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SUMMARY:Flow: David Van Tiegham Acoustic Collaboration with sculptor Ian Laughlin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special sonic collaboration with renowned musician David Van Tieghem\, together with FLOW\, an acoustic sculpture by Ian Laughlin\, on Sunday\, August 10th at 5 pm (rain date August 17th at 5 pm) at the Woodstock Spa located at 62 Ricks Road\, Woodstock\, NY 12498. David Van Tieghem is an American composer\, percussionist\, and sound designer\, best known for his philosophy of utilizing any available object as a percussion instrument. Ian Laughlin is an artist whose work is dedicated to exploring injustices and finding solutions to the many challenges facing the planet.\nMore about past collaborations between these two artists can be viewed here. \nThis special event is part of S.C.A.P E.\, the 2025 outdoor biennial sculpture park sponsored by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild on the meadows and woodlands of the Woodstock Spa. This concert is free and open to the public. \nABOUT DAVID VAN TIEGHEM\nDavid Van Tieghem is an American composer and sound designer known for his philosophy of utilizing any available object as a percussion instrument. In his long career\, Van Tieghem has performed and composed for numerous films and productions\, as well as collaborating with Steve Reich\, Laurie Anderson\, Brian Eno\, Talking Heads\, David Byrne\, Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie\, Adrian Belew\, Jerry Marotta\, John Zorn\, Sylvia Bullett\, and Happy Traum. Along with many other awards\, Van Tieghem was the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Music Composition (2007). \nABOUT IAN LAUGHLIN\nOriginally from New Zealand\, Ian Laughlin is a multi-media eco-artist who was active in New York City’s Lower East Side in the 80s. A resident of the Hudson Valley since 1990\, Laughlin has been dedicated to exploring injustices and finding solutions to the many challenges facing the planet through his art installations and acoustic sculptures. \nABOUT S.C.A.P.E.\nS.C.A.P.E. – (Sculpture\, Community\, Arts\, Peace\, Environment) is an Exhibition of Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture in Woodstock\, NY. Curated by Linda Dubilier and Jen Dragon\, the 2025 outdoor sculpture installation presents contemporary sculpture set in the Catskill Mountain landscape. The Woodstock Spa\, adjacent to the historic Byrdcliffe Colony\, hosts this year’s exhibition. S.C.A.P.E. features fourteen artists’ sculptures that explore The Woodstock Spa’s surrounding meadows and woodlands. Participating artists include: Erika deVries\, Stuart Farmery\, William Greenwood\, Wendy Klemperer\, Bernard Klevickas\, Pascal Knapp\, Alex Kveton\, Ian Laughlin\, Alison McNulty\, Eva Melas\, Lowell Miller\, Portia Munson\, Eileen M. Power\, Gregory Steel\, Suzy Sureck\, Stephen Whisler \nAbout the Woodstock Spa\nThe Woodstock Spa is a day spa that neighbors the historic Byrdcliffe Art Colony in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. With trained practitioners\, modern amenities\, and beautiful surroundings\, the Spa is inspired by nature and art to heal\, support\, and improve the lives of the community.
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/flow-david-van-tiegham-acoustic-collaboration-with-sculptor-ian-laughlin/
LOCATION:Woodstock Spa\, 62 Ricks Road\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Fugs: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Year of Their First Concert
DESCRIPTION:Ed Sanders came up with the idea that became the Fugs in late 1964.  He has led the Fugs in the years since\, through 58 years of albums and performances. The Fugs have had their current line-up since 1985. \nByrdcliffe is excited to welcome back The Fugs for two performances in celebration of the 60th anniversary of their first concert. \n\npurchase tickets for Friday’s performance \npurchase tickets for Saturday’s performance \n\n  \n \n\nAbout the band: \nSteven Taylor collaborated on poetry and music works with Allen Ginsberg for 20 years. Other long-time collaborators include Kenward Elmslie\, Anne Waldman\, Ed Sanders\, and Tuli Kupferberg\, as well as choreographer Douglas Dunn (Bessie Award nomination for best sound design 2015). He joined the Fugs in 1984. His poems\, essays\, reviews\, and songs have been published via magazines\, anthologies\, and albums. He holds a PhD in music from Brown University. His book False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground was published by Welseyan UP in 2003. His most recent publications are Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Three Rooms Press)\, and William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Ace Records). \nEd Sanders — founder and singer-songwriter — invents musical instruments such as the Talking Tie and the microtonal Microlyre. One of Sanders recent books\, illustrated by Rick Veitch\, is Broken Glory\, the Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy. Sanders is primarily a poet whose collected poems\, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century won an American Book Award in 1988.  He has written biographies in verse of Charles Olson\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Anton Chekhov.  He is the author of a 9-volume America\, a History in Verse\, and a investigative history of the Manson group\, The Family\, which is in print in a number of countries. \nSteve Taylor— vocals and guitars — his beautiful voice gives the Fugs outstanding vocal qualities on tunes set to the poems of William Blake and classics such as “Crystal Liaison\,” “Slum Goddess\,” and “Morning Morning.” Taylor is a professor of writing at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado\, and a noted composer who performed with Allen Ginsberg for many years. His string quartet setting to Allen Ginsberg’s poem “White Shroud” is an important 20th century poetry composition. \nCoby Batty— drums\, percussion and vocals. Coby is a well known musician and song- writer with his own band in Richmond\, Virginia. Batty has performed with Don Cherry\, John Zorn\, Eugene Chadbourne and many others. He has a powerful singing voice\, and is a renowned actor in movie and television productions \nScott Petito — bass and keyboards — is a well-known record producer who operates NRS Recording studios in Catskill\, NY\, where many groups have recorded such as The Band\, The Fugs\, and a number of others. Petito performs with the singer Leslie Ritter\, and with numerous other important musicians. He has developed an outstanding career as a recording artist\, producing a sequence of acclaimed records. \n  \n\n\n\n\nThe Story of The Fugs First Concert \n\n \n\nRight around the time that Tuli and I decided to form a singing group of poets\, an idea had formed in my noggin— open a bookstore! I could place my mimeograph machine there\, and great poet Allen Ginsberg and I had been discussing forming a Committee to Legalize Marijuana\, which I thought could be run from the bookstore. I started looking for a storefront to rent in the Lower East Side. I intended to call it the Peace Eye Bookstore. \nI was a new father\, had family obligations\, and needed to have a source of income beyond weekends at the Times Square cigar store where I worked the late-night shift. I could put my mimeograph machine there\, and create a cultural facility and the world’s first mimeo print center as well.  \nI signed a two-year lease for Peace Eye on November 10\, 1964. The first year was $50 a month; which went to $60 for the second year.  \nThere was much group singing among my friends from the peace and Civil Rights movements\, and many an acquaintance had a guitar at the ready in their apartments. \nI had been inspired by a benefit for the General Strike for Peace at which an unknown singer with a harmonica wired to his face named Bob Dylan had wowed the crowd at the Living Theater on 6th Avenue.  \nWe began rehearsing at the Peace Eye Bookstore.  Our afternoon rehearsals at Peace Eye became packed with our friends who wanted to savor our songs. Tuli and I added the musical duo of Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel  (also performed The Holy Modal Rounders)\, so we now had a five-man ensemble. \nOur first concert was at the March ’65 opening of Israel Young’s famous Folklore Center at its new location on 6th Avenue and West Third Street in NYC.  The night before our first concert\, Ken Weaver’s buffalo hide drum was stolen during a break-in at Peace Eye\, so for our World Premiere Ken performed with a drum made out of a cardboard Krasdale peach box!!! \n– Ed Sanders \n\n\n\n\nThe Fugs – Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Year of their First Concert\nByrdcliffe Barn | 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Road\, Woodstock\, NY. \nFriday\, August 22nd\nSaturday\, August 23rd\nDoors open at 7:30 pm\, concert at 8 pm. \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS:\n$30/person WBG members\n$35/person not-yet-members\n$35/person at door  \npurchase tickets for Friday’s performance \npurchase tickets for Saturday’s performance \nQuestions: 845.679.2079
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/the-fugs-celebrating-the-60th-anniversary-year-of-their-first-concert/
LOCATION:Byrdcliffe Barn\, 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Fugs: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Year of Their First Concert
DESCRIPTION:The Fugs was one of the leaders of the underground scene of the 1960s and became an important part of the American counterculture of that decade. The group is known for its comedic\, even lewd\, nature but also earned fame through its persistent anti-Vietnam War sentiment during the 1960s. \nEd Sanders came up with the idea that became the Fugs in late 1964.He has led the Fugs in the years since\, through 58 years of albums and performances. The Fugs have had their current line-up since 1985. \n\nByrdcliffe is excited to welcome back The Fugs for two performances in celebration of the 60th anniversary of their first concert. \npurchase tickets for Friday’s performance \npurchase tickets for Saturday’s performance \n\n  \n \n\n\n\nAbout the band: \nSteven Taylor collaborated on poetry and music works with Allen Ginsberg for 20 years. Other long-time collaborators include Kenward Elmslie\, Anne Waldman\, Ed Sanders\, and Tuli Kupferberg\, as well as choreographer Douglas Dunn (Bessie Award nomination for best sound design 2015). He joined the Fugs in 1984. His poems\, essays\, reviews\, and songs have been published via magazines\, anthologies\, and albums. He holds a PhD in music from Brown University. His book False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground was published by Welseyan UP in 2003. His most recent publications are Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Three Rooms Press)\, and William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Ace Records). \nEd Sanders — founder and singer-songwriter — invents musical instruments such as the Talking Tie and the microtonal Microlyre. One of Sanders recent books\, illustrated by Rick Veitch\, is Broken Glory\, the Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy. Sanders is primarily a poet whose collected poems\, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century won an American Book Award in 1988.  He has written biographies in verse of Charles Olson\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Anton Chekhov.  He is the author of a 9-volume America\, a History in Verse\, and a investigative history of the Manson group\, The Family\, which is in print in a number of countries. \nSteve Taylor— vocals and guitars — his beautiful voice gives the Fugs outstanding vocal qualities on tunes set to the poems of William Blake and classics such as “Crystal Liaison\,” “Slum Goddess\,” and “Morning Morning.” Taylor is a professor of writing at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado\, and a noted composer who performed with Allen Ginsberg for many years. His string quartet setting to Allen Ginsberg’s poem “White Shroud” is an important 20th century poetry composition. \nCoby Batty— drums\, percussion and vocals. Coby is a well known musician and song- writer with his own band in Richmond\, Virginia. Batty has performed with Don Cherry\, John Zorn\, Eugene Chadbourne and many others. He has a powerful singing voice\, and is a renowned actor in movie and television productions \nScott Petito — bass and keyboards — is a well-known record producer who operates NRS Recording studios in Catskill\, NY\, where many groups have recorded such as The Band\, The Fugs\, and a number of others. Petito performs with the singer Leslie Ritter\, and with numerous other important musicians. He has developed an outstanding career as a recording artist\, producing a sequence of acclaimed records. \n\n\n\n\nThe Story of The Fugs First Concert \n\n \n\nRight around the time that Tuli and I decided to form a singing group of poets\, an idea had formed in my noggin— open a bookstore! I could place my mimeograph machine there\, and great poet Allen Ginsberg and I had been discussing forming a Committee to Legalize Marijuana\, which I thought could be run from the bookstore. I started looking for a storefront to rent in the Lower East Side. I intended to call it the Peace Eye Bookstore. \nI was a new father\, had family obligations\, and needed to have a source of income beyond weekends at the Times Square cigar store where I worked the late-night shift. I could put my mimeograph machine there\, and create a cultural facility and the world’s first mimeo print center as well.  \nI signed a two-year lease for Peace Eye on November 10\, 1964. The first year was $50 a month; which went to $60 for the second year.  \nThere was much group singing among my friends from the peace and Civil Rights movements\, and many an acquaintance had a guitar at the ready in their apartments. \nI had been inspired by a benefit for the General Strike for Peace at which an unknown singer with a harmonica wired to his face named Bob Dylan had wowed the crowd at the Living Theater on 6th Avenue.  \nWe began rehearsing at the Peace Eye Bookstore.  Our afternoon rehearsals at Peace Eye became packed with our friends who wanted to savor our songs. Tuli and I added the musical duo of Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel  (also performed The Holy Modal Rounders)\, so we now had a five-man ensemble. \nOur first concert was at the March ’65 opening of Israel Young’s famous Folklore Center at its new location on 6th Avenue and West Third Street in NYC.  The night before our first concert\, Ken Weaver’s buffalo hide drum was stolen during a break-in at Peace Eye\, so for our World Premiere Ken performed with a drum made out of a cardboard Krasdale peach box!!! \n– Ed Sanders \n\n\n\n\nThe Fugs – Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Year of their First Concert\nByrdcliffe Barn | 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Road\, Woodstock\, NY. \nFriday\, August 22nd\nSaturday\, August 23rd\nDoors open at 7:30 pm\, concert at 8 pm. \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS:\n$30/person WBG members\n$35/person not-yet-members\n$35/person at doorpurchase tickets for Friday’s performance \npurchase tickets for Saturday’s performance \nQuestions: 845.679.2079
URL:https://www.woodstockguild.org/event/the-fugs-celebrating-the-60th-anniversary-year-of-their-first-concert-2/
LOCATION:Byrdcliffe Barn\, 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd\, Woodstock\, NY\, 12498\, United States
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