10am-2pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrisonon-Hudson. 265-3638 ext. 115. $50/workshop.
25th Annual Woodstock Holiday Open House 5-9pm. Entertainment, window displays, art and food. Woodstock. 679-5495.
800 843 0778. General Admission $30 and $35, Students $10.
RALPH GIBSON
One-Day Holiday Decorating Workshops
Vassar College Orchestra
8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 4377404.
The Clancy Tradition
9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. $20/$17.50 members.
MUSIC
Newburgh Symphony Orchestra String Quartet 8pm. Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh. 5617204.
Vassar College Women’s Chorus
8pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 4377404.
THE OUTDOORS
Mohonk Preserve Singles Hike Millbrook Mountain 10am-3pm. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.
THEATER
Best of Broadway: A Night at the Tonys
SPOKEN WORD
Call for times. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 children and seniors.
Call for times. Calling All Poets series. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-0077. $4.
Cinderella
Bill Seaton and Terrence Chiesa
8pm. Presented by the PantoLoons. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. $15/$12 members/$8 children.
THEATER
Best of Broadway: A Night at the Tonys Call for times. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 children and seniors.
Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol
8pm. James and Betty Hall Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 431-8696. $5/DCC students free.
Cinderella
8pm. Presented by the PantoLoons. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. $15/$12 members/$8 children.
Community Playback Theatre
8pm. Improvisation based on real-life stories of audience members. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. $6.
Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol
8pm. James and Betty Hall Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 431-8696. $5/DCC students free.
FORECAST
SAT 2 CLASSES
Notary Public Workshop
WORKSHOPS
Herbal Pillows for Adults
2-4pm. Creating collage-pillows out of scraps of fabric, photos, lace, and trimmings. The Arts Center of the Greater Hudson Valley, Red Hook. 340-4576. $20/$17 members.
SUN 3 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Contemplative Meeting
10am. Readings alternate with music. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Conference Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799.
DANCE
A Christmas Carol
9am-12:30pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. $79.
2pm. Presented by the Ulster Ballet Company. The Broadway Theater, Kingston. 339-6088. $18/$14 students and seniors.
DANCE
KIDS
A Christmas Carol
A Child’s Christmas
8pm. Presented by the Ulster Ballet Company. The Broadway Theater, Kingston. 339-6088. $18/$14 students and seniors.
10am. Ages 7-11 explore Yuletide traditions at Clermont. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240.
Free Style Frolic
Case of the Pilfered Pantry
8:30pm. Alcohol-free dance event for all ages. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free.
EVENTS
Winter Holiday Festival
Call for times. Santa, festival of trees, carriage rides, music, and firemans’ parade of lights. Village of Saugerties, Saugerties. 246-3788.
A Winter Walk on Warren Street
5-8pm. Window performances, Victorian carolers, carriage rides, reindeer, fireworks, Santa parade. Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
High Falls Holiday Hoopla
5-9pm. Shopping, caroling, carriage rides, refreshments and tree lighting. Town Square, High Falls. 687-9888.
UNSPEAKABLY INNOVATIVE If guitarist-songwriter and musical juggernaut Bill Frisell has retained a shred of humility after the amount
12-4pm. Holiday whodunnit with crafts. Staatsburg Historical Site, Staatsburg. 8898851. $5 adults/$4 studetns and seniors.
of superlatives that have been used to describe his contributions to both recorded and live music, then
MUSIC
that eludes categorization, blithely dancing over boundaries and expertly embracing seemingly dichotomous
3pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 822-2027. $5.
sounds and textures. Not only does he make it all look natural, but he enchants those whose ears he’s
anything is possible. He deserves the accolades, however. It’s not hard to get excited by a musician who so playfully creates art
Berkshire Hillsmen Barbershop Chorus
Flying Fiddlers
3pm. Presented by Saugerties Pro Musica. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246 5021. $12/$10 seniors/ students free.
Vassar Chapel A Service of Lessons and Carols 7pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 4377404.
THE OUTDOORS
Appalachian Trail Hike
challenging; Frisell is held in high esteem by everyone from jazz purists to stone country devotees. He has collaborated with Elvis Costello, slide guitar avatar Greg Leisz, and renowned Malian percussionist Sidiki Camara, to name but a few, and he’s written scores for directors Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant, and even famed cartoonist Gary Larson. In the past six months alone, Frisell has been featured on Rogue’s Gallery, the Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired CD of sea chanteys and pirate ballads; won the Downbeat critics poll for Best Guitarist of 2006; garnered praise for his work on Paul Simon’s recent CD, Surprise; and spent a lot of time on the road spreading his uniquely American gospel of borderless music. Of all Frisell’s dizzyingly diverse and numerous musical ventures, the one he’s bringing to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on Saturday, November 11 at 8pm is the
KIDS
10 mile hike. Call for meeting place and time, Pawling. 454-4428.
10am. Ages 3-6 explore Yuletide traditions at Clermont. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240.
Mohonk Preserve Rhododendron Bridge and Beyond
winning CD. The Great Barrington date, the first of a month-long tour, will be captured for a possible future
10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
live release on Nonesuch Records, the label on which Frisell has released 18 solo CDs since 1989.
DCC Music School Recital
SPOKEN WORD
Roberts, cello; and the Sex Mob rhythm section of Tony Scherr on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
DCC Music School Recital for Adult Students
4pm. Featuring Eleanor Heartney. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-7166.
Cantiga!
THEATER
A Child’s Christmas
MUSIC
1pm. Ritz Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 431-8916.
4pm. Ritz Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 431-8916.
6pm. Music from the Land of 3 Faiths. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
Music of the Troubadours, Palaces and Chapels 6pm. Rose Ensemble performs a holiday concert with medieval and renaissance songs. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, MA.
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The Language of Reverence: Conversations on Art and Spirituality
Best of Broadway: A Night at the Tonys Call for times. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 children and seniors.
Cinderella
2pm. Presented by the PantoLoons. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. $15/$12 members/$8 children.
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Unspeakable Orchestra, which features musicians who performed on Unspeakable, his 2005 Grammy-
The Unspeakable Orchestra is Frisell on guitar, with Jenny Scheinmann, violin; Eyvind Kang, viola; Hank Special guests include Ron Miles on trumpet and Greg Tardy on clarinet and tenor saxophone. Of his live performances, Frisell has said: “I like to have fun when I play and I like comedy—but it’s not a conscious thing. I’m basically a pretty shy person and I don’t dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It’s like a real world when I play, where I can do all the things I can’t do in real life.” So dancing and fighting are not on the agenda for the show at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. But a chance to witness one of the most entertaining and deeply musical innovators of our time in concert most certainly is. (413) 528-0100; www.mahaiwe.org. —Robert Burke Warren