February
Music Highlights
We 3/5- Yo-Yo Ma & Friends at Ulster Performing Arts
Center, Kingston. Early March apparently is a good time for
Hudson valley residents to sample world-class artists passing
through (The Bardavon is also featuring Chick Corea and Gary
Burton on 3/7). Straddling the East and West, Yo-Yo Ma may
well be the most well-known cellist on the planet (with fifteen
Grammys), well-versed in baroque and early chamber music (with
pianist Emmanuel Ax), as well as the more Oriental stylings
of his work on the soundtracks to Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon and Memoirs of a Geisha. This tour features European
string quartets “from Austria to the Caspian Sea,”
featuring Colin Jacobsen, Jonathan Gandelsman, and Nicholas
Cords. Ma will be sending shivers up spines with his trusty
“Petunia,” his 1733 Venice-built Domenico Montagnana
cello. Ulster Performing Arts Center, 601 Broadway, Kingston,
www.upac.org,
845.473.5288. 8 PM
Fr 3/7- B. B. KING at the Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie.
If any artist alive is deserving of victory laps in the twilight
of an iconic, almost 60-year career, that man is Mr. B. B.
King. Where to even start? Fourteen Grammys, the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, over 10,000
shows, and counting. B.B. is currently touring a new CD/DVD
of live gigs at his B. B. King’s Blues Clubs in both
Nashville and Memphis, performed with his top-shelf touring
band in late October of 2006. Look folks, just because he’s
the most rock-solid resilient road warrior the world has ever
known, doesn’t mean he’s gonna be around forever.
. . he’s (just over) 80 years old y’all! Don’t
miss this show. Mid Hudson Civic Center, 14 Civic Center Plaza,
Poughkeepsie, www.midhudsonciviccenter.com,
845.454.5800. 8 PM
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