Indigenous Peoples Day 2017
First Nations, come celebrate! Allies, come celebrate with us! This year honoring Water Protectors all over Mother Earth...
NEA Big Read
Embracing 'How We Became Human' by Joy Harjo: Joan Henry with Spirited in concert Dennis Yerry, native flute Guest Poets Evan Pritchard & Molly McGlennen 7PM 10/6/17 A concert introducing and inspired by the poetry of Choctaw poet and jazz musician Joy Harjo, featuring the premiere of AH, AH! composed by Joan Henry especially for this event This evening and all Big Read events [...]
Clearwater Festival 2017
Standing Rock On The Hudson “New to the Clearwater Festival this year – ‘Standing Rock on the Hudson,’ a 90 minute program of ceremony, speaking and song featuring Native American performers and River activists.” Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival (Clearwater Festival) is the country’s oldest and largest music and environmental festival, bringing together major musical acts and Clearwater’s own brand of green activism [...]
SPIRITED @ Fringe Festival
Woodstock Fringe Festival 2016 Housed at the Byrdcliffe Theatre, performance home to Levon Helm, Jack DeJohnette and countless other luminaries of music, this year's Woodstock Fringe Festival was excited to present Spirited in concert on August 17th, 2016. Said Producing Artistic Director Wallace Norman early on, "I am DELIGHTED that you all will bring your music to Byrdcliffe. Looking forward to this event very much!" He [...]
Rivertales at DAC – Beacon
Rivertales Exploring the Hudson River through the Eyes of its Native Inhabitants Dutchess Arts Camp children present 5 Stories of Indigenous encounters along the River That Flows Both Ways — at Long Dock Park, Beacon NY, in 2015. Learning stories of the Haudenosaunee, Dakota, Penobscot, Lenape & Esopus (Algonkan), Mill Street Loft's Dutchess Arts Camp Beacon children from ages 4 to 12 created sets, costumes and [...]
Seeger Fest
Everybody Sing Along! It was an honor to be a part of this amazing 5-day festival alongside so many gifted friends and amazing people whom Pete & Toshi touched and sang with in their lives... This incredible, Seeger family-produced festival celebrated the lives of Pete & Toshi Seeger through music, dance, film, boat rides & photo exhibits from Ashokan, Poughkeepsie & Beacon NY to New York [...]