Woodstock & Hudson Valley Concert Calendar

Every gig worth knowing about at the great little rooms of the Catskills and the Hudson Valley — from the Colony garden to Levon's barn to a bluestone quarry in Saugerties. Here's what's on this month.

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Tue Oct 20

Jessica Pavone / Anna Johnson

The Avalon Lounge · Catskill

A Queens-based violist and composer whose sixth solo album, ...Is In the Air, arrives October 16, 2026 on Relative Pitch and Weird Cry, with electronics and guest turns by Fred Frith and Fugazi bassist Joe Lally. Pavone leads the J. Pavone String Ensemble and has played in duo with guitarist Mary Halvorson for two decades. Anna Johnson opens with devotional drone layering voice and electroacoustic instruments.

Wed Oct 21

JOHN BURDICK TRIO + MARK LERNER

Tubby's · Kingston

A mid-Hudson Valley guitarist and songwriter who leads the New Paltz art-pop quintet the Sweet Clementines, whose second album Lake Victoria came out in 2016. He has played sideman for Rhett Miller of the Old 97's and for Laura Stevenson, and released a solo EP, Birds and Birds, in 2021. He covered the local music scene for Chronogram and Almanac Weekly, now Hudson Valley One.

Wed Oct 21

Marco Benevento

Bearsville Theater · Woodstock

A pianist and songwriter who lives in the Woodstock area and founded Fred Short, the upstate studio where he records and engineers. Half of the Benevento/Russo Duo with drummer Joe Russo and a member of Joe Russo's Almost Dead, he plays an acoustic piano amplified with guitar pickups alongside Wurlitzer, Hammond organ and circuit-bent toys. He started the Royal Potato Family label in 2009.

Wed Oct 21

Lawrence Rothman

The Local · Saugerties

A non-binary songwriter and producer from St. Louis who fronted the punk band Living Things as Lillian Berlin from 2002 to 2011. Solo albums include The Book of Law in 2017, Good Morning America in 2021 and The Plow That Broke the Plains in 2024. The fifth, Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust, arrived in September 2026 with Amanda Shires and Katie Pruitt guesting.

Thu Oct 22

The Steel Wheels w/ Damn Tall Buildings

Colony · Woodstock

A Virginia string band formed in 2005 around Trent Wagler on mountain banjo and lead vocals, Jay Lapp on mandolin, Eric Brubaker on fiddle, Jeremy Darrow on bass and Kevin Joaquin Garcia on drums. Since 2013 they have hosted the Red Wing Roots Music Festival at Natural Chimneys Park in Mt. Solon, Virginia. Their records come out on Big Ring, most recently Sideways in 2024.

Thu Oct 22

June McDoom

Tubby's · Kingston

A singer and songwriter who grew up in a Jamaican household in South Florida and studied jazz performance in New York, where she is now based. She writes folk songs shaped by reggae and by Joan Baez, Alton Ellis and the Delfonics; the EP With Strings and her singles are gathered on a self-titled 2025 Temporary Residence release. She has toured with Nick Hakim, Brittany Howard and alt-J.

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