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A Free World-Class Music Festival with Dance & Voice

The Drum Boogie Festival is a free, one-day music festival which is family-oriented and multi-cultural, celebrating the diverse styles of music, dance and voice from around the world. It will take place on September 9, 2017 from 11 AM to 8 PM at Andy Lee Field, Woodstock, NY. The festival brings together world-class talent while introducing the audience to a variety of styles involving percussion such as: Jazz, Rock, Classical, African, Reggae, Steel Pan and more. This year’s festival includes Jack DeJohnette, NEXUS, East Indian, NYU Steel Band, POOK, West African Drummers and
Dancers, and the Big Takeover Reggae Band.

The second year of the festival will take place on August 25th and 26th, 2017 at the beautiful Chaseholm Farms in Pine Plains, NY, with two day camping passes on sale Wednesday May 17th

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By Fred Perry. Many of you used to enjoy my columns from 2011- 2013. They all appeared in the Tri-Valley Townsman newspaper, were picked up at HVmusic.com, and were posted on my websites, www.reservoirmusiccenter.com and www.brooklyncowboys.com. I also used to appear as a regular guest on John Madeo’s radio show, Monday nights on WIOX-FM, 91.3 and streaming online, but I haven’t resumed that activity yet.

This is my first column since the end of 2013. When I stopped, I was burnt out on deadlines and commitments. I’m feeling much better now, thank you, and I’ve decided to write a column once in a while. They won’t be appearing on any kind of regular schedule, instead, they will appear whenever I feel like writing one. And I felt like writing this one. I hope it moves you.

Here’s a story about growing up in Brooklyn.

When I was a kid, around 14, a few of my friends and I immersed ourselves deeply in the world of record collecting, specifically British record collecting. The British music invasion had hit us hard, and at that time, we all felt that if a band wasn’t British, they sucked! LOL.

Thanks for sticking with us for 20 years and building the HVmusic community.

A celebration of jazz, blues, Renaissance, bluegrass, folk and rock music

Poughkeepsie, NY: Poughkeepsie Day School is hosting a music festival in the James Earl Jones Theater on Saturday, May 6, at 7:00 pm. This public concert will feature active members of the authentic 1970s music scene of the Mid-Hudson. Their music is an eclectic mix of jazz, Renaissance, blues, bluegrass, folk and rock. Featured performers will be:

• Vocalist Ruth Cunningham ’74, founding member of the Anonymous Four, a Renaissance quartet of international renown
• World premier electric mandolin player, Paul Glasse ’76
• Guitarist George Langston ’74, who played with Wheelhouse, an incarnation of The Arm Brothers Band
• Composer and vocalist Tom Akstens, who has been touring the folk circuit and recording since the mid 1980’s.
• Michael Gold ’73, who played bass with Al Cohn, Lee Konitz, and Warne Marsh and created an arts-based learning consultancy known as Jazz Impact
• Other PDS alumni who will be performing are Ed Xiquez, T. Xiques '89, Pam Leavitt Kantarova '72 and husband Richard Sylva, Geritt Stover '75, Peter Enriquez '12, Adam Cote '02.
• Damon Banks, current faculty member

Michael Gold ’73, who is organizing the concert and will also perform says, “The passion that integrates all these sounds started when they were students or faculty together at Poughkeepsie Day School. They all went on to pursue their love of music. If you thrive on musical authenticity or lived the early 70’s in the Hudson Valley you won't want to miss this exciting night of blues, folk, bluegrass, Renaissance, jazz and R&B.”