Calendar of Events: Concerts
New Orleans Bad Ass Jazz Brunch with Glen David Andrews and Band
10am-3pm (music starts at 12:30pm)
On Sunday Morning, at the start of the Mardi Gras Season, Helsinki combines live music and a New Orlean’s style brunch with one of the greatest entertainers working today, Glen David Andrews and his hot 7-piece band.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Mezzo-Mezzo
Adventures in Music Series
7pm
Mezzo-sopranos Mary Deyerle Hack and Nina Fine, along with pianist Gwen Gould, will appear in concert. The program will include selections from Steven Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Jacques Offenbach.
Roeliff Jansen Community Library, 9091 Route 22, Hillsdale
518-325-4101
Flamenco Heats Things Up
12:30-3:30pm
The Hudson-Chatham Winery is thrilled to be hosting internationally renowned flamenco guitarist Maria Zemantauski for the afternoon. Many of you have heard Maria play at our legendary Sangria Festival in August. Maria’s back for this special event, joining Huffington Post blogger and local author Claudia Ricci for a book signing of Seeing Red. Claudia’s book is a page-turner about a woman who travels half-way around the world in search of true love, only to find it in the magic of her own flamenco dancing. You’ll be transported by the worlds and the music – and a tasting of the winery’s award-winning wines! – inside our cozy tasting rooms.
Hudson-Chatham Winery, 1900 Route 66, Ghent
518-392-WINE
Brooklyn Qawwali Party
A Big BAND Party!
9pm
Paying tribute to one of the world’s greatest vocalists, Brooklyn Qawwali Party formed to honor the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, reworking his thunderous songs for an eclectic, eleven-piece orchestra. BQP has five horns, guitar, bass, harmonium, and three percussionists that meld into one buoyant, jazzy rhythm.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Jill Sobule
8pm
Jill Sobule belongs to a rare breed of artists. Her work is at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic. With over five albums and a decade of recording under her belt, her songs cover a huge amount of ground which all benefit greatly from Jill’s subtle intelligence and skillful light-handedness. To see Jill live and in concert is a rare treat. It is on stage that she is most comfortable, most powerful, and where the delicacy and range of her work can be best appreciated.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
9pm
A Night of Twisted Novelty featuring Sweet Soubrette and Mistress B.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Shearwater
8pm
Shearwater continues to explore the beauty, menace, and fragility of the natural world – and that increasingly rare species, the indivisible album.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Lower Dens
8pm
4-piece Indie band, Lower Dens formed by smoky voiced frontwoman, Jana Hunter, quickly gained popularity quickly after the first album and were asked to join bigger and bigger tours, with the like of Bear in Heaven, the Walkmen, Beach House, and Deerhunter, and wound up playing around 200 shows last year, developing the kind of musical telepathy that only relentless touring can bring.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
The Intimate Voices Quartet
ClaverackLanding: great music in great spaces
6pm
$30/general
Columbia Festival Orchestra presents, The Intimate Voices Quartet, exemplary string players performing Mendelssohn, Yonavsky and Beethoven – a perfect medley of sound.
First Presbyterian Church, 369 Warren Street, Hudson
518-828-7513
The Magnetic Fields
Love at the Bottom of the Sea
8pm
Club Helsinki is thrilled to welcome The Magnetic Fields as they debut their spring tour!
The Magnetic Fields’ Love at the Bottom of the Sea will be released by Merge Records on March 6. The band’s tenth full-length album is their first release of new material with Merge since 1999’s highly acclaimed 19 Love Songs. The band will celebrate their new album with a North American tour that passes through the SXSW Music Showcase in Austin, Texas.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Joseph Arthur
9pm
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Paula Robison, flute & Frederic Hand, guitar: Songs without Words
ClaverackLanding: great music in great spaces
5pm
$30/general
Columbia Festival Orchestra presents, the renowned flutist Paula Robison who will be joined by guitarist Frederic Hand. A co-founder of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ms. Robison has played under Leonard Bernstein and as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic.
Christ Church Episcopal, 431 Union Street, Hudson
518-828-7513
Seun Kuti and Egypt 80
Scorching Afro-Beat
9pm
Torchbearer and soul-incarnate of Fela Anikulap Kuti, Seun Kuti and the famous Egypt 80 Band, carries on his father’s musical message against corruption, injustice and the many problems affecting Nigeria and all of Africa.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
The Underscore Orkestra and The Lucky Five
9pm
The Underscore Orkestra transforms every venue they play – from living rooms, to bars, to dance halls – into a festive party of super-charged, crazy folk tunes and achingly sweet waltzes. The Portland Oregon-based ensemble plays a little bit of everything, including traditional folk songs, swing standards and slow, gorgeous instrumentals, including Klezmer, Balkan, Gypsy jazz and Swing. The Lucky Five, also on the night’s extravagant billing is hard swinging old-school jazz at it’s best. The quintet, featuring musicians from a handful of popular outfits between New York City and the Berkshires is not unfamiliar to Helsinki Hudson. The band brings vitality, high energy, and an unpredictable impulse to the tradition of jazz from the 20s, 30s, and 40s, grooving deeply, and will keep your feet moving on the dance floor with their fantastic repertoire.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Lake Street Dive and Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade
Double Bill of Two Up and Coming Greats
9pm
Classic soul and R&B, jazz, and British invasion form the backdrop for the quirky and irreverent brand of pop for which Lake Street Dive has become known. Miss Tess is a New York City based songwriter and performing musician, who tours regularly with her band, as “Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade.”
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Super Strings with Garfield Moore, Malcolm Cecil, and Dan Rothstein
7pm
$8/general
Columbia-Greene Community College, Arts Center Theatre, 4400 Route 23, Hudson
518-828-4181
The Feelies
9pm
The influence of legendary avant-pop band, The Feelies can’t be overstated. The twin-guitar attack of songwriters and founders Glenn Mercer and Bill Million is the infectious sound of the group. Paired with driving drums and percussion, it has left an indelible mark on the landscape of rock and roll.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson
518-828-4800
Farm, Food, and Music Festival
Clermont Country Farmers Market
4:00-7:30pm
Locally farmed products and crafts, dinner fare, and local music.
Clermont State Historic Site, County Route 6 (off Rte 9G), Clermont
518-537-4240
Elmar Oliveira, violin & Robert Koenig, piano
ClaverackLanding: great music in great spaces
5pm
$30/general
Columbia Festival Orchestra presents, Elmar Oliveira, an extraordinary violinist, with accompaniment by Robert Koenig at the piano, will fill the air with sound. This brilliant musician is one of only 21 recipients of the Avery Fisher Prize. He was singled out as a solo instrumentalist who has demonstrated outstanding achievement and excellence in music.
The Terry-Gillette Mansion, 601 Union Street, Hudson
518-828-7513
Farm, Food, and Music Festival
Clermont Country Farmers Market
4:00-7:30pm
Locally farmed products and crafts, dinner fare, and local music.
Clermont State Historic Site, County Route 6 (off Rte 9G), Clermont
518-537-4240
An Old-Fashioned Independence Day
2-10pm
$10/per vehicle
Celebrate Independence Day with 18th century music and entertainment, food and the Saugerties fireworks display.
Clermont State Historic Site, County Route 6 (off Rte 9G), Clermont
518-537-4240
Farm, Food, and Music Festival
Clermont Country Farmers Market
4:00-7:30pm
Locally farmed products and crafts, dinner fare, and local music.
Clermont State Historic Site, County Route 6 (off Rte 9G), Clermont
518-537-4240
Sunset Concert and Cruisin’ Night
6pm
$10/per vehicle
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Livingston’s gift of Clermont to the people of New York State. Live 60s music, classic cars and family fun!
Clermont State Historic Site, County Route 6 (off Rte 9G), Clermont
518-537-4240
Farm, Food, and Music Festival
Clermont Country Farmers Market
4:00-7:30pm
Locally farmed products and crafts, dinner fare, and local music.
Clermont State Historic Site, County Route 6 (off Rte 9G), Clermont
518-537-4240
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
A three-day community event of Folk music and dance at the foot of the Berkshires
Dodds Farm
44 County Rt 7D, Hillsdale
866-325-2744
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
A three-day community event of Folk music and dance at the foot of the Berkshires
Dodds Farm
44 County Rt 7D, Hillsdale
866-325-2744
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
A three-day community event of Folk music and dance at the foot of the Berkshires
Dodds Farm
44 County Rt 7D, Hillsdale
866-325-2744
Farm, Food, and Music Festival
Clermont Country Farmers Market
4:00-7:30pm
Locally farmed products and crafts, dinner fare, and local music.
Clermont State Historic Site, County Route 6 (off Rte 9G), Clermont
518-537-4240
Farm, Food, and Music Festival
Clermont Country Farmers Market
4:00-7:30pm
Locally farmed products and crafts, dinner fare, and local music.
Clermont State Historic Site, County Route 6 (off Rte 9G), Clermont
518-537-4240