Summer concerts come to Hudson Valley
After pandemic silence, region is alive with the sound of live music
John Barry
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Vaccination rates are rising, and so are concert bookings. The Hudson Valley is getting ready to rock.Bethel Woods
Guitarist and vocalist Rhett Miller, a Texas native and Gardiner resident well-known for his band the Old 97’s, wondered during the last year if he would ever again perform for a live audience.
“I didn’t know if musicians would ever be returning to stages,” Miller said. “There were times when it seemed like, I don’t know, it would all be this weird new thing all concerts would be this Zoom-based thing for the rest of my life.”
Bard SummerScape Announces Live Programming With a Concert Directed by Daniel Fish, a Pam Tanowitz World Premiere & More
Additional programming includes “Black Roots Summer curated by Michael Mwenso and Jono Gasparro & a commissioned concert from Mx. Justin Vivian Bond.by Chloe Rabinowitz
Bard Summerscape is returning to live performance with a wide-ranging and adventurous lineup this summer. Staged for limited in-person audiences, the 2021 season presents the 31st Bard Music Festival, Nadia Boulanger and Her World, which pays tribute to one of the most important female figures in classical music history; the first fully staged American production of King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), the only opera by Boulanger s compatriot and near-contemporary Ernest Chausson; the world premiere of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a major new dance commission from Bard s Fisher Center Choreographer-in-Residence Pam Tanowitz and Sphinx Medal of Excellence-winning composer Jessie Mon