Winter 2018-19

 

Saturday, December 29 - 8pm
Patrick Collins

an evening of indie, folk, blues
FREE EVENT

The Windham Local
5410 Main Street
Windham, NY 12496

Patrick Collins is a homegrown singer-songwriter and guitarist. With a mixture of folk, indie, and blues he released a five song EP called “Vanity Plates” in June 2018. He has toured the east coast extensively over the past two years and shared the stage with members of The Lumineers, Greg Allman Band, The Felice Brothers, Okkervil River and American Idol cast members, The Heartless Bastards and more.

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saturday, January 19
Francisco Roldán: Guitar Music of latin America

5:30 - Wine & Cheese Reception
6:30 - Concert

Windham Fine Arts Gallery
5380 Main Street
Windham, NY 12496

FREE ADMISSION

Francisco Roldán is a Colombian-born guitarist that has performed throughout the U.S. and abroad as a soloist, with chamber ensembles and with orchestras.  He has performed in the U.S., Portugal, Greece, Russia, Colombia, Argentina, the Dominican Republic and more, including concerts at Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Library, and the Mannes Guitar Festival. He has released five recordings.  His newest album, Instruments of the People, was released in 2016.  His career as a soloist was launched in the spring of 1993, when he performed a New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall.  This performance will include works by composers hailing from Venezuela, Columbia, Argentina, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Many artists will be a highlighted in the gallery, including Ruby Reichardt, Samir Sammoun, and Kevin Cook. Reichardt will be exhibiting oil on paper works, Sammoun offers fresh and colorful impressionistic renditions of Mediterranean landscapes, and Cook provides a touch of tonalism to his beautiful landscape paintings of the Catskills.

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Saturday, February 16 at 8pm
DATURA ROAD

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The Windham Local
5410 Main Street
Windham, NY 12496

World Music
FREE ADMISSION

Datura Road is an ensemble based in the Hudson Valley with music that sits at the crossroads where East meets West. Combining various musical styles and influences from Indian Classical and Middle Eastern, to West African and Jazz, the band is able to create a new type of world music. Above all they emphasize song-form and groove, while introducing new textures to the western ear.  Their debut release, Datura Road, features nine Hudson Valley musicians, and instruments such as the oud, doumbek, bansuri, tabla and Irish tin-whistle, in addition to the more familiar guitar, mandolin, bass and drums.