Composer Bertolozzi eyes Eiffel, reflects on ‘Bridge Music’
Since 2009, people at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge have heard music. During warmer months, they’ve heard strange percussive melodies emanating from listening stations on the bridge’s pedestrian lane. If they’ve parked on either side, they’ve heard the tune on their car radios. Any way they’ve heard the “Bridge Music,” composer Joseph Bertolozzi is...
Rosendale Theater hosts open house to show off improvements, woo new volunteers
So much has been accomplished by the Rosendale Theatre Collective (RTC) in the past three years, since the community-based group bought out the beloved old tin-ceilinged moviehouse on Main Street, that it’s hard to fathom that it wasn’t all that long ago when rumors were flying that the Rosendale Theatre was in danger of going...
Artwork by Nadine Lewis on view this month at Elting Memorial Library
Local artist and poet Nadine Lewis has an eclectic and moving art and photography exhibition in the Steinberg Reading Room of the Elting Memorial Library, titled “yoU aRe > [more than] the sum of your parts.” Those who have any significant amount of time in New Paltz will certainly recognize her black-and-white portraits of iconic...
Residents gather at the New Paltz Jewish Community Center to celebrate Hanukkah
Sitting cross-legged on the floor of the New Paltz Jewish Community Center, a group of three girls spun a dreidel to win a pile of fake plastic coins. As the four-sided top twirled ever nearer to toppling over, they leaned in closer. One of the girl’s eyes lit up as it landed on the Hebrew...
Ushio Shinohara, Russel Wright exhibits open through Dec. 16 at Dorsky Museum
One of the hidden gems of the Hudson Valley lies in the center of the SUNY New Paltz campus: the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SDMA), with its vast permanent collection of art and the exhibitions and artists that it brings in from New York City and around the country and world. “That’s part of...
Hothouse Flowers’ Liam O Maonlai leads youth music workshop
Highland and New Paltz High School students were able to learn from and perform with one of Ireland’s most renowned musicians, Liam Ó Maonlaí, in the stunning upper terrace of the Lifebridge Sanctuary Retreat and Learning Center in Rosendale, with glass windows overlooking the Catskills. Walking up the stairs to the room, where Ó Maonlaí...
90 Miles to present “I remember Mama”
Ninety Miles off Broadway will present “I Remember Mama” at the New Paltz Reformed Church on Nov. 2, Nov. 3, Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. The play will also be performed at the First United Methodist Church in Highland on Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The...
COTA Corridors art exhibition on display in New Paltz
COTA (Celebration of the Arts) Corridors is a month-long, town-wide art exhibition that will be on display in New Paltz through Columbus Day weekend. Curators Eileen Hedley and April Warren have designated artists to install artwork in various locations throughout downtown New Paltz to showcase COTA, the artists and participating businesses. A published map of...
Downtown rocks at village’s 125th birthday party and Bon-Odori folk-dance celebration
The Village of New Paltz celebrated in high style this past Sunday, with the second annual Bon-Odori Japanese folk-dance celebration, and the village’s 125th anniversary bash drawing the community to the downtown for music, food, festivities, live demonstrations and dancing — all within a one-block area. “The events went smoothly today,” said New Paltz Police...
Bon-Odori Dance Festival to be held at the Blueberry Patch on August 5
The second annual Bon-Odori Dance Festival, named for an ancient Japanese folk-dancing celebration, is coming to New Paltz on Aug. 5 from 1 to 9 p.m. It will be held at the Blueberry Patch, located next to the Groovy Blueberry Wholesale Warehouse at Main and Water Street. While Bon-Odori dance festivals happen in every nook...
16 Hundred Pound Pig brings ‘anti-establishment’ back to New Paltz
Gonzo Royes stands next to the pool table at Snug Harbor. He’s smiling, talking about music and what the night might have in store. Fresh off a show in Albany, Gonzo and the rest of the guys from punk band 16 Hundred Pound Pig are excited. They’ve managed to get noticed in the capital and...
Mah-jongg players gather in New Paltz, Gardiner
An otherwise sleepy room in the New Paltz Jewish Community Center bustled with laughter, idle threats, gentle trash talking and a curious clicking akin to the sound of dominos falling over on Monday afternoon. Two tables with four players were rapt, transfixed with the strategy of what to do next with tiles adorned by Chinese...