and Catskill Forest Preserve. Their mission is to protect and foster the environmental, cultural,and economic well-being of the Catskill Region.
County Economic Development Corporation
411 Main Street
Catskill, NY 12414
greenecountyedc.com 518 719 3290
Your gateway to establishing your business in Greene County. Their team connects entrepreneurs, developers, and corporate leadership with resources, municipalities, and investment incentives for job-creating businesses.
11111 State Route 23
Windham, NY 12496
mountainshedsny.com 518 588 9353
We carry Backyard Outfitters sheds and Adventure Play Sets. Our sheds are custom-made to fit your personal needs. We have deluxe cabins, playhouses, utility sheds, mini barns, single & double garages, animal shelters, wood sheds and chicken coops. We have several buildings in stock for immediate purchase, or you may customize your building with different options available. Sheds are open to browse seven days a week. Our inventory displays different options, along with colors, and sizes. These buildings are made locally with Superior Mennonite craftsmanship using the highest quality materials. We offer a buy or rent-to-own option with no credit check.
375 Pantherkill Road
Phoenicia, NY 12464
menla.org
Menla is a hidden oasis in the heart of the Catskill mountains. Featuring wellness and spiritual retreats as well as exclusive getaways, and the world-class Dewa Spa. Immerse yourself in the magic of pristine mountain forests. Explore hiking trails, encounter wildlife, and discover a rich tapestry of wellness experiences and activities. Dewa Spa’s unique architecture and Tibetan accents evoke peace and tranquillity. Eastern and Western treatments, such as Tibetan KuNye massage, herbal baths, Shirodhara, sounds baths, energy readings, and customized facials are a few of the lavish therapies found on our spa.
5571 Route 28
Phoenicia, NY 12464
WoodlandPlayhouse.com
845 688 3320
We are Woodland Playhouse, a small outdoor focused, play-based preschool and summer camp program in Phoenicia. Our summer camp programming is offered to children aged 2-12. We run seven weeks of camp through July and August. Each week is a different theme and different age grouping. All of our camps are run entirely outdoors, and some are even “traveling” camps that explore hiking trails and other local outdoor locations such as Kenneth Wilson State Campground. We offer camps for groups as young as 2-6, as old as 6-12, and everywhere between! Our camps are focused on spending time outdoors, interacting with nature, and being present with one another … and of course, we have some learning and a whole lot of fun along the way.
518 378 0664
Powell’s Tree Care
Earlton, NY
PowellsTreeCare @gmail.com
PowellsTree.com
Powell’s Tree Care is your source for the best tree care in Greene County. We offer pruning, removals, viewscaping, woodscaping, storm and emergency clean-up, cabling, fertilization and stump grinding. Remember to always leave this type of work to professional arborists or tree experts. Ian Powell has two decades of experience, is on site at every job and takes pride in leaving the work site clean and mess free. We excel at tree care and tree care only.
128 South Street
Windham, NY 12496
oliviaswineandspirits.com 518 750 8026
Wine connoisseurs Olivia and Robert Giordano have traveled the world learning about wine, and are now bringing their vast knowledge and passion for wines from all over the world to Windham. Olivia’s offers a diverse selection of wines at a variety of competitive price points, as well as a variety of bourbons, whiskeys, and other liquors. Open every day.
Town & Country Liquors
330 Route 12
Saugerties, NY 12477
townandcountryliquorstore.com 845 246 8931
Our selection of wines and spirits is among the best in the Hudson Valley. Our friendly helpful staff is here to assist you in finding the right beverage: we have a huge selection of wines and spirits from all over the world.
63 Tinker St.
Woodstock, NY 12498
woodstockwineandliquor.com 845 679 2669
Located in the heart of Woodstock, WW&L is a family-owned, lovingly curated boutique shop with more than 1000 different wines, spirits, sakes and ciders to choose from. Customers discover a focus on local wines and spirits, naturally and sustainably produced wines from around the world, in an inviting, non-pretentious environment. Respecting tradition while celebrating innovation. Check out the free in-store tastings and order through woodstockwineandliquor.com for pickup or free local delivery.
Exploration Days are back at Hanford Mills Museum throughout the 2024 season and kick off on June 15 with the Let’s Grow Exploration Day. This day will highlight pollinators, native ecosystems, and agriculture.
Hanford Mills Museum staff will offer demonstrations of our steel attrition grist mill throughout the day, in addition to our usual machine demonstrations. The Learning Lab will be open with many activities and historic games for children and the whole family to participate in. Kids will also have the opportunity to plant a marigold seed to take home and help our pollinator friends.
The festivities will also include many guest exhibitors and vendors. A morning bird walk guided by the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society will take place at 8:00 am before the museum opens. Schoharie and Otsego County Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardeners will share information about gardening, especially invasive species. Beekeepers will be on site to talk about bees and pollination, and Blue Merle Apiaries will have honey for sale. Hartwick’s Baking Innovation Lab will be highlighting their efforts to support regional biodiversity of food-quality grain.
Representatives from the New York Power Authority’s Blenheim-Gilboa Visitor’s Center will be providing education about their hydroelectric plant with a STEM activity. The Catskill Forest Association will be on hand to share information about forestry education and services for private landowners in the
Catskill Mountain region. Intelligent Green Solutions will share their solar power solutions for homes and businesses. Contemporary folk singer-songwriter Will Walker from Cooperstown will be performing poetic songs inspired by family, history, and rural communities.
Ye Olde Bubble Tea & More will be on site vending hot and iced tea and coffee, hot chocolate, spiced cider, bubble tea and sweet treats. Union Grove Distillery will be offering tastings of their products that will also be for sale. Visitors are also welcome to bring their lunch and snacks and enjoy them at our picnic tables.
Experience a story of innovation, ingenuity and entrepreneurship at a historic working mill site. Sheltered in a valley in the northwestern Catskills of New York, Hanford Mills Museum offers insights into the past and lessons about the relationships between people, the things they make, and the places they live. As one of only a handful of operating water-powered mills, Hanford Mills Museum has earned a place on both the National and New York State Registers of Historic Places.
Hanford Mills is located at 51 County Highway 12 in East Meredith, at the intersection of Delaware County Routes 10 & 12, just 10 miles from Oneonta, and 15 miles from Delhi. For more information, visit hanfordmills.org or call 607 278 5744.
Butterfly lovers know the value of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). It’s the only plant the caterpillars of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) can eat, and is essential to their survival. Toxic to cattle, milkweed has been systematically eliminated from pastures and rangelands throughout the U.S., so home gardeners can play an important role in cultivating pockets of milkweed where monarchs can lay their eggs. Other butterflies also use milkweed, including the Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) and the Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes), which appreciate its nectar.
What is the best way to incorporate milkweed into a home garden? It can be an aggressive spreader if not contained, but it has garden assets besides attracting butterflies. It has large, handsome leaves; it bears sweetly scented flowers in early summer; and it produces interesting seed pods on stalks to include in fall bouquets.
To keep milkweed contained, we need to know how it spreads. Milkweed seeds, like dandelions, are attached to silky filaments that catch the wind and disperse them far and wide. If you don’t want milkweed seedlings popping up all over your garden, cut down the seed stalks before the pods open. Milkweed also spreads by way of a root system that travels an inch or two below the soil surface and will produce new plants that can quickly take over a flowerbed. Young plants are quite easy to pull, though, even in clay soil. If you’d rather not patrol your garden for escapees, you can plant milkweed in areas surrounded by paving, or you can contain a milkweed patch with a barrier like a row of bricks sunk a few inches into the ground.
Milkweed is native through much of the U.S. and Canada, from the Atlantic states through the Great Plains—so why does
its Latin name, Asclepias syriaca, refer to Syria? The 18th century biologist Carl Linnaeus, who developed the system of Latin names for plants, knew perfectly well that milkweed was North American. Earlier plant specialists Jacques-Philippe Cornuti and Carolus Clusius had noticed its resemblance to the crown flower (Calotropis gigantea) and thought it was the same plant. The crown flower is native to India and Southeast Asia, so their mistake was not quite as far off the mark in a time when records were kept by hand and adventurers did not always clearly describe where they collected a plant. Probably for the sake of consistency, Linnaeus kept the name that was already familiar to plant people.
Two other milkweed varieties will also support butterflies, including monarchs: butterflyweed (A. tuberosa), and swamp milkweed (A. incarnata). Both have upward-facing flowers—bright orange in the case of butterflyweed and pink in the case of swamp milkweed. They need consistently moist soil, especially during their first year or two, and can be a bit harder to establish than common milkweed—but plants can often be found in nurseries and are worth trying in a garden with the right conditions.
Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson enjoys gardening in Catskill. She also writes a weekly Substack series, The Generous Garden, online at mtomlinson.substack.com.
Special offer: if you would like seeds of the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Margaret Tomlinson at 199 Spring Street, Catskill, NY 12414, and she will send seeds in the fall when her milkweed plants produce them.
After a successful inaugural launch in summer of 2023, Maude Adams Theater Hub (a program of Catskill Mountain Foundation) is expanding their Theater Explorers to two weeks this August 5-16! Combining all the arts that go into creating a staged performance, Colleen Weiman and Hedda Flynn will be guiding kids ages 9-12 through the joy of writing, designing, and acting their own plays based on the Superpowers of Theater.
Students may enroll in either week–or both–as the curriculum will build but still be unique both weeks. Featured guests will provide lessons on costume design, stage combat, theater dance, improvisation, stand up comedy, puppetry, playwriting, scenic design, production, and much more! Kids will get to pursue the parts of theater that they love most while developing a rich understanding of all that goes into putting a production together from the ground up.
Colleen Weiman is an artist born and raised in Windham NY. She received her BFA from Arcadia University, and has since worked on several major art projects, namely creating two large scale murals for a school in the state of Delaware. Most recently she has participated in creative aspects of several productions on the mountaintop. She helped design props and sets for MATH’s production of Into The Woods, and for the upcoming production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Colleen has also helped in the design and creation of sets and props for past productions
done in WAJCS, including The Addams Family, Annie, and Peter Pan. She has taught many art classes at the Main Street Community Center in Windham, NY, and is looking forward to this opportunity to explore the creative workings of children’s theater.
A graduate of Hunter Tannersville Central High School, Hedda Flynn spent her formative years in New York City, and has trained at The Thirds Street Music School (tap, voice), Steps on Broadway (tap, ballet, jazz, hiphop), Stagedoor Manor (dance, voice, musical theater), A Class Act New York (musical theater, voice over, voice), and has performed in over 30 plays and musicals. She has also taught hip hop, stage movement, and choreographed two main stage productions for Maude Adams Theater Hub. Now a sophomore at the University of Oregon, Hedda is pursuing a degree in human physiology, while keeping her love of theater going strong by teaching and mentoring the next generation of performers.
Classes will be hosted once again at Sugar Maples in Maplecrest, NY, and will be sharing the theme of Superpowers, and whatever that may mean to the participants. A nurturing environment for the growth of imagination and art, Sugar Maples is a program within the Catskill Mountain Foundation. Fee: $240 per/week session, plus $35 registration. Scholarships available for HTC and WAJ students. For more information, please contact morseh@ catskillmtn.org, or use the QR code in our advertisement!
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hile spring is generally slow to come to the Catskills, by June the mountains are truly shaking off their winter and early spring grays and the deep greens blanket the mountains. It’s a time of wildflowers and warmer temperatures, along with a few black flies! It’s also a great time to start getting out and enjoying the great outdoors, especially in the Catskills.
The oldest and most popular expo showcasing the outdoors and the arts in the Catskills—the Catskills Great Outdoor Expo—returns this June on Saturday, June 8, 2024 at the Catskills Visitor Center in Mount Tremper, NY. The Catskills Great Outdoor Expo is a Catskills tradition celebrating the outdoors and art with vendors, food, live presentations, and a host of fun activities for the whole family. This one-day Expo will feature dozens of exhibitors, along with expert presentations, free samples and raffles—plus the famous Catskill Center Gear Sale. More information is available at catskillsoutdoorexpo.com.
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development celebrates a significant achievement in securing crucial funding for the Catskills in the New York State 2024/2025 budget and applauds Governor Kathy Hochul and the State Legislature for
their continued commitment to the region. The budget, retaining the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) at $400 million, allocates a record $10 million to the Catskill and Adirondack Forest Preserve Parks, under the State Land Stewardship line.
“The Catskill Center applauds Governor Hochul, the Senate, and the Assembly for recognizing the value of the Catskills in the state budget,” said Jeff Senterman, Executive Director. “The budget includes stewardship money to care for the Catskill Park, funding for expanded visitor services at the Catskills Visitor Center, support of research and data collection across the region, and more. Both the natural resources and the communities of the Catskills will benefit from this historic investment and the increased focus on our region.”
As co-chair of the Forest Preserve Advocates with our friends at the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK), the allocated $10 million, which represents a $2 million increase from the previous year, marks the highest financial support ever designated to the Catskill and Adirondack Forest Preserves.
The Catskills Visitor Center (CVC), which the Catskill Center manages and operates and is the Catskill Park’s only official visitor center, will also see $250,000—an increase of $50,000 from the previous budget. The Catskill Stewards Program, which places stewards at high-use trailheads and along outdoor recreation hot spots, will receive an additional $50,000 in the Aid to Localities budget championed by the efforts of Senator Michelle Hinchey.
The Catskill Center also applauds the allocation of $180,000 directed to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies for the Catskill Science Collaborative, an increase of $80,000 from the previous year. This funding, prioritized by the Catskill Park Coalition, which we co-chair, highlights an ongoing commitment to advancing scientific research and environmental monitoring within the region.
The budget also includes funding for Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, invasive species management, including Hemlock Wooly Adelgid biocontrol funding at Cornell University, state-wide funding for Clean Water Infrastructure, Climate Smart Communities, Smart Growth, and Connect Kids grants.
Local recreational opportunities are always changing in the Catskill Park and by visiting the Catskills Visitor Center’s Trail Conditions blog, you can stay on top of those changes. Staff at the Visitor Center are regularly posting updates related to the Catskill Park, Catskill trails, Catskill campgrounds and camping, Catskill boating, and more at catskillsvisitorcenter.org/trail.
the Hiker Trash Husbands on YouTube and the Web
Looking to explore the trails of the Catskills (and beyond) before you hit the trail? My husband and I have a YouTube channel about our hiking and snowshoeing adventures all over! You can find The Hiker Trash Husbands at youtube.com/thehikertrashhusbands. If you’re in the Catskills and have cable provided by MTC, you can catch our videos on CatskillsAir, MTC Channel 1.
For the two of us, The Hiker Trash Husbands is not only a way to show friends and family our hiking adventures, but an effort to provide positive LGBTQ+ representation in the hiking world. We love to showcase our own hiking adventures, along with other queer outdoors folks. You can learn more about it by visiting our website at hikertrashhusbands.com.
Time in nature, and outdoor recreation has proven to be essential for all.
Especially during uncertain times, all of us, from seasoned outdoor enthusiasts, to families heading out to their local park for the first time, can turn to community and simple reminders about how to safely & responsibly recreate outdoors while caring for one another.
The Recreate Responsibly guidelines came together to offer a starting point for getting outside to keep yourself and others safe while working to maintain access to our beloved natural spaces.
Read on to learn the primary tips on how to responsibly recreate outdoors. Each edition of the guidelines have been developed by bringing together topline issues and experts to distill key concepts that when implemented, build a community of care in the outdoors.
Learn more at recreateresponsibly.org
Check the status of the place you want to visit for closures, fire restrictions, and weather.
Reservations and permits may be required. Make sure you have the gear you need and a back-up plan
Be an active part of making the outdoors safe and welcoming for all identities and abilities.
There is space for everyone and countless outdoor activities. Be kind to all who use the outdoors and nature differently.
Respect the land, water, wildlife, and Native communities. Follow the seven Leave No Trace principles. Learn more at LeaveNoTrace.org
We all have a responsibility to sustain the places we love. Volunteer, donate, and advocate for the outdoors.
Visit the Catskill Park’s Visitor Center
Located at 5096 Route 28 in Mount Tremper, NY, the Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey Catskills Visitor Center (CVC) is the official visitor center for the Catskill Park. Operated and managed by the Catskill Center, staff are available at the CVC with information, maps and all the advice needed to plan a Catskill adventure. The CVC is open every day, except for Tuesdays, from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Visitors can get their Catskill questions answered in person, receive tourism literature, and make purchases at the CVC’s shop that includes hiking maps, regional books, and much more. CVC staff are also available to answer questions about the Catskills and the Catskill Park via email at info@ catskillcenter.org or phone at 845 688 3369.
In addition to tourism services, there are 1.5 miles of trails on the CVC’s grounds, including the 0.5 mile ADA accessible Interpretive Loop Trail, which are open to the public daily. The 80-foot tall Upper Esopus Fire Tower is also open daily to visitors, offering unrivaled views of the surrounding mountains and Esopus Creek valley. Picnic tables are available on site for those who wish to enjoy a picnic lunch.
Visitors can explore the ever expanding resources available online for the CVC on the web at catskillsvisitorcenter.org, the CVC’s Facebook page at facebook.com/catskillsvisitorcenter, and the CVC on Instagram at @catskills.visitor.center.
Chaired by the Catskill Center, the Catskill Park Advisory Committee (CPAC) is a group of representatives from local governments and organizations that provides a forum to discuss issues of regional importance. The purpose of the Committee is to provide assistance, advice and guidance to the NYSDEC, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and other land managers in the management of the New York State Forest
Preserve, the Catskill Park and the Catskill Watershed. Meetings are held quarterly and are open to the public. If you’d like to learn more, join the mailing list or attend the next meeting, please contact the Catskill Center at 845 586 2611 or email them at cccd@ catskillcenter.org with CPAC in the subject asking to be added to the mailing list.
The natural beauty, the majesty of the mountains, the protection of the Catskill Park, the region’s natural and cultural resources, all need your help! By supporting the work of the Catskill Center, you support: the stewardship of our Catskill Park and its vast natural resources; the Center’s collaborative spirit as we convene, create partnerships and facilitate discussions that benefit the region; and the Center’s work to support education, arts and culture throughout the Catskills.
To support the work of the Catskill Center, become a member online through their website at www.catskillcenter.org/donate or donate by mail: Checks made out to the “Catskill Center” can be mailed to Catskill Center, PO Box 504, Arkville, NY 12406.
Jeff Senterman is the Executive Director of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development in Arkville, NY, a member of the Board of Directors for the Catskill Watershed Corporation, and the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce, and one half of the Hiker Trash Husbands. Jeff graduated with a degree in Environmental Science from Lyndon State College and worked for many years as an Environmental Planner in New England before coming back to New York and the Catskills working in the nonprofit sector. To learn more about the work of the Catskill Center in the Catskills, visit www.catskillcenter.org.
Saturday, June 22, 2024, 1:00 pm
Cinema 1, Doctorow Center for the Arts
7971 Main St., Hunter, NY 12442
Reception to follow the concert in the Piano Performance Museum
FREE event. Register to reserve a seat at catskillmtn.org or by calling 518 263 2063
This event features pianist Yi-heng Yang on piano improvising to images of prints from Judd Weisberg’s series “Woven Currents” as they are displayed on the movie screen. The second half of the concert features Yi-heng on piano responding to live action drawing created on the spot by Weisberg which will be projected onto the screen.
This is just a sampling of all of the events in the Catskills this June.
To request that your event be included in future calendars, please email tafts@catskillmtn.org
Please call ahead or visit the website for each event to confirm details, including any admission costs.
Birdsong Farmers Market
Birdsong Farmers Market is located on one of the most beautiful properties in Delaware County. Shop from farmers, herbalists, craftspeople, and producers and then wander the stunning property. The art gallery will be open if there is an exhibition on display.
Location: 38480 Highway 10, Delhi
Hours: Every Saturday, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Bovina Farmers Market
Livestock Foundation is proud to host the Bovina Farmers’ Market. They feature the best local agricultural and craft products from the community’s artisans and farmers. Fresh food, live music, and children’s activities make it an engaging weekly community event for all ages. Rain or shine.
Location: 50 Creamery Road, Bovina
Hours: Every Friday to Labor Day, 4:00-7:00 pm
Delhi Farmers Market
An amazing line up of dedicated farmers, bakers, producers, herbalists, craftspeople and more. You will find a variety of your kitchen staples—fresh bread, farm fresh cheeses, vegetables, jams, poultry and more.
Location: Courthouse square, Delhi
Hours: Every Wednesday, 9:00 am-2:00 pm
Woodstock Farm Festival
Woodstock’s other festival, celebrating local food, live music, and our rockin’ community
Location: Mountainview Lot, Rock City Road, Woodstock
Hours: Every Wednesday, 3:00-7:00 pm
Kingston Farmers Market
The Kingston Farmers Market fosters a sense of community, where people come together to shop, talk and learn. A wide variety of produce, baked goods, alcohol, goodies and gift items.
Location: County Courthouse parking lot, 285 Wall St Kingston
Hours: Every Saturday through November 23, 9:00 am-1:00 pm
More Info: kingstonfarmersmarket.org
Saugerties Farmers Market
All the best of local produce, including fruits and vegetables, pasture-raised meats, artisanal cheeses, eggs, maple syrup, honey, wines and spirits, baked goods, jams and jellies, prepared foods, and more.
Location: Cahill School Parking Lot 115 Main St., Saugerties
Hours: Every Saturday, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
More Info: saugertiesfarmersmarket
Phoenicia Farmers Market
Phoenicia Farmers Market is a volunteer-led movement to increase access to locally-grown foods in the Town of Shandaken. We bring together local farms, artisanal makers, full-time residents, and seasonal visitors to a weekly market to shop, learn, gather, and compost. EBT/SNAP Benefits are accepted.
Location: Main Street, Phoenicia
Hours: Every Sunday through October 27, noon4:00 pm
More Info: phoeniciafarmersmarket.org
Online Meditation with Bushel
Bushel is hosting online meditation sessions that include guided meditation, group interaction, and support. New sitters and seasoned sitters are welcome. Meditation sessions are free and open to all, but donations are welcome to support this program.
Location: Join via Zoom
Hours: Monday-Friday, 6:30-7:00 am
More Info & Zoom Link: bushelcollective.org/meditation-calendar/
Magic On Main—
An Intimate Parlor Experience
Join Magician Sean Doolan for a magic show in his private library located in a historic building on Main Street in Windham. Sean will weave his personal story of transitioning from a trial lawyer to a magician in interactive magical routines. In this parlor show, By reservation only, no walkins. Dates and times subject to change without notice, see website for updated calendar.
Location: 5428 NY Route 23 (Main Street), Windham
Dates & Times: Check website for most up-todate schedule
Tickets: $20/person
More Info: MagicOnMainWindham.com
The Glad Game Paintings and Sculptures by Paul Latislaw
Inspired by the theatrical stage sets and exaggerated characters of early stop-motion anima-
tion, Paul Latislaw’s works are infused with both humor and the grotesque. Cartoonishly rounded landscapes and figures with impishly bulbous features populate Latislaw’s artworks, setting the stage for a playful tension of the innocent and the slightly deranged.
Location: KIPNZ, 150 Delaware St, Walton
More Info: kipnz.com
THROUGH JUNE 28
Flowing Impressions: Celebrating the Land and Waterways of the Schoharie Reservoir
Watershed
The Main Street Community Center in Windham, the Windham Arts Alliance, and the Mountaintop Library in Tannersville are excited to collaborate with Greene County Soil and Water Conservation District to present a new art show called Flowing Impressions, which celebrates the Schoharie Watershed during Watershed Month.
Location: Main Street Community Center, 5494 State Route 23, Windham More Info: mainstreetcenter.org
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THROUGH JUNE 30
Two Solo Exhibitions: Joanne Barham and Helene Manzo, plus Members’ Group Show
Longyear Gallery is an artist run co-op gallery. This show features a variety of work by gallery members in various mediums.
Location: Longyear Gallery, 785 Main Street, Margaretville
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 3-5 pm
Hours: Friday-Sunday & Holiday Mondays, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
More Info: longyeargallery.org
THROUGH JULY 6
Showcase Exhibition
Students of instructors at the Woodstock School of Art will be on display.
Location: Robert H. Angeoch Gallery, Woodstock School of Art, 2470 Route 212, Woodstock More Info: woodstockschoolofart.org
THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS & SUPPORTERS!
Catskill Mountain Foundation is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts, the Greene County Cultural Fund administered by the Greene County Legislature, The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, The Royce Family Foundation, The Samuel and Esther Doctorow Fund, The Orville and Ethel Slutzky Family Foundation, Platte Clove Bruderhof Community, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, The Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall & Sterling Insurance, All Souls’ Church, Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, and by private donations.
7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter 518 263 2001 • www.catskillmtn.org
Flower Targets: Works by Laura Sue King
The Roxbury Arts Group is extremely pleased to present Flower Targets, a solo exhibition of new work by local artist Laura Sue King. Flower Targets includes acrylic paintings on canvas and wood, and watercolor paintings on paper. As King writes, “my paintings are first about color. Knowledge of scientific and theoretical systems help me to feel a little more in control of what I’m doing in the studio, but this information doesn’t make good paintings. While choosing color is my focus as I begin each painting, it is surely the experience of color rather than the actual color that motivates me.”
Location: Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Rd, Roxbury
More Info: roxburyartsgroup.org
OCTOBER 27
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the articulation of land with the American landscape paintings of Thomas Cole. The exhibition presents 19th-century paintings by Thomas Cole featuring Native figures, in context with Indigenous works of historic and cultural value, and artworks by contemporary Indigenous artists: Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa), Brandon Lazore (Onondaga, Snipe Clan), Truman T. Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River) and Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee).
Location: Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring Street, Catskill Days: Saturdays & Sundays
More Info: thomascole.org
Outside the Box
Iroquois Museum’s Outside the Box presents the work of 10 Iroquois/Haudenosaunee individuals whose creative paths diverge from the unexpected to break molds and make inroads into areas of expression where Indigenous representation is rare.
Location: Iroquois Museum, 324 Caverns Road, Howes Cave
More Info: iroquoismuseum.org or 518 296 8949
Delhi Bridge Run 5K
Featuring a 5k that starts and finishes in Hoyt Park in the middle of the Village. Parking will be available in the County parking lots behind
111 & 99 Main Street. Both parking lots are connected to the park by the river-walk trail for easy access. Proceeds benefit scholarships to high school seniors graduating from schools in Delaware County, NY, and a school or community group of their choice.
Location: Hoyt Park, Delhi Time: 9:00 am
More Info: visitdelhiny.com/delhi-bridge-run
This year’s tour focuses on the Town and Village of Coxsackie where the first tour of homes took place in 1976. Tour sites span a full range of settlement from village to farmstead and river to valley. Take a trip through time as you visit these beautiful homes. On this day only, through the graciousness of owners who have painstakingly restored and maintained their homes and the hard work of the Society’s volunteers, tour goers are invited inside to enjoy the many sites. Tickets are $30 the day of the tour; $25 in advance. This is a driving tour.
Location: Vedder Research Library, Bronck Museum, Route 42, Coxsackie
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
More Info: gchistory.org
Please join us for the Halcott Community Garden Plant Sale with proceeds to benefit the community garden featuring a variety of seedlings including herbs and vegetables, annual and perennial flowers, along with some native shrubs and trees. There will be also be a bake sale to help the Halcott United Methodist Church with its fundraising efforts towards restoration of this gem of an historic building. We are located approximately 3 miles out of Fleischmanns (turn at Sam’s Country store) and we share the access road for the Halcott Highway Dept, so look for the sign for the right hand turn and see the garden on the left.
Location: Halcott United Methodist Church, Halcott Center
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
More Info: halcottgardeners.blogspot.com
Every First Saturday in June, on the same day as the Annual Delhi Bridge Run, WIDE (Womxn for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity) hosts an amazing multicultural festival that educates the children of Delaware County about the World using crafts, music, food and fun! Every child receives a passport to travel from table to table to experience activities from countries such as
Iran, Mexico and Ukraine, as well as sports from Brazil and the Native Americans. This event was a huge success last year with a lot of fun had by all attendees.
Location: Courthouse Square, Delhi
Time: 11:00 am-2:00 pm
More Info: wideny.org
Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Celebrates One Hundred & Fifty Years With Boat Parade!
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse, filled with rich maritime history and fascinating stories. On June 1st, we will be hosting a spectacular Boat Parade, with participation from various esteemed Hudson River Yacht clubs, led by the US Coast Guard and Naval Militia. Free Park Admission.
Location: Hudson Riverfront Park, Athens
Time: 11:00 am-4:00 pm
More Info: halps.org
Pride Family Fair
Pride Family Fair returns to kick off Pride month in Ulster County! Activities for Kids, Space to Spread out, and trails to explore. All in addition to the monumental bluestone sculpture that is Opus 40!
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 11:00 am-5:00 pm
More Info: opus40.org
Dosa Making Workshop
Join us for an immersive Dosa-making workshop where you’ll uncover the art of fermenting grains and beans using natural fermentation agents, all while crafting delicious and nutritious snacks. Registration: $50.
Location: Atina Studio Kitchen, 4470 Route 32, Catskill
Time: 1:00-2:30 pm
More Info: atinafoods.com
Blue Spaces, Healing Spaces
Join Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program and Morton Memorial Library in Pine Hill at the Phoenicia Playhouse for Blue Spaces, Healing Spaces, a deep dive into the benefits of spending time near waterways featuring a talk by Dr. Don Rakow. Attendees can contribute to a mixed media art project by recording water memories, and mingle with neighbors during “connection hour” with light refreshments. Those who pre-register will be automatically entered into a raffle to win book bundles about the Catskills courtesy of Morton Memorial Library Pine Hill.
Location: Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church Street, Phoenicia Time: 4:30 pm
More Info: phoeniciaplayhouse.com
Classical Indian Music with Shafaat Khan
The renowned Ustad Shafaat Khan takes you on an astounding journey through the wonders of classical Indian music, singing and playing both the sitar and tabla. He’s accompanied by Dan Johnson on percussion.
Location: Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill
Day & Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: bridgest.org
Rock Academy Best of Season
Rock Academy presents Best of Season. Drawing songs from our 5 spring 2024 season shows: The Police, 50s Prom, Marvin Gaye, Rebel Girls and Led Zeppelin, students age 8-18 will perform and breathe new life into classic material. A great night for the entire family!
Location: Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock
Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: woodstockplayhouse.org
Frida w/ dir. Carla Gutierrez
The life of Frida Kahlo, the iconic female artist synonymous with strength and individualism, is explored like never before – with her own words. Through her diary, personal letters, essays, and print interviews, the rich interior life of Frida is made vivid with fascinating animation inspired by her legendary artwork. Post-screening Q&A with director Carla Gutierrez, moderated by Emilie Houssart. (Dir. Carla Gutierrez, 2024, 88 min.)
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 7:30 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble
Don Was’ latest group, The Pan-Detroit Ensemble, is a band made up of stellar jazz musicians from his hometown. The band includes long-time collaborators like Dave McMurray on sax and Eminem’s Oscar-winning collaborator, keyboardist Luis Resto. Additional musicians include trombonist Vincent Chandler, trumpeter John Douglas, drummer Jeff Canaday, percussionist Mahindi, guitarist Wayne Gerard and vocalist Steffanie Christi’ann.
Location: Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: bearsvilletheater.com
Feast of Friends: A Tribute to The Doors
Formed in 2013, Feast of Friends stands out as one of the only continuously active Doors tribute bands in the Northeast. Unlike typical parody acts, this tribute avoids costumes and impersonations, instead honoring the music itself with precision and passion. Blending the studio sound with the band’s epic live improvisation, they capture the Doors’ essence in a “spooky, accurate” way that’s been called “unbelievable!” and “powerful and electrifying.”
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
An Intimate Evening with
The Antlers & Okkervil River
Playing old songs, new songs, each other’s songs. The Antlers is both a band and the longtime musical moniker of Peter Silberman. In 2021 The Antlers released their first album in seven years, Green to Gold, a bucolic record which Pitchfork described as “a post-rock orchestra playing around a campfire... the sound of hard-won peace of mind, rendered in the lightest brush strokes.” The release was followed by the Losing Light EP, and in 2023 a series of stand-alone singles. Over the course of his career, Will Sheff has released ten albums that have given the front man of esteemed indie rock band Okkervil River a reputation as one of the greatest working songwriters in the country. As Sheff and his shifting lineup of players have traveled the world many times over, they’ve made fans ranging from Lou Reed to Barack Obama.
Location: Levon Helm Studios, 160 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: levonhelm.com
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Summer Bliss: The Catskills
Kick off Summer Bliss in the Catskills! Our journey starts with artist Rinaldo Skalamera as he transports us to the serene beauty of water falling in “Awosting Falls II.” Artist Kim Do’s “Cloud Reflection, Summer,” is mesmerizing with its interplay of earth, water, and sky. Artist Barry DeBaun invites us to pause and enjoy a quiet evening with “Summer Stillness.” Windham Fine Arts, bringing you the finest in art since 2001. Location: Windham Fine Arts, 5380 Main Street, Windham
Opening Reception: June 1, 4:00-6:00 pm
More Info: director@windhamfinearts.com, 518 734 6850, or windhamfinearts.com
Bird ID Walk with Larry Federman
Larry Federman is a former Audubon Society Education Coordinator and President of the local Audubon Chapter, Northern Catskills Audubon. Larry leads our annual guided tour through the Arboretum’s bird-rich habitats. We’ll look for warblers, bluebirds and other migrating birds as they build their nests and start families or pass through to their northern nesting sites. This time of year offers one of the best opportunities to see beautiful North American birds. Bring binoculars, boots, attentive eyes and ears. Register inside the Education Center.
Location: Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville
Time: 8:00-10:00 am
More Info: mtarboretum.org
Esopus Family Fun Day, Car Show and 5K
A FREE event with games, prizes and music. Entries for 5K and Car Show are available on EventBrite. Food, vendors and local organizations will be there to visit. All proceeds benefit Esopus kids summer camp scholarship.
Location: Ross Park 208 Bowne Street, Port Ewen
Time: 10:00 am-3:00 pm
More Info: facebook.com/esopuscommunityinc
Pink Street Festival
We invite families and folks to an interactive, fun day for all who love arts, crafts, food, music, education, animals, kids programs, environmental awareness, small business, and farming to join us! Organized by the local non-profit Kidskill fund, the event aims to raise funds for kids scholarships to educational, environmental, and enrichment opportunities in the Catskills Region.
Location: Bovina Center Montessori School, 2121 County Road 5, Bovina Center
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
More Info: bovinamontessori.com
Conquer the Soil with Abra Lee
Abra Lee is poised to captivate audiences as she shares from her upcoming book, a remarkable profile of 45 hidden figures in horticulture—Black women and men whose exceptional careers in the plant world have remained largely unknown or overlooked. In her presentation, Abra will cast a spotlight on these remarkable individuals, giving them the recognition, they truly deserve while enhancing our collective understanding of horticultural history.
Location: Mountain Top Arboretum Education Center, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville Time: 1:00-2:30 pm
More Info: mtarboretum.org
Brown Eyed Women—
An All Female Tribute to The Grateful Dead Brown Eyed Women, the world’s only all female Grateful Dead tribute ensemble, features musicians from popular bands around the country. They celebrate the music of the Grateful Dead with a unique spin. Their high-caliber musicianship and shared love of the Dead drew them together. BEW brings authentic jams and a soulful new approach to the familiar Grateful Dead catalog.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
JUNE 3
Film: Amy
Behind six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse’s genius lay a troubled and fragile personal life. This gripping documentary illuminates struggles that kept her from her pure desire to create music. Interviews from friends and producers show her as a fierce and singular talent that will be remembered for years to come. (dir. Asif Kapadia, U.S., 2015, 128m)
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 7:00 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
JUNE 2 & 5
Film: Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
This dramatic recounting of the life of artist, combat veteran, and acrobat H. C. Westerman pays special attention to the art he made to process his trauma from the Korean War. Director Buchbinder was once a professional dancer, and tried to capture the movement found in Westerman’s sculptures using 3-D and slow, rotating close-ups. Narrated by Ed Harris, the film features interviews with luminaries including Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Frank Gehry, and more. It contains music by Laurie Anderson, the Kronos Quartet, Terry Allen, and others. It makes for a supergroup homage to this singular artist. (3-D, dir. Leslie Buchbinder, US, 2023, 86m)
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
More information: upstatefilms.org
JUNE 5 & 6
Film: The French Connection
With some of the best filmed car chases to date, this neo-noir masterpiece about two cops in pursuit of a drug dealer solidified William Friedkin as one of the best directors to date, and also earned him an Oscar for Best Director. The gritty flavor of New York City is best displayed in this film, with Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey delivering edgy, fascinating performances now synonymous with realism acting. The result is a high octane romp through early seventies New York, from 82nd Street in Manhattan to Wykoff Avenue in Bushwick. (dir. William Friedkin, US, 1971, 104m)
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
More information: upstatefilms.org
JUNE 5-OCTOBER 9
Yoga for Gardening with Pamela Martin
Join us for outdoor yoga classes led by Pamela Martin and other local yoga teachers. Learn tips and tricks to avoid injury, and to help support the body during gardening and yard work. A stretch and strength class appropriate for multiple levels. Please bring a mat, water, sunscreen and bugspray. Wear comfortable clothing you can move in. In case of inclement weather, sessions will take place indoors in the Education Center. This program starts just after our garden volunteering ends. Please feel free to join us for volunteer gardening.
Location: Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville Day & Time: Every Wednesday, 3:15-4:15 pm More Info: mtarboretum.org
JUNE 6
Stephen Clair Band
Stephen Clair pushed out his 10th studio album last fall. Known for his wry humor & guitar stylings, the Beacon, NY musician has been a fixture on the Americana, singer-songwriter and garage rock scenes since 1997’s Altoona Hotel. Clair came to prominence when the late Rita Houston added “Jen in Her Underwear” to rotation on WFUV, putting Clair on the map and the road. The San Antonio Express calls him “a fearless performer.”
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
JUNE 6-9
Live Theatre – The Little Prince
Based on the beloved book, this play tells the story of a world-weary and disenchanted Aviator whose sputtering plane strands him in the Sahara Desert. A mysterious, regal “little man” appears and asks him to “Please, sir, draw me a sheep”. During their two weeks together in the desert, the Little Prince tells the Aviator about his adventures through the galaxy, how he met the Lamplighter and the Businessman and the Geographer, and about his strained relationship with a very special flower on his own tiny planet.
Location: Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale
Time: Thursday-Saturday @ 7:00 pm, Saturday @ 2:00 pm, Sunday @ 12:00 pm
More Info: rosendaletheatre.org
JUNE 7
First Fridays at the Athens Cultural Center
Embrace the arts and join us at the Athens Cultural Center, where we open our doors to celebrate the rich tapestry of culture and creativity that defines our community.
Location: Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
More Info: friendsofathens.org
First Fridays Catskill
Stroll Main Street, Catskill on the 1st Friday of every month. Local shops are open late, most until 8 pm, offering specials like sips & snacks, pop-ups, music, discounts, and FUN!
Location: Main Street & Bridge Street, Catskill
More Info: firstfridayscatskill.com
Walton First Fridays
Local shops in Walton stay open late with deals and events for the community to enjoy!
Location: Walton
More Info: instagram.com/waltonfirstfridays
LGBTQIA+ Pride Exhibit
Join us for an evening of art, pride & celebration in the Opus 40 Gallery! Artists on display include Jacinta Bunnell, Gabriel Garcia Roman & Jojo Whilden.
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 5:30-7:30 pm
More Info: opus40.org
Misty Mountain Ramblers
One day early in the dark days of the great pandemic a few of us were getting pretty bored and decided to get together and jam a bit. It was fun so we did it again, and again, it was fun AND it sounded pretty good too. So we decided to be a band and make a song list and rehearse and play some gigs. We weren’t planning on playing any Grateful Dead songs but somehow they snuck into our repertoire anyway. Now we have a couple of years worth of gigs under our belts, playing songs by Dylan, The Band, Allman Brothers, Traffic, The Beatles, Dr. John, Tom Petty, Phish, and even Patti Smith. Oh yeah, and the good ol’ Grateful Dead.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock
Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
Going Up with Sara Schaefer
In her new solo show, Sara Schaefer teaches you how to unlock your potential in this fake(?) seminar about defeating your hecklers, developing your TS (thick skin) and achieving total perfect comedy success. Going Up is, on its surface, a hilarious recruitment into the cult of comedy. But at its heart, the show is a bold confrontation of a toxic system, an examination of what it means to be a creative person in today’s world, and Sara’s own reckoning with the tiny voice in her head that tells her she’s not good enough. Combining sharp joke writing, scathing satire, original music and incredibly detailed handmade miniatures, Sara takes the audience on a wholly original journey through the darkness and into the light.
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 8:00 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
American Legion Honeyford Memorial Post #110 Annual Golf Tournament
Join us for a round at this USGA-rated 18-hole golf course, featuring one of the area’s only Island Greens. Not only will you enjoy a memorable golfing experience, but you’ll also be supporting our Veterans. This tournament follows a four-person scramble format.
Location: Island Green Resort & Golf Club, 3822 County Route 26, Greenville
Time: Breakfast @ 8:00 am, shotgun start @ 9:00 am
More information: theislandgreen.com
UNITARD with special guest: Amanda Duarte
UNITARD is a wildly twisted, brilliantly outspoken, hilarious, fabulous comedy group from NYC. Combining the talents of Mike Albo, Nora Burns and David Ilku, Unitard is a series of comic sketches and monologues skewering social, political, and sexual mores. Smart, specific, and irreverent, Unitard has a gay sensibility though some of their most ardent fans refer to themselves as “straight”.
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 7:30 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
JUNE 7-9
Hobart Festival of Women Writers
This annual festival is an opportunity for women writers all over the country to showcase their work, insights and skills. This festival is centering the work of women writers but is open to participants of all genders. The Festival offers three days of public readings, writing workshops, writing intensives, and art shows. Location: Hobart Book Village, Hobart More Info: hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com
Old Time Rollick 2024
Emily Schaad hosts this rollicking weekend for musicians and dancers of all levels. Deepen your playing, build your repertoire, make new friends, and jam until the wee hours.
Location: The Ashokan Center 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge
More Info: ashokancenter.org
Magic & Illusion Weekend
Come start the summer off with a full weekend of prestidigitation as the Society of Americans
Top Magicians of the Hudson Valley take the stage for a wild ride of illusions, close-up magic, and mind-bending effects that are a delight for all ages.
Location: The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck
Day & Time: Friday & Saturday @ 8:00 pm; Sunday @ 3:00 pm
More Info: CenterforPerformingArts.org
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Second Saturday Trunk Sale
Shopping for a Cause! Presented by Cultivate Catskill: Come for the selling, shopping, and socializing!
Location: Greene County Water Street Parking Lot, situated behind the Greene County office building
Time: 9:00 am-1:00 pm
More information: cultivatecatskill.org
Catskills Great Outdoors Expo
The Catskills Great Outdoor Expo features the best the Catskills have to offer in hiking, paddling, bicycling, and other outdoor recreation activities, along with local businesses and organizations to help you enjoy the great outdoors. We also showcase much more from the Catskills including lodging, dining, artists, authors, photographers, and many more! This one-day Expo will be filled with dozens of exhibitors from the outdoor tourism industry, nonprofits, local artists, lodging facilities, restaurants, authors, and much more in the Catskills. There will be activities for all ages, food, presentations, raffle prizes, and the Catskills Great Outdoor Gear Sale.
Location: Catskills Visitor Center, 5096 Route 28, Mount Trempeer
Time: 10:00 am-3:00 pm
More Info: catskillcenter.org/outdoorexpo
Athens Community Day
Come out for some fun and see what makes Athens such a special place to live, work, and play! Explore Athens shoreline with tours operating from noon until 2 pm. First-come, first-
served basis! Immerse yourself in the fireworks spectacle at dusk!
Location: Water Street, Athens
Time: Tour from noon to 2 pm. Fireworks at dusk
More information: townofathensny.com
Vintage Base Ball:
Bovina Dairymen v. Delhi Polecats
Vintage base ball is an ode to the way base ball was played in the 1800s, when rules were changing yearly and only the catcher wore a mitt. The game is competitive and fun, focused on bringing the community together for an exciting afternoon! Feel free to pack a picnic, grab your friends, sip something refreshing and cheer on your favorite team. Mark your calendar and start planning your adventure to participate in this vibrant tradition!
Location: Meredith Dairy Fest, 3575 Honest Brook Rd, Meredith Time: 1:00 pm
More Info: delcovintagebaseball.org
Pinc Louds
Food by Succurro and drinks available from the concession stand starting at 3pm! Pinc Louds draws influences from such diverse artists as Pixies, Billie Holiday, Daniel Johnston and Ismael Rivera. The best course of action is to let go of all preconceptions and enjoy the band’s unique sound and explosive performances, described as “absolutely epic” by Paul Banks of the band Interpol.
Location: West Kortright Center, 49 W Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith Time: 4:00 pm
More Info: westkc.org
Greg Farley / Bluestone Quarry
Seemingly hewn from the rock of the Catskill mountains themselves, Bluestone Quarry is Woodstock’s newest and most exciting folk quartet. Chloe Cannon, Riley Packer, Mark Roman, and Charlie Thurman bring their diverse roots to bare in this once in a lifetime collaboration. Lush vocal harmonies and brilliant songcraft will immerse you in a well of emotion and sweep you away.
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 5:30-9:00 pm
More Info: opus40.org
MyKingstonKids The Imagination Gala and Fundraiser
Prepare for a night of enchantment at the MyKingstonKids Imagination Gala and Fundraiser! Join us for an evening filled with wonder and support for our community’s youth. Delight in captivating entertainment by MurderCafe. com as we come together for a noble cause. Reserve your seat now!!
Location: Center for Photography at Woodstock 25 Dederick Street, Kingston
Time: 6:00 pm
More Info: mykingstonkids.com
Square Dance at the Rollick 2024 Circle left … now the other way back! Becky Hill will call a welcoming square dance to excellent live music by the Old Time Rollick house band. Come early to enjoy dinner in the dining hall. Stick around afterwards to jam!
Location: The Ashokan Center 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge
Time: 6:00 pm dinner (optional)/7:30 pm dance More Info: ashokancenter.org
Thomas Baker, Magician
Saugerties-based 18-year-old illusionist Thomas Baker takes you on an awe-inspiring journey through the artistry and history of magic.
Location: Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill
Day & Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: bridgest.org
Jon Glaser’s
Soothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog
Jon Glaser’s debut comedy album, Jon Glaser’s Soothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog is the perfect remedy for those unfortunate yet unavoidable times that dog owners need to leave their beloved, anxious good boys and good girls home alone. Join Jon and friends for a restorative evening of relaxation and warm fuzzies. Joining Jon will be Steve Cirbus, and more.
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 7:30 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
The Roundabout:
An Evening of NYC Standups
A line up of a lifetime. Hosted by Unitard, featuring comics Brittany Carney, Dave Hill, Matt Koff, Clare O’Kane, and Julia Shiplett.
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 8:00 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
Meredith Dairy Fest
Come learn about the Dairy Industry! Sample local dairy products and other unique local food and beverages. Explore the local and handmade products in the vendor tent, and meet the people who created them. Find unique gifts, local fare, visit with neighbors, and treat yourself to something weird and wonderful that couldn’t be found anywhere else.
Location: 3575 Honest Brook Rd, Meredith More Info: meredithdairyfest.com
8-JULY
Between the Mountains and the Mayor: Paintings by Robert Schneider Influenced by the painters of the Hudson River School, The American Tonalists and the Impressionists, Stamford Village Mayor Robert Schneider has been working on interpreting classical landscapes in his own distinct style for over 40 years. His work has been collected and displayed internationally and now comes home to Main St. Mayor Schneider studied at The Art Student’s League in the 1970’s and spent summers in Stowe Vermont, studying with Frank Mason. His landscape work focuses on atmosphere and light instead of dwelling on a specific location.
Location: Headwaters Arts Center 66 Main Street, Stamford
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8, 4:006:00 pm
More Info: roxburyartsgroup.org
Songwriters Circle
Join us for our monthly Songwriter’s Circle at Bushel. Engage in discussions about works-inprogress, connect with fellow songwriters, and gain valuable insights from veteran musicians. The Songwriter’s Circle meets on the 2nd Sunday of each month. This meetup is open to all levels and there is no fee to attend.
Location: Bushel Collective, 106 Main St, Delhi Time: 11:00 am-12:30 pm
More Info: bushelcollective.org
Our Reservoir Hour Variety Show
w/Beth Lisick & Jodi Lennon
This freewheeling, hyperlocal variety show was born in the carpeted back room of the Reservoir Inn in West Hurley and became an instant hit. Come join officious hosts Beth and Jodi, their adventurous roster of guests, and the electrospasmodic house band comprised of Eli and Stoley. If the NextDoor app met a downtown alt-comedian at the avocado kiosk at Hannaford
and wrote a one-act play about showbiz, it just might be Our Reservoir Hour. This show includes special performances by Chris Maxwell, The Mad Flautist, Paul Gutkowski, Jacinta Bunnell and more surprises!
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 1:00 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
Famous Accordions of the Universe
Join us this summer on Sunday Afternoons as we celebrate a variety of local artists, performing on the meadow at Opus 40! Tickets include a full site visit (map/info, museum, access to the full grounds and of course the sculpture) so we encourage you to come early or stay after the performance! Music is at 1:00 pm, The site is open 10:30 am-5:00 pm
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
More Info: opus40.org
Stamford Summer Concert Series Presents Song & A Story
This year’s Summer Concert Series in Stamford NY will kick off with “A Song & A Story” featuring Jim Kopp, Randy Miritello, Bobby Curious, and Doug Decker.
Location: Catskills Junction, 28 Railroad Ave, Stamford
Time: 3:00-5:30 pm
More Info: stamfordnymusic.com
Film: Alice in the Cities with actress/musician Sibylle Baier
Before directing Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders made this beautiful, charming film about a frustrated and disillusioned German photojournalist roaming through America. While in New York, Phillip reluctantly agrees to deliver Alice, a nine-year-old German girl, to her mother in Europe. Alice in the Cities features an original score from krautrock legends Can. After the screening, singer-songwriter Sibylle Baier, featured briefly in the film, will be in conversation. Interspersed will be a listening session featuring songs from her album “Colour Green” recorded between 1970 and 1973 and released in 2006 (she will not perform live).
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 5:30 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
Sapphic Factory: Queer Joy Party
Come dance and be free to the music of Muna, Chappell Roan, Fletcher, Phoebe Bridgers, Boygenius, Kim Petras, Marina, Elio, Ashnikko, Girl in Red, Tegan and Sara, and more. The Sapphic Factory: queer joy party has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting the LGBT national help center and their work providing vital peer support, community connections, and resource information for the lgbt community.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
JUNE 10
Sonic Film Series: One Hand Don’t Clap
The jubilant and alluring beat of calypso and soca music is celebrated in this seminal documentary by New York-based filmmaker Kavery Kaul. From African-East Indian traditions of Trinidad and Tobago, to mainstream success by artists like Harry Belafonte, the history of calypso is exalted. With head-bobbing, toetapping sounds, and party-perfect footage from record studios and live shows, this film is worth watching on the big screen. (Kavery Kaul, US, 1988, 92m)
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 7:00 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
JUNE 11
Film: Ghostlight with Director + Writer Q&A
Ahead of its theatrical release, join us for a sneak peek of IFC’s comedy-drama GHOSTLIGHT followed by Q&A with Director Alex Thompson and Director/Writer Kelly O’Sullivan.
Location: Tinker Street Cinema 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock
Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: tscwoodstock.com
JUNE 12
Film: Beans
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. Rated R. Running time: 91 minutes.
Location: Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale
Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: rosendaletheatre.org
JUNE 12-13
Film: Taxi Driver
Perhaps Martin Scorcesse’ most accomplished work, this gripping story of a psychotic taxi driver who is compelled to protect a young prostitute and impress a beautiful political volunteer, uses violence as an act of love. It’s the movie that put writer Paul Schrader on the map, and seizes American film noir in the dreamy, sometimes nightmarish landscape of 1970’s New York. (dir. Martin Scorsese,U.S. 1976, 114 min.)
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
More information: upstatefilms.org
JUNE 13
High Noon Tunes features Jim Kopp & The Kitchen Table
Local musicians perform from mid-June to midSeptember. Free Admission—bring a lawn chair or blanket in the park to enjoy the music. In the event of rain, the concerts are moved indoors to The Function at Catskills Junction, 28 Railroad Avenue, Stamford.
Location: Veterans Memorial Park, Main Street, Stamford
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
A Night Under the Willows: ACC at 20
Help us celebrate Athens Cultural Center’s 20th Anniversary and raise funds for the future of ACC. This will be an unforgettable evening with music, dancing, drinks, food, and special ACC presentations, all at the beautiful Stewart House River Grill. All proceeds go towards Athens Cultural Center’s mission of being a gathering place for local arts, community happenings, classes, and imagination.
Location: River Grill at The Stewart House, 1 Water Street, Athens
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
More Info: athensculturalcenter.org
Film: The Boys in the Band (1970)
A groundbreaking 1970 film directed by William Friedkin, based on the acclaimed 1968 Off-Broadway play of the same name by Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band is notable for its portrayal of gay characters during a time when homosexuality was still largely stigmatized and marginalized in American society. Featuring a talented ensemble cast, including Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman and Laurence Luckinbill, The Boys in the Band is a powerful and thought-provoking film that continues to resonate with audiences as a timeless examination of identity, friendship, and the search for self-acceptance.
Location: Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: rosendaletheatre.org
Film: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
In a dark time for Spain and the entire world, Pan’s Labyrinth brings the haunting fantasies within a young girl’s mind into reality, giving birth to a land of fantastical creatures and secret destinies. As Franco consolidates his brutal hold over 1940s Spain, lonely and dreamy Ofelia must come to terms with the cruelty around her. Living with her mother and adoptive father- a military officer under the Fascist government who is tasked with ridding last rebels from their area—Ofelia creates a fable, giving life to a secret inner world to help her cope with a world gone wrong. From acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro. This film appears as part of our GAME CHANGERS Series, featuring twelve films that revolutionized cinema.
Location: Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston Time: 7:30 pm
More Info: bardavon.org
The Silos and David Gans
Walter Salas-Humara formed The Silos in 1985 with guitarist Bob Rupe and violinist Mary Rowell, plugging the main cable of American rock idiom into the jerry-rigged soundboard of Velvets-era feral experimentalism. The band was voted Best New American Band in Rolling Stone Magazine’s Critics’ Poll of 1987 and appeared on Late Night with David Letterman in 1990. Throughout the new millennium, the Silos have continued to release an admirable body of work, sharing the stage with some of the best musicians and bands today.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
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Headwaters
Join us for our new monthly series of social arts experiments, Headwaters Hangouts. From exquisite corpse drawings to performative workshops, Headwaters Hangouts will offer creators of all disciplines the opportunity to work on expression in new and different ways in a social setting. A workout for your creative muscles and an opportunity to meet and network with other local creators, Headwaters Hangouts programming is free and open to everyone.
Location: Headwaters Arts Center, 66 Main St, Stamford
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
More Info: roxburyartsgroup.org
The first time banjo legend Béla Fleck, tabla master Zakir Hussain, and double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer got together to make an album, it was to write, not to play. When Fleck and Meyer were looking for a third partner for a triple concerto they had been commissioned to write to mark the opening of Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, they thought of Hussain, who was quite interested in orchestral writing. It wasn’t until the three began touring to promote the album that the trio’s true potential became apparent. Hence the 2x GRAMMY-winning As We Speak, an album that not only showcases the group’s breathtaking abilities as instrumentalists, but underscores the wide range of musical influences at their command. Adding to that magic is Rakesh Chaurasia, who plays bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute.
Location: Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: bardavon.org
Reprise: Recreating Iconic Phish Shows
REPRISE is a band that got together to reprise the Phish experience. At each of their shows, a concert from Phish’s history will be played in its entirety.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
Haley Heynderickx
It takes a mix of skill and luck to tend a garden well, but it’s impossible without a certain amount of kindness and care tended. While the cyclical nature of gardening seems inherent, in some ways, Haley Heynderickx is just beginning. Her debut album, named I Need to Start a Garden out of a search for calm through these waves of uncertainty and upheaval, is out now via Mama Bird Recording Co.
Location: Levon Helm Studios, 160 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: levonhelm.com
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Sullivan Catskills Pride Drag Me to the Catskills Weekend
A Weekend-Long Pride Event with Performances by RuPaul’s Drag Race Stars, Cocktail Reception, Brunch, and More! Drag Me to the Catskills” is set to dazzle attendees with a weekend-long extravaganza featuring drag queens, performances, and a vibrant display of LGBTQ+ pride.
Location: Locations throughout Sullivan County More Info: dragmetothecatskills.com
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Woodstock Playhouse Summer Theatre Festival presents Anything Goes
Join us for outstanding performances during this 2024 Woodstock Playhouse Theatre Festival Season as we celebrate the 86th season. Winner of six Tony Awards and nine Drama Desk Awards, Anything Goes originally debuted on Broadway in 1934 and became the longest running Broadway Show of its decade. It has become one of the most revived musicals in history, with a madcap story set aboard the ocean liner S. S. American, where merry highjinx give way to elaborate disguises, tap-dancing sailors and good old-fashioned blackmail.
Location: Woodstock Playhouse, 103 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock
Time: Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm
More Info: woodstockplayhouse.org
JUNE 14-JULY 7
My Fair Lady
Rhinebeck Theatre Society is pleased to present Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, arguably the crown jewel of America’s Golden Age of musical theater. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, the musical centers around Eliza Doolittle, a lower-class Cockney flower girl living in early 20th-century London. While selling violets to upper class Opera patrons, Eliza discovers, to her horror, that her words are being written down in a mysterious hand by an elocutionist named Henry Higgins, who boasts that he can pass her off as a sophisticated duchess in only six months with little more than improvements to her speech and diction.
Location: The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck
Day & Time: Friday & Saturday @ 8:00 pm; Sunday @ 3:00 pm
More Info: CenterforPerformingArts.org
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Let’s Grow Exploration Day
Highlighting pollinators, native ecosystems, and agriculture. Demonstrations, guest exhibitors, vendors, on-site food, entertainment and more! Guided bird walk at 8:00 am, before the museum opens.
Location: Hanford Mills Museum, 51 County Highway 12, East Meredith
More Info: hanfordmills.org
3rd Annual Schoharie Turnpike - Kaaterskill Clove Road Rally
Join us for a noncompetitive driving tour open to all cars, designed for the pure enjoyment of the open road. We’ll kick off the day with a delightful breakfast at Dutchman’s Landing Park, nestled along the scenic Hudson River in Catskill. From there, we’ll embark on a journey along the historic 1804 Schoharie Turnpike, making our way to the Old Stone Fort Museum in Schoharie, where a rare 1903 Rambler awaits—a true gem of automotive history. We traverse the picturesque Schoharie Valley, passing through Gilboa, Prattsville, Tannersville, and Kaaterskill Clove. This scenic route covers approximately 135 miles of captivating terrain.
Location: Dutchman’s Landing Park, Main St, Catskill
Time: 9:00 am-4:00 pm
More Info: 1903autorun.com
Outdoor Mushroom Farming Series - Part 1: Log Inoculation, The Basics
Discover the wonders of Frost Valley Model Forest with a guided woodland stroll! Explore over 5,000 acres of pristine nature and delve into the best practices in land management that Frost Valley employs to sustain a vibrant and thriving forest within the NYC Watershed. Encounter diverse forest ecosystems, and gain insights into silviculture techniques and the renowned maple sugaring program.
Location: Agroforestry Research Center, 6055
Route 23, Acra
Time: 10:00 am-12:30 pm
More Info: ccecolumbiagreene.org
Wet Plate Tintype Photo w. Kevin Q. Gray
In this hands-on workshop, students will learn the process of 19th century wet plate photography, specifically tintypes or photographs printed on metal. Instructor Kevin Q. Gray will discuss cameras, chemicals, and supplies, and each student will have an opportunity to make at least one tintype photo of their very own. Fee: $125 includes all materials.
Location: West Kortright Center, 49 W Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith
Time: 10:00 am-3:00 pm
More Info: westkc.org
Learn to Paint Leaves with Ruby Silvious Participants will learn to paint patterns on dried and pressed leaves using acrylic gouache and fine-point pens. Art supplies are included but students are welcome to bring their own dried and pressed leaves. Bring your imagination and have fun! Registration is required for this event.
Location: Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville
Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm
More Info: mtarboretum.org
Porchfest 2024
Porchfest concerts are held throughout North America in over 125 locations, and this year Delaware County residents will have the opportunity to experience it right in their backyard. A variety of musicians will perform on front porches or at other venues in the area, and visitors can walk from venue to venue to experience different music genres and performers.
Location: Venues across Walton
Time: 11:00 am-4:00 pm
More Info: musiconthedelaware.org
American Cancer Society, Ulster County Relay For Life
A free event is dedicated to helping our community by supporting cancer patients and raising awareness.
Location: Kiwanis Ice Arena 6 Small World Ave, Saugerties
Time: 12:00-3:00 pm
More Info: Ulstercountyrelayforlife@gmail.com
Catskills Barbeque Backyard BBQ Competition & Family Festival
The Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) brings its world-renowned barbeque contest to Catskills town! With over 16,000 members globally, KCBS sanctions over 300 contests worldwide to promote and celebrate barbeque. Now Liberty will host its own KCBS-sanctioned contest, where the country’s best barbeque
pitmasters will compete for glory and bragging rights. The sizzling competition will feature mouthwatering chicken & rib categories prepared low and slow, with secret rubs and sauces.
Location: Sullivan Catskills Visitors Association
Visitor Center, 15 Sullivan Avenue, Liberty Time: 12:00-4:00 pm
More Info: catskillsbarbeque.com
Opening Weekend Benefit 86th Anniversary
Dinner of the 2024 Summer Theatre Festival
Season Sponsored by Cucina of Woodstock
Be one of a limited number of special guests who will be able to step through the doors of the Cucina Farmhouse Private Event Space and back in time with us to celebrate both the historic roots and the present day high quality productions of the iconic Woodstock Playhouse.
Location: Cucina, 109 Mill Hill Rd, Woodstock Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: woodstockplayhouse.org
An Evening with The Beatles: HELP!
The Beatles’ HELP! performed by an extraordinary ensemble that includes the Hudson Valley’s most gifted veteran players, under the direction of bassist, producer, arranger, Scott Petito.
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
More Info: opus40.org
Concert in the Catskills
Get ready for a toe-tapping, boot-stomping experience as Country music takes center stage in Greene County at the highly anticipated Concert in the Catskills! Featuring the electrifying headliner Jackson Dean and the talented special guest Alana Springsteen, this year promises an unforgettable musical extravaganza. General Admission tickets are $37, Pit Passes are available for $60, and VIP tickets for $85.
Location: Historic Catskill Point, 1 Main Street, Catskill Time: 7:30 pm
More Info: concertinthecatskills.com
Spafford
Known for their astonishing improvisational ability and off-the-cuff extended jams, Spafford paints a picture in real-time each night with a musical palette known only to each other. It’s a private language comprised of both their talent as musicians as well as their formidable catalog of influences, spanning 90’s alt-rock radio hits to Steely Dan and The Crystal Method. Spafford is amongst the most creative and hard-traveling bands on the contemporary jam scene, performing countless sold-out headline dates along with high profile festival sets.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
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Sam Grisman Project
The Grisman Project showcases the legacy of David “Dawg” Grisman and Jerry Garcia’s music. By playing some of their beloved repertoire
and sharing the original music that the Sam Grisman collective has to offer, they also show the impact that this music has had on their own individual musical voices.
Location: Levon Helm Studios, 160 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: levonhelm.com
JUNE 16
Coconuts + Art Workshop (For Families!)
Join us in commemorating Father’s Day with a delightful exploration of the versatile and delicious coconut. Adults and older kids alike are invited to experience the art of splitting whole coconuts, followed by the creation of a delectable coconut chutney using the freshly harvested flesh. Meanwhile, the coconut shell will serve as our canvas for artistic expression, allowing participants to unleash their creativity through paintings and other artistic endeavors. Through the fusion of food and art, we’ll delve into the rich historical and culinary significance of the coconut, gaining insight into its multifaceted uses throughout history. The event will culminate in a light snack featuring our culinary creations, and each participant will depart with a jar of chutney and their own unique artwork. Registration: $60 per family. Please bring a hammer for this workshop!
Location: Atina Studio Kitchen, 4470 Route 32, Catskill
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
More Info: atinafoods.com
Pegasus, the Orchestra: Brandenburg Concerti
Pegasus: the Orchestra is an exciting and resourceful nonprofit professional orchestra that harnesses the transcendent power of music to bring musicians and audiences of diverse backgrounds and cultural heritages together. Its mission empowers rising musicians with artistic freedom and promotes performances of inventive repertoire in an environment that supports creative thought and expression.
Location: First Presbyterian Church & Stamford United Methodist Church, 96 Main St, Stamford
Time: 3:00-5:00 pm
The Bunker Hudson Valley: Pride with Mike Servito & Camille Altay
The Bunker Hudson Valley thrilled to present our first daytime Pride dance party in the Hudson Valley.
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 4:00-9:00 pm
More Info: opus40.org
Nattali Rize w/ special guest Minori
As part of her 2024 International tour, Nattali Rize and her show stopping band from Jamaica & Australia make their way to the USA for a select run of summer shows to unite the people with Music. The Nattali Rize live show is world renowned, known for being high energy, thought provoking,inspiring and uplifting. The powerhouse band channel a deep world & reggae influence to present anepic one of a kind experience.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
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Food Truck Fiesta
Live music, food trucks, beer, wine, and water sold by Bloomington Fire Department! The rain date is following Tuesday. June 18: Spillway Band with Car Cruise-In.
Location: Bloomington Fire Department 14 Taylor Street, Bloomington Time: 5:00-9:00 pm
More Info: 845 338 2794
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Wednesday Evening Concert Series Presents The Driftwoods
Local musicians perform from mid-June to midSeptember. Free Admission—bring a lawn chair or blanket in the park to enjoy the music. In the event of rain, the concerts are moved indoors to The Function at Catskills Junction, 28 Railroad Avenue, Stamford
Location: Veterans Memorial Park, Main Street, Stamford
Time: 6:00-7:30 pm
More Info: stamfordnymusic.com
High Noon Tunes features John Scott Gillespie
Local musicians perform from mid-June to midSeptember. Free Admission—bring a lawn chair or blanket in the park to enjoy the music. In the event of rain, the concerts are moved indoors to The Function at Catskills Junction, 28 Railroad Avenue, Stamford
Location: Veterans Memorial Park, Main Street, Stamford
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
More Info: stamfordnymusic.com
Sparks of Divinity Iyengar Yoga Retreat
Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year. What better time to get together to celebrate the source of all life, to acknowledge the life force energy within us, and give thanks for the blessings that we are always receiving. The Earth constantly provides for all of us with
her incredible bounty, and the Sun’s warmth provides the light necessary for all living beings to thrive and prosper. It’s also a good time to connect with nature and move deeper into our yoga practice.Participants should have 1-2 years Iyengar experience for this workshop.
Location: Menla Retreat Center, 375 Pantherkill Rd, Phoenicia
More Info: iycwm.com/2023/11/sparks-ofdivinity/
Kassi Valazza with Sequoia
There is a cult-like fascination growing around Kassi Valazza following the self-release of her 2019 debut album Dear Dead Days and her surprise 2022 EP Highway Sounds. She is seated squarely at the vanguard of new American songwriters strengthening and broadening the sound of country music as she tours with celebrated acts such as Melissa Carper and Riddy Arman. The Southwestern native resides in Portland, a hotbed of songwriters producing albums that both bear the torch and bend the arc of American roots music.
Location: West Kortright Center, 49 W Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith
Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: westkc.org
Fleet Foxes is an American indie folk band from Seattle, WA. Led by lead singer-songwriter Robin Pecknold, the band released their fourth critically acclaimed album Shore in the fall of 2020. Shore earned the band their second Grammy nomination, and sweeping praise, with Rolling Stone calling the album “…the most immediately rewarding Fleet Foxes record since their brilliant 2008 debut.”
Location: Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: bardavon.org
Spin Cycle Lava w/ Geezer and Patch Road
SCL is a Hudson Valley NY act that delivers songs of Fire Despair and Corruption with a mighty and revelatory feel to their music. Their high energy shows is led by the drive of Billera’s unique vocals and alter ego “ The Clayman” who—while painted in make up from waist to head—paces the stage blowing fire to the sonic tapestries created by the band.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
Drawing influences from the Velvet Underground, Goodman’s sound ventures deeper into indie rock and punk territory than she ever has before. Though her new release, Teeth Marks, is a love album, Goodman doesn’t aim her focus on romantic relationships alone. Instead, she analyzes the way love between communities, families, and even one’s self can be influenced by trauma. Teeth Marks is about what love actually is, love’s psychological and physical imprint, its light, and its darkness. It’s a record about the love we have or don’t have for each other, and perhaps, more significantly, the love we have or don’t have for ourselves.
Location: Levon Helm Studios, 160 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: levonhelm.com
Greene County Cruisers Classic Car Show
Please join the Greene County Cruisers as they present a Classic Car Show. This is a fun event for the whole family with live band Dusk Till Dawn, door prizes, 50/50, vendors, and food and drink! Rain date June 23.
Location: Angelo Canna Town Park, Cairo Time: 10:00 am
More Info: 518 943 3223
Woven Currents: Judd Weisberg, artist and Yi-heng Yang, pianist
A multi-media collaboration between artist Judd Weisberg and pianist Yi-heng Yang. Weisberg has created a series of prints capturing the magical junctions where two streams merge, and Yi-heng Yang has composed music drawn from the musical pitches of the currents as they meet. This performance includes projected images from the Woven Currents print series and live drawing by Weisberg projected on the movie screen accompanied by Yi-heng Yang performing composed and improvised works on piano. This event is FREE.
Location: Cinema 1, Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Hunter Time: 1:00 pm
More Info: catskillmtn.org
Western and Swing BBQ & Dance 2024
Dine, dance, or just enjoy a great evening of Swing & Classic Country music under Ashokan’s outdoor pavilion! Learn swing & two-step basics and then get down to live music by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason and the Western & Swing Week house band.
Location: The Ashokan Center 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge
Time: 6:00pm dinner / 7:30 pm dance lesson / 8:00 pm swing & country western dance
More Info: ashokancenter.org
The Summer Party at the Thomas Cole House
Experience the essence of a classic Hudson Valley summer evening! Join us for cocktails, a delightful dinner, and a spectacular fireworks display set against the picturesque backdrop of the Hudson River. Hosted by our esteemed Chairman Lisa Fox Martin, this enchanting evening promises unforgettable moments of beauty and celebration. Save the date for a night to remember!
Location: Thomas Cole House, 218 Spring Street, Catskill
Time: 6:30 pm
More Info: thomascole.org
Nation of Language
Experience the captivating sounds of Nation of Language, curated by Sister Midnight. Secure your tickets for $35 and immerse yourself in musical brilliance.
Location: Glen Falls House, 230 Winter Clove Rd., Round Top
Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: glenfallshouse.com
DOCUMENTARY FILM: Go On, Be Brave (ALS Awareness Film)
The award winning documentary Go On, Be Brave follows one woman’s race against time, a diagnosis of ALS and an attempt at the impossible, to become the first person with ALS to complete a marathon in all 50 states. Coming to theaters in the US this fall, don’t miss Andrea Lytle Peet’s incredible story as she inspires others to go on and be brave.
Location: Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church Street, Phoenicia Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: phoeniciaplayhouse.com
Bridge Street Belly Dance – everyplace is life We’re bringing the “street” to Bridge Street Belly Dance in 2024, as we celebrate our seventh show of innovation, growth, and storytelling through movement and dance. Bridge Street Belly Dance is excited to collaborate once again in 2024 with poet Alysia Quinn. This year’s showcase explores the concept of holding pain & beauty in the same breath. The evening will feature brand new artists and styles including world renowned multi-disciplinary artist from Las Vegas, Jesse Sykes, who incorporates elements of different styles of street dance into his artistry and storytelling.
Location: Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill Day & Time: 7:30 pm
More Info: bridgest.org
An Evening with Robert Burke Warren Songs, stories & celebration: writer-musicianstoryteller Robert Burke Warren brings an intimate night of songs and stories to the stateof-the-art Mark theater. Renowned for Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, and Johnny Cash tribute shows, Warren, whose own work appears on releases by RuPaul, Rosanne Cash, and rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson, steps up to the microphone to share his own material, spiced with some surprises.
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 7:30 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
Seo Jungmin
Seo Jungmin, a pioneering Korean Gayageum artist and composer, will present her latest work One, My Utopia. Inspired by the shamanistic ceremony known as the Gut or Kut, this innovative performance features Seo playing 25-string Gayageum, a Korean string instrument similar to a Chinese guzheng or Japanese koto, joined by multi-award winning Korean Pansori singer Kim Yulhee and renowned percussionist You Byungwook.
Location: Roxbury Arts Center 5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury
Time: 7:30 pm
More Info: roxburyartsgroup.org
JUNE 22-23
Civil War Reenactment
This year marks the 9th Annual “Clash in the Catskills” Civil War Reenactment at the Delaware County Historical Association. The event includes battlefield reenactments, artillery, camp life, uniforms and dresses, cooking, military drills, kids’ activities, scavenger hunts and museum exhibits. This day long event hosts multiple battles and fun for the entire family!
Location: Delaware County Historical Association, 46549 NY-10, Delhi
More Info: dcha-ny.org
JUNE 23
Landscape and Garden Tour
The 33rd annual tour to benefit the West Kortright Center will be a journey along beautiful country roads. Get a rare insider look at how local garden enthusiasts have enhanced the natural beauty of their outdoor environments. On view will be a myriad of design sensibilities incorporating flowers, shrubs and trees, stonework, water elements, artwork, vegetable beds, and more. Rain or shine. No dogs, please. Registration required
Location: West Kortright Center, 49 W Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith Time: 11:00 am
More Info: westkc.org
Mushroom Walk with Chris Baker, The Chicory Naturalist Participants will earn important skills for mushroom identification, sustainable foraging practices, and appreciation for the many roles fungi play in our ecosystem.
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 11:00 am-1:00 pm
More Info: opus40.org
Vintage Base Ball:
Fleischmanns Mountain Athletic Club v. N.Y. Girls Baseball Picked Nine—A Celebration of Women in 19th Century Base Ball
Vintage base ball is an ode to the way base ball was played in the 1800s, when rules were changing yearly and only the catcher wore a mitt. The game is competitive and fun, focused on bringing the community together for an exciting afternoon! Feel free to pack a picnic, grab your friends, sip something refreshing and cheer on your favorite team. Mark your calendar and start planning your adventure to participate in this vibrant tradition!
Location: M.A.C. Grounds @ Fleischmanns Park Wagner Avenue, Fleischmanns, NY Time: 12:00 pm
More Info: delcovintagebaseball.org
Afternoon Concert: Friends Meeting
Join us this summer on Sunday Afternoons as we celebrate a variety of local artists, performing on the meadow at Opus 40! Tickets include a full site visit (map/info, museum, access to the full grounds and of course the sculpture) so we encourage you to come early or stay after the performance! Music is at 1:00 pm, The site is open 10:30 am-5:00 pm
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 1:00-2:30 pm
More Info: opus40.org
23-29
Western & Swing Week 2024
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason host this full week of Swing, Western-Swing, Classic Country and Tejano Conjunto music and dancing. It’s a fun and friendly learning vacation offering classes in singing, dancing, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, piano, bass, percussion, and practical music theory, along with jams, song swaps, band labs, and themed evening dance parties with hot live music. Musicians and dancers of all levels and backgrounds are honored and welcome.
Location: The Ashokan Center 477 Beaverkill Rd, Olivebridge
More Info: ashokancenter.org
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Film: Searching for Sugar Man
The son of Mexican immigrants, singersongwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez recorded two politically conscious albums in 1969 and 1970. Set against swirling string arrangements, they flopped at home. But in Apartheid-era South Africa, Sugar Man’s subversive music was passed around like a magic talisman and celebrated as the equal of the Beatles and Neil Young.
So what happened to Sugar Man? Rumors abounded regarding his heroin overdose, a fiery on-stage suicide, and his long sentence for killing a lover. But two rabid fans, a jeweler and a journalist, weren’t content to leave the puzzle alone. Jumping on the mystery train, Searching for Sugar Man brings Detroit and Cape Town alive through expertly assembled archival materials and animation, demonstrating the delicious uncertainties of the pre-Internet era. And the film weaves in Rodriguez’s music which, 40 years later, retains its revelatory power. (dir. Malik Bendjelloul, Sweden, 2012, 86 min.)
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
More information: upstatefilms.org
Music Film Series: It’s Only Life After All With forty years of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. They have represented radical self-acceptance to many, leading multiple generations of fans to say, “the Indigo Girls saved my life.” With joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness, Sundance awardwinning director Alexandria Bombach brings us into a contemporary conversation with Amy and Emily—alongside decades of the band’s home movies and intimate present-day verité.
Location: Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale Time: 7:00 pm
More Info: rosendaletheatre.org
Dead Last Wednesdays with Gratefully Yours Gratefully Yours has emerged as one of the premier Grateful Dead cover bands in the Northeast. The band is comprised of an all-star lineup of long-time jam band musicians from the area. Their willingness and ability to improvise and their openness to spontaneity and the energy of the moment lie at the core of their performances and truly sets them apart.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
High Noon Tunes features Pamela Sue WestFinkle & Ted Finkle
Local musicians perform from mid-June to midSeptember. Free Admission—bring a lawn chair or blanket in the park to enjoy the music. In the event of rain, the concerts are moved indoors to The Function at Catskills Junction, 28 Railroad Avenue, Stamford
Location: Veterans Memorial Park, Main Street, Stamford Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
More Info: stamfordnymusic.com
Chosen Family Presents: Dry Cleaning with Rider/Horse London Post Punk comes to Saugerties. After a prolific 18-month period releasing two critically acclaimed John Parish-produced studio albums, New Long Leg (2021) and Stumpwork (2022), as well as last year’s companion release the fivetrack Swampy EP, South London’s Dry Cleaning are taking a moment to reflect on their journey and pay homage to their roots.
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 6:00-9:30 pm
More Info: opus40.org
Mikaela Davis w/ Rich Ruth Five years since her debut album Delivery, Mikaela Davis has moved away from her hometown, shared the stage with the likes of Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Christian McBride, Bon Iver, Lake Street Dive and Circles Around the Sun and entered a new decade. But it’s the ever-evolving relationships between her closest friends and bandmates that has propelled the Hudson Valley-based artist onto her new album And Southern Star—a truly collaborative effort that ruminates on the choices we make, and the people we always come back to.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
Spaghetti Western Series: For a Few Dollars More (1965) Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef explode onto the screen as two bounty hunters who form an uneasy alliance to track down the notorious outlaw El Indio (Gian Maria Volontè), a ruthless bandit terrorizing the Wild West. Directed by master Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, For a Few Dollars More is renowned for its atmospheric cinematography, iconic Ennio Morricone musical score, and Sergio Leone’s trademark style of tense standoffs and morally ambiguous characters.
Location: Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale
Time: Thursday @ 7:00 pm; Friday @ 4:00 pm More Info: rosendaletheatre.org
Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice Latté Lecture
Join us for a cup of coffee and a great conversation with the Opening Gala stars.
Location: Dry Fly Coffee Company 87 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz
Time: 10:30-11:30 am
More Info: hudsonvalleyvoicefest.org
Jamie McLean Band
Jamie McLean Band creates a musical gumbo that incorporates New Orleans soul, middle Americana roots, Delta blues and New York City swagger. Jamie McLean Band is a triple threat. The group’s energetic and captivating live show is undeniable. McLean’s fiery guitar has joined the ranks of Derek Trucks, Gregg Allman, Aaron Neville, Dr. John and more on stages from from Madison Square Garden to Japan’s Fuji Rock. His blue eyed southern soul vocals ooze real emotion. And his top line songwriting chops have crafted profound, honest and heartfelt songs that will keep you singing along, dancing along and feeling like the song was written about you.
Location: Colony, 22 Rock City Rd., Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: colonywoodstock.com
Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice 15th Anniversary Gala
15th Anniversary Gala in New Paltz NY Our 15th year anniversary gala will feature stars of the past (Maestro David Wroe and bass-baritone, Kevin Glavin) and an amazing group of artists you won’t want to miss! Our gala will be hosted by The Opera Cowgirls—world renowned operatic artists that mix classic opera with a country twist.
Location: Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz Time: 8:30 pm
More Info: hudsonvalleyvoicefest.org
JUNE 28-29
Brother’s Keeper: Written and Performed by Wallace Norman
Presented on the Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots (June 28, 1969). The riots are widely considered the watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the twentieth-century fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. Brother’s Keeper by Wallace Norman, is a gripping solo play about courageous survival and the delicacy of friendship. Playing 13 characters Norman shares the journey of two young boys who are abused by a member of the Catholic clergy. Norman shifts between the two main characters as they grow up and apart. One does not survive the trauma. The other bravely confronts his abuser. This cathartic act leads to healing, love and a kind of peace.
Location: Phoenicia Playhouse, 10 Church Street, Phoenicia
Time: Friday @ 7:00 pm, Saturday @ 4:00 pm
More Info: phoeniciaplayhouse.com
Nature Journaling and Drawing with Wendy Hollender
This workshop will be an exploration of the practice of nature journaling. Nature journaling combines the use of science and art to explore the world around us and document what we experience. At the beginning of the workshop, participants will explore the grounds at Mountain Top Arboretum to discover what excites them to draw and study. Then, during the session, using pictures and words we will record
and document what we find from nature and share in the bounty of summer with each other via creating nature journal pages. Registration is required for this event.
Location: Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville
Time: 10:00 am-1:00 pm
More Info: mtarboretum.org
Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice Latté Lecture: The Marriage of Figaro
Join us with the stars of The Marriage of Figaro for a cup of coffee and a great conversation.
Location: Dry Fly Coffee Company 87 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz
Time: 10:30-11:30 am
More Info: hudsonvalleyvoicefest.org
Let Freedom Ring
Participate in commemorating American Independence at Senate House! There will famous American music, and an independence ceremony featuring readings of important speeches on American independence.
Location: Senate House State Historic Site, 296 Fair Street, Kingston
Time: 11:00 am-4:00 pm
More Info: 845 338 2786
Jason Vance Storyteller and One-Man Band
At the root of all Jason’s shows and classes is an invitation to play. Whether it’s performing stories & songs with his one-man band, or performing with interactive theater companies Trusty Sidekick or Live-In Theater at Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, or the New York Historical Society, or finally in a classroom as a teaching artist leading his game-based music workshops with New Victory Theater or Brooklyn Music Factory, getting the participants to play is always the top priority. With his background in Early Childhood Education, it’s a treat for the youngest ones to hear him bring stories to life.
Location: Maverick Concerts 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock
Time: 11:00 am
More Info: maverickconcerts.org
Garlic Scape Pickle Dust Workshop
Join us for an immersive culinary experience where you’ll discover the art of crafting two delectable condiments using locally sourced garlic scapes. These versatile stems, derived from hardneck garlic, offer a flavorful punch while being gentle on FODMAP diets, and best of all, they lack the pungent odor associated with traditional garlic. Registration: $50.
Location: Atina Studio Kitchen, 4470 Route 32, Catskill
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
More Info: atinafoods.com
Plant Foraging Identification Walk and Wild Food Tasting w. Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower
Join Wild Foods Forager and Plant Medicine person Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower for a fun and informative wild foods foraging walk at the West Kortright Center in East Meredith, NY. Identify Plants and Trees easily for their food, qualities, crafts and traditional folk remedies in how they benefit humans, animals, land and place. At completion of the afternoon, we’ll enjoy three wild food tastings prepared by Marguerite that are dairy, gluten, nut and seed free. There will also be time for shared exchange on living in wellness with outdoor life with an open Q/A. Bring water, pen and paper, and wear tick/ insect repellent. Handouts will apply to Plants we identified which will be electronically sent the following day. Pre-registration is required. Fee: $20.
Location: West Kortright Center, 49 W Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith Time: 1:00-5:00 pm
More Info: westkc.org
Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice: Lady Parts
After a global multi year weird summer camp of being a-part, Lady Parts returns to the International Festival of The Voice in its15th anniversary season with a program of loose parts, spare parts but most importantly, LADY parts. These pros bring the rizz with stunning acapella vocal power.
Location: Redeemer Lutheran Church 90 NY32, New Paltz Time: 3:30 pm
More Info: hudsonvalleyvoicefest.org
The Mush Hole:
Truth, Acknowledgement, Resilience Contemporary Dance performance by Kaha:wi Dance Theatre inspired by interviews with survivors of the residential school experience at the Mohawk Institute (aka “the mush hole”). Featuring an all Indigenous cast, it is a story about hope and finding light in dark places. This award-winning and compelling performance has rarely been presented in the States and this will be the first time it will be performed in the Hudson Valley/Capital Region. Made possible with a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Hosted by the Iroquois Museum (Howes Cave, NY). Free admission
Location: SUNY Albany Performing Arts Center 1400 Washington Ave, Albany Time: 7:30 pm
More Info: iroquoismuseum.org or 518 296 8949
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers
Celebrate 25 years of Spirit Trail with Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers. Each ticket will include a copy of the Spirit Trail: 25th Anniversary Edition 3-CD box set to be picked up at the show. Hornsby first rose to national prominence with The Way It Is, his 1986 Grammy-winning debut album with The Range. The title track became the most-played song on American radio in 1987. In 1991 Hornsby collaborated with Bonnie Raitt, playing on her iconic hit “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” The 13-time Grammy nominee
has also solidified his status as a highly soughtafter collaborator. Hornsby’s own 23 albums have sold over 11 million copies worldwide, and he has appeared on over 100 records. His most recent studio album, ‘Flicted, was released in May ‘22.
Location: Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: bardavon.org
Fred Hersch Trio
A member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist. He has been proclaimed “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair and “a living legend” by The New Yorker. A seventeentime Grammy nominee, Hersch has garnered jazz’s most prestigious awards, including a Doris Duke Artist (2016), Jazz Pianist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association (2011, 2016, 2018), and the Jazz Magazine (France) International Artist of the Year (2021). The Fred Hersch Trio was voted the #1 Jazz Group in the 2019 DownBeat Critics Poll.
Location: Maverick Concerts 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: maverickconcerts.org
Tommy Prine
The son of late songwriting legend, John Prine, Tommy Prine grew up in Nashville surrounded by music, art and writing. Tommy learned to play guitar by watching his father play, copying the ways his fingers moved and inadvertently developing his own singular style. Summers in Ireland lent their own inspiration, as did 10 straight years camping at Bonnaroo. Prine’s musical tastes grew to become decidedly eclectic, spanning John Mayer, Outkast, Bon Iver, the Strokes and more. It wasn’t until Prine reached his mid-twenties, though, that he considered a career of his own in music and began to share with others the songs he wrote in private. His songs were quickly met with excitement and enthusiasm, which sonically brings together a colorful patchwork of musical influences and lyrically explores existential questions and emotional experiences.
Location: Levon Helm Studios, 160 Plochmann Lane, Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: levonhelm.com
Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice: The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart’s incredible ‘Marriage of Figaro’ encompasses so much more than the usual comedy, passion, lust and class war! It is rife with the what could be considered modern-day themes like sexism, ‘me too’, predatory employers, a ‘Lolita’ scenario, Twitter-esque information exchanges and so much more.
Location: Ulster County Fairgrounds, 249 Libertyville Rd, New Paltz
Time: 8:30 pm
More Info: hudsonvalleyvoicefest.org
Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice Latté Lecture: Messa di Gloria
Join us with the stars of Puccini’s Messa di Gloria for a cup of coffee and a great conversation.
Location: Dry Fly Coffee Company 87 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz
Time: 10:30-11:30 am
More Info: hudsonvalleyvoicefest.org
Sunday Afternoon Concert Series: FisherCats
Local musicians perform from mid-June to midSeptember. Free Admission—bring a lawn chair or blanket in the park to enjoy the music. In the event of rain, the concerts are moved indoors to The Function at Catskills Junction, 28 Railroad Avenue, Stamford
Location: Veterans Memorial Park, Main Street, Stamford
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm
More Info: stamfordnymusic.com
Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice: Puccini’s Messa di Gloria Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) wrote his Messa di Gloria Oratorio for Baritone, Tenor, Coro and Orchestra very early in his career – in fact before he really had a career.
Location: Studley Theatre - SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz
Time: 3:30 pm
More Info: hudsonvalleyvoicefest.org
Manhattan Chamber Players with David Fung, Piano
The Manhattan Chamber Players are a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. The Boston Music Intelligencer: “This ensemble’s nature and practices constitute proof against complacency and stagnation. They achieved as precise ensemble as you’d ever want to hear.”
Location: Maverick Concerts 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock
Time: 4:00 pm
More Info: maverickconcerts.org
Cumbia Night with Son Rompe Pera
Born and raised in Naucalpan, the deep outskirts of Mexico City, the Gama brothers and their band Son Rompe Pera have thrashed through all preconceived notions of what a marimba-centered band is, and have rendered the instrument inseparable from their punk ethos. Their shows have become home to the now-infamous marimba mosh pit across the globe, joining intergenerational audiences in moments of essential release and community around their hard-hitting, forward-thinking, unrelenting punk-infused cumbias. With two critically-acclaimed records under their belt, and hundreds of shows on some of the world’s most prestigious stages to a rapidly growing audience, the band consistently proves their boundlessness as far as where they can take the genre, standing vehemently by the fact that traditions are meant to be both honored, broken, and built again.
Location: Opus 40, 356 George Sickle Rd, Saugerties
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
More Info: opus40.org
Film: With Peter Bradley w/ dir. Alex Rappoport
79 years old and overlooked since the 1970s, abstract painter Peter Bradley reflects on life and shares his artistic process on the cusp of his rediscovery. Told over the course of changing seasons against the backdrop of his shipping container art studio, Bradley waxes poetic in a series of tender, revealing and surprising monologues. The effect is a moving portrait of an artist who has accomplished his life in dedicated fashion, with wit, tendersess, and strength. Post-screening Q&A w/ dir. Alex Rappoport
Location: Orpheum Theatre, 156 Main Street, Saugerties
Time: 7:00 pm
More information: upstatefilms.org
Chris Gethard + Eddie Pepitone Standup Comedy
Chris Gethard is a comedian, actor, and author who’s been doing comedy stuff for over twenty years. He’s the host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast, the former host of legendary public access television show “The Chris Gethard Show”, and had a special on HBO called Career Suicide where he talked about a few times he tried to kill himself. It was a comedy special. They call him the Bitter Buddha, comedian Eddie Pepitone is a master of the dark art of comedy. Hailed as a modern day cross between Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles and Eckart Tolle. Eddie is a force of nature on stage, switching between social rage and selfdoubt. His shows are an energetic combo of calm and chaos, blue-collar angst and sardonic enlightenment. Few comedians working today channel the power of the rant better than Eddie Pepitone.
Location: Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock
Time: 8:00 pm
More Info: bearsvilletheater.com
Ages 4-18
Summer programs to immerse your child in a safe and creative environment where they explore art, theater, music, and dance.
Offering dance classes for pre-ballet through advanced ballet, pointe and contemporary. Classes are $10 each paid at the beginning of the session Participation in the annual production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is free and open to all.
June 17 – August 4, 2024
Auditions for A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wednesday, June 19
Performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Saturday – Sunday, August 3 – 4
For more information and schedule email rinaldi.victoria@gmail.com or call 518 263 2001
National Dance Institute (NDI), founded by Jacques d’Amboise, brings its award-winning dance program to the Catskill Mountains. Children participate in high energy dance classes and choreography workshops accompanied by live music. The program culminates in a performance onstage at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center.
NDI’s 2024 theme is The Living Environment. Using movement to explore the beauty of the natural world and its connections to human life, we aim to empower students to become stewards of the environment and creators of a future based on creative solutions, compassion, and community.
July 8 – 19, 2024
Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Performance: Saturday, July 20, 7:00 pm
Scholarships are available!
Instructor: Kate Berten
Do you like to play outside and be creative? Art Explorers is for YOU!
Taking inspiration from the flowers, bugs, trees, and mountains around us, we will tap into our creativity to capture the magic of nature and create paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Each day will include free play in the gorgeous Catskill Mountains, art exploration and creative connections.
WEEK 1: July 15 – 19
2: July 22 – 26 WEEK 3: July 29 – August 2 WEEK 4: August 5 – 9 WEEK 5: August 12 – 16
Monday – Friday, 9:00am–4:00pm
Scan the QR code for more info and to register online, or
Scholarships are available!
We will combine theater and movement to make small plays and skits as participants learn to create everything from scripts, to costumes, to props, and much more. Stage combat, movement, and dance will also be part of the curriculum as students explore their creativity in the beauty of Sugar Maples.
August 5 – 16, 2024
Monday – Friday, 9:00am–4:00pm
Spend a week immersed in the world of Shakespearean performance. Led by professional actors and teaching artists, members of the CMS Youth Company will spend their days making sense of verse and learning how to bring it to life, taking a stab at stage combat, and having a spin with Elizabethan song and dance. The week will culminate in a performance to showcase the work, because, after all, the play is the thing!
August 5 – 9, 2024 Monday – Friday, 9:00am–3:00pm Special Outdoor Performance! Saturday, August 10
Scholarships are available!
Maude Adams Theater Hub
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Performances: July 5 & 6
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
Orpheum Dance Program
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Auditions: June 19
CMF Red Barn
7970 Main Street, Hunter, NY 12442
Performances: August 3-4
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 AT 7:30PM LAYERHYTHM
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Kick off the New Year with a play-based jam session of freestyle live music, dance, and audience interaction that will get you off your feet.
Presented in partnership with Works & Process at the Guggenheim. LayeRhythm will go straight from Catskill Mountain Foundation to the Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival at Lincoln Center.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT 7:30PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 AT 4:00PM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 AT 7:30PM THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
Maude Adams Theater Hub Catskill Mountain Foundation
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told? Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, live on stage, returns to the Orpheum for two nights only. Great night for a date night! Costumes Encouraged!
FEBRUARY 14-18 V-SEASON
Maude Adams Theater Hub
Catskill Mountain Foundation
Doctorow Center for the Arts
FEBRUARY 14 & 16 AT 7:00PM
The Women by Clare Boothe Luce
FEBRUARY 15 & 17 AT 7:00PM
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
FEBRUARY 17 & 18 AT 2:00PM
The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn
V Season is Back! An amazing weekend of three plays that amuse, inspire, and maybe even move you to tears. Grab a friend and join MATH for this annual series of staged readings.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 AT 2:00PM
“Dancing the Minuet to the Fortepiano”
Yi-heng Yang, Maria Rose & Patricia García-Gil Hosts
Streaming LIVE on Facebook and YouTube
The Baroque minuet contained all of the musical attributes that maintain its status as the most popular dance form—whether to be danced or not—throughout the 18th century: a pleasing character, a simple texture, and regular, clearly delineated phrases. When playing minuets on the fortepiano, how do you make them dance? By asking a choreographer of course! Join choreographer Julia Bengtsson and fortepianist Patricia Garcia Gil in an exploration of the inherent connection between dance and music.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 AT 3:00PM ERTH’S DINOSAUR ZOO LIVE
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Get ready for the ultimate playdate— 65 million years in the making—as Erth’s DINOSAUR ZOO
LIVE guides your family on a breathtaking tour that begins in pre-historic Australia. You’ll observe, meet and interact with an eye-popping collection of amazingly life-like dinosaurs and other creatures presented in a theatrical performance that will thrill and entertain kids while stimulating their imaginations in ways that will forever connect them to their world.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2 AT 7:00PM
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Hailing from historic County Waterford, Danú is one of the leading traditional Irish ensembles of today. Their standing room only concerts throughout Ireland are true events featuring high-energy performances and a glorious mix of ancient Irish music and new repertoire.
SATURDAY, MARCH 9 AT 7:00PM 360 ALLSTARS
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
A phenomenal physical performance exploring all forms of rotation and boasting a stellar international cast of World Champion and World Record-holding athletes and artists, 360 ALLSTARS is a spectacular fusion of the extraordinary artistry that emerges from street culture.
“BMX, basketball, breakdancing, beatboxing, acrobatics, drumming and more! The most thrilling stage show ever.”
—Weekend Notes ★★★★★
SUNDAY, MARCH 24 AT 2:00PM INTERNATIONAL FORTEPIANO SALON
Yi-heng Yang, Maria Rose & Patricia García-Gil Hosts Hilda Huang Guest
Streaming LIVE on Facebook and YouTube
Hilda Huang is a modern performer of historical music who brings together traditions of performance on piano and harpsichord. Her work has earned international acclaim with the distinction of first prize at the Leipzig International Bach competition and appearances at the Leipzig and Montréal Bach Festivals.
SATURDAY, MARCH 30 AT 7:00PM
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Part of an ongoing performance and documentary effort focused on Black women in street and club dance culture, in this session of Black Dancing Bodies each member of the collective responds to the question, “If I could speak my mind, what would I say?” In this world premiere, experience new writings, music, and movement spanning dance styles from African, to waacking, vogue, Hip-hop, and house; all curated under the direction of Michele Byrd-McPhee.
SpeakMyMind was commissioned by Works & Process, developed in Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Bethany Arts Community (2022, 2023, and 2024) and Catskill Mountain Foundation (2022), and Office Hours Residency at The Kennedy Center (2023) with performances at the Guggenheim Museum, Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, SummerStage, Dancers Responding to AIDS Hudson Valley Dance Festival, and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
SpeakMyMind is a 2023 New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project grantee, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and Mellon Foundation.
FRIDAY, APRIL 5 AT 7:00PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 5 AT 7:00PM
STUPID F*ING BIRD
By Aaron Posner
Directed by Caitlin McColl
Maude Adams Theater Hub Catskill Mountain Foundation
Doctorow Center for the Arts
In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. STUPID F*ING BIRD will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.
SATURDAY, APRIL 13 AT 2:00PM
APRIL IN PARIS
Joanne Polk piano
Jeffrey Langford lecture
Doctorow Center for the Arts
Come join husband and wife team musicologist Dr. Jeffrey Langford and pianist Dr. Joanne Polk as they take a romantic conversation and musical stroll through Paris. Enjoy performances of songs with the word “Paris” in the title, including “I Love Paris” by Cole Porter and “April in Paris” by Vernon Duke. These songs were transcribed for Dr. Polk by composer David Shenton, who will attend the concert and will be part of the Q&A after the concert. Other composers featured will include Claude Debussy and Cécile Chaminade.
SATURDAY, APRIL 27 AT 7:30PM THE TEMPEST
Doctorow Center for the Arts
The Tempest will use physicality, clowning, and cinematic theatricality to create magic, spectacle, and community dialogue. Join Catskill Mountain Shakespeare at the Catskill Mountain Foundation on April 27 to experience it yourself!
This touring production is presented thanks to the generous support from Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. From April 8-28, 2024, Catskill Mountain Shakespeare will tour to local middle schools, high schools, libraries and other community venues throughout the greater Catskill region.
SATURDAY, MAY 4 AT 7:00PM
TRAILBLAZING WOMEN OF COUNTRY: FROM PATSY TO LORETTA TO DOLLY
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
With their chart-topping hits and record-breaking sales, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton wove threads of contemporary womanhood throughout the tapestry of country music, resulting in unprecedented commercial success and earning each a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Trailblazing Women of Country will feature soloists Miko Marks, one of CMT’s 2022 Next Women of Country; and Nashville based singer Kristina Train, supported by a 5-member all-female band.
SATURDAY, MAY 11 AT 7:00PM
CAMILLE A. BROWN & DANCERS: I AM
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Camille A. Brown is a three time Tony Award nominated director and choreographer whose work taps into both ancestral and contemporary stories to capture deeply personal experiences and cultural narratives of African American identity. Through the medium of dance, she has been successful in stage, TV, and film. She was the first black director in the history of the Metropolitan Opera MainStage, and has directed and choreographed numerous productions. TV & Film work includes the Academy Award nominated Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the Emmy award winning Jesus Christ Superstar
SATURDAY, MAY 18 AT 2:00PM ORPHEUM DANCE PROGRAM COMMUNITY BALLET CLASS ANNUAL RECITAL
Victoria Rinaldi
Orpheum Dance Program Director
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
The Orpheum Dance Program Community Ballet Class is a year-round program of ballet instruction for children of all ages which includes an annual student dance recital and participation in two fully-staged ballets each year. The recital showcases the work of all students and can also include alumni who have joined acclaimed ballet companies or who are studying dance at major universities.
SATURDAY, MAY 18 AT 8:00PM JOSH FROMER COMEDY NIGHT
Maude Adams Theater Hub
Catskill Mountain Foundation
Doctorow Center for the Arts
Comedy Night is back, and it’s cleaner than ever! Josh Fromer brings opener Amanda Gail and headliner Greg Stone to the Catskills for an evening of hilarious stories and keenly-crafted jokes.
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 AT 1:00PM WOVEN CURRENTS
Yi-heng Yang piano
Judd Weisberg Woven Currents projected prints and live drawing on stage
Doctorow Center for the Arts, Cinema I
A multi-media collaboration between artist Judd Weisberg and pianist Yi-heng Yang. Weisberg has created a series of prints capturing the magical junctions where two streams merge, and Yi-heng Yang has composed music drawn from the musical pitches of the currents as they meet. This performance includes projected images from the Woven Currents print series and live drawing by Weisberg projected on the movie screen accompanied by Yi-heng Yang performing composed and improvised works on piano.
Doctorow Center for the Arts academyfortepiano.org/academy2024
Academy of Fortepiano Performance students will participate in master classes and workshops supported by plentiful access to pianos from the 18th & 19th century or their modern replicas.
MAY 25 – JUNE 2
ACADEMY OF FORTEPIANO PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP FOR SOLO FORTEPIANO
Guest artists: Elizaveta Miller and Jiayan Sun
SATURDAY, MAY 25 AT 7:00 PM
FACULTY AND GUEST ARTIST CONCERT: WHEN THE PIANO WAS YOUNG
Audrey Axinn, Maria Rose, Andrew Willis and guest artist Elizaveta Miller
SUNDAY, MAY 26 AT 2:00 PM MASTERCLASS With Elizaveta Miller
TUESDAY, MAY 28 AT 2:00 PM
LECTURE/CONCERT: “TOCCATAS AND FANTASIES” With Julian Jenson
THURSDAY, MAY 30 AT 2:00 PM
LECTURE/CONCERT: “HISTORICAL IMPROVISATION” With Nicola Canzano
FRIDAY, MAY 31 AT 2:00 PM RECITAL AND MASTERCLASS With Jiayan Sun
SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AT 7:00 PM STUDENT CONCERT
Featuring students from the Academy of Fortepiano Performance
JUNE 2 – JUNE 8
CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP FOR FORTEPIANO AND STRINGS
Guest faculty: Cynthia Roberts
FRIDAY, JUNE 7 AT 7:00 PM STUDENT CONCERT
Featuring students from the Chamber Music Workshop
FRIDAY, JULY 5 AT 6:00PM
SATURDAY, JULY 6 AT 1:00 & 6:00PM
CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Maude Adams Theater Hub Catskill Mountain Foundation
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
This summer MATH has the golden ticket for Broadway’s latest version of the timeless classic, Ronald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Led by the directing talents of Liz Piccoli, the assembles cast and creatives are turning the Orpheum stage into a Candyland for your 4th of July weekend entertainment. Get your tickets early, and tell all your friends!
FRIDAY, JULY 12 AT 5:30 PM
The Big Red Barn
Help us celebrate our 26th year of bringing arts to the mountaintop at our Annual Benefit. Join us for a cocktail reception, dinner, dessert and presentation, followed by a private premiere of Catskill Mountain Shakespeare’s summer production, Julius Caesar
RUNNING JULY 13-JULY 28
Outdoors & in the tent behind the Big Red Barn
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As Julius Caesar’s appetite for power grows ravenous, a group of rebel politicians join forces to save Rome the only way they see how. Their daring bloodshed is just the beginning of this saga of bloodlust, treachery, and brutality, all in the name of a better world. Contemporary dance, visual art and fashion combine with dynamic storytelling to create a visceral theatrical experience. Julius Caesar offers a meditation on power in our contemporary world and immerses us, the audience, into its heart.*
*NOTE: This performance contains instances of intimacy, violence, and mature content matter. The recommended age for audiences is 12 and up.
SUNDAY, JULY 14 AT 3:00PM
with New York City Ballet Principal Adrian Danchig-Waring
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Following last year’s sold-out Jacques d’Amboise tribute, Adrian Danchig-Waring returns with a star studded cast, including dancers from New York City Ballet, in a program of classics and contemporary favorites.
SATURDAY, JULY 20 AT 7:00PM
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
National Dance Institute (NDI), founded by Jacques d’Amboise, brings its award-winning dance program to the Catskill Mountain Region, with a two-week residency for children in Grades 3 – 8. Under the Artistic Direction of NDI choreographer Dufftin Garcia, the children will participate in high energy dance classes and choreography workshops accompanied by live music. The program culminates in a performance onstage at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center featuring the dancers and live music set against a backdrop of colorful banners created over the many years of the collaboration between NDI and the Catskill Mountain Foundation. This is a high-energy event that draws large crowds every year!
JULY 20 & 21 AND 27 & 28
Horton by the Stream, a unique Theater Project dedicated to the celebration of the work of Horton Foote, celebrates one of the most prolific and profound voices in the American Theater, Horton Foote. HBTS’s 30th Anniversary will be a major milestone, a celebratory connection with many of the artists that have supported us throughout the years, including members of the Foote family.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 2:00 & 7:00PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 AT 7:00PM
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
The magic continues this summer with CMF’s spectacular production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream This unique production, conceived by former Metropolitan Opera ballerina Victoria Rinaldi, transports the audience to an enchanted wood to witness what hilarity unfolds, when fairies meddle with the love lives of mortals. All ends well with a triple wedding and gala ballet. Now in its fifth year, this beloved production of the Orpheum Dance Program is continuing last year’s successful collaborations with Aquila Theatre and Joffrey Ballet School New York. Students from the Orpheum Dance Program’s Community Dance Class, alongside other local children, will be given the opportunity to appear on stage with professional actors and dancers in a fresh, new program filled with new scenes and updated choreography in a production that will enchant audiences young and old.
AUGUST 1-10, 2024
Doctorow Center for the Arts huntermusicfestival.com
Offering a beautiful escape into the mountains and an intensive summer music program all in one package, Hunter International Music Festival is a unique, ten-day music festival experience focusing on both solo and chamber music training.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 AT 7:00 PM MUSIC SALON AT HIMF Red Barn
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 & 7 AT 7:00 PM YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERT SERIES
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 AT 7:00 PM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 4:00 PM STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCES
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 7:00 PM FACULTY CONCERT: AROUND THE WORLD, AN EVENING OF MUSICAL INTEGRATION
The program will include: Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor; Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15; and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 AT 7:00 PM GUEST ARTIST CONCERT: THE LYSANDER TRIO
The Lysander Piano Trio has been praised by The Strad for its “incredible ensemble, passionate playing, articulate and imaginative ideas and wide palette of colors.” The group has developed a reputation for exciting programming, finding creative ways to connect well-known masterworks with pieces by lesser-known and underrepresented composers, discovering common threads across cultures and times.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 AT 6:00PM
OMNY TAIKO
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Another performance will take place at the Windham Civic & Performing Arts Center, on Sunday, August 11 at 2:00 pm
OMNY Taiko Drummers returns to the mountaintop to again present their eagerly anticipated performance at the Orpheum. OMNY Taiko’s mission is to foster a culture of community and support through the art of Japanese taiko drumming to impact and connect our global society. The sound of the taiko drum has the power to connect ourselves with those around us and with the universe at large.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 AT 7:00PM
PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 6:45PM
Music of Tchaikovsky, Scott Joplin & Robert Manno
Robert Manno, conductor
Melissa Wimbish, soprano
Andrew Garland, baritone
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra welcomes Melissa Wimbish, soprano and Andrew Garland, baritone for a program that will include:
Manno: Portrait of Millay for Soprano & String Orchestra on Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Premiere)
Manno: Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas) for Baritone & Chamber Orchestra (Premiere of Orchestra Version)
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence for String Orchestra
Scott Joplin: Three Rags for Chamber Orchestra (arr. Skoryk/Manno)
Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra was formed in 2000 by conductor Robert Manno. The orchestra is comprised of the finest musicians from the New York area and includes current and former members of some of the world’s most esteemed orchestras and ensembles.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 AT 7:00PM THE MOSS ENSEMBLE
Darcy Dunn, mezzo-soprano
Marshall Coid, countertenor & violin
Mary Wooten, piano
Doctorow Center for the Arts
The Moss Ensemble returns to the CMF for an evening of beautiful music that stirs our hearts and, we hope, yours. Featuring works by Beethoven, Monteverdi, Ravel, Faure, Vitali, Debussy and Griffiths, as well as pieces by our own Marshall Coid and Mary Wooten. Please join us!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 AT 2:00PM
STEVEN E. GREENSTEIN
MEMORIAL CONCERT
Doctorow Center for the Arts
Steven E. Greenstein was the collector and curator of the vintage piano collection on public display at the Doctorow Center for the Arts. The collection lives on in his name with the gratitude of the Catskill Mountain Foundation for his visionary collecting, expertise in piano restoration and maintenance and dedication to the goals of the museum. This memorial concert will feature performances by the faculty and students of the Academy of Fortepiano Performance, Joanne Polk and Jeffrey Langford, and jazz pianist Jamie Saft on pianos from the collection.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 AT 7:00PM
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Taking advantage of the Orpheum’s new technical upgrades, the world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company will spend the week in a Works & Process LaunchPAD tech-residency putting the finishing touches on a new commission by Baye & Asa. See the culmination of this process and join in on this first look before the company’s performance at Works & Process at the Guggenheim and the work’s premiere at New York City Center.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5
Maude Adams Theater Hub Catskill Mountain Foundation Doctorow Center for the Arts
The Songbirds is a group of nine talented singers under the direction of Linda Nicholls, Founder and Director of Greene Room Players. For over ten years these talented ladies have performed for our community to standing room only audiences. Their repertoire includes a variety of music that includes Broadway tunes, folk music, doo wop, standards, holiday, patriotic and more.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 7:00PM
HOME AGAIN: CAROLE KING
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
HOME AGAIN leaves no stone unturned, covering the entire repertoire of the multi-award winning singer/songwriter Carole King. Included on the list are songs Carole wrote & recorded on her own as well as songs she wrote that were recorded by others.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 AT 7:00PM
AYODELE CASEL
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Ayodele Casel, a Doris Duke Artist in the dance category, Drama Desk Nominee and Bessie Award winning “tap dancer and choreographer of extraordinary depth” (The New York Times). Her work has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 AT 7:00PM SOME ENCHANTED EVENING
BENNY BENACK III
STELLA KATHERINE COLE
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Led by Emmy-nominated crooner Benny Benack III and singer and social media sensation Stella Katherine Cole, Some Enchanted Evening leads audiences on a jazz-inspired journey through Broadway’s greatest hits from the Golden Age of yesterday to the freshest hits of today. From Hammerstein to Hamilton and everything in between, this musical mashup also showcases Jabu Graybeal, a one-of-a-kind talent and tap-dancing star.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 AT 7:00PM
Doctorow Center for the Arts
Fortepianist Yi-heng Yang, Twelfth Night Ensemble, and Aquila Theatre are collaborating on a special performance featuring the double concerti of Mozart with spoken word dramatizations of the life of Mozart performed by actors from the renowned Aquila Theatre. Twelfth Night is an ensemble of historical performance specialists, formed with the firm belief that art is best explored as a meeting place of the past, present, and future. Pianist and fortepianist Yi-heng Yang has been noted for her “remarkable expressivity and technique (Early Music Magazine). Aquila Theatre is one of the foremost producers of classical theatre in the U.S.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 AT 2:00 & 7:00PM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 AT 2:00PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14 AT 2:00 & 7:00PM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 AT 2:00PM
Orpheum Performing Arts Center
Now in its ninth year, the CMF Nutcracker has become a holiday favorite of residents of the surrounding Catskills and Hudson Valley. Featuring ballet stars of the future, this spectacular production has become one of the finest Nutcrackers in upstate New York.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20
Maude Adams Theater Hub Catskill Mountain Foundation
Doctorow Center for the Arts
This December, the community gathers once more to sing, read, and share in the seasonal spirit for the 3rd Annual Holiday Spectacular. As ever, all are welcome to be a part of the performance, and tickets are free!
Instructors: Steve Cook & Bruce Dehnert
Dates: June 14 - 18 (5 Days)
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $120
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
If you love to fire and love lots of different effects, or if you’re short on atmospheric firing experience, this intensive workshop is your ticket. You will participate in different types of firing, achieving results in a short time. We’ll fire soda, wood, gas reduction, raku, and pit! Emphasis is placed on glaze/surface preparation and firing techniques through demonstrations, lectures, and hands-on participation. You bring the bisque-ware, and we deliver the heat.
Instructors: Takuro and Hitomi Shibata
Dates: June 21 – 25
Course Fee: $600
Lab Fee: $100 (includes first bag of clay)
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Locally prospected clays, known as “wild clays,” have been utilized for pottery-making for thousands of years. Join us in this workshop as we explore wild clay’s potential as a clay body, slip, or glaze material. This workshop will provide an opportunity to discover the possibilities of materials found in our own surroundings. Let’s craft together and enjoy this creative process of transforming the Catskill’s wild clay into creative objects.Test firings are planned.
Instructor: Bill Griffith
Dates: June 28-July 2
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $50 (includes first bag of clay)
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced Using soft clay slabs, templates and several hand building construction techniques, students
will create a variety of functional pottery forms including mugs, pouring pots, vases, and platters. Students will also make their own clay stamps. Emphasis will be on learning good craftsmanship and constructing functional forms. This workshop is designed for beginning level students, and teachers who want to expand their making skills and knowledge. There will be a bisque firing. Glazes and application will be demonstrated and discussed.
Instructor: Chris Archer
Dates: June 28 – July 1
Course Fee: $400
Lab Fee: $50 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Explore the transformative power of soda ash in a three-day workshop covering glaze application, kiln stacking, and firing techniques. Achieve rich colors and unique surface textures through this atmospheric firing process. Learn to balance science and art as you choreograph your work for stunning results. Bring bisquefired stoneware or porcelain pieces, and experiment with glazes, flashing slips, and test tiles. There will be wheel-throwing and altering demonstrations, and time for making with lots of individual attention. All skill levels welcome!
Instructor: Francine Epstein
Dates: July 5-9
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $60 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Beginner To Intermediate
If you are looking to improve your skills in throwing great pots with porcelain, this workshop is for you. Come study in our sunny studio with one of the most gifted teachers of the craft while focusing on making better pots. Through demonstrations, practice, and discussions, students will explore the anatomy of pots, and concentrate on aspects of their craft that deserve improvement. Students will take home a greater knowledge of their own approach and ‘voice’, as well as greenware, bisqueware, and high fired celadons from our gas reduction kiln!
Instructor: Dr. William M. Carty
Dates: July 5 – 9
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $60
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Whether you’re a recent arrival to the glaze and clay calculation world, or you’ve previously studied this fascinating science, this workshop will exponentially expand your knowledge of glaze and clay-body development. Students will ex-
plore color behavior in glazes, that they invent, in both oxidation AND reduction atmospheres. Glaze and clay body formulation, the role of metal oxides and stains, the introduction of opacifiers, and causes of defects will be taught step by step. Testing “wild clays” will be welcome in our explorations. Students are encouraged to bring in their curiosities and challenges for discussion with this renowned, and fun, instructor.
Instructor: John Gill
Dates: July 12 – 16
Course Fee: $600
Lab Fee: $50 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
John Gill is known for his unique approaches to constructing planular vessels that exhibit both contemporary and historical associations. Gill’s expressive angulars challenge gravity with cantilever, colliding with surfaces that feature dynamic painting. There is undeniable magic in his hands, and a plausible logic guided by the idea that working with function opens-up possibilities. Join us in this workshop that could change your trajectories in thinking and creating. Gill has been a leader in our field, absorbing stories, and working intuitively to put together forms in direct yet activated relationships. The opportunity to study with this artist is a rite of passage and not to be missed.
Instructor: Chad Steve
Dates: July 19-23
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $70 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
This workshop provides a hands-on experience in wheel throwing and soda firing. Students will experiment with altering and incorporating various flashing slips to enhance the aesthetic aspects of their work. Participants are encouraged to bring gathered materials, such as sand and small stones, to be added to slips. Each material can provide unique textures, patterns, or even contrasting colors. This process adds both aesthetic and tactile dimensions to the fired works. The combination of wheel throwing, alterations, slip additions and atmospheric firing allows for a diverse range of artistic expression.
Instructor: Ben Owen
Dates: July 26 - August 4
Course Fee: 900
Lab Fee: $130 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
This pivotal workshop will provide a great experience of wood-firing as a group. Various approaches to using flashing slips, glazing with materials to create texture, and firing techniques will be emphasized. Specific placement in the
kiln, for various effects from the flame, smoke, and ash accumulation will be an important component of the experience. Philosophy, design, and specific ways of processing pottery will be shared. A hands-on workshop will take place while the wood kiln cools. Information on clays and materials to use for this workshop will be provided.
Instructor: Anna Calluori Holcombe
Dates: August 9-13
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $90
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced If you are interested in developing a rich and layered surface, this course will allow you to expand your palette and skills in making work that is personally relevant and dynamic. By incorporating drawing, photography, scanning, and collage techniques to develop imagery. Techniques such as China paint, decals, slips, and under and over glazes will be explored. These processes will be used on a variety of forms, such as tiles and plates, as well as work you make during this exciting workshop. We will be working with porcelain, exploring its multitude of forming and decorative possibilities.
Instructor: Fong Choo
Dates: August 9-13
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $90
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Focus your playful side and inner glaze alchemist! This workshop will emphasize throwing a variety of forms, including the instructor’s beloved teapot, and delves into the mesmerizing world of unorthodox glazing, blending and learning how to tweak Mayco’s low-fire crystal glazes with their mid-range counterparts, for a kaleidoscope of unpredictable finishes. We’ll also explore his renowned handle-building techniques using unique materials like cane and reed, transforming your handled works into mini masterpieces. Come experiment, embrace the unexpected, and discover the magic of firing to cone 5-6 with the master of this approach.
Instructor: Katherine Maloney
Dates: August 16-20
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $70 (includes one bag of clay)
Skill Level: The ability to wheel-throw a cylinder is encouraged
Join us for 5 days of exploring imaginative approaches to creating zoomorphic pottery. Using techniques of throwing and hand-building, students will form vessels that incorporate animal figures by sculpting, carving, and alteration. Instruction will cover basic sculpting techniques such as the hollowing method and how to give their animals expression and detail. Katherine will provide individual guidance with each student to achieve a pleasing composition, structural integrity, and personal meaning in their finished work. The workshop also includes one glaze firing.
Instructor: Sin-ying Ho & Phil Read
Dates: Aug. 23-27
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $95 (includes first bag of clay)
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced
This exciting workshop will emphasize ancient Chinese methodologies and concepts for painting and decorating on porcelain greenware, bisqueware, and glaze ware. Processes, that include applying “Qing Hua” cobalt pigment, color underglazes, glazes, computer decal transfers and China paints, will be shared. Students will learn two major brush painting techniques; fine-line brush painting and board brush expression. Ways of painting symbols and patterns, like bamboo, will be covered. By understanding color field and exploring the subconscious, participants will connect with their body, mind, and soul.
Instructors: Marilyn Katz, Gail Rutigliano, Karen Stern
Dates: September 7 – 9
Course Fee: $300
Lab Fee: $50 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Beginner
Last year, this revolutionary way of learning to work with clay was invented right here at Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts. Have a blast getting creative in this workshop with three Dynamos! Come be a part of a new paradigm in learning how to work with clay…under the guidance of three amazing artists. Students will learn wheel throwing, hand building, glazing, and raku firing…each technique important to building skills quickly. These Instructors who know how to work with clay, enthusiastically share their knowledge, and set the right atmosphere for learning.
Instructor: Forrest Lesch-Middleton
Dates: September 13-17
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $110 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Intermediate To Advanced This workshop explores a technique called “volumetric image transfer.” We’ll start with wheel-throwing and tile demos, then move on to creating silkscreens with your own designs. By the end of day one, you’ll have your own silkscreen and understand how to set up a low-tech darkroom. We’ll also explore form and function, and you’ll gain a deeper understanding of wheel throwing and design principles. There’s plenty of time to develop your work and incorporate image transfer into your studio practice.
Instructor: Lisa Clague
Dates: Sept. 13-17
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $65 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced
Learning to sculpt the Figure is a process that is both exciting and challenging. With good instruction, you will enjoy the process of creating a torso that tells your own personal story In this workshop we will construct the torso using slab construction. Emphasis will be on the face and hands, giving expression to your piece. The incorporation of metal and fabric dipped in slip will give your work another level of freshness and excitement. Surface treatments will be explored on wet clay as well as glazes and post fired finishes.
Instructor: Rosa Leff
Dates: June 10-12
Course Fee: $300
Lab Fee: $30
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced In this workshop, we will work from personal photographs to create hand-cut paper images. Participants will learn how to navigate the shadows, layers, and movements in a photo and ensure that the cut image remains structurally sound without the use of adhesives. The skills practiced in this workshop can be applied to any image, allowing participants to create dynamic papercuts from their own photos. There will be discussions and demonstrations to assist students through this amazingly complex, and beautiful, art-form. All levels of skill are most welcome.
Instructor: Karin Lowney-Seed
Dates: June 28 - July 1
Course Fee: $400
Lab Fee: $45
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced In this workshop we will explore personal artistic style while venturing new ideas and pathways into your skills in painting. Experimenting and challenging yourself can be the most rewarding process, yet also intimidating. Students will receive instruction in understanding, mixing, and applying paint to create imagery. Learning personal mark-making is central to this experience. This supportive and dynamic workshop instructor will take you on that journey.
Instructor: Nathan Loda
Dates: July 5 – 9
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $30
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced We will learn the fundamentals of landscape painting in the studio, and venture outdoors to use our skills under the beautiful Catskill sky. There will be demonstrations of a methodical approach to painting landscapes that can be used in the studio, as well as painting directly from observation in these ancient mountains, valleys, and glens. The focus will be on representational painting, and practicing techniques used to blend realism, abstraction, and imagination. All levels welcome.
Instructor: Cyrus Highsmith
Dates: July 7-9
Course Fee: $300
Lab Fee: $40
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced There are few aspects of human communication that are as sophisticated as written alphabets. Integral to language and meaning, letters, designed and drawn, offer infinite aesthetic possibilities. Students will be introduced to methods that can be applied to type design as well as image-making of all kinds. This workshop will be a dynamic, hands-on, and mostly computer-free, exploration of drawing, making, and thinking about letters in ways that will enable students to see the world in different ways.
Instructor: Gabe Brown
Dates: July 12-16
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $40
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced Designed for those interested in not only the basic understanding of oil painting and various water media techniques and applications, this workshop will also address advanced knowledge of practical uses. This workshop is ideal for anyone wanting to perfect their craft with a better understanding of how to apply specific methods to individual studio practice. You will learn application methods of ‘ground’ on various substrates, paint-mixing techniques, presentation, and preparation of artwork for transportation.
Instructor: Loreen Oren
Dates: July 19- 21
Course Fee: $300
Lab Fee: $50
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced
This workshop is designed for beginners or students who wish to continue working with watercolor and other water-based painting such as tempera gouache and acrylics. Techniques such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, scumbling and “dry brush” will be demonstrated. Students will learn
how to create patterns, layers, color relationships, brush strokes and effects in watercolor painting. In-depth explorations of various types of paper will be led, in addition to using unexpected tools to apply paint and achieve unique results. Bring your creativity and love for color!
Instructor: Kulvinder Kaur Dhew
Dates: August 2-6
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $45
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced
Join us for a dynamic exploration of drawing where you’ll delve into the fundamentals of capturing form, image, and narrative through a wide array of media and tools. This workshop goes beyond the mechanics of drawing, inviting you to discover the profound connection between observation, understanding, and artistic expression. Engage in insightful lectures, stimulating exercises, and engaging presentations that fuel your artistic growth. This workshop is perfect for anyone seeking to deepen their relationship with drawing. All skill levels welcome.
Instructor: Patricia Miranda
Dates: August 16-20
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $50
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced This workshop is an exploration of color using natural dyes and pigments. Participants will create color from raw materials such as cochineal, malachite, clay, oak gall, and black walnuts, for use in a diverse group of water-based binders, from gum arabic to distemper to egg tempera. We will explore the potentials of color, and how materials carry content through history, context, physical and aesthetic properties. Considerations of the environmental impact of materials will offer a framework for maintaining a sustainable safe painting practice. Participants will create a set of handmade watercolor paints, a color swatch book, and paintings.
Instructor: Tina Harp
Dates: June 21 - 23
Course Fee: $300
Lab Fee: $85
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Rug Hooking is a traditional art form here in the Catskills. Beginning with a complete kit, students will learn how to hook a simple 8 x 10 picture using hand-dyed strips of wool. Learn how color and texture function in this intriguing craft technique. Because this tool is portable, students will be able to continue working on projects outside class hours, and the next morning will be spent going over how the colors create textures, and how to fix a mistake. Lots of demonstrations and individual attention!
Instructor: Cael Chappell
Dates: August 9-13
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $50
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Join us for a 5-day basket weaving workshop with award winning weaver Cael Chappell! This hands-on experience will take you on a creative journey, where you’ll learn the art of twined basketry using waxed linen thread. Each day will be filled with in-depth instruction to create unique, personalized baskets. Cael’s expertise and passion will guide you through the process, from planning your project to completing beautiful baskets. All skill levels welcome.
Instructor: Renee Baumann
Dates: August 30-September 1
Course Fee: $300
Lab Fee: $40
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Drawing from traditional English rush-weaving techniques, this workshop will delve into working with locally harvested cattail leaves found here in the Catskills. This unique course will extend the student’s basket weaving skills through constructing smaller baskets and culminating with weaving a sun hat. Expect to leave Sugar Maples with the knowledge to harvest, prepare and weave baskets from this abundant wetland plant. No previous basketry experience required!
Instructor: Judd Weisberg
Dates: July 13
Time: 1-4pm
Course Fee: $100
Lab Fee: $60
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn the essential techniques for crafting classic trout flies, from the alluring wet patterns that mimic aquatic insects to the vibrant streamers that tempt larger fish. Whether you’re a seasoned angler or a curious beginner, this hands-on experience will equip you with the skills to
create effective and beautiful lures. Under expert guidance, you’ll master the art of tying the Black & Olive Woolly Bugger, a versatile wet fly; the Black-Nosed Dace, a classic dry fly that imitates a small minnow; the Hendrickson, a dry fly designed for mayfly hatches; and assorted nymphs, essential for imitating underwater prey.
Instructor: Cynthia Fisher
Dates: June 14 -16
Course Fee: $300
Lab Fee: $80
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Mosaics inspired by the natural world range from abstract to representational. We will work in the indirect method with instruction tailored to your individual needs. Beginning with an overview of materials, substrates and tools, students will move onto composing their mosaic. Key elements of mosaic design will be emphasized: Andamento (the placement of tiles), color, value, and texture. Under the instructor’s skilled guidance, you will bring your nature-inspired vision to life in mosaic.
Instructor: Michelle O’Carroll
Dates: August 3
Course Fee: $160
Lab Fee: $130
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced
This workshop is your gateway to the captivating world of natural perfumery. We’ll cover the fascinating history and methods of scent extraction, and then delve into the principles of fragrance structure, composition, and how scents interact with your unique skin chemistry. Embark on a sensory adventure with a guided sampling of the 13 olfactory families before experimenting with over 50 raw materials from our extensive library. Design and create your own, bespoke natural perfume/cologne to take home, using professional skeletal formulas as your roadmap. This workshop is perfect for anyone curious about the art of natural perfumery and eager to express their creativity through scent.
Instructor: Christopher Kaczmarek
Dates: August 16-20
Course Fee: $500
Lab Fee: $30
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced
The act of walking is one of the most basic constants of the human condition, and is often a solo endeavor of short duration, covering the “last mile” between destination points. But there are creative and cultural spaces where walking serves as a shared modality for deep engagement and contemplation, and where both an investigation and a heightened awareness of our internal and external environments is undertaken. We will explore cultural spaces as formed through the artistic practice of Dérive, and the act of creating and walking an outdoor seven-circuit classic labyrinth.
Instructor: Vince Montague
Dates: August 31- September 2
Course Fee: $300
Lab Fee: $25
Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced
Sugar Maples is thrilled to announce that for the first time in our history, we are offering an opportunity for those who would like to write. This will be a workshop with one of the country’s most special writers. If you are interested in writing about art, craft, or memoir, this workshop will infuse your thinking and writing with new ways of looking at our world of creativity. There will be discussions and exercises aimed at helping you hone your ideas, sharpen your vision, explore language, and experiment with the infinite ways of words. Learn how to construct and submit manuscripts for publication by journals, online media, and book publishers. Participants will have full access to our beautiful, sunny studio that’s replete with lots of table room, potters’ wheels, WIFI, and a supportive atmosphere. Note* You don’t have to be an artist to take this workshop!
Instructor: Meredith Kunhardt
Dates: June 19 – August 20
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Course Fee: $220
Lab Fee: $65 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
There are many reasons that making pottery on the wheel has become so popular. Making pots gets us more in touch with our elemental ‘selves’. Fashioning pots with our hands, and minds, serves our desire to create and realize our imaginations. The farm to table movement has made us more aware of the relationship between locally grown foods and handmade wares. We aim to celebrate this relationship by offering an introductory course to making pots. Students will learn how to prepare clay and, using the potter’s wheel, create tableware shapes.
Instructor: Maureen Garcia
Dates: June 19 – August 20
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Course Fee: $220
Lab Fee: $65 [includes first bag of clay]
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Using clay to create pottery, sculpture, architectural and other forms, reaches back as far in time as 28,000 years ago when the first paleolithic Venus figurines were sculpted. From the magnificent, Native American pots to modern day tilework, sculptures, and functional vessels, hand-building processes have played an important role in artists’ abilities to express their imaginations and cultures through this most malleable medium. During this exciting course, students will learn a variety of processes, tools, and approaches to realizing form. There will be demonstrations of pinch, coil, and slab techniques, and firings.
Instructor: Tina Harp
Dates: May 29 – July 17
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Course Fee: $220
Lab Fee: $65
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
This class is designed for beginners and advanced weavers who want to learn and refresh the basics of hand-weaving. Each week, you will focus on a different weaving technique or project. By the end of the class, you will have created a variety of woven pieces, such as a scarf, placemat, or wall hanging. In addition to learning how to wind a warp, set up a loom, and weave basic patterns, you’ll learn different weaving techniques and how to troubleshoot. This class is a great way to relax, while also learning a new skill that you can enjoy for years to come. No prior experience is required.
Please Note: If a course is marked as FULL, you may visit the website and register to be put on the waiting list.
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• We strongly encourage you to purchase your tickets in advance. Please visit www.catskillmtn.org and click on the film you’d like to see to choose your showing and reserve your seat!
Schedule Subject to Change
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THROUGH 6/2
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max.
The Beast
In the near future artificial intelligence is in control of everyone’s lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat.
The Garfield Movie
After Garfield’s unexpected reunion with his longlost father, ragged alley cat Vic, he and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered lives to join Vic on a risky heist.
OPENING 6/7
IF
A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone’s imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have grown up.
OPENING 6/14
Inside Out 2
Follow Riley, in her teenage years, encountering new emotions.
OPENING 6/21
Wildcat
Follows the life of writer Flannery O’Connor while she was struggling to publish her first novel.
OPENING 7/3
Despicable Me 4
Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.
OPENING 7/19
Thelma
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
OPENING 8/2
Ghostlight
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
OPENING 8/16
Janet Planet
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
View each week’s schedule, view trailers and purchase tickets at catskillmtn.org
The Catskill Mountain Foundation, in partnership with Works & Process, presents
with New York City Ballet Principal Adrian Danchig-Waring
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2024, 3:00 PM
Following last year’s sold-out Jacques d’Amboise tribute, Adrian Danchig-Waring returns with a star studded cast, including dancers from New York City Ballet, in a program of classics and contemporary favorites.
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
6050 Main Street • Tannersville, NY 12485
Tickets Purchased Ahead: $25; $20 seniors; $7 students (+processing fees. Higher at-the-door ticket prices apply)
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Your support matters and makes everything we do possible!
• Presents and hosts more than 20 performances and lectures
• Offers free or subsidized arts programs that are enjoyed by hundreds of local children.
• Hosts arts residencies bringing many artists to our community for extended stays.
• Operates the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop, featuring a curated selection of books and gifts from around the Region and the world.
• Publishes the monthly Guide magazine, distributed throughout the Catskill Region, and in Albany.
• Is the home of the Piano Performance Museum, a rare collection of historic playable pianos.
• Runs a dozen studio arts programs, with students from around the U.S.
• Shows more than 100 films on our three screens in Hunter.
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