April
Music Highlights
Fr 4/11- REGGAE DANCE PARTY with THE BIG TAKEOVER BAND at the Howland Cultural Center, Beacon—With Jamaican-born singer NeeNee Rushie at the mic, the Big Takeover lays down the roots, reggae, and rocksteady, with horns, no less. Before, after, and between sets, DJ Sarah De Selektor spins disks from her extensive archives, and the documentary Ras Cuba: Interviews with Cuban Rastafarians will be simultaneously screened. Caribbean cook Yvonne will be cooking up homemade patties, codfish cake, jerk chicken wings, and more—with ginger beer and sorrel to wash it down. Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St., Beacon, www.howlandculturalcenter.org, 845.832.4988. 7:30 PM
Th 4/17- An Evening With RICHARD THOMPSON, at the Bardavon, Poughkeepsie—Whether he’s playing like three-guitarists-in-one (three very GOOD guitarists), accompanying himself on acoustic guitar or squeezing sheets of pure energy out of an electric guitar (only #19 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists list? Some of us think he was robbed), Richard Thompson’s musicality alone is worth circling the date. Add that rich toned voice that sounds great on 1000 years worth of songs, and an impressive backlog of amazing songwriting (you may have heard 1952 Vincent Black Lightning on the radio lately, I know I did. God Bless Hudson Valley radio.), and you got a show you’ll be mad you missed. The Bardavon has been bringing some great stuff through this Spring, with Los Lobos last month, and Joe Jackson who, by the way, will be at UPAC (see listings) on Fr 4/12. The Bardavon, 35 Market St., Poughkeepsie, www.bardavon.org, 845.473.5288. 8 PM
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