Art & Music
In The Woods

Upcoming events.

Come join us under a canopy of trees. At all our events a basket is passed and we ask for a $10.00 or pay-what-you-can donation. Please bring cash. Please check our Facebook Page if the weather looks iffy.

 

Opening May 13th - October 9th 2023!

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Kate Prascher
May
18

Kate Prascher

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". 

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Beltane Festival!
May
18

Beltane Festival!

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.

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Madelaine Grace
May
24

Madelaine Grace

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

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Opening the Heart to Summer Kirtan Festival –
May
25

Opening the Heart to Summer Kirtan Festival –

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


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Spaghetti Eastern Music!
Jun
1

Spaghetti Eastern Music!

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 WeeklyAlmanac 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 TimesRolling 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

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Sariyah!
Jun
9

Sariyah!

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

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Madeleine Grace
Jun
14

Madeleine Grace

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

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Gisela Stromeyer: Just Like That
Jun
15

Gisela Stromeyer: Just Like That

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.

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Levanta
Jun
15

Levanta

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

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Kate Prascher
Jun
16

Kate Prascher

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". 

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Stone Mountain Farm Sound Collective
Jun
21

Stone Mountain Farm Sound Collective

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!.,

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Julia Haines with Matoaka Little Eagle
Jun
22

Julia Haines with Matoaka Little Eagle

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"

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Lisa Klotz
Jun
23

Lisa Klotz

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.

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Steven Michael Pague
Jun
29

Steven Michael Pague

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

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Talismania
Jun
30

Talismania

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

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L evanta
Jul
5

L evanta

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

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Hogfiddle
Jul
6

Hogfiddle

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

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Stone Mountain Sound Collective
Jul
12

Stone Mountain Sound Collective

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!

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Julia Howl Haines with Matoaka Little Eagle
Jul
13

Julia Howl Haines with Matoaka Little Eagle

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”.

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Shokoloko
Jul
13

Shokoloko

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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Madarka
Jul
14

Madarka

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.

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Madeleine Grace
Jul
14

Madeleine Grace

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

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Jim Pospisil
Jul
20

Jim Pospisil

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.

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Steven Michael Pague
Jul
21

Steven Michael Pague

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…

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Bella Kay
Jul
26

Bella Kay

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! 

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Bill Vanaver and Friends
Aug
2

Bill Vanaver and Friends

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

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Women's Drumsong Orchestra of the Hudson Valley
Aug
3

Women's Drumsong Orchestra of the Hudson Valley

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. 

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Sarah Urech
Aug
3

Sarah Urech

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.

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Kate Prascher
Aug
4

Kate Prascher

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". 

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Gah-be (Gabriel Vanaver)
Aug
4

Gah-be (Gabriel Vanaver)

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~

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Shokoloko
Aug
10

Shokoloko

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…

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Clear Light Ensemble
Aug
11

Clear Light Ensemble

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

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Stone Mountain Sound Collective
Aug
16

Stone Mountain Sound Collective

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!

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Julia Haines and Matoaka
Aug
17

Julia Haines and Matoaka

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"

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Gisela Stromeyer: Poem Journeys
Aug
17

Gisela Stromeyer: Poem Journeys

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

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Steven Pague
Aug
18

Steven Pague

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

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Madeleine Grace
Aug
23

Madeleine Grace

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

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Gamelan Sekar Raja!
Aug
30

Gamelan Sekar Raja!

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.

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Liana Gabel
Aug
31

Liana Gabel

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!

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Levanta
Aug
31

Levanta

Thomas Workman, Ev Mann, Timothy Hill and Gabriel Dresdale.

Levanta brings together a quartet of extraordinary musicians and unique instrumentation, featuring original compositions and improvisations with influences from Brazil to the Silk Road to the Australian outback. See Less

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Ann Belmont & Family!
Sep
1

Ann Belmont & Family!

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

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Mario Rincon: Spanish & Latin-American Folk Songs
Sep
1

Mario Rincon: Spanish & Latin-American Folk Songs

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

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Julia Haines on Harp
Oct
5

Julia Haines on Harp

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

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Gisela Stromeyer: Poem Journeys
Oct
5

Gisela Stromeyer: Poem Journeys

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

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Levanta
Oct
6

Levanta

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

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Julia Haines: Harp
Oct
11

Julia Haines: 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.”

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Madeleine Grace
Oct
11

Madeleine Grace

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

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Peter Wetzler
Oct
12

Peter Wetzler

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.

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Shokoloko
Oct
12

Shokoloko

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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Indigenous Peoples Day: Honor the Earth
Oct
14

Indigenous Peoples Day: Honor the Earth

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

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Nick Collins
May
11

Nick Collins

Nick Collins is a local accordionist who has been delighting audiences in and around the Hudson Valley for over 10 years.   Playing a wide variety of traditional and popular music in many styles, Nick is thrilled to return to the Rail Trail Café!

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Wild Swan Band
May
11

Wild Swan Band

The Wild Swan Band performs a graceful mix of Celtic songs, jigs, reels, and waltzes along with original songs and covers in the Celtic/Folk rock tradition.
:) Jon Garelick- mandolin and bazouki, vocals

Sarah Underhill-vocals

TG Vanini- fiddle, vocals

Ian Worpole- guitar, vocals

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ELSA!
May
11

ELSA!

ELSA stands for Ecological Land Stewardship Academy ecolandacademy.org

Our opening day will be a great opportunity to meet the director of ELSA Daniel Sheridan, go foraging and more. Stay tuned for more info on the way…

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Accordian in the Trees
Oct
8

Accordian in the Trees

Peter Wetzler is returning to the Rail Trail Cafe to play music to the trees and insects and wind and all the magical sounds and people that inhabit the wonderful escape from the world that is The Rail Trail Cafe.  Using solo accordion with subtle (and not so subtle) electronic enhancement Peter will continue his explorations of harmony and melody and capturing the moment in improvisation."

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Liana Gabel
Oct
8

Liana Gabel

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.

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Cancelled!Jeanne Nametz with Rob Stein
Oct
7

Cancelled!Jeanne Nametz with Rob Stein

We invite you to step into the landscape of the soul for an afternoon of beautiful, ancient Irish music…

Jeanne Nametz is a singer and songwriter who performs sean nos (ancient Gaelic songs) and writes music to Irish poetry and prayers. Her music is inspired by walking Ireland’s sacred sites for over two decades. Jeanne’s vocal presence invokes  “…a thread of humanity's culture that transcends time and place with her song and the beauty she embodies in making magic.” G.W.

 

Rob Stein is a guitarist extraordinaire who brings an artistic passion to Irish traditional music. He recently returned from a 10 year residency in Ireland where he performed, recorded and produced music. He brings a love of the Irish landscape into everything he plays.

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Liana Gabel
Sep
30

Liana Gabel

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.

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Ukeladies
Sep
30

Ukeladies

The Ukuladies are a perpetually-touring, twin-sister, aunt, and one tap-dancing-cousin act from Regina, Canada with a lust for life and its idle curiosities. Fraternal twins Genevieve and Jimmy Lu, with Aunt Mary Louise, and Cousin Bunnie grew up together in a close and large family...that was big...ahem.


The ladies played music together under the tutelage of various uncles and an occasional grandmother who nurtured the girls' love of small instruments that make plinky sounds. Seeing and more importantly hearing their talents, a relative at a family picnic said "hey....you gals oughta get outa here and play somewhere else!!"

So, they took that advice and headed for bigger prospects....in Winnipeg! From there on, they became the infamous Ukuladies who are proud to have hit nearly every Holiday Inn on the Eastern seaboard.

Come and join the "ladies" as they play ukuleles of all shapes and sizes, toy piano, glockenspiel, fiddle, saw and much more whilst giving out party favors, leading sing-alongs and playing hits from the 30s and 40s, plus a host of originals that will tug at your heartstrings and tickle your fancy.

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Light and Dark with Hudson River Playback Theatre!
Sep
29

Light and Dark with Hudson River Playback Theatre!

Darkness balances light at this time of year. Where is the dark and light in your life, in your memories and dreams, in the world we share? Our improvisational performers enact your stories on the spot, complete with music.

 

All are welcome. Limited outdoor seating — feel free to bring your own folding chair. Reservations not required. Donations gratefully accepted to support the performers.

 

This outdoor show will be canceled in case of rain. If in doubt please check on Facebook (Hudson River Playback Theatre or Rail Trail Café.)

 

Hudson River Playback Theatre, a New Paltz-based nonprofit ensemble founded in 1990, has performed by invitation in New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Montreal, London, and Frankfurt. In December we'll travel to South Africa to perform and teach. Locally, we have performed in theatres, schools, conferences, migrant labor camps, and much more. 

 

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Jonah Grossman
Sep
17

Jonah Grossman

I am a 13 year old singer songwriter from New Paltz, NY. My music spans the genres of Pop, Classical, Hip Hop, and Rock ’n’ Roll. 

I study classical violin with Marka Young, write poetry, dance with the Vanaver Caravan, and I am self-taught on Piano and Guitar. If any instrument is in my sight I will figure out a way to play it.

In conclusion, I love music!

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Doug O’Brien and Friends
Sep
16

Doug O’Brien and Friends

Doug O'Brien is a piano player of some versatility who also sings and tells stories. He played Carnegie Hall in April of 1980 and by 1981 played in a punk rock band at CBGBs. His contemplative piano music has also been featured on Guided Imagery recordings. At the Rail Trail you are likely to hear more blues, folk and jazz with a sprinkling of Bach. He also sings songs by John Prine, Randy Newman and others.

He will be joined in September by some guest musicians who will sit in on some tunes.

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3rd Annual Rail Trail Kirtan Festival: A Full Day of Ecstatic Chanting!
Aug
27

3rd Annual Rail Trail Kirtan Festival: A Full Day of Ecstatic Chanting!


ALL DAY CHANTING UNDER THE TREES! 11AM to 7PM

Once again we gather for a full day of blissful chanting – time to enter sacred space – time to chant, dance, sing and pray together. Time to renew our connection with our spiritual selves and our sacred community of chanters! Time to drink in the blessings of the sweet Café under the Cathedral of Trees!

Many beloved Hudson Valley chant leaders will be there to offer spiritual uplift and inspiration: The Spirit Brothers, Rhadarani, Arundhati, Seth Lieberman, Ned & Lynn and others. Also we will be blessed by musicians Steve Gorn, Avinash, and many more!

Come for all day or any part of it – sink deep into the music and the mantras! Come for the Pizza, salad, burritos and rosewater lemonade – bring chairs, pillows, whatever you need to settle in for a long beautiful time together!

The kirtan festival is a benefit for the Rail Trail Café – We are so grateful to Tara and Brian and for creating and sustaining this unique community gathering place where everyone can enjoy amazing musicians, actors, poets and artists.

WE CAN’T WAIT!!!

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Charlie Pattonathon
Aug
26

Charlie Pattonathon

Charley Patton, also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician and songwriter. Considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", he created an enduring body of American music and inspired most Delta blues musicians.

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Luke Sarrontonio: Mushroom Love: Talk and Walk
Aug
20

Luke Sarrontonio: Mushroom Love: Talk and Walk

Landscape microclimates can be infinitely unique, especially in this part of the northeast. Join us at the Rail Trail Cafe for a walk through the forest, and learn about the interwoven lives of organisms that make up the diverse Ecology of our region. “Everything is connected”, and in many cases this connection is facilitated by a group of organisms that are largely unseen. Let’s pull back the curtain to take a closer look at Fungi, and all the organisms and interactions that form the intricate, beautiful ecosystems we live in. Learn the basics of mushroom ID and how you can play your part in Fungi conservation efforts.

Bio

Luke Sarrantonio grew up in Rosendale New York and spent much of his childhood exploring the surrounding landscape. It wasn’t until college at SUNY ESF (studying Forest Biology) that he truly discovered Fungi. After graduating in 2011, he was discouraged by the lack of learning resources around Fungi and Ecology and has been developing programming, mushroom farming, consulting and making medicinal products ever since.

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Jim Pospisil:
Aug
18

Jim Pospisil:

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.

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The Stoller Bros. with Rob Stein
Aug
11

The Stoller Bros. with Rob Stein

Brad and Lesley Stoller are NYC-based singer-songwriter brothers who perform and record with their ensemble, The Stoller Bros Band. They are currently working on their second album, after their first ‘Stationary Sun’. Throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, they performed perpetually in various Mid-Hudson towns, including Rosendale (where they lived), New Paltz, Red Hook and Woodstock. They return now, with much gratitude and love for their youthful years spent in the Hudson Valley.

Brad and Lesley are honored and overjoyed to have pedal steel extradaordinaire/dear old friend, Rob Stein sharing the Rail Trail stage.

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Samuel Claiborne
Aug
5

Samuel Claiborne

Samuel Claiborne has been writing and performing Experimental, Shamanic, Rock, Neo-Classical, and Electro-Acoustic Improvised music, on instruments ranging from keyboards to guitar, to viola, since the late 1970s.

 

A former member of several feisty NYC ‘No Wave’ bands, including the much-loved Things Fall Apart, Samuel cut his teeth gigging at places like CBGBs. But during that same period, he was also busily composing strange, extremely experimental shamanic soundscapes, using both acoustic and electrified instruments.

 

From 1984 to 2009, he was also one half of the Electro-Acoustic improvisational duo Loons in the Monastery, with synthesist Jennifer Lowman.

 

He has released several CDs, including the NYFA award-winning suite of solo acoustic piano improvisations, ‘The Annunciation’, and the political and personal rock and experimental album, Love, Lust, and Genocide, both on Sonotrope Recordings and available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, etc.

 

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Chant, Music and Mantra with Nina Rao and Friends!
Aug
4

Chant, Music and Mantra with Nina Rao and Friends!

Nina Rao is a resident of New Paltz and lover of the Rail Trail Cafe! She learned traditional chants from her grandfather in a village in south India when she nine years old. The chants quietly stayed with her until she rediscovered chanting with Krishna Das in New York in 1996. In 1998 she met her guru, Sri Siddhi Ma in the foothills of the Himalayas and spent time with her regularly for 19 years. For many years Nina has been Krishna Das’ business manager and accompanies him musically as well. In addition to her own two albums Antarayaami and Anubhav, she appears on many other chant albums as a guest percussionist and singer. Nina regularly leads kirtan, workshops, and retreats in New York and beyond, and leads workshops and courses online across many platforms. She is also founder and chairwoman of the non-profit Saving Wild Tigers which supports conservation of wild tigers and all species in their natural habitat in India. In addition, she hosts a podcast series on the Be Here Now Network exploring spirituality, practice, and conservation of wilderness and Nature.  For more information visit NinaRaoChant.com.

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Alyssa Sage
Jul
29

Alyssa Sage

Born in a world of music, Alyssa Dann is an 21 year old singer songwriter raised in the legendary artist enclave of Woodstock, NY.

At 15, after going to a songwriting camp, she caught the songwriting bug. A featured performer at many venues, Alyssa has received favorable reviews in the pool of professional singer songwriters immersing them in her folk, jazz, and pop style.

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The Shambles
Jul
28

The Shambles

The Shambles is a Hudson Valley-based cover project featuring bassist/vocalist Jimmy Keneally and keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Jerry Plotkin. Their music ranges from light folk to heavy funk and everything in between.

Keneally has toured with many national acts (currently with The Rascals) and Plotkin, keyboardist of Bossa Blue, has performed on countless recording sessions, including hundreds of jingles he has written and produced over the years. As songwriters, the two have had several releases of their original compositions by major labels and artists.


Longtime figures in the NYC and Hudson Valley music scene, The Shambles bring their exuberant and expressive sound, to the Rail Trail Cafe in an ongoing effort to celebrate the local music scene in our upstate community.

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Wild Swan Band:
Jul
23

Wild Swan Band:

The Wild Swan Band performs a graceful mix of Celtic songs, jigs, reels, and waltzes along with original songs and covers in the Celtic/Folk rock tradition.
:) Jon Garelick- mandolin and bazouki, vocals

Sarah Underhill-vocals

TG Vanini- fiddle, vocals

Ian Worpole- guitar, vocals

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