Kate Prascher is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for her evocative songwriting. She was thrilled to be named a 2021 IBMA Songwriting Showcase finalist. Inspired by her Tennessee roots and influenced by master song crafters like Hazel Dickens and Gillian Welch, Kate is a versatile and engaging performer. Her songs are outspoken and sometimes tender, by turns playful and heart-piercing. Ink 19 described Kate’s "delicate and expressive singing" and “intangible vintage feel". 

Beltane is a donation-based family-friendly outdoor day festival which fuses the pomp and whimsy of a Renaissance fair with the magical delights of a springtime picnic gala. This event will be held 1-6 p.m. Sunday, May 18th raindate 19th, on the picturesque grounds of Stone Mountain Farm, 312 River Road Ext, Rosendale.

The culminating event of the day is the Beltane Pageant, a performance of myth, magic, aerial flight, and giant puppetry that marks the peak of spring and the beginning of summer. Stone Mountain Farm and Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute along with Blackbird Theater weave a wondrous tale for the audience, performing as mystical elements, fairies, gnomes, and magical creatures.

Expect a rainbow of giant puppets, talking birds, dancing dragons, prancing horses and a menagerie of mythical beings, large, small, cunning, and kind.

I met Jibs around the fire on the farm. At the moment, he’s a local nomad with a banjo and a truck-playing the banjo and singing his heart out. Entirely his own sound and simultaneously, i think of Tom Waits and Kurt Cobain the raw swing and screams of the heart in the cradle of the banjo.

Hope you can come.

Sonic Elixirs is a heart beat. A pulsation dedicated to expressing the unexpressed and hidden parts of our inner nature. A frequency, permeating and inspiring authenticity. Our intention is to imbue love into one another, the land, our earthen bodies and the wispy tendrils of our spirit as we bridge the worlds of material and etheric; of performance arts, visual arts and healing arts. Our goal is to add to the vitality to the world through space holding, authentic creative expression, and compassion.

To find more on this project:

sonicelixirs.com

sonicelixirs.bandcamp.com

or on Instagram: @Sonic_Elixirs

FIVE HOURS OF CHANTING!!!

Rail Trail Cafe – Memorial Day Weekend – 

Saturday, May 25 (Rain date: Sunday May 26) 12-5

WEATHER WILL DECIDE THE DAY - CHECK RAIL TRAIL CAFE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS.

Come to the Cathedral Under the Trees!

Come Chant, Dance, Pray!

Come celebrate the beginning of another magical summer of Chanting!

Join the Spirit Brothers, Ned & Lynn, Radharani, Mirabai, Seth Lieberman, and other Hudson Valley chant leaders!

Also Featuring Wonderful musicians:

Steve Gorn, Robert Bard, Avinash and many more!

WE CAN'T WAIT!

http://www.railtrailcaferosendale.org

Come join us with special Jenny Bates for a community discussion. Let’s shape our futures with discussions that matter, tap into our collective intelligence!

Bio: Spaghetti Eastern Music 

Can acid jazz and blues-fired guitar instrumentals co-exist with ambient soundscapes a la Fripp & Eno and intimate DADGAD-tuned vocal ballads straight out of the Nick Drake/John Martyn playbook? They can and do in Spaghetti Eastern Music, the critically-acclaimed solo project of Saugerties & NYC-based guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Sal Cataldi. 

Cataldi’s much-varied sound is the product of an insatiable musical soul and a record collection rivaling the Smithsonian’s. His debut album, “Sketches of Spam,” the 16-track, 69-minute, genre-surfing release from (Bad Egg Records, 30003), was an hour-plus journey through contrasting moods, with instrumentals inspired by 70’s Miles, Krautrock, Ennio Morricone, Bhangra, Fripp & Eno and ECM’s icy guitar great Terje Rypdal giving way to bare-bones acoustic vocal tunes – ones oft anchored on unusual tunings, with narratives that chart the course of difficult loves, in styles that range from Brit Folk to Bossa Nova. In 2020, Cataldi followed this with a trio of acclaimed atmospheric singles that have been heard around the globe, “Her Lemon Peel Raincoat – Because It’s Raining,” “Peace Within” and “And This is Their New Hoax,” a COVID-19 musical editorial featuring samples of President Trump’s most noted denials to Cataldi’s soundpainting guitars and synths. His February 2021 release, “Blues for A Lost Cosmonaut,” is a well-reviewed nine-minute plus maxi single again in the ambient mode while October 2021’s, “Solo Guitar Score for 2x2x4,” is a bold solo electric guitar score to a dance piece recorded live at the Avant-Garde Arama Festival in Woodstock, inspired by his work with the guitar orchestra of Rhys Chatham and his love of Fripp and “White Light, White Heat”-era Velvet Underground.  In June2022, Cataldi released a new single in the acoustic singer-songwriter mode, “I Believe In Love,” one which received great press featuring “NY Slice” song of the day on WFMU. In January 2023, he followed with a duo of instrumental singles, “A Scanner Darkly” and “A Fresh Kill,” which also received significant airplay and press. In October 2023, he released the acoustic ballad, “Sweet Home Anywhere” and a funky instrumental “Jungle Blue.” In December 2023, he released “health,” a solo guitar score for a film by director/American Ballet Theater dance, Hanna Bass.

Spaghetti Eastern Music has received consistent critical raves, for live performances and the selective release of early mixes of works now fully realized on this debut disc. The New York Times says “the funk-tinged original instrumentals and acoustic vocal tunes have a beat unmistakably his own” while Time Out New York writes: "Cataldi's largely instrumental, Eastern-influenced jams are infused with some delicate guitar work and hauntingly moody atmosphere." Newsday adds: “Mad scientist-guitarist-keyboardist Cataldi brings da funk and throws it in a mixer with electronica, bebop and blues.” Called “truly excellent” by The Village Voice, “a wild ride, a fun name for some very good music” by Radio Woodstock, “beautiful and unique” by WFUV’s Mixed Bag, “triumphantly funkified” by UPI, “a stimulating soloist” by The New York Press and “a jazz virtuoso without the need to prove it” by Aquarian Weekly. Almanac Weekly’s John Burdick proclaims: “a unique voice, a surprising blend of exploratory fusion, electronica and indie song craft, from the Ennio Morricone overtones anticipated by his handle to currents of Krautrock, techno, modal folk and various world music styles” while Chronogram Magazine labels Spaghetti Eastern “cool, inspired, sophisticated, melodic and transcendent, a wave of sonic warmth and light.” East Coast Rocker/Rolling Stone writer John Swenson, the man who penned the liner notes to Frank Zappa’s “Shut Up n Play Yer Guitar,” may have put it best, “he’s the hippie guitarist playing to another dimension.” Hudson Valley One recently called Cataldi’s music: “Part Sergio Leone fever dream, part Ravi Shankar raga, a whirling dervish of musical creation,” while Psychedelic Baby Magazine labeled it “the perfect sonic tonic for these troubled times.”

The authority on all things Beatles, The Beatles Examiner recently praised the album’s “sharp soaring guitar jams” and called the distinctive cover of “Ticket to Ride,” “incredible, a wonderfully moody re-imagining” of the Lennon classic. Huffington Post dubs it “the perfect soundtrack for New York City life,” while WFMU’s Irene Trudel calls it “charmingly melodic and off-center,” while popular Zappa fan sites Idiot Bastard and United Mutations gave raves to his reinvention of “Sleep Dirt,” a Zappa acoustic instrumental rarity, which appears on the CD as “Nap Dust.” Cataldi’s music has enjoyed airplay on radio including WFUV’s “Mixed Bag,” SiriusXM, WKCR-FM, Radio Woodstock, WFMU, Oakland’s KALX, NYC-area college station including WCWP, WDFU, WVRK and WHPC and many more. The CD’s title is a lighthearted tribute to Miles Davis’ atmospheric classic, “Sketches of Spain,” one ripe for this digital overload and lunchmeat age!

Sal’s other current project, Hari Karaoke Trio of Doom, is a duo co-lead with Kansas City-based drummer D. Hitchcock, which includes guest appearances by legends like Eno/Brand X bassist Percy Jones. HKToD has released two critically acclaimed discs, “Escape Velocity” (1999) and “Geolago” (2002). Collector, Cataldi’s former “heavy metal bebop quartet,” released another genre-leaping critic’s fave, the all-instrumental “Almost Live” in (1999). Both of these bands have performed frequently in New York and beyond, at progressive clubs like the Knitting Factory. Cataldi recently teamed up with Alaskan playwright and poet Mark Muro as the Vapor Vespers for two critically-acclaimed new album of sonics and storytelling called “One Act Sonix” and “Ghosts Before Breakfast.” He is also half of the edge-pushing improvisatory/ambient electric guitar duo, Guitars A Go Go, with Hudson, NY-based guitarist Rick Warren, which released their debut disc, “Travel Advisory” in May 2020. He is also a member of the Hudson Valley space/surf rock quartet, spaceheater.

Cataldi is also remembered for the role he played in one of the most popular, kamikaze bands of the early-to-mid-90s downtown scene, the “clown pop princes of Brooklyn,” Frank’s Museum. This band was a popular attraction at New York-area clubs including CBGB, The Ritz, Tramps, Coney Island High, Lone Star Roadhouse and Maxwell’s in Hoboken. Cataldi’s guitar work and songwriting with the Museum can be found on four Brooklyn Beat compilations and two full-length CDs, “Den of Antiquity” (1992) and “Make Coffee, Not War” (1993). Cataldi was also featured on the 2010 release of Rhys Chatham’s 200 guitar orchestra, “A Crimson Grail” (Nonesuch) Live at Lincoln Center. Cataldi is also a journalist whose writing has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NYStateMusic.com, No Depression, Adweek, Inside+Out Upstate NY, Huff Post and others. He is also host of Reading Is Funktamental, a monthly show about books about music on WGXC 90.7 FM.

Contacts:  Cell: 516.236.3817   Email: spaghettieasternmusic@gmail.com

Web: https://open.spotify.com/artist/73gcZJVIpQIMaQSOtKzA8C?si=yu_qtKbQTuCkkfOlTd8Apg

Spaghettieasternmusic.bandcamp.com 

Live Performance Videos:  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLau0iuwO-klW64b-8Zv_R7BqEDnsnBTqw  Updated 3/24

Sariyah Idan (fka Saria Young) grew up in Ulster County dancing and singing with The Vanaver Caravan. She is now a New Orleans based independent singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, dancer, and educator. Jazz and folk trained, hip-hop educated, and influenced by both Latinx/Caribbean sounds and her Jewish roots, she has an "ability to seamlessly combine a wide variety of disparate styles and sonics into a memorable sound all her own," (Tinnitist). She views honoring the sounds of both influences and ancestors as a form of cultural activism while her lyricism is hailed as "powerful, soulful, spirited songs filled with stories of struggle, love and social justice" (Fusicology).  

Sariyah’s music has featured on Pacifica and NPR stations, WWOZ, college and online radio platforms. She’s rocked iconic venues The Kennedy Center in DC,  Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC, PANDA Platforma in Berlin, French Quarter Fest, regularly plays House of Blues NOLA, and is the host/producer of monthly event Songs For The People at The Howlin’ Wolf. In 2019 she was a Virginia Giordono Memorial Fund Honoree for performances of her debut LP “Breaking Shadows” recorded in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Lisbon. Her first album recorded in New Orleans, “Glitter & Blood”, released Nov 3rd 2023 and is a continued collaboration with Berlin based engineer/co-producer Andy Schlegel.

Sariyah has shared stages with legends Pete Seeger, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Yusef Lateef. As a regular street performer in New Orleans she is known among locals as “the most hauntingly beautiful voice of New Orleans’ streets.”

WEBSITE: https://www.sariyahidan.com/

STREAMING LINKS: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/sariyahidan/glitter--blood

MUSIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/JWv9_jyUZag?si=ZrF-LID1Kp7OmzRe

LIVE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7SmjDMTdrJs?si=dHBEjiiyCRCiuoEk

Sonic Elixirs is a heart beat. A pulsation dedicated to expressing the unexpressed and hidden parts of our inner nature. A frequency, permeating and inspiring authenticity. Our intention is to imbue love into one another, the land, our earthen bodies and the wispy tendrils of our spirit as we bridge the worlds of material and etheric; of performance arts, visual arts and healing arts. Our goal is to add to the vitality to the world through space holding, authentic creative expression, and compassion.

To find more on this project:

sonicelixirs.com

sonicelixirs.bandcamp.com

or on Instagram: @Sonic_Elixirs

Different performers are presenting their unique interpretation of a poem from my book just like that, poems paintings and practices.

They pick a poem that is meaningful to them, that moved them, helped guided their life or they just happened to open to that page.

 They pick it or it picks them and create a musical /dance movement interpretation.

Some of them are spontaneous collaborations creating something real and moving in the moment.

Masterful weavings of meaningful threads bring us all together.

Levanta brings together a quartet of extraordinary musicians and unique instrumentation, featuring original and classic tunes performed with ancient instruments… Ev Mann, Thomas Workman, Gabriel Dresdale, Timothy Hill

Devotional Music from around the world.

Ned Leavitt, Steve Gorn, Joseph Jastrab, Avinash

Kate Prascher is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for her evocative songwriting. She was thrilled to be named a 2021 IBMA Songwriting Showcase finalist. Inspired by her Tennessee roots and influenced by master song crafters like Hazel Dickens and Gillian Welch, Kate is a versatile and engaging performer. Her songs are outspoken and sometimes tender, by turns playful and heart-piercing. Ink 19 described Kate’s "delicate and expressive singing" and “intangible vintage feel". 

Sound from the ground. celebrate springing into summer with the first iteration of SMSC. Improvised and composed music arising from the ground of stone mountain farm. Deep geologic time sounding and echoing to tomorrow. Join Madeleine Grace  Peter Wetzler and Brian Farmer for an evening of  musical exploration and solace as we move from Spring to Summer. Be prepared to venture into never before heard sonic landscapes. Only once, here, together!.,

Julia Howl Haines and Matoaka Little Eagle will bring delight and beauty to you with their cross cultural adventures, interweaving music, voice, and stories. Their unique collaboration is magical, serendipitous. Really! So beautiful! 

Soar with your spirits as you hear original compositions and stories from Julia on the lever harp. Matoaka complements Julia's music with her Native songs, vocals, and stories. Join the fun in the Fox Song and story. Travel with your minds in the "Circle of the Sky". Remember "The times" of love and romance in their "49'ers" medley of love songs. 

From 6:30 to 7:00, Julia will do a solo concert featuring more of her original compositions, in the lovely setting in the woods of the Rail Trail Cafe. 

Julia Haines has a unique approach to the lever harp. Called a “harper among harpists” and a ‘hip harper” by the Irish press, she won First Prize for harp and voice at the O’Carolan Festival, Keadue, Ireland. Her radiant music fuses world, folk, rock, classical & improvisational influences.

Matoaka Little Eagle (Tewa, Apache, Chickahominy) is a culture bearer and educator. She celebrates diverse Native American cultures through song, dance, and story, promoting respect and tolerance. She has collaborated with David Amram, Pete Seeger, John Sebastian, John Cage, The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, The Vanaver Caravan and many others, bringing great joy and inspiration to her audiences, here and abroad. Matoaka is proud to play Grandma Jingle Dress in the award winning contemporary Native pop musical, "Distant Thunder"

Lisa Klotz grew up singing and playing guitar and piano in NYC.  She began studying voice and songwriting as a teenager, first at the Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts and then at the Ithaca College School of Music. Her style is a combination of folk, gospel, and eclectic singer songwriter held together by a powerful and resonant voice.  Both her original and cover songs touch upon themes that include social justice, women’s rights, family, healing, myth and the natural world.  

Lisa and her bass playing engineering husband, Mark Dann, have hosted countless musicians through their recording studios in NYC and Woodstock, NY over the past 30 years. Even though her own music was on the back burner while she was raising her daughters, these days Lisa is enjoying playing at songwriting camps, music conferences and festivals. She is also putting the finishing touches on her first CD, “Finally.” It has been a dream come true to have a chance to collaborate with so many wonderful musicians and bring it to a whole new level. 

She is thrilled to have the opportunity to play here, in this nurturing cafe and venue Tara and Brian have lovingly created for our community.

As a singer, songwriter, Steven Michael Pague has travelled the world bringing his uplifting, positive music and songs to venues both large and small. He creates an intimate atmosphere inspiring and inviting dancing, listening, participating in the song, sharing the vision, the dreams of longing, hope, love, light and joy. His style ranges from ballad to reggae, folk to rock and more

Drawing from numerous world traditions, Hearn Gadbois & Sasha Bogdanowitsch create their own polygot style of improvisation called Talismania. The name describes the feeling these musicians have towards their instruments. Whether crafted by their own hands, pursued through swamp, desert or trade, they revere them as living bodies and feed them with their purest intentions.They bring a world of sound to the listeners ear with  instruments like the Slovakian fujara, Vietnamese dan moi and Persian zarb to the Indonesian suling, Turkish bendir, and African kamelengoni among many others. 

 www.timbretree.com

https://sashabogdanowitsch.bandcamp.com/

https://abstrakce.bandcamp.com/album/rara-avis

Levanta brings together a quartet of extraordinary musicians and unique instrumentation, featuring original and classic tunes performed with ancient instruments… Ev Mann, Thomas Workman, Gabriel Dresdale, Timothy Hill

The Hogfiddle Consort is an octet of mountain dulcimers (the fretted zither string instrument traditionally from Appalachia) that is an offshoot from the New York Dulcimer Orchestra and is committed to bringing this humble American string instrument into greater visibility through an ensemble context and by exploring a variety of different repertoire from genres like folk, classical, early music to material from the American songbook and originals. Members are from the New York Hudson valley & Capitol regions, Connecticut and New Jersey and consist of: Carol Walker (founder and director), Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Mary Evans, Lisa Jensen , Flo Jerdan, Kathie McGill, Joe Rosolen and Blake Tutterow.

http://www.musicladycarol.com/nydo.html

More info coming soon…

Sound from the ground. celebrate springing into summer with the first iteration of SMSC. Improvised and composed music arising from the ground of stone mountain farm. Deep geologic time sounding and echoing to tomorrow. Join Madeleine Grace  Peter Wetzler and Brian Farmer for an evening of  musical exploration and solace as we move from Spring to Summer. Be prepared to venture into never before heard sonic landscapes. Only once, here, together!

Julia Howl Haines and Matoaka Little Eagle will bring delight and beauty to you with their cross cultural adventures, interweaving music, voice, and stories. Their unique collaboration is magical, serendipitous. Really! So beautiful! 

Soar with your spirits as you hear original compositions and stories from Julia on the lever harp. Matoaka complements Julia's music with her Native songs, vocals, and stories. Join the fun in the Fox Song and story. Travel with your minds in the "Circle of the Sky". Remember "The times" of love and romance in their "49'ers" medley of love songs. 

From 6:30 to 7:00, Julia will do a solo concert featuring more of her original compositions, in the lovely setting in the woods of the Rail Trail Cafe. 

Julia Haines has a unique approach to the lever harp. Called a “harper among harpists” and a ‘hip harper” by the Irish press, she won First Prize for harp and voice at the O’Carolan Festival, Keadue, Ireland. Her radiant music fuses world, folk, rock, classical & improvisational influences.

Matoaka Little Eagle (Tewa, Apache, Chickahominy) is a culture bearer and educator. She celebrates diverse Native American cultures through song, dance, and story, promoting respect and tolerance. She has collaborated with David Amram, Pete Seeger, John Sebastian, John Cage, The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, The Vanaver Caravan and many others, bringing great joy and inspiration to her audiences, here and abroad. Matoaka is proud to play Grandma Jingle Dress in the award winning contemporary pop “Distant Thunder”.

Shokoloko is an electro-acoustic improvising trio that taps into the diverse sounds and influences of America, Africa, Europe, Asia and beyond.

The band is: Joakim Lartey on drums, percussion and voice; Chris Lane on guitar and electric guitar, oud-guitar and banjo; Richard Carr on violin and electric violin.

Shokoloko is about dance, trance and community fun!

Devotional Music from around the world with Ned Leavitt, Joseph Jastrab, Steve Gorn, Avinash and surprises.

Madárka (“little bird” in Hungarian) plays the traditional music you would have heard in the villages of Eastern Europe many years ago, slightly updated.

Drawing from the rich history of Klezmer, Roma, Balkan, Romanian and Russian folk music, we take listeners on a lively journey across borders and centuries. Our repertoire is flexible and diverse, encompassing high energy music perfect for circle dancing, Yiddish love ballads, Rom murder ballads, Romanian worker’s songs mixed with Appalachian fiddle, standards and bizarre old tunes you are unlikely to hear anywhere else.

The band features our primary vocalist Dushka Ramic who was raised in the former Yugoslavia and comes to us with a deep love of traditional music. Our instrumentation can include fiddle, mandolin, accordion, sax, cello, clarinet, keyboard, guitar, and percussion.

Sonic Elixirs is a heart beat. A pulsation dedicated to expressing the unexpressed and hidden parts of our inner nature. A frequency, permeating and inspiring authenticity. Our intention is to imbue love into one another, the land, our earthen bodies and the wispy tendrils of our spirit as we bridge the worlds of material and etheric; of performance arts, visual arts and healing arts. Our goal is to add to the vitality to the world through space holding, authentic creative expression, and compassion.

To find more on this project:

sonicelixirs.com

sonicelixirs.bandcamp.com

Jim Pospisil is a singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist from the Hudson Valley whose songs are marked by well crafted, sometimes quirky lyrics and themes from the personal to the profound. A mix of folk, blues, rock and more, his performances on guitar, mandolin, flute and harmonica  can be soft and subtle, or wild and energetic. He blends it all with a wry sense of humor, his goal is to make you laugh, cry, or think. Sometimes all at once. He performs cover songs as well, featuring fresh and creative arrangements.

Jim has just released his fourth album “Sleight Of Hand”, his most varied and ambitious release to date. The songs examine the trials of love, life and loss, and the challenge to rise above it all.

As a singer, songwriter, Steven Michael Pague has travelled the world bringing his uplifting, positive music and songs to venues both large and small. He creates an intimate atmosphere inspiring and inviting dancing, listening, participating in the song, sharing the vision, the dreams of longing, hope, love, light and joy. His style ranges from ballad to reggae, folk to rock and more…

Singer-songwriter and fiddler, Bella Kay, delights with a mix of heartwarming, thought-provoking originals and new takes on tunes by the likes of Courtney Marie Andrews, Hazel Dickens, and Our Native Daughters. More at  @bellasinginganddancing on Instagram! 

More info on the way…

Kirtan with Devotional songs from around the world with Ned Leavitt and Lynn Margileth

BILL VANAVER (Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director of The Vanaver Caravan Dance & Music Company, composer/arranger, performer) is known to audiences for his outstanding instrumental work, and sense of humor.  Bill Vanaver, has been composing, arranging, performing and teaching for over 60 years.  Bill studied with master ethnic musicians throughout the world He possesses a repertoire of more than 500 songs.   In 1973, Vanaver became the first American to be awarded a grant to study a folk instrument abroad (the bowed “lyra” in Crete, Greece).    With his vast knowledge of traditional song and musical styles, he has enlivened audiences for over 60 years at such venues as the Newport and the Philadelphia Folk Festivals. 
He is well known for his stellar instrumental work on 5 string banjo as well a myriad of other folk instruments.
Bill has recorded on the Vanguard, Elektra, Nonesuch, Folkways, Philo, EMI, and MMC labels.   
In the years 1975 -1980, he and his wife, choreographer/singer Livia, embarked on three tours for the US State Department as Cultural Ambassadors of Good Will, to Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and Tunisia, where they not only performed, but also learned local dances and music Over the past 6 years, The Vanaver Caravan has brought their ethnic music and dance educational programs throughout the Hudson Valley, the US and in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, India, where they also studied local forms, and collaborated with local artists in full scale theatre works.
Bill will be appearing with Livia and special guests at the Rail Trail Cafe on Sunday, July 16 at 4:00

Drumsong Orchestra is a women’s drum and percussion ensemble founded and directed by Ubaka Hill. 

The Drumsong orchestra of the Hudson Valley performs world rhythms and songs rooted in women’s folkloric and contemporary music genres. Drumsong orchestra is a whole vibe for everyone to enjoy. 

Sarah Urech is originally from Switzerland and has called the Mohicanituck Hudson River Valley home for nearly 30 years. She will be singing jazz standards and songs from around the world with musicians Ann Belmont, Todd Anderson, and Fre Atlast, members of Hudson River Playback Theatre, and guest performers.

Kate Prascher is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for her evocative songwriting. She was thrilled to be named a 2021 IBMA Songwriting Showcase finalist. Inspired by her Tennessee roots and influenced by master song crafters like Hazel Dickens and Gillian Welch, Kate is a versatile and engaging performer. Her songs are outspoken and sometimes tender, by turns playful and heart-piercing. Ink 19 described Kate’s "delicate and expressive singing" and “intangible vintage feel". 

Gah-bé is an artist/musician based in Colorado & New York. He has a diverse style ranging from verbose spoken word and funky rhythms, to soulful singer-songwriter vibes. As an Urban Folk artist, he draws inspiration from hip-hop, rock-n-roll, reggae, funk, folk, and soul as well as daily life and the collective consciousness to deliver radical and introspective ideas to his audience. Check out his music at: gahbesworld.com ~new music coming summer 2024~

Joakim Lartey (percussion, voice, electronics) and Richard Carr (electric violin) invite you to an afternoon of open improvisation in sound, melody, rhythm and movement.

There may be a surprise guest or two…

Devotional music from around the world. Ned Leavitt, Joseph Jastrab, Avinash and Steve Gorn with surprise guests

The Clear Light Ensemble is an improvisational musical collaboration divinely inspired by Classical Indian Ragas. It's a cosmic tapestry of diverse musical forms including world jazz, rock, classical, folk and avant guard

Sound from the ground. celebrate springing into summer with the first iteration of SMSC. Improvised and composed music arising from the ground of stone mountain farm. Deep geologic time sounding and echoing to tomorrow. Join Madeleine Grace  Peter Wetzler and Brian Farmer for an evening of  musical exploration and solace as we move from Spring to Summer. Be prepared to venture into never before heard sonic landscapes. Only once, here, together!

Julia Howl Haines and Matoaka Little Eagle will bring delight and beauty to you with their cross cultural adventures, interweaving music, voice, and stories. Their unique collaboration is magical, serendipitous. Really! So beautiful! 

Soar with your spirits as you hear original compositions and stories from Julia on the lever harp. Matoaka complements Julia's music with her Native songs, vocals, and stories. Join the fun in the Fox Song and story. Travel with your minds in the "Circle of the Sky". Remember "The times" of love and romance in their "49'ers" medley of love songs. 

From 6:30 to 7:00, Julia will do a solo concert featuring more of her original compositions, in the lovely setting in the woods of the Rail Trail Cafe. 

Julia Haines has a unique approach to the lever harp. Called a “harper among harpists” and a ‘hip harper” by the Irish press, she won First Prize for harp and voice at the O’Carolan Festival, Keadue, Ireland. Her radiant music fuses world, folk, rock, classical & improvisational influences.

Matoaka Little Eagle (Tewa, Apache, Chickahominy) is a culture bearer and educator. She celebrates diverse Native American cultures through song, dance, and story, promoting respect and tolerance. She has collaborated with David Amram, Pete Seeger, John Sebastian, John Cage, The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, The Vanaver Caravan and many others, bringing great joy and inspiration to her audiences, here and abroad. Matoaka is proud to play Grandma Jingle Dress in the award winning contemporary Native pop musical, "Distant Thunder"

This journey is through the landscape of our inner world, our feelings, concerns, our love and wisdom

We use my book Just Like That, Poems, Paintings and Practices as a guide,

We pick particular subjects for each event and the story unfolds between the spoken word, the music, the sound of the forest, gestures and movements, sometimes dance, meditation and play in a spontaneous mix.

We are a few presenters, each bringing their unique gifts to the creative encounter with the questions of life with the intention of honoring, healing and love for all.  

Diving into the magic of the forest, calling the spirits to participate and sometimes they do, with a gush of wind in a moving moment or a branch falling…  we are honoring all life seen and unseen. 

An embrace with everything

As a singer, songwriter, Steven Michael Pague has travelled the world bringing his uplifting, positive music and songs to venues both large and small. He creates an intimate atmosphere inspiring and inviting dancing, listening, participating in the song, sharing the vision, the dreams of longing, hope, love, light and joy. His style ranges from ballad to reggae, folk to rock and more

Sonic Elixirs is a heart beat. A pulsation dedicated to expressing the unexpressed and hidden parts of our inner nature. A frequency, permeating and inspiring authenticity. Our intention is to imbue love into one another, the land, our earthen bodies and the wispy tendrils of our spirit as we bridge the worlds of material and etheric; of performance arts, visual arts and healing arts. Our goal is to add to the vitality to the world through space holding, authentic creative expression, and compassion.

To find more on this project:

sonicelixirs.com

sonicelixirs.bandcamp.com

or on Instagram: @Sonic_Elixirs

Rain date August 25th if it rains- festival at Mama’s Kiva in Stone Ridge.

More info on the way…

Gamelan Sekar Raja

 Based in Kingston, New York, Gamelan Sekar Raja is an ensemble specializing in playing gamelan (the traditional percussion orchestra from Indonesia) in traditional styles from Bali and Java as well as playing and composing contemporary works by its members and others. The ensemble consists of: Jody Diamond (director), Peter Wetzler, Henry Lowengard, Dean Jones, Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Corrine Wolcott, Bibi Jordan and guests.

As anybody who has seen one of her intimate – but exciting – concerts can tell you, Gabel doesn't need a drummer to drive her songs. Her tap dancing keeps the beat as well as any percussionist could. Not to miss!

Special extended family performance! Ann Belmont guitar/vocals, Todd Anderson flute/sax, Kim Anderson guitar/vocals, and Bram Kincheloe on percussion. Brazilian standards, special arrangements, and Kim’s own songs. Lots of music!

ann.belmont@gmail.com
Guitar/vocals/composer/arrangements

Life-long disciple of the great folk traditions of the world, singer/songwriter Mario Rincon draws inspiration from Andalusia and Appalachia alike, crafting a bi-lingual blend of flamenco cante, Latin-American folklore, and classic Americana. He’s based in New York’s Hudson Valley where he teaches private lessons and workshops.

Mario Rincon (voice/percussion) is a Hudson Valley-based flamenco musician and folklorist who has studied extensively in Spain and toured the US with numerous flamenco dance companies.

mariorincon.com

Julia Haines, Llanera(lever) Harp

Improvisations and songs, sounding in concert with the symphony of the glorious canopy of trees at the Rosendale Rail Trail with a possible surprise!

Julia Haines, contemporary bardic harper, an independent composer, a multi- instrumentalist, teacher, and music therapist loves to play live music outdoors. “The harp is an instrument of great beauty, and I love to play with beauty.”

For more on Julia Haines check out: juliahaines.com

Levanta brings together a quartet of extraordinary musicians and unique instrumentation, featuring original and classic tunes performed with ancient instruments… Ev Mann, Thomas Workman, Gabriel Dresdale, Timothy Hill

Improvisations and songs, sounding in concert with the symphony of the glorious canopy of trees at the Rosendale Rail Trail with a possible surprise!

Julia Haines, contemporary bardic harper, an independent composer, a multi- instrumentalist, teacher, and music therapist loves to play live music outdoors. “The harp is an instrument of great beauty, and I love to play with beauty.”

Sonic Elixirs is a heart beat. A pulsation dedicated to expressing the unexpressed and hidden parts of our inner nature. A frequency, permeating and inspiring authenticity. Our intention is to imbue love into one another, the land, our earthen bodies and the wispy tendrils of our spirit as we bridge the worlds of material and etheric; of performance arts, visual arts and healing arts. Our goal is to add to the vitality to the world through space holding, authentic creative expression, and compassion.

To find more on this project:

sonicelixirs.com

sonicelixirs.bandcamp.com

or on Instagram: @Sonic_Elixirs

Peter Wetzler is an award winning composer-musician-music director scoring for film, theatre and television with a uniquely diverse musical background. While classically trained in piano Peter was guest soloist with symphonies at an early age and studied conducting and composition at Princeton and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

From Europe he moved into jazz and non-western music having played in gamelan and avante garde ensembles and writing music for post- modern choreographers such as Bill T Jones, David Dorfman and Susan Marshall and touring Europe and North America with Laura Dean. The strong rhythmic drive of his music blended with the raw experimental influence of the “downtown” New York City music scene has made his style much sought after for unique film and television scoring ranging from animation and films featured at MOMA and PBS Great Performances to National Geographic’s permanent multimedia installation in Washington DC.

Later highlights include conducting the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in a live performance of his score to Anezka Sebek’s film “Landfill” at the Hudson Valley Film Festival (along with Brian Farmer!) and Isabel Barton’s film “Julie of the Spirits” at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Peter scored his first feature film “The Warboy” in Toronto in 1984 and performed at the Music Gallery, Gladstone Hotel and Arraymusic while living in Toronto. His ensemble “The Repeatos” opened the 2007 Baltimore Jazz Festival and played in Toronto’s “Ambient Ping” series.

Shokoloko is an electro-acoustic improvising trio that taps into the diverse sounds and influences of America, Africa, Europe, Asia and beyond.

The band is: Joakim Lartey on drums, percussion and voice; Chris Lane on guitar and electric guitar, oud-guitar and banjo; Richard Carr on violin and electric violin.

Shokoloko is about dance, trance and community fun!

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Neetopk Keetopk ( Algonquin for My friends Your Friends ) a grass roots collective will be co-hosting our event.

Please join us for an afternoon of music, song and story. Joining us will be the Rondout Valley Human Rights Club led by Diana Zuckerman.

Diana Zuckerman

(845)389-3779

dianazuck@yahoo.com

Spanish Teacher and Human Rights Club Advisor, Rondout Valley HS

Coordinator, Amnesty International Mid-Hudson Valley Chapter

http://www.amnestyusa.org/

Commissioner, Ulster County Human Rights Commission