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Hailing from Westchester County, New York, this female-fronted, four-piece punk band has swiftly gained notoriety within the New York underground music scene and has become known for their energetic live performances and strong DIY-punk ethos. American Pinup’s sound, however, extends well beyond the musical tenets of punk, recalling elements of such genres as rockabilly, surf, ska,

Benjamin Levy is a unique, multi-talented magician, memory expert and speaker, who is the favorite of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and has performed for President Obama and Muhammad Ali. His programs are memorable, entertaining, audience involving, highly personalized, sophisticated and filled with humor and a very special charm. This program was part of the 2018

The Seratones, who hail from Shreveport, Louisiana, serve up a combination of Southern musicality and garage rock ferocity. The city sits as a nexus roughly equidistant from Memphis soul, Mississippi Delta Blues, and New Orleans jazz, with Texas swing located just over the nearby state border. The band’s sound draws from those touch points and more,

A new production by this contemporary dance company founded by Fadi J. Khoury and Sevin Ceviker that is dedicated to presenting a unique fusion of dance genres–modern, jazz, classical ballet and traditional folkloric–into a language that expresses our fundamental, shared capacity to create. Through its performances, FJK supports cross-cultural dialogue, infusing its works with positive images from

This NYC-based group will present Irish traditional music with three musicians and traditional Irish dancing. With Katie Linnane on fiddle, Cleek Schrey on hardanger fiddle, and Stuart Jackson on the uillean pipes. This program was part of the 2018 Summer Amphitheater Series. Learn more about the free series here.

This haunting tragedy begs the devastating question: where should a young man turn when his father is killed, his mother remarries, and the life he knew has been taken from him? This 90-minute production brings an intimacy and immediacy to Shakespeare’s iconic story of murder and madness. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF) is a critically acclaimed (The

The Afro-Peruvian Ensemble is an all-star band that brings rhythms of the Peruvian coast from uplifting festejos to contrapunto de Zapateo (tap dancing competition). A perennial favorite of the HRM Amphitheater. This program was part of the 2018 Summer Amphitheater Series. Learn more about the free series here.

Join artist and naturalist James Prosek in this workshop, inspired by Gyotaku, a traditional Japanese fish-printing art form.  Create your own work of art using this nature-print technique, with real eels and other fish indigenous to the Hudson, collected from the artist’s local bait shop.

Celebrate the spookiest weekend of the year with fun programs and projects! On Sunday, don’t miss a magical performance with Magic by Kathie.

Inspired by Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing, multidisciplinary artist Julia Whitney Barnes will explore the art of rubbings made with natural materials. Participants are invited to collect their own nature specimens and use them to create drawings. Julia Whitney Barnes is a multi-disciplinary artist; her works include oil paintings, ceramic sculptures, murals, drawings,