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Second Sundays | Helen Rose - Air Cool Jenny
Air-Cool Jenny is composed of Helen Rose and Kramer Sanguinetti. It was the trick of a warm late summer’s eve in New York City that Kramer and Helen first played music together well into the wee hours of the morning. They lived in the great city of New Orleans, and found joy frolicking with the creative spirits of the swamp. Presently, they reside in the bucolic Catskill Mountains of New York.
Helen's dynamic and powerful voice mixed with Kramer's golden-toned tenor creates an incomparable blend conveying heartfelt emotions to philosophical musings. Their harmonies reflect their shared experience -- finding truth in song as young human beings. As adults they share the universal language of music deeply. Inspired by Appalachian folk music, blues, country, jazz and funk, Air-Cool Jenny has an extraordinary sound of its own. Songs composed by this duo explore the wonders of the world through deep reflection and poetry born from real life events. Their latest EP, which was recorded in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana with members of the Lost Bayou Ramblers, will be released in April 2021.
Sunday, July 13th 1pm - 5pm | FREE
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WKC 50th Anniversary Celebration
Community celebration of 50 years bringing art, love and music to this Valley.
Music brought to us by the Big Takeover!
Fronted by the charismatic Jamaican-born singer and songwriter Nee Nee Rushie, the seven-piece New York band The Big Takeover plays original music that is rooted in and reverent toward the genres and rhythms of Jamaican pop: reggae, rocksteady, ska. Their deceptively complex arrangements and big hooks connect with the spirit of Motown and the uptown sophistication of the 21st century retro soul and R&B revival scene.Saturday, July 19th | FREE
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Everloving
Within Henry Flynt’s sound lurks the ache of the unobtainable but also an implicit challenge. It's a call to action that a combative “supergroup” now accepts. Everloving extends Flynt’s radical reconfiguration of Southern vernacular in a spirit of affirmation and exaltation. However, this is no mere tribute act in which the covers smother. In the ebullient hustle of Everloving , the hot fuss ’n’ bother of yesteryear is churned at a vigorous 45 RPM to a jukebox-lubricating essence.
The careers of these various artists unwind with kudzu-tendriled resolve. Organizer Jonathan Kane demonstrates that the blues are a primal force of cyclical regeneration and reimagination. Like Flynt before him, he promulgates the physicality and spirit of the idiom in irony-free romps that have energized 20th-century minimalism via collaborations with La Monte Young, Rhys Chatham, and Swans. Peter Kerlin and Jim McHugh (like Flynt, a native of Greensboro, NC) fueled Sunwatchers, whose anarchic psychedelia trampled various barricades with abandon. They blasted roiling, harmolodic euphoria for fifteen years, ascending on a cloud of freewheeling madness; Meredith McHugh’s Smoke Bellow wafted to similar heights.
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Mary Lattimore with the Tara Clerkin Trio
Mary Lattimore’s music exists somewhere far above us. The angelic tones emanating from her Lyon & Healy harp, often looped live through a Line 6 DL4 pedal, are at once distinct and eternally familiar. Once you start an album it’s hard to turn off. Blending her classical background with the experimental spirit of indie rock, Mary has collaborated with a slew of producers and artists to bring the harp into the modern landscape.
Wednesday, September 17th 7pm | $30
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The Mammals
An indie-roots band from New York’s Hudson Valley led by singer-songwriters Ruth Ungar and Mike Merenda. With their genre-blending mix of fiddle, banjo, guitar, organ, and drums, they’ve spent over two decades crafting socially conscious, emotionally rich folk-rock hailed as “some of the best songwriting of their generation” (LA Times). Their forthcoming release, Touch Grass Vol. 1 & 2 (2025), is a double album that rages, reflects, and rejoices—equal parts protest and balm, recorded at their own Humble Abode Music studio and mastered by Greg Calbi. Whether playing international stages or hosting their semi-annual Catskills festival, The Hoot, The Mammals bring warmth, defiance, and harmony to every performance.
Friday, October 10th 7pm | $25
Past Performances
Sessa | April 2025
Kassi Valazza | June 2024
Nabiha Iqbal | September 2024
Pinc Louds | June 2024
Sun Ra Arkestra | July 2024
Holland Belle | May 2025
La Perla | May 2024
Etran de L’Aïr | May 2025
Bones of J.R. Jones | November 2024
Nic Panken | June 2025
La Muchacha - El Priopo Junte | June 2025