Lighthouse TV23 now streaming on the web
Not that long ago, if you wanted to watch a local program, you’d have to catch it when it aired on channel 23. This month, the channel added online streaming to its website, which allows anyone with an internet connection to tune in from anywhere. The system also allows storing programs on the cloud –...
No Winston Farm concerts this year
The Saugerties Town Board recently announced that there would be no concerts happening this summer at the Winston Farm site that Woodstock ’94 promoter Michael Lang is planning to reactivate as a home for traveling and weekend-long mini music festivals. “We pulled the plug for this year a while ago,” Lang said this week. “Things...
Labor of love
It’s thoughtful and imaginative and designed to draw out positive thoughts. It’s designed to promote local unity, local industry, local interaction, local pride. It’s structured simply but packed to the gills with understandable symbolism. It’s called Love Knots, and it’s Saugerties artist Willie Neumann’s new art installation, stationed at the corner of Main and Market...
Celebrating Saugerties-Woodstock love
Saugerties artist Willy Ze’ev Neumann’s identical twin “Love Knot” sculptures, intended to symbolize the bond between the Saugerties and Woodstock communities, will be officially installed in Saugerties at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 4 at the corner of Main and Market streets and in Woodstock at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 on the lawn...
DIY Studios
The DIY culture was born of an economic and artistic imperative for artists to do it themselves. Two Saugerties recording studios, Leviathan Recording Studios and New Creek Recording, conceived in this spirit, have begun offering their services to local musicians. Thanks to increasingly affordable recording technology, these studios are able to provide excellent quality recordings...
What to see in local art galleries
This past week saw the opening of “I Have a Place in Mind” at Imogen Holloway Gallery on Partition St., with work by Nina Katchadourian, Bobby Davidson, Michel Alhadeff-Jones and Keiko Sono. As the title of the exhibit suggests, each of the artists represented has a distinct take on concepts of time and place. This...
Rebuilding the primordial wall
‘There’s no other thing like it anywhere else in the world, but it takes maintenance’ Last September, a stone wall collapsed on the southwest side of the quarry at Opus 40. It was the first such incident in the over-70-year history of the site. At the time, the collapse was believed to be the...
All-Beethoven at Saugerties Pro Musica
On Sunday, March 24 at 3 p.m. Saugerties Pro Musica will present the Colorado String Quartet for the last time before the quartet members go their separate ways. Julie Rosenfeld (violin), D. Lydia Redding (violin), Marka Gustavsson (viola) and Katie Schlaikjer (cello) will perform an all-Beethoven program of two works, the Quartet in E-flat Major,...
And this year’s village art exhibit is…
If Saugerties has a symbol everyone can agree on, it’s the lighthouse. So after a so-so reaction to last year’s Adirondack chairs, the Chamber of Commerce is going with a sure-fire hit for this summer’s public art project—this time, in 3D. Local furniture-maker Gus Pedersen is hard at work on 35 scale-model blank wooden lighthouses,...
Saugerties 3-day music festival canceled
A three-day music festival planned for Winston Farm this summer has been cancelled, Saugerties Supervisor Kelly Myers announced at the Saugerties Town Board meeting Wednesday, January 23. Promoter Michael Lang informed her that the organizers of the CounterPoint festival, planned for July 11-13, won’t take place because the organizers MCP Productions had determined that there...
Music festival approved for Woodstock ’94 site
The plan for a regular summer concert series at the site of Woodstock ’94 moved another step closer to reality as rock entrepreneur Michael Lang received conditional approval from the Saugerties Town Board for the first of what he’s hoping will be three concerts this year at Winston Farm. The event is the CounterPoint Music...
Saugerties artists team up for winter exhibit
Once a year, for 10 years now, the artists of the annual Saugerties Artists Studio Tour have welcomed the community into their studios on the second weekend of August. Visitors have the opportunity to experience the artists’ work in the environment it was made in and to meet the person who made it. The tour...